GITEX Technology Week and it has been great experience so far. This conference offers knowledge-transfer and opens a lot of new doors for us. We’ve seen a lot of visitors from different countries, which makes this a great platform to connect with our peers in the industry,” continues Mobasseri.

He adds, “What’s also interesting about our presence at GITEX Technology Week this year is that we’ve added a fun element for our clients and visitors. We are holding a treasure hunt, where you have to visit three stands – emt, CPI Media Group and Kaspersky. The winner gets a chance to win a gold bar!”

Visit the emt stand for more information on the treasure hunt.

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the number of partners. This year the company is present across four booths with channel and alliance partners such as Aptec-an Ingram Micro company, Redington and NetApp, to name a few.

“This also shows the level of partnership we have with the channel as well as with our alliance partners,” he adds. “In the Middle East, we had seen an upwards of 100 percent growth in the beginning and now it is about 50 percent growth year-on-year, which is really exciting for us.

Specialist security distributor emt is back this year with exciting new solutions. Speaking about their latest launch, Mohammad Mobasseri, CEO-MEA, emt, said: “We have recently partnered with the global antivirus security expert Avira and are looking to roll out their security products across the region. This has been a significant partnership for us, especially since this launch is the first time in the region.”

Avira’s range of solutions for businesses include Professional Security, Endpoint Security and Small Business Security Suite. These solutions offer sophisticated workstation, email and server protection services.

“This is our second year at

Veeam Software’s main focus at GITEX 2014 is to communicate the new messaging to the market, which is to let its partners and customers know that it is a high availability company looking to keep the modern data centre always on. “That’s the key messaging,” says Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East and SAARC, Veeam.

The company has been successful in the Middle East region with the number of customers and probably just as important, with

Fortinet rolls out next-gen firewalls

Fortinet hast unveiled two new next-generation firewall platforms – the FortiGate-300D and FortiGate-500D at Gitex Technology Week 2014. The FortiGate300D and FortiGate 500D provide mid-enterprises with five times the next-generation performance, enabling increased protection against today’s advanced threats.

presents the opportunity to add new security functions yet consolidate security devices – a ‘win win’ scenario for customers across the region.”

These new FortiGate platforms, along with the FortiGate 200D-POE and 240D-POE, are now available in the Middle East from authorized Fortinet channel partners.

These new models are ideal for the region’s midsize enterprises, branch offices, as well as state and local government, education, healthcare and other market segments that need strong security and easy-to-manage functionality at affordable price points.

“Traditional firewalls have not kept pace with the changing threat landscape, forcing organizations to

look to next-generation firewalls for a deeper level of inspection,” said Alain Penel, Regional Vice President- Middle East, Fortinet. “Mid-size enterprises are as vulnerable to advanced threats as larger organizations. With Fortinet’s high performance appliances, any natural firewall refresh or web filtering renewal

Etisalat has announced the expansion of its managed security services portfolio, offering a firewall/Unified Threat Management (UTM) service, which includes firewall, antivirus and antispam services, content filtering and VPN capabilities.

The announcement was made on the sidelines of the ongoing GITEX Technology Week 2014 in Dubai.

The new service will provide enterprises both ‘on premise’ and ‘in cloud’ options offering end-to-end management, monitoring and maintenance services to help businesses better protect their infrastructure against continually evolving threats.

Abdulla Hashim, Senior Vice President of Digital Services at Etisalat, commented, “The new service will condense multiple security services into one device. Consequently, business customers will be able to filter content, block spam and host VPNs without deploying multiple boxes at their facilities.”

“The fully managed service makes enforcement of customer’s security policy an inherent part of the network across intranet, extranet, and Internet-based communications. Etisalat combines the expertise of its security experts and uses the scale and reliability of its security operations centers to deliver technologies and solutions tailored to the needs of businesses of all sizes,” added Hashim.

As well as for other managed services, Etisalat will offer its Managed Firewall/UTM service in three tiers – Standard, Premium and Next Generation, with flexible device options from multiple technology vendors.

For more information, enterprise customers can contact managedsecurity@etisalat.ae

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We are growing at a very rapid rate.”The Regional Director attributes

this growth two main aspects, “Firstly it’s the people and coupled with that is the best technology we use.”

The company has recently announced the launch of Veeam Version 8 and Veeam Version 8 Availability Suite, which features end point free version and cloud connect. “Through end point free version, IT experts have the ability to backup his desktops, other desktops, and also other endpoint products. Cloud connect gives our channel the opportunity to simply deploy it, which is a huge opportunity and helps them scale up,” says Petersen.

The company is reaching out to its partners at the event and urges them to bring end customers to meet with the vendor as they have the resources and expertise to conduct product demos.

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The number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are increasing with the majority of incidents lasting less than 24 hours, indicating cyber criminals are more sophisticated and using a more intense, targeted approach, according to new global research from security experts at Symantec. The research highlights were released early, exclusively for GITEX Technology Week, one of the largest ICT events in the Middle East. The findings indicate that the UAE and KSA appeared in the global top 50 ranking of countries that have witnessed the highest volume of ‘originating DDoS traffic’, listed at 45 and 28, respectively, with less than 1 percent of global attacks during the eight months of analysed data. India topped the ranking with 26 percent of all DDoS traffic deriving from the country, while the USA claimed the second spot. 

The study entitled, “The Continued Rise of DDoS Attacks,” was conducted by Symantec’s Security Response team of engineers and analysts who evaluated global data between the period of January to August 2014 based on the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 41.5 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second in over 157 countries and territories.

