Across its ten plus years of annual roll outs, Distree Middle East and Africa has gone through adjustments to meet the requirements of the regional consumer technology industry and its sell-out ecosystem of distributors and retailers. One of the present day, industry wide adjustments is the consumerisation of technology into multiple new industries including fitness […]

Early Tuesday a public cloud had an issue and many IT departments got the call they do not want: Our website is down, ecommerce is down. What else is affected? What are you going to do about it and when? Just after noon US Eastern Standard Time, the Amazon Simple Storage Service, cloud storage buckets in US-East-1 […]

Mahdi Alami Hamdan is the Technical Manager at Al Taqnyah Business Solutions, a diversified application developer and system integrator. As the technical manager, he is responsible for pre-sales of enterprise solutions and sets the technology direction of the company. He specifically manages the electronic transformation projects executed by Al Taqnyah involving government and public sector […]

Parallels Inc has announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc, making Ingram Micro the authorised distributor for Parallels’ Remote Application Server (RAS) for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region. Parallels RAS is one of the fastest growing, most cost-effective and easy-to-use application and desktop delivery solutions available on the […]

Citrix recently held its annual Channel Partner Accelerator event aimed at educating partners on business strategies and goals for the year, whilst highlighting the latest solutions available for them to offer to customers. The company also reiterated its vision of empowering a mobile workforce through seamless, secure access to apps files and services on any […]

Dell EMC and Intel have announced a new web-based Cloud Ecosystem Hub, to provide EMEA cloud service providers (SPs) and end users with an online one stop site to unify and simplify access to Dell EMC’s cloud proposition and resources. The hub will connect customers with SPs to help establish stronger marketing efforts, enabling digital […]

Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, in collaboration with INTERPOL, has released research on cybercriminal activity in West Africa, Cybercrime in West Africa: Poised for an Underground Economy, as part of its ongoing Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series (CUES). Scams targeting individuals and businesses have grown exponentially since 2013. West African cybercriminal activity is […]

Riverbed Technology has appointed Andy Elder as Senior Vice President (SVP) of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), reporting to Paul Mountford, Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Riverbed. Elder will be responsible for the company’s sales strategy and go-to-market execution in EMEA and will lead the team to drive and accelerate […]

FireEye Inc has announced the release of its annual M-Trends report, which found that attackers are present in EMEA organisations’ networks a median of 3.5 months before being detected. The report is based on information gathered during investigations conducted by FireEye’s security analysts in 2016 and uncovers emerging trends and tactics threat actors used to […]

Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has announced the appointment of Monzer Tohme as Regional Vice President, Sales, Middle East and Africa (MEA). Taking leadership of a business that has seen strong growth over the past year, Tohme will focus on building the sales team, growing the […]