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 May Edition:
• Dell EMC: Digital Transformation Efforts Still Lagging
• Microsoft urges upskilling in cloud
• Huawei launches OpenLab Dubai
• Ramkumar Balakrishnan: Key to Transformation
• Avaya introduces framework for the Everywhere Data Center
• Fortinet extends Security Fabric automation, visibility and control to cloud environments
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 now available
• Fujitsu, VMware offer IoT solutions in the automobile sector
• Sonicwall announces key milestones
• Trend Micro leverages XGen security capabilities in Worry-Free Services
• Malwarebytes integrates with ForeScout to deliver real-time threat visibility and remediation
• Pivot3 releases Acuity
Digital platforms and services stimulate economic growth and development. Countries are looking to the “internet economy” to provide new market opportunities and help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as promoting economic growth and sustainable industralisation, a process often relying on an increase in online access rates and smartphone penetration.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/technology-innovation/digital-platforms-and-services-development-opportunity-asean?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Manufacturing and the data conundrum: Too much? Too little? Or just right?, commissioned by Wipro, examines how manufacturers are using integrated data collection and analysis to improve production throughput, reduce costs and improve quality. The research is based on a survey of 50 C-suite executives from manufacturers in North America and Western Europe.
The survey shows that just 42% of respondents have what they consider to be a well-defined data-management strategy. However, 62% are not sure they have been able to keep up with the large volumes of data they collect, as it comes from too many sources and in a variety of formats and speeds.
The report also finds that while over 90% of manufacturers collect data from monitoring production processes, less than half have in place predictive data analytics, and less than 40% use data analysis to find solutions to production problems.
Digital platforms and services stimulate economic growth and development. Countries are looking to the “internet economy” to provide new market opportunities and help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as promoting economic growth and sustainable industralisation, a process often relying on an increase in online access rates and smartphone penetration.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/technology-innovation/digital-platforms-and-services-development-opportunity-asean?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Manufacturing and the data conundrum: Too much? Too little? Or just right?, commissioned by Wipro, examines how manufacturers are using integrated data collection and analysis to improve production throughput, reduce costs and improve quality. The research is based on a survey of 50 C-suite executives from manufacturers in North America and Western Europe.
The survey shows that just 42% of respondents have what they consider to be a well-defined data-management strategy. However, 62% are not sure they have been able to keep up with the large volumes of data they collect, as it comes from too many sources and in a variety of formats and speeds.
The report also finds that while over 90% of manufacturers collect data from monitoring production processes, less than half have in place predictive data analytics, and less than 40% use data analysis to find solutions to production problems.
Enable Oauth2.0 with Sentinet API Management (Massimo Crippa @ BTUG Event)Codit
Find here the slides of the presentation on Sentinet, given by Massimo Crippa (Codit) on the BTUG Event of 13th of October 2015.
Sentinet has recently introduced the support for the OAuth and OpenID Connect protocols.
In this presentation you will see the supported authentication flows, how to secure a regular BizTalk SOAP and REST service with OAuth 2.0 and how to call an OAuth-protected API from BizTalk with no coding or any changes in the existing application.
Accenture: Der Weg zur Social Enterprise – Best Practices für CIOsSalesforce Deutschland
Der Gedanke der Social Enterprises verändert den Umgang der Unternehmen mit ihren Kunden. Begleiten Sie Jörg Besier, Accenture Cloud Lead in ASG, und Daniel Le Jehan, wie Sie über Best Practices bereits heute den Weg zum Social Enterprise beschreiten können und wie das Salesforce Innovation Center die Kunden hierbei unterstützt.
Learn how Accenture is applying the New with Oracle technologies now based on the five key trends presented in this report.
https://www.accenture.com/technologyvisionoracle
TRANSFORM FROM PROJECT TO PRODUCT TO SURVIVE THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION Mani Maun
For the last 10 years or so established businesses have faced the threat of digital disruption, the traditional planning, and execution methods no longer seem enough to survive.
The impact from COVID-19, in a matter of months, has sped up the rate of disruption, to an extent that established businesses are struggling to understand and keep up with the new normal. On day 0 of COVID-19, when things started to shut down, faults with the current delivery methods of digital transformation started to surface. Current Planning, budgeting, prioritization, resourcing, operations, and delivery just seems out of place and not relevant anymore.
In the volatile and uncertain times, we are in, traditional managerial frameworks and infrastructure models cannot keep up with demands being placed on them.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the November Edition:
•DELL EMC To Support AI Knowledge Sharing and VR Adoption
•Fortinet To Drive Security Transformation
•Redington Value adds new big data vendors and unveils advanced analytics practice -Ramkumar Balakrishnan , President, Redington Value
•Huawei fuels Middle East’s AI future
•Microsoft highlights threat management solutions
•AccelStor signs up Redington Value to deliver all-flash array solutions
•Symantec significantly expands cloud security portfolio
•Impinj to deliver transformative IoT solutions in MEA
•Kaspersky Lab signs up Redington Value as regional VAD
•Mimecast spotlights the importance of the ‘human firewall’
•GITEX HIGHLIGHTS
The 10 best enterprise collaboration solution providers dec 2017Merry D'souza
Insights Success has critically evaluated and curated a list of “The 10 Best Enterprise Collaboration Solution Providers 2017,” which are revolutionizing collaborative businesses and driving diverse strategies to help organizations extend their business horizons.
