Issue 39 // December 2019
Sage announces Redington as official distribution partner for GCC Partnership focuses on mid-market segment for company’s cloud-powered software solutions for accounting, payments, payroll and more Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, has signed a distribution partnership in the Middle East region with Redington, an end-to-end supply chain technology solutions provider, to deliver Sage’s mid-market products and services as an Authorised Sage Distributor. The partnership agreement enables Sage to expand its presence in the Middle East, simplify and improve operational processes, and reach new markets and new customers. Redington was considered to be in the best position to support the long-term growth strategy of Sage in the Middle East. The agreement covers the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Pieter Bensch, EVP for Africa and Middle East, Sage, said: “Businesses in the Middle East have long recognised the need to move from legacy business software systems to smarter cloud-based business solutions that are both affordable and fit for purpose. By partnering with Redington, we have the opportunity to expand Sage’s footprint across the region, work with their extensive partner network to reach new customers and embed Sage values across the ecosystem. We will refocus existing efforts on the UAE and KSA and expand to new markets, including Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan. We look forward to also growing our independent software vendor network and provide companies in the GCC with more tailored and ver-
tical-specific solutions.” As an Authorised Sage Distributor, Redington will act as an intermediary between, channel partners, resellers and system integrators. The agreement grants Redington the official distribution rights for Sage 300, Sage 300 People, Sage CRM, Sage X3 and Sage 200, all of which are award-winning cloud-powered software solutions for accounting, payments, payroll and more that cater to medium-sized enterprises. “Strategic synergies are a vital tool for organisations to move forward while leveraging each other’s expertise, networks and knowledge. This mutually beneficial partnership with Sage opens
new opportunities for us to help businesses in the Middle East face challenges and stay competitive through utilising technology to drive efficiencies,” said Sayantan Dev, Senior Vice President - IT Value Distribution at Redington, which has an extensive portfolio of 220 international brands in the IT and mobility sectors across more than 30 emerging markets.
Enabling a data-driven future Nordine Aamchoune, AVP, Emerging Markets, Splunk talks about the organization’s role in allowing innovators in IT, Security, IoT and business operations to get a complete view of their business in real time, turn data into business outcomes, and embrace technologies that prepare them for a data-driven future.
Nordine Aamchoune AVP, Emerging Markets, Splunk
Discuss the range of solutions that Splunk provides from network/ cloud infrastructure monitoring to predictive analytics? The world is constantly evolving. The
digitalization of our lives is happening faster than ever. Customers and citizens expect the best digital service at their fingertips 24h a day without any waiting or downtimes. This creates a challenge for companies and governments but also an opportunity to have more data available about business
processes than ever before. However, the way we ingest and act on this type of data needs to be different. You can’t apply order, hierarchy and structure to your data as applications, end-user devices or enterprise IT architectures are evolving too quickly. Our Data-to-Everything Platform is the only solution >> Continued on page 4
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New Avaya partnership set to improve emergency response in MEA The combination of both companies’ technologies will help government agencies and emergency responders to react to incidents faster and more efficiently H3 Dynamics, a Singaporean start-up that has developed fully autonomous charging stations for remote security and industrial asset inspection drones, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Avaya to deliver a suite of aerial video and real-time video analytics solutions to government and emergency responders across the Middle East and Africa. The two companies’ have developed integrated solutions to be demonstrated at Avaya ENGAGE Dubai. H3 Dynamics’ Dronebox base station systems are field robots managing their own drone operations. They can be stationed at different locations and can deploy various camera drones at a minute’s notice, responding autonomously to incident triggers within existing sensor or camera networks. Using Avaya IXTM Workplace, a powerful unified communications solution for calling, messaging, conferencing and collaboration, H3 Dynamics’ drone stations can feed live aerial drone video footage from different locations to decision makers in command centers. Aerial video streams can also be fed through to multiple locations and devices via secure video conferencing. Emergency and non-emergency contact centers running Avaya IXTM Contact Center solutions will also be able to remotely deploy and manage drones in emergency scenarios and be supported by a real-time aerial video stream of events tak-
