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

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AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK

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Exhibition hours: 10am -6pm

Huawei grows its relationship with the Middle East Dong Wu sees a long and fruitful partnership with government agencies and private businesses in the Middle East. “We have been in the Middle East for years, and will be here for many years to come,” says Dong Wu, President, Enterprise Business, ME Region.

It does seem that Huawei’s projects can be seen all over the region these days. From the Jannah Hotel and Resorts to the UAE’s General Authority of Islamic Affairs, the company is

changing the way we bank, relax, interact with our government and how we connect with each other in general.

“For example, you can see our video banking solutions here at our stand at GITEX,” says Wu. “Before, if a customer wanted to open a bank account, or request other services, he or she would have to go to a branch of the bank,” explains Wu. “With video banking, the customer can 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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ADFCA continues on its IT roadmap with Fujitsu

MDS focuses on providing services to customers MDS Gulf is present at the 34th edition of the ICT event, GITEX 2014, as a part of its parent company, Midis Group. The focus for the company is on its different areas of business, especially IT managed services.

In line with this, the company has acquired a prominent player in this space, more of which we will hear about in the coming month.

“We are putting more emphasis on services which we provide to our customers.

The event offers us a good opportunity to meet up with customers and vendor partners.

We have been participating at the event since the beginning,” says Sami Abi Esber, President, Board Member, Midis Group.

“Industry players cannot miss the opportunity GITEX offers as the event represents all the major IT players in the market.

Midis Group is one of the major players in this space.”

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Kodak Alaris promotes KnowledgeShare concept

StarLink plays host at gala dinner for GITEX 2014

*Based on internal Dell analysis in July 2013 based on Dell Compellent flash-optimised vs.spinning disk arrays and an internal test performed by Dell in March 2013 with Storage v6.310 on dual SC8000 controllers running OLIP type workloads using IOmeter with a 100% random, 70/30 read/wirte mix and 8K sector transfer size achieved this IOPS performance.

Actual performance/latency will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability **Based on internal Dell analysis performed in May 2013, comparing similar Dell Compellent offerings to EMC VNX Family, HP 3PAR StoreServ, HP EVA, IMB V7000, IBM XIV, Hitachi Data Systems HUS 100 Family,and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Family and competitive US list pricing from Gartner Inc, Cp Storage, as of June 2013. Š 2013 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.

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Huawei ... complete the transaction without having to make the trip.”

This level of service is expected in this region, and Huawei is willing to provide the training and support to maintain these services in the future. “We aren’t only providing solutions or products,” says Wu, “We are engaging in a knowledge transfer, so customers are trained on their systems for years to come.”

Huawei has been coming to GITEX for years, and expanding each year. As to their future plans at GITEX – “Of course we will be back,” says Wu with confidence.

“We are a major IT player in the Middle East, and it is important for us to be here.”

ADFCA continues on its IT roadmap with Fujitsu

HID Global has lined up a portfolio of solutions addressing the customer’s needs for physical access control and identity assurance at GITEX Technology Week.

It is displaying smart applications that address the enterprise’s, financial institution’s and government’s security requirements.

On the smart devices front, the

company is also demonstrating FARGO printers, physical access control readers and cards and logical access control range. HID Global is also highlighting emerging technologies that leverage Bluetooth Smart to simplify mobile access.

“HID Global is a trusted provider of secure identity solutions and we are delighted to be participating for the fourth consecutive year at GITEX, the biggest IT tradeshow in the MEA region. HID Global strongly believes in collaborating with the channel partners to address end user requirements effectively,” says Nat Pisupati, Regional Sales Director, Identity

and Access Management, HID Global MEA. It is also demonstrating latest technology solutions designed for enterprise, healthcare, education and financial services (banking) verticals.

Pisupati says, “We are available to meet channel partners, end users, OEMs, systems integrators, security and IT managers to understand what key secure identity challenges need to be addressed in the their markets and how our solutions can assist them.”

HID Global is located at Stand B2-4, Shaikh Saeed Hall 2 at the Dubai World Trade Centre from October 12 – 16.

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MDS...

IDC has named the company the top IT service provider for the last 10 consecutive years.

The company is building up on its offerings to stay relevant in a cloud and virtualised environment.

Over the last few years, the company has been focusing on transforming itself from a reseller into a systems integrator. “We have executed the biggest and most prestigious projects over the last few years. We are providing complete turnkey solutions from data centres, to infrastructure of data centres, hardware to network and also to provide software application to our customers,” says Esber.

