The sales of storage software last year produced record revenues of more than $14 billion in 2011, according to market …
SAP reveals large MENA growth plan
SAP will invest AED 1.65 billion on a four-year growth plan in MENA, which it referred to as “the fastest …
Optimus signs distribution agreement with Attachmate
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications, a regional Value Added Distributor (VAD) of IT and telecommunications products, today announced that it has …
Ciena unveils optical networking ‘game changer’
Network specialist Ciena Corporation today announced WaveLogic 3, the industry’s first software-programmable coherent technology that scales to 400 Gb/s. Ciena …
WD completes acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Western Digital Corporation (WDC) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Viviti Technologies (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies),for …
Sony division moves services from AWS to OpenStack
The division of Sony that suffered a cyber attack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and …
Symantec announces new approach to data backup
Symantec today announced new cloud-based data solutions, which it said deliver a new approach to modernising backup and recovery for …
Global Knowledge wins VMware top honours
Global Knowledge has been named the recipient of a Global VMware Partner Network Award in the Training (VATC) Partner of …
IBM streams Linux and Windows desktop through USB stick
IBM has taken the secure USB stick concept to its logical extreme, announcing a pilot service capable of streaming an …
Apple updates iMovie, GarageBand, iWork for iOS
An Apple event wouldn’t be much fun without some software updates, and the company had them in spades on Wednesday: …
Global Knowldge wins VMware top honours
Global Knowledge has been named the recipient of a Global VMware Partner Network Award in the Training (VATC) Partner of …
Huawei joins with IBM for mobile solution
Huawei has announced a strategic alliance with IBM to develop the Smart Workspace@Mobile solution, which it said provides clients with …
Smart recovery
When AW Rostamani, the family owned conglomerate, decided to set up a disaster recovery (DR) site, it found its partner …
Huawei unveils series of ‘world first’ solutions
Huawei used last week’s Mobile World Congress to announce the world’s first mobile broadband cloud acceleration solution, LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) inter-band …
Google takes on iTunes store with Google Play
Google has finally created the last missing piece that it needs to compete with Apple in the digital content retail space: a …
Intel targets data centre with new Xeon E5-2600 chips
Intel on Tuesday announced the Xeon E5-2600 processors for 2- and 4-socket servers, which is the company’s first major chip …
Microsoft courts big data market with SQL Server update
Microsoft has released to manufacturing the newest version of its relational database, SQL Server 2012, the company announced yesterday. The …
Sophos partners with Egnyte
IT security and data protection company Sophos, and Egnyte, a leading provider of hybrid cloud file server solutions,have announced the integration of …
Cisco makes strides
The networking giant is on the road to recovery, thanks to a business model realignment and expenses cut. At the …
Old but worthy
Companies can work to ensure they get productivity from their existing storage investments, but this would have to be done …