The document discusses several key technology announcements: 1. Amazon Web Services is opening an office in Dubai to accelerate cloud adoption in the Middle East. 2. Veritas has launched an Enterprise Data Management solution powered by NetBackup 8.0 to help organizations manage data across hybrid cloud environments. 3. VMware has entered a $500 million stock purchase agreement with Dell to purchase Class A common stock currently held by Dell subsidiary EMC Corporation.

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CISCO GLOBAL CLOUD INDEX PROJECTS MEA
CLOUD DC TRAFFIC TO GROW 440% BY 2020
Red Hat introduces
OpenStack Platform 10
Avaya extends ACE-Fx Training
Program to develop SDN skills
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 drives new features that
increase system-wide scalability, ease infrastructure
management, and improve orchestration.
The company attributes the rapid growth to increased migration to cloud architectures and their ability to scale quickly and
efficiently support more workloads than traditional data centers.
Avaya Certified Expert – ACE-Fx Part II focuses on
the advanced techniques required to implement the
company’s fabric solutions safely and securely.
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Middle East and Africa, data
center traffic will reach 451
exabytes per year by 2020, up
from 105 exabytes per year
in 2015. This rapid growth of
cloud traffic is attributed to
increased migration to cloud
architectures and their ability
to scale quickly and efficiently
support more workloads than
Red Hat has announced the
availability of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10, the company’s
scalable and agile cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
solution. Based on the upstream
OpenStack ‘Newton’ release,
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
drives new features that increase
Mike Weston, Cisco
T
he recently
released sixth
annual Cisco
Global Cloud
Index (2015-2020)
revealed that global cloud
traffic is expected to rise 3.7-
fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes
(ZB) per year in 2015 to
14.1 ZB per year by 2020. In
Avaya has extended its
Avaya Certified Expert-Fx
program to further drive
skills and training in the
latest Software Defined
Networking (SDN)-Fx
fabric-based networking
technologies. The ACE-Fx
Part II curriculum will focus
on the advanced techniques
traditional data centers.
With greater data
center virtualization, cloud
operators are also able to
achieve greater operational
efficiencies while flexibly
delivering a growing variety
of services to businesses
and consumers with optimal
Maan Al-Shakarchi, Avaya
Radhesh Balakrishnan, Red Hat

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performance. To better
understand data center
growth, new analysis on
application workloads was
developed for this year’s
report. Several business
and consumer projections
were revealed. For example,
one of the revelations was
that business workloads
dominate data center
applications and are
growing.
“Over the past year,
we’ve seen a variety
of businesses and
organizations develop
plans for cloud migration
or adoption. The move to
required to implement the
vendor’s fabric solutions
that are underpinning digital
strategies for organizations
globally.
The ACE-Fx program was
created to bridge the skills
gap between traditional,
hardware-intensive
networking technologies
and next-generation,
software-defined fabric-
based networking. It enables
engineers and IT professionals
to deliver the transformational
networking capabilities
provided by the Avaya SDN Fx
architecture.
With the exponential
growth Avaya’s SDN Fx
architecture has witnessed in
the last 24 months, ACE-Fx
II builds on the progressive
structure of the ACE-Fx
program. Since the program
was launched last year, over
450 networking professionals
have become members of the
ACE-Fx community, with the
training being successfully
delivered in 50 cities
worldwide.
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the cloud is imminent as cloud
computing has advanced from
an emerging technology to an
essential scalable and flexible
networking solution,” said
Mike Weston, Vice President,
Middle East, Cisco. “With
multiple trends influencing
the growth of data center
and cloud computing such
as increasing digitization,
the widespread adoption of
Red Hat... Avaya...
“Networking
professionals need a training
and certification program
that will grow with them
and enable them to stay
ahead of the digital curve.
By expanding the ACE-
Fx certification program
Avaya is continuing to
help our customers and
partners achieve their
digital objectives,” said
Maan Al-Shakarchi, Head
of Networking, AMEA and
APAC, Avaya
The extended program
allows individuals to
deepen their knowledge
and experience of advanced
networking technologies
under the Avaya SDN Fx
umbrella, covering Fabric
Connect, Fabric Extend and
Fabric Attach, as well as
advanced integration of IP
Multicast and IP Routing.