ing place in such scenarios. The combination of both companies’ technologies will help government agencies and emergency responders to react to incidents faster and more efficiently. The Dronebox system is currently being tested on a number of use cases by government authorities around the region. One sees the solution being put into operation by a police service, whereby a reconnaissance drone is deployed in the event of a traffic accident, so that officers can quickly assess the level of response required. Another sees the solution put into use by fire departments, helping teams support search and rescue operations as well as assess fire-related damage to high-rise buildings. “Our core technology blueprint can easily be translated into a number of exciting use cases. Because our solutions enable the automated deployment of drones, we can achieve rapid response times to various incidents with minimal human involvement. Our partnership with Avaya helps teams on the ground gain the information
they need to make more informed decisions while saving a lot of time,” said Taras Wa n k e w y cz, Group Founder & CEO, H3 Dynamics. Frederick Sabty, Vice President – Hospitality, Healthcare and Intelligent Devices, Avaya International, added: “The openness of Avaya’s unified communications and contact center portfolio technologies enables the creation of cutting-edge use cases. As is true in the private sector, public organizations no longer require standalone products – they need real, integrated solutions that meet their challenges. This MoU represents a perfect example of combining our market-leading, open communications products with next-generation autonomous flight technology to deliver a never-before-seen innovation.” The new joint solution is just one being demonstrated at the Avaya Partner Summit this week as part of Avaya ENGAGE Dubai. Taking place between November 12 and 14, the event sees over 1,000 Avaya customers, partners and alliance members converge on Dubai to experience the latest innovations and use cases for mastering the Art of Experience.
Huawei receives TSIA rated outstanding assisted support EMEA certification The rated outstanding assisted support EMEA certification, shows that the organisation meets the highest industry standards for Customer Support for their EMEA Enterprise operations, according to the TSIA. Huawei Enterprise has received the prestigious Rated Outstanding Assisted Support EMEA certification from TSIA – the leading association for technology and services organizations. The award was announced at the Technology & Services World Conference.
The Rated Outstanding Assisted Support EMEA certification, shows that Huawei meets the highest industry standards for Customer Support for their EMEA Enterprise operations, according to the TSIA. To receive the certification Huawei participated in a
rigorous audit process that evaluated over 140 best practices for delivering industry-leading technical support. The comprehensive audit process was developed by over 50 leading technology companies.
New Kaspersky Sandbox automates protection from advanced threats Solution is built to help organizations combat advanced threats designed to evade detection by endpoint protection platforms (EPP). The new Kaspersky Sandbox solution automatically analyses new suspicious files and sends the decision to the installed EPP. As a result, organizations strengthen their protection from previously unknown threats even if they lack teams of experienced threat analysts or have limited resources. According to a Kaspersky survey of IT decision-makers, 47% of SMBs and 51% of enterprises say that it is becoming more difficult to differentiate between generic and advanced attacks. This means security analysts have to spend time evaluating numerous suspicious files instead of focusing on investigating, and responding to, the most critical threats. This could be even more challenging, as larger SMBs and small enterprises face an IT security talent shortage, so all the responsibilities of managing security fall on the shoulders of IT departments. Nonetheless, these companies face pretty much the same threats as fully established enterprises, including advanced attacks. “Companies, regardless of their size, need protection from threats that fly under the radar of EPP. However, enterprise-grade solutions against advanced attacks often require advanced security analysts to operate them effectively. Smaller companies can rarely afford to hire and retain such talent. That’s why they need a solution, such as Kaspersky Sandbox, which can solve this issue automatically without needing to attract IT security specialists. For enterprises, deploying Kaspersky Sandbox allows business to optimize their budgets and staffing in branch offices where there’s typically just IT department specialists who are required do all the security work.” – comments Sergey Martsynkyan, Head of B2B Product Marketing at Kaspersky. Unlike many threat intelligence services targeted at experienced security analysts, Kaspersky Sandbox doesn’t require manual operations to examine the impact of risky objects. When Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, or other endpoint protection solutions, detect a suspicious object that cannot be categorized as malicious without deeply analyzing its behavior, they automatically send it to run in Kaspersky Sandbox.
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Enabling a data-driven future... that is natively designed to find patterns in the chaos of the data landscape and help organizations turn data into doing.
