Internet Of Things

IoT is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect data.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: a Software-Defined Data Center in a Box

In early September, I spent a memorable three days at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. In my time on the floor, I talked with a number of IT leaders and was pleased to note an expanding, keen interest in hyper-convergence (HC) - a great development, considering the exciting opportunities that HC opens up for companies looking to achieve all the benefits of a truly integrated, software-defined infrastructure. (For a quick overview of the advantages, watch this ChalkTalk video.)

Internet Usage Statistics

When Tim Bernars Lee first invented the World Wide Web, as a protocol, he didn’t imagine to see his baby controlling the traffic of the day to day life around the world, sending and receiving million if not billions of emails and tweets rather than posts every here and there!

Islamic New Year

Islamic New Year / Muharram is the month with which the Muslims begin their Hijrah Calendar. The Islamic New Year was observed in this way since 622 A.D. when the Prophet Mohammed emigrated from Mecca to Yathrib (now called Medina) to spread Islam. This migration known as the Hijra in Arabic, also spelled Hegira.

Manage your inbox efficiently with Unroll.Me

Tired of unwanted email subscriptions & tons of email that arrive from those subscriptions that you don’t even look at, keep on making your mail box full. Well, now you can get rid of that problem, with Unroll.me. It is a very simple online App that will help you unsubscribe from unwanted emails, consolidate sales/newsletters/listserv emails into a convenient daily digest called the Rollup, and keep the rest in your inbox.

Google Tricks That Will Change the Way You Search

Google Search’s learning curve is an odd one. You use it every day and may be able to even find whatever you are searching for. Interestingly, the search engine does much more than basic search and has plenty of interesting tricks up its sleeve. If you would like to get the most out of the Search engine, please read on.

Just for Fun: Try searching “Do a Barrel Roll”, without quotes and see what google can do for you.

Customer Satisfaction - Key Business Metric (Podcast)

Customer satisfaction is an important factor as it provides marketers and business owners with a metric that they can use to manage and improve their businesses.

Useful Apps for Everyone for Abu Dhabi & Dubai

Lots of smartphone apps or online facilities are here to make life easier for Abu Dhabi and Dubai residents. You can book a taxi, direct emergency workers, check Metro timings, pay utility bills, check medical fitness test requirements, start a business or pay traffic fines or parking fees from your phone or tablet.

Listed below are some of the important apps for Abu Dhabi and Dubai residents:

Overview of Alpha Cloud (Podcast)

Alpha Cloud is a public cloud service offering hosted in UAE for delivering IT services where in Alpha Data is certified IS0 27001:2013 Public Cloud Service Provider.

Why I love Biking

The alarm sounded at 6:00 in the morning. I get up from bed, do my stretching and I am off the road. I am riding to work with my good old bike. I am all pumped up! As I stepped out, I know it is going to be a good day.

Overview of the contractual issues within the IT industry in UAE (Podcast)

In this Podcast, Anns B. Waqi - Legal Counselor gives an overview of the contractual issues within the IT industry, and how to protect your proprietary rights.

Internet of Things Overview (Podcast)

Of all the technology trends that are taking place right now, perhaps the biggest one is the Internet of Things.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for human stupidity

Albert Einstein often remarked, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Stupidity, the word comes from the Latin verb, stupere, meaning to feel numb or astonished, and related to the word stupor.

Telephone Courtesies

With so much attention being placed on online communication, whether it’s via email and social media and instant messaging, it seems that conversing with your actual voice is a lost art. However, answering the telephone is still a big part of the experience for many businesses most especially like ours. Customers will call you and the conversation they have with you will shape their entire perception of our company.

In that note, I would like to share with you some telephone courtesies as fresh reminder for all of us.

A common question that we might want to ask - “Who should first hang up the call?”

If you want to know if you got the right answer, please read on!

Emerging IT / Telecom Trends (Podcast)

In this Podcast episode you will get an overview about different emerging IT / Telecom Trends. You will hear about Software-defined networking (SDN), an umbrella term encompassing several kinds of network technology aimed at making the network as agile and flexible as the virtualized server and storage infrastructure of the modern data center.

What is SAP HANA and what are its features (Podcast)

In this Podcast episode you will get a overview about SAP HANA. SAP HANA is the Platform for Next-Generation Applications and Analytics. Whenever companies have to go deep within their data sets to ask complex and interactive questions, and have to go broad (which means working with enormous data sets that are of different types and from different sources) at the same time, SAP HANA is well-suited.