The Amazon Web Services Management Console can now handle Identity and Access Management (IAM) features offered in its cloud, the …
Big firms ‘prefer to keep accounting in-house’: Ovum
Companies with turnovers worth more than $500 million (£302 million) prefer to keep their finance and accounting (F&A) processes in-house, …
Brocade developing 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel
Brocade Technologies, which announced 16G bps (bit-per-second) Fibre Channel products on Monday, is already working on a 32G bps version …
Brocade unveils vision for the virtual enterprise
Brocade today introduced a new technology architecture – the CloudPlex – that outlines the company’s vision and the technology investments …
Borders open to kick-start telecom economy
The global economy may be limping towards the shores of recovery, but the United Nations (UN) predicts that new approaches …
Greenpeace slams Apple’s ‘dirty’ data centre
Apple has come in for stern criticism in environmental group Greenpeace’s ‘How Dirty is your Data’ report, issued this week. …
Securing the virtualisation journey
This week, CPI and leading security vendor Trend Micro brought together CIOs and IT managers across two verticals – oil …
IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes
IBM says it will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this …
Going global
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MoFA) in the UAE is unifying mission websites and building a new network to ensure that …
SNIA puts storage networking tutorials online
The Storage Networking Industry Association this week announced a doubling its efforts to put tutorials for IT managers and storage …
Certifications that matter
As companies look bridge talent holes in their IT organisations, there is an increased emphasis on vendor-and technology-specific training. Here …
Oracle gives up on commercial Open Office
Oracle announced over the weekend that it will no longer sell a commercial version of the Open Office productivity suite, …
Security investments in region are shifting, says IBM’s Lamb
“IT security investments in the Middle East are fast shifting from intrusion protection technology to more database protection solutions, although …
BridgeHead wins London Clinic contract
BridgeHead Software has won a contract to provide data back up and protection solutions to support The London Clinic, the …
Cisco expands fabric technology across infrastructure
The recent data centre splash from Cisco means customers can now begin to implement the company’s fabric technology just about …
Africans use mobiles as multi-functional devices: MIT conference
African mobile-phone users are increasingly turning to their devices for functions beyond making calls, said speakers at a Massachusetts Institute …
Salesforce.com to acquire Radian6
Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter …
Regional CIOs are more business-oriented
The role of the CIO is changing, and more regional CIOs are getting into management roles and business decision-making. This …
Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit
Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers …
Spectrum builds Dubai data centre
Spectrum, an IT Networking and Security training, certification and consultancy services provider, has opened new data centre based on Juniper …