Logicom joins GTDC

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.

Riverbed 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.

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.

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