Big Data & Analytics for E&P conferenceDale Butler
Building on the success of SMi Group's E&P Information & Data Management conference, we have launched Big Data & Analytics for E&P. Join us in London this July
Capgemini & EMC Transform Brazilian Businesses with Next-Generation Cloud Sol...Capgemini
Brazil is going through a digital transformation. Learn about how Capgemini and EMC are partnering to deliver best-in-class, cloud-based solutions to help clients succeed.
These transformational offers such as SAP HANA aaS or ECM aaS are based on the suite of EMC’s Federation of technology including VNX, VMAX, VMware.
Presented by Gustavo Trevisan, CTO, Capgemini Brazil, at EMC World 2014.
http://www.capgemini.com/emc
Presented on September 16th, 2015 at Microsoft Hosting Summit in Brussels:
- The power of the Hybrid Cloud
- Microsoft Cloud OS Network (COSN) partnership
- On-premise Private Cloud with WAP-in-a-Box
Enable Oauth2.0 with Sentinet API Management (Massimo Crippa @ BTUG Event)Codit
Find here the slides of the presentation on Sentinet, given by Massimo Crippa (Codit) on the BTUG Event of 13th of October 2015.
Sentinet has recently introduced the support for the OAuth and OpenID Connect protocols.
In this presentation you will see the supported authentication flows, how to secure a regular BizTalk SOAP and REST service with OAuth 2.0 and how to call an OAuth-protected API from BizTalk with no coding or any changes in the existing application.
Accenture: Der Weg zur Social Enterprise – Best Practices für CIOsSalesforce Deutschland
Der Gedanke der Social Enterprises verändert den Umgang der Unternehmen mit ihren Kunden. Begleiten Sie Jörg Besier, Accenture Cloud Lead in ASG, und Daniel Le Jehan, wie Sie über Best Practices bereits heute den Weg zum Social Enterprise beschreiten können und wie das Salesforce Innovation Center die Kunden hierbei unterstützt.
Learn how Accenture is applying the New with Oracle technologies now based on the five key trends presented in this report.
https://www.accenture.com/technologyvisionoracle
TRANSFORM FROM PROJECT TO PRODUCT TO SURVIVE THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION Mani Maun
For the last 10 years or so established businesses have faced the threat of digital disruption, the traditional planning, and execution methods no longer seem enough to survive.
The impact from COVID-19, in a matter of months, has sped up the rate of disruption, to an extent that established businesses are struggling to understand and keep up with the new normal. On day 0 of COVID-19, when things started to shut down, faults with the current delivery methods of digital transformation started to surface. Current Planning, budgeting, prioritization, resourcing, operations, and delivery just seems out of place and not relevant anymore.
In the volatile and uncertain times, we are in, traditional managerial frameworks and infrastructure models cannot keep up with demands being placed on them.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the November Edition:
•DELL EMC To Support AI Knowledge Sharing and VR Adoption
•Fortinet To Drive Security Transformation
•Redington Value adds new big data vendors and unveils advanced analytics practice -Ramkumar Balakrishnan , President, Redington Value
•Huawei fuels Middle East’s AI future
•Microsoft highlights threat management solutions
•AccelStor signs up Redington Value to deliver all-flash array solutions
•Symantec significantly expands cloud security portfolio
•Impinj to deliver transformative IoT solutions in MEA
•Kaspersky Lab signs up Redington Value as regional VAD
•Mimecast spotlights the importance of the ‘human firewall’
•GITEX HIGHLIGHTS
The 10 best enterprise collaboration solution providers dec 2017Merry D'souza
Insights Success has critically evaluated and curated a list of “The 10 Best Enterprise Collaboration Solution Providers 2017,” which are revolutionizing collaborative businesses and driving diverse strategies to help organizations extend their business horizons.
Big Data & Analytics for E&P conferenceDale Butler
Building on the success of SMi Group's E&P Information & Data Management conference, we have launched Big Data & Analytics for E&P. Join us in London this July
Capgemini & EMC Transform Brazilian Businesses with Next-Generation Cloud Sol...Capgemini
Brazil is going through a digital transformation. Learn about how Capgemini and EMC are partnering to deliver best-in-class, cloud-based solutions to help clients succeed.
These transformational offers such as SAP HANA aaS or ECM aaS are based on the suite of EMC’s Federation of technology including VNX, VMAX, VMware.
