In the company’s second outing at GITEX Technology Week, Said Akar, Regional Director, TEEAM, VCE, believes its solutions are on the right track to drive strong growth.

The company’s main focus is its cloud-ready data centre infrastructure solutions, and is using its Hall 1 stand to give virtual demonstrations of its equipment. “We believe this gives our customers a real look and feel of our solutions and their features,” Akar says. “They can see what a real data centre has to offer and what a virtual environment is like.”

Akar is also keen to highlight

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seamless. “Customers need supreme access to high performance applications such as SAP HANA,” Akar says. “Hybrid cloud is an important part of our future that can ease this transition.”

GITEX has come at an opportune time for VCE, with the company keen to expand its Middle Eastern operations. Its Dubai office acts as HQ for the META region, and the company has invested heavily in Saudi Arabia, along opening an office in Qatar.

VCE also plans to establish a presence in Egypt, Levant and Kuwait.

the huge potential of the company’s cloud converged infrastructure offering. “The IT market is moving towards this,” he says. “Customer studies prove that we can reduce TCO by 40 percent over 3-5 years, through easier maintenance, faster operations and reduced downtime, meaning better reliability.”

Akar also believes that converged infrastructure plays a crucial role in reducing the need to provision storage, security and network administration.

VCE’s future strategy is geared towards integrating business critical customer apps, and making worldwide data system management

solutions for our business customers. And in the multimedia segment, we are focusing on mobile trends for our products,” explains Tu.

A second-time participant at GITEX, the company finds the event useful in terms of meeting new customers and creating effective leads for the business. “Most important of all, the event helps us to learn more from the market and helps us interact with our channel and end customers. This gives us an idea of how our products can fit in this market and how we can

Derek Tu, Account Sales Manager, Synology, says the company has come to GITEX this year to highlight three main focuses in the regional business. The primary focus is to showcase products and solutions in the surveillance sector, which is one of its main market verticals. The vendor is also communicating its business and multimedia features to the market at the event.

“In our business features, we are also covering our cloud

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The company’s main strategy going forward is to educate the channel. “As compared to our other major markets, we find that there is less awareness about NAS solutions and products here. Being the leader in NAS manufacturing, it is our responsibility to educate the market on how useful NAS products are. This will be our first strategy.”

Over and above this, the company plans to create more awareness about its offering to tap the potential regionally. “We will also have channel programmes that will enable reseller partners to make decent margins, which is a key issue in the regional channel,” adds Tu.

With businesses estimating losses of up to $60,000 every hour during IT system failures, data protection solutions that are relevant and replicable in diverse environments are crucial to dealing with market complexity. This was one of the main findings of a survey realized by the International Data Corporation (IDC) for Acronis, a data protection vendor.

The study was a cross-industry survey of organizations that have up to 1,000 employees, commonly referred to as small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Over 400 respondents from eight countries responded on their evolving data protection and disaster recovery needs.

“In businesses across the world today, data—whether information related to customer records, company finances, software applications and

even company emails—is paramount,” said Guurprit Ahuja, Acronis’ Director for Middle East and Africa, on the sidelines of GITEX Technology Week 2014. “And because we are living in an increasingly dynamic world with ever-expanding volumes of data, there are plenty of challenges for managing, protecting and securing this resource.”

The survey found that an increasing number of organizations are dealing with the simultaneous needs to

back up physical, virtual and cloud environments, and this is giving rise to different models of cloud backup adoption across the globe.

“While 94 per cent of SMBs in the United States cite the cloud as a data backup option, the global adoption of cloud sits at 65 per cent,” continued Ahuja. “Companies in regions such as Western Europe and Asia Pacific cited security as a major reason against integrating cloud managements systems into their networks. And while there have been some major cloud security breaches in the recent past, cloud-based solutions will be an integral part of combined backup systems in the near future. An obvious focus for solution providers will be to build intelligent, flexible and easy-to-use software to manage all of these challenges.”

