Digital Shadows, a digital risk management company, has announced the launch of its channel-only partner programme – Channel REV – and an associated online partner portal, designed to accelerate partner revenue and enhance customer loyalty by offering the award-winning Digital Shadows SearchLight service that combines scalable data analytics with human analysts to effectively manage and […]

Aptec, an Ingram Micro company, has announced it has been selected as a strategic distribution partner by Dell EMC across the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Yemen. The expanded relationship builds on Aptec’s current partnership with Dell EMC and further strengthens Ingram Micro’s relationship with one of the world’s largest IT solution […]

Kodak Alaris’ Information Management division (IM) has revamped its channel partner programme, introducing a number of new sales tools, incentives and technical resources designed to support its partners and help them expand their businesses. Why change? Addressing channel partners’ needs In a rapidly changing marketplace, VARs, distributors and solution providers are looking for new ways […]

Middle East medium and smaller businesses will drive the region’s $12 billion business intelligence market, according to Zakaria Haltout, the newly appointed channel head at digital transformation enabler SAP. While small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) comprise the majority of Middle East enterprises, they lag in digital technology adoption. Among SMEs in the region, only 18 […]

ISYX Technologies, a fast-growing business innovation consulting company in the Middle East and Africa, has announced it has won the Emerging Partner of the Year award at Cisco’s 2-Tier channel partner event held recently in Dubai. ISYX was recognised for its outstanding performance and expertise in promoting and deploying Cisco’s transformational technologies within a short […]

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced that Rackspace, a managed cloud provider, has won the 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year award. It was selected as the Innovator of the Year out of five finalists and category winners for the 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards after a public vote. Rackspace […]

Equinix, the global interconnection and datacentre company, has announced a collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, to provide enterprises with direct, scalable access to Alibaba Cloud via the Equinix Cloud Exchange in the company’s Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Sydney and Washington DC International Business Exchange (IBX) datacentres, with the addition […]

Farsight Security, a provider of DNS Intelligence, and Infoblox, a network control company that provides Actionable Network Intelligence, have announced a reseller partnership that will integrate Farsight’s Newly Observed Domains (NOD) solution with the Infoblox ActiveTrust platform to significantly reduce the risk of cyber attacks associated with new domains. Today cyber criminals buy, use and […]

NetApp has announced plans to expand its strategic alliance with Microsoft to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation for the hybrid cloud. Customers are evolving their datacentres to integrate hybrid cloud delivery models for greater agility. As they build out these more flexible architectures, they want to retain the benefits of proven on-premises methods that ensure […]

The world’s increasing consumption of data, combined with the trend of businesses and service providers outsourcing their datacentre facilities rather than owning and managing them, has resulted in significant growth in multi-tenant datacentres (MTDCs). In fact, one analyst firm has predicted that total operational square footage of global MTDCs could reach approximately 177 million by […]