Technology & IT | Tuesday 17 February, 2015 8:18 am

Polycom Names Dimension Data As Its System Integration Partner For Fourth Consecutive Year

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in video, voice and content collaboration solutions, has named Dimension Data as its global System Integration Partner for the fourth consecutive year for delivering collaborative solutions to enterprise clients around the world. This was announced ...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 17 February, 2015 1:41 am

Avaya to Bring Popular Technology Forum to Dubai

Avaya has announced it is hosting its popular Avaya Technology Forum (ATF) at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai (March 30 to April 1, 2015). ATF is a unique, hands on learning environment, featuring expert workshops, live demonstrations, and solid recommendations for enterprise and midmarket technology...

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Technology & IT | Monday 16 February, 2015 3:11 pm

Top European Mobile Maker, Fly, Launches New Cutting-Edge Devices

Top European mobile player Fly is building upon its remarkable success since entering the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey last year with an exciting range of products for the first quarter of 2015. Fly has already sold more than 200,000 units in the GCC in partnership with Dubai-based Eurostar...

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Technology & IT | Monday 16 February, 2015 2:49 pm

USD 5 Million Prize International Robotics Challenge Announced

The launch of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) was announced in a press conference at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE on February 15, 2015. The launch event was facilitated by a robot, who directed guests to their seats. MBZIRC, organized by Abu Dhabi-based...

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Technology & IT | Monday 16 February, 2015 12:05 pm

Casio unveils World’s First-Ever Standard Scientific Calculator with Arabic Display

- Innovative device has potential to benefit over 2 million students across region- Casio Middle East announced the launch of the world's first standard scientific calculator with an Arabic display. The first-ever calculator with an Arabic interface is a development of immense significance for...

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Technology & IT | Monday 16 February, 2015 10:16 am

10,000 Global IT Professionals Weigh in On Hybrid Cloud Adoption

- Two-thirds of Respondents in New IT Survey Believe Hybrid Cloud Provides Greater Agility and Security Research Highlights:• Hybrid cloud adoption has grown by 9% since 2013, over a quarter of global respondents (27%) have now deployed a hybrid cloud.• EMEA respondents leading hybrid...

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Technology & IT | Monday 16 February, 2015 10:03 am

EMC Introduces VSPEX BLUE Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

- All in One Appliance comes with an App Market to help Customers Simplify IT Deployment and Drive Agility EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced availability of the EMC® VSPEX® BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that delivers compute, storage, networking and management powered...

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Technology & IT | Monday 16 February, 2015 7:45 am

Love across the Twittersphere

What happens in the real world happens on Twitter, and love is no exception. Messages of “I love you,” “Je t’aime,” “te amo,” or “بحبك” are sent each day on Twitter, so we looked into which countries are saying it the most.The United Arab Emirates is ranked #4 globally as...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 15 February, 2015 12:49 am

Teradata Acquires RainStor

Teradata Corp. (NYSE: TDC), the big data analytics and marketing applications company, today announced that it completed the acquisition of RainStor, a privately held company specializing in online big data archiving on Hadoop. This acquisition strengthens Teradata’s enterprise-grade Hadoop...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 15 February, 2015 12:03 am

CIOs in UAE Need to Look at Five Areas to Control Data Risk

Data protection has always been a challenge, even when data flow was, more or less, confined to a closed network system. Now, we have the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) era in which your employees and contractors basically feel they should be able to use whatever device they want to create...

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