The intensive five-day
training program includes
designing and implementing
an Avaya Fabric solution
including Fabric Extend and
Fabric Attach technologies.
“The move to the cloud is imminent
as cloud computing has advanced
from an emerging technology to
an essential scalable and flexible
networking solution.”
“Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 drives
the enterprise-readiness of OpenStack
by delivering a stable, reliable and open
foundation for cloud deployments.”
multiple devices and
connections and the
growth of mobility, the
importance of cloud
readiness cannot be
overemphasized.”
system-wide scalability, ease
infrastructure management, and
improve orchestration, while also
enhancing network performance
and platform security.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 introduces a new
software life cycle, with optional
support up to five years. It
delivers a reliable cloud platform
built on the proven, enterprise-
grade backbone of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Integrated
with the company’s hardened
OpenStack community code,
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
provides the agility to scale and
more quickly meet customer
demand without compromising
availability, performance, or IT
security requirements.
New enhancements and
updates to Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 includes a more
streamlined user experience
driven by an easier-to-use
graphical user interface (GUI)
reduces the complexities of
installation and management. It
also features improved flexibility
for greater scalability through
the introduction of customizable
services and administration
roles using Red Hat OpenStack
Platform director.
Radhesh Balakrishnan, General
Manager, OpenStack, Red
Hat, said, “Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 drives the enterprise-
readiness of OpenStack by
delivering a stable, reliable
and open foundation for cloud
deployments, delivering new
innovations like composable
services and roles while retaining
our commitment to enterprise
stability, highlighted by our new
Long Life support model.”

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Marcin Kleczynski, Malwarebytes
Fujitsu launches Online Biometric
Authentication Service
Theproductequipsuserswithcomprehensiveprotectionagainsttoday’sthreatlandscape.
The new service will have support for customers implementing FIDO.
Service’ will initially roll
out from early April 2017,
starting with Japan.
With this service, the
company will provide
companies that offer online
an all-in-one solution from
Malwarebytes to protect their
PCs,” said Marcin Kleczynski,
CEO, Malwarebytes. “With
Malwarebytes 3.0, we are
introducing a new generation
of computer security. We
built the solution with the
understanding that combining
proactive and signature-less
technologies with traditional
heuristics is the most
effective way of protecting
services with the servers
and software necessary
to implement FIDO
(Fast IDentity Online),
services that support the
construction of cloud
environments, and also
software development
kits and development
support for incorporating
FIDO into client-side
applications.
According to the
company, customers
can use this service
to easily build online
personal authentication
systems with robust
security and that do not
require passwords for
a variety of day-to-day
situations, such as online
Fujitsu has announced
that it will begin offering
a new FIDO-compliant
service for online biometric
authentication. The ‘Online
Biometric Authentication
Malwarebytes has announced
the release of Malwarebytes
3.0, a next-generation
antivirus replacement.
“Our customers have
made it clear that they want
“Individuals can now leverage
Malwarebytes 3.0 to replace or
enhance their traditional antivirus
protections, and have confidence that
they are safe online.”
Malwarebytes 3.0 makes antivirus obsolete
users. Individuals can now
leverage Malwarebytes
3.0 to replace or enhance
their traditional antivirus
protections, and have
confidence that they are safe
online.”
According to the company,
the solution replaces
antivirus with superior
technology designed to
block malware, ransomware,
exploits, and other advanced
banking and shopping,
ticket arrangements, and car
sharing. This also reduces
the burden of getting online
authentication services up
and running. In addition,
because this service
functions to use FIDO with
facial recognition obtained
through camera-equipped
smartphones and other
biometrics, the number of
supported devices on the
client side can be dramatically
expanded.
Fujitsu is aiming to
provide the service for 10
million IDs by fiscal 2018.
Going forward, the company
plans to expand the service
to cover authentication on a
variety of devices.
threats that antivirus isn’t
smart enough to stop.
Malwarebytes 3.0 employs
four independent technology
modules—anti-malware, anti-
ransomware, anti-exploit, and
malicious website protection—
to block and remove both
known and unknown threats.
The anti-ransomware and
anti-exploit modules employ
signature-less technology
so users are protected from
advanced threats that are
not yet known to traditional
antivirus research labs.
The solution also scans 4x
faster than its predecessor,
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
The company will be
introducing an enterprise
version of Malwarebytes 3.0
in 2017.

