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IBM today announced it is leading a joint research initiative with 15 European partners which include telecommunications companies, healthcare and media companies and standards bodies to develop an object-based standard “intelligent cloud” storage architecture.

IBM said the goal of collaboration is to improve the delivery of rich data and storage services across national borders and a variety of suppliers. The research project led by the research arm of IBM in Haifa, will address the main challenges facing modern storage clouds, including: profitability, data mobility through the cloud providers, and security assurances massive computing requirements of energy that affect the quality of service.
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Du, the UAE’s second largest telecom operator, is aiming to increase its market share to equal its biggest competitor in the next few years, its CEO has told Arabian Business.

Osman Sultan said growth in the UAE’s mobile sector was becoming increasingly difficult but du would continue to grow its customer base until it reached “comparity” with Etisalat.

‘I don’t see any reason why we should stop until we reach comparity with the other player so that gives us the potential to grow in the coming years,” he said.
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Shayam, an Indian manufacturer of RF radio, WiFi access points and network component products, has every reason to exhibit at GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK.

The company, which is present at the event for the first time, is experiencing a surge of interest in the Middle East, and expects to open its first regional office in Dubai in the coming months.

The company already has thousands of installations around the world for its various product lines and has a very strong base with respect to its products ISM band, network components, and the Wi-Fi products.

Ankit Khanna, managing director of channel sales, Shyam, says the company already has 34 offices in India and 12 offices worldwide. However, it does not have an office in the Middle East.

“We are now catering to the Middle East and Africa market, which is why they are participating for the first time at GITEX and we have a very good answer,” says Khanna. “We have to take some approvals from the TRA about our products. Once the approvals are ordered within three months, we will have an office here. We want a presence in Dubai in the first place where we can meet entire market. ” He adds that the company is optimistic about winning business from companies and organizations in the region after many positive conversations. “Telcos and ISPs are our main customers, but other companies that have multiple offices within a radius of 30 km and want to connect their offices or P2P or multipoint, are also customers,” adds Khanna.

The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has Announced a partnership with Research In Motion (RIM), Etisalat and Du, to foster mobile innovation across the region.

The partnership will support the TRA’s sent to Encourage, Promote, Develop and the telecoms and information technology industry in the UAE and across the region.
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Suppliers that do not offer customers the ability to host some or all of their IT infrastructure in a private cloud will find themselves at odds with the market, Microsoft has warned Week GITEX TECHNOLOGY.

“This is perhaps one of the two or three teams in the truly major technological landscape we have seen, as the transition from mainframes to servers and the introduction of the personal computer,” said Oliver Sharp, Director General strategy for Microsoft Server and Tools Marketing. “Even the introduction of the GUI is not on the same level of impact that clouds have. Cloud literally be a fundamental transformation of what we have come to understand the IT industry. ”

Sharp, however, sound a note of caution. Any vendor who believes it can capture the whole market and offer a service from beginning to end through the public cloud is itself of illusions and will find themselves locked out of many key markets for many years.

“The public cloud represents a large number of changes to the status quo, at once,” said Sharp. “This is a problem for many key vertical markets such as finance, where legislation is slow to change to new possibilities technology.

“It may well be the case that in five to ten years, companies in these industries conservative will be able to host their data in the cloud, but at the same time there is no way that they can legally. Any company that tries not to offer its customers a solution that is 100% in the clouds will find themselves locked out of these markets, “he added.