Redington Value Journal - June 2019

Issue 33 // June 2019

Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership to help customers with digital transformation Microsoft and VMware collaborate on digital workspace offerings and future cloud integrations Dell Technologies and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to address a wider range of customer needs and help accelerate digital transformations. Through this collaboration, the companies will deliver a fully native, supported, and certified VMware cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Additionally, joint Microsoft 365 and VMware Workspace ONE customers will be able to manage Office 365 across devices via cloud-based integration with Microsoft Intune and Azure Active Directory. VMware will also extend the capabilities of Windows Virtual Desktop leveraging VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure.

“At Microsoft, we’re focused on empowering customers in their digital transformation journey, through partnerships that enable them to take advantage of the Microsoft Cloud, using the technologies they already have,” said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. “Together with Dell Technologies and VMware, we are providing our mutual customers with an integrated cloud experience and digital workplace solutions to open up new opportunities and meet their evolving needs.”

“Customers are excited to see us expand our collaboration with Microsoft,” commented Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. These innovative cloud and client offerings will de-

liver customers even more value, provide more flexibility to accelerate their hybrid-multi cloud and multi-device journey, and accelerate the digital transformation of their business.”

The cloud has become fundamental to enabling organizations to move faster toward their business goals. With the cloud’s scalability, enhanced security, productivity, cost savings and more, companies are capitalizing on the many benefits. These benefits are enabling organizations to better tap into the potential of technologies like artificial intelligence and Internet of Things. Through this collaboration, the companies aim to accelerate

Satya Nadella CEO, Microsoft customer transformations with even more open, flexible and scalable solutions.

Azure VMware Solutions are built on VMware Cloud Foundation – a comprehensive offering of software defined compute, storage, networking and management – deployed in Azure. With these solutions, customers can capitalize on VMware’s broadly deployed and trusted cloud infrastructure while experiencing >> Continued on page 5

Emirates NBD transforms its Digital Banking with Red Hat-Based Cloud Red Hat Innovation Award for Emirates NBD Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has built a distributed private cloud platform

with Red Hat’s hybrid cloud and application programming interface (API) technologies as part of its digital transformation strategy. Its platform provides a common foundation and access to cloud-native

services for internal teams, improving integration, collaboration and speed of development.

The Red Hat-based cloud helps enable Emirates NBD to better keep pace with its competition, to make banking more available, and to more dynamically offer modern, personalized services to customers.

Ashesh Badani, SVP, Cloud Platforms, Red Hat >> Continued on page 4

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June 2019 / 03

Nitro, Redington Gulf partner to offer eSigning solutions The partnership will enable cost-effective digital transformation Australian document productivity company Nitro has announced its first distribution agreement in MEA with Redington Gulf. According to the company, the partnership will make cost-effective digital transformation a reality for companies of all sizes in these markets.

employees currently have access to eSigning or PDF productivity solutions. We help organisations eliminate these inefficiencies by providing a cost-effective means of equipping every worker with the right tools to work digitally,” said Nitro senior director of channel sales Dave Allison.

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Dublin and London, Nitro, disrupted the PDF industry in 2005 by building the first alternative to Adobe Acrobat. Their latest offering, the Nitro Productivity Suite, allows businesses to scale powerful PDF editing tools and unlimited eSigning capabilities to every knowledge worker, while gaining insights on usage and adoption through Nitro’s analytics platform.

The channel market and partner sales have played a critical role in Nitro’s transition from an Aussie startup to an established enterprise tech vendor. Today, Nitro’s products are utilised in more than 650,000 businesses, including global brands such as T-Mobile, Continental, Toyota Financial Services, JLL, and Howden Group.

“With the channel a key part of Nitro’s scale-up strategy, the partnership with Redington will allow the team to rapidly build a presence in MEA. Currently, more than 70 percent of documents in an organisation are PDFs, yet only 15 percent of

“We’re thrilled to have Redington as our first MEA Value-Added Distributor,” said Sam Chandler, Nitro founder and CEO. “We look forward to working closely to offer quality solutions and services that will ultimately help our mutual customers progress on their digital transformation journeys.”