How important is data visibility for decision makers in IT and Business? How do you enable this in real time? Data is the foundation for business decisions, but typically it’s in siloes and most of it goes unused. Most organizations are overwhelmed with the increasing proliferation of technologies and services being brought in and having to be maintained in increasingly complex ways. Teams need to understand what is happening within their organization in the moment, turn that insight into action, and build
for a more data-driven future. Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform helps customers get complete visibility of what’s happening in their business in real-time, and act on it.
Discuss if your solutions are ready for multi-cloud / hybrid cloud environments? Customer success is our number one priority and our Data-to-Everything Platform is built to support customers regardless of how their infrastructure is built and the services they use. We allow customers to ingest data from all kinds of platforms, be it cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, or SaaS such as cloud-based collaboration tools like Office365, Box, GSuite or Atlassian.
Elaborate on your go to market model in tandem with Redington as partner Redington is a key partner for us in the region, acting as our distributor across the Middle East and Africa. Redington provides a wealth of experience and technical expertise to key relationships and helps
ensure customers can bring data to every decision and action they need to make.
How has the Middle East been as a growth market for Splunk over the year? Discuss any expansion plans for the year ahead? Every region is a growth region for us and the Data-to-Everything Platform. According to IDC, more than 5 billion consumers interact with data every day—by 2025, that number will be 6 billion, or 75% of the world’s population. In 2025, each connected person will have at least one data interaction every 18 seconds. Now is the time for organizations in the Middle East and Africa to recognise this trend and embrace a platform approach that will drive business outcomes through data. While the region has definitely been a growth market over the years for us it’s also worth bearing in mind some of the unique regional challenges we face like any other software organization in the region. However, by working together Splunk and Redington are helping organizations seize the Data-to-Everything opportunity, which is only limited by imagination and creativity.
CrowdStrike introduces Falcon for AWS to simplify cloud workload protection Customers set to gain enhanced visibility and protection for elastic cloud workloads with metered billing CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the launch of Falcon for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help secure cloud workloads. Falcon for AWS will be available in AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to easily purchase and deploy the solution with integrated metering and billing, while also optimizing their spend for elastic workloads. CrowdStrike Falcon for AWS helps brings security teams the enhanced visibility and protection they need to defend against even the most sophisticated attacks. This solution delivers container security through a single agent running on the node that protects the instance itself as well as all containers running on it, allowing for comprehensive protection and substantial pricing efficiencies. Falcon for AWS can be automatically deployed as new workloads are created, providing a dynamic solution that ensures continual protection across all workloads. Security teams that install Falcon for AWS on their instances will see an immediate time to value. “Customers are looking for not only the most reliable threat protection but also modern, elastic, pay-as-you-go models that meet the dynamic needs of their businesses. With Falcon for AWS, we are bringing customers next-generation protection, allowing them to quickly and easily secure their workloads and scale their consumption as their business
needs change,” said George Kurtz, chief executive officer and co-founder of CrowdStrike. Falcon for AWS benefits include: Protection – Additional coverage for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and the containers they host, including customer managed container environments and those running in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for protection against even the most sophisticated attacks. Speed – Accelerates cloud migration and adoption, allowing customers to seamlessly deploy and monitor their workloads at scale, enabling immediate protection and support for business agility. Falcon for AWS helps provide security teams visibility and protection, while enabling DevOps teams to continue operating without any friction. Visibility – Continuous and comprehensive workload monitoring and discovery provide security teams full visibility and help to ensure nothing is missed and stealthy attacks are stopped, including container visibility that supports Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS containers and workloads running Windows and Linux, including Amazon Linux. Metered billing – Customers pay for what they use and are able to accelerate procurement by leveraging
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George Kurtz CEO & Co-founder, CrowdStrike
AWS Marketplace Metering Service, and availability in AWS Marketplace. Simplicity – CrowdStrike Falcon provides one console for all workloads, reducing overhead and friction. Performance – Minimal impact on runtime performance with lightweight agent; no reboots, no scan storms and no invasive signatures updates required; and it can be pre-configured as part of the Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Automation – Falcon for AWS allows cloud security teams to keep up with the dynamic and flexible nature of AWS workloads by offering seamless support for CI/CD deployment workflows, powerful APIs, and integration with AWS Security Hub.
