Cisco has announced data centre technology innovations in three key areas: networking, hyperconverged infrastructure, and hybrid cloud orchestration, which aim to enable application-centric hybrid cloud deployments.
VMware announces new partner reward programme
VMware has announced a new incentive and reward programme for partners delivering VMware’s solutions and services, including NSX, virtual SAN and AirWatch.
Hitachi appoints Regional Sales Director for ME region
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced that Assaad El Saadi will lead the Middle East and Pakistan geographies as Regional Sales Director and General Manager.
Riverbed opens new global R&D facility in India
Riverbed Technology has opened a new global Research and Development facility in Bangalore, India, and announced plans to expand its engineering team in the region by three-fold over the next several years.
Riverbed opens new R&D facility in India
Riverbed Technology has opened a new global Research and Development facility in Bangalore, India, and announced plans to expand its engineering team in the region by three-fold over the next several years.
Carbon Black buys Confer for next-gen anti-virus
Carbon Black has announced that it acquired Confer to boost its protection for network endpoints using a behavioural form of antivirus combined with cloud analysis of threats rather than traditional signature-based software.
Step up
Ashwin Venkatchari, Research Director, Imaging Printing and Document Solutions, IDC Middle East, Africa and Turkey, urges channel partners to move up the value chain to be a true solutions provider for customers.
Epicor announces acquisition by investment firm KKR
Epicor Software Corporation has recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the global investment firm KKR from funds advised by Apax Partners.
Gartner highlights strategic technologies for government in 2016
According to the recent study by Gartner, government CIOs remain under pressure to further optimise IT and business costs while leading digital innovation in the public sector.
Sophos named a ‘Visionary’ in Gartner Magic Quadrant report
Sophos has announced that Gartner has named Sophos a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant Report for Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Suites for the third year in row.
Intel considers sale of cybersecurity business
Intel is considering selling its security business as the company tries to focus on delivering chips for cloud computing and connected devices, according to recent reports.
Intel considers sale of cybersecurity business
Intel is considering selling its security business as the company tries to focus on delivering chips for cloud computing and connected devices, according to recent reports.
Emitac CEO Tony Alam on the evolving SI landscape
Having joined Emitac Enterprise Solutions (EES) as the Chief Executive Officer earlier this year, Tony Alam, shares insights on the …
The need for speed
Adrian Pickering, Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Juniper Networks, describes how businesses can be empowered by network innovations to compete in the fast-moving digital economy.
What’s in store
EMC’s Stephen Manley, CTO of the company’s Core Technologies Division, discussed some of the challenges of shifting away from tape storage at EMC World.
Big Data’s huge role
Focusing just on the ‘Big’ could diminish competitive advantage and only yield minimal benefits for Middle East organisations, Lee Miles writes.
GBM Oman appoints new Country General Manager
Gulf Business Machines (GBM) has announced the appointment of Iyad Al Chammat as the new Country General Manager for GBM Oman.
BT, Fortinet announce global partnership
BT and Fortinet have recently announced an agreement that will integrate Fortinet’s FortiGate enterprise firewalls into BT’s global portfolio of managed security services.
Citrix, Microsoft align to promote digital transformation
At Citrix Synergy, Citrix and Microsoft unveiled an expansion of their strategic partnership to meet the needs of the modern workforce with application and desktop virtualisation in the cloud, network delivery and enterprise mobility management.
Evanssion partners with vArmour
Evanssion has signed a distribution agreement with vArmour to provide its Distributed Security System to customers in the region.