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FVC, the leading Value Added Distributor in the region, today announced the launch of its partner programme, Cheer, which stands for Channel Enablement, Empowerment and Rewards, created to assist and motivate its partners across MENA to capitalise on opportunities rising from the adoption of new emerging technology. The programme will focus on demand generation for products and services in enterprises segment, apart from educating its partners with knowledge to differentiate themselves from competition and ensure high profibility from selling new emerging technologies.
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Acer Group appointed Giuseppe Mastandrea as the new Regional Director for Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META). Giuseppe would be responsibile for all the Acer brands: Acer, E-Machines, Gateway and Packard Bell. Giuseppe is a seasoned player for and has been associated with Acer since he joined in 1993 and served several countries in Europe in the past including Italy, France, Poland and Turkey. With the acquisition of Gateway and Packard Bell, Giuseppe lead the Global Marketing and Branding team to develop and handle the multi-brand strategy. He will lead the pack of acer in the whole region and will be responsible to further advance the market-share of Acer in this region. His in depth knowledge of Acer will provide a excellent platform to continue building a strong brand in the META Region.
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The UAE Ministry of Economy’s IT Department has recently won the Open Group Arabia Award for its continuous adoption of the latest technologies in institutional planning. The Ministry had recently launched a cross-section of high quality and efficient online services at the www.madeintheuae.com website, which will help manufacturers to promote their factories, products, and services. It enables UAE manufacturers to reach and connect with a global audience of buyers. Made in the UAE is supported by the Ministry of Economy, Dubai eGovernment and Tejari.Read More…

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OtterBox, the Irish brand of sleek and durable casing after capturing the european marketplace, now it extended its reach into Middle East by opening an office in Dubai, which would be led by Joonas Jantunen who has recently joined OtterBox from Nokia. Appointment of Emitac Mobile Solutions (EMS) as its first regional distributor for the Middle East region is part of the extention of OtterBox presence in the region. EMS will help build the brand to expand its channel network in the region.
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Al Ansari Exchange, the UAE’s largest network exchange house that provides worldwide remittance and foreign exchange services, has revealed that all its 100 branches across the UAE are now connected via Etisalat’s ‘IP Connect’ service. By utilizing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology over IP – VPN’s, this service offers comprehensive management features for all connections and routers at the company’s branches across the country.Read More…

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Trend Micro said that the year 2011 witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of infected PCs in the Middle East, because businesses and individuals are still failing to take adequate security precautions. Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network ™ technology can see how many computers are active on the internet and the number of infected computers across the Middle East is on the rise. In 2010, there were more than 3,050,032 infected machines that Trend Micro saw as active across the region – a 44 percent rise from 2009. This year, already, the region has seen more than 674,938 compromised machines. Whereas, in 2010 GCC witnessed a 46% of rise in compromised machines.

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Leading ERP, CRM solution provider Sage Software announced the successful implemented its customer centric based solutions into the operations of Dubai based, Adam Holdings, a professional management services organization to increase the growth and profitability by 70%. Sage Software installed both the ‘Sage CRM 200’ and ‘Sage Accpac 200’ programs into ADAM Holding’s data operations; helping create a more comprehensive sales operations, financial management and customer relationship management information system for the company.

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Fujitsu is taking its maintenance and support services to a new level with the launch of high availability services for enterprises in Saudi Arabia. With the high availability service, Fujitsu aims to increase its footprint in the enterprise sector in the Kingdom. Fujitsu has created an dedicated in-country spares hub in Saudi Arabia to ensure the fulfillment of high availability service commitments with the delivery of spares around the clock and also provide hardware maintenance with pre-defined response or recovery time.

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Novell targeting the fast growing Saudi Arabian IT market with various marketing activities in the kingdom such as seminars and road shows to educate target audiences about its next-generation enterprise solutions. Novell provided exclusive demonstrations of the strategic advantages of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, an interoperable platform for mission-critical computing that was held today in Riyadh. According to an recent report from Springboard Research Saudi IT spending in Public Sector only is projected to reach USD 2.4 billion in 2013.Read More…

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Ctrltech (Control Technologies) to offer comprehensive datacenter infrastructure solutions including Power, Cooling & Monitoring. To ensure highest uptime of Datacenter operation, Ctrltech infrastructure solutions provides continuous un-interrupted pure power supply to safeguard the datacenter from the erratic or impure powers supply which can potentially damage the computer hardware or in worst case can cause a power distribution system failure. Its power supply design solutions insures that in case of failure of power supply from Grid and local power generator, there is enough power for the datacenter to function seamlessly with the power backup equipment such as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to serve load.Read More…

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Jordan based leading e-government services and software solutions provider SSS Process, was recently recognized for their efforts and achievements and were awarded the Microsoft (MS) Gold Partner status, which can only be achieved high standards of technical capabilities, high level of expertise and experience on Microsoft platform, in addition to offering technical support to their clients. SSS Process has several successful implementations deployed in various enterprises, banks and government spread across the middle east region. Now, SSS Process intends to expand its reach aggressively not just in the region but also beyond the region.Read More…

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Cisco IronPort expanded its channel reach with the appointment of the leading Value-add Distributor in data center, networking, security, mobility and convergence, WestconMEGroup to its E-Mail and Web security solutions from to reseller partners across the Middle East. Cisco has developed a range of e-mail and Web threat-specific technologies using technical breakthroughs like reputation systems, mail transfer agent and proxy appliance designs. IronPort solutions cover spam, virus and malware defense – as well as data loss preventions (DLP). The combination of proprietary security technology and industry-leading performance and threat correlation enables Cisco to realize its vision of providing a complete messaging and Web security environment for customers.
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