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.
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.

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.
Infoblox participating at GISEC
Infoblox will showcase its automated network control solutions at GISEC with partner firm Help AG.

Thirst for knowledge
Neil Menezes’ journey to becoming Group Director of Information Technology Operations at Jumeirah Group was a series of personal highlights, which saw an initial interest in computer games transform into a thirst for networking expertise.

Three sourcing options for government shared services
Pressure is growing on government shared-service organisations to cut costs and improve services. Across the globe and at all levels of government, budget austerity and organisational reforms are pressuring IT and non-IT shared-service providers to deliver cost optimisation and improve service delivery.

What’s really behind the Microsoft-Salesforce deal
At first glance, it doesn’t seem like there are many ways SalesForce.com and Microsoft should partner; they both offer competing SaaS services. But upon closer inspection, the deal that the leaders of these two companies spoke so highly of during a joint conference call on Thursday afternoon makes a lot of sense not just for these companies, but customers as well.

Seagate to buy Avago’s LSI flash business for $450 million
Seagate is set to pay $US450 million in cash for Avago’s Accelerated Solution Division, and has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement under which it will acquire the division’s assets and Flash Components Division from Avago for $450 million in cash.

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.

Smart devices experience
Smartphones and tablets have become the access devices of choice, as mobile user behaviour has shifted from being predominantly voice-centric to app-centric, writes Younes Abad, Director, MBB Performance, Ericsson Middle East

‘Keep calm and save the world’
From April 20-24th, experts from Kaspersky Lab met with leading media in the region at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa held in Budapest, Hungary.
Infoblox appoints new management
Infoblox is expanding in the Middle East by strengthening its management, sales, and marketing and technical support teams.
Guardian of information
Premchand Kurup, Chief Executive Officer, Paramount, shares trends in information security and how it impacts the systems integrator’s business.
Big prospects
Reseller ME finds out how the channel players can penetrate the Big Data space to offer value-added services in the region.

Riverbed does full product rebrand
Riverbed has renamed all but one of its products to ‘reinforce the idea that they are part of an integrated platform’
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.
Global Distribution signs ME agreement with Pure Storage
Global Distribution FZE has announced that it has signed a Master Distribution Agreement with Pure Storage and will distribute the Pure Storage FlashArray enterprise storage solution to its Resellers in the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.

Microsoft cuts Azure auto-hosted SharePoint apps service
Microsoft is pulling the plug on a new model of deploying and hosting apps for SharePoint that relied on the company’s Azure platform.