HOME Track Distribution Middle East (TDME) – the new incarnation of global giant Tech Data’s discarded Middle East enterprise and components business – has finalised a distribution deal for Qimonda’s Aeneon memory products covering the UAE, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Track is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Middle East distribution powerhouse Aptec Holdings.
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Emirates Computers picks up Citrix prize
Citrix has named UAE-based IT solutions provider Emirates Computers as its Middle East enterprise partner of the year. The award recognised Emirates Computers’ role in promoting Citrix solutions and also its involvement in the largest Citrix deployment in the region. The award was presented at the Citrix partner exchange summit held in Dubai.
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QlikView makes Middle East move
Business intelligence vendor QlikView has expanded its Middle East presence, striking a reseller partnership with ICS ME. QlikView reckons that its new channel partner will help accelerate the adoption of its business analysis solution in the region, and also provide a local support service.
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Q1 Labs names Nunney as EMEA boss
Network security management outfit Q1 Labs’ global expansion drive has arrived in the EMEA region. Cisco and Juniper veteran Matthew Nunney has been appointed as EMEA theatre director, tasked with accelerating the adoption of Q1 Labs flagship product, QRadar in the region.
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Tumbleweed ramps up Russian channel
Tumbleweed has appointed Rainbow Technologies as a premier distributor in Russia. Tumbleweed, which specialises in managed file transfer and e-mail security solutions, reckons that its latest channel recruit will help it tap into Russia’s technology boom. Rainbow will look to sell secure content delivery solutions to private companies and government agencies throughout Russia.
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Almasa appoints new components boss
John David has rejoined Middle East distribution giant Almasa as general manager of the company’s components business. David was formerly Almasa product and territory manager during his previous stint at Almasa. David has a wealth of eexperience in the hard disk drive (HDD) channel. Almasa hopes that its latest recruit will help to cement the company’s reputation as a leading distributor of IT hardware and networking kit in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Sadoun becomes EMEA enterprise boss at Arrow
Laurent Sadoun has been named as the president of Arrow Electronics enterprise computing solutions (ECS) business in EMEA, including Logix, which Arrow formally acquired on Jun 2nd. Sadoun – previously CEO and chairman at Logix - will report directly in to Arrow ECS president Andrew Bryant. Arrow received competition clearance from the European Competition Commission for its proposed acquisition of Logix in May.
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Samsung lands Long for European printer push
Samsung Europe has lured Graham Long from HP to become its new European printing business director. In his new role, Long will assume responsibility for strengthening Samsung’s number two position in the European printing market. Samsung will also look to Long to drive the growth of the vendor’s European laser printing business in 2008 by more than 50%.
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International Turnkey Systems (ITS) has picked up a Sun Microsystems partner of the year award at the vendor’s partner sales corner event for the Middle East and North Africa channel. ITS also received a service practice partner accolade during the event, which took place recently in Tunis.
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Avaya pushes Quick Edition through Prologix
Business communications solutions vendor Avaya has turned to distribution partner Prologix to push its one-X Quick Edition solution to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the UAE. Targeted at small businesses and firms with branch offices requiring a communications solution, Avaya claims that one-X Quick Edition is easy to support and maintain.
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