The IT services market will soon change drastically due to factors including global demographics and new delivery models, says Forrester Research's Christine Ferrusi Ross. Here's advice on how IT leaders can get ready.

VMware is widely expected to announce the next step in its road to its previously announced Virtual Data Centre operating system (VDC-OS) on Tuesday, 21 April. The goal is not primarily to explain the little-understood, still unrealised VDC-OS concept that VMware announced last summer, as part of VMware executives' ongoing promotion of the idea that companies should create internal cloud-computing systems for their traditional IT infrastructures, according to sources briefed on the announcement.

Intel Capital, Intel Corporation?s global investment organisation, has announced an investment in three UAE-based technology companies.

CIOs are always faced with pressure to justify their IT expenditures. Now, new research can help correlate those IT dollars spent with business value accrued.

A business needs money to set up. SMB Advisor Middle East's recent panel discussion threw up some exceptional insights into the workings of venture capital in the region. R Narayan takes a look at this and some of the other interesting topics that emerged. SMB Advisor Middle East is a sister publication of Computer News Middle East.