Presented by Gustavo Trevisan, CTO, Capgemini Brazil, at EMC World 2014.
http://www.capgemini.com/emc
Presented on September 16th, 2015 at Microsoft Hosting Summit in Brussels:
- The power of the Hybrid Cloud
- Microsoft Cloud OS Network (COSN) partnership
- On-premise Private Cloud with WAP-in-a-Box
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 November Edition:
• Redington Value Drives Transformation
• DellEMC launches new partner program
• Red Hat's mobile vision to support containerized mobile app development
• Fortiner delivers on open security fabric
• FGB expands analytics capabilities in partnership with Oracle
• CloudHost unveils UAE's first user-based cloud solution
• Cisco Announces new education platform
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
•Redington Value strengthens RPA offerings with Automation Anywhere
•Microsoft Cloud datacenter regions now available in the UAE
•Redington Value Inks Distribution Agreement with Cohesity
•Salesforce to acquire Tableau
•Business and IT heads recognize AI can transform the Contact Center
•Organizations can lose $20 Million in a year due to poor data management
•Fortinet rapidly expands its partner focused Security as a Service Cloud offerings
•Malwarebytes simplifies enterprise endpoint security orchestration with ServiceNow integration
•Partners see increased avenues for growth with Nutanix and HPE Partnership
•Microsoft and Oracle to interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud
•Huawei drives 5G adoption to accelerate digital transformation
Digital transformation is the process of reorienting an organization to focus on value creation through the widespread and persistent application of digital technologies.
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Redington Value Distribution launches its first ever ‘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 June Edition:
• Redington Value surges ahead with RedCloud
• Fortinet honours top ‘channel partners and distributors’
• Oracle and Redington Value promote SPARC M7
• Redington shines at the Channel Middle East awards
• Cisco moves to develop Africa Partners
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the April Edition:
•Coronet Security Signs Distribution Deal With Redington Value
•HPE announces innovation center to accelerate UAE’s innovation ecosystem
•Carving a niche : By Zahid Sumar, Regional Sales Head, East and South Africa, Redington Value
•Dell EMC reveals results of third Global Data Protection Index
•Avaya targets huddle rooms with latest product enhancements
•Fortinet Highlights Convergence Of Cybersecurity And Physical Spaces
•Kaspersky Lab unveils new program to empower partners
•Micro Focus completes SUSE sale
•Nutanix .Next on Tour emphasizes onchannel partner programs
•Veritas acquires APTARE to enhance enterprise data analytics
•Pivot3 achieves common criteria certification to drive hybrid cloud adoption
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the June Edition:
•Redington Value On Navigating The New Normal Through Digital Innovations
•AWS Outposts Now Available In UAE And Saudi Arabia
•Dell Technologies Delivers The Power Of Open Source Networking
•HPE Announces General Availability Of GreenLake Central
•Oracle Announces Oracle Analytics For Fusion HCM
•Fortinet Announces Secure SD-WAN Innovations
•Aruba Unveils New Secure AI-Powered Solutions
•Tableau 2020.2 Introduces New Data Model For Powerful Multi-Source Analysis
•Huawei Announces White Paper On Future Network Architectures
•A10 Networks: Mobile Telecom Industry Advances Toward 5G
•Nutanix Simplifies Advanced Business Continuity With Automation
•Cohesity Unveils Mobile App For Enterprise Data Management Platform
•VMware Announces Next-Gen SOC Alliance
•New Veeam Backup For Microsoft Azure Now Available
The Four Essential Pillars of Digital TransformationIan Thomas
Based on years of practical experience this whitepaper distils four key pillars we have observed time and again in successful digital initiatives, providing a structured foundation for an orderly, end-to-end digital transformation of the enterprise.
A cloud revolution is brewing, and it promises to radically transform the way we compete, collaborate, and consume business services. Indeed, in an economy as volatile and hypercompetitive as today’s, the cloud’s potent mix of simplicity, security, faster innovation, and lower operating costs is proving increasingly attractive. For many businesses—small, medium, and large—the time to adopt this game-changing approach is now.
The 10 Most Scalable Cloud Solution Providers of 2019Mirror Review
The cloud computing industry has grown tremendously in the last couple of years. The major factors that are fueling this growth are increased automation and agility, the need for delivering superior customer experience, enhanced cost savings and greater return on investment.
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Cloud Computing is an information technology gold rush. Everything from social media and smart phones to streaming video and additive games come from the cloud. This revolution has also driven many to wonder how they can retool themselves to take advantage of this massive shift. Many in IT see the technology as an opportunity to accelerate their careers but in their attempt to navigate their cloud computing future, the question of what type of training, vendor-neutral or vendor-specific, is right for them
Customize Transformation For A Personalized ExperienceLCDF
Shifting to a Customer-centric
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Many businesses already see the writing on the wall: Only 8 percent of companies
say their current business model will remain economically viable if their industry
keeps digitizing at its current course and speed.2 But to become a modern digital
business, you must go beyond just digitizing old business models and instead use
technology to align your people, processes, and technology around entirely new ways
of serving customers.
