The Global Technology Distribution Council is an industry consortium representing the world’s leading technology distributors. Its members drive more than $130 billion in annual worldwide sales of technology products, services and solutions through a range of dynamic business channels.
Everteam becomes Qlik’s authorised Middle East reseller
Everteam has announced a strategic partnership agreement with Qlik whereby Everteam Global services is now an authorised Qlik reseller in … 0 4608Riverbed releases Granite 2.6
The updated version has been enhanced with new features that support more branches, bigger data sets, and additional enterprise-class storage solutions, including IBM Storwize V7000.
Capgemini and VMware expand partnership
The move will extend Capgemini’s service integration, aggregation and orchestration platform by leveraging VMware’s industry leading cloud management offerings.
FDC join hands with Ricoh
FDC International, the value-added distributor based in Dubai, signed up with Ricoh, a printing and imaging solutions provider, as its IT distributor recently.
IBM to grow global cloud footprint
IBM plans to invest more than $1.2 billion to grow its global cloud footprint significantly and has additional centres planned for the Middle East region by 2015.
Sony Mobile signs up Jumbo for micro distribution
From February 2014, Jumbo will cover the independent retail channel in the UAE for Sony Mobile.
Huawei appoints new VP for Huawei Device, ME
New Vice President for Huawei Device Middle East part of the company’s growth plans for the region in 2014
New Philips office monitors designed for wellbeing
With studies indicating that over 80 percent of users experience pain and fatigue after being in front of the computer for a whole day, Philips’ ErgoSensor addresses these challenges.
Spotlight to be on VARs
Taj El Khayat, General Manager MENA, Riverbed Technology offers his thoughts on the emerging trends in the IT landscape and the company’s business focus this year.
Gartner: 20% of enterprise BYOD programmes to fail by 2016
This will fail happen, according to the research firm, due to enterprise deployment of mobile device management (MDM) measures that are too restrictive. It also predicts that by 2018, less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers.