RES has recently forayed into the Middle East market through partnership with Midis Group, one of the largest regional IT organisations.

Jeddah Municipality CIO Dr Arwa Yousuf Al-Aama defies all odds
Overcoming fierce opposition from the world’s most patriarchal government, dismissive colleagues and Saudi Arabia’s formidable religious police, Dr Arwa Yousuf Al-Aama now sits as a King Abdulaziz University computer science professor, CIO for Jeddah Municipality and a shining example for defying expectation.

10 questions you should ask your ADC provider
Chris Gale, EMEA Partner Director, A10 Networks, suggests an array of questions centred around ensuring you pick the best application delivery controller (ADC) to suit your needs.

The road to DRaaS
Against a backdrop of geo-political situations and changing climates, the need for business continuity and disaster recovery solutions is becoming increasingly important. Yasser Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting Datafort, discusses the ‘logical next step’ after SaaS and IaaS: disaster recovery as a service.

Unify affirms commitment to enabling agile work environments
As part of its participation at GITEX 2016, Unify, the Atos brand for communications software and services, is showcasing ways in which technology can ‘humanise’ the on-demand working world.

Breaking traditions
Described as a cost-effective, high-quality and unified network solution, Eddie Fox, vice president, Network Services, MetTel, summarises the main reasons why businesses need to move away from traditional, WAN and consider adopting SD-WAN solutions.

Epicor banking on ‘niche’ service
Taking part under the theme ‘Grow business, not software.’ Epicor is flaunting its industry-specific ERP solutions from its Hall 7 berth.

Kaspersky Lab announces ICS CERT
Kaspersky Lab has announced the creation of the Industrial Systems Computer Emergency Response Team (known as Kaspersky Lab ICS-CERT) – a global CERT entity that welcomes the collaboration of critical infrastructure operators, vendors and government institutions.

ManageEngine enhances enterprise IT management
Focusing on how it can further enable enterprises manage their systems and operations, ManageEngine is showcasing its IT service management and analytics solutions at GITEX Technology Week.

Palo Alto Networks unveils threat prevention strategy
The cybersecurity vendor Palo Alto Networks is showcasing its portfolio of threat prevention solutions at GITEX under the theme ‘prevent and empower.’