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Integrating public cloud storage into your storage vision
As IT organisations build their storage plans and create a vision for the future, cloud storage and the paradigm on which it depends should be a priority. Cloud storage technologies [...]
Gain with intelligence
Storing data is one thing, but how does a company actively gain intelligence from analysing the data and then pump it back into the company to achieve business gain? Ben [...]
Making it work
Storage systems can prove to be challenging to deploy and use within organisations. Vendors suggest choosing the latest in technologies and implementing select processes to make it easier for enterprises. [...]
Old but worthy
Companies can work to ensure they get productivity from their existing storage investments, but this would have to be done in a proactive manner. It is all great for the [...]
Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5 bn: IDC
In the last quarter of 2011, disk storage systems generated more than $8.5 billion in revenue, representing a 3.5% increase from the prior year’s fourth quarter, according to research firm [...]
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 mn, enters server hardware business
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a surprise move that puts AMD in the systems business and disrupts Intel by acquiring one of [...]
Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead
The flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report from [...]
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. [...]
HP, Clinton Foundation set up data centres in Kenya as part of the Early Infant Diagnosis project
Hewlett-Packard (HP), the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Kenya’s Ministry of Public Health have completed the rollout of a series of data centres to connect laboratories and health centres as [...]
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 [...]
Survival of the fittest
The past year has given enough reason for regional enterprises to begin investing in a robust business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies. Vendors believe that the appearance of [...]
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. As early adopters invest in the new technology, we are [...]
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 [...]
A continuing story
Business continuity (BC) is not yet fully understood by most large Middle East enterprises, and is often confused with its cousin disaster recovery (DR). With the current state of affairs, [...]
Viva vibe
Kuwait’s Viva Telecom implements a data warehouse and business intelligence (DWBI) solution to benefit business operations, Pallavi Sharma reports. As part of its ambitious path of strategic growth, Saudi Telecom [...]