By placing the customer at the center of everything you do, you can create products,
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Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from June Edition :
•Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expands HPE GreenLake
•Alibaba Cloud and Redington Boost MEA Technology
Ecosystem
•Cisco Announces New Service Enhancement For XDR And
SASE
•Dell Technologies Announces Planned VMware Spin-Off
•Microsoft-EIU Study Reveals Digital Preparedness Helped
Firms Adapt to COVID-19
•Huawei Releases CloudCampus 3.0 for Fully Wireless Networks
•Forcepoint Acquires Remote Browser Isolation Innovator
Cyberinc
•New Avaya OneCloud CCaaS Features to Enhance Customer
Experiences
•Citrix Research Uncovers New Approach to Security
•Fortinet Unveils New FortiEDR Capabilities
•Mimecast: 61% of Firms were Infected with Ransomware in 2020
•Palo Alto Networks Introduces Complete Zero Trust Network Security
•Software AG Delivers New webMethods Upgrades
•Veeam Accelerates Data Protection Strategies at VeeamON 2021
•Talend: Over a Third of Business Leaders Don’t Use Data for Critical Decisions
Showcasing exemplary stories of success where channel partners have gone to great lengths to implement innovative solutions. Acclaiming those partners who have risen to the challenges of the digital era and transformed their business to a solutions offering. Inspiring channel businesses to become value-added providers and trusted allies to their customers. Stories that made a Difference.
Key stories of the edition are as below:
1. FUELING GROWTH - CDW Middle East & Africa
2. NEW FRONTIERS- EmaxIT International
3. LAYING THE FOUNDATION - Innovative Incorporation
Trading
4. CRITICAL CONNECTIONS- Visiontech Systems International
5. THE BIG PICTURE - BMB Group
6. THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE - Maxbyte Technologies
7. BANKING ON THE FUTURE - ConSol Enterprising IT
8. TOP GRADE - Cloud Box Technologies
9. EAGLE EYE - Fox Data Dubai
10.SECURE GATEWAYS - Virus Rescuers
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from April-May Edition:
•Software AG Appoints Redington Value As Middle East Distributor
•Microsoft Announces Nuance Acquisition
•Dell Technologies: UAE and Saudi Arabia Lead in Digital Transformation
•Cisco Announces New Data Center to Serve Collaboration Customers
•Aruba Accelerates Digital Transformation on Microsoft Azure
•Tableau Business Science Brings Powerful Data Science Capabilities
•Oracle Announces Cloud Lift Services
•Okta Launches Customer Identity Risk Ecosystem and Workflow Integrations
•VMware Cloud Accelerates App Modernization Through Multi-Cloud Services
•Mimecast Publishes Report on Threat Actor Attacks During COVID-19
•Micro Focus Introduces OPTIC
•Ivanti: Remote Work is Sending IT Security Budgets Out of Control
•CyberArk Highlights Credential Theft Trends for New Types of Identities
•Gigamon Launches Hawk to Secure Cloud Adoption
•Check Point Software Announces Mobile Security Report 2021
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Oracle Expands Hybrid Cloud Portfolio with Roving Edge Infrastructure
•Huawei Unveils New Solutions to Stimulate Growth in the Digital Economy
•Fortinet Delivers Major Updates to FortiOS Operating System
•Cisco Completes Acquisition of IMImobile
•Palo Alto Networks Launches NextWave 3.0
•Cambium Networks Unveils Gigabit Outdoor Point to Point Solution
•Check Point Software Launches Unified Security Solution Harmony
•Citrix Tackles Employee Well-Being
•CrowdStrike Delivers Advanced Threat Protection for Cloud and Container Workloads
•Kaspersky: DDoS Attacks in Q4 2020 Dropped by a Third Compared to Q3
•Nutanix Extends Ransomware Protections to Help Secure Customers’ IT Environments
•New Veeam Backup & Replication v11 Now Available
•VMware Refreshes vRealize Cloud Management
•Veritas Introduces NetBackup 9
•Ivanti Wavelink Expands Velocity Platform
•CyberArk Delivers New Identity Security Offerings to Drive Customer Success
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the February Edition:
•Microsoft Unveils Employee Experience Platform to Help People Thrive at Work
•Cisco Reveals Top Tech Trends for 2021 and Beyond
•Aruba ClearPass Security Portfolio Receives Cyber CatalystSM Designation
•Oracle Powers New 5G, Fiber and Digital Services for Communications Industry
•Fortinet Announces AI-powered XDR for Fully Automated Threat Detection and Response
