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Getting trends-as-a-service
There has been a shift towards management software in recent years, particularly as companies attempt to get to grips with trends that are changing how they do business. But what [...]
Beyond the hype
Nobody can seem to stop talking about virtualisation and all the supposedly wonderful benefits it gives enterprises. It has gradually made the transition from buzz word, to key trend, to [...]
Tested path
A few months ago, the IT team at Sikka struggled to provide accurate and relevant information for the company’s management to predict and forecast accurately. However, since its Microsoft Dynamics [...]
IBM tops Cloud provider report
Australian ICT research firm, Longhaus, has dubbed IBM as the most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) Cloud provider in its new report on the Cloud market. The vendor also took out top [...]
IT execs accept BYOD, despite some reservations: survey
Despite security and IT integration problems related to the consumerisation of IT in the workplace, CEOs and IT execs are resigned to its growth, according to research. Decisive Analytics questioned [...]
Avaya releases communications management platform
Avaya is looking to take over the management of an enterprise’s entire communications platform with a new offering the company announced yesterday. By handing over management of an enterprise’s unified [...]
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 “Consumer Preview,” downloads start
Microsoft yesterday released its “Consumer Preview” of Windows 8, and before Windows president Steve Sinofsky finished his presentation to reporters at Mobile World Congress 2012, downloads had begun in 70 [...]
Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffers serious outage
Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure and development service experienced a serious outage yesterday, with the system’s service management component going down worldwide starting at 1:45 a.m. GMT. “We are experiencing an [...]
UAE government pro managed IT services
eHosting Data Fort (eHDF) and Emirates eGovernment today organised a special forum titled ‘Managed IT Services for Government’. At the forum, H.E Salem Khamis Al Shair, deputy director general for [...]
Yahoo, Facebook in intellectual property dispute
Yahoo is threatening action unless Facebook licenses some of its technologies, as other web and technology companies are said to have done. The move by Yahoo puts it in conflict [...]
Intel, Visa partner on NFC payments
Visa and Intel have announced a partnership that should make it easier for consumers to make mobile payments via phones and tablets powered by Intel chips. Users will be able [...]
Oracle’s Exalytics now available, set for showdown with SAP’s HANA
Oracle announced the general availability of Exalytics, the latest in its family of specialised appliances and a direct competitor to SAP’s HANA product. Both Exalytics and HANA employ in-memory technology, [...]
MEA enterprise IT spending to grow 6.3%: Gartner
Middle East and Africa enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to reach 70 billion Euros in 2012, a 6.3% increase from 2011, according to research firm, Gartner. [...]
Dell buys AppAssure for software backup
Dell said Friday it has purchased backup software vendor AppAssure, in the first of an expected run of acquisitions following Dell’s appointment of former CA Technologies CEO John Swainson as [...]
The cloud CIO
Forbes recently published an interesting article written by Ed Sperling titled “CIOs: Be Careful What You Wish For.” In it, Sperling opined that virtualisation will cause a shift for IT [...]