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Huawei receives TSIA... Auditors conducted a thorough onsite inspection of Huawei’s EMEA Enterprise organization and processes, reviewing important procedures and inspecting support outcomes. After the evaluation was complete, TSIA determined that Huawei’s assisted support processes exceeded industry benchmarks. The designation is further evidence that Huawei customers can rely on the company to deliver superior technical support including how it effectively handles phone, email, chat, and online support submissions. “We are honored to recognize and congratulate the Huawei Enterprise Group for the achievement of the TSIA Rated Outstanding Assisted Support EMEA certification this year,” said Tom Pridham, SVP Global Accounts & GM Advisory Services at TSIA. “Huawei has clearly demonstrated an ability to consistently exceed customer expectations by leveraging the excellence in people, processes and technology for their EMEA region assisted technical support interactions.” As the only Chinese company that has obtained this certification, Huawei is well known for its enterprise technology services. The global service sharing center (GSC) supports industry customers with six channels, e.g. hotline, email, technical support website, mobile app, social media (WeChat), and B2B.
Three global service centers (GSCs), five RTACs (regional technical support centers) and four CTACs (country technical support centers) are deployed globally, providing services in 17 languages, 7x24 TAC support services, and provide NBD (next business day) or hour-level spare parts delivery and on-site support services. Huawei has more than 1000 spare parts warehouses to support spare parts services in more than 170 countries/regions. The major cities in 66 countries/ regions can provide four hours of spare parts delivery. At the same time, the Middle East Africa TAC, Asia Pacific TAC, and Eurasia TAC of Huawei Enterprise Service won the “Support Personnel Center of Excellence” certification at the conference. This is the industry’s affirmation of the continuous innovation and practice of Huawei Enterprise Service in the service of global technical support personnel, and the provision of high-quality customer service experience. At this point, the technical support centers of Huawei Enterprise Service overseas (except China) have been all certified by TSIA Support Staff Excellent program and will provide consistent and high-quality technical support services for overseas
customers. “This important certification reflects our unrelenting focus on the customer in every aspect of our business. Support is an essential part of the Customer Experience, and this certification shows that our assisted support capabilities are amongst the best in the industry,” said Mr. Sun Maolu, President of Huawei Enterprise Technology Services. “We are determined to do even better and constantly improve our service and provide more value to our customers and partners”.
Microsoft marks ADIPEC 2019 with intelligent cloud to empower regional energy sector Company showcased solutions built on their Cloud and AI technologies to bring unprecedented efficiencies and yield exceptional value across operations Microsoft concluded its successful participation at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) 2019, as the company demonstrated a range of technological innovations to empower the energy sector in achieving more. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, the fourday event attracted over 145,000+ visitors from 135 countries to conduct business, exchange knowledge and address today’s energy challenges to define tomorrow’s energy landscape. “We see ADIPEC as a remarkable global platform for the energy industry players to connect and exchange knowledge.” said Omar Saleh, Head of Energy & Manufacturing, Microsoft Middle East & Africa. “Our continued participation at this event is a reflection of Microsoft’s commitment to empowering business transformation across the industry.” “Currently, the energy sector can make the most out of our cloud regions by availing enterprise-grade re-
liability and performance, combined with data residency and the broadest compliance standards.” Added Saleh. “Microsoft’s intelligent cloud can play a remarkable role in disrupting traditional ways, drive value, and deliver innovation across the industry”. Microsoft’s booth at ADIPEC’s digitalization Zone showcased various industry solutions and capabilities that bring unprecedented efficiencies and yield exceptional value across Oil & Gas operations. Following a significant surge in the demand for its cloud services in the region, Microsoft earlier this year launched two dedicated cloud data centers in the UAE – one in Abu Dhabi and one in Dubai. These facilities are catering specifically to organizations in the Middle East by providing the trusted, and intelligent Microsoft cloud. Microsoft also hosted its partners at the company’s booth. Each of them showcased their innovations, built on top of the Microsoft cloud and AI platforms. The partners included Bentley Systems, Icertis, o9 Solutions, Oilsphere, Seeq, OSlsoft, Belmont Tech-
Omar Saleh, Head of Energy & Manufacturing, Microsoft MEA nology, L&T Technology Services Limited, and Intelie. A Digital Talk agenda ran throughout the event featuring close partners like ABB, Accenture, Aveva, Baker Hughes-C3, Emerson, EY, Futureon, Honeywell, Rockwell Automation, and Schlumberger. During ADIPEC, Microsoft also announced that it will open an AI Centre of Excellence for Energy in the United Arab Emirates – a global first for the company. Supported by industry leading partners the Microsoft AI Centre of Excellence is expected to open in early 2020 and will support the company’s efforts in in enabling organizations to accelerate their digital journeys, enhancing AI readiness, as well as collaborating on coalitions to address sustainability and safety challenges.