CrowdStrike’s cloud-native Falcon endpoint protection platform is specifically designed and built to stop breaches Redington Value has announced a distribution agreement with CrowdStrike Inc., a leading provider of cloud-delivered endpoint protection to deliver CrowdStrike’s Falcon endpoint protection suite to customers in the Middle East.

Ramkumar Balakrishnan, COO, Redington Gulf With an extensive partner network, Redington is committed to bringing new technologies to the Middle East and Africa and making Nitro a truly global tool.

“We are very excited to join forces with Nitro. This partnership will enable us to expand the current offerings in our portfolio with a competitive software solution and lead the way in document productivity,” said Ramkumar Balakrishnan, COO, Redington Gulf.

Nutanix Hyperconverges Secondary Storage with Nutanix Mine Open Platform Solution will make running and protecting Applications easy Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced Nutanix Mine, a new open solution that integrates secondary storage operations with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, delivering a complete platform for primary and secondary storage within the private cloud. Through native integration with industry-leading backup vendors Veeam, HYCU, Commvault, Veritas and Unitrends, customers will be able to

manage their HCI environment and backup operations from a single management console, reducing the operational cost and complexity of standalone back-up and recovery solutions.

Mine will streamline overall deployment, and simplify the full lifecycle of data backup operations, including on-going management, scaling and troubleshooting - all while preserving the customer’s freedom to choose the right back-up service

Redington Value inks agreement with CrowdStrike

for their particular infrastructure environment.

According to Gartner, “There are many challenges with current backup and recovery solutions deployed today. The top concerns are most often related to the cost, complexity and capability.” Gartner goes on to state, “These costs often continue to rise despite overall cost >> Continued on page 5

Businesses in these markets can now join CrowdStrike’s cloud-native Falcon endpoint protection platform specifically designed and built to stop breaches. Operating in today’s dynamic security landscape, customers can benefit from CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence, while leveraging its core strengths such as its highly scalable cloud-native platform, which reduces complexity and simplifies deployment to drive down operational costs. The Falcon platform harnesses the power of big data analytics AI and machine learning to empower customers with instant visibility. Equipped with a single-agent capability, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform provides effectiveness from day one through a single agent that requires no reboot upon installation, providing instant time to value.

Alexander Foroozandé, CrowdStrike alliances and channel director for the META region said, “Our mission is to help our customers stop breaches. We are excited by the partnership with Redington Value, which will help accelerate our ability to execute on our customers’ expectations for a comprehensive approach to detecting and preventing threats.”

Over the next few months, Redington Value will recruit new partners, while also developing current ones for successfully integrating and positioning CrowdStrike as a part of their portfolio. Redington Value will host a number of trainings, programmes and workshops to help regional partners get acquainted with CrowdStrike platform.

“CrowdStrike complements our existing range of security solutions seamlessly and we are excited to showcase its unrivalled capabilities to the regional market through our extensive partner network. As cyber threats only become more advanced in nature, cloud-delivered endpoint security from CrowdStrike will help enterprises to govern entry points effectively and thwart malware access attempts,” said Ramkumar Balakrishnan, COO, Redington Gulf.

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Oracle makes gains with Cloud Apps Strategy

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Oracle to continue strengthening its cloud offerings for its customers

Emirates NBD received recognition for its innovative cloud platform as a winner in the 2019 Red Hat Innovation Awards, which recognize creative thinking, problem-solving and innovative uses of Red Hat technology.

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on May 1, 2019 spoke to reporters at Oracle Media Days about how the company has taken the pole position in the business cloud apps race. He said Oracle will continue to build on its gains in the cloud market through the holistic suites it offers as an alternative to point solutions, and as a company with a history of providing technology both on-premises and through the cloud.

He also said Oracle is proving popular with customers by offering emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain as features in existing technologies rather than as separate products.

According to Hurd, Oracle will continue benefiting from its legacy customers’ migration to the cloud—a process that is likely to play itself out for a number of years—and by taking market share from smaller vendors who either no longer support their products, or don’t have a clear cloud migration strategy.

