Redington Value Distribution's ‘Value Journal’, a monthly news journal whose purpose is to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives. Key stories from the September Edition: • HPE Acquires SGI for $ 275 Million • Dell-EMC deal set to close in September • Oracle Minicluster S7-2 Engineered System • Trend Micro Achieves recommended status from NSS Labs • Cyberark secures enterprise cloud orchestration and automation • Fortinet launches universal wireless access points

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HPE ACQUIRES SGI FOR $275 MILLION
Dell-EMC deal set to close
in September
Oracle MiniCluster
S7-2 Engineered
System
DellandEMChaveannouncedplanstoclosethetransaction
tocombinebothbusinesseson7thSeptember2016.
ThenewsystemaimstobringOracledatabasecustomers
therequiredzerodowntimeandfullsecuritycompliance.
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H
ewlett Packard
Enterprise has
announced that
it has signed
a definitive
agreement to acquire SGI
for $7.75 per share in cash,
a transaction valued at
approximately $275 million, net
of cash and debt.
SGI products and services
are used for high-performance
computing (HPC) and Big
Data analytics in the scientific,
technical, business and
government communities to
solve challenging data-intensive
computing, data management
and virtualisation problems.
The company has approximately
1,100 employees worldwide, and
had revenues of $533 million in
fiscal 2016.
“At HPE, we are focused
on empowering data-driven
organisations,” said Antonio
Neri, Executive Vice President
and General Manager,
Enterprise Group, Hewlett
Packard Enterprise. “SGI’s
immediately following the close
of the transaction.
The announcement follows
regulatory approval of the
Dell and EMC transaction by
China’s Ministry of Commerce
(MOFCOM), which has granted
clearance for the companies’
proposed combination.
MOFCOM approval was the
final regulatory condition to
closing the transaction. EMC
shareholders approved the
Oracle has released a low cost
SPARC Cluster based on the new
low cost SPARC S7-2 servers.
The new system aims to bring
Oracle database customers the
required zero downtime and full
security compliance.
According to the company,
the MiniCluster S7-2 is
a simple and efficiently
engineered system designed
Dell Technologies, the
name of the new combined
company, will begin operating
to run enterprise databases
and applications with
uncompromising security. It
allows users to run remote
offices, small offices, and
agile software development
(DevOps) environments. It is
also ideal for highly security-
sensitive applications, such
as managing patient medical
Michael Dell, CEO and Chairman, Dell
Technologies

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innovative technologies and
services, including its best-in-
class Big Data analytics and
high-performance computing
solutions, complement HPE’s
proven data centre solutions
designed to create business
insight and accelerate time to
value for customers.”
SGI’s highly complementary
portfolio, including its in-
memory high-performance
data analytics technology, will
extend and strengthen HPE’s
current leadership position in
the growing mission critical and
high-performance computing
segments of the server
market. The combined HPE
and SGI portfolio, including
transaction on July 19, with
approximately 98 percent of
voting EMC shareholders casting
their votes in favour of the merger,
representing approximately 74
percent of EMC’s outstanding
common stock.
“This is an historic
moment for both Dell and
EMC. Combined, we will
be exceptionally well-
positioned for growth in
the most strategic areas of
next generation IT including
records, processing financial
transactions, handling secure
communications, running
mission-critical enterprise
resource planning (ERP)
applications, and hosting
security-related services.
It has 1 TB of memory
with 16.8 TB of raw flash-
based storage and 48 TB of
raw disk-based storage. The
system is also powered by
Oracle’s SPARC S7 processor,
which delivers higher baseline
per-core performance than
x86 processors and features
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a comprehensive services
capability, will support private
and public sector customers
seeking larger supercomputer
installations, including U.S.
federal agencies as well
enterprises looking to leverage
high-performance computing
for business insights and a
competitive edge.
“Our HPC and high-
performance data technologies
and analytic capabilities, based
on a 30-plus year legacy of
innovation, complement HPE’s
industry-leading enterprise
solutions. This combination
addresses today’s complex
business problems that require
applying data analytics and
tools to securely process vast
amounts of data,” said Jorge
Titinger, CEO and President, SGI.
“The computing power that our
solutions deliver can interpret this
data to give customers quicker
and more actionable insights.
Together, HPE and SGI will offer
one of the most comprehensive
suites of solutions in the industry,
which can be brought to market
more effectively through HPE’s
global reach.”
