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.

Actifio extends copy data virtualisation platform
The copy data virtualisation vendor Actifio has expanded its product portfolio, increasing the scope and scale of its enterprise-class data virtualisation …

Etisalat Presents Digital Connect
The enterprise is changing as the Internet has revolutionised traditional infrastructures. The rise of trends such as cloud, big data and mobility has caused for a rethink on how a business approaches its ICT operations.
As a result, organisations are at an important tipping point and have decisions to make. Should they be in the cloud? Should they be outsourcing non-core business functions? Should they allow employees to bring their own devices to work? And where does security come into play?
Building profits
Philippe Ortodoro, Vice President EMEA, WatchGuard Technologies, elaborates on the 10-must-knows for the channel when selling network security.
Huawei Partner Summit: CONNICT
Channel partners came together at Huawei’s annual partner summit held last month to learn the latest on the company’s channel programme and initiatives.

IBM develops online cloud marketplace
IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and is displaying them on its Cloud online marketplace from Monday.
Spectrami and Violin conduct tech workshop for partners
Spectrami together with Violin Memory organised Tech Workshop, a training workshop on enterprise flash storage solutions

Dimension Data acquires Nexus
Dimension Data today announced that it has acquired 100 percent of Nexus for an undisclosed sum.
ESET launches online antivirus and IT security store
ESET has launched an online store that will cater to both business and home customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, KSA, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan and Yemen.

Dedicated approach
At its recently concluded channel partner summit, Huawei presented various opportunities for partners to join forces with the vendor. Dong Wu, President, Huawei, Enterprise Business, Middle East and Shailendra Sainani, Sales Director, Commercial Business, Huawei, Enterprise, Middle East elaborate further on the company’s focused channel strategy.

Scaling up
Reseller ME chats with Matt Haynes, Director, WW Channel Strategy for Hosted Cloud Services, Microsoft and Karim Kalaawi, Hosting Lead, Middle East and Africa Headquarters, Microsoft on the company’s hosting services.

Dell launches virtual storage accelerator
Dell has released a new virtualised storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load.

Cisco announces security service, operations centres venture
Cisco has announced Managed Threat Defense, a set of security services for the enterprise that it is providing through two new operations centres to remotely support intrusion-detection, incident response and forensics, among other services.

COINS wins Queen’s Award after ME provides growth
Construction industry software firm Construction Industry Solutions (COINS) has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade in recognition of their growth in overseas earnings and commercial success in the construction sector, with the Middle East providing 26 percent of overseas growth in the past three years.

Gartner: Top 10 mobile technologies and capabilities
Nick Jones, Vice President and Analyst, Gartner, shares the research firm’s top 10 mobile technologies and capabilities that organisations must master in 2015 and 2016.
Dawn of a new era
Held at HKCEC, the eleventh edition of Hong Kong spring electronics fair and the International ICT expo concluded last week, with exhibitors and visitors from all over the world coming together to see the latest products and technologies in these fields. Read on for an overview of the event.

Data centres: Why build when you can outsource?
Datacentre outsourcing has become a growing trend, with many large enterprises embracing the financial and operational benefits associated with it, says Sachin Bhardwaj, Director, Marketing & Business Development, eHosting DataFort.

Kenya to spend $93 million on citizen database
After months of struggling to deal with undocumented immigrants, corruption and inefficiency, the Kenyan government is investing $93 million in a database that will contain all citizen information, shared across ministries.

Oracle identifies products affected by Heartbleed
Oracle has issued a comprehensive list of its software that may or may not be affected by the OpenSSL (secure sockets layer) vulnerability known as Heartbleed, while warning that no fixes are yet available for some likely affected products.

Small cells, big impact
Operators and telecom equipment vendors are showing a growing interest in small cells, which aim to give users improved coverage and speeds.