Cisco has announced plans to create 115 new jobs in its research and development (R&D) facility in Galway, Ireland. The …
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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 3608
Google makes BigQuery available to all
BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analysing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period …
SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA
SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of …
HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centres
Western Digital company HGST yesterday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive …
Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone market, both continue to dominate
Samsung and Apple again traded places at the top of the smartphone market as Samsung came out on top in …
Microsoft, Barnes & Noble deal could lead to Windows-based tablet, analysts say
Microsoft’s new partnership with Barnes & Noble could lead to development of a Windows-based tablet or e-reader, not just a Nook e-reader application for …
VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering
In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service offering …
Symantec: Small-company security problems can threaten large corporate nets
Attackers used smaller businesses with less stringent security as gateways to their ultimate targets – large corporations or governments that hold valuable …
Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform
Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner …
Small businesses are the vast majority of Google Apps early adopters
While Google is pitching Google Apps as an ideal productivity solution for enterprises, a large majority of its early adopters …