Riverbed has promoted Elie Dib to the position of Managing Director for the Middle East and North, Central and West Africa (MENA) region.
Tech, travelled
With the organisation’s data centre archaic and inefficient, Saeed Al Ghailani, Head of Infrastructure and Telecoms, Department of Transport Abu Dhabi, knew change was a must. When the arm moved to a new office in Bain Al Jessrain, he took the opportunity to modernise and streamline IT operations.
Banking on trust
Surya Subramanian always considers the bottom line where IT is concerned. Emirates NBD’s Group Chief Financial Officer talks to CNME about his relationship with technology and the company’s CIO, and how the bank’s customers are benefitting from the digital transformation.
STC deploys first Ericsson Radio Dot System in ME
Ericsson and Saudi Telecom Company (STC) have teamed up to deploy Ericsson’s state-of-the-art Radio Dot System solution. It is the …
Spectrami appoints new Executive Director for Sales & Operations
Value-added distributor for security and storage solutions in the MEA region, Spectrami has appointed Punit Bhatia as its new Executive …
Kaspersky Lab enhances partner support
The recently appointed Kaspersky Lab Middle East MD, Ovanes Mikhaylov, announced the company’s focus on aggressive growth in the enterprise security sector across the region. He elaborated on the company’s strategy to meet this target by combining innovation and intelligence with a boost in support for channel partners.
Zain Kuwait partners with Huawei for 4.5G mobile services
Zain Kuwait and Huawei have unveiled plans for a new strategic cooperation that will see the two companies trial and implement …
HP to acquire Aruba
HP has agreed to acquire Aruba Networks in a $3.0 billion deal.
VMware launches vCloud for NFV
VMware has entered the network function virtualisation market with a platform that lets service providers run their network functions as virtualised applications from different vendors.
Alcatel-Lucent boosts Wi-Fi
At the Mobile World Congress 2015 being held in Barcelona, Alcatel-Lucent has announced its ‘Wireless Unified Networks’ strategy which blends the …
Etisalat to host energy IT conference
Etisalat has announced that it will host the debut edition of its energy industry IT transformation event ‘Together we energise the world: Modern energy powered by modern solutions’ next month.
IBM outlines Twitter plans
Capturing public conversations around the world in real time, Twitter could be a valuable source of intelligence for the business world. IBM is now creating new ways to derive potentially valuable information from this massive, sprawling data set.
Avaya extends SDN offerings
Avaya this week extended its SDN arsenal with an architecture and supporting products designed to simplify enterprise connectivity and application provisioning.
Bloomberg: HP to acquire Aruba
HP is in talks to purchase Aruba Networks, with an eye toward acquiring that company’s wireless networking infrastructure technology, according to a report published today by Bloomberg News.
Dell announces converged appliance release
Dell today announced the release of its second set of XC Series of web-scale converged appliances.
Dell launches converged appliances
Dell today announced the release of its second set of XC Series of web-scale converged appliances.
Exploring greener pastures
Reseller ME speaks to new vendors on the block to explore the strategies that work the best in this region.
Bit9 + Carbon Black signs Microsoft endpoint deal
Bit9 + Carbon Black has announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate some of the company’s endpoint solutions.
Driving partnerships
Reseller ME catches up with Michael Gerentine, Global VP Channel Marketing, IBM, at the company’s PartnerWorld Leadership Conference held in Las Vegas this year.
Software AG appoints new VP for Middle East
Rami Kichli will be responsible for expanding the firm’s Middle Eastern business and reinforcing its position in the region.