“The business apps sector is highly fragmented, but Oracle is growing faster than the market and we are well-positioned to take the lion’s share,” he said.

Hurd said customers will benefit greatly by moving to the cloud, which will allow them to spend more on innovation. “B2B tech is trying to take care of its technical debt it’s built up over the last few decades and trying to clear out its technical debt that’s evolved in its hardware, software, configurations and data center,” he said.

During a panel discussion featuring a number of Oracle cloud apps customers, Norman Fray, SVP and Chief Accounting Officer for workforce solutions company TrueBlue, said that his company uses cloud technology to help drive revenue growth.

“Part of the growth strategy for our RPO, our recruitment process outsourcing, is going global,” he said. “Customers are saying that it’s great that you satisfy us in North America, but we need you to help with staffing around the world. One of the reasons we chose Oracle is that we know that you’ll take us wherever we need to go around the world. This will certainly enable our growth.”

In response to being asked whether the cloud enables innovation, he said, “That’s a resounding yes.”

Mark Hurd CEO, Oracle

Edward Screven, Oracle chief corporate architect, explained why cloud vendors like Oracle will be key to defending corporate and personal data. “Government and businesses can’t be expected to out-innovate cyber-attackers on their own,” he said. “That’s our job. We can build data centers and secure data at scale more efficiently than any individual customer.”

He noted that “AI and machine learning in the Oracle Cloud can detect and automate responses to unusual activities, helping protect customers from internal and external threats.”

“We can patch with zero downtime, and this is fundamentally different to what is offered by other cloud vendors,” he added.

Andrew Mendelsohn, EVP, Database Server Technologies, Oracle, and Steve Daheb, SVP, Oracle Cloud, spoke about the Oracle Autonomous Database.

“Emerging technologies are permeating every aspect of life,” Daheb said. “We’re seeing self-driving cars, we’re seeing precision medicine, we’re seeing smart cities. We’re at a tipping point where enterprises are starting to outpace consumers in the adoption of emerging technology.”

Andy Mendelsohn noted that “If you talk to CIOs and CTOs today, they’ll all tell you that we’re transforming to be a data-driven enterprise—100% will tell you that. But if you go onprem, they have data all over the place. Their data scientists can’t find the data, they don’t know where it is, they don’t know how to move it to where it’s useful. That’s something we address with our autonomous database. They’ll have a metadata catalog that shows where the data is, and they just want to run some analysis on it.

They don’t want to do the plumbing. They just want to do something useful with the data.”

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Emirates NBD transforms...

The award win recognizes Emirates NBD Group’s stated goal to become a global digital leader in banking and deliver first-to-market innovations through its ongoing digital transformation journey. In 2017, the bank set out to enhance the capabilities of its end-to-end technology platforms including IT architecture, infrastructure, security and data. One of its key pillars was establishing a distributed private cloud platform, using technology similar to cloud-native companies while being able to meet required standards of security and resiliency. Using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and Red Hat 3scale API Management, Emirates NBD was able to establish a more secure and scalable private cloud platform with the flexibility to accommodate a future hybrid cloud model. With a common foundation and access to cloud-native services, the platform empowers greater collaboration across the banking group’s internal teams and with third party partners.

Emirates NBD’s private cloud platform provides infrastructure, data and other resources for end-to-end development—from provisioning to production—through an as-a-Service model to groups throughout the bank. Group-wide data storage and access are consolidated on the platform to enable real-time customer intelligence.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a standardized infrastructure foundation for Emirates NBD across its hybrid environment of physical servers, virtual machines (VMs), and containers. The bank supports its application programming interfaces in the platform using Red Hat 3scale API Management to make APIs available to its partners and other third parties while helping mitigate security risks and protect sensitive data. The bank runs more than 1,000 containers and more than 500 APIs on its platform with average adoption of the platform increasing 20-30% per month.

