Philips in bid to expand its reach beyond Middle East partners with FireBird Distribution to distribute its wide range of computer monitors ranging from 15.6” to 27” screen sizes that are equipped with advance and innovative technologies like, PowerSensor, ErgoSensor, Smart Kolor, IPS, 3D, Lightframe across Central Asia and Transcaucasia region. Philips brand of monitors is manufacturered and sold by Multimedia Displays (MMD), a wholly-owned company of Taiwan based TPV Technology which was established in 2009 through a brand license agreement with Philips.Read More…

ZOTAC unveiled its new innovation, the amplified ZOTAC GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition and high-resolution dominating ZOTAC GeForce GTX 680 4GB graphics cards for the most demanding gamers and enthusiasts. The new graphic card harnesses the untapped power of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics processor to maximize frame rates in the latest visually stunning Microsoft DirectX 11-enabled games. Extreme high-definition and triple-display gamers can opt for the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 680 4GB which doubles the amount of video memory for that extra bit of smoothness at resolutions above 2560×1600, including 4K and 3840×1080.Read More…

Ash Ashutosh, Founder & CEO at Actifio
Leading new age storage vendor, Actifio announced that it has been chosen as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies for 2012. Actifio’s Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) is a single, virtualised storage system for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and test/development, delivering instant access to information at 90 percent lower cost than the traditional tools. Actifio PAS optimises the management of copies of data, by capturing data once and re-using it for multiple applications, eliminating backup software and its associated backup and restore windows, individual point tools for replication, and test and development.Read More…

AOC e1649Fwu

Leading monitor brand, AOC, today announced the launch of its new an ultra-light, super slim, eco friendly USB Monitor, AOC e1649Fwu in the Middle East and Africa region. AOC claims that its new 15.6″ WLED USB monitor which comes with 3 years local warranty and priced at US$ 109 is a must accessory for mobile computing. The neatly designed lightweight USB monitor comes with a flexi stand that rotates by 90 degrees to accommodate portrait or landscape mode and instantly transforms into a digital photo frame or presentation display, further enhancing its value as an extension of display capability for every PC. Read More…

Avnet Technology Solutions partnered with QLogic to offer its networking products like 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and converged networking solutions throughout the MEA region. “This agreement emphasizes our commitment to the growing 10Gb Ethernet and converged networking markets and significantly strengthens our Fibre Channel offerings for storage networking,” said Henry Godwin, regional managing director, Avnet Technology Solutions, Middle East and Africa.Read More…

Khalid Al Mashalgi, Managing Director at One World Computer Networks

Leading monitor brand AOC continues to expand its presence in the Middle East region with the appointment of One World Computer Networks as the authorised distributors for AOC monitors in Algeria. Khalid Al Mashalgi, Managing Director of One World Computer Networks Co. LLC, said, “AOC is highly competitive monitor brands in the world, which offers a wide choice of eco-friendly, feature rich, high quality, ergonomically designed, value for money LCD/LED monitors. We are excited to introduce AOC monitors to the Algerian market.”Read More…

Leading IT Networking and Security training, certification and consultancy services provider in the Middle East & Africa region, Spectrum Training expanded its reach in the region by setting up its new training center in Cairo, Egypt. The new training center in Cairo is equipped with state of art labs to provide global standard technical training to several of the enterprises in Egypt. The new facility consists of 2 class room facility that can train upto 24 students at a time. The center is managed by highly skilled professional with wealth of experience in IT training across the region.
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US based high-end software solutions and services provider Synechron announced the acquisition of Esquire Systems UAE, an IT consulting and services company. Synechron is a high-end software solutions and services provider focusing on the Capital Markets, Insurance, Mortgage Banking & Digital Media verticals. This acquisition will put Synechron in the spotlight to expand its domain capabilities and proven world-class delivery dervices in the Gulf markets. Read More…

Global value added distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions unveiled its full range of digital signage solutions targeting value-added reseller (VAR) and embedded original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners in the Middle East region. As a part of its digital signage portfolio in the region, Avnet provides integrated, environmentally-friendly digital display solutions based on hardware and software from industry leaders, such as AOpen, ComQi, Matrox, Philips, PresTop and ViewSonic. Avnet helps its partners capitalize on the growing digital signage market by providing comprehensive solutions for specialized applications in vertical markets, such as aviation, entertainment, healthcare, hospitality and retail. Read More…

Leading reginal distributor, FDC launched its first state of art service center in the capital city of Baghdad, fully equipped with highly skilled, vendor certified personnel trained to resolve after sales service issues, diagnosis and repair.

FDC expects that now customers can invest in their IT components and laptops with the peace of mind that the manufacturer’s warranty offered locally will come packaged with the products. Fully managed and controlled by FDC’s sophisticated systems and processes, all items pass through stringent quality control and every product distributed by FDC will carry the FDC warranty card displaying complete warranty information and service center contact details in Arabic.Read More…

Iomega today announced the signing of MANTRAC as its in-country B2B distributor for Egypt. This new move is to ensure its B2B products and solutions are readily available to System integrators, Surveillance SMB market, SMB Resellers and VARs in the Egypt. “We are focusing on the SMB channel, this comes as part of a wider plan along with Iomega investment in the ME region to be in ground to support the SMB market at the same time support the SMB business to business distribution structure, with MANTRAC being on board we are fulfilling another part of our B2B formula, MANTRAC has been chosen because of its strength and reach to different channel segments, whether it is System integrators, resellers or corporate resellers. Read More…

Spectrami organised its first tech workshop called TechCafe in association with TITUS and Varonis in Qatar, themed as “From unstructured data to actionable intelligence”. TechCafe highlighted the challenges that a CIO or an IT Manager today faces with the exponential growth of unstructured data and also shared the solutions to manage and protect the unstructured data that is exploding and out of control within every organisation. Experts from Spectrami, TITUS and Varonis presided over the sessions. While, Antonio Piazza, Regional Sales Manager from Titus and Salil Dighe, Regional Sales Manager Varonis Middle East addressed the gathering at the workshop.Read More…