Kodak Alaris promotes KnowledgeShare concept

Kodak Alaris is promoting the company’s knowledge concept at GITEX 2014. The UK-owned, yearold company comprises of former document imaging and personalised

DVCOM masters IP telephony DVCOM Technology, an open source VoIP Telephony and Networking Solutions Company, comes to GITEX every year as a value-added distributor (VAD).

Middle East is DVCOM’s legacy market; the company had started IP solutions distribution business from the region in 2007 – that was also the first year it had exhibited at GITEX, Renjan George, Managing Director, DV COM said.

“We had acquired distributorship for Asterisk for its IP telephony technologies the same year. With technical expertise in the business, we signed technology partners over the years with solutions that complement Asterisk’s products,” George added. “These include DreTech Computers, Yealink – provider pf SIP phones, Matrix Comsec, Yeaster enterprise communication, Dinstar VoIP solution provider, and our most recent partner – 2N telecom. We have also certified to offer training to the Asterisk staff.”

DVCOM is the technology arm of Al Mashka Group which is the largest distributor of Panasonic worldwide. Outside the Middle East, the company has business in India and plans to have a stronger footprint in Africa over the next few years.” The company has experienced 60 percent growth in the region year-onyear since it started operations, he added.

Outside the Middle East, the company has business in India and plans to have a stronger footprint in Africa over the next few years.

“We have two profit centres - IP telephony solutions and training. We have come to GITEX this year with Asterisk’s Intact range of solutions – Intact videoconferencing solution has been recently deployed by Ministry of Interior UAE which is also hosting product demos at the event,” George added. He attributed the success to DVCOM’s partners in the region.

DVCOM had organized a partner meet yesterday that brought together all of the company’s resellers and system integrators from the region – twenty percent of these have been recently brought on board, George added. Confident of the company’s technical expertise, George was proud to note that DVCOM will soon launch a training university in Dubai.

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imaging parts of Kodak.

Showcasing at GITEX this year, KnowledgeShare is a framework of hardware and software solutions to enable customers to automatically capture and consolidate corporate data from digital and paper sources, understand and then gain invaluable knowledge from it.

David Whitton, Eastern Cluster Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak Alaris says, “Our document imaging product business is known for its paper digitisation prowess. This year we have more component solutions, we are not just talking about data in terms of paper but in any format it interacts with the organisation. We are trying to bring intelligence into data.”

“Our KnowledgeShare concept is about how we do that and we want to do this with partners and see how we can connect that knowledge together in the right way to reach a solution that will actually solve the issues for our customers.”

The company is looking at showcasing the fact that it is more than just a scanner company.

Whitton says it is not just a paperfocused company but focuses on how customers use information to communicate with organisations.

In the desktop and departmental category Kodak Alaris grew double in the last 12 months, and maintained its top position in the production scanner segments.

StarLink plays host at gala dinner for GITEX 2014 within the industry.

StarLink’s Partners were acknowledged for Excellence

“Each year at StarLink we witness numerous milestones in various areas of our expertise.

This year has been no different.”

Nidal Othman – Managing Director of StarLink

StarLink organized a splendid gala dinner at The Viewing Deck in The Palace Downtown, on the 3rd day of GITEX 2014, from 6pm to 10pm. An elite group of guests were received and appreciated for their untiring

and unequalled impact to the success of StarLink. Among them were a group of awardees who were rewarded for their exceptional performance and contribution to StarLink’s growth and leadership

in IT Security Leadership, Excellence in IT Security Strategy, Excellence in IT Security Vision and Excellence in Government Specialisation. The Vendors were rewarded for Excellence in Vendor

Commitment, Excellence in Vendor Sales Achievement, Excellence in Business Development, Excellence in Product Innovation, Excellence in Market Adoption and Excellence in Channel Management.

“Each year at StarLink we witness numerous milestones in various areas of our expertise. This year has been no different. In-fact the large turn-out at our stand in GITEX 2014 is testimony to our ever growing and leading commitment to proactively shaping the customer’s IT Security outline, and in the process continuing to maintain our reputation of upholding the ethos of a “True” VAD. It was a memorable evening, well spent in appreciating and rewarding our vendors, partners and customers.” said Nidal Othman – Managing Director of StarLink.

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