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Veeam unveils new backup solutions for Microsoft cloud platforms New solutions support the company’s cloud strategy and provide users with additional data protection, scalability, and enhanced control of their cloud-based data. Veeam Software, the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced the public beta release of the NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 at Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, FL. Additionally, the company offered Microsoft Ignite attendees a sneak peek of a NEW cloud-native data protection solution for Microsoft Azure workloads, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. These new solutions support the company’s cloud strategy and provide Microsoft users with additional data protection, scalability, and enhanced control of their cloudbased data. With Office 365, Microsoft is responsible for the uptime of the Office 365 infrastructure, but backup and management of the data is the customer’s responsibility. The NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 offers direct integration with Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage, giving companies that want to keep their Office 365 data in Azure a cost-effective,
scalable and secure solution for doing so. This latest release also adds additional performance improvements for backing up Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Ease of use is built into the new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure with turn-key deployment via the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, while powerful recovery capabilities are also delivered with features like file-level recovery for native snapshots and Veeam backups. An industry-first built-in cloud cost estimator tool will provide customers with greater cost controls and savings while integration with Veeam Backup & Replication™ will allow customers to take control of their cloud data by protecting and managing Azure backups alongside their cloud, virtual and physical data. “With 114% year-over-year growth, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 continues to be the fastest growing product in Veeam’s history,” said Ratmir Timashev, Co-Founder and
Ratmir Timashev Co-Founder & EVP, Veeam
Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Veeam. “Just as in the on-premises days with customers backing up and protecting their data, the need persists with SaaS solutions to backup and protect this same critical information. Veeam Backup for Office 365 delivers on this need and with the rapid rise in adoption for Azure we’re seeing across our customer base, Veeam is excited to build from our work
Aruba named leader in latest IDC MarketScape report This marks third leading global research firm to recognize Aruba’s leadership this year Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced that it has been named a leader once again in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Enterprise Wireless LAN 2019 Vendor Assessment. This marks the fourth time that the IDC MarketScape has positioned HPE-Aruba as a leader. Since the 2013-2014 inaugural version of this IDC MarketScape, HPE-Aruba has been recognized as a leader and, according to the IDC MarketScape, “has solidified itself as the number two vendor in terms of market share in the enterprise WLAN industry.” “With the IDC MarketScape for Enterprise WLAN, Aruba has now been recognized as a leader by all of the
leading research firms in the networking industry,” said Chris Kozup, chief marketing officer for Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “We’re gratified to see this recognition for our continued innovation, validated solutions and, of course, our longtime ‘customer first, customer last’ approach.” The IDC MarketScape report is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor’s chances for present and future success worldwide. The study assesses the capabilities and strategies of 11 enterprise WLAN vendors and evaluates each vendor based on its strengths and weaknesses.
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Of HPE-Aruba’s approach, the IDC MarketScape noted: “The flexibility of the company’s WLAN portfolio to span both on-premises and cloud-based management, along with a tightly-integrated switching platform, and robust management, security and analytics software tools combine to appeal to a broad spectrum of the market, from large enterprises to mid-size businesses.” The IDC MarketScape specifically noted the strength of HPE-Aruba’s SD-Branch offering, the multiple management options available to customers with the cloud-based Aruba Central and on premises AirWave management platforms, and its “strong line of Ethernet switches, which creates a cohe-
with Microsoft and deliver a native backup solution developed specifically for Azure-based workloads.” NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 enables IT decision makers from cloud-first companies who prefer to store their Office 365 backups in Azure a cloud-optimized solution leveraging cost-efficient Azure Blob Storage for doing so. sive, single-vendor wired and wireless campus with advanced management, visibility and intelligence.” The IDC MarketScape also said that Aruba “receives among the highest marks for its breadth and depth of its customer support offerings, including the scope of its 24-hour support availability worldwide.”
