All stories in ‘Analysis’
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 [...]
CIO=supply chain manager
A few years back, only a large company could afford sophisticated back-office and front-office automation. Whether it was SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft or Oracle, a company needed to invest millions of [...]
Technology for a new year
Gartner has revealed its top predictions for IT organisations and users for 2012 and beyond, and they herald changes in control for IT organisations as budgets, technologies and costs become [...]
Good on HANA: SAP
SAP executives provided new details about the company’s plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software architecture during an event in Boston [...]
Oracle’s internal IT
Oracle’s CIO and senior VP, Mark Sunday, has revealed how the company’s strategy to simplify its processes has enabled it to acquire and assimilate businesses. 13 years ago, Oracle carried [...]
Aiming for the enterprise
Huawei Technologies wants to be the number one choice for enterprises, especially in emerging markets, and is using its solutions internally to set an example. However, what they need to [...]
Defending their PaaS territory
Independent platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell entering as competitors, but they expressed confidence this [...]
Egypt On
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) of Egypt was in Dubai for GITEX Technology Week 2011 and took the time to discuss its role in the development of the [...]
Ready for the cloud era
Some figures first. A virtual machine is created every 6 seconds. To put that in perspective, it’s more than the number of babies born in the US. Gartner says more [...]
Socialising for intelligence
Ten years ago, Logicalis, a systems integrator, would have needed a wiretap to overhear the grumblings of a competitor’s dissatisfied customer or prospect. But when a Logicalis sales representative stumbled [...]
Shades of success
At a recent interview with Wissam Khoury, managing director at SunGard Financial Systems, Middle East, Pallavi Sharma discovers the ideas behind the company’s investments for the future. The recent spurt [...]
A turnaround that didn’t happen
As she approached her third anniversary as Yahoo’s CEO, Carol Bartz couldn’t overcome a recent string of missteps that apparently eroded the board’s confidence in her and eclipsed her achievements [...]
Promise in public clouds
SNIA’s recent survey suggests that many companies are currently using or planning to use public cloud storage offerings in North America. Three quarters of companies are either currently using or [...]
