Analyst Gartner has slashed its forecast for worldwide IT spending growth for 2012. Gartner now estimates worldwide IT spending will …
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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
Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card
Samsung Electronics has started mass producing a microSD card that uses an Ultra High Speed-1 (UHS-1) interface to improve data …
A quarter of the world’s households now have Wi-Fi: survey
A total of 439 million households around the world had installed a Wi-Fi-based home network at the end of 2011, …
Google deprecates old App Engine datastore in favour of High-Replication version
Google is deprecating the Master/Slave Datastore used by its cloud platform App Engine in favor of the High-Replication Datastore (HRD), …
Open-source data mapping tool CartoDB provides customisable views
Vizzuality this week launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB, promising an easy and customisable way for users to display their …
ITU: Broadband key to achieving 2020 carbon reduction commitments
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, has propelled broadband to the front of the world’s …
Emitac appoints new director
Emitac Enterprise Solutions (EES) yesteday announced that George Petrides has joined as director of its enterprise management solution division, where …
Schneider Electric appoints new VP for Saudi IT business
Energy management firm Schneider Electric today announced the appointment of Abed Al Jawad Qasem as vice-president for its IT business …
EMC expands cloud portfolio
EMC yesterday announced an expanded portfolio of cloud services to help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimisation and management of …
DCIM tools eliminate inefficiencies
Some data centre managers were never sold on first generation data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) tools because the tools were …