STME has signed an exclusivity deal with American Company Waysecure Consulting, an information security consulting company specialised in information security, operational security, computer forensics and TSCM. Signing with WaySecure, STME is increasing its product portfolio in security infrastructure services and brings one of the key players in the field in USA to the MENA market…. Read more »
A senior BT executive presented new unified communications and collaboration services launched as part of a recent global update of BT One portfolio during his visit to Dubai to meet customers and partners. Andrew Small, BT Global Services vice president responsible for Unified Communications and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions and services, stressed the importance… Read more »
Rittal Middle East, a system supplier for enclosures, power distribution, climate control, IT infrastructure and software and services, organised two end-user focused seminars in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon during last month. Rittal Middle East along with its strategic channel partners in the respsective regions organised an in-depth exploration of Rittal’s complete data centre solution, christened … Read more »
New research from Brocade surveying 500 channel organisations worldwide shows that professional services in the area of cloud computing is expected to be the main revenue generator for channel by 2020. If this is to be case however, vendors need to play an important ‘enabling’ role by enhancing their own capabilities, tailoring their partner programs… Read more »
Fortinet has recently hosted its annual Global Partner Conference, which this year took place on board the Royal Caribbean Cruise Liner ‘Majesty of the Seas’, on November 5-8. This year’s conference attendance was Fortinet’s largest, encompassing more than 1,000 distributors and silver and gold resellers from 70 countries. During the event, one of Fortinet’s highlights was the… Read more »
STME has achieved Symantec Specialization in the area of data protection with a focus on Symantec’s backup and recovery technologies. Symantec Data Protection Specialization recognises partners with a proven expertise in Symantec’s NetBackup and Backup Exec product ranges, including the latest NetBackup 5220 Appliances and ensures they have the skills and experience required to deliver… Read more »
Vox Spectrum,an International group of telecom companies and the master distributor of Plantronics Headsets in the region, has appointed Almasa Value Distribution as its value added reseller of Plantronics headsets in the UAE. Under the agreement, Almasa Value Distribution will generate demand for and build logistics to supply Plantronics’ products, including wireless headsets, through its… Read more »
Xerox and McAfee revealed new protection against malware and viruses with the first networked multifunction printer to use McAfee Embedded Control software, a sophisticated filtering method that allows only approved programs to get through. And while malware threats are most often associated with personal computers, Xerox demonstrated to attendees at the McAfee FOCUS 12 security… Read more »
The Middle Eastern and Northern African public cloud services market is forecast to grow 15.3 percent in 2012 to total $378.5 million, compared to $111 billion worldwide, according to Gartner. Business process services (also known as business process as a service, or BPaaS) is on pace to be the largest segment, accounting for about 52… Read more »
SAP AG has announced the availability of SAP HANA platform support pack stack 5 (SPS 5) to power mission critical transactional and analytical applications in one platform. SAP HANA is further collapsing the architectural layers between application and data processing. It will converge database services for transaction, analytics, text and predictive processing together with application services… Read more »
WD, a Western Digital company, has appointed Nairobi-based Mitsumi Distribution as its new partner for Africa. With this tie up, WD further strengthens and extends its global footprint by specifically catering to rising demand from Africa’s growing storage market. Enterprise and home users alike will have better availability of the comprehensive range of storage, networking… Read more »
Nokia unveils Lumia 925
Nokia on Tuesday released a new interpretation of its flagship Lumia 920 in the form of the Lumia 925, a thinner, light device that features a metal case and the latest PureView camera. Indeed, aside from the sleeker looks, Nokia went big on the 925’s imaging capabilitites. Nokia claimed the new PureView camera features the… Read more »
D-Link releases DCS-5020L Cloud Camera
D-Link on Tuesday extended its range of Cloud Cameras, adding the Wireless N H.264 Day/Night PT Network Camera (DCS-5020L) into the product mix. The new camera is features pan and tilt, audio detection, and a Wi-Fi repeater mode, among other things. D-Link said that the DCS-5020L is a powerful and competitively priced way to enhance… Read more »
TouchMate to unveil new range of smartphones
TouchMate has announced that it will soon launch a range of smartphones in the GCC to complement its range of tablets. The new lines of smartphones will range in size from four inches to six inches, according to Vasant Menghani, CEO and Founder, TouchMate. The flagship model will be a six-inch smartphone, or “phablet”, which… Read more »
