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Show dates: 16-20 October 2016, Dubai World Trade Centre | AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK | Exhibition hours: 10am -7pm

Arrow Electronics displays HCI offerings

Vimal Kocher, Arrow Electronics

Arrow Electronics is showcasing a range of nextgeneration hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), flash storage, software-defined infrastructure, and advanced security solutions from leading technology vendors. “We continue to see the HCI approach garnering attention of IT leaders and business stakeholders as they strive to transform data centre infrastructure into a more agile, scalable, and predictable platform, while operating under budget and resource constraints to meet ever-changing business requirements,” says Vimal Kocher, Managing Director, Middle 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 East,

Elo Touch emphasises new ‘projected’ tech at GITEX

Mohamed Berrihi, Elo Touch

Exhibiting for its fifth consecutive year at GITEX, Elo Touch is emphasising its recently launched touch technology – ‘projected’ - at this year’s event, whilst also aligning itself with Dubai’s vision of a ‘smart future.’ With more than 41 years of experience in the market,

the company – based in California – delivers touchscreen solutions for devices measuring from 7-inches to 70-inches. “Even if other companies are bigger than us, we have a unique feature in that we can deliver a wide range 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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WHAT’S INSIDE Buzinessware highlights next-gen cloud solutions offerings

CNME hosts seventh annual ICT Achievement Awards

Logicom presents Cloud Marketplace and new partnerships

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Arrow Electronics... Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business. “In addition to the assessment study, we will also be hosting a series of technical workshops, lunch-and-learns, and cost-and-benefit analysis sessions at the in-house lab and Proof-of-Concept Solution Centre at the Arrow Dubai office in the coming months. We aim to provide consultative advices and practical solutions to help customers and partners realise transformative benefits delivered by HCI in addressing many IT challenges.” According to the MD, enterprises are keen to see how rapidly they can scale their

digital transformation efforts by leveraging the technologies of the third platform – cloud, Big Data, social business, and mobility. “Enterprises are sketching a broader digital ecosystem as they shape the nextgeneration of their products, services and business models for cost and efficiency optimisation, new sales revenues, and personalised customer experiences. These transformations require enterprise to address and deal with challenges involving security, intelligence and analytics, converged infrastructure, hybrid cloud

Enterprises are sketching a broader digital ecosystem as they shape the nextgeneration of their products, services and business models for cost and efficiency optimisation, new sales revenues, and personalised customer experiences. solutions, smart devices,” he adds. Among the technology solutions that will be on display at Arrow’s booth in Hall 2, G2-1 will be Dell EMC hyper-converged appliance VxRail and its industry-leading

flash products. More than 30 technology specialists from Check Point, Dell EMC, F5, Forcepoint, Intel Security, Netscout, RSA, and Trend Micro will join a team of Arrow’s business solution consultants at the GITEX Technology Week.

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Buzinessware highlights next-gen cloud solutions offerings

Sajid Mulla, Buzinessware

Buzinessware put spotlight on its latest range of next generation cloud solutions—including its portfolio of cloud infrastructure products and service offerings across compute, storage and networking business needs ondemand with pay-as-you-go pricing. “We are looking forward to participating at this year’s edition

of GITEX, which is regarded as the largest regional technology platform for companies to showcase their capabilities to the entire region. In fact, we are expecting increased regional interest for our cloud offerings within the SME and reseller channel,” said Sajid Mulla, CEO, Buzinessware. “Through the years, the connection of cities, companies and countries to the Internet has become the most transformative way of igniting sustainable growth. This has led to a clamor for a strategic partner that can put strong emphasis on the offer of fast, secure and scalable hosting environments coupled with one to one support. Buzinessware, is grounded on the pillars of reliability, security, scalability, transparency and 24/7 support, remains fully committed in helping address

Centra debuts at GITEX

Nisith Naik, Centra Technologies

Centra Technologies, a subsidiary company of Focus Softnet, is making its debut at GITEX

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Technology Week 2016. The company plans to promote its cutting-edge Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions at the Middle East’s largest technology exhibition. Senior executives, developers and experts from the company will be available at the Centra stand E8-10, Hall 7 to meet with customers and partners and demonstrate the strength of its solutions with them.