The transaction is expected
to close in the first quarter of
HPE’s fiscal year 2017, subject to
regulatory approvals and other
customary closing conditions.
digital transformation,
software-defined data centre,
converged infrastructure,
hybrid cloud, mobile and
security,” said Michael
Dell, Chairman and CEO
of Dell Technologies. “Our
investments in R&D and
innovation, along with our
140,000 team members
around the world, will give
us unmatched scale, strength
and flexibility, deepening our
relationships with customers
of all sizes.”
At closing, EMC
shareholders will receive $24.05
per share in cash in addition
to a newly issued tracking
stock linked to a portion of
EMC’s economic interest in
the VMware business. Based
on the estimated number of
EMC shares outstanding at the
close of the transaction, EMC
shareholders are expected to
receive approximately 0.111
shares of new tracking stock
for each EMC share. Upon
close of the transaction,
EMC shares under the
ticker symbol ‘EMC’ will be
suspended from trading on
the New York Stock Exchange.
Dell-EMC... Oracle...
silicon secured memory, data
analytics accelerators (DAX),
cryptographic acceleration, and
in-line memory decompression
to support its security and
analytics performance.
Oracle highlights that this
prebuilt Clustered system can
bring end-users secured and
accelerated cloud infrastructure,
including Oracle Database, Java,
and enterprise applications.
Its unique built-in security
technology helps protect data
against intrusions by malware
and security breaches.
“Our HPC and high-performance
data technologies and analytic
capabilities, based on a 30-plus year
legacy of innovation, complement
HPE’s industry-leading enterprise
solutions.”
““Combined,
we will be
exceptionally
well-positioned
for growth
in the most
strategic
areas of next
generation IT.”
Oracle MiniCluster S7-2 Engineered System

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Jai Balasubramaniyan, Director, Security
Product Management, Gigamon
Gigamon fortifies security
analytics with certificate metadata
Certificate metadata allows to leverage the network to shorten the time to detection and response.
Deep Discovery Inspector has achieved a 99.8 percent
detection rate in the latest Breach Detection System test.
Using the service, developers can write standard SQL queries on
streaming data and gain actionable insights in real-time.
GigaSECURE expedites the
time to detection of potentially
malicious web servers and
unwanted SSL communications
by providing security analytics
technologies with the
information they need to identify
invalid SSL certificates.
SSL-based attacks are on
the rise, and many phishing
sites use fake SSL certificates
to appear legitimate so that
targets and infected machines
will connect to them. Security
analytics tools like Security
Information and Event
Management Systems (SIEMs)
can spot these potentially
harmful web communications
by flagging inconsistencies in
the fields of SSL certificates.
helps define the enterprise security
space, recognising those that raise
the bar for the industry,” said
Eva Chen, CEO, Trend Micro.
“As advanced threats continue to
increase in sophistication, effective
breach detection is an essential
part of a connected threat defence
for enterprises. Our customers
need an effective BDS as part of a
layered approach to security to not
only detect, but also respond to and
protect against new threats.”
Deep Discovery, which is also
sold as Trend Micro TippingPoint
Advanced Threat Protection, uses
extensive detection techniques
to identify advanced threats,
and ransomware. It monitors all
network traffic traversing physical
and virtual segments, on over 100
protocols and applications across all
network ports.
Firehose and can automatically
recognise standard data formats
within data streams and suggest
a schema, which is easy to edit
using Kinesis Analytics’ interactive
schema editor.
MLB Advanced Media
(MLBAM) is a full service
solutions provider that delivers
digital experiences through
all forms of interactive media.
“We capture telemetry and
clickstream data from our video
streaming clients using Amazon
Kinesis Streams. We process
that data in real-time to monitor
the video streaming experience
we provide our customers,”
said Rob Goretsky, Director,
Data Engineering, MLBAM.
“Insightful analysis of streaming
data previously involved building
dedicated data pipelines to derive
specific metrics. We can now
interactively develop queries in
minutes using Kinesis Analytics.”
Still, the certificate data needed
for the detection can be difficult
to retrieve pervasively and
continuously from broad and
distributed networks.
“Sifting through raw packet
streams to identify malicious
network activity can be a slow
and cumbersome process in a
world where real-time threat
identification and remediation
is critical,” said Robert Lowe,
Information Security Manager,
Fannie Mae. “Gigamon’s network
visibility and new HTTP SSL
certificate metadata capabilities
provide an added layer of
intelligence and the context
needed to more quickly, effectively
and efficiently protect both
network infrastructure and data.”
Certificate metadata lets
Gigamon, together with its
ecosystem partners in the
security analytics and SIEM
markets, leverage the network to
shorten the time to detection and
response.
