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

Microsoft flaunts HoloLens Microsoft is highlighting three key ways it is aiming to help customers at this year’s GITEX Technology Week, according to Jaime Galviz, chief operating officer for the Gulf region. “We want to reinvent productivity, make computing more personal via more interactive and human elements, and to build an intelligent cloud that uses IoT intelligence and analytics to enable digital transformation,” he said. 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Galviz

Jaime Galviz. Microsoft Gulf

Veeam launches Availability for Hybrid Cloud

Gregg Petersen, Veeam

Backup and availability software vendor Veeam is flaunting its newly launched Availability Platform for Hybrid Cloud at GITEX.

“GITEX is a great platform in terms of getting good visibility and networking opportunities with existing and potential customers,” said Gregg Petersen, regional director, Middle East and Africa, Veeam. “Our regional business is 100 percent channel-driven, so it’s very important for us to boost things on that front as well.” The new platform provides improved control for a data centre of any size, according

to Petersen. “This provides an organisation with a single console to manage data centre infrastructure,” he said. “This can cater for anything, from virtual or physical servers to endpoints, as well as enabling migration between a whole host of cloud platforms. This is a single dashboard for backups and replication.” Petersen went on to highlight how 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Veeam’s

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Microsoft... also highlighted how Microsoft was hosting six of its IoT partners at Hall 7 stand, and said that insight would be crucial in gaining maximum value from the trend. “The secret to IoT is not in the device or sensors, but in using information to predict what can happen in order to save costs,” he said. Tying in nicely with GITEX’s 2016 theme of ‘re-imagining realities’, Microsoft is exhibiting its “self-contained” holographic computer HoloLens. The powerhouse also announced an agreement with Dubai

Electricity and Water Authority to display the company’s “entire assets” in a 3D environment. Galviz went on to highlight the inevitable shift to a knowledge-based economy, and how leading companies in the Middle East were beginning to recognise this. “Research shows that 19 percent of organisations in the world have appointed a chief digital officer to accelerate that transformation. Emirates airline recently hired a CDO to emphasise how it is aiming to be a data-driven business, and not just one that is asset-

Research shows that 19 percent of organisations in the world have appointed a chief digital officer to accelerate that transformation. Emirates airline recently hired a CDO to emphasise how it is aiming to be a data-driven business, and not just one that is asset-driven.” driven.” He added that GITEX was a fantastic platform to unite this region’s most ambitious tech minds. “It’s a fantastic

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DarkMatter and vArmour announce strategic partership

DarkMatter, an international cyber security firm headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, and vArmour, a data centre and cloud security company, today announced a partnership arrangement to offer joint customers end-toend cyber security solutions. DarkMatter will enhance customer data centre and cloud security environments through its newly formed partnership with vArmour by offering best-of-breed data solutions

that protect against cyber threats. DarkMatter will provide incident response services that incorporate advanced security analytics and automated cyber attack containment. DarkMatter’s approach to increased cyber resiliency across its clients’ networks will draw on vArmour’s Distributed Security System (DSS) technology, which helps organisations gain applicationlayer visibility and control of their network, applications and

vAmour continues to observe a paradigm shift in the way organisations invest, adopt and deploy operationally efficient technologies, like the cloud and hyper-converged infrastructures.”

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users to prevent, detect and respond to cyber attacks and breaches in data centre and cloud environments. In today’s increasingly digitised enterprise landscape, organisations across the Middle East are making critical decisions and driving processes based heavily on virtual and cloud-based IT environments. Commenting on the partnership, Faisal Al Bannai, Chief Executive Officer of DarkMatter, said, “As enterprises migrate to the cloud, we look to identify technology partners with whom we can collaborate to help guide our clients when making critical decisions and executing cloud-driven processes. As a result of our partnership with vArmour, DarkMatter will be able to offer its clients best-

in-class security in virtual and cloud-based environments.” Looking ahead, the two companies will continue to invest in joint offerings to provide solutions around: Policy-based enhanced security screening/modules with advanced analytics tuned to the GCC market. Unified security fabric delivering consistent security and segmentation for virtual workloads regardless of location across private clouds and public clouds. Custom cyber security stacks that can be rapidly deployed to protect sensitive data through the security life-cycle from before, during and after an attack. “vAmour continues to observe a paradigm shift in the way organisations invest, adopt and deploy operationally efficient technologies, like the cloud and hyper-converged infrastructures,” said Tim Eades, CEO, vArmour. “In working with leading global security providers like DarkMatter, our resulting partnership will bring forth best-of-breed segmentation and microsegmentation technology, along with advanced security analytics to combat targeted attacks. As a result, joint clients will be able to dynamically and automatically respond to and contain threats across both public and private cloud environments.”