Through the years, the connection of cities, companies and countries to the Internet has become the most transformative way of igniting sustainable growth. This has led to a clamor for a strategic partner that can put strong emphasis on the offer of fast, secure and scalable hosting environments coupled with one to one support.” these challenges and help drive in digital growth.” During their participation at GITEX, Buzinessware will be introducing new services that it said could address current requirements in the market. These new offerings include Middle east CDN services for Video streaming, content distribution,

cloud security services, cloud office productivity tools like enterprise file sharing, among others. To date, the company’s major customers cover entertainment companies, government departments and agencies, semi-government entities and application service providers. Visit them at Zabeel Hall, Stand ZB-20.

“Centra believes in delivering cutting-edge solutions that bring together people and processes through effective, easy-to-use and integration-ready CRM and HCM systems. Through our solutions, we are helping organizations adopt digitization and are empowering them to streamline their processes for better customer and people support,” says Nisith Naik, CEO, Centra Technologies. “We are excited about our participation at GITEX, which is the single largest regional ICT platform, to introduce our best-in-class CRM, HCM and vertical solutions to a focused

audience. Through our participation, we hope to increase Centra’s brand visibility and reach, meet with our existing partners and customers and sign on new reputed partners across global markets.” As part of their GITEX plans, Centra will be showcasing its CRM and HCM solutions including CRM as a platform with enhanced APIs, mobile version of Centra CRM and CRM solutions specifically designed for the aviation, real estate and academic verticals. Experts from the company will be holding product demonstrations for visitors and sharing their global successes with them.

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Elo Touch... of touch technologies,” said Mohamed Berrihi, Regional Sales Manager, META, Elo Touch. “Our 02 series have digital signage screens which are operated through this ‘Projected’ technology capacity, which give customers an iPad look and feel – just on a larger scale. We produce these screens from 10-inches all the way up to 46-inches.” The company has also recently launched a 55-inch touch monitor, which is enabled with 4K technology - making the images much brighter and more colourful. Whilst Elo Touch has a

presence throughout the UAE, Berrihi said they envisage using this year’s GITEX event as a method of widening their reach in the region. “We are well distributed in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, but not to the extent that we want to be in Qatar, Kuwait and other neighbouring countries. Dubai – and GITEX – open a significant amount of doors to us in this region.” Aligning with the Dubai vision of a smart future, Elo Touch is integrating its interactive solutions within the retail, government and education sectors in order

GITEX is a rendezvous we simply cannot avoid.”

- Mohamed Berrihi, Regional Sales Manager, META, Elo Touch

to bridge the gap between physical and digital. “All of our solutions are interactive. If something is ‘smart’, you have to be able to interact with it. This is why we are teaming up with software solution companies who are building the content, and we provide the physical means for customers to take that first touch in their interactive journey,” said Berrihi. GITEX attendees can visit Elo Touch at Booth B4:20, in Hall 4. “It’s a show like no other,” said Berrihi. “It’s a rendezvous we simply cannot avoid.”

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CNME hosts seventh annual ICT Achievement Awards Hospitality and tourism sector: Gulf Air Healthcare deployment of the year: Canadian Specialist Hospital Energy sector deployment of the year: ADNOC Distribution

Last evening, Computer News Middle East, once again brought together the prominent industry stakeholders from across the region, as it celebrated leadership and excellence in the ICT industry in a glittering ceremony at the seventh annual ICT Achievement Awards. Held at the Conrad Hotel in Dubai, a top crop of end-users and vendors were honoured for their efforts in creating new value using technology through innovation. Be it pioneering a new technology or applying an existing technology to a new purpose, these organisations and individuals have set the bar high in the region. The winners were selected after a rigorous application and review process by a panel of judges comprising CIOs, academics and consultants. This year’s esteemed panel of judges was made up of industry experts such as Ghazi Atallah, CEO, NexGen Advisory Group; Ian Wakeford, MD, DWStarLink_Strip Consultants;Ads_AW.pdf Javed

Abbasi, Principal Consultant, GISBA; MN Chaturvedi, Director of IT, Oasis Investment Company. The evening also saw keynote addresses from Abubaker Almarzooqi, Senior Director, Etisalat UAE, and Mohammed Amin, Vice President, Turkey, Middle East and Africa, Dell EMC. The awards proceedings started out with the Deployment Categories followed by the Vendor Categories and then the Enduser Categories. Scooping the two main individual accolades were Awad Ahmed Ali El-Siddig of ADNOC Distribution, who was named ‘Future CIO of the year’, and Sebastian Samuel Chief Information Officer, AW Rostamani Group, who won the coveted ‘CIO of the year’. Two esteemed organisations were also presented with the ‘Editor’s Choice Award.’ The winners of this prestigious category were chosen by the CNME editorial team for in 6 displaying 10/12/16 excellence 7:53 PM

innovation and strategic use of technology. The ‘Editor’s Choice Award for the Public Sector’ was presented to Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia while the second ‘Editor’s Choice Award’ was received by McDonald’s. Here is the full list of winners.

