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.
Cloud-based DR: Recovery for all?
The rise of cloud is providing a good fit for disaster recovery, but is it ultimately changing the way organisations …
Remote Working and Social Media Habits Putting Middle East Businesses at Risk
One of the world’s leading online security and privacy experts has warned that unprotected remote working and social media use can pose significant risks to both individuals and businesses across the Middle East.
AccessData signs ARM as distributor
AccessData this week announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with ARM, which specialises in cyber-security and other consumer-related IT software products in region.
EiQ Networks signs up Bulwark Technologies
EiQ Networks, which provides security, risk and compliance solutions, has announced a distribution partnership with Bulwark Technologies, one of the …
Sage advice
Sage has big plans for the Middle East. Whilst it has already enjoyed large growth in the region this year, a big channel drive is being prepared to take it to the next level.
Spectrami, Actifio organise partner workshop in Bahrain
Spectrami, in association with Actifio, recently organised a training workshop for its channel partners on Copy Data Storage Management in Bahrain.
Belkin announces new country manager
Belkin has announced the appointment of Youssef El-Arif as Country Manager for the Middle East & Africa region. Youssef’s primary role is extending Belkin products’ exposure and availability in the region.
Comguard collaborates with gateprotect for channel workshops
Comguard recently ran a series of special training workshops for both channel partners and end-users on gateprotect Next Generation Firewalls across the region.
Spectrami awarded Best Performer of the Year by Actifio
Spectrami, the value added distributor for Actifio’s copy data storage solutions in the Middle East, has scooped the Best Performer …
Possibility in the privacy pitfalls?
Last month, a former CIA technician leaked information on the National Security Agency’s data gathering surveillance programme dubbed PRISM. Joe Lipscombe investigates what relevance this holds for the Middle East.
MATCO wins second successive EMC award
For the second year in a row, MATCO came out a big winner at the 2013 EMC Europe, Middle East and Africa Velocity Solution Provider Breakout awards.
You have 1 new hack request
If 3,370,780 UAE residents use Facebook, and 80 percent of those replicate their passwords for other accounts, then the opportunity for cyber theft and hackers to infiltrate personal accounts is extremely high.
BYOD: Who's in control?
As more employees demand to use their personal devices for work, IT managers are struggling to both accommodate them and safeguard confidential company data.
Building for the future
CNME racked up the air miles last month following its inaugural data centre roadshow, Data Centre Build, which saw it …
Not what the doctor ordered
Though he derives his inspiration from his family with 11 doctors so far, medicine wasn’t on Thameem Rizvon’s prescription. The …
GBM: Study reveals Middle East as prime target for cyber criminals
More than 65 percent of IT experts in the GCC say the region is a prime target for cyber …
MVNO can do
With Saudia Arabia’s telecoms regulator, the CITC, set to award the country’s first three mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) licences in the coming quarter, Ben Rossi examines why — contrary to other regions — they are yet to play a major part in the Middle East’s telecoms industry.
Here to stay
As a relatively new entrant in the Middle Eastern market, GFI Software could be forgiven for not knowing its audience. But at its second Middle East Partner Conference, GFI and sole distributor Comguard showed that the vendor had made a happy home out of the region.
AT&T Cabling Systems signs Westcon as Middle East distributor
Westcon Group has signed a distribution agreement with AT&T Cabling Systems that will see it distribute the vendor’s complete product portfolio in the Middle East.