“Organisations know that
their network traffic contains a lot
of potential intelligence that can
help remediate breaches,” said
Jai Balasubramaniyan, Director,
Security Product Management,
Gigamon. “Gigamon is
revolutionising Big Data
security analytics by uniquely
extracting metadata from this
data-in-motion and delivering
it at network speeds to security
technologies that use it to detect
and remediate threats faster.”
Gigamon has announced that
the Metadata Engine, a key part
of the GigaSECURE Security
Delivery Platform (SDP), can
now generate Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) certificate metadata.
Trend Micro’s Deep Discovery
Inspector has been recognised
for the third consecutive year as a
recommended breach detection
system by NSS Labs.
Deep Discovery achieved a
99.8 percent detection rate in the
latest Breach Detection System test,
demonstrating a consistent ability
to detect network and endpoint-
based targeted attacks, advanced
threats and ransomware.
“The Breach Detection System
test by NSS Labs continuously
Amazon Web Services has
announced the availability
of Kinesis Analytics, a
fully managed service for
continuously querying streaming
data using standard SQL.
Using Kinesis Analytics,
developers can write standard
SQL queries on streaming data
and gain actionable insights in
real-time, without having to learn
any new programming skills.
Today’s digital businesses
generate massive quantities of
streaming data from diverse
sources. Being able to continuously
query and gain insights from this
information in real-time – as it
arrives – can allow companies to
respond more quickly to business
and customer needs. AWS claim
that with Kinesis Analytics,
continuously querying streaming
data in real-time is as simple as
writing SQL queries. It integrates
with Kinesis Streams and Kinesis
Trend Micro achieves
recommended status from
NSS Labs
AWS announces Kinesis Analytics
Eva Chen, CEO, Trend Micro

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VMware VSP - VTSP Bootcamp in Dubai, U.A.E. – 2nd August 2016
Fortinet ATP Framework Technical Day
in Manama, Bahrain – 11 August 2016
Fortinet Wireless Framework Technical Day in Muscat, Oman – 16-18 August 2016
Fortinet Security Roadshow in Amman, Jordan – 22 August 2016
Fortinet Security Seminar in Lebanon – 23 August 2016
Vision Solutions Partner Bootcamp in Dubai, U.A.E – 10 August 2016
SonicWALL Security Partner Update in
Dubai, U.A.E. – 15 August 2016
VMware Airwatch Enablement Session in Dubai, U.A.E. – 21-25 August 2016
Entrust Datacard Partnership Launch in Dubai, U.A.E. – 22 August 2016
Fortinet Wireless Framework Technical Day in Doha, Qatar – 23-25 August 2016
Trend Micro Deep Security ATC Training in Dubai, U.A.E. –
16-18 August 2016
EVENTS

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Avaya Partner Bootcamp in Nairobi, Kenya – 11th August 2016
Fortinet ATP Framework Technical Day in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 10 August 2016
EMC End User Forum with Partner IMPC in Ghana – 17 August 2016
Symantec Partner Bootcamp in Nairobi, Kenya –18 August 2016
Fortinet ATP Framework Technical Day in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. – 25 August 2016
Tripplite Partner Bootcamp in Ethiopia – 16 August 2016
Palo Alto Partner Bootcamp in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 10 August 2016
EMC End User Forum with Partner ISON Technologies in Kenya – 18 August 2016
SAP, Dell and EMC End User Forum in Nairobi, Kenya – 24 August 2016
Oracle Security Solution Workshop with partner IITC in Muscat, Oman – 23 August 2016

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Cisco releases Midyear Cybersecurity Report
Thereporthighlightsthatorganisationsareunpreparedforfuturestrainsofmoresophisticatedransomware.
Configuringdeviceswithapps,emailandWi-Fieasily,itenables
thedataencryptionandsecurityaswell.
Thesolutionallowsfirms
tosecureandmanageall
privilegedaccountsinthecloud.
Cisco highlighted in its 2016
Midyear Cybersecurity Report
(MCR) that organisations are
unprepared for future strains of
more sophisticated ransomware.
According to the report’s
findings, the struggle to constrain
the operational space of attackers
is the biggest challenge facing
businesses and threatens the
underlying foundation required
for digital transformation. Other
key findings in the MCR include
VMware has released
AirWatch Express,
a simple mobile
device management
(MDM) cloud
solution designed to
get devices up and
running quickly.
AirWatch Express
aims to make it easy
to configure devices
with apps, email
and Wi-Fi, while enabling the data
encryption and security that is
necessary in today’s environment.
