Security Advisor Middle East | February 2017 | Issue 14 | Back to the roots | CNME Supplement

February 2017

Sonicwall’s regional head talks of life after Dell

At the helm

Having gone private a year-and-a-half ago, Dell is pitching its end-to-end integrated solutions, and has chalked out a go-to-market strategy with partners playing a key role in it. We sat down with Driss Elougmani, the new GM for Dell’s recently formed Middle East Turkey and Africa business to understand the channel implications.

Talking shop

Reseller Middle East’s fifth annual Partner Excellence Conference rallied together the channel community to discuss emerging market trends and evolving business operations.

Cyber-crime will not stop for Christmas

Threats lurk within networks, endpoints or devices, often hidden in poorly configured settings or permissions, ineffective data governance, access management and usage policies. These unseen threats come from all perimeters of the organisation and major trends such as BYOD, big data, cloud, and mobile apps have increased the challenge faced by IT leaders.

Eyeing the future

Tom Kendra, VP and GM, Systems Management Software, Dell Software Group, talks about how the company is sorting through all the software it has acquired and efforts to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company.

Changing the game

Most of the global headlines of the past month were stolen by IT infrastructure leader Dell’s acquisition of SonicWall, the …

And the winners are…

The awards which honoured the Middle East’s channel architects are a barometer for measuring which vendors, distributors, SIs, resellers and …

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