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

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AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK

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Exhibition hours: 10am -7pm

STORIT LAUNCHES MANAGED SERVICES FOR CHANNEL NETWORK

Suren Vedantham, Group Managing Director, StorIT

StorIT has launched a new managed services in partnership with HASZone, during GITEX Technology Week.

According to Suren Vedantham, Group Managing Director, StorIT, the launch of this new offering is one of the company’s primary highlights at the mega technology event. “Our new managed services offering can enable our resellers provide their customers with a resilient

Granteq emphasises digital education

Girish Narayanan, Managing Director, Granteq Distribution

and secure IT infrastructure,” he says. “It can as be instrumental for them in terms of database and applications management as well.

“This can create a lot of value for our resellers by uplifting their portfolio and at the same time strengthening their competitive edge in the market. It could also complement their initiatives on adapting to the new 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

What will you be doing special at this year’s GITEX and what are you showcasing?

As a trusted, learning communications technology provider in the region, Granteq Distribution caters to all industries focusing on driving tech-savvy change. GITEX has always been a rewarding platform in showcasing our strengths as a reliable AV Distributor. This year also we will be demonstrating our entire range of brands, including CTOUCH, Balance Box, Vivitek, Vidyo, Brightlines, Qwizdom, Phoenix, Neets, Lightspeed, Easescreen, Qwizdom, 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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WHAT’S INSIDE

Qlik showcases Qlik Sense Kodak Alaris launches fresh Info Input update Oracle launches MySQL 5.7

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However, our main highlight will be CTOUCH’s classroom and corporate solutions. In fact, CTOUCH will be launching their new Laser range of touch screens for classrooms, at GITEX itself. Vidyo’s industry proven collaboration tools will also be another focus for the team.

Additionally, with a lot of digitalisation in the healthcare industry, the team will also be demonstrating their health check and tele health and tele medicine technologies.

If you have participated at GITEX before, what is the relevance of this show to your business in the region?

GITEX is not just important to create brand visibility and recall for us, but also educate the industry

on our latest offerings. Customer’s today are exposed to an ocean of information but making them understand on what really is suited for their industry and business type is the big question. GITEX proves to be the best platform in imparting this kind of awareness as well as enabling a hands-on experience for all visitors on our technology. In fact, apart from our core products, we also have a lot of opportunities to interact with IT resellers and leading players who want to add our brands to their portfolio.

Does GITEX help you connect with your customers and partners?

Yes definitely, in fact all our vendors are engaged with our marketing team almost six months prior to the show to have the latest

products showcased. They are all highly enthusiastic about having a focused strategy for the show to highlight most relevant products via live demonstrations, marketing collaterals and special discounts, which can be availed off during the event. This is mainly because with each passing year they have witnessed the success of our participation at GITEX, with a lot of new channel partners, customers and prospects coming on board.

We have also instilled a lot of faith in ours as well as our channel partner’s customers, as they have recognised our ongoing initiatives in launching the most innovative products.

In today’s agile trends, business valueand ROI are the key concerns for all decision makers and we have been able to connect as well as serve these prevailing needs.

What kind of IT trends do you expect to have an impact on the regional ICT industry over the next 12-18 months?

It is quite evident that be it any industry, the world is now moving towards getting mobile. It is the age of the most innovative technologies coming in to play, with a lot of opportunities in the Security and Applications arena too. As a value added distributor, we are always on the go to ensure that we cater to these dynamic ICT trends with the support of our channel partners and vendors. We possess the required bandwidth and the technical expertise in each product line, which helps us offer a more focused approach on professional services for each industry.

Qlik showcases Qlik Sense Decision makers can make decisions faster whilst distributing decision making throughout the organisation.

Kerry Koutsikos, Regional Director, Middle East, Africa & Turkey

What will you be doing special at this year’s Gitex and what are you showcasing?

This year we are showing case our latest solution called Qlik Sense.

Qlik Sense delivers true Business Intelligence and Analytics in the form of Self Service Visualisation.

Qlik Sense allows our customers to easily create interactive visualisations allowing them to make meaningful decisions.