•Citrix to Acquire Project Management Platform Wrike
•Check Point Unveils New Quantum Spark Security Gateways for SMBs
•CyberArk Study: Poor Security Habits Raise Questions About the Future of Remote Work
•Fujitsu Amps up Behavior Recognition Tech with Deep Learning
•Hitachi Launches Industrial Edge Computer CE Series Embedded AI model
•High Private Cloud Usage Sets Path for UAE’s Hybrid Cloud Migration
•Veritas Extends Cloud Capabilities Across its Platform
•Lumen, VMware Expand Partnership to Drive Rapid Innovation at the Edge
•Malwarebytes Announces New Integrations in OneView
Management Dashboard
•Veeam Announces Availability of New Backup for Google Cloud Platform
•Palo Alto Networks Expands IoT Security to Healthcare
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the January Edition:
•Hewlett Packard Enterprise Empowers Channel Collaborations
•Saudi Railway Company Modernizes Railway Data Infrastructure with Oracle Cloud
•Emirates Group Security Selects Huawei to Build Digital Command and Control Centre
•Fortinet Announces Secure SD-WAN Appliances for OT Environments
•Aruba Automates Branch Office Connectivity to AWS
•Avaya Announces Solutions to Assist with COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
•Check Point Survey Reveals Security Priorities for 2021 and Beyond
•WebSprix to Deploy Cisco Routed Optical Networking Solution with Cisco 8000
•Citrix Uncovers What Employees Really Want in 2021
•Cohesity Announces SaaS Offerings for Backup and Disaster Recovery
•Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Expanse
•Nutanix Extends Storage Services to its Hybrid Cloud Platform
•Tableau 2020.4 Simplifies Data Preparation with Browser-Based Tableau Prep
•New Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 Now Available
•Gigamon Channel-First Focus Provides Partners Unparalleled Support
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the December Edition:
•Redington Value Announces Strategic Partnerships and Service Offerings
•Microsoft Facilitates Compliance in the Hybrid Work Era
•Cisco Announces All New Webex
•Oracle’s Second-Generation Cloud Region in the UAE Goes Live
•Huawei Outlines New Growth Opportunities with 5G
•New Comcast Business Solution Powered by Aruba Brings Enterprise-Grade Office Connectivity from Home
•Barracuda Acquires Zero Trust Network Access Innovator Fyde
•Citrix Sets New Standard for Digital Workspace Security
•Check Point Software Launches New Cybersecurity Platform
•CrowdStrike Advances Threat Intelligence Offerings with Situational Awareness
•Gartner Recognises Fortinet as Leader in Network Firewalls
•Nutanix Signs Sponsorship Agreement of HPE Digital Life Garage
•Micro Focus Announces CISO Resource to Accelerate Enterprise Resilience
•VMware Unveils the Modern Network Framework for Data Center and Cloud Networking
•Palo Alto Networks Reimagines Data Security with Enterprise
Data Loss Prevention Service
•Freshworks unveils Freshworks CRM
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the October Edition:
•Redington Value Signs Agreement to Become FireEye Distributor
•Gigamon Announces Distribution Agreement with Redington Value
•Aruba ESP Unifies IoT, IT and OT Networks
•Nutanix Announces HCI Software Innovations
•Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle Maximum Security Zones Now Available
•Gigamon Partners with Nokia to Deliver 5G Solution
•Huawei Launches Digital OptiX Network Solutions in the Middle East
•QR Codes Pose Significant Security Risks to Enterprises: MobileIron
•Soft Skills and Tech Critical to Maximize Value From AI: Microsoft
•Palo Alto Networks Introduces Next-Generation SD-WAN Solution
•Cisco’s Webex Enables Rapid Adoption of New Remote Learning Models for MEA
•Trend Micro Blocked 8.8 Million COVID-19 Threats
•Ooredoo Kuwait partners with Nutanix to launch VDI-as-a-Service for businesses
•Talend Introduces Measure of Data Health
•VMware Advances 5G Telco Cloud Portfolio
•Mimecast Announces Integration with Theta Lake
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the September Edition:
• Redington Value Joins Digital Guardian’s Synergy Partner Program
• Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Now Available
• Cybercriminals Exploiting Global Pandemic at Enormous Scale: Fortinet
• Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Now Available on Amazon Web Service.
