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Strategic ICT Partner

Technology Partners

60 Mins Show dates: 14-18 October 2012, Dubai World Trade Centre

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| AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK | Exhibition hours: 11am -7pm

Logicom spells out hottest trends What technologies are most in demand from your customers? The technologies that are most demand include the pre-orders for Windows 8 PCs and Notebooks. Microsoft’s new operation system has literally caused the market to slow down until the new release comes out at the end of October. The attraction of having an Operating System that works seamlessly across Notebooks, Tables and Mobile is creating a big buzz in the market and the pre-order demand is proving to be very large. As more and more corporations turn to the cloud, we are also seeing an increased demand for data centre infrastructure. Servers, hard drives, virtualization, and security are all in demand. Collaboration technologies are also in demand as companies look to gain more efficiencies through better use of video, messaging and information sharing. In fact, the demand for collaborative solutions has never been higher. Increase in network bandwidth is making it easier and

corporations. Desktop virtualization is also still in its early stages. Given the many efficiencies being touted by many of the virtualization providers, this technology should be well understood by every IT person in the market

Michael Papaeracleous, Executive Director of Distribution, Logicom easier for people to work at any location, yet still be fully functional with their workplace requirements. What do you think is the most important technology for users to understand at present? Virtualization. Although server virtualization in now well established, its efficiencies are not being taken advantage of by many smaller sized

Which technologies are overhyped? Cloud today is both under-hyped and over-hyped. The over-hyped part of cloud technology today is all the vendors are naming technology they had in the past as Cloud technology due to the buzz surrounding the word. Many web mail solution providers have turned to labelling this technology as a Cloud solution. Although in strict sense of the term this is true, the technology has been around for a very long time. The under-hyped part of cloud is how you can literally run a company today without having any IT central infrastructure in place. Whether you need a CRM, security, or just a good-old Exchange solution, all this 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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