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strategy with an application-focused fabric, a centralized management with real-time application health monitoring, a foundation for cloud automation and orchestration, a highly secure multitenant environment, along with extensibility and openness. In addition, Cisco’s innovation in optical transceiver technology using its 40G BiDi transceivers allows for the reuse of current 10G cabling to reduce costly fiber upgrades and provides a clear roadmap for upgrades to 100G.

The 100G ready data centre will strengthen du’s next generation cloud-based hosting services and data, Voice and video services for its Mobile and fixed customers and enterprise business users (including the Smart Government Initiative).

has chosen and deployed Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Network for its next generation data centre. Cisco ACI empowers du’s DC (Data Center)

requirement on data center network infrastructure.

To cope with these growing demand for IT application and hosting and cloud services du

Cisco has been selected by du to deploy Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), that offers full visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual networked IT resources, and built around the needs of applications.

Due to rapid growth and ever increasing demand for faster network due to available applications for end users and enterprises for faster way of doing business, home automation and smart city data centre infrastructure is quickly transitioning from an environment that supports relatively static workloads confined to specific infrastructure silos to a highly dynamic cloud environment in which any workload can be provisioned anywhere and can scale on demand according to application needs. However, it also places new

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Huawei has unveiled an advancement to its Agile Network solution helping local businesses and governments to achieve operational excellence through more agile service innovation.

The Middle East launch forum was held at GITEX Technology Week under the theme of “Weaving the Future” and included keynotes from industry experts such as Liu Shao Wei, President of IP Solutions at Huawei Enterprise, Paul Black, Director of Telecoms and Media for Middle East, Turkey & Africa at IDC, as well as numerous channel partners and end-users in attendance.

Since its global rollout in 2013, Huawei’s Agile Network has been deployed by over 200 partners in the fields of government, finance, healthcare, education and more. The latest unveiling of the Agile Controller—which forms part of the wider Huawei Agile Network solution—enables organizations to benefit from more orchestrated,

real-time connections between their services and their IT network.

“Over the last several years organizations across the Middle East have sought to overcome core business challenges posed by transformations in the wider ICT industry,” says Mark Wu, CTO of IP Solutions at Huawei. “With greater mobility in the workplace, the arrival of cloud computing and Big Data analytics, more prolific social networks, and the Internet of Things all placing huge demands on ICT systems, companies as well as governments are now quickly moving to future-proof their networks using solutions like the Agile Network.”

In addition to Honeywell’s product showcase, visitors will be able to learn more about the company’s mobile computing, printer and radio frequency identification solutions

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Honeywell showcases scanningand mobility productsHoneywell is showcasing its latest scanning and mobility products during Gitex, including high-performance image, laser, and voice-based data collection hardware, rugged mobile computers and barcode scanners.

Commenting on the company’s participation at the region’s largest IT exhibition, Tony Nasr, territory director, Middle East, Africa & India. Honeywell Scanning & Mobility said, “Gitex represents an unparalleled opportunity for Honeywell to interact, educate and network with current and prospective clients. Through our participation, we aim to showcase how Honeywell products and solutions improve

(RFID). Honeywell has significantly extended its innovative offerings in this area to help address business enhancements in key industries including distribution center, retail, healthcare, field service, and transport and logistics.

“As Middle Eastern economies continue to expand across key vertical sectors, it is vital for companies to have the right systems, processes and technology solutions in place to help them meet increased demand. Honeywell Scanning & Mobility solutions focus on constantly innovating to improve workflow systems within businesses, be it in the form of bioptic scanners for improved data security, or the use of handheld scanners designed to aid mobility,” said Nasr.

In addition to onsite product briefings, key industry insights will be presented to visitors at the Honeywell stand A4-6 in Hall 4.

workflow efficiencies while also helping organizations increase their operational performance to realise the full potential of their mobile workforce.”

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