Huawei Enterprise, the IT arm of Huawei, the telecommunications solutions vendor, has launched the Enterprise Business unit to provide tailored end-to-end ICT enterprise based solutions to the region’s IT market. Read More…
Swiss structured cabling specialist R&M, brought its latest high performance cabling range for the oil and gas sector that incorporates forward looking design and maximizes return on investment of a key part of network infrastructure to the region. R&M advises oil and gas companies that the installation of high quality cabling maximizes both performance and investment for the network infrastructure. Over the years, R&M has been involved in a number of network infrastructure projects for the oil and gas sector, having implemented end to end network solutions for several companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. Complement its product portfolio, R&M also offers expert guidance from country offices in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt as well as R&M certified in-country installation partners throughout the Middle East and Africa.Read More…
Cisco and BMC Software joined hands together to offer a new Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform, which will enable uutomation of large-scale cloud computing infrastructures. Both, the companies will align their product development roadmaps and technology architectures to offer worldwide customers a complete suite of solutions that simplify and automate the delivery of cloud services. This new joint solution helps cloud providers easily deploy end-to-end cloud services running on a cloud computing infrastructure that spans data center networks, computing systems, storage and applications.Read More…
HP today introduced the first unified system to accelerate the reliable, secure delivery of software applications and services across heterogeneous environments. HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 unites and automates the critical activities of modernization applications – from requirements management to quality, performance and release. A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by HP shows that 69 percent of IT decision-makers have earmarked a quarter of their annual IT budgets for application modernization, while 30 percent will dedicate more than 50 percent.(1) Application modernization enables organizations to gain control over complex processes and support the transformation of their applications portfolio to deliver an Instant-On Enterprise that boosts enterprise growth, agility and innovation.
Munaf Sabeeh, chief executive officer of Scopesky Communications, has announced that Iraq’s first commercial data centre will be ready in mid-December, Meed has reported. Built at Baghdad airport for security reasons, the fibre-optic ISP is connected to two gateways, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with plans to sign up Jordan soon as the third gateway, he said. Iraqi Telecoms and Post Co will take a 20% to 30% revenue share and has the rights to sell the capacity.
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Software AG today announced that it has been named by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in the Leaders Quadrant of the recently released Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites. According to Gartner, Inc., more organizations are adopting Business Process Management (BPM) as a discipline and scaling up their efforts to establish BPM as an enterprise program. The effectiveness of BPM in providing business efficiency was demonstrated by a 15% market growth in BPMS in 2009.Read More…
Gulf Business Machines (GBM), the region’s leading IT solutions and service provider, today announced that it has earned Salesforce.com’s Business Partner Status in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Salesforce.com is a US based Cloud Computing company which provides on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions globally. GBM already shares a longstanding relationship with Salesforce.com and offers its full range of Cloud-based Business Applications. With this partnership, supported by a highly skilled team, GBM will bring local capabilities and expertise to customers in the region.
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SafeNet, a global provider of information security, has teamed with NetApp, an innovative storage and data management solutions provider, to offer a new approach to storage security solutions. This collaboration will provide customers with the ability to manage and protect their on-premise, cloud-based and virtualised data storage in a highly secure manner. According to a Gartner report, concerns about data location, data loss, and data security (privacy) are three of the top five barriers to cloud-computing adoption.
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Gartner, Inc. has identified 10 major forces that are actively reshaping the future of IT services and the outsourcing market. “Buyers, providers and investors in the IT services market confront the same confluence of market and technological forces, even though their approaches and core concerns may differ,” said Benjamin Pring,Read More…
According to new research commissioned by Brocade wherein 76% of 600 CIO’s surveyed from EMEA region believed that IT consolidation is key for their enterprises and they are are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months. Apart from IT consolidation the other two key areas of focus would be virtualisation and security. The study revealed that the CIOs expect tomorrow’s corporate networks to fulfill a wide range of sometimes-conflicting demands. They want unprecedented scalability but reduced management complexity (61 percent). Read More…
Gemalto new innovation PROX DUTM smart card reader for physical and logical access control. The dual-interface reader makes it convenient to securely access a host of applications using both contactless and contact technologies, with one single device. Read More…
Cabling specialist R & M introduced its new cabling solution consisting of three layer security system and Cat. 6 shielded solutions to secure the financial sector in the Middle East region. R & M claims that its new solution meets the heightened security and zero downtime network requirements for banks and financial firms in the region.