Chris Kozup Chief Marketing Officer, Aruba
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Red Hat brings predictive models to business automation portfolio Latest release introduces new applied AI capabilities for predictive decision modeling and adds support for micro-frontend development Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the latest release of Red Hat Process Automation, unveiling new applied artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for predictive decision modeling, and support for the development of process- and decision-based business applications using micro-frontend architectures. Together with additional enhancements targeted at improving the overall user experience for Red Hat Process Automation customers, these capabilities further strengthen the business developer’s toolbox. Red Hat Process Automation is a set of products for automating business decisions and processes by enabling closer collaboration between IT and business teams. This helps IT organizations to better capture and enforce business policies and procedures, automate business operations and measure the results of business activities across heterogeneous environments including physical, virtual, mobile and cloud. “Trust is fundamental to how we conduct business today. With intelligent, automated systems increas-
ingly performing customer-facing operations, the need for visibility into how and why these systems make decisions is more important than ever. Red Hat Process Automation enables customers to combine standards-based predictive and decision models to not only drive greater efficiency, agility and intelligence through their process-centric applications, but also achieve greater transparency for a more explainable AI.” Mike Piech, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat. Red Hat Process Automation now supports an applied AI approach to automated decisioning. This enables users to incorporate predictive analytics into their decision management applications to create intelligent, automated systems that help them better interpret and respond to changing market dynamics. With the latest release of Red Hat Process Automation, customers can import and execute predictive models expressed in Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), an industry standard for integrating and exchanging information between machine
learning (ML) platforms where the predictive models are created and trained, and decision management applications that use such models to automate rules for specific business outcomes.
Mike Piech VP & GM, Middleware, Red Hat
By incorporating predictive capabilities within a Decision Model and Notation (DMN) decision model, users can not only analyze and act on data in an automated way, but also gain greater visibility into how an automated system reached a given conclusion. This transparency and control contribute to a more explainable AI and can help organizations better address regulatory requirements such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which includes specific provisions that support a right to explanation for automated decisioning. The latest release of Red Hat Process Automation also delivers enhancements to improve the overall user experience.
Fortinet chosen by Ooredoo Kuwait to deliver secure SD-WAN managed service company’s Secure SD-WAN solution interoperates as part of a comprehensive security architecture through the Fortinet Security Fabric, producing an integrated end-to-end security solution across the entire attack surface that leverages Security-Driven Networking Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, announced that it has been chosen by Ooredoo Kuwait, a part of Ooredoo Group – a leading international communications company operating across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia – to deliver the region’s first secure SD-WAN managed service.
than just a new connectivity service for the enterprise WAN edge. It is paving the way for significant benefits for our customers and significant new revenue streams for Ooredoo Kuwait by leveraging our security operations center, clean pipe, secure WiFi, email security, end-point security and advance threat protection.”
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN will allow Ooredoo’s existing and new enterprise customers to achieve accelerated connectivity, transport mode independence, and increased application performance while benefiting from tightly knit SD-WAN and advanced security features. Ooredoo Kuwait itself is deploying Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN across its retail branches and will serve as a reference for customers wishing to follow suit.
As organizations increase the use of business-critical cloud-based applications and infrastructures, they are becoming more attuned to the benefits of extending these tools to remote locations through software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) architectures, a network segment now referred to as the WAN Edge. In fact, because the need to provide the services and applications being generated by digital transformation to the WAN Edge is accelerating so rapidly, the global SD-WAN market is projected to reach $4.5 billion and grow at over 40% CAGR by 2022.
