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Latest IDC EMEA server forecast shows 39.3% drop in revenues in second quarter

IDC has announced that EMEA server revenue has fallen 34.3%, with the MEA portion slipping 23.9%

Everyone’s heard that old saw about the glass of water being either half full or half empty, depending on which side of the optimist/pessimist debate you fall on.

Information technology spend in Middle East set to see 7% boost from companies.

Despite predictions that IT spend in the Middle East should swing increasingly towards the direction of software and services, the ever-resilient hardware segment refuses to implode...as those in the server channel will testify.

Saudi Arabia is biggest information technology market in the region, according to new research.

Growing number of workers connecting through multiple devices to communication and collaboration applications

Worldwide database market grows to $18.6 billion in 2007, Oracle builds share to 44.1%

Quarterly sales growth in the Middle East remains strong while Europe trails at 12.6%

The IDC CIO summit provided an effective networking platform but it could have done with a well-defined agenda.

IDC predicts PC shipments to double in three years, but says East African market is currently in early adoption phase

IT expenditure in the Middle East will grow three times faster than global average analyst company says

IDC report shows strength of software sector in driving IT industry job creation and partner revenues

Amount of money companies spend on technology will increase 12.9% this year, research firm says.

It's easy to forget that not every Mideast market has been afforded the privilege of unremitting expansion.

Significant reduction in datacentre operation costs on use of software platform, according to report.

Andrew Seymour says vendors are finally forming a credible strategy to address the whole of the continent.

Viewed by software developers as an unrelenting affliction that eats into the revenues of authorised channels, the pervasiveness of piracy in the Middle East is, to put it bluntly, beyond farcical. Channel Middle East investigates whether the contemporary strategies used to thwart unscrupulous traders from making a mockery out of the region’s software industry will really make a difference.

Despite the hype, there is no guarantee that consumers will be flocking to buy Apple's new iPhone, a study by IDC has found.

New figures reveal that sales of digital cameras in Saudi Arabia decreased by 1.3% last year.

The need for a scalable infrastructure to cope with electronic data management should now be a priority for the discerning CIO.

Notebook sales in the Gulf overtook those of desktop computers for the first time last year, according to figures from research group IDC.

“Add value, move into services and sell solutions.” That’s the rather ambiguous line trotted out by many vendors when quizzed about the steps that their margin-starved partners must take to build a sustainable business. Yet as myriad Middle East resellers will testify, carving out a strategy that reduces dependence on product revenue remains a daunting prospect.

Global research organisations are stuck in a tug-of-war on server sales figures and future market trends. The server market might be commoditised, but commentators predict that not all is gloom-and-doom for vendors. Colin Edwards reports.

Securing both the fixed and mobile licences on offer in Saudi Arabia could prove crucial for the new entrant into the market, an IDC analyst has warned.

Mobile phone shipments in EMEA are expected to grow 12% in 2007 to 400 million units, stated IDC.

Whichever way you look at it, 2006 was a memorable year for the Middle East IT channel. From credit conflicts and audit disputes to management changes and soaring growth, the market was never short of incident. Channel Middle East reflects on the key moments of the past 12 months and gazes into its crystal ball to predict what channel life will be like in 2007.

Leading vendors prosper as market expands

Liberalisation of the telecoms sector across the region is set to have a huge impact on the market in the coming years as more operators bring increased competition

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Push email is an application that is gaining traction in the Middle East region, and as it does, the market for smart devices is being proportionately impacted upon. Dylan Bowman looks at the trends helping to shape the market for push email services, and assesses how corporates are benefiting.

Buoyed by oil profits, many businesses and government entities in Saudi Arabia have money to burn when it comes to IT budgets, but are they finding value? Daniel Stanton gets the story on Saudi and the returns it is getting on its IT investments.

Consolidation remains the name of the game in the enterprise system management software market, not only throughout 2005 but well into 2006, and is likely to continue for some years to come.

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Consolidation remains the name of the game in the enterprise system management software market, not only throughout 2005 but well into 2006, and is likely to continue for some years to come.

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Industry predicts Middle East to experience 30 per cent shortfall in networking engineers over next four years.

The open-source operating system is becoming ever more popular, but is the region ready.