With an ever-increasing data volume but by no means an ever-increasing IT budget, businesses are facing a tough task in …
Selling to SMBs
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) represent an important element in the business ecosystem of the Middle East. Industry analysts predict …
Red Hat announces 13-city EMEA tour
Red Hat last week announced that it is set to host a 13-city tour of one-day events throughout Europe and …
Redington Value to distribute VMware in Africa
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has been appointed as a VMware distributor in WECA, marking a …
Optimus becomes Master Training Partner for CSA
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications on Tuesday announced that the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has named the value-added distributor as a …
Telepresence of mind for ROI
The most important question on the mind of every CIO when pitching a project to senior management revolves entirely around …
State of flux
The sixth edition of IDC’s Middle East CIO Summit had a strong sense of urgency to it. From the nature …
Seagate launches Wireless Plus and Central hard drives
Seagate on Monday launched two new wireless hard drives for the Middle Eastern consumer market, the Wireless Plus and the …
Seagate launches Wireless Plus and Central hard drives
Seagate on Monday launched two new wireless hard drives for the Middle Eastern consumer market, the Wireless Plus and the …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
ARIS 9.0 launched at CeBit
Software AG last week announced the availability of ARIS 9.0 at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The vendor …
Virtually unstoppable – VMware: We’re miles ahead
“It’s nice to have competition,” says the senior director of VMware’s pre-sales division, Herve Renault. He sits in Grosvenor House …
Brocade appoints new SVP of Worldwide Sales
Brocade last week announced that Jeff Lindholm will take the position of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, effective as …
Intel IT uses Hadoop to slash chip testing times
Intel IT has developed a predictive analytics solution which, it claims, can reduce chip test time by 25 percent and …
Cortado presents MDM and virtual printing solutions
Cortado presented its mobile device management (MDM) and virtual printing solutions at this week’s CeBit trade fair in Hanover, Germany. The …
Getting social with Infostreams
Over the past year, it’s been impossible to ignore what research firms IDC and Gartner describe as the four forces …
HP announces extended converged infrastructure innovations
HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in …
Middle East IT spending to reach $192.9bn in 2013: Gartner
Middle East IT spending is projected to total $192.9 billion in 2013, a 5.5 percent increase from 2012, according to …
CRM is top priority for IT spending in 2013-14, says Gartner
CRM (customer relationship management) software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications around the world this …
The era of PC+
Oliver Ebel, Executive Director and General Manger, Lenovo Middle East and Africa, explains why rumours of the PC’s demise are …