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Veeam... solutions were a good fit for a region that has faced the effects of the plummeting oil price. “The Middle East has done well in the face of tough macroeconomic conditions,” he said. “Cloud adoption has Ali Hyder, Focus Softnet been relatively slow in the Focus Softnet has announced that it Middle East but is starting to will showcase its next generation ERPpick up. Also on the rise are in-cloud product – Focus 8 Ready for solutions such as Backup-as-aService and Disaster-Recovery- Cloud at GITEX Technology Week 2016. As part of its participation at the as-a-Service. event, the company will present the “Veeam has been latest versions of Focus 8 incorporating successful across a range of WMS (Warehouse Management verticals in this region; we System) and MRP (Material don’t have a specific target Requirement Planning) modules. industry. Every company is Focus Softnet will exhibiting at 18:18 becoming01817_Pure_Astronaut_190x145_Advert.pdf virtualised and will 1 be 19/09/2016 Stand E8-10 in Hall 7 where visitors move to cloud.”

Focus Softnet to promote ERP on cloud offering can meet with consultants and sales advisors from the company to understand the full portfolio of products and services. “We have been participating in GITEX for the last 20 years and the response we have received year-onyear has been bigger and better each year,” said Ali Hyder, Group CEO, Focus Softnet. “This high profile ICT exhibition has helped us raise our corporate profile, increase our brand awareness and visibility as well as promote our products to a wider audience. GITEX is an ideal platform to showcase our best-in-class solutions and services, meet with existing and potential customers and hold demonstrations for visitors to show

them the unique features our products and the benefits and cost-savings of implementing our solutions.” Hyder also highlighted Focus Softnet’s team will be available at the stand to educate customers, partners and other visitors about their managed services, HR and recruitment services, business process consulting and implementations services to customers across the region. “As with every year, we aim to sign a few new partnerships and hold product demos for our customers and partners while highlighting that our solutions are highly customisable and can be adapted to suit our customers’ business needs this year too.”

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FGB expands analytics capabilities with Oracle

Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban, Oracle

FGB, one of the leading banks in the UAE, will implement Oracle’s Big Data and Business Analytics solutions as part of its ongoing efforts to offer customers a wide range of unique, competitive products to fit their banking needs and to help them in achieving their dreams. The announcement was made during the ongoing GITEX Technology Week event in Dubai. As part of the new collaboration, FGB has chosen a host of Oracle’s latest Big Data and Analytics solution

components to sustain its leading position in the market with better customer profiling and customer 360 insights. These solutions include Oracle Big Data Discovery, Big Data Connectors, Big Data Appliance X5-2 and the Business Intelligence Suite. “As we move into the age of the millennial, the world of banking is being redefined. The pace of digital disruption continues to accelerate, as customers adopt new technologies and new players enter the market”, said Abdul

Rahman Al Thehaiban, Senior Vice President - Tech, Middle East and Africa, Oracle. “Accurate advance prediction tools powered by big data analytics are important for financial institutions to explore new opportunities and make informed decisions. We are confident that with Oracle Big Data and Business Analytics, FGB will be able to analyze data from a variety of sources to anticipate changing customer behaviour and incorporate the best action into operational workflow”.

Redington Value announces its new consulting arm for META

Ramkumar Balakrishnan, Redington Value

Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has announced the launch of Uniplum – a new consulting arm that aims to enhance its partners’ capabilities in transformation technologies such as cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) and digital disruptions. Uniplum consists of a team of technologists and problem solvers from different verticals andAds_AW.pdf StarLink_Strip

solutions with an ability to inform, explore and confirm decisions, solve complex problems and bring new ideas into the market. An integral part of Redington Value, the new division aims to provide consulting on new technology and solutions for numerous verticals and help partners to sell those solutions. Redington Value offers products and solutions across technologies ranging from networking, voice, servers and storage to software, security and infrastructure, Ramkumar Balakrishnan, President, Redington Value Distribution, highlighted that Uniplum will enable its channel partners to help their clients find solutions for simple to complex business problems and nurture7:53 innovation. 11 10/12/16 PM

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“With Uniplum, we are excited to offer this bouquet of consulting services to our vast partner network in the META [Middle East, Turkey and Africa] region and bring the right capabilities for their clients. Partners will not only be able to leverage these cutting-edge consulting services but also be able to address the requirements of their midmarket and enterprise customers, to solve business problems and challenges, and to win business in the next generation disruptive technologies’ space,” he said The setting up of the new consulting arm, he added, is an attempt to help its partners embrace all these new technological trends and stay ahead of the game in a highly competitive environment.

Uniplum will be introduced across Redington Value divisions in the META and expanded to other regions in a phased manner. The company will highlight both Uniplum and its solutions centre Red Vault during its participation at GITEX. “Both the solution centre and Uniplum are geared towards enabling our partners’ transformation from being product-centric to becoming solution-centric. Our idea is to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions from strategy and innovation through to execution to solve our clients’ most complex and pressing business challenges,” said Balakrishnan. Redington Value stand will be located in Hall 3, #C3-1 at DWTC.

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