Ashesh Badani, senior vice president, Cloud Platforms, Red Hat said, “Emirates NBD is leading the way in transforming its infrastructure and its organization, taking advantage of innovative technologies and agile collaborative working methods to be able to keep pace with changing expectations from customers and the market.

We are happy to support Emirates NBD in its strategic evolution to an innovation-focused, always-on bank, unlocking greater value for customers.”

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Kaspersky Lab and Anomali partner Partnership to help security operation teams leverage first-hand threat intelligence against cyberattacks

Under a new partnership, Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds are now integrated with the Anomali Threat Platform. Organizations can leverage constantly updated, contextual and actionable Threat Intelligence from Kaspersky Lab to enrich their insight about the global security landscape.

The Anomali Threat Platform helps organizations detect, understand and respond to threats. The platform provides security teams with threat intelligence from numerous feeds so that they can identify and prioritize threats that pose the greatest danger to their business.

Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds cover a wide spectrum of malicious activity aggregated from the Kaspersky Security Network that accumulates information about the latest cyberthreats, and other reliable sources of threat data. Every record in the Data >> From page 1

Dell Technologies and Microsoft... the power of Microsoft Azure.

Azure VMware Solutions give customers the power to seamlessly migrate, extend and run existing VMware workloads from on-premises environments to Azure without the need to re-architect applications or retool operations. Customers will be able to build, run, manage, and se-

Feeds contains actionable context (threat names, timestamps, geolocation where a threat was detected, resolved IP addresses of infected web resources, hashes, popularity of the threat, etc.).

By adding Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds, users of the Anomali Threat Platform— including SOC teams — can get more accurate answers to the who, what, where, when questions to get the clearer picture of threats.

“We are committed to detecting and researching all possible threats, no matter where they originate. We are excited to partner with Anomali, a leading vendor on the threat intelligence market, as through this collaboration more companies will be able to obtain a global overview of the threat landscape our Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds provide,” says Sergey Martsynkyan, Head of B2B Product Marketing, Kaspersky Lab. cure new and existing applications across VMware environments and Microsoft Azure while extending a single model for operations based on established tools, skills and processes as part of a hybrid cloud strategy. Some of the more popular customer scenarios Azure VMware Solutions will support are app migration and datacenter expansion, disaster recovery, and business continuity and modern application development.

Azure VMware Solutions enable organizations to tap into Azure’s

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Nutanix Hyperconverges.. improvements in the IT industry, and many organizations continue to perceive backup as an expensive insurance policy.”

As companies modernize their datacenter with HCI to realize the simplicity, performance and scalability needed to run modern applications, their backup and data protection strategies have remained siloed from their core datacenter environment.

With Nutanix Mine, customers will be able to converge secondary storage operations into the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to deliver intelligent data backup services for all business applications. Integrated with Nutanix’s native HCI data fabric that provides intelligent tiering and advanced data reduction capabilities, Mine will enable enterprises to choose the best data backup software for their organization, optimized for their Nutanix HCI environment; reducing the time and expense of configuring standalone secondary storage solutions.

Embracing an open platform strategy, Nutanix Mine will integrate with popular back-up solutions from Veeam, HYCU, Commvault, Veritas and Unitrends. Through tight integration with Nutanix’s HCI data fabric and advanced Prism management console, Mine will provide: • A reduction in the complexity of separate systems to back-up and recover business data, so secondary storage can be managed as easily as primary data storage • The simplification of the full life-

scale, security, and fast provisioning cycles to innovate and modernize applications while also improving performance. By integrating with native Azure services, customers can easily infuse advanced capabilities like AI, machine learning, and IoT into their applications enabling new, intelligent experiences.

With this agreement, mutual Microsoft 365 and VMware Workspace ONE customers will be able to get the most out of their digital workspace across device platforms while maximizing existing and future in-

Sunil Potti

Chief Product and Development Officer | Nutanix

cycle of data backup operations, including initial sizing and procurement, streamlined installation, and easy provisioning of the full solution, and the ability to easily scaleout both primary and secondary storage to accommodate business growth “The hyperconverged market’s rapid growth is largely attributable to its promise of modernizing infrastructure and reducing complexity by eliminating silos within the datacenter. But even as customers embraced HCI, the secondary storage silo persisted,” said Sunil Potti, Chief Product and Development Officer, Nutanix. “With Nutanix Mine, customers will get all the benefits of collapsing this silo into a single platform - reduced management complexity, simplified operations and reduced TCO - without the requirement that they forgo the backup solution best suited for their business needs.”