DDoS attacks, whilst not a new attack vector, have proven to be effective and sometimes devastating for organizations. The attacks attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. A Domain Name Server (DNS) amplification attack is a popular form of DDoS, which floods a publically available target system with DNS response traffic. Symantec’s research indicates that DNS amplification attacks have increased by 183 percent from January to August 2014.

European smartphone and mobile phone accessory firm Avenir Telecom group is participating at GITEX Technology Week for the first time this year.

Avenir Telecom is showcasing its range of products including connected and home automation devices, charging stations, high-tech headsets and a new line of smartphones.

Energizer – a line of products to recharge and connect mobile devices – is on display, including chargers for mobiles and tablets, and USB and audio connectivity devices.

The wireless, connected devices line BeeWi is also a part of the stand, including home automation devices, as well as headphones and speakers. Every product is bundled with a mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows 8.

The BBH300 headphones come with a patented dock station that streams sound directly to a Hi-Fi stereo system. Used as an audio gateway, the headphone allows users to listen their smartphone or tablet music playlists on their home stereo system, wirelessly and while charging the device.

Also on display will be mobile accessory firm OXO, who is introducing its range ‘Designed in France.’

“We can’t wait to tell all our customers about our extended product lines,” says Jean-Daniel Beurnier, CEO, Avenir Telecom. “We bring a comprehensive range of smartphones and connected devices that meet and often exceed consumer expectations, with Yezz and our line of OXO accessories, Energizer and BeeWi. All of our high-tech products come bundled with a mobile app and are designed in France. That is why we are proud to claim for the first year the right for the efficient and innovative ‘Designed in France’ label, at GITEX.”

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Middle Eastern IT leaders were last night acknowledged for playing their part in a year of great progress in regional technology development at CNME’s fifth annual ICT Achievement Awards.

Held at Emirates Towers’ Godolphin Ballroom, a blend of the top vendors and end-users were commended for their efforts over 2014.

The panel of four judges, comprising Ali Radhi, Head of IT, MBC; Ian Wakeford, MD, DW Consultants; Mohammed Shah, Head of IT & Business Solutions, AMS Baeshen Company and Trevor Moore, Chief Information Officer, Qatar University scoured the region to reward the best IT projects to have impacted business across the Middle East.

Scooping the two main individual accolades were Neil Menezes, Director of IT Operations, Jumeirah Group, who was named ‘Future CIO of the year’, and Ali Sajwani, Chief Information Officer, Emirates NBD, who won the coveted ‘CIO of the year’.

Once again CNME would like to congratulate all award winners and nominees, as well as everyone who attended the event.

Here is a full list of the award winners:

DeploymentGovernment deployment of the year: Dubai CustomsBFSI deployment of the year: national Bank of Bahrain Education deployment of the year: mohammed Bin Rashid Smart

learning program Construction and real estate deployment of the year: Albatha HoldingTelecom deployment of the year: etisalatRetail deployment of the year: landmark GroupHospitality and tourism sector: Jumeirah GroupHealthcare deployment of the year: nmC Healthcare Energy sector deployment of the year: ADnoC DistributionEditor’s choice: twofour 54mubadalanakheelSuleiman Habib medical CentreIT team of the year: meraas Holding

Future CIO of the Year: neil menezesCIO of the year: Ali Sajwani

VenDoRSHardware vendor of the year: Huawei Software vendor of the year: VmWare Security vendor of the year: trend microStorage solutions provider of the year: DellManaged Services Provider of the year: eHosting DataFortSystems Integrator of the year: FinesseSecurity Sytems Integrator of the year: nanjgel SolutionsSecurity Solutions provider of the year: Spire Solutions

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Cyberoam focuses on enterprise solutions

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The network security appliances provider, Cyberoam, has participated at GITEX for the last six or seven years. And the vendor is back this year with new products and a more interactive stand. 

Ravindra Janotra, Regional Sales Manager, Middle East, Cyberoam, says, “We are showcasing our product portfolio at our stand.  We are also conducting live presentations to communicate the features of our products with all the customers who will be visiting us at the event.”

We will see the vendor discussing its main USPs which includes features such as identity-based security, on-appliance reporting, on-appliance web and applications and firewall to name a few.

“Other than that, we will be covering all our security features to the customers. We will also be launching some new products to cater to the SOHO markets, which is meant for those small office users who have ten to 15 users in their office networks. This is our main highlight at GITEX,” Janotra adds.

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“Going forward, we will focus mainly in the SMB sector and also strengthen our foothold in the enterprise market. We have hired dedicated enterprise account managers who will be responsible for customer meetings and customer relationships in this segment. This is the first step to gain our vision of focusing on enterprise in the future,” he adds.

Software firm Crayon is exhibiting its customised solutions in licensing, Software Asset Management (SAM) and IT consultancy at the GITEX Technology Week 2014.Visitors can see and discuss the full range of services Crayon offers in outsourcing non-core business activities.

Rune Syversen, Group CEO, Crayon says, “We are delighted to be participating in GITEX 2014 and look forward to talking to many of our customers and potential customers; it will help us demonstrate how committed we are to the MEA region.”

“Crayon has an enviable track record of success stories and achievements with both vendors and clients and we are eager to share our expertise with all our partners, customers and potential clients at this year’s GITEX show,” said Henrik Mattila-Kuusniemi, CEO, MEA, Crayon.

In its 33rd Edition, the on-going event is expected to attract over 1,142,000 ICT professionals from 150 countries, including more than 25k C-Level executives.

The event features over 700 ICT companies from 61 countries encompassing more than 80 percent of the top global ICT brands.

Crayon MEA has its sales team and consulting delegates present at Stand A7 – 46 in Hall 7.