• CyberArk Alero Enhances Remote User Security with New Authentication Options
• PTC Enhances Industrial IoT Platform
• Ivanti Announces New Service and Asset Management Releases
• Massive Gaps in Cybersecurity as Employees Work at Home: Malwarebytes
• Micro Focus Announces General Availability of ArcSight 2020
• Gigamon Attains New Validation to Deliver Security Solutions to Government Sector
• MobileIron Offers Complete Mobile Phishing Protection
• VMware Brings Kubernetes to Fusion 12 and Workstation 16 Releases
• Palo Alto Networks Introduces Marketplace for Cortex XSOAR
• Huawei Announces Next-Gen OceanStor Pacific Series
• Tableau 2020.3 Adds External Write to Database, Enhanced Administrator Tools
• Trend Micro Announces XDR Suite in the UAE
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the August Edition:
•AWS Announces General Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise
•Dell Technologies Explores VMware Spin-Off
•HPE To Drive Edge-to-Cloud Strategy With Acquisition Of Silver Peak
•Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer
•Fortinet Acquires Cloud Security and Networking Innovator OPAQ Networks
•Nexthink Launches Experience Platform
•Nutanix Sheds Light On Smart City Development Expectations
•Palo Alto Networks Launches World’s First ML-Powered NGFW
•57% of UAE IT Heads See Challenge In Gaining Holistic Network Visibility: VMware
•Mimecast Acquires MessageControl
•Cybersecurity Top Priority In COVID-19 Recovery: CrowdStrike Report
•Cohesity Launches Consumption-Based Subscription Pricing for MSP Partner
•Kaspersky’s New VPN Secure Connection Ensures User Privacy
•Veeam Announces New Competencies To EMEA ProPartner Program
•82% of UAE Remote Workers Have Gained Cybersecurity Awareness: Trend Micro
•Imperva Unveils Cloud Data Security Solution
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
•Systancia Appoints Redington Value As Distributor For Middle East And Africa
•AWS Launches Marketplace And Data Exchange In UAE
•Dell Technologies Brings Cloud Capabilities To Edge Environments
•Redington Expands Imperva Partnership To Africa
•SAS And Microsoft To Shape The Future Of Analytics And AI
•Fortinet Achieves MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Certification
•Red Hat Announces Enhancements To Ansible Automation Portfolio
•A10 Networks Delivers Highest Performance DDoS Protection
•Regional SMEs To Leverage The Power Of Avaya IP Office Subscription
•Veeam Announces New Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3
•60% Of UAE Enterprises Anticipate An Email-Borne Attack: Mimecast
•Micro Focus Introduces New Family Of Software
•StorageCraft Unifies Business Continuity Stack With ShadowXafe 4.0
•CrowdStrike Falcon Expands Linux Protection With Enhanced Prevention Capabilities
•Nutanix Strengthens Desktop as a Service Solution
•HPE To Deliver New Return-To-Work Solutions To Help Firms Accelerate Recovery
Showcasing exemplary stories of success where channel partners have gone to great lengths to implement innovative solutions. Acclaiming those partners who have risen to the challenges of the digital era and transformed their business to a solutions offering. Inspiring channel businesses to become value-added providers and trusted allies to their customers. Stories that made a Difference.
Key stories of the edition are as below:
1. DATA DRIVEN Masterworks
2. ENHANCING PROFITABILITY Robosoft Soliutions
3. COMBINING INNOVATIONS Agile Cloud Solutions
4. UNLOCKING EFFICIENCIES Zero & One
5. ADAPTING TO CHANGE Paramount Computer Systems
6. POWERING THROUGH ICD Technologies
7. CUTTING COMPLEXITY Alpha Data
8. BRIDGING THE GAP Deltron
9. THE PERFECT MATCH Aerizo
10.INTEGRATING SKILLS Intertec Systems
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the February Edition:
• Insight Partners to acquire Veeam
• Mimecast acquires Segasec
• Nutanix and International Systems Engineering sign MoU
• Aruba advances digital retail experiences
• IDC MarketScape positions VMware as a Leader in three end-user computing vendor assessments
• Micro Focus introduces Voltage SmartCipher
• Microsoft commits to become Carbon negative by 2030
• Red Hat accelerates cloud-native development with unified hybrid cloud storage
• Kaspersky integrates with SolarWinds
• A10 Networks extends Thunder Convergent Firewall capabilities
• Fortinet to showcase digital innovations in security at Accelerate 2020
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the January Edition:
• Mashreq migrates to the Microsoft intelligent cloud
• Veeam launches new AWS-Native Backup and Recovery Solution in AWS Marketplace
• CrowdStrike partners with ElevenPaths to bring its platform to
customers worldwide
• Dell Technologies names Jeff Clarke as Chief Operating Officer
• GDPR compliance rate remains low according to new talend research
• Mobile Service providers preparing to fortify Security in anticipation of 5G deployments, according to survey
• New Mimecast research finds data loss is primary concern for
financial industry
• Barracuda MSP announces strong performance internationally
• Fortinet Secure SD-WAN chosen by over 21,000 global customers
• IT security budgets lower than average in 45% of SMBs and 50% of enterprises
• IDC MarketScape positions VMware as leader in three end-user computing vendor assessments
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the December Edition:
•Sage announces Redington as official distribution partner for GCC
•Enabling a data-driven future
•New Avaya partnership set to improve emergency response in MEA
•New Kaspersky Sandbox automates protection from advanced threats
•Huawei receives TSIA rated outstanding assisted support EMEA certification
•CrowdStrike introduces Falcon for AWS to simplify cloud workload protection
•Microsoft marks ADIPEC 2019 with intelligent cloud to empower regional energy sector
•Veeam unveils new backup solutions for Microsoft cloud platforms
•Aruba named leader in latest IDC MarketScape report
•Red Hat brings predictive models to business automation portfolio
•Fortinet chosen by Ooredoo Kuwait to deliver secure SD-WAN managed service
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the November Edition:
•Commercial Bank of Dubai adopts the Microsoft Cloud to accelerate digitization
•The next frontier of value
•Abu Dhabi Municipality chooses Aruba for digital workplace transformation project
•Nutanix announces new IT automation for private clouds
•Fortinet ranked high by Gartner for SDWAN equipment market share by revenue
•Okta launches Okta SecurityInsights to protect global workforces
•Automation Anywhere launches AI-Powered RPA-as-a-Service platform
•New Mimecast report finds staggering increase in BEC Attacks
•Huawei stresses on key pillars for digital economy in the region
•DU chooses Oracle to accelerate uptake of UAE FEDNet programme
•VMware ranked 1st in cloud systems, service management
Showcasing exemplary stories of success where channel partners have gone to great lengths to implement innovative solutions. Acclaiming those partners who have risen to the challenges of the digital era and transformed their business to a solutions offering. Inspiring channel businesses to become value-added providers and trusted allies to their customers. Stories that made a Difference.
