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SAP MENA announced the appointment of Ghassan Abu Asba to the role of country sales manager for Kuwait. Reporting to Gergi Abboud, Country Manager for SAP Kuwait and Qatar, Abu Asba will be responsible for driving the country’s field sales operations and ensuring accelerated momentum across all verticals. Abu Asba is a Middle East IT industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience, including stints as Enterprise System Manager at Kuwait Computer Company and Kuwait Country Manager at HP, where he distinguished himself for overseeing headline-grabbing projects for clients such as Wataniya, Equate, Kuwait Stock Exchange, Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Finance. Read More…

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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) recently replaced its legacy Symantec NetBackup software with CommVault® Simpana 9 to meet ever-expanding business, compliance and data management requirements. Kuwait Petroleum is involved in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, ranging from discovering new reservoirs to delivering fuel and providing essential petrochemical products. Read More…

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Toshiba Gulf honoured its distributors at a recently held ceremony in Dubai. Toshiba acknowledged the efforts by presenting an Platinum Business to Business Partner of the Year Award to Bahwan IT and Gold Business to Business Partner of the Year to Arabian Business Machines Co. (ABM). “The performance of our Middle East distributors has contributed greatly to the market growth of Toshiba within the region.Read More…

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As part of its ongoing Oracle Day roadshow across the EMEA region, Oracle today held the “Oracle Day” in Kuwait to share with local customers and the local IT community the latest innovations that were unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco, California, earlier this month. Oracle Day coined as “More Expertise. More Innovation. More Insight”, was a powerhouse combination of C-level, functional, and technology tracks, all dedicated to one goal: showing Oracle customers and prospects how the power of simplicity can change IT to a force that drives business innovation.Read More…

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Zservices, the provider of local Zscaler cloud security services in the Middle East partnered with the leading data communication and internet services providers, Zajil in Kuwait to offer Zservices’ cloud-delivered web security solution as a value-added service to its customers. Zservices web and email security SaaS cloud will be physically present at Zajil’s location and will interact with the global Zscalar Cloud infrastructure.Read More…

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MGS announced the successful implementation of a solution at Global Investment House (Global), which will allow Global to make investment in the future of information, to improve process efficiency and reduce the use of paper in their organization. Global Investment House (Global), headquartered in Kuwait today provide a range of financial services, to a broad base of clients, generating a significant volume of documentation. A large proportion of the documentation was paper based, making tracking and security an issue for a growing organization. Read More…

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After decades of using mainframe technology, National Bank of Kuwait wanted a scalable server infrastructure that the IT department could rely on to deliver services to employees and customers. However, because of power capacity issues, it was not feasible for the bank to use hundreds of physical servers. In 2008, National Bank of Kuwait implemented Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology, in addition to the Microsoft System Center family of products. It virtualised 75 percent of a portion of its infrastructure (30 physical hosts with 125 virtual machines) and developed a private cloud infrastructure. The bank’s virtualised infrastructure costs 40 percent less than a physical infrastructure, and the licensing costs are 20 percent less. The bank improved its agility and ability to respond to business needs, and it now has an infrastructure that will help support the bank’s growth.Read More…

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Kuwait based Microsoft Partner, Expit today announced the release of Expit Project connector for Service Manager, a plug-in for Microsoft Project Professional 2010 that enables project managers/owners to create change requests in Service Manager directly from their project plans. The Project connector for Service Manager reduces the time required to transform a task from a planning activity to an implementation activity can be excessive due to lack of integration between systems and also saves on time required to report back on completed tasks from operational systems into project management systems can be excessive and therefor delay the initiation of subsequent tasks.Read More…

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Huawei recently announced the purchase of leading System Integrator and Solution Provider, International Turnkey Systems (ITS) Business Support System (BSS) division. Huawei believes the combination of capabilities and experience of the two firms will create a one-stop shop with world-class, customized ICT solutions for customers in the Middle East and Africa region. “Huawei will continue to invest to grow the business in the region creating local employment as well as new opportunities for existing employees,” said Steven Yi, Huawei.Read More…