Although not a completely new message to the market, the HP Tech Forum 2010 in Las Vegas saw the tech …
Collaboration vendors join for interoperability
A number of unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a group …
IBM buys Web analytics software company
IBM will add Coremetrics into its portfolio of business analytics software and services. A privately held firm, the San Mateo, …
Cisco turns SMB storage into multipurpose platform
In addition to hard drives and backup and encryption capabilities, the new NSS 300 Series Smart Storage systems introduced Wednesday …
Cisco vs Juniper
The argument began in 1996 with Juniper's founding; until then, Cisco had ruled the router roost in both the enterprise …
Aiming high
At the Brocade Technology Day in New York, the company took the wraps off its blueprint for stitching together storage …
Dell has new UAE country manager
Based in Dubai, Moufarrej will be responsible for growing Dell’s commercial business across the region and will work closely with …
Springboard to success
NWME: What brings you to town? Lebeck: Middle East is a key region for us. I wanted to meet the …
Carrier Ethernet grows up
There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and — let's be honest –more than a …
CA to become CA Technologies
CA is no more. The company formerly known as Computer Associates has changed its name once more and is now …
Juniper collapses the data centre
The new products and services address automation, virtualization and fabric technologies. Taken together, Juniper claims they can dramatically increase performance, …
EMC announces midrange storage developments
“We find that all our customers are using several separate element managers. Unisphere will unify or aggregate these separate element …
Why (not) invest now?
To invest or not invest is a more than legitimate question in today’s economic climate. Projects undergo longer and more …
Global data storage demands to rocket in next decade
The amount of information in the world is set to rise 44-fold in the next decade according to IDC, with …
Eyes on the network
A network monitoring system monitors an internal network for problems. It can find and help resolve snail-paced webpage downloads, lost-in-space …
Cyberoam rolls out Version X
Cyberoam, the Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance vendor, has announced the release of its new firmware with Cyberoam’s Version X …
New SaaS company launched
Dubbed LiveRoute, the company has unveiled its SaaS portfolio in the Middle East in partnership with Aplicor Inc, a global …
Citrix releases Xen 4.0
Xen.org, part of Citrix, has launched a new version of the Xen open source hypervisor. The company claimed that Xen …
Worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3% in 2010: Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 percent increase from IT spending of $3.2 …
NetApp to acquire Bycast
Customers whose business depends on access to critical data across geographically distributed locations rely on Bycast to better share and …