Nutanix Mine with Veeam, sold by Nutanix, and Nutanix Mine with HYCU are expected to be available in calendar Q3 of 2019. Nutanix Mine with Commvault, Veritas and Unitrends is expected to be available in a future release. vestments. Specifically, customers will be able to use Workspace ONE to manage and secure the powerful productivity features of Office 365 across devices via cloud-based integration with Microsoft Intune and Azure Active Directory.

Through the new Dell Technologies Unified Workspace offerings, customers can further accelerate their Windows 10 digital transformation journey by leveraging the integration of Windows Autopilot and Dell Device Provisioning and Deployment Services.

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Dell Technologies to help accelerate digital transformation for Abu Dhabi Ports

MoU aims to unlock new enterprise capabilities to adopt emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence and supply chains.

The MoU was signed by Abdullah Al Hameli, Executive Vice President – Corporate Support at Abu Dhabi Ports, and Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President, META at Dell Technologies. The signing took place at Dell Technologies World 2019 in Las Vegas.

Abu Dhabi Ports has signed a MoU with Dell Technologies that will see the organisations combine their expertise in maritime and IT to develop technology-based concepts, solutions and services specifically for the maritime industry.

formation journey. In addition, this strategic partnership will also see an exchange of industry best practices and expertise needed to develop truly integrated smart ports that can better serve the customers and other stakeholders of Abu Dhabi Ports.

The MoU with Dell Technologies is designed to provide Abu Dhabi Ports with consulting services and help them leverage high value-added technologies such as blockchain, and AI to fuel their digital trans-

Abu Dhabi Ports has made significant strides in harnessing innovative digital solutions for trade and port communities. In 2018, it launched Silsal, a blockchain-based solution aimed at streamlining trade flows

Abdullah Al Hameli, Executive VP – Corporate Support at Abu Dhabi Ports, said, “We are delighted to partner with Dell Technologies on our ongoing digital journey. Dell has long been a leader and pioneer in IT, and we look forward to combining their knowledge and insights with that of our own maritime experts.

Together, we will explore ways to harness the most exciting technologies to make the future of maritime operations and services safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.”

Mohammed Amin, SVP, META at Dell Technologies said, “At Dell Technologies, we primarily aim to help organization build their digital future and transform their infrastructure. It is a pleasure to partner with Abu Dhabi Ports to achieve their visionary step towards transforming the logistics and industrial services in Abu Dhabi and the UAE and lead the disruption of the maritime industry in the region.”

Ahmed Auda, MD Middle East, Turkey & North Africa at VMware, said, “As Abu Dhabi Ports drives ahead with its digitization agenda, VMware, a Dell Technologies company, is excited to provide cutting edge technologies that will help Abu Dhabi Ports leverage the full strengths of its network and tap into the benefits of fast developing technologies including cloud, AI and blockchain.”

UAE organizations demand more from their data Companies obstructed by a lack of technology, processes, training and support from leadership to get the most from their technology spend UAE organizations are demanding more from their data management investments, despite most estimating that they achieve more than double the amount they invest, finds research from Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage.

The Value of Data study, conducted

by Vanson Bourne for Veritas, surveyed 100 IT decision makers and data managers across the UAE, and reveals that although companies see an average return of $2.25 USD for every $1 USD they invest in improving data management, an overwhelming majority (88 %) of businesses here expect to see an even higher return.

Just 10 % of respondents in the

UAE stated that their organisation achieved the ROI they expected to receive, while only 1 % said the ROI they achieved exceeded expectations, in line with the global average. Companies in Brazil reported the highest ROI at US$2.57 followed by the US at US$2.48, while the lowest was reported in Switzerland at US$1.72.

