Oracle’s Alfonso Di Ianni, Senior Vice President, East Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa, has said that cloud adoption in Dubai has seen a marked upswing in the past 12 months.
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Intel expects to reduce workforce by 5 percent in 2014
Intel expects that its workforce will decline by 5 percent as it heads into a year in which revenue is likely to be flat.
Thuraya SatSleeeve could 'Prevent economic and environmental catastrophe'
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Oracle builds a bridge to Salesforce.com with new adapter
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Zambia government cracks down on online media
In an archetypal showing of growing government animosity toward online media in Africa, the Zambian government has unleashed the police on editors and journalists of online media organisations accused irresponsible reporting.
Cisco: Malicious traffic present on 100 percent of sampled networks
Every large multinational firm investigated by Cisco for its latest Security Report showed signs of malicious traffic on their networks, the networking company has revealed.
Obama's proposed NSA changes leave question marks
U.S. President Barack Obama called for changes to National Security Agency surveillance, with new privacy advocates assigned to a surveillance court and a transition away from a controversial telephone records collection programme in the U.S.
C-Level executives unsure how to maximise value of Big Data
In August, FT Remark, a research service from the Financial Times Group, surveyed 144 CFOs and CIOs at global organisations on KPMG Capital’s behalf.
IBM invests $1.2 billion in global data centre network
IBM today announced plans to commit $1.2 billion (£730 million) to expand its global cloud footprint through a number of new data centres set to open this year.
Gartner: By 2018 less than 0.01 percent of mobile apps will succeed
Consumers are increasingly turning to recommendation engines, friends, social networking or advertising to discover mobile applications rather than sorting through the thousands of mobile apps available, according to Gartner.