Avnet will become one of the only few companies in the history of NYSE to complete 50-years, since its listing on NYSE in December 30, 1960. Ever since, Avnet has worked to create and sustain a culture that centers on profitable growth, operational excellence, people development and shareholder value creation. This has held true even as the company evolved from a diversified conglomerate to a focused technology distributor that is a global leader in its industry. It was not too long ago that Avnet sold decanters and musical instruments, among a wide range of other products.

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Al Taqnyah Business Solutions the enterprise IT solutions provider today announced its partnership with LetterGen an affiliated company of the Belgian BTR Services, which focuses on the workflow of documents. The recent partnership is aimed to further strengthen LetterGen’s presence within the region – whereby Al Taqnyah will be the master distributor for LetterGen. With a profound knowledge of the document management arena; LetterGen’s strategy is to focus on worldwide distributors and resellers. LetterGen has selected Al Taqnyah to represent them in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.Read More…

Avnet held an exclusive evening for its partners, vendors and end-users at the Exclusive Armani Club at Armani Hotel, located in the heart of the World’s tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai to celebrate its success in the region. Avnet Technology Solutions’ EMEA Senior Management hosted the Cocktail reception which was attended by several key executives from vendors such as HP, Oracle, Hitachi, AMD, Enterasys to Channel Partners to mention a few Raqmiyat, Smartworld, Oxygen, Natcom, Office Pro among many others visiting from different countries in the region.Read More…

During its first quarter, Avnet Inc. sales grew by 26.4% to cross the $6 billion mark. In the same period, Avnet also completed its four acquisitions – Bell Micro, Tallard Technologies, Unidux and Eurotone Electric Limited. And with these new acquisitions Avnet expects to add nearly $4 billion extra toRead More…

Microsoft Gulf has revealed that six business solutions partners from the Gulf have been named to the worldwide Microsoft Dynamics Presidents Club. The partners include Al-Futtaim Technologies; Columbus IT Middle East; Crux Information Technology; Enhanced Engineering and Multi-Technologies; INC Technologies; and Mideast Data Systems.Read More…

The 30th anniversary of GITEX Technology Week, hailed as one of the world’s top three ICT events, will bring together the who’s who in the ICT industry to celebrate three decades of technology innovation in the region. This dynamic 30th event brings more to the industry than ever before, showcasing new features which push the boundaries of Middle East innovation and investment.Read More…

Novell, a provider of intelligent workload management (IWM), has announced that it is introducing, business-critical solutions specifically designed for Middle East companies to integrate mixed IT environments, delivering value-added benefits such as minimised business costs, complexity and risks.Read More…

ComGuard today announced its special Gitex shopper offers where in it will run several promotions, gifts and discounts like mobiles, notebooks. All the customers buying any product from Comguard will get their money back spend on their entry ticket at Gitex Shopper.
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Iomega Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation, and a worldwide provider of innovative enterprise storage and security solutions will be displaying its latest innovative storage solutions for consumers and SMBs at the 2010 GITEX Technology Week, which will be held in Dubai from 17th to 21st October.Read More…

Network Equipment Technologies, has appointed Aptec Holdings as its distributor for the Middle East markets of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan. Under the agreement, Aptec Holdings will distribute the entire suite of NET products through its strong reseller base to address market demand for enterprise solutions for unified communications (UC) and Enterprise Border Controller applications.Read More…