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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 3612
DEWA chooses GBM to augment server infrastructure
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has selected Gulf Business Machines (GBM) to augment the utility company’s server infrastructure. As …
Poor data replication ‘costing hundreds of thousands’
Each major outage of business-critical data can cost over a million pounds, it is estimated, with data replication failures playing …
Twitter launches TweetDeck as web app
An application near and dear to the heart of Twitter fanatics everywhere, TweetDeck, is now available as a Web application. …
Gartner to CIOs: Weigh on Euro crisis
With the Eurozone crisis threatening to bring the world into another global recession, Gartner is advising CIOs to be on …
Cisco data centre forecast very cloudy
Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from now to 2015, according to a new Cisco study. The growth represents a 66% …
Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering
Microsoft and HP, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services. The two companies …
Software AG integrates Terracotta technology
Software AG announced the successful integration of Terracotta technology into its product stack in only five months. The integrated technology …
Huawei restricts business in Iran
Huawei Technologies will limit its business activities in Iran and no longer seek new customers there, it said, after an …
Riverbed upgrade targets video, satellite traffic
A Riverbed software upgrade means more efficient distribution of video over WANs and optimising traffic that runs over satellite links. Riverbed is …