Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
Blue Coat signs Westcon Middle East as distributor for MENA Region
Westcon Middle East, a value-add distributor of convergence, security, networking and mobility products and services, announced that it has been …
Yahoo claims Facebook bought patents to countersue it
Facebook purchased in the last five months eight of 10 patents it has cited in a counterclaim to a patent …
Sony set to roll out VAIO E14 Series across the region
Sony, the consumer electronics brand, today announced that the new VAIO E14 Series, a 14-inch notebook with stylish new ‘wrap …
How to virtualise mission-critical applications
Enterprises are virtualising more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster provisioning of …
Does the iPad cannibalise Apple’s laptops?
The question – whether the company’s tablet cannibalises sales of its own portable computing line – is ultimately impossible to …
Google Drive problem is a public cloud problem, says privacy expert
The explosion of outrage from privacy advocates over Google Drive’s terms of service appears to have subsided somewhat, after a …
Abiba to expand channel partner network in EMEA
Abiba Systems, a provider of telecom business intelligence and analytics software solutions, is planning to further expand its channel partner …
HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook
“Sleek, midnight black glass on the outside and stark contrast silver on the inside make Spectre extraordinary, defying conventional notebook …
Dell Precision workstations get custom new look
Dell has unveiled four new Precision workstations that have been designed for maximum upgrade flexibility. The Precision T range workstations …
Sophos partners with Facebook for user protection
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced a partnership with Facebook to help protect users from links that …
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in big data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of …
Conficker worm still the top corporate network threat: Microsoft
Companies are still plagued by the Conficker worm, used to create botnets and spread other forms of malware, according to the …
A delicate balance
With the rise in the influence of social media on the business, it’s time for CMOs to get better acquainted …
Making it work
Storage systems can prove to be challenging to deploy and use within organisations. Vendors suggest choosing the latest in technologies …
From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by …
Facebook pays Microsoft $550m for AOL patents
Microsoft and Facebook, which have struck a variety of business, technology and advertising agreements in recent years, announced yesterday a deal …
Acer ships desktops with quad-core Ivy Bridge chips
Acer yesterday started shipping desktops that are among the first PCs available with Intel’s third-generaton Core processors, code-named Ivy Bridge. …
How cloud computing will impact the channel
The channel and reseller community will need to enhance existing skillsets and service offerings to master the cloud
Infor prepares to roll out ‘Mongoose’ development platform
Infor is moving into the PaaS (platform as a service) market with an offering called Mongoose that is based on …