Gulf markets are leapfrogging developed economies by embracing new business models and technologies to achieve their social and economic goals. …
Outlook 2012, Reading the cards
Microsoft will begin to dominate new networking and technology areas by increasing its share of unified communication and voice over …
Oracle’s big data appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance product, which began shipping Tuesday , gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache …
Spend on enterprise network equipment to grow in 2012
Spending on enterprise network equipment will grow by 8.7% in 2012, as companies continue to turn to enterprise mobility, video …
Messaging security market to touch $4.78b by 2015:IDC
The messaging security market will grow to $4.78 billion in 2015, according to research firm IDC, but enterprises will favour …
Cisco and Etisalat sign strategic MOU
(Left to Right) Etisalat Group CEO, HE Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar and Cisco’s Senior Vice President for Emerging Markets, Duncan …
CIO=supply chain manager
A few years back, only a large company could afford sophisticated back-office and front-office automation. Whether it was SAP, Siebel, …
March to megapixel
Despite the global economic downturn the market for IP video surveillance cameras and other associated equipments seem to have remained …
Lenovo launches hybrid of ultrabook and tablet
Lenovo got in on the ultrabook excitement before the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) even officially opened. Late Monday, Yang Yuanqing, …
Citrix introduces Elite partner programme
Noman Qadir, Regional Channel Manager at Citrix Systems, MENA and Turkey Citrix Systems, launched a renewed channel strategy and partner …
Volume and value jostle
Josef Miskulnig worked in IBM from 1977 to 1996. In 1997 he decided to set up Fast Lane as both …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
Falling memory prices to bring more devices
Everyone likes it when prices fall, right? But there may be a point when flash memory gets too cheap for …
Consumerisation creates management blind spots: survey
As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it’s getting harder …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
Zservices and Zajil Telecom sign agreement for Kuwait
Zservices, the provider of local cloud security services in the Middle East, has signed a partnership agreement with Zajil, provider …
HDD washout in Thailand
October?s flooding of Thailand has knocked out close to half of the global hard disk manufacturing base. Normalcy will take …
Huawei acquires Symantec stake in Huawei Symantec
Huawei and Symantec have announced an agreement where Huawei will acquire Symantec’s 49% stake in Huawei Symantec Technologies for US$ …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
Alcatel-Lucent unveils key piece of data centre fabric
Alcatel-Lucent has rolled out 40G Ethernet modules for its top-of-rack data center switches to help further its data center fabric …