60mins Day 1 - 4 PM (2014) by CPI GITEX

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Show dates: 12-16 October 2014, Dubai World Trade Centre

AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK

Exhibition hours: 11am -6pm

ManageEngine back for ninth year This year, ManageEngine is gearing its GITEX focus towards its Log Analysis, SIEM, and Network & Compliance solutions. The company’s ninth consecutive appearance at the Middle East tech event is being marked with a bigger booth, and the firm is highlighting current trends, offer live demos and interact with its clientele. “GITEX is an important industry event not just for the Middle East, but for neighbouring regions such as Africa and Eastern Europe as well,” says Nirmal Kumar Manoharan, Regional Director,

ManageEngine. “This is a premier IT event, which helps us connect with business partners, customers and prospects. “There has been an increased emphasis on IT security and our products this year are very much aligned with this key trend. For instance, we are currently showcasing the ManageEngine Password Manager Pro.” Password Manager Pro allows businesses to store, share and manage confidential documents, passwords, digital identities and other information. 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

Dell showcases end-to-end solutions The face of Dell is changing. Not a new logo, but a new outlook. Previously known only for its PCs, Dell has now solidly made its mark in the solutions industry. From networking to security, Dell Software provides end-to-end solutions. “A large part of Dell’s business is coming from solutions,” says Ronnie Wilson, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA. “We are a major player in the industry.” Gaby Matar, Managing Director adds, “It isn’t just that we are providing end-to-end solutions, it is that our solutions are scalable. We are able to grow with the needs of 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 our clients.”

WHAT’S INSIDE

TP-LINK demos wireless products

StarLink focuses on cyber-defence

Sophos highlights cloud solutions

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ManageEngine... AOC highlights display range Some of its notable features include privileged session recording, two factor authentication, AES-256 encryption and applicationto-application password management. “The future looks exciting for cloud-based services and mobile-based products,” Manoharan adds. “We have noticed developments in these areas and are integrating them into ManageEngine’s customer offer. Overall, we are pleased to be at GITEX this year and definitely hope to return next time round.” To experience live demos of ManageEngine’s products and solutions, guests can visit them at Hall &, Booth No. A7-10.

AOC is showcasing its range of display products and solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2014. The company is exhibiting gaming monitors NVIDIA G-SYNC and AOC G2460PG monitors, ultra-high definition displays U2868 and U3477, panoramic displays, tablets, Windows 8 and Android-based touch displays, and Miracast displays for wireless mobile connectivity. Vineeth Sebastian, Regional Sales Director, AOC MMD, MEA says, “The gaming monitors combine stylish design with high-performance features visible in an ergonomic stand that allows the user to adjust the height, tilt and swivel, as well as pivot into portrait mode” AOC’s high-definition displays have

a pixel frame of 1.07 billion colours, Sebastian adds. The company is also highlighting ultraportable tablets equipped with TFT Capacitive LCD and Android OS running on Dual/Quad Core processors. A smart all-in-one monitor AOC A2272PW4T supported by Android 4.1 OS is the main focus. Sebastian says, “This will be our second year exhibiting at GITEX Technology Week 2014. It is still one of the best platforms to show off latest innovations and connect with customers and partners. We are driven by innovation and Technology Week encapsulates this vision across the Middle East region.” AOC is located at stand C8-30, Hall 8 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

4 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Dell sets up at Gitex every year, always offering something new, as they recognise the show as one of the most important events in the region. “The region has grown,” says Gaby Matar, Managing Director, Emerging Markets, Dell. “The growth of Gitex is a clear reflection of the health of the industry here.” Over the last three years that Dell has been a presence at Gitex, the company has seen a great deal of change in the region. “Security is of utmost importance,” says Florian Malechi, EMEA Product and Solutions Director. “Regardless of what is offered by others, I would say that Dell has one of the most rich security portfolios available.” Centre stage is Dell SonicWALL, which provides advanced network security, access and data protection from cloud, mobile and remote in

any format. “A report was recently released stating that 50 percent of CIOs in this region are concerned about security,” says Wilson. “Security is what all businesses

“Regardless of what is offered by others, I would say that Dell has one of the most rich security portfolios available.” Gaby Matar, Managing Director, Emerging Markets.

need to pay attention to.” On this, the 30th anniversary of Dell, they intend on showcasing some exciting solutions at Gitex. They plan to continue their streak at Gitex, and say they will absolutely be back next year.