“Ooredoo Kuwait’s broad managed security services rely on several Fortinet solutions, including the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution, which significantly reduces onboarding efforts and speeds time to market for the service,” said Abdulaziz AlBabtain, Chief Business Officer at Ooredoo Kuwait. “Our secure SD-WAN managed service is much more
“SD-WAN offers accelerated connectivity, cost savings, and increased performance for Software-as-aService (SaaS) applications. However, the benefits of SD-WAN cannot be truly realized without secu-
John Maddison EVP of products and CMO, Fortinet rity as an integral part of the solution,” said John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO at Fortinet. “Without an integrated security solution, organizations are forced to overlay security, creating significant overhead and leaving gaps in protection as security and management systems remain isolated. We’re pleased to work with Ooredoo Kuwait to deliver the region’s first secure SD-WAN managed service and continue our focus of delivering integrated SD-WAN and advanced security to enterprise customers around the world.”
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EVENTS
Oracle - Lift and Shift Apps Unlimited To Oracle Public Cloud - 19 - 20 November 2019 - Kenya
Oracle - Social Media Marketing Guru Workshop - 15 November 2019 - Kenya
Fortinet - Security Fabric Event - 1 November 2019 - Kenya
Cisco - Partner Roundtable Session - 21 November 2019 - Kenya
Cisco - Small Business Summit - 26 November 2019 - Kenya
Microsoft Azure And Kaizala Event - 14 November 2019 - Kenya
Fortinet - Security Fabric Event - 8 November 2019 - Kenya
Fortinet Transformation With Security Driven Networking - 26 November 2019 - Uganda
AWS For STP Training Session For Partners - 6 November 2019 Khobar
Oracle - Partner Executive Forum - 5 November 2019 - Kenya
Veeam - Certified Enginner Training 18 November 2019 - Nigeria
Veritas and Microsoft - Joint Partner Event - 19 November 2019 - Kenya
Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) Overview Session - 1 November 2019 - Nigeria
Palo Alto Networks - See What The Right Next-Gen Firewall Can Do For You - 21 November 2019 - Kenya
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EVENTS
Automation Anywhere - RPA That Brings Speed To Your Digital Transformation - 26 November 2019 Nigeria
Veritas - BE Onsite Workshop - 4 November 2019 - Nigeria
Oracle - Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Customer Training - 27 November 2019 - Nigeria
Redington Value Participates at Oracle Partner Executive Forum - 13 November 2019 - Riyadh
Veritas – Backup Solutions In Digital Transformation Journey - 27 November 2019 - Nigeria
Splunk - Enterprise Security Event - 14 November 2019 - South Africa
Veritas - BE Onsite Workshop 27 November 2019 - Kenya
Huawei With Intel For Intelligent Computing Partner Summit Supported by Redington & Suse -18 November 2019Riyadh
Mimecast For Partner Roadshow - 6 November 2019 - Riyadh
Aruba For Mobility Seminar- Introduction to OS 8 - 29 October 2019 - Riyadh
DELL Technologies and Redington Participation in Smart SMB Summit and Awards - 13 November 2019 - Riyadh
Huawei For WiFi 6 and All Flash Storage Training Session - 4 November 2019 Jeddah
Entrust Datacard For End User Event - 13 November - Riyadh
DELL Technologies For VXrail Test Drive With Hilal Computer - Jeddah 28 October - 13 November 2019
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EVENTS
Microsoft Azure Technical Training - 7 November 2019 - Abu Dhabi
Microsoft CSP Partner Roadshow - 7 November 2019 - Abu Dhabi
Microsoft End Customer Session with Beinex -14 November 2019- Dubai
Redington Cloud Partner Council - 25 November 2019 - Dubai
Splunk and Redington Partner Training Event - 26 November 2019 - Abu Dhabi
A10 and Redington Partnership launch event 26 November 2019 - Doha
Redington& Splunk Join Hands at the Nutanix,Next on Tour - 18 November 2019 - Riyadh
Redington Value Participates at Redhat forum in Its Latest Technologies - 6 November 2019 - Riyadh
Western Digital For Enterprise Storage Update - 20 November 2019Riyadh
AWS For STP Training Session For Partners- 4 November 2019 - Riyadh
Kasperky Blitz Day with Promise computers - 13 November 2019 - Dubai
Oracle Selling with Value sales Skill Training - 19 and 20 November 2019 - Dubai
Okta Technical Training Session for Partner - 12 November 2019 -Dubai
Oracle Content and Expierence workshop - 5 and 6 November 2019 - Dubai
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