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Avaya, Engage Forum, Dubai, 5-8 December
Oracle, Customer Executive Seminar, Al Khobar,
7 December
Oracle, Technology Session, Dubai, 5 December
VMware, Deepdive PoC Training, Riyadh, 12-13 December
Red Hat, Technical Bootcamp, Riyadh, 7 December
VMware, Innovation Day, Riyadh, 14 December
SonicWall, CSSA Security Bootcamp, Dubai,
12-14 December
Check Point, CSSA Partner Training, Dubai,
11-15 December
Dell EMC, Partner Roundtable, Riyadh, 7 December
Oracle, Customer Executive Seminar, Jeddah, 6 December Oracle-PartnerRoundtable-Jeddah-5December
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EVENTS
SonicWall, Security Update Session, Oman, 19 December SonicWall, Security Update Session, Qatar, 21 December
VMware, Customer Executive Seminar, Dubai,
19 December

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VMware, VSP-VTSP Technical Bootcamp, Abu Dhabi,
13 December
Cisco, Security DEMO and NPL Training, Kenya,
1 December
Cisco Big Bet Event, Nigeria, 15 December
Oracle, Journey to Secure Enterprise Cloud, Ghana, 1 December
Oracle, Journey to Secure Enterprise Cloud, Tanzania,
8 December
Cisco FSI Event with IE Network, Ethiopia - 15 December
Oracle, Journey to Secure Enterprise Cloud,
Uganda, 6 December
Fortinet, Partner BootCamp, Kenya, 9 December
Oracle, Journey to Secure Enterprise Cloud, Ivory
Coast, 6 December
VMware, User Group UAE Chapter, Dubai,
8 December
Tripp Lite Partner Training, Kenya, 2 December
VMware, Innovation Day, Dubai, 7 December
Cisco, Security DEMO’s and NPL Training,
Nigeria, 13 December Cisco, Security Roadshow, Ethiopia - 13 December
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Amazon Web Services
supports cloud growth in UAE
AWS opens office in Dubai to accelerate cloud computing adoption.
Amazon Web Services,
(AWS) has announced plans
to open an office in Dubai,
with the support of the Dubai
Investment Development
Agency (Dubai FDI), an agency
of the Department of Economic
Development (DED) in Dubai,
to accelerate the rapid adoption
of cloud computing in the
Middle East.
The office will open on
January 1 and will support
organizations of all sizes,
from start-ups to government
institutions and established
enterprises, as they make the
transition to the AWS Cloud.
The new office provides
account managers, solutions
architects, partner managers,
professional services
consultants, support staff, and
various other functions, for
customers to directly engage
with AWS in their local setting
and in their language.
“The opening of the AWS
MENA office in Dubai further
underlines the positive growth
environment of Dubai and
our ability to attract inward
investments. It will drive the
adoption of cloud technologies as
well as public and private sector
innovation and competitiveness,”
said Fahad Al Gergawi, Chief
Executive Officer, Dubai FDI.
AWS also has a growing
network of technology and
consulting AWS Partner
Network (APN) partners in the
Middle East helping customers
get the most from the cloud.
These partners include global
organizations like CSC as well
as prominent regional players
like Redington. Ramkumar
Balakrishnan, President, VAD
business, Redington said, “We
have chosen to work with AWS
so that we can provide our
customers with a secure, reliable
and flexible platform. Having an
AWS team in the region for us
to work with is great news and
will help us move even more
customers to the cloud.”
Fahad Al Gergawi, Dubai FDI
Scott Anderson, Veritas
The new solution builds on the foundation of Veritas’ NetBackup to integrate data visibility, application resiliency and copy data
management so organizations can uphold their most critical asset—data.
Veritas Technologies has
announced the launch of
NetBackup 8.0 and an
integrated Enterprise Data
Management solution to
help organizations manage
data in the cloud and extract
Veritas launches Enterprise Data Management
Solution powered by NetBackup 8.0
new business value as they
transform for the future.
The new solution builds on
the foundation of Veritas’
NetBackup to integrate data
visibility, application resiliency
and copy data management so
organizations can uphold their
most critical asset—data.