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Software vendor of the year: SAP Security vendor of the year: Palo Alto Networks Storage vendor of the year: Pure Storage Security solutions provider: HelpAG

Deployment Government deployment of the year: General Civil Aviation Authority BFSI deployment of the year: Emirates Islamic Education deployment of the year: Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University Construction and real estate deployment of the year: Aldar Properties Telecom deployment of the year: Mobily Retail deployment of the year: Al Safeer Group

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Vendors Hardware vendor of the year: Dell EMC

Managed services provider of the year: eHosting DataFort Systems integrator of the year: TransSys Solutions End-users IT team of the year: AECOM Middle East Future CIO of the year: Awad Ahmed Ali El-Siddig, ADNOC Distribution CIO of the year: Sebastian Samuel, AW Rostamani Group Editor’s choice:Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia McDonald’s

Logicom presents Cloud Marketplace and new partnerships

Peter Irinarchos, Logicom

Regional distributor, Logicom, is launching its Cloud Marketplace and highlighting its new partnerships with Aruba, Microsoft and IBM at GITEX Technology Week 2016. Peter Irinarchos, General Manager, UAE and Gulf, Logicom, says, “GITEX provides a fantastic opportunity to connect with our reseller partners, meet and recruit new ones, raise awareness to recent additions to our product portfolio and cement our position

as a leading regional distributor of technology solutions and services. It is also an ideal platform for high level meetings with our new and existing vendors, a review of the current business outlook and a discussion around opportunities for the new year.” The distributor has on boarded a number of new vendors to the Logicom Cloud Marketplace. Irinarchos says, “We are bringing a wide range of local and global cloud-based software services to customers in Southern Europe and the Middle East. We will be rolling out cloud programmes and services with many new cloud partners this year, including Microsoft and IBM.” Earlier this year, Logicom has also boosted its vendor

portfolio, with an expansion of its distribution relationship with Microsoft to include the UAE and Gulf Countries. It has also added Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and has extended its contracts with HP Inc and APC. “At GITEX, we are very excited to also announce our partnership with Teamviewer, a leading software solution in remote support and online meetings, a company with a lot of value to add to IoT environments as well,” he adds. Partners have a number of things to look forward to from the distributor in the next few months. “Partners are seeing the benefits from all the resources we have been adding this year,

for example in Qatar and Kuwait, but also in the form of technical resources here in Dubai to assist our partners. And on that same VAD theme, we are planning to convert part of our Sales Office in Karama, Dubai into a demo and training facility to be ready early next year, we hope this is something that could add great value to our partners.” The company has revamped its old concept of LTF (Logicom Technology Forum) into a ‘mini GITEX’ with hundreds of partners attending. He says, “We are also investing in our call center, strengthening the teams’ capabilities to become more extrovert and proactive in creating leads for our valued partners.”

Wassa showcases facial recognition software

At GITEX, Wassa is presenting morphological detection and recognition software such as

Deeplytics for face identification or Visioblur for professional video conferences. Deeplytics is a software component able to identify a user on a digital platform through a camera. After creating a profile, the solution is able to compare a user with new detections in order to identify people that are already registered. This solution answers a number of use cases related to customer knowledge, performance

optimisation and brand image. It can be embedded in every major platform and device, desktop and mobile operating system. Deeplytics adapts automatically to its environment and to the available camera. It can work online and offline. Visioblur has been designed for professional video conferences and can be embedded in every company’s video conference tools. Visioblur blurs in real time the private environment

of a user especially as part of telecommuting situation. The solution detects faces and follows their movement. Face remains clear all along the conversation. Visioblur solution currently works on computer with Windows OS and OSX. Elsa Bonnet, Business Manager, Wassa, said: “Wassa is currently willing to set up a sales channel in the Middle East and is seeking for partners to distribute and/or integrate Wassa’s solutions,”

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