Businesses in the UAE admit the key factors preventing them from improving their ROI are a lack of the right technology to support data management (42 %), a lack of internal processes (33 %) and inadequate employee engagement or training (61 %). In addition, 44 % of UAE respondents – the second highest after Switzerland (46%) – cited an absence of support from senior management as a barrier to achieving a

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higher return on data management investment.

“Mismanaging data can cost businesses millions in security vulnerabilities, lost revenues and missed opportunities, but those that invest wisely are seeing the incredible potential of their data estates. Unfortunately, too many businesses across the UAE are being held back by technological or people-related challenges,” said Jyothi Swaroop, VP, Product & Solutions, Veritas.

“In this time of unparalleled digital

transformation, organizations must arm themselves with the ability to access, protect and derive insights from their data. By promoting a cultural shift in the way data is managed, which includes buy-in from leadership as well as tools, processes and training, companies can empower employees with full visibility and control of data.”

Organizations that are investing in the proper management of their data say they are already benefiting from their investment and are achieving the objectives they set

June 2019 / 07 out to achieve. Respondents ranked increased data compliance, reduced security risks, cost savings, empowering employee productivity and reducing data siloes as the most attractive benefits of improving data management.

Of the organizations that are investing in looking after their data, four

in five (83 %) say they are already experiencing increased data compliance and reduced data security risks, while 76 % are seeing reduced costs. Nearly three-quarters (73 %) of respondents in the UAE reported that they are driving new revenue streams or market opportunities as a result of investing in data management – underlining the compet-

itive advantage that can be gained through efficient data management.

Johnny Karam, Regional VP Emerging Region, Veritas Technologies said, “The rapid digitalization we’re witnessing in the UAE brings with it both opportunities and threats – making it more important than ever to invest in data protection. Unfor-

Symantec named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Services Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute Symantec has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Q2 2019 Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Services, Worldwide for the 15th time since the report’s inception in 2005.

According to the report, “For other organizations that have little to no security team and a lower security operations maturity, the expectations are that the MSSP will do

more than just issue an alert and let the customer fend for itself. They need the MSSP to take an active role in analyzing, triaging, and then disrupting or containing the threat, i.e., they need the MSS to act as a first-level incident responder for them.”

Symantec’s Managed Security Services (MSS) can transform an organization’s security program

PTC leads in IIoT marketplace ThingWorx Industrial Innovation Platform ranked by both Compass Intelligence and Quadrant Knowledge Solutions as a 2019 leader

PTC announced that it has been recognized by both Compass Intelligence and Quadrant Knowledge Solutions as a 2019 leader in the global IIoT marketplace for its ThingWorx Industrial Innovation Platform.

The two awards come just months

after PTC introduced the latest version of ThingWorx. ThingWorx 8.4 introduces a long list of new capabilities, including Operator Advisor, which is designed to increase the productivity of factory workers by simplifying the way critical operational data is collected, synthesized, and delivered.

through its integrated services portfolio powered by industry-leading threat intelligence, advanced 24x7 monitoring, incident response and the unequaled human expertise of its global cyber security network.

Through Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, MSS boosts threat detection and response with an ever-evolving suite of capabilities. These include Managed Network Forensics, Managed Cloud

“PTC continues to advance its breakthrough IIoT solutions and equip industrial companies with industry-leading software to drive business momentum and create value,” said Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC. “These accolades underscore not only PTC’s technological superiority, but also our commitment to the success of our partners and customers in the industrial sector.”

tunately, some organizations are falling short of managing their data in a way that makes sense for their business as a whole. By embracing a smarter, more holistic approach to data management, organizations can achieve true operational efficiency, agility and assume an even greater return on their data management investment in the long-run.”

Defense, and the recently added Managed Endpoint Detection and Response, which helps organizations quickly discover and resolve threats with deep endpoint visibility and superior detection analytics, reducing mean-time-to-remediation.

