Centrify has appointed John Andrews as its new EMEA Channel Director. Andrews, who reports to Vice President and Managing Director …
BICSI Conference puts spotlight on Smart City revolution
The Building Industry Consulting Service International, BICSI, will host the 2017 BICSI Middle East and Africa Conference and Exhibition in Dubai from 19th to 20th April.
Intel creates new AI division
Intel’s artificial intelligence efforts have been scattered over many different units but are now being united into a single operating group.
Cloud: There’s more to it than you know
Bharati Suresh, Marketing Manager, Emitac Enterprise Solutions, elaborates why regional customers should look at moving to cloud-based solutions and services.
New ‘Powered by Avaya’ offering enables SMBs’ move to cloud
Avaya has launched its ‘Powered by Avaya’ cloud offering, designed to address the growing needs of mid-market companies in the …
Surendra Shetty drives UAE Exchange’s digital transformation
Throughout his career, ‘startup specialist’ Surendra Shetty has had a knack for building technology from the ground up. The UAE Exchange CIO cut his teeth at a range of financial organisations across India, and is now relishing the challenge of sitting in the company’s IT hotseat.
Rubrik inks distribution pact with StarLink
StarLink has announced it has expanded its solutions lifecycle portfolio by signing a distribution agreement with Rubrik, a converged data management company.
Extreme Networks to buy Avaya’s networking business
Extreme Networks is set to acquire Avaya’s Networking business for $100 million just months after the networking and collaboration company announced plans to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Dell EMC enhances cloud service provider partner programme
The Cloud Service Provider track in the 2017 Dell EMC Partner Program features an expanded go-to-market engine, anticipating significant scaling of the Dell EMC partner ecosystem.
Cisco introduces new virtualisation and security technologies
According to a newly released IDC study, organisations around the world are expected to triple the adoption of modern, automated networks over the next two years.
Amazon Web Services outage hits websites and apps
Multiple web users who rely on the cloud service have experienced widespread technical disruptions due to an unknown issue.
SCOPE Middle East joins HID Advantage Partner Program
SCOPE Middle East has announced that it is now a member of the HID Advantage Partner Program, a loyalty-based programme which advances a partner’s relationship with HID Global.
Cisco launches new NGFW series
Cisco has introduced the Firepower 2100 Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), which according to the company, incorporates a scalable architecture and improvements of up to “200 percent greater throughput” to eliminate bottlenecks.
Why resellers should invest in IaaS
Experts discuss how reseller partners can roll out Infrastructure-as-a-Service deployments efficiently.
Microsoft eyes Indian startups for cloud services
Microsoft has signed up more than 2,000 such customers in the country in the last 12 months, the company’s CEO Satya Nadella said recently during an event for startups in Bangalore.
Cisco enhances Tetration Analytics offering
Cisco has announced that Cisco Tetration Analytics now automates policy enforcement, enabling organisations to build secure environments for their business applications and also expands Tetration with new deployment options.
How to overcome hybrid cloud management challenges
Martin Percival, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat, on overcoming the challenges of hybrid cloud management.
The great cloud dispora
It has been 10 years since Amazon set the digital world on fire with the introduction of Amazon Web Services, or as most of us today call it, public cloud.
Saudi Arabia’s alfanar empowers 20,000 staff with smart tech portfolio
With over 20,000 employees on its books and an increasingly international sales team to support, CIO Marco van de Sandt has built the foundations of technological change at alfanar, which is now reaping the benefits.
Gartner: MENA government IT spending to reach $11.6 billion in 2017
According to the latest study by Gartner, governments in the Middle East and North Africa are projected to spend $11.6 billion on IT products and services in 2017.