How are Qlik solutions helping decision makers across different sectors?

Qlik Sense allows everyone in an organisation to make decisions quickly, providing the ability to collaborate with colleens in natural way. By giving the power to the users in a simple drag and drop methodology, users can create applications to help them make decisions, at the same time having a guided analytics strategy whereby the applications can be shared.

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Which sectors benefit from Qlik solutions?

All sectors benefit from our solutions. For example healthcare benefits from improving operational efficiency and profitability, finance we help clients manage risks, reduce costs and improve customer relationships, retail we help clients maximise resources and profit, analyze customers, products and transactions, energy and utilities we help clients improve forecasting accuracy, track leading indicators and increase sales.

If you have participated at GITEX before, what is the relevance of this show to your business in the region?

The last time Qlik participated was in 2012. This year, in 2015 we decided to participate as we see the business intelligence and analytics market growing at double digit figures. Qlik today is one of the major providers of visualisation solutions in the region, with clients in every sector and in every country in MENA. Does GITEX help you connect with your customers and partners?

Of course! It is a great time for them to see what is new, discuss with us how we will help them streamline their business with our solutions. The users find it an

opportunity to come and see what else they can do with our solutions to improve their decisions making on a day-to-day basis.

As for partners, it is a great event. So far on day 1 and 2 we have had partners from Turkey, Nigeria, Italy, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Morocco and Singapore visit us.

What kind of IT trends do you expect to have an impact on the regional ICT industry over the next 12-18 months?

Over the next 12 to 18 months I believe we will see a big move in two areas. The first is mobility; I believe it is time now that we will see corporations extending applications and access for their users to mobile devices, a concept of access anytime anywhere anyplace. Users are now becoming more demanding how and when they access their applications; mobility will be key to the efficiency and success of corporations in the future.

The second area I believe will make a big impact is an empowering user. This is where corporations will empower users to make decisions, empower users with applications they need to really make the difference in the fast paced business world.

Corporations will be required to provide users with collaboration technology in order to make decisions and take actions without having to wait several levels of approvals.

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StorIT... technologies surrounding the industry.”

Vedantham further explains that HASZone’s managed services expertise, paired with StorIT’s array of solutions delivery, will ensure its customers realise various benefits such as highly resilient and secure IT infrastructure, centralised and streamlined service management, increased service levels, tested and certified disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, and predictable costs.

As a participant at GITEX for three consecutive years, Vendantham underlines that the event is undoubtedly a fantastic platform for them. “GITEX allows us to reconnect with our resellers,” he says. “Through the event, we also get a chance to further expand our network in the region. With the number of industry players from different countries visiting GITEX, it gives us a great opportunity to introduce our capabilities and our roadmap with them. Plus, it also gives us a chance to extend our reach to enterprise-class end-customers.”

Vendantham also highlights plans to keep on improving its market offerings. “Our primary goal is creating longterm partnerships, hence, we will continue on ensuring that we stay on top of the latest technology trends and translate them into great business propositions.”

Kodak Alaris launches fresh Info Input update Kodak Alaris is providing a preview of its new, mobileready version of the Kodak Info Input Solution At GITEX 2015.

Info Input Solution is a web-based document capture application that provides a way to integrate capture into existing enterprise content management (ECM) and line of business applications.

Organisations that implement Info Input can be more responsive to customers, while driving down costs and enjoying the efficiencies experienced with web-based

business applications.

The solution allows IT departments to centrally manage the deployment and support of Info Input on desktops and mobile capture devices. It also aims to eliminate per-user licences and volume-based click charges.

The new version of Info Input allows users to capture and index information via smartphone or tablet. The information is then integrated into existing workflows through a connection with the Info Input Application Server.

“The Kodak Info Input mobile app addresses a growing trend in the ECM industry toward enhanced mobile integration,” said Emma Isichei, Director of Capture Solutions, Information Management Division, Kodak Alaris. “By extending our applications to smartphones and tablets, we continue to address our customers’ document capture needs.”

