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Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced, during its first Annual Corporate Update conference call, that it has acquired the SACS business from Engineering Dynamics, Inc. SACS is an integrated finite element structural analysis suite of programs that uniquely provides for the design, fabrication, installation, operations, and maintenance of offshore structures, including oil platforms and wind farms. Thirty-eight years of focus on these specialized requirements have made SACS the analysis mainstay for most of the world’s offshore engineers. Read More…

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Misys today announced the completion of its acquisition of Sophis making it the most formidable software and services provider in capital markets, offering most comprehensive cross-asset and front to back-office coverage. With this acquisition Misys now have more than 1,800 dedicated domain specialists with an unrivalled knowledge and expertise covering all asset classes across all functional areas, including trading, investment decision support, portfolio management, risk management, compliance, pricing and collateral management.Read More…

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Spectrum Training today announced that it has been honored as one of the leading Juniper Networks Authorized Education Partners in the EMEA for 2010 for its world classes training facilities, and highly skilled instructors in the region. Spectrum which is a IT Networking and Security training, certification and consultancy services provider in the Middle East & Africa region provides global standard technical training to several of the enterprises based in this region. Read More…

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Avnet added yet another feather in its cap by acquiring the rights to distribute complete suite of Oracle Software (Technology Stack) and Oracle Hardware including the wide range of Oracle Applications, Hardware and Technology products in all the countries of MENA region – KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.Read More…

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Trend Micro today announced the launch of two new new products which will further extend the company’s strategy to help enterprises reap the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing without giving up high levels of security along the way. Trend Micro SecureCloud 1.1 provides enterprise-class data protection through encryption in the cloud, while Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5 Update 1 offers performance improvements that will enable the Deep Security virtual appliance to provide agentless intrusion detection and prevention using VMware vShield Endpoint for higher virtual machine density levels.

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Leading data centre consultants from UK, Capitoline announced the setting of an joint venture company Capitoline FZC based out of dubai to service the growing requirements of the region. New office would serve the entire Gulf region and aslo India from here. Capitoline FZC will be headed by Kandasamy Ganesan as General Manager and will provide services of audits, design and training for data centre and computer room projects. The new facilities will also be able to offer a dedicated theoretical and practical training environment.

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HP Saudi Arabia is hosting its biggest technology event in the Kingdom, “HP Instant On Conference” to address the growing IT needs of Saudi enterprises. The 2 days event will be held in Riyadh on 5 and 6 of March 2011 in association with Microsoft, SAP and Avaya among others. According to research conducted on behalf of HP Saudi Arabia, three quarters of business leaders say that their technology department is a fundamental enabler of their business’ success while 84% of business leaders say that innovation is critical to their business success in this new world.

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Blue Coat Systems recently won the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award 2011 for content filtering for its Secure Web Gateway solution. According to Blue Coat, it was palced higher than its competitors in four of the five categories and tied in the remaining one. Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution stood out in the comparative analysis with stringent parameters like unique features and functionality, quality and complexity, customization, brand perception of the uniqueness of the product and matching product to market needs. Read More…

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Level 3 Communications today announced a strategic long-term agreement Saudi Telecom (STC) to enable international IP and content distribution services in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East. The agreement leverages the respective strengths of each company to provide significantly enhanced connectivity and breadth of services to customers connecting to the Middle East. Both US and European CDN customers will have access to a new broadband market in the Middle East and content customers in the Middle East will have the ability to distribute their content across both STC’s and Level 3’s international networks.Read More…

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Avaya announced the launch of new cloud-based, on-demand purchasing options and features for Avaya web.alive, the most innovative, secure, immersive collaboration platform that uses personalized avatars and rich, spatial audio and visuals to expand on current modes of conferencing and collaboration. Using high-quality voice, visuals and content sharing capabilities, Avaya web.alive helps solve a number challenges to business collaboration with an easy and fun to use environment.Read More…

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SonicWALL, today unveiled Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) called as SuperMassive E10000 consisting of the E10100, the E10200, the E10400 and the flagship E10800. The SuperMassive Series features a massively scalable multi-core architecture that utilizes up to 96 cores of processing power. It delivers more than 40 Gbps of firewall throughput and over 30 Gbps of application control and Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) with industry-leading power, space and cooling (PSC) metricRead More…

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Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration systems, software and services, has acquired Konftel, a maker of audio collaboration technology and conference telephone manufacturer for a cash purchase price of approximately US$15 million.Read More…