“Nearly every organization
in today’s data driven
and cloud-based world
is undergoing digital
transformation, whether
mobilizing the workforce,
creating online customer
experiences, enabling
electronic supply chains,
or providing real-time
access to medical records
and financial statements,”
said Scott Anderson, Senior
Vice President and General
Manager, Information
Protection Solutions at Veritas.
“Using NetBackup 8.0 as the
foundation of our vision for a
sweeping range of solutions to
help enterprises manage their
growing data demands, Veritas
is delivering a 360 enterprise
data management solution that
solves customers’ challenges
to address the complexity of
hybrid cloud and the realities
of digital business.”
NetBackup 8.0 provides
unified protection for data in
the cloud, as well as virtual
and physical environments
with enterprise-class scale,
performance and extensive
workload integration. Now,
Veritas NetBackup solution
extends its reach from
unified data protection
towards a broader platform
for 360 data management.
With NetBackup
8.0, and by utilizing
the 360 enterprise data
management solution,
organizations will be able
to leverage their existing
deployments to achieve
global data visibility,
simplified business
resiliency and integrated
copy data management
in addition to a near
100 percent backup and
recovery success rate, no
matter where data resides.

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VMware announces $500 million Stock
Purchase Agreement with Dell
Under the agreement, the company has agreed to purchase $500 million worth of VMware Class A common stock currently
held by Dell’s subsidiary, EMC Corporation.
62 percent of respondents said lines of business and IT must collaborate for the enterprise cloud model to succeed, according to
a new study by the company.
Global player in cloud
infrastructure and business
mobility, VMware has
entered into a Stock Purchase
Agreement (SPA) with Dell
Technologies, under which
the company agreed to
purchase $500 million worth
of VMware Class A common
stock currently held by Dell’s
subsidiary, EMC Corporation.
Separately, Dell Technologies
plans to use the $500 million
proceeds to repurchase
the Dell tracking stock for
VMware, DVMT, as described
in Dell’s announcement
recently.
An Oracle research report,
IaaS: building a business that
innovates, revealed that many
organizations operate in a way
that is counter to effective
collaboration.
The research looked at
how companies in EMEA are
approaching cloud computing
and the organizational issues
impacting their ability to effect
The $500 million stock
purchase is expected to be
completed during VMware’s
first fiscal quarter ending
May 5, 2017. The impact of
the $500 million SPA on
VMware’s Q4 fiscal 2016 and
full year 2016 diluted share
count and non-GAAP earnings
per share is not expected to be
material. This $500 million
stock purchase is the only
stock purchase plan currently
authorized. As VMware
disclosed on its Q3 2016
earnings call, a previously
Oracle report urges businesses to collaborate
significant business change and
innovation.
62 percent of respondents
said lines of business and IT
teams must collaborate for
the enterprise cloud model
to succeed. 34 percent said
managing shadow IT (in which
lines of business purchase
technology unbeknownst
to the IT department) is a
significant barrier to adopting
an integrated approach to
the cloud. 41 percent said
a lack of understanding by
business departments of the
need for integrated cloud
resources is one of the current
IT infrastructure challenges
around cloud deployment.
Oracle found the greatest
areas of inefficiency in the
current platform model being
used by companies are the
integration of used services (50
percent), time to deployment (49
percent) and poor application
integration (47 percent) – all
of which are detrimental to
effective and rapid innovation.
The $500 million stock purchase is
expected to be completed during VMware’s
first fiscal quarter ending May 5, 2017.
By moving to Infrastructure-as-
a-Service (IaaS), businesses can
smooth over the cracks and create
a truly collaborative organization.”
authorized $1.2 billion stock
buyback was completed in early
Q4 2016. The company intends to
comment on additional plans for
returns of capital to stockholders,
if any, during VMware’s Q4
2016 earnings conference call in
January 2017.
Pascal Giraud, Senior
Director IaaS Foundation
and Cloud Platform Oracle
EMEA, said, “By moving to
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS), businesses can smooth
over the cracks and create a
truly collaborative organization.
It provides a common
foundation for innovation and
implementation, removing the
limitations around resources
and mitigating against silos.”
The Oracle Cloud Platform
is designed with security,
reliability, and auditability in
mind, with capabilities like
resource isolation and API
logging. The elastic, pay-as-
you-go service model enables IT
departments to stop worrying
about capacity, lower total cost
of ownership, and shift their
focus to the strategic work of
supporting the business.