The mobile app will be available for both iOS and Android devices.

Attendees can see a preview of the new mobile offering at GITEX at hall 4, stand B4-3.

Emma Isichei, Director of Capture Solutions, Information Management Division, Kodak Alaris

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Oracle launches MySQL 5.7

Abdulrahman Al Thehaiban, VP Middle East and Africa, Oracle

Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.7, the latest version of its open source database.

The new version delivers greater performance, scalability manageability and security, and makes it easier to connect

applications to multiple MySQL databases.

Abdulrahman Al Thehaiban, VP Middle East and Africa, Oracle, said, “MySQL 5.7 delivers a wide range of innovations allowing developers, database administrators and DevOps

teams to build and manage nextgeneration Web and cloud-based applications capable of processing ever increasing volumes of data. MySQL 5.7 builds upon development milestone releases that have enabled users to preview, test and provide feedback during the development process – and as a result, this release has been a collaborative process involving many members of the MySQL community.

“We’ve also included requests from customers and partners such as Expanded Geographic Information System (GIS) Support for Mobile Applications, which includes spatial index support in InnoDB, GeoJSON, and GeoHash support.”

Key enhancements in MySQL 5.7, enhanced speed: In benchmark tests using SysBench Read-only PointSelects, at 1,024 connections, MySQL 5.7 delivered 1,600,000 queries per second (QPS) - 3x faster than MySQL 5.6.

The new version has additional firewalls and delivers easier and safer instance initialization, setup and management.

Enhancements to MySQL’s replication features include multi-source replication, enhanced Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs), and improved multi-threaded slaves for better scalability and availability.

MySQL 5.7 is scheduled to be available for download at http:// dev.mysql.com/downloads/ on October 26, 2015.

Egypt On highlights nation’s solutions Sixty Egyptian IT companies are taking part in the 35th GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK. The firm’s services are being displayed at the ‘Egypt On’ pavilion supported by the country’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency, ITIDA. Egypt’s ICT minister, Yasser El Kady, said. “The Gulf is a key market for the Egyptian IT companies, where they already have a series of inspirational success stories in terms of delivering high quality business

solutions and innovative IT services.

“The proactive government support to increase Egypt’s IT/ITES exports through easing product entry and market outreach for the local IT companies represents a pillar in the overall strategy adopted by the state as the IT industry remains a central pillar of Egypt’s economy, and vital for the future growth of the country.”

The tenth Egyptian consecutive participation offers a cluster of ICT products and services including cloud-based, telecom

services, enterprise software products, mobile applications, network and security solutions and digital marketing services.

Among Egypt’s IT service providers exhibiting at the event, HOI-MEA is touting its solutions and products across the telecommunications including the manufacturing of telecom towers and shelters, telecom infrastructure deployment as well as camouflage solutions.

The Egyptian offshore global services industry is growing at a fast pace with annual $1.5 billion

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of ICT exports directed to nearly 160 destinations worldwide through around 200 companies while securing forty five thousand job opportunities. The sector is contributing with a 3.9 percent to the current GDP with 7.5 percent annual growth.

For more information on how Egypt can support your business needs, please speak to one of our staff at the EgyptOn Pavilions: Sheikh Saeed Halls, Stand S1-C1 - 7A hall, Stand 7A-35.

GITEX 2015 Highlights

Rabih Dabboussi, Managing Director, Cisco UAE

Chairman Dominic De Sousa, CEO Nadeem Hood, Publishing Director Rajashree R Kumar, Commercial Director Chris Stevenson, Group Sales Director Kausar Syed, Sales Manager Merle Carrasco, Group Editor Jeevan Thankappan, Editors Annie Bricker, Janees Reghelini, James Dartnell, Online Editor Adelle Geronimo Circulation Manager Rajeesh M, Production Manager James Tharian, Senior Designer Analou Balbero, Designers Neha Kalvani, Senior Web Developer Jefferson de Joya, Web Developer Abbas Madh, Network Administrator Alexander Bungas, Photographer Charls Thomas Maksym Poriechkin FOLLOW US

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