IT on all fronts

Khalifa Fund IT Director Dr. Zuhair Lardhi has been a mainstay of the Middle East IT industry, but in the midst of his career progression he found the time to satisfy his passion for academia.

Global Distribution trains VARs on SolarWinds products

Twenty value-added resellers from the UAE were invited to join the technical enablement training on the award-winning SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). Key partners such as ThinkSoft, Almoe, Seven Seas, Gridz Middle East, CNS and many others participated in the full day session.

Broadcast the passion

Striving to keep up with a high-achieving family, Ali Radhi, Head of IT, MBC, has relied on his relentless passion for technology to find professional success.

Alcatel-Lucent & Al Rostamani Communications co-host seminar

Alcatel-Lucent had hosted a seminar for business enterprises, financial institutions and government sectors on innovative voice and data solutions that empower enterprise communications. The seminar held at the JW Marriott Marquis, was hosted jointly with its partner, Al Rostamani Communications, a UAE-based systems integrator

Oxygen to showcase portfolio at GISEC

Oxygen, the secure mobility value-added distributor (VAD), has announced its participation at GISEC, which is scheduled to be held from June 9th – 11th 2014 at Dubai World Trade Center, UAE.

Framing the future

On 8th April, IBM celebrated the 50th anniversary of System/360, its mainframe system which transformed the computing world. James Dartnell reports from the Mainframe50 conference in New York City where the infrastructure giant celebrated the milestone with the release of new cloud and Hadoop services.

Rubbish rebooted

Waste has been managed in the same way with the same technologies for decades. Amin Al Zarouni, Head of ICT, Bee’ah, and his team have taken the traditional idea of waste management and turned it on its head.

Tapping into growth

Derek Tu, Sales Manager, Synology, discusses the region’s potential for storage solutions and the company’s channel strategies with Reseller ME.

Soaring threats

: In conjunction with Palo Alto Networks, CNME hosted a security roundtable for delegates from the aviation and logistics industries at the Habtoor Grand Hotel as part of its Security Strategist Conference in April, where IT leaders discussed the security issues their industry is facing.

MoFA calling

With the security and reputation of the UAE at stake, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ IT department knew it had to implement a secure communications channel for its delegates. A project that began in 2012 now sees 69 UAE foreign embassies connected to a secure WAN, which has made huge operational savings, and ensures sleepless nights for MoFA’s IT team.

Global Distribution extends HP product offering

Global Distribution, an authorised HP Channel Development Partner (CDP) in the United Arab Emirates since last August, has extended its HP Product Offering to foster solutions business in the local reseller community.

Counting the clicks

E-tailing is in its nascent stage in the region, Reseller ME explores challenges in the space and how e-tailers can survive in the long run.

AlienVault signs up emt Distribution for Middle East

AlienVault has partnered with emt Distribution to deliver its Unified Security Management products to resellers and customers in the Middle East region including countries such as KSA, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen.

Xerox Emirates introduces Wide Format IJP 2000

Xerox Emirates, a joint venture between Xerox Corporation and Mohamed Hareb Al Otaiba, has recently launched the Wide Format IJP 2000 enabling it to keep up with the growing demand for large posters, signs, point-of-purchase graphics and banners in the UAE.

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