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Leading global Consulting, IT and Business services provider, Mahindra Satyam announced its second quarter financial results for Fiscal Year 2012, ending September 30, 2011, posted a consolidated revenues of $330m globally for Q2 FY12. Mahindra Satyam continued commitment towards strengthening its market presence in the Middle East and North African region and it was reflected by the growing revenues from the region and posted a 40% increase in bookings and a 150% YoY growth.Read More…

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Leading African mobile network operator, Gateway Communications continued its expansion in the MENA region by establishing an office in Beirut. The move is in response to the increasing traffic into and out of the MENA region, and demand for connectivity within the region from Gateway’s existing customer base. The MENA market has seen rapid privatisation in the last five years resulting in fierce competition to gain the largest market share in the region.Read More…

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Canon Middle East along with its partner in Qatar, Salam Studio and Stores launched their first Al Rowad Club, which was well attended by several IT resellers and system integrators. The club is specifically designed to support Qatar’s rapidly growing IT industry and provide essential customer feedback and market intelligence. Mahboob Ali, Regional Manager of Salam Studio & Stores said, “The Al Rowad Club marks an innovative approach to Channel relations. Qatar boasts one of the strongest IT networks which is not only proactive and reliable, but which also continuously strives to attain excellence. Initiatives from vendors such as Canon’s Al Rowad Club which recognise the country’s top performing channel partners are key to fostering continued growth and delivering end users with superior product line up and experience.”Read More…

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South Africa based leading ICT solutions company, The Webcom Group recently signed up an reseller agreement with Huawei to sell range of products and solutions like, video ATMs, networking, data centre and telepresence solutions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the tie-up Pieter le Roux, Technical Director at The Webcom Group, said, “These four mainline product segments broaden our scope of offering, allowing us to deliver a Tier 1 brand to our customers. Huawei’s product offering is competitive and complements our existing offering to customers.”Read More…

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Cyberoam announced the appointment of FDC International as their distributors for the Middle East region for the newly launched NetGenie range of routers. Cyberoam choose FDC International for its strong channel partner base in the region and it believes that there is huge potential for a product like NetGenie in the region, which can be fulfilled by partnering with FDC.
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According to a leading market intelligence firm, IHS formally known as iSuppli predicted that the mobile PC market is embracing the new ultrabook platform in a big way, and is expected to rise to account for more than 40 percent of all notebooks by 2015. Ultrabooks will represent 43 percent of global notebook PC shipments in 2015, up from 2 percent in 2011 and 13 percent in 2012. Following their first year of shipments in 2011, Ultrabook penetration of the notebook market will increase rapidly, rising to 28 percent in 2013 and to 38 percent in 2014.
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NetApp today unveiled a powerful new platform to help medium-sized businesses address the increasing requirements to keep pace with growing business demands and to do more with fewer resources. The new NetApp FAS2000 entry product line delivers improved value, simplicity and scalability to enable customers to start right and grow with the needs of their businesses.Read More…

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Recently, HP Middle East hosted its annual Channel Awards to recognize and honor the achievements of its partners throughout the Middle East region, and evaluated more than 20 channel partners in 13 categories that covered all areas of HP’s business in the region, including Enterprise and Consumer business. These categories included recognizing retailers, distributors, and resellers for their efforts, in addition to honoring individuals who have shown particular dedication to HP, helping to foster an even stronger relationship between the partners, while growing HP’s business through product knowledge and skill.Read More…

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SonicWALL, the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions introduced two high-performance, application-aware next-generation firewalls for branch offices and small- medium-sized businesses in the region. The NSA 220 Series and NSA 250M Series deliver an unmatched combination of security, performance and price in this class of next-generation firewalls. NSA 220 and 250M Series offer firewall protection with tightly integrated intrusion prevention, comprehensive gateway anti-malware services and granular application intelligence and control.Read More…

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Avaya introduced several new channel initiatives which will help recognise and reward its most loyal and dynamic partners during its recently held Annual Channel Partner Conference in Berlin, Germany. The Avaya Connect partner programme reflects the changing channel dynamics and ensure that Avaya partners are well equipped to deliver the broadest possible solution sets to customers. Avaya has released more than 60 new products over the past 18 months, and it now focuses on increasing the competency, customer satisfaction and competitive advantage of its channel partners. Read More…

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BenQ announced the appointment of gaming specialist distribution company Geekay Distribution to distribute their latest XL and RL Gaming Monitor series in the Middle East region. Geekay is the exclusive distributors for Steelseries, Gioteck, Licensed Nintendo, Licensed PlayStation, Duracell Gaming and the Ben 10 licensed range in the region.Read More…

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Recently, world’s leading IT distributor Avnet reported impressive numbers $6.43 billion worldwide sales for the first quarter results of the fiscal year 2012, which is an increase of 3.9% year over year. Avnet Technology Solutions experienced solid year over year improvements in profitability and returns during the quarter. Gross profit margin improved 75 basis points sequentially and 37 basis points year over year. In addition, operating income increasing 14.7% year over year, and operating income margin increasing 28 basis points year over year to 2.5%.
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