Dell EMC, Arrow host channel event

Dell EMC together with its regional distributor, Arrow, hosted a channel-focused event last month to increase awareness among its resellers on modern data centre and its tangible benefits.

Oracle announces Dubai Digital Hub

Oracle has announced the opening of its 400-salesperson ‘Digital Hub’, as well as the expected mid-2017 go-live of its first Middle East data centre in Abu Dhabi.

NetSuite

NetSuite set to go global under Oracle’s flag

As part of Oracle, NetSuite plans to localise its products for many more countries while expanding its data centre capacity, sales operations, partner channel and other assets to reach customers in those new areas.

StorIT showcases its solutions portfolio

StorIT Distribution, as part of its participation at GITEX, will put the spotlight on its range of solutions portfolio, which includes converged infrastructure, cloud computing, virtualisation, DR, data analytics and data centre solutions along with its managed services offering.

SUSE to demo solutions for zero-downtime environments

SUSE has announced that it will showcase its four main product offerings for the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) and Zero Downtime Environments – mission critical Enterprise Linux, private cloud, storage and Linux management – during its participation at GITEX.

Foot on the gas

Nakilat IT Manager Hamad Suwaid speaks about how the company modernised its hardware, software and applications that resided in its data centre.

Block by block

With the modular data centre market set to triple by 2021, what is driving this change, and what part can the Middle East play in this growth?

SAIB Egypt deploys R&M cabling solutions

Société Arabe Internationale de Banque (SAIB) in Cairo, Egypt has built its new data centre using HD patch panels, raceway systems, and pre-terminated copper and fibre cabling solutions from R&M.

Brocade launches SLX 9850

Brocade has recently announced the launch of Brocade SLX 9850, an open and extensible data centre routing solution featuring pervasive network visibility and DevOps-style automation.

Cisco to shed 5,500 jobs

Cisco Systems plans to lay off approximately 7 percent of its global workforce, in a restructuring that will see it further focus on hot IT areas such as the internet of things, security, collaboration, next-generation data centres, and the cloud.

A10 Networks and Cylance join forces

A10 Networks and Cylance have announced a technical partnership to “enhance cybersecurity” for individual endpoints and users from the data centre to the cloud, by incorporating advanced threat protection for encrypted traffic.

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