Avaya, a global business communications vendor, announced it is working with Intraconsult Telecom to help organisations in Egypt achieve their digital transformation objectives. The two companies will focus on driving adoption of Avaya’s innovative solutions to key industry verticals in Egypt, enabling them to provide richer communications experiences to their customers and employees. In operation […]

Equinix, the global interconnection and datacentre company, announced it has appointed Oren Yehudai to lead its EMEA Channel Partner Programme. Yehudai joins from Palo Alto Networks where he led EMEA inside channel sales and was credited with driving significant growth for the cybersecurity firm through channel sales and partnerships. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, […]

Honeywell, the global software-industrial company, has appointed Fahmi Jabri as its Business Leader for Commercial Security in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Jabri’s new role will see him grow Honeywell’s security business and drive greater customer focus. He will also advance the organisation’s portfolio of commercial security hardware and software solutions for connected buildings […]

“There are insufficient local hyper-scale and large-scale datacenters to support cloud systems, which cause local organisations to derive cloud offering from abroad,” said Peter Sondergaard, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Research at Gartner, at the recent Gartner Symposium ITxpo, in Dubai, UAE. “Moreover, latency, legal and local currency makes this option problematic and […]

Nokia and Orange Middle East and Africa are rolling out a Nokia single radio access network and network management technology across seven African countries in a three-year modernisation project to prepare for the launch of 4G services. To facilitate the deployment Nokia has set up a dedicated West and Central Africa Support Center for Orange. […]

Siemens announced its largest ever software grant in Egypt. The $120 million industrial digitalisation software grant will be used to support training, education and higher degrees of research in Cairo, Ain Shams and Alexandria, the largest amongst the Egyptian universities. The grant was announced at a signing ceremony hosted by Siemens, in partnership with the […]

Mindware, the regional IT Distributor, announced the signing of a pan-Middle East contract with Ubiquiti Networks, manufacturer of wireless data communication equipment. The distribution contract will be covering all countries under Mindware’s regional umbrella, from the Levant and North Africa all the way to the Gulf and Pakistan, encompassing the full Ubiquiti Networks product range. […]

Ingram Micro, one of the largest technology distributors in Middle East, Turkey and Africa region, announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Bitdefender, a global cyber security technology company. Through this agreement, Ingram Micro is now authorised to distribute Bitdefender’s portfolio of Endpoint Protection Platform security solutions, to channel partners in the following 11 […]

Annual spending on digital transformation initiatives in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa region is set to top $38 billion by 2021, according to the latest insights presented today by International Data Corporation. Running under the theme Digital Economy at a Tipping Point: ICT Market Outlook for META in 2018, the event showcased insights from […]

NIT, an Ingram Micro Company and regional value-added distributor of IP surveillance and physical security solutions in Middle East, Turkey and Africa region, announced a partnership with Intelligent Security Systems, a global vendor in video management and video intelligence solutions. Under the terms of the distribution agreement, NIT is authorised to distribute ISS VMS – […]