Reseller ME sits down with Fayez Ibbini, Founder and Managing Director, Alpha Data, to learn about market trends and what the company has in store for 2015.

Microsoft unveils Windows 10
Microsoft has unveiled its long-anticipated Windows 10 operating system, as well as two new devices designed to extend the Windows experience.
Arrow named in Top 20 IT trainers
Arrow Electronics has been named in the Top 20 IT Training Companies List from TrainingIndustry.com, a media outlet that covers the training industry.
Gartner: Tablet sales to climb 8 percent
Gartner estimates that worldwide tablet sales will reach 233 million units in 2015, an 8 percent increase from 2014.

Gartner: Tablet sales to climb 8 percent
Gartner estimates that worldwide tablet sales will reach 233 million units in 2015, an 8 percent increase from 2014.

Mario M. Veljovic, VP, Solutions, MENA, Global Distribution
Reseller Middle East speaks to experts from the industry on technologies and market scenarios that they believe will dominate 2015 and how regional channel partners can make the most of it to sustain a profitable business.
Surviving BYOD
Nizar Elfarra, Pre Sales Director, CommVault, explains how to control data risk in a BYOD-enabled environment.
Strategise to grow
Jean-Loup Desamaison-Cognet, Vice President for Central and Middle East Region, EMEA for Arrow’s Enterprise Computing Solutions business, discusses the company’s focus points for the region.
Fine print
The regional channel is identifying the opportunities that services bring to the table. Managed Print Services (MPS) is one such opportunity where businesses are able to reduce printing costs and improve productivity significantly, among other aspects. Reseller ME finds out how channel partners can make the most of this to increase their profitability.

Tianhe-2 tops supercomputer list again
Once a seething cauldron of competition, the twice-yearly Top500 listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has grown nearly stagnant of late.
Business prospects with Internet of Things
Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Intelligent Systems, Red Hat, shares insights into how to optimise the opportunities in Internet of Things.

Building blocks of the future
Last week, Schneider Electric discussed the importance of power consumption in Smart City development. We caught up with Thierry Chamayou, Vice President, IT Business, Middle East and Africa, and Philippe Arsonneau, SVP Global Sales, IT Business, for their take on the issue.

Gartner identifies top strategic 2015 tech trends
Gartner has released its predictions for the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2015. …

The evolution of CRM
Customer Relationship Management solutions now encompass a wide range of services, providing sales and marketing aspects and call centre management software. But that wasn’t always the case. CNME takes a look at the evolution of CRM and how it impacts business today.

Virtual virtues
After years of false starts, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has finally gone mainstream. If implemented correctly it can deliver substantial cost savings to enterprise IT shops. What are the risks and rewards involved in embarking on a VDI implementation for your organisation?

IBM’s Rometty defends rocky financial results
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is moving quickly to quell concerns about the company’s sinking earnings and decision to pay more than a billion dollars to cast off its money-losing microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries.

IBM to sell Elastic Storage in power-based box
IBM will extend its Elastic Storage technology with two new products as the company moves to offer software-defined storage in several forms.

Riverbed announces GITEX presence
Riverbed will showcase its Application Performance Platform at GITEX Technology Week 2014.

Riverbed announces GITEX presence
Riverbed will showcase its Application Performance Platform at GITEX Technology Week 2014.

IBM announces Watson Big Data enhancements
IBM has announced advances in Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities that could enable researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown connections in Big Data.