Key stories of the edition are as below:
1. THE POWER OF DATA Cynosure
2. THE GAME PLAN Dataplus
3. BACK TO THE FUTURE FutureX
4. REAL SECURITY MDS DUBAI
5. LEARNING FROM ‘THE BLACKBOARD’ OCS Infotech
6. BACKED UP Seven Seas Computers
7. SMART BANKING Th ingLogix
8. FLYING HIGH Qatar Project Group International
9. SECURE UNION IE Network Solutions
10. GETMAX OF IT Getmax DMCC
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the October Edition:
•Freshworks, Redington Gulf partner to bring customer engagement products to MEA region
•Oracle and VMware partner to support customers’ hybrid cloud strategies
•AWS announces general availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
•HPE announces market share, revenue growth in enterprise storage
•Seclore expands SDK platform
•Independent research firm names CrowdStrike a leader in endpoint security
•Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response now generally available
•Bahrain Credit drives digital transformation with Veeam
•Dell Technologies unveils ground-breaking servers, solutions
for Modern Data Centers
•SAS recognized as leader in enterprise marketing software suites
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the September Edition:
•Aruba “leads the pack” in 2019 wireless solutions evaluation by Forrester Research
•Automation Anywhere acquires klevops to maximize collaboration between humans, Bots
•Dell Technologies cloud advancements deliver new Kubernetes Support, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure options
•AWS announces general availability of Amazon Forecast
•SAS sees 105% growth in AI revenue, per analyst report
•Deloitte, Splunk provide automated security monitoring and response capabilities to organizations worldwide
•Veeam to drive Middle East businesses to adopt Cloud Data Management at GITEX 2019
•IDC MarketScape recognizes PTC as a Global Industrial IoT Platform Leader
•Apparel Group fuels amazing growth trajectory with Oracle
•Mimecast now delivers community-based, tailored Threat
Intelligence
•Red Hat launches OpenShift Service Mesh to accelerate adoption of Microservices and Cloud-Native Applications
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
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Length: 30 minutes
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- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
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- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*
Redington Value Journal - May 2017
1. Issue 11 // May 2017
DELL EMC: DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
EFFORTS STILL LAGGING
Only 5% of large companies prepared to meet IT requirements of the new digital business.
Redington Value is a value added distributor for the following brands in parts of Middle East & Africa:
The study shows 95 percent
of survey respondents indicate
their organisations are at risk
of falling behind a smaller
group of industry peers that
are transforming their IT
infrastructures, processes
and delivery methods to
accelerate their goals of
becoming digital businesses.
Many organisations still
measure application cycle times
in months, if not years; have
siloed infrastructures; and
continue to grapple with rigid
legacy architectures – all barriers
G
lobal senior
IT leaders and
decision-making
managers of large
companies said
that their organisations have
yet to fully embrace the aspects
of IT transformation needed to
remain competitive as per an
ESG 2017 IT Transformation
Maturity Curve study
commissioned by Dell EMC.
to undertaking a successful
digital transformation.
“These findings mirror
how the vast majority of
customers are telling us
they need to optimise their
existing infrastructures to
take advantage of digital-
age opportunities,” said
Mohammed Amin, Senior
Vice President, Middle East,
Turkey and Africa, Dell EMC.
“However, the research shows
that most respondents are
falling behind a small and elite
set of competitors who have
cracked the IT transformation
code, and they’re competing
more vigorously because of
it. As organisations progress
in their IT transformation
investments, they can overcome
the conflict between legacy IT
and digital business initiatives
to realise their goals, speed
time to market and increase
competitiveness.”
Based on the survey,
a majority of respondents
(71 percent) agree that IT
transformation is essential
Microsoft urges upskilling in cloud
Microsoft’s cloud trainings allow IT professionals to broaden their horizons by gaining applicable cloud skills.
Microsoft has called for IT
professionals across UAE and
the wider Middle East to prepare
themselves for a cloud future
by sharpening their skills in
Microsoft Azure, through the
company’s cloud trainings and
certifications.
Azure trainings and
certifications run as a blend of
scheduled and on-demand online
courses, covering generalised
and niche, cloud-focused subject
areas for getting up to speed with
Azure. IT Pros can choose to
learn in Massively Open Online
Courses (MOOCs) with labs,
or study for a test and take a
certification exam. Completing
any MOOC includes a digital
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Mohammed Amin, Dell EMC EMEA
certificate of completion, and
passing a certification exam earns
IT Pros the related certification
and its digital badges.
