Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
IT Operations
17 Sept 2026
Cisco's next bundled IOS XE advisory lands on 23 September 2026. What decides whether an advisory earns a maintenance window, how install mode rollback and the 7200 second auto abort timer protect a Catalyst upgrade, and what goes wrong in a Dubai comms room.
Security
16 Sept 2026
Firewall data sheets publish a fast forwarding figure and a much slower inspected one. What Fortinet, Cisco and SonicWall actually measure, why TLS decryption costs connections as well as gigabits, and how to size against a UAE fibre circuit.
Servers
16 Sept 2026
Sizing server RAM for a virtualised UAE office: counting guest memory properly, what ESXi, Hyper-V and ZFS reserve, why eight DIMMs beat sixteen on a PowerEdge R760, and how DIMM capacity changes the ambient a Dubai comms room must hold.
Power
16 Sept 2026
A UPS has two power limits and you may exceed neither. Three real APC nameplates show power factors of 0.67, 0.8 and 1.0 on the same shelf, why runtime charts quietly assume a smaller load than yours, and how to size a unit for a Dubai comms room.
Networking
15 Sept 2026
SD-WAN in the UAE for businesses with several sites: when it pays, how fast Cisco Catalyst and Meraki react to a bad path, TDRA's position on business VPNs, carrier NAT and tunnel counts, and what to settle before a quote.
Networking
14 Sept 2026
Managed vs unmanaged switch for a UAE office: what each tier really includes per Cisco's 2026 datasheets, the loop, multicast and open port failures unmanaged switches cannot stop, and the UAE IA segregation control.
Networking
14 Sept 2026
What a Wi-Fi site survey in Dubai should hand you before you order access points: predictive, AP on a stick and validation surveys, Cisco's -66 and -67 dBm targets, the 6 GHz survey rule, and red flags in a report.
Networking
13 Sept 2026
Cat 6A to every desk and access point, fibre for the backbone. The published 10 Gbps limits of Cat 6, why Wi-Fi 7 access points and PoE heat decide it, and when existing Cat 6 is worth keeping.
Laptop
13 Sept 2026
Buy business laptops for anything that joins your company tenant. What Windows 11 Home lacks, what vPro and Intel's 15 month platform freeze add, how to read MIL-STD claims, and the Windows 11 check for used machines.
