With a range of forecasts from research firms Gartner and IDC stating that MENA IT spending will increase in 2014, will CIOs find their budgets swelling, and if so, which areas are most in need of the spend? Who stands to benefit and what can the Middle East do to catch up with more developed regions?
Brocade has reported growth in its accreditation partner base across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the first half of its financial year.
FDC recently launched a channel event for ZTE, a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, with the aim of introducing its product and brand to the UAE channel.
The vendor has announced RAK Tech, an IT solution provider company based in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE as an authorised business partner. Through this partnership, Xerox Emirates will be able to provide its customers in Ras Al Khaimah with the benefits of RAK Tech’s IT solutions and services, while assisting it to grow through their channel programme.
Cyberoam has appointed SNB Middle East as their distribution partner for the Middle East region. It will be the authorised distributor for the vendor in UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.
With the migration to 4G LTE, a spectrum crunch is looming large over the regional telecom operators. Refarming of spectrum resources is emerging as one of the most cost effective ways to roll out mobile broadband technologies.
Manish Punjabi from Alcatel-Lucent, says Twitter could be a useful tool for the channel.
Spectrami has announced that it is opening a new office in South Africa. The company then plans to get into East and Southern Africa along with the Indian Ocean Islands. The company has long term plans for the entire sub-Saharan Africa to be served from the South Africa office.
Sico Technology, an Egyptian-based company, has recently launched a line-up of tablet and smartphone products at an event held at Atlantis, Dubai. The product line-up includes Smartphone Pro with its dual active SIM card and Tab2 and Tab2Go featuring 1280×800 resolution LED display
ProCons, the accredited SAP gold partner and master VAR for SAP Business One, has signed a joint venture with Al-Awama Group of Companies– a large Kuwaiti Group involved in a spectrum of business activities such as electro-mechanical works, catering services, telecommunications, education and travel and tourism.
Abdulsalam Al Bastaki knows exactly what he wants from his employees. An eight year stint in the USA has enabled the Senior Executive Director of Information Management at Dubai Properties Group to teach them how to operate independently, and has helped him to implement new IT infrastructure at a range of top companies.
Logicom, a regional distributor was awarded the ‘HBN Distributor of the Year 2013’ at this year’s APC by Schneider Electric’s EMEA Distributor Conference in Greece. In addition, Logicom also came home with APC by Schneider Electric’s ‘Product Manager of the Year 2013.’
Khalifa Fund IT Director Dr. Zuhair Lardhi has been a mainstay of the Middle East IT industry, but in the midst of his career progression he found the time to satisfy his passion for academia.
Twenty value-added resellers from the UAE were invited to join the technical enablement training on the award-winning SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). Key partners such as ThinkSoft, Almoe, Seven Seas, Gridz Middle East, CNS and many others participated in the full day session.
Striving to keep up with a high-achieving family, Ali Radhi, Head of IT, MBC, has relied on his relentless passion for technology to find professional success.
Alcatel-Lucent had hosted a seminar for business enterprises, financial institutions and government sectors on innovative voice and data solutions that empower enterprise communications. The seminar held at the JW Marriott Marquis, was hosted jointly with its partner, Al Rostamani Communications, a UAE-based systems integrator
Oxygen, the secure mobility value-added distributor (VAD), has announced its participation at GISEC, which is scheduled to be held from June 9th – 11th 2014 at Dubai World Trade Center, UAE.
On 8th April, IBM celebrated the 50th anniversary of System/360, its mainframe system which transformed the computing world. James Dartnell reports from the Mainframe50 conference in New York City where the infrastructure giant celebrated the milestone with the release of new cloud and Hadoop services.
Unatrac ITD, part of the Egypt-based Mantrac Group, is ceasing its IT distribution operations in the UAE, which serves as …
Waste has been managed in the same way with the same technologies for decades. Amin Al Zarouni, Head of ICT, Bee’ah, and his team have taken the traditional idea of waste management and turned it on its head.
