Databox, FVC’s authorised Polycom partner in Tunisia, has achieved Gold level certification from Polycom under its Polycom Choice Partner Program. The Partner Certification Programme publicly recognises channel partners who have grown their organisation with proven experience in Polycom’s Collaborative Communication solutions. FVC is Polycom Channel Development Distributor for the Middle East & North Africa. It is also the authorised service and training partner for Polycom and the first service partner for its immersive telepresence portfolio in EMEA region.Read More…

The data explosion that continues to grow at exponential rate and is expected to hit the 35 Zettabytes of digital data by 2020 is now a worrying factor for most of the enterprises across the globe and they are looking to migrate to virtualised environments to reduce costs, improve quality-of-service (QoS) and make more efficient use of resources.
As per an survey conducted by Gartner, identified that nearly half of respondents rank data growth as one of their top three challenges, along with performance and scalability. While all the top data centre challenges impact cost to some degree, data growth is linked to the increased costs relative to hardware and software maintenance, as well as administration and services.
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Smartworld today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with a leading networking and communications equipment brand ADTRAN. This partnership will allow Smartworld to sell all the products & solutions form ADTRAN’s product portfolio of more than 1,700 solutions in UAE. ADTRAN’s broad product portfolio includes a vast array of business solutions including unified communications, routers, Ethernet switches, Unified Threat Management, IP Business Gateways and wireless connectivity. This portfolio is complemented by a complete offering of carrier access solutions.

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Qtel entered into an strategic alliance with iHorizons, to develop and market a number of advanced technology solutions and business services. Recognising the ongoing development of Qatar’s economy, the two companies will cooperate on world-class business solutions aimed at supporting companies in specific industries and growth sectors. This alliance is aimed to jointly develop products and share technology architectures to reduce the Go-to-market time period, as well as offer the best service to its key customers.
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Deffinity MSA Limited a leading UK software company providing hosted (SaaS) Project Delivery solutions to IT Vendors, Integrators, Architects, Media Companies, Consulting firms, Local Government and the global Financial Services sector, today announced the opening of their new office in South Africa. South Africa office will be headed by the new Business Development Director, Bryan Mutambiranwa, who incidentally is also an Director at UK based Deffinity Africa Ltd., and the new office will also serve as Deffinity’s Head Office within continental Africa.
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Avaya as part of a strategic global agreement with HP is adding elements of Avaya’s Unified Communications and Contact Center products to the HP Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) services portfolio for enterprises. Thereby, offering customers an increase in the agility of their existing communication architectures and realize the aspiration of unified communications for multi-vendor interoperability and ultimately save organizational costs.Read More…

FVC, the leading Value Added Distributor in the region, today announced the launch of its partner programme, Cheer, which stands for Channel Enablement, Empowerment and Rewards, created to assist and motivate its partners across MENA to capitalise on opportunities rising from the adoption of new emerging technology. The programme will focus on demand generation for products and services in enterprises segment, apart from educating its partners with knowledge to differentiate themselves from competition and ensure high profibility from selling new emerging technologies.
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The UAE Ministry of Economy’s IT Department has recently won the Open Group Arabia Award for its continuous adoption of the latest technologies in institutional planning. The Ministry had recently launched a cross-section of high quality and efficient online services at the www.madeintheuae.com website, which will help manufacturers to promote their factories, products, and services. It enables UAE manufacturers to reach and connect with a global audience of buyers. Made in the UAE is supported by the Ministry of Economy, Dubai eGovernment and Tejari.Read More…

Al Ansari Exchange, the UAE’s largest network exchange house that provides worldwide remittance and foreign exchange services, has revealed that all its 100 branches across the UAE are now connected via Etisalat’s ‘IP Connect’ service. By utilizing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology over IP – VPN’s, this service offers comprehensive management features for all connections and routers at the company’s branches across the country.Read More…

Novell targeting the fast growing Saudi Arabian IT market with various marketing activities in the kingdom such as seminars and road shows to educate target audiences about its next-generation enterprise solutions. Novell provided exclusive demonstrations of the strategic advantages of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, an interoperable platform for mission-critical computing that was held today in Riyadh. According to an recent report from Springboard Research Saudi IT spending in Public Sector only is projected to reach USD 2.4 billion in 2013.Read More…

Ctrltech (Control Technologies) to offer comprehensive datacenter infrastructure solutions including Power, Cooling & Monitoring. To ensure highest uptime of Datacenter operation, Ctrltech infrastructure solutions provides continuous un-interrupted pure power supply to safeguard the datacenter from the erratic or impure powers supply which can potentially damage the computer hardware or in worst case can cause a power distribution system failure. Its power supply design solutions insures that in case of failure of power supply from Grid and local power generator, there is enough power for the datacenter to function seamlessly with the power backup equipment such as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to serve load.Read More…