Manish Punjabi, Channel Marketing Manager MEA, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, explains how the regional channel can tackle the challenges of co-marketing.
Exploring greener pastures
Reseller ME speaks to new vendors on the block to explore the strategies that work the best in this region.
Microsoft and Mindware honour Cloud Club partners
As part of SMB Cloud Club programme, Microsoft and Mindware along with other distributors, honoured top performing Gulf partners with a trip to Thailand.
Red Hat committed to third platform transition
Brendan McErlain, Director, Marketing, EMEA, Red Hat was delighted with the company’s strong GITEX outing.
The SMB play
Amanullah Khan, Regional Director, Emerging Markets, Linksys & Belkin, elaborates on the company’s strategic plans to refocus on its SMB origins.
Why Amazon should widen focus
Ashish Panjabi, CEO, Jacky’s Electronics, discusses the online retail scenario across markets.
Spectrami moves to new HQ
As part of its developmental and growth plans, the regional VAD Spectrami has moved to a new headquarter spanning across 4500 square feet. Located at Mazaya Business Avenue in Jumeirah Lake Towers, the new office can seat a workforce of 45 employees.
Scaling up
Reseller ME chats with Matt Haynes, Director, WW Channel Strategy for Hosted Cloud Services, Microsoft and Karim Kalaawi, Hosting Lead, Middle East and Africa Headquarters, Microsoft on the company’s hosting services.
Driven to excel
Vineeth Sebastian, Regional Sales Director-MEA, MMD and AOC discusses with Reseller ME, its focused two-step channel strategy for 2014.
Simplifying security
Reseller ME speaks to Nidal Othman, Managing Director, StarLink on the distributor’s channel programme and plans for the year.
IDC: MEA tablet shipment booms in Q4
Shipments of PC tablets into the Middle East and Africa expanded 111% year on year in the final quarter of 2013, according to the latest results released by IDC, as the overall MEA tablet market reached a total of 3.45 million units for the quarter.
VIP Computers exits MENA & SA markets
This move reflects the company’s desire to redirect resources and increase focus on core markets across Europe and USA, where the group is positioned as a system manufacturer as well as a broadline distributor.
MTN Zambia launches LTE network
As telecom companies in Africa continue to scramble to adopt next-generation mobile services to boost the revenue, MTN Zambia has commercially launched Long-Term Evolution network in the country.
IDC: MEA external storage market dropped 8.8% in Q3
The Middle East and Africa external storage market declined 8.8% year-on-year during the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest figures from IDC.
Westcon wins ‘MEA Commercial Distributor Partner of the Year 2013’
Juniper Networks has awarded Westcon Group at its annual Middle East & Africa regional partner summit in Dubai, U.A.E. The award recognises partners who have made the most notable contribution to their customers and have expanded their business value with Juniper throughout 2013.
MEA hardcopy peripherals market sees first growth in 8 quarters
After eight successive quarters of decline, the Middle East and Africa hardcopy peripherals market finally returned to a state of positive growth during the third quarter of 2013, with shipments up 6.6% year on year to total 1,472,000 units, according to the IDC.
9 storage trends for 2014
CNME asks a panel of experts to look forward to the nine biggest storage trends of 2014.
Overseas, Twitter cites access, privacy and Kakao among its biggest challenges
Twitter doesn’t seem to have a problem attracting users in international markets, but it definitely has problems making money off them.
Growth by numbers
CNME catches up with Jean-Luc Lasnier, General Manager, MEA, Orange, to see what part this region is playing in the firm’s ‘Conquests 2015’ strategy.
MEA enterprise hardware market stagnates, says IDC
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) enterprise hardware market, comprising servers and external storage, continues to stagnate, with year-on-year growth of just 2.8 percent recorded for Q2 2013.