Western Digital recently hosted a forum called, “Meet the Pioneers of Today and Tomorrow” to provide a free and direct platform for WD to interact and meet face-to-face with its channel partners and retailers with the aim of opening new horizons for growing and fast-tracking the business in the Middle East.
The forum hosted over 80 attendees and included constructive debates about the future plans to nurture and develop the storage market in the UAE and the Middle East region by utilizing the latest storage technologies, capacity requirements, and interface evolutions. It also outlined the products portfolio and the latest-technologies integrated into WD’s product lines as well as a set of added-value-features that provide a matchless competitive edge for WD’s business in the Middle East market.
Khwaja Saifuddin, Western Digital, Senior Director of Sales in the Middle East & Africa said, “Western Digital is not just a corporation; we are thousands of people worldwide working to help users collect, manage and use digital information since 1970. This forum is a platform for us to connect with our channel partners in the UAE and discuss the storage trends in this technologically advanced world. It is absolutely vital our partners are trained, enabled and specialized in how they approach solving a customer challenge. Meet the pioneers of today and tomorrow was the slogan for this forum because we believe in the valuable circle of input and feedback linking us to our partners.”
WD currently has over 1,000 active partners in the MEA region, 3 regional distributors as well as in country distributors in Egypt, KSA, Africa and CIS, and aims to continue to enhance the support provided to their customers. The company is renowned as the world’s number 1 HDD supplier with proven technology management. ‘The launch of new technologies such as the Caviar Green 3TB, SATA 6 GB/s, GreenPower technology as well as our consistent leadership in Capacity and Areal Density is a true testament to our commitment to the storage industry.” concluded Saifuddin
