Manish Punjabi from Alcatel-Lucent, says Twitter could be a useful tool for the channel.
SpectorSoft appoints StarLink as META distributor
StarLink has announced its appointment as SpectorSoft’s distributor for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
ComGuard renews partnership with Acunetix
ComGuard, a value-added distributor for networking and IT security products in the MENA region has renewed its partnership with Acunetix, a global player in web application security scanning. The renewal reinforces the existing partnership to provide organisations across the region with web security solutions, support, and infrastructure.
Oxygen and Fortinet train SMB partners in KSA
The secure mobility value-added distributor (VAD), Oxygen and Fortinet, a high-performance network security vendor, had conducted a training for its SMB channel partners across Saudi Arabia jointly. The workshop aimed to provide hands-on sales training to channel partners on the vendor’s next generation SMB products and solutions.
Bit9 and Carbon Black merge to battle cyber threats
Bit9 has merged with Carbon Black, a next-generation security company to prevent and detect advanced threats on endpoints and servers andprovide immediate incident response. The combined entity, retaining the Bit9 name, has raised $38.25 million to fuel its explosive growth as businesses race to protect themselves against the ever-increasing damage from advanced attacks.
Red Hat adds to OpenStack expertise with eNovance buy
Red Hat is filling out its OpenStack portfolio by acquiring eNovance, a provider of integration services, for approximately $95 million …
RedSeal Networks and Oxygen offer security risk management solutions
Oxygen, a regional secure mobility value-added distributor (VAD), and RedSeal Networks, a network infrastructure security management, have partnered together to offer customers security risk management solution to help in preventing cyber-attacks.
Infor appoints new ME director for partner recruitment & enablement
Infor has appointed Vibhu Kapoor as director for partner recruitment and enablement for the Middle East. He will be responsible for the growth and expansion of the partner ecosystem across all the company’s products spanning all industries in the region. His appointment is the latest stage of Infor’s execution on a plan to invest significantly to grow, expand and support the Infor Partner Network (IPN).
Intertec to host seminar with HP Software
Intertec Systems will be organising a seminar on ‘Empower business performance with technology and software services’ at Sofitel, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai on June 17th 2014.
Psilog signs up Citizen Systems
Psilog International, a value-added distributor in infrastructure, storage, security, mobility, networking, components and computer accessories in MENA has signed up with the printer vendor, Citizen Systems for its label, mobile and POS printers ranges in the Middle East.
Cynosure Solutions achieves ISO 9001:2008 certification
Cynosure Solutions, an enterprise IT solutions and services provider in the Middle East, Europe and Africa region, has announced that it is now certified as ISO 9001:2008 compliant organisation.
FDC and Synology organise partner conference
Synology, the Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions provider, along with its Middle East distributor partner, FDC had organised a reseller conference recently to discuss sales and impart technical training to the partners.
HP brings water to the supercomputer market
The server uses some new HP-patented techniques to keep water away from the hardware
Aptec, Ingram Micro organises Solutions Forum for resellers in Kuwait
Aptec, Ingram Micro Inc. has announced that the company concluded Solutions Forum for reseller partners in Kuwait, last week. The event saw the gathering of more than 100 people from the reseller community, representing more than 70 IT reseller companies, mostly senior executives and owners.
Kaspersky Lab shares security insights at Emerging Markets Partners Conference
The event was aimed at familiarising partners with the company’s new enterprise-level security strategy, partnership enhancements while also highlighting the latest trends in the world of cyber threats.
StorIT and Huawei organise regional channel event
StorIT and Huawei’s joint inaugural channel event, ‘Data Management Opportunities’, saw a significant number of resellers participating along with senior executives from both the organising companies.
RME crowns channel stars at Partner Excellence Awards
Amid much fanfare, Reseller Middle East (RME) celebrated its fifth annual Partner Excellence Awards, at Emirates Towers, Dubai.
Hot property
Abdulsalam Al Bastaki knows exactly what he wants from his employees. An eight year stint in the USA has enabled the Senior Executive Director of Information Management at Dubai Properties Group to teach them how to operate independently, and has helped him to implement new IT infrastructure at a range of top companies.
Review: YotaPhone
Though slightly overpriced, the device is perfect for those users who enjoy technology novelties.
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.