Avaya has announced plans to create a new industry certification programme to drive expertise in SDN-Fabric based networking. The Avaya Certified Expert-Fx programme aims to bridge the current skills gap in the Middle East between traditional, hardware-intensive networking technologies and next-generation, software-defined fabric-based networking.
Betting big
Insights from Big Data and analytics can transform businesses and give it the power to make informed decisions. Reseller ME investigates what the channel partners can do to reach out to customers more effectively and monetise this technology.
MEA PCs grow for third straight quarter
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market posted its third successive quarter of year-on-year growth in Q4 2014, continuing its recovery from the seven consecutive quarterly declines it experienced leading up to Q2 2014.
Network World ME Award winners announced
CNME’s prestigious Network World Middle East awards honoured the region’s top networking talent last night at the Safinah Ballroom in Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai.
HTC replaces CEO with founder
HTC founder Cher Wang is taking over as company CEO, as the Taiwanese Android smartphone maker fights to revive its struggling business.
Unraveling MPS
Hendrik Verbrugghe, Marketing Director, Canon Middle East, says, the channel community must take on a more proactive role to leverage the opportunity in MPS.
SAP releases cloud finance app
Hard on the heels of the recent announcement of its next-generation S/4Hana enterprise software platform, SAP on Wednesday unveiled a new software-as-a-service application aimed at finance professionals but delivering a consumer-like experience.
IBM announces One Channel Team
Channel operations are now aligned from across the company to provide broader and better partner experience.
Network World ME judges named
The judges for CNME’s sixth annual Network World Middle East awards have been announced, comprising IT leaders from a variety of influential companies across the region.
Kept in the dark
Jyoti Lalchandani, IDC’s Group Vice President and Regional Managing Director for the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, discusses the Achilles heel that is shadow IT, and how IT arms can rein in the potentially damaging practice to benefit their business.
Profitable connections
Internet of Things unlocks huge opportunities for the regional channel partners. Reseller ME finds out how they can optimise this technology to remain profitable.
Paladion to host Saudi SOC conference
Information risk management firm Paladion Networks will hold its SOC Conference at InterContinental Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 9th February 2015 in association with HP Enterprise Security.
BlackBerry CEO Chen demands app neutrality
BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants net neutrality to extend to content and applications, so that developers of apps for Android and iOS will be mandated to develop on the BlackBerry platform as well.
What if Windows 10 fails?
It has been 25 years since the potential market failure of a Microsoft operating system carried serious consequences outside the corporation’s own campus, but the release of Windows 10 could be pivotal for the company.
Intel reports record Q4 revenues
Intel topped analyst estimates for the fourth quarter, reporting records in virtually all of its meaningful metrics for the year as a whole.
The road to 5G
Is 5G a long way away? A lack of unifying standards, complex technology and spectrum auctions, alongside a lack of necessity will only see 5G go mainstream by 2023, but there is already a lot of hype around the technology.
New connections
M2M communications are already being implemented across industries. As we move forward into creating a more connected world, early adopters are looking to streamline the adoption process.
MEA enterprise hardware market to shift in 2015
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) enterprise hardware market, comprising servers and external storage, remained in a passive growth state according to the latest figures released today by IDC.
Juggling act: Multi-vendor storage
Nikhil Premanandan, Marketing Analyst, ManageEngine, discusses the appropriate tools for managing multiple vendors within an enterprise storage environment.
Surviving BYOD
Nizar Elfarra, Pre Sales Director, CommVault, explains how to control data risk in a BYOD-enabled environment.