TP-LINK demos wireless products

TP-LINK is showcasing its Archer C9, CPES 10, RE 200 and M7350, wireless range of products at GITEX 2014. The manufacturer of wireless, ADSL, switches, IP cameras, powerline adapters, print servers, media converters and network adapters has started to develop its business in Middle East and Africa and wants to grow deeper and strengthen its market position. Denny Liang, General Manager, TP-LINK Middle East, says it is important for the company to showcase and promote the brand during GITEX because the event is a perfect platform where industry peers from all over the world gather to highlight their latest technologies. “This year, we want to meet our customers and have a better

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Daxium introduces an event app Daxium Middle East has released a mobile app throughout the GCC, which aims to help event organisers profile visitors efficiently. The app, which is being displayed at Gitex, makes easy collecting and tabulating details of event attendees. It can be installed on both smartphones and tablets. Events play an integral role in driving business today. The app intends to support exhibiting companies, promotion agencies, organisers and professional event planners with the collection of visitor feedback and their contact details. Increased use of tablets and mobiles have resulted in more interactivity between exhibitors. Visitors will have an option to

electronically register themselves. This service aims to double the amount of visitor contacts collected at events, and eliminate errors and misinterpretations resulting from paper registrations. Visitor information obtained during the event can later be extracted onto an excel spreadsheet at the click of a button, saving time and increasing accuracy. Aymeric de Guerre, Area Manager, Daxium, adds, “Once the app is installed, it creates a digital registration form customised to the event within 24 hours. The information entered offline into the digital form at the exhibition stand can be extracted in one click to Excel”.

StarLink focuses on cyber-defence StarLink is showcasing its nextgeneration IT Security portfolio with its participating vendor partners at GITEX Technology Week 2014. StarLink is acclaimed as one of the fastest growing IT Security VADs in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa regions. Over the last couple of years, it has expanded its presence in Sub-Saharan Africa and Turkey. This year further expansion plans are being executed into Southern Europe and North Africa, as well as, North America. Currently over 250 partners are managed across the 14 countries where the distributor has on-the-ground channel management, channel sales and 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Sophos highlights Red Hat demos latest offerings cloud solutions

Sophos is focusing on Sophos Cloud and Project Galileo in addition to promoting its extensive range of network, endpoint and server security solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2014, which is being held in Dubai from October 12-16, 2014. Senior global executives and technology experts from the company are available to meet with customers, share their global successes and hold product demos for them all through the week. “Sophos’ strategy over the last few years has been to make security simple for our customers, where we take the complex ideas in security and deliver them in a set of products that are simple, easy-to-use and easy to deploy. We are also the only vendor globally to build a single integrated cloud based management platform called Sophos Cloud to drive our entire portfolio,” says Thomas Thoelke, Sales Director NEEMEA, Sophos. “We recently launched Project Galileo, which for the first time uses our cloud based platform to not only deliver UTM and endpoint

but also actually allow all these products to communicate with each other to deliver better security. We have seen tremendous interest in Sophos Cloud and Project Galileo globally and at GITEX 2014, we look forward to promoting it extensively to our Middle East customers as well,” he adds. At GITEX 2014, Sophos is also showcasing the latest version of its SG Series – its new generation of network security appliances. The company is promoting its network protection solutions, which include Sophos UTM, secure Wi-Fi and secure email gateway; its end-user protection products including enduser protection suites, mobile control, endpoint antivirus and SafeGuard encryption; and its server protection solutions, such as the server protection flexible cross-platform antivirus for virtual and physical servers. “We have been participating in GITEX Technology Week for several years now and each year the response that we have received has been better than the previous years. The event has helped us increase our brand’s visibility and market share in the Middle East region. At GITEX 2014, we are showcasing our strengths, which is Innovation and Simplicity,” Thoelke adds. Sophos is exhibiting in Hall 2 stand D2-3.

