It should come as no surprise that the biggest technological impacts on IT departments in 2013 were Mobile and Big Data. Both issues also dominated conversations in the storage arena last year and with employees now increasingly working remotely, it’s highly likely that 2014 will see more and moreRead More…
WAN optimisation solutions vendor Silver Peak has announced that Bob Bruce has joined the company as senior vice president of channel sales. In this role, Bruce will leverage his extensive networking expertise to drive increased awareness of Silver Peak’s partner programme and promote new revenue growth opportunities in WAN optimisationRead More…
ManageEngine recently announced that Desktop Central now supports Samsung KNOX, a multi-layered security technology that enables a secure and productive workspace for mobile professionals.Read More…
To address the growing demand for Colocation, Cloud and Disaster Recovery Services in West Africa, nigeria’s leading telecom and internet service provider In addition, MainOne launched Premier Tier III Lekki Data Center.Read More…
IBM is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a major corporate reorganisation to bet firmly on the cloud and move convincingly away from its hardware, software and service silo history that’s long dominated its business structure.Read More…
Analyst firm IDC has said the Middle East and Africa (MEA) enterprise hardware market, comprising servers and external storage, remained in a passive growth state according to the latest report from the research house. Referencing its EMEA Quarterly Server and Disk Storage Systems Tracker, the research firm said the marketRead More…
Citrix has announced the acquisition of Sanbolic, an innovator in workload-oriented storage virtualisation technologies for an undisclosed amount. According to the VDI solutions vendor, Sanbolic technology enables customers to software define storage to optimise the delivery of application-specific workloads, from any media type including SSD, Flash and hard drives inRead More…
Canada-headquartered email management specialist GWAVA and KSA-based software and hardware distributor Sariya IT Company have announced an exclusive distribution agreement for that country. Sariya said the strengthened partnership is an important step for GWAVA’s business growth in one of the key markets in Middle East. The distributor stated that theRead More…
WestconGroup, a value-added global distributor of security, unified communications, network infrastructure and data centre solutions, has announced the company has signed an expanded distribution agreement with Juniper Networks. The deal empowers specialty resellers across Southern Africa to access Juniper’s broad portfolio of application infrastructure, security, business continuity, and network infrastructureRead More…
Communications technology and services vendor Ericsson has appointed Mohamad Dergham as the new Head of Ericsson North Middle East region. The move according to Ericsson is part of a broader move to reaffirm the company’s long-term vision to further strengthen the its market position and accelerate the transformation towards theRead More…
Leading DLP solution provider, InfoWatch predicted mobile security and detection and prevention of targeted attacks are among key IT solutions needing to be tackled during 2015. Internet fraud targeted at corporates and private bank accounts is another growing issue that requires effective preventive measures.Read More…
Ciena, introduced its new software solution for Managed Services Providers (MSPs), that will allow service providers to offer virtualised network functions as on-demand, consumption-based business services.Read More…
