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fairly solid presence in one of the main halls.”

The company intends to shift its energies towards the BPO business as it is growing business within the ME. It will be launching Process Optimization and Process Cost Optimization software within the region immediately after GITEX, although the company has already picked up business for both the products.

GITEX plays a crucial role in bringing business leads to the

to keep things moving, and that has always been part of our GITEX ethos.”

Focus’ latest ERP solution, Focus 8, was the latest product to receive the GITEX-release treatment. Hyder says the groundwork needed to produce the latest version of the software was not a simple question of adapting the company’s previous work, but a fresh move in designing an entirely new product.

“We haven’t just added

Finesse had come to GITEX for the first time in 2011 through Oracle. A year after, the company exhibited with QlikTech Middle East at the event and with India Pavilion for its third GITEX. Its association with GITEX is as old as Finesse’s presence in the region itself.

Although it is the company’s fourth year at GITEX, it is the first time the company is participating at the under its own banner, Raju Ramesh, Co-Founder and CEO, Finesse said. “Next we should have a

“It really is a fantastic platform to present our products, meet customers and technology and product partners,” he says. “We invest a lot in having a strong presence here but we always recoup that outlay in no time. There’s a good reason we never miss GITEX.”

Hyder is all too aware that ensuring Focus’ presence remains fresh and engaging for customers, “We always release our main products here,” he says. “On top of that we always have a new vertical application. It’s important

Show dates: 12-16 October 2014, Dubai World Trade Centre | AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK | Exhibition hours: 10am -6pm

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Focus...features to Focus 8,” he says. “Cautiously, and with much thought, we have produced something completely different.”

The main drivers behind this new development were the imperious trends of cloud and mobility. “Technology has massively evolved in the last three or four years,” Hyder says. “The user may have been desktop-oriented back then but now expects everything to be mobile – with the same quality of service as well. This presents lots of challenges in terms of fetching and sending data to servers, and as such we’ve to redefine our middleware to accommodate this change.”

According to the results of the “Mobile cyber-threats” survey carried out by Kaspersky Lab and INTERPOL between August 2013 and July 2014, every fifth Android-based device protected by Kaspersky Lab security solutions was attacked by malware at least once during the reporting period. The most popular malicious programs are SMS Trojans that send messages to premium rate numbers without the owner’s awareness.

A total of 1,000,000 Android device users around the world encountered dangerous software between August 2013 and July 2014, representing about one fifth of all Kaspersky Lab mobile product users. In fact, this period was the peak of cyber-attacks registered in recent years.

Users in Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Ukraine and Germany are among the main targets for cyber-attacks targeting Android OS. Mostly this is because people in these countries often pay for content and online services via SMS; for cybercriminals it is an attractive way to monetize malicious attacks because they can use these services to quickly and anonymously transfer money from prepaid mobile accounts to third-party bank accounts.

In the Middle East region most mobile malware attacks were registered by Kaspersky Lab in Saudi Arabia (36% of the joint figure for top affected countries), followed by Egypt (24%) and United Arab Emirates (20%).

Every 5th Android user faces cyber-attacks: Kaspersky

The main reason for the increase in the number of attacks and attacked users globally was the spread of Trojan-SMS family programs. These accounted for 57.08% of all detections made by Kaspersky Lab security solutions for Android-based devices globally. Second came RiskTool (21.52% positives), conditionally legitimate programs which can, however, be used for malicious purposes (sending SMS notifications of paid messages, transmitting geo-data, etc.). Applications with aggressive advertising (pop-ups, notifications in the status bar, etc.) were in third place (7.37%). In the Middle East the top 3 most active malware types are ranked differently: RiskTool (55%), AdWare (19%), Trojan-SMS (8%).

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company. Eighty percent of the company’s business comes from Middle East. “The company picks up a minimum of one large enterprise customer per month from many verticals – financial, telco, public sector entity or a public listed company. GITEX gives us a visibility that translates into business.

“We don’t carry hardware skillsets, which is what we look for in a partner. In addition to having a geographical presence in the region, we expect our partners to bring complimentary skill sets to the table,” Ramesh said on Finesse’s partner strategy for the region.

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Equinix is a global interconnection and data centre company that connects more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centres. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32

strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. The Equinix facility in the Middle East is based in Dubai at the IMPZ.

Have you been here before? If you have been here before, what is the relevance of this exhibition to your business in the region?This is the first time we are participating at GITEX. The Middle East represents a high growth market for Equinix. The show is a fantastic opportunity for us to address the key issues facing our industry and outline our vision for the year ahead. Through Gitex, we are keen to identify new business opportunities, further develop our brand awareness, and educate enterprises on how our facility is equipped to cater to their evolving needs.

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Scope Middle East has been signed on as a distributor for VSS Monitoring in the Middle East. As per the agreement, SCOPE, through its extensive network of specialty resellers and system integrators across the region, will be responsible

reflects our commitment to our partners’ success, through programs, training and support to accelerate their business growth.”

As part of its channel enablement programme, VSS Monitoring will provide SCOPE and its resellers with extensive channel partner support through its partner portal, including access to technical pre- and post-sales support and marketing resources. Regular training and certification programmes will be held to skill-up partners and ensure a high level of technical proficiency. To ensure success of the partnership, VSS Monitoring and SCOPE will collaborate to develop a network visibility practice.

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for promoting and distributing VSS Monitoring’s comprehensive and feature-rich family of network packet brokers that allows IT professionals to see into the farthest reaches of even the largest networks.

“Our partnership brings together SCOPE’s expertise of operations in the Middle East and portfolio of security tools with VSS Monitoring’s leading network packet broker (NPB) solutions, providing large enterprises and service providers with the visibility and scalability to optimize their network performance and security tools,” says Firas Ghanem, Regional Sales Director, Middle East at VSS Monitoring. “Our investment in SCOPE

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What will you be doing special this GITEX? At Gitex we will be briefing visitors of the Equinix Performance Hub is a new offering in the region for enterprises struggling to deal with application and network performance demands. The solution uniquely combines elements of data centers, networking infrastructure and connectivity, and cloud computing access to improve application performance and deliver a globally consistent quality of experience to end users.

The service combines the strength of the networks and the cloud to addresses these issues. By redefining their data center strategy as distributed Performance Hubs located closer to end users, enterprises can

strategically leverage their data center to maximize network performance.

Will you be launching any solutions at the show? If not, will you be focusing your activities on any particular solution in your existing set?We are increasingly hearing from enterprises that they are struggling to deal with the strain on application and network performance and how to provide a consistent quality of experience to their distributed workforce. The Equinix Performance Hub™ combines the strength of the networks and the cloud to address these issues. By redefining their data center strategy to include Performance Hubs located closer to end users, enterprises

can strategically leverage their data center to maximize network performance

What are the key trends we can expect in the next two years?The UAE data centre market is set for significant growth over the coming five years, with International Data Corporation forecasting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3% for the 2013–2018 period.

Increasing demand for business continuity and disaster recovery, together with growing computational and storage needs, is spurring this growth in datacenter services revenue. At the same time, increasing customer interest in cloud services is also ratcheting up demand for data centre space and associated services.

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“Increasing demand for business continuity and disaster recovery, together with growing computational and storage needs, is spurring this growth in datacenter services revenue. At the same time, increasing customer interest in cloud services is also ratcheting up demand for data centre space and associated services.”

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