With a series of cloud announcements on Monday, Microsoft moved to put a stake in the ground with hybrid cloud computing and emerge from the shadow of cloud rivals Google and Amazon.
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UAE CIOs rank cloud as a top investment priority
With 85 percent of UAE CIOs ranking cloud as their top investment priority to 2020, managing multiple clouds will be the foundation for business success, industry experts revealed recently.0 3572
Cook: First Apple-IBM products to launch in November
The first products from Apple’s mobile enterprise partnership with IBM will roll out next month, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who said the partnership “could change the way people work.”
IBM’s Rometty defends rocky financial results
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is moving quickly to quell concerns about the company’s sinking earnings and decision to pay more than a billion dollars to cast off its money-losing microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries.
IBM offloads semiconductor unit to GlobalFoundries
IBM will sell the semiconductor technologies unit that makes its Power processors to Abu Dhabi-owned GlobalFoundries, paying the chip manufacturer about US$1.3 billion to take two factories off its hands in a move to erase losses.
Ayasdi announces strategic Teradata alliance
Analytics applications firm Ayasdi has announced a strategic partnership with Teradata to “empower enterprises” to find critical intelligence within their growing datasets.
Etisalat Misr enlists Teradata Integrated Marketing Cloud
Egyptian telecoms operator Etisalat Misr is teaming with Big Data analytics and marketing applications firm Teradata to “grow their customer base, reduce churn and increase marketing ROI”.
Successful cloud migration in eight steps
Sachin Bhardwaj, Director, Marketing & Business Development, eHosting DataFort, discusses the key factors that IT managers and CIOs must consider …
Generation UX: Transforming business software
Lee Miles, Regional Director, Middle East & India, Infor, looks at why business software is finally getting the makeover it deserves.
ManageEngine: Password security slack
Organisations in the Middle East acknowledge the importance of tightening security controls, but a majority fail to secure privileged passwords. V Balasubramanian, Marketing Manager, IT Security, ManageEngine, discusses results of a study conducted by ManageEngine at GITEX Technology Week 2014.
McAfee Firewall expands defence ecosystem
McAfee Security has announced the release an upgraded Next Generation Firewall which integrates with several of the company’s solutions and technologies.