Google continues purging its product roster of services and applications that it considers redundant or obsolete, deciding now to axe …
SAP MENA appoints new lead for Saudi Arabia
SAP MENA has announced the appointment of Ahmed Jaber Al-Faifi to the role of MD for Saudi Arabia. Reporting directly …
Yammer software gauges emotions in employee posts
Yammer is adding functionality to its cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software that lets organisations gauge the types of emotions expressed …
Rackspace OpenStack will target Amazon customers
Rackspace has announced that it will launch its open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform, OpenStack, in mid-August in the UK, where it …
Salesforce.com CEO Benioff joins Cisco's board
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has been named to Cisco’s board of directors, Cisco announced Thursday. “Marc has changed the face …
SAP and DSOA unveil plans for an IT training and development institute in the UAE
SAP and Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority yesterday announced plans to launch a training and development institute in the UAE. At …
IBM announces updated security appliance
IBM has announced a new network security appliance to help deal with increasing threats posed by social media sites and malicious websites. …
Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
Salesforce.com hit again by performance issues
Salesforce.com was hit by another in a string of performance problems yesterday, with the issues this time centered on its …
SAP unveils IT training facility
SAP has collaborated with Dubai Silicon Oasis to create a new IT training and development institute designed to boost local …
Gulf Business Machines to offer IBM PureSystems Technology Demonstrator
Gulf Business Machines (GBM), a prominent IT solutions provider, recently announced the launch of the first IBM PureSystems technology demonstrator …
Playing catch-up
As infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models gain popularity in the U.S. and Western Europe, adoption amongst Middle East enterprises remains low. …
Data centre design boasts 'world's most efficient cooling system'
A new kind of data centre claiming to employ “the world’s most efficient cooling system” turns the traditionally unbearable “hot aisle” between server racks …
IBM attempts to redefine the IPS
IBM yesterday introduced what it’s calling a “next generation” intrusion-prevention system (IPS), an offering that not only is designed to …
Securing wireless networks
When it comes to ensuring 24/7 security and compliance monitoring of corporate Wi-Fi networks, straightforward business economics demands the need …
HP unveils all-SSD option for 3PAR storage array
Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) …
Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
Oracle said yesterday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will …
Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds
A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a …
Steady direction
Logicom Dubai has experienced exponential growth since its inception.
New tools can crack PPTP encryption in under a day
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any …