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Show dates: 18-22 October 2015, Dubai World Trade Centre

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Exhibition hours: 10am -7pm

Infoblox focuses on DNS security

Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East, Infoblox

Infoblox is using GITEX Technology Week to highlight its ‘holistic,

end-to-end’ DNS security and ‘defense against the widest range of DNS-based attacks such as volumetric, exploits, and DNS hijacking attacks.’

Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East, Infoblox, says that visitors to the company’s stand can expect some new announcements in terms of its portfolio. “We will be releasing major security enhancements in the DNS and analytics space,” he says. “We’re using GITEX as a platform for educating regional IT decision-makers about Infoblox’s credentials. GITEX is a great place

to connect with customers and partners. Relationships and faceto-face interactions play a huge role in our business and GITEX is a brilliant platform to cement our existing relationships and create new ones.”

Across the spectrum of technology, Sleiman believes that there is a range of opportunity for a number of key verticals in the Middle East, and that Infoblox’s solutions are an underpinning necessity that can drive modern transformation. “Trends such as cloud, Big Data, 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

StorIT highlights enterprise data management solutions

Manju Mathew, Marketing Manager, StorIT

StorIT Distribution is exhibiting an array of its enterprise data management, data storage and data protection solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2015.

During their participation at the technology event, the company will also promote its wide portfolio of professional services and enterprise technology training offerings with senior executives and technology experts from the company demonstrating the latest technologies and meeting with customers and partners at the

region’s premier ICT exhibition.

Manju Mathew, Marketing Manager, StorIT Distribution, says, “We have been participating at GITEX for several years now with much success. GITEX, being the largest technology exhibition in the region, is a perfect platform for us to showcase our latest innovative and disruptive solutions, launch new products and look at signing potential partnerships with strong vendors and channel partners.

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Infoblox... virtualisation, security and mobility are in full effect in the Middle East and they are creating significant pressure as well as opportunities for some of the largest enterprises in the energy, government, telecom and finance sectors,” he says. “We are in the midst of a wave of IT transformation and modernisation and Infoblox is playing a critical role in helping enterprises manage and secure their IT infrastructure.”

Against a backdrop of increased cyber-threats, Sleiman is confident that instability in certan parts of the Middle East mean the IT security market is set to boom.

“Regional organisations will focus on security as the number one area of IT spend, given the fact that not only is the threat landscape constantly changing,

but also the political turmoil in certain countries is adding another dimension of cyber warfare,” he says. “DNS Security is an area that we believe regional organisations will start paying greater attention to as they begin to understand the damaging consequences of inadequate DNS security measures, including lost revenue due to downtime, diminished customer satisfaction and lost productivity.”

Sleiman sees no reason why the company won’t continue to participate in GITEX. “Without a doubt we’ll be back next year,” he says. “We keep increasing the size of our participation every year and we believe next year will be no different.”

Infoblox’s stand is situated at Hall 1, stand number D1-27.

F5 to showcase security and cloud offerings

Karl Triebes, EVP of Product Development and CTO, F5

F5 Networks is set to put the spotlight on its enhanced security and cloud offerings at this year’s GITEX Technology Week.

According to the security solutions company, highlights of its participation include new F5 software that enables hybrid technologies through dynamic on-premises and off-premises deployments. It will also feature the extension of its hybrid cloud Silverline

services platform to incorporate webapplication firewall capabilities.

BIG-IP version 12.0 is a major software release that expands the company’s hybrid platform services, and is targeted at improving the agility, security, and performance of cloud application deployments F5 supports customers deploying cloud and hybrid IT architectures, with BIG-IP virtual edition solutions becoming available in the Azure Marketplace.

“Organisations are seeking the same confidence level with applications and services in cloud/hybrid deployments that they’ve seen in the data centre,” said Karl Triebes, EVP of Product Development and CTO, F5. “Our BIGIP software is instrumental in helping customers take advantage of the benefits of the cloud without sacrificing security, flexibility, or savings.”

Riverbed, Microsoft to highlight IaaS and SaaS solutions

Taj ElKhayat, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Riverbed Technology

Riverbed will focus on its solutions for Microsoft’s Office 365, SharePoint and Azure platforms at GITEX Technology Week.

For Microsoft SharePoint, Riverbed says they aim to bring solutions that can deliver optimisation and visibility across

users, network, apps and infrastructure in order to better manage user experience and performance. The collaboration between the vendors has meant that features such as the acceleration of links between offices, partners and customers are available out-of-the-box.