It delivers an “affordable,
consumer-friendly MDM,” built
on the same platform as VMware
AirWatch, an enterprise mobility
management solution. The solution
intends to allow more organisations
globally to protect their company by
securing their employee’s devices in
just a few clicks.
“The transformative nature
of mobility has caused the mobile
endpoint to become the primary
adversaries expanding their focus
to server-side attacks, evolving
attack methods and increasing
use of encryption to mask activity.
So far in 2016, ransomware
has become the most profitable
malware type in history. Cisco
expects to see this trend continue
with even more destructive
ransomware that can spread by
itself and hold entire networks,
and therefore companies, hostage.
It underscored that new
modular strains of ransomware
will be able to quickly switch
tactics to maximise efficiency.
For example, future ransomware
attacks will evade detection by
being able to limit CPU usage
and refrain from command-and-
control actions.
Mike Weston, VP, Cisco
ME said, “Attackers are going
computing device
for many businesses,
and these same
organisations
are struggling to
keep up with the
device and app
proliferation. The
truth is managing
mobile devices
can be a timely
and complicated
process,” said Blake Brannon, Vice
President of Product Marketing,
End-User Computing, VMware.
“Without the need for technical
knowledge or additional IT staff,
AirWatch Express empowers
organisations to support an ever
increasing mobile workforce.”
AirWatch Express is a
solution that doesn’t require
extensive set up or training,
and is available for iOS, macOS,
Android and Windows 10. It
starts at $2.50 per device and is
available today.
undetected and expanding their
time to operate. To close the
attackers’ windows of opportunity,
customers will require more
visbility into their networks
and must improve activities,
like patching and retiring aging
infrastructure lacking in advanced
security capabilities. Cisco is
working with our customers to
help them match and exceed their
attackers’ level of sophistication,
visbility and control.”
Visibility across the network
and endpoints remains a
primary challenge. On average,
organisations take up to 200
days to identify new threats.
Cisco’s median time to detection
(TTD) continues to outpace the
industry, hitting a new low of
approximately 13 hours to detect
previously unknown compromises
CyberArk has announced new
capabilities for reducing cyber
security risk in the cloud.
The CyberArk Privileged
Account Security Solution
allows organisations to secure,
manage, control access, rotate
credentials, monitor and audit
all privileged accounts in the
cloud. Working with automation
and orchestration tools such
as Chef, Puppet, Windows
PowerShell, Jenkins and others,
CyberArk helps build privileged
account security into cloud
environments with automatic
provisioning and integration
during cloud migration and on-
going management. Enhanced
REST APIs available in CyberArk
Privileged Account Security
for the six months ending in April
2016. This result is down from
17.5 hours for the period ending
in October 2015. Faster time to
detection of threats is critical to
constrain attackers’ operational
space and minimise damage.
As attackers innovate, many
defenders continue to struggle
with maintaining the security of
their devices and systems. In the
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
region, Ukraine and Romania
were the greatest sources of
blocked traffic as a proportion
of their overall traffic; and in
Asia-Pacific, Australia topped the
list. Just 8.4 percent of the total
vulnerable Cisco devices detected
globally were in the Africa region
– a small collection compared to
24 percent found in Europe, and
35.5 percent in Asia.
Solution v9.7 enable broader
cloud automation capabilities
and greater security for DevOps
environments.
CyberArk secures assets
running in the cloud, but also
integrates privileged account
security into DevOps processes,
facilitating cloud migrations and
enabling organisations to get
the full benefit of the agility and
elasticity of the cloud.
“When investing in the
business benefits of the cloud and
DevOps strategies, organisations
shouldn’t have to make trade-
offs between speed, efficiency
and security,” said Roy Adar,
Senior Vice President, Product
Management, CyberArk. “CyberArk
is a trusted advisor and partner in
our customers’ cloud migration
strategies. An effective cloud
strategy must include security
from the beginning – not after the
fact. We bake privileged account
security into cloud automation
tools and the processes they enable
to create repeatable, reliable
security that is responsive to the
elasticity of these environments.”
VMware launches AirWatch Express CyberArk secures
enterprise cloud
orchestration and
automation
Mike Weston, VP, Cisco Middle East
Blake Brannon,VP, Product Market-
ing, End-User Computing, VMware

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Check Point introduces
SandBlast Agent for Browsers
SandBlastAgentforBrowsersisdesignedtoprotectusersfromevolvingthreatsbyseamlessly
incorporatingkeycomponentsofthesecuritymodelintothebrowser.
The new QoS includes data protection, application integration, scheduling, and
performance enhancements.
