In his first visit to an emerging market after taking over the reins at Juniper Networks, Shaygan Kheradpir sat down with us to talk about his vision for the company and strategy for the new era of IT.
The road to cloud UC
Unified Communications in the cloud is finding more takers in the region as it offers cost benefits, flexibility and agility to users
From bullets to bits
In addition to dealing with cybercriminals and hacktivists, enterprise security managers must pay increasing attention to avoid becoming collateral to nation-state cyber-warfare. Do recent high profile attacks on the region indicate that Middle Eastern businesses are at greater risk of attack, and what damage can cyber warfare inflict?
Seeing through the haze
Petra Heinrich, VP Partners & Alliances, Red Hat, EMEA, explains how partners can lead the discussions around cloud.
Sharp MEA introduces flagship MFP
Sharp Middle East and Africa has launched its new flagship multi-function printer (MFP), Polaris Pro MX-7500N/MX-6500N in the GCC. The colour print-on-demand powerhouse, built for full-scale advanced light production, will enable medium-to-large enterprises to produce high-quality, professional documents in-house.
Redington Value to exhibit at GITEX 2014
After a four year gap from participating in the annual event, the company will be turning the spotlight on its diverse portfolio of advanced enterprise solutions, particularly in IT domains such as cloud computing, virtualisation, software and security, convergence and infrastructure.
Set for growth
Sunil Paul, Co-founder and CEO, Finesse, shares the growth strategy in place for the systems integrator.
Paving the way
Fayez Eweidat, Regional Sales Manager, MENA, Brocade, says SDN is a tremendous growth opportunity for the Middle East IT channel organisations.
Infor appoints channel executive for healthcare
Infor has appointed Giuseppe Catania as the Channel Executive for Healthcare for the Middle East. Catania will be responsible for the growth of the vendor’s sales in the healthcare industry across UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Ace Global opens new office
Ace Global, a fast growing shipping company which is a part of Spectrum Group, inaugurated its new office last month in the presence of their key regional partners
Confronting malware intelligently
Brian Kenyon, Chief Technology Strategist, McAfee, a part of Intel Security, follows a “define-freeze-fix” approach to eradicate malware, and is confident that his company is well positioned to deal with today’s ever-evolving threat landscape.
Fresh blue Apple
James Dartnell takes a look at what the recent Apple-IBM enterprise deal could mean for the two corporate giants.
Best of both worlds
As enterprises deploy more and more applications in the cloud, the complexity of deployment, integration and management increases. Many CIOs are finding that integrating cloud services with existing architecture is more difficult than anticipated. CNME throws the spotlight on cloud integration strategies that reduce complexity and IT oversight.
Software AG appoints new ME & Turkey SVP
Software AG has announced the appointment of Mike Saxton as their new Senior Vice President for the Middle-East and Turkey.
Serving the partner
Naji Kazak, Regional Channel Manager, Lexmark Middle East and Africa, explains how the channel partners can best leverage the opportunities present in managed print services (MPS).
ME bank thefts linked to $6 billion cyber launderers
Online currency exchange firm Liberty Reserve was last week found guilty of laundering $6 billion and it has now emerged that the organisation is linked to last year’s $45 million Bank of Muscat and RAKBANK frauds.
Epicor signs Kuwaiti Zenith as VAR
Epicor Software has announced that Kuwaiti firm Zenith Business Solutions is the latest value-added reseller to join its Inspired Partner Network in the Middle East.
Oxygen and Aruba target SMB expansion
Secure Mobility VAD Oxygen and Aruba Networks have announced that the company has expanded its existing offering of tier-one wireless networking solutions to the channel for both the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) and the small-to-medium business (SMB) markets in the Middle East Region.
Setting goals
A roundup of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held in Washinton DC this year.
Ballmer resigns from Microsoft board
Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has resigned from the Microsoft board, citing other commitments as his key reason.