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Epson gathered together its Saudi Arabian partners this week for some intensive training on selling the vendor’s portfolio of business-focused products. The Epson education team arrived in Riyadh before moving on to Al Khobar to get the Kingdom’s reseller community up to speed on scanners, projectors and printers.
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NComputing strengthens sales team
Desktop virtualisation solutions vendor NComputing has beefed up its sales operation with the appointment of two new VPs. Frank Coggrave has been named as the company’s new VP sales in EMEA and will help to drive the company’s continued expansion within the region. Manish Sharma will undertake a similar role in his new position as VP sales for Asia-Pacific.
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DataSolutions boosts vendor portfolio
Irish value-added distributor (VAD) DataSolutions has boosted its virtualisation credentials, adding DataCore Software and Marathon Technologies to its vendor portfolio. DataSolutions now claims to offer the most comprehensive virtualisation range in Ireland and reckons that inquiries in this space have tripled in the last three months.
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E-mail data management solutions player C2C has appointed Andrew Brown as sales manager for the EMEA region with immediate effect. Brown previously held the position of senior account manager for the UK. Brown, will now attempt to repeat his UK success on a wider scale and drive C2C’s growth throughout the EMEA region and expand the companies channels to market.
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Bullish Brother predicts sales surge
Brother Gulf reckons it can achieve 25% compound annual sales growth in the Midddle East for the next five years. The company, which boasts a portfolio of printing, communication and digital imaging poducts for homes, offices and enterprises, talked up its long-term growth potential at a dinner with its channel partners that also commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Brother Group.
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Sharaf DG teams with Sky for PC launch
UAE-based PC assembler Sky Electronics has launched its new Expeditor value PC at Sharaf DG stores. The PCs, which are exclusively available at Sharaf DG stores, are built on Nvidia’s recently unveiled GeForce 7 series motherboard GPUs. Sharaf DG has carved out an impressive reputation as a power retailer in the UAE.
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Web-based business management software vendor Autotask has opened an office in London to cover the UK market and spearhead the company’s EMEA expansion. Autotask’s software is primarily aimed at companies providing outsourced IT services.
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Bell Micro bags Big Blue accolade
Value-added distributor Bell Micro has been named as IBM’s leading solution delivery integrator (SDI) worldwide, achieving the highest level of utilisation for IBM’s System p family of servers for AIX, UNIX and Linux operating system environments. Bell Micro achieved 97% utilisation on the SDI programme – the highest percentage of 14 SDI partners spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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Proofpoint has appointed Vision4 IT to distribute its complete portfolio of security products in Ireland. Proofpoint provides unified e-mail security and data loss prevention solutions. The deal with Vision4 IT also marks the official launch of Proofpoint solutions in Ireland.
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Positronica revels in Russian retail bonanza
Positronica, the Russian retail franchising operation launched by IT distribution heavyweight Merlion, posted sales of US$197m in 2007 according to a local report. Positronica has a retail network of more than 160 shops spanning 140 Russian towns and cities offering a combined floor space of more than 25,000 square metres.
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