TheFortiAP-Useriesof
universalwirelessAPis
designedtoreducecomplexity.Addressing the exponential
growth in web-based malware,
phishing and social engineering
attacks, Check Point Software
Technologies has announced
SandBlast Agent for Browsers with
Zero Phishing technology.
It is designed to protect users
from evolving threats by seamlessly
incorporating key components of
Pivot3 has extended the capabilities
of its patented Dynamic Quality of
Service (QoS) software to include
policy-driven data protection
capabilities.
The software’s new QoS
includes data protection,
application integration, scheduling,
and performance enhancements
to the existing QoS capabilities of
the Pivot3 flash arrays, providing
customers with more automation
and flexibility in how they
guarantee service level agreements
(SLAs) for critical business
applications.
With data protection QoS,
customers can simply define
policies specifying snapshot,
replication and retention and
apply them to volumes or groups
of volumes. The addition of
QoS scheduling capabilities
lets customers set pre-defined
the security model into the browser.
It provides real-time protection,
all while reducing the resources
required to prevent today’s most
advanced attacks.
For better business results,
users now expect unconstrained
internet access and immediate
delivery of downloaded content
and email. At the same time,
enterprises must contend with
the changing threat landscape, as
they strive to prevent the theft of
sensitive customer information and
their own intellectual property,
while maintaining the efficiency
of their critical business systems.
Files downloaded from the web
represent a leading entry point for
malware today, and data shows
this threat is growing.
Web-based malware and
social engineering attacks targeting
organisations are increasing in
volume and sophistication, with
cyber-attackers using the latest
evasion techniques and persuasive
scams to infect their victims.
“Existing technologies ask
users to wait for content to be
evaluated, or require multiple,
intrusive software installations
on every system,” said Nathan
Shuchami, Head of Advanced
Threat Prevention, Check Point.
“SandBlast Agent for Browsers
brings the highest level of protection
to users in a simple browser plug-in
that blocks unknown and zero-
day malware delivered via web
downloads, while quickly delivering
safe content within seconds.”
Fortinet has announced the
launch of its new FortiAP-U
series of universal wireless
access points (AP), designed to
reduce complexity with what
the company claims to be the
most flexible, enterprise-grade
wireless solution on the market.
The universal APs combine
unified access network
control and visibility, with
the protection of Fortinet’s
Security Fabric. FortiAP-U
claims to simplify deployment
and administration of access
networks by offering a single
appliance that is compatible
with all of the company’s access
management platforms.
Seamless integration with
Fortinet’s Security Fabric
also enables access network
segmentation capabilities to
deliver the only security strategy
capable of protecting enterprises
against threats targeting IoT and
endpoint devices before they can
access critical internal data.
The access points feature
innovative plug-in-play
implementation, enabling
each device to automatically
determine the type of
management and pull down
configuration information
to deliver rapid deployment
without the need for IT
to manually update every
appliance.
Fortinet Universal APs
are also designed to suit the
wireless needs of the largest
enterprises with cutting-edge
features such as quad special
streams, extended 5 GHz
channel support, wide-channel
160MHz and Multi-User MIMO.
These technologies maximise
bandwidth and device capacity,
supporting even the densest
wireless needs with multi-
gigabit throughput.
Pivot3 adds policy-driven data
protection capabilities
Fortinet launches
universal wireless
access points
schedules for both performance
and data protection policies,
allowing them to change
automatically at pre-determined
times. By automating policy
changes, IT can support the
business with greater agility
as application priorities and
workloads change.
“By eliminating contention
issues, Pivot3’s QoS has allowed
us to improve the performance of
our most critical member-facing
systems, such as online banking,”
said Chris Visocnik, Director of
IT, Consumers Credit Union.
“Now with the addition of data
protection QoS, we have the option
of simplifying and automating
our data protection policies for
mission-critical and member-
facing credit union applications.”
“IT organisations are pushing
to consolidate multiple application
workloads onto common
infrastructures to reduce their
capital and operating expenses,”
said Ahmad Chamseddine, Vice
President and Chief Operations
Officer, Pivot3. “Customers
need guaranteed performance
and data protection in line with
their business priorities, which
is why we’re continuing to
innovate with Quality of Service
and hyperconvergence. This is
another step in the development
and integration of the Pivot3 and
NexGen Storage technology sets
following our recent acquisition
as we move toward achieving the
software-defined data centre.”
The new QoS capabilities are
now available with vSTAC SLX
Hyperconverged and N5 Flash
Storage systems through Pivot3’s
authorised resellers and to Pivot3
customers on support contracts.
“SandBlast Agent
for Browsers
brings the highest
level of protection
to users in a simple
browser plug-in.”

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