Open source solutions provider Red Hat is demonstrating its latest offerings in cloud computing and virtualisation technologies at GITEX. Delegates have the opportunity to discuss Red Hat’s Infrastructureas-a-Service (IaaS) solutions – Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and OpenShift by Red Hat, its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. “As a leader in enterprise open source software, Red Hat will be demonstrating how it can create an enterprise class IT environment to support business objectives to regional CIOs and IT managers attending GITEX,” says Faycal Saile, General Manager, Middle East, Africa and Turkey, Red Hat. “This is also a great opportunity for them

“Red Hat will be demonstrating how it can create an enterprise class IT environment to support business objectives.” Faycal Saile, General Manager, Middle East, Africa and Turkey, Red Hat to speak with the Red Hat team about the latest developments in the company’s cloud portfolio and understand how their companies could benefit from these solutions.” Red Hat is also demonstrating its open hybrid cloud management product, Red Hat CloudForms. GITEX attendees can visit stand number CLD-18, located in Hall 6, for a chance to meet with the Red Hat team.

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Silver Peak launches WAN fabric

Silver Peak is launching its wide area network fabric (WAN) ‘Unity’ – that it says unifies the enterprise network with the public cloud – at GITEX 2014. Unity tracks the location of cloud services and internet ‘weather’ to route traffic. It keeps cloud SaaS and IaaS

“The visibility solution is intended to transform the way Middle Eastern enterprises and service providers monitor their networks.” Bhaskar Peruri, Regional Sales Manager, Middle East, Silver Peak

traffic on the Unity fabric, which Silver Peak says can give IT the ability to give users consistent performance for cloud applications, whilst monitoring and controlling connectivity to the cloud. “The visibility solution is intended to transform the way Middle Eastern enterprises and service providers monitor their networks,” says Bhaskar Peruri, Regional Sales Manager, Middle East, Silver Peak. “Most enterprises use dozens of cloud-based services, whether IT knows about them or not. The problem is IT staff have no insight into that traffic once it leaves the WAN. They can’t troubleshoot problems or optimise applications the way they would on their own network. “We are excited about the opportunities that the Middle East and this year’s GITEX Technology Week hold for us. We understand that information security officers face growing pressure to protect terabytes of data on an increasingly unsecured network, manage information safely, especially on the cloud.” Silver Peak (Hall 1, stand 108) will launch Unity at the upcoming GITEX Technology Week in October 2014.

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TP-LINK...

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understanding about business and challenges through the many interactions we will have,” he says. Liang adds that this year’s participation at GITEX is aimed at meeting prospective clients and educating them on the company’s broad SOHO and SMB products array. “GITEX has been the most popular IT trade show in the region for years. We believe in the trade fair and this year we are hoping to reach out to new clients and potential channel partners from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia,” he says. He points out that GITEX is the only platform in the Middle East that accords the company an opportunity to meet and hear from people from many different countries all in one place. “High speed Internet connectivity is one of the focuses for today’s WiFi solutions. We are explaining and demonstrating these products to our channel partners and their clients at our stand throughout the week-long technology fair,” Liang says. The company is also educating its channel partners and visitors that come to the stand on the various networking, WiFi solutions, 3G and wireless router offerings that the company has for the SOHO and SMB segment. “We want our partners to share their business experience with us and GITEX offers the perfect avenue for us to receive feedback. We also want to use the show this year, to educate people on how to use our networking range of products,” he says. TP-LINK is exhibiting in Zabeel Hall, stand Z-D30 at the event.

technical resources to support partners. It has been participating in GITEX for many years, and is expecting an excellent response from customers who come to see the latest technologies added to StarLink’s portfolio. Furthermore, an exponential increase in the number of channel partners visiting the stand is anticipated this year due to the successful launch of the StarLink Choice programme. “Market research shows the annual cost of cybercrime is a whopping $100 billion. Also compliance is getting ever more important. At GITEX this year, StarLink will showcase a unique mix of defense-in-depth solutions to combat the latest cyber-threats

“Market research shows the annual cost of cybercrime is a whopping $100 billion. Also compliance is getting ever more important.” Mahmoud Nimer, General Manager, StarLink

and address today’s compliance challenges in the Middle East. Our solutions are focused on the key IT security drivers of Access Control, Advanced Threat Protection, Vulnerability Management and Secure Mobility, which we will showcase at GITEX,” says Mahmoud Nimer, General Manager, StarLink.

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