Law enforcement authorities in the UAE in April conducted the largest single seizure of counterfeit HP products to date, the vendor said this week.

HP issues worldwide recall of 50,000 laptop batteries over fire risk
The company said it had received eight reports of those batteries "overheating, melting, or charring." Those reports included property damage and burns.1 3529
Safe investment
Quickly expanding strategic investment company, Tawazun, recently teamed up with Huawei in order to commit to its mission to develop the UAE’s defence sector. The company deployed Huawei’s IPv6-based solution across its vast industrial site, as it aims to ensure faster surveillance response times, a stronger technological backbone, and the capabilities for flexibility and expansion.

AccessData named HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year for security
AccessData was recently given the HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year Award in the security category at the HP Discover 2013 conference in Las Vegas.

HP ties knot with Google, as Whitman talks up customers
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday said it has begun to integrate its hardware and management systems with Google Apps. The announcement was …
Reseller celebrates channel champions at Partner Excellence Awards
The channel community came together at Emirates Towers last night for the fourth annual Reseller Partner Excellence Awards, sponsored by Octagon.

Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says
Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy …

Dell eyes up converged market with first SMB-targeted solution
Dell today announced the Middle East launch of its extended converged infrastructure portfolio, which includes the first converged solution specifically …
HP launches new partner programme for SMB storage portfolio
HP announced on Monday that it has launched a new programme designed to help its channel partners address their small …

Dell’s server strategy paying off
The decline in PC spending has hit Dell hard, but the company’s server business is growing, said IDC in its first …

IDC: Server market revenue down 7.7 percent in Q1
Server revenue worldwide was down 7.7 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, as weak economic conditions and server consolidation by …


