Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, …
Commscope boasts bold, new strategy during product launch
Commscope has announced the release of a new infrastructure management solution, coinciding with a bold, new strategy during its Middle …
Infor teams up with VMWare for virtualised ERP
Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor LN ERP (enterprise resource planning) software run on …
Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …
Alcatel-Lucent enters crowding SDN field
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability …
EU’s cyber security budget dubbed “paltry”
Despite vowing that fighting cybercrime is high on its agenda, the European Commission increased its planned cyber security budget by …
Key to success
For Dell, its Storage Forum in Paris was all about revealing five end-to-end updates to its storage portfolio, but behind …
Orange launches VoIP mobile app to rival Skype
Orange has launched an application that gives mobile users free international calls and could prove to be a potential rival …
The moving target
The advent of mobility and its infiltration on enterprise has birthed a whole new type of security risk, and as …
Apple’s iTunes 11 to arrive ‘within the next few days’
Apple’s delayed iTunes 11 could be arriving within the next few days, according to reports. iTunes 11 was unveiled alongside …
7 outsourcing nightmares – and how to avoid them
Outsourcing IT functions can be a smart business move, particularly if your organisation lacks specific expertise. IT infrastructure, networking, application …
Industry gathers for CNME’s Infrastructure Strategies 2012
Major players from the IT world gathered in Dubai Marina this morning for the 2012 Infrastructure Strategies event, hosted by …
du, Equinix alliance to create Middle East’s first carrier-neutral data hub
du has entered into an alliance to deliver data centre and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East, it …
Gartner: Platform as a service market to see sharp growth
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million …
Steve Wozniak reveals concerns over Microsoft innovation
Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, has revealed he is worried that Microsoft is becoming more creative and innovative than Apple. …
Brocade, Dell to launch first 16 Gbps fibre channel end-to-end solution
Brocade has announced a partnership with Dell in the hope of offering the industry’s first complete, end-to-end 16 Gbps Fibre …
Schneider announces strong growth in last quarter
Schneider Electric today announced it has seen 4% growth in the last quarter, as well as 9% in the first …
5 things you need to know about smart cities
1. It’s not all cool technology. Though the definition of the term “smart city” is still fuzzy, it suggests using advances …
Google Drive for Android
At the beginning of October Fairfax Media (which owns Computerworld) moved its productivity environment from Microsoft Office to Google Apps …
Mobility and consumerisation in 2013
Analysts predict that cloud computing will play a larger role in mobility and consumerisation of IT, Windows Phone and Android …