“One of the big challenges facing IT teams today is that it costs 15x more to fix bugs found in production systems than it costs to fix bugs found during development and testing. Application visibility and

diagnostics help IT fix bugs sooner and deliver releases on time.

Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals can help you see what parts of the code are running slowly, monitor user experience, and verify whether your cloud servers are performing at capacity,” said Taj ElKhayat, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Riverbed Technology.

Elkhayat further explains that today’s hybrid enterprises includes infrastructure and applications in traditional onpremise environments in parallel

with Solution as a Service (SaaS) application offerings like Office 365, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms like Azure. A key theme, therefore, for Riverbed at the upcoming edition of GITEX is helping customers leverage the power of its solution for Azure – a process that has been simplified by making Riverbed SteelHead CX subscriptions available on the Microsoft Azure marketplace.

Attendees can meet technical and sales professionals from both Microsoft and Riverbed at Microsoft’s at Hall 7, stand B7-10.

CommScope features connectivity solutions

Jim Curran, Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Middle East and Africa, CommScope

CommScope is showcasing its connectivity solutions that can support and drive the journey towards Smart Cities and the

Internet of Things (IoT) at the GITEX Technology Week.

“How people work and where they work is evolving and requires advanced building infrastructure. This drives the demand for smarter buildings that can help increase productivity and efficiency,” says Jim Curran, Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Middle East and Africa region, CommScope. “We see GITEX as a forum to address key customer concerns and challenges that companies are facing with the growth of Smart Cities and IoT. The focus is on leveraging emerging technologies to connect

people, information and devices.”

The company is also demonstrating solutions such as iTRACS data centre infrastructure management (DCIM); Redwood building intelligence platform; SYSTIMAX structured cabling solutions; and imVision automated infrastructure management will also be on display. The main attractions at the booth will be the company’s new LazrSPEED 550 WideBand Multimode Fiber, a workhorse media of local area network (LAN) backbones and data centres, and a demonstration of the Category 8 channel. A large model of CommScope’s Data

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In addition to its latest enterprise solutions, CommScope is also showcasing the ION- E in-building wireless and distributed antenna system to efficiently provide needed capacity in networks. Running on 10G Cat6A and fibre, ION-E is easy to design, install and operate without RF experts.

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StorIT...

We also plan to demonstrate our strength as the leading technology solutions provider in the data management, storage and data protection space and promote our wide portfolio of professional services and training programmes.

Some of our key vendor-partners will also be showcasing their most recent technologies and presenting on the latest trends in converged storage and business continuity and disaster recovery at our stand.”

StorIT is also promoting its value added services such as business need assessment, architecture and proof of design to optimise solutions to customer requirement StorIT Distribution is at Hall 6, Stand: CLD-16.

A2iA brings text recognition technology

Jean-Louis Fages, President and CEO, A2iA

A2iA, a developer of handwritten and machine printed text recognition, data extraction and document classification of paperbased documents is exhibiting at GITEX Technology Week as part of the French Pavilion.

The company is demonstrating its ability to address market demand within the Middle East, by bringing its Arabic printed and cursive recognition technology to the leaders of Document Capture sector in the region.

It has recently released A2iA TextReader, a software toolkit developed to recognise full Arabic printed and cursive handwritten text, enabling all types of documents be transformed into searchable and editable formats. Offering users

processing control over the document recognition settings and results, A2iA TextReader returns both a literal transcription and data extraction from any document format.

“This year marks our second consecutive participation at GITEX Technology Week. After a successful launch of our innovative Arabic recognition technology for document processing last year, we are now looking forward to addressing the market demands of the Middle East by showcasing our technology proven for character recognition, document classification and data extraction,” says Jean-Louis Fages, President and CEO, A2iA.

Bulwark promotes IT security offerings

Jose Thomas Menacherry, Managing Director

UAE-based Bulwark Technologies is exhibiting an array of its products during GITEX Technology Week 2015.

The company highlights the

importance of building a strong, integrated security infrastructure in the region, and is presenting its end-to-end security solutions and distribution strategies during the show.

Jose Thomas Menacherry, Managing Director, Bulwark, says, “For GITEX, where we have been showcasing for over a decade now, we employ a particular strategy where we not only showcase optimum technologies catching pace in this region, but also introduce newer technologies that are gaining acceleration for their ease of use across the world.

Our approach this year is driven based on a strong demand in

“With the region’s huge demand for cybersecurity, we are expecting to receive excellent and evoking responses from our vendors, partners and customers during the event.”

the security distribution market.”

