Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Sticking to policy
As a top ranked university in the Middle East, KFUPM must ensure the integrity of its network while also allowing …
Mission: obtained
There are few organisations like the Qatar Foundation. Sa’di M Awienat, director of IT at Qatar Foundation Formed in 1995, …
Mini in style
The Toshiba Mini NB305-N410 is a basic netbook that’s pretty solid, with decent specs: a 250GB hard drive, 1GB of …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Feroz Sanaulla
Feroz Sanaulla is an Investment Director at Intel Capital covering the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region. The region is …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Dr. Serhani Mohamed Adel
Dr. Mohamed Adel Serhani received his Master in computer science (Specialization Software Engineering) from University of Montreal, Canada in 2002. …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Omar Obeidat
Omar Obeidat has been with the IP/IT department at Al Tamimi & Company since 2000. He gained valuable experience at …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Roger El Tawil
Roger joined Avaya from NCR Corporation where his last position was Marketing & Deployment Manager, Middle East, Africa, and Eastern …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Carl Lewin
Carl is the Business Developer Manager for the GCC Region at Intel Corporation with a focus on the telecom sector. …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Samir Al-Schamma
Samir is Intel’s General Manager in the GCC. Most recently he was Director of Intel’s Software Enabling Programs in Europe, …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker: Emad Khatib
Emad has over 23 years experience in the field of information technology and management consulting and engineering. He has worked …
Gitex Conference 2008 speaker:Fadi Hindi
Fadi Hindi is the Head of Strategic IT Planning & Enterprise Architecture at Dubai Customs. Hindi has eighteen years …
ERP – the time is right
While the global economic problems of 2009 probably forced some IT managers to stretch the shelf-life of their ERP systems …
It's not them, it's you
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
The supercomputer on your desktop
One reason is that processing that took an hour on a standard PC about eight years ago now takes six …
Paying the price
Servers’ hard disk access times have not kept up with the increasing speed of their CPUs, and the resulting lags …
The payback from virtualisation
Organisations looking to introduce virtualisation should look at timescales to implement projects as it will take longer to achieve any …
IT sins to avoid
Not surprisingly, most of our transgressions find their foundation in the classics: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. …
Measure for measure
Information security metrics have a bad rep. Mention metrics to a CISO and immediately his thoughts may well turn to …