Strengthened by Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network, the world’s largest civilian threat intelligence network, Symantec’s Cyber Security Services equips organizations with the technology, experience and expertise that are vital for protection, visibility, and control of critical assets, users, and data across cloud and on-premises environments.

and strong market position make it the undisputed leader in the IIoT market.”

This is the fourth year that PTC has received the Compass Intelligence Award for Industrial IoT Company of the Year. These annual awards honor the top companies, products, and technology solutions in three primary award categories: Mobile & Wireless, IoT & M2M, and Emerging Technology. Winners are selected by more than 40 industry-leading editors, journalists, thought leaders, and analysts.

For the second year in a row, PTC has been named a market leader by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, receiving the highest rating in Quadrant’s 2019 Strategic Performance Analysis and Ranking (SPARK) Matrix. In the 2019 SPARK Matrix, Quadrant analyzed the offerings of a wide range of software providers in the IIoT space, evaluating each on its technology platform, product capabilities, customer impact, ease of use, visionary innovation, and future roadmap. Through comprehensive research and a rigorous methodology, the resulting report and corresponding matrix showcase PTC’s clear leadership in the industry, driven by its robust portfolio of IIoT solutions.

“With so many strong nominations, this year’s winners represent the coolest and most disruptive in technology,” said Stephanie Atkinson, CEO and founder, Compass Intelligence. “Year after year, PTC’s vision, robust technology portfolio

“We congratulate PTC for the second year in a row as the unambiguous technology leader in the 2019 SPARK Matrix for IIoT Platforms,” said Piyush Dewangan, Industry Research Manager, Quadrant Knowledge Solutions.

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June 2019 / 08

EVENTS

Barracuda and Microsoft Partner Iftar, Dubai - 23 May

Fortinet NSE1,2 Technical Workshop, Riyadh, 2 May

Fortinet NSE1,2 Technical Workshop, Riyadh, 2 May

Oracle for End User Event With ITPS, Riyadh, 29 April

Oracle for End User Event With ITPS, Riyadh, 29 April

Palo Ato UTD with Ebttikar, Riyadh, 30 April

Fortinet for End User Event With Sahara Net, Khobar, 2 May

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Fortinet for End User Event With Sahara Net, Khobar, 2 May

Cisco – Meraki and Catalyst 9200 Event - Kenya - 18 April

Ultimate Test Drive with Palo Alto Networks - Dubai - 1 May

June 2019 / 09

EVENTS

Cisco - Smart Net Partner Event - Kenya - 24 April

Cisco - Smart Net Partner Event With Sybyl - Kenya - 25 April

Oracle - Your Database on Auto-Drive - Kenya - 11 April

Microsoft - CSP Partner Readiness Session - Kenya - 17 April

Oracle - Blockchain Training-Uganda - 9 April

Oracle - Sales Methodology Training (ULA Fast Track Training) & Immersion - Uganda - 16-17 April

Oracle - Your Database on Auto-Drive - Ethiopia - 25 April

Dell - Technologies Forum - Kenya - 9 April

Oracle - Your Database on Auto-Drive Tanzania - 17 April

Oracle - Your Database on Auto-Drive - Rwanda - 4 April

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June 2019 / 10

EVENTS

Palo Alto Networks - Ultimate Test Drive on Next Generation Firewall - Kenya - 16 April

Redhat - Go To Market Strategy Event Kenya - 25 April

Tableau - Partner Boot Camp - Kenya 24 April

Cisco – Collaboration Partner Workshop - Nigeria - 18 April

Vmware – VPEX Partner Event - Nigeria - 8 April

Huawei - IP Club Event - Kenya - 15 May

Fortinet NSE 4 Technical Bootcamp Ethiopia - 7-9 May

Fortinet - Security Fabric Partner Event Rwanda - 14 May

Smart SMB Summit sponsored by Redington Kenya Limited saw a good turnout

Redington Kenya Ltd was a winner in the VAD category at Smart SMB Summit and Awards, Kenya

Veritas was the winner in the storage category at Smart SMB Summit & Awards

Paul van der Linde, Partner Manager at MicroStrategy presented a keynote address at Smart SMB Summit Kenya

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