In addition, the company is also offering its latest technologies spanning privilege identity management, data classification, IAM, vulnerability management and two-factor authentication.

Bulwark, as a long time participant at GITEX, is looking forward to an excellent response from partners and customers who would participate in the mega event. “With the region’s huge demand for cybersecurity, we are expecting to receive excellent and evoking responses from our vendors, partners and customers during the event,” adds Menacherry.

VCE to put spotlight on converged infrastructure

Said Akar, Regional Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle East, VCE

VCE will highlight its comprehensive converged solutions portfolio during

its participation at GITEX Technology Week this year.

Through the event VCE aims to showcase how converged infrastructure portfolio can help an IT organisation’s bottom line by making its staff more efficient by reducing time spent on system maintenance and instead focusing on activities that drive competitive advantage. In addition to its presence at Hall 6, VCE has also signed up as the Platinum sponsor of the inaugural GITEX Ignite Conference.

Said Akar, Regional Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle East, VCE, says, “The Middle East is a fast-growing key market because customers here are looking

to transform their IT organisations with converged infrastructure to gain critical efficiencies and IT agility. Attendees will learn how customers such as Dubai Health Authority are benefitting from deploying a VCE Vblock System to drive efficiencies. We are looking forward to connecting with the region’s leading technology associates, customers, partners and prospects.”

This is the first year that the company – founded in 2009 – will be participating in GITEX. “This is an excellent forum for us to showcase our new offerings, and connect with our customers,” says Akar. The Middle East converged infrastructure is expanding, he says, and the

opportunities in the region are growing.

VCE will be participating in two panel discussions at the event, a speaking session at GITEX Ignite as well as hosting a series of interactive sessions at its stand (CLD-11). These panel discussions and sessions will be led by experts such as Nigel Moulton, EMEA CTO at VCE and Thomas Meyer, group Vice President IDC European Research, IDC. These sessions will highlight the benefits of converged infrastructure, showcase VCE’s solutions, demonstrate how its technology can simplify the datacentre and help build a foundation for hybrid cloud.

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Dell to showcase end-to-end solutions at any scale and at any point in an organization’s IT evolution. The solutions on display will include: Enterprise Storage and Networking Solutions, including: • Dell’s storage portfolio, which is designed to support the most demanding large scale workloads, helping customers achieve mission-critical business goals faster and more consistently with less cost and downtime.

• Industry-first deployment of Triple Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND technologies, offering organisations high-performance, high endurance and increased cost savings.

• The Dell Networking C9010 Network Director, which will address growing complexities in campus networking and skyrocketing bandwidth demands in the data center.

Driss el Ougmani, Executive Director & General Manager, MEA, Dell

At GITEX Technology Week 2015, Dell will present its latest portfolio of end-to-end solutions designed to help customers integrate, optimize, and automate their IT infrastructure, applications delivery and management. The solutions will aid customers in the Middle East, to address challenges created by industry mega-trends such as

IoT, virtualization, security, data protection, access points and mobility, enterprise modernization and BYOD. Visitors can visit Dell at GITEX Technology Week 2015 at booth number CLD-6 in Hall-6.

At GITEX 2015, attendees will be able to explore Dell’s end-to-end enterprise solutions suite, designed to maximize efficiency and choice

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Dell Security Solutions, including: • Dell’s award winning range of security solutions, from NextGeneration Firewalls to Data Protection and Identity Access Management solutions.

• The latest innovation from Dell SecureWorks, which allows customers to protect more of their off-premise assets.

Internet of Things: • Dell analytics tools, which allow organizations to make good business decisions based on data generated by its sensors.

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At GITEX, Dell will be highlighting its solutions that empower organizations to embrace IoT, and will have live demos of IoT implementations.

Desktop Virtualization: • Dell’s latest range of thin client devices, which increase security and make desktop management easy.

Dell Client Solutions devices: • The latest range of commercial tablets and commercial devices, enabling greater mobility for organizations.

• Dell’s business desktop solutions, which have been developed based on business trends and customer feedback. With best-in-class security, organisations can deploy these desktops in the knowledge that their data and users are protected from an increasingly wide range of threats.

At the show, Dell will also highlight its work within the channel market, and attendees will discover how resellers and distributors are working with Dell on its latest innovations.

“It has been another exciting year for Dell,” Driss el Ougmani, Executive Director and General Manager, MEA commented, “we continue to prioritise GITEX as a key event in our calendar and the perfect stage on which to highlight our end-to-end integrated solutions and showcase our global capabilities available to customers and partners across the region.”

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