“Microsoft’s cloud trainings
allow IT professionals to broaden
their horizons by gaining
practical, instantly applicable
cloud skills,” said Necip Ozyucel,
Cloud and Enterprise Business
Solutions Lead, Microsoft Gulf.
“Whether beginner or expert,
we have the course to help them
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2.
3. Huawei launches OpenLab Dubai
It aims to accelerate Middle East digital transformation with global partners.
Huawei has announced the
launch of its OpenLab Dubai,
its first to serve customers and
partners in the Middle East,
and a part of Huawei’s Global
OpenLab program.
The Chinese firm plans to add
seven new OpenLabs across the
world in 2017, and has announced
that it will invest $200 million and
add nearly 1,000 people globally in
the next three years, bringing the
total number of OpenLabs to 20
by 2019.
OpenLab Dubai aims to give
customers a hands-on experience
of public safety, smart city, oil
and gas solutions, and has been
jointly launched with more than 30
solutions and over 20 partners.
OpenLab Dubai has a mandate
to provide “innovative solutions
for IoT, cloud computing, large
data, intelligent analysis, eLTE,
converged communications and
other new technologies to build
public safety, smart city and oil and
gas solutions.” The initiative has
attracted YITU, Zenith, Walkbase,
7G, IOmniscient, Nedap, Richfit
and more than 20 other partners.
With the “Platform +
Ecosystem, accelerate the Middle
East digital transformation of the
industry”, OpenLab Dubai brings
together partners and customers
from around the world to discuss
the importance of collaboration
in the development of a local
digital ecosystem.
Fan Siyong, Huawei’s President
of its public sector business, said,
“The digital transformation is
causing disruption across every
industry. Huawei has established
OpenLabs across the world with
the theme “platform + ecosystem”,
and is committed to working with
global multi-specialty and industry
partners to build customer-centric,
innovative industry solutions to
promote digital transformation and
promote ecosystem development
through the creation of an ‘open,
flexible and safe’ platform that fully
supports the ecosystem.”
Xijiang Lin, Director of Huawei
Enterprise Business Group’s
Middle East Solution Development
Center, said, “OpenLab Dubai will
aggregate the world’s best resources
to meet local digital transformation
needs, and continuously enhance
the ICT platform capabilities and
development of local ecosystems.
OpenLab Dubai is focused on
building capabilities to easily apply
technical solutions in the actual
network environment; developing
competitive, commercially viable
and industry-oriented solutions.”
to ongoing business
competitiveness. Of the
‘transformed’ companies,
85 percent believe their
organisations are in a ‘very
strong’ or ‘strong’ position to
compete and succeed in their
market over the next few years
contrasted with 43 percent of
the least mature companies.
It also revealed that these
organisations are eight times
more likely than the least
mature organisations to
report a highly cooperative
relationship between IT and
the business. In addition, these
‘transformed’ firms have made
‘excellent progress’ running IT
as a profit center rather than a
cost center (seven times more
likely than the least mature).
level up in their cloud career. We
have invested heavily in Azure
training, because our global reach
and Azure’s versatility means
it is a platform that can fit any
need, no matter the business
scale or the industry; so anyone
who takes our courses will learn
things that relate directly to their
existing job and allow them to
add value. Our trainings will show
you guide IT Pros to build hybrid
or open-source solutions, and
the courseware provides tactile
learning experiences that you
can employ immediately, while
earning technical certifications
that prepare you for rewarding
career advancement.”
A recent worldwide survey
conducted by Microsoft showed
a marked increase in the
salaries of cloud professionals,
as companies recruit for their
digital transformation journeys.
The survey also noted that 37
percent of respondents in the
Middle East and Africa region
cited a skills gap as the main
barrier to cloud adoption.
“In the GCC, governments
have initiated bold economic-
development visions centred on
technology,” said Ozyucel. “Much
of the activity in the private
and public sectors around these
programmes – especially given
the emerging constraints of the
petrochemical price dip – is about
doing more with less. In the
context of digital transformation,
that means cloud, so the surge in
demand for cloud specialists is to
be expected.”
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Dell EMC... Microsoft...
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Transformation is critical to every
business. Enterprises are moving
rapidly to the new digital era and are
expecting the same swiftness and
agility from partners, compelling
them to transform business
processes, delivery and operations.
Transformation is no longer just
a buzz word and partners need to
understand its importance. The
answer to why they should evolve
is simply because end customers
are demanding it. Today customers
do not want to invest a lot of time
procuring products and getting them
implemented. They want outcome-
based conversations and are looking
to deploy solutions. Therefore,
partners should learn to move in
this direction where they are not
just offering products but complete
solutions. This is what is driving
transformation across the board –
solutions selling.
This change will lead to
the next phase in the industry,
which is everything-as-a-service.
Today customers are increasingly
demanding more offerings around
security-as-a-service, voice-as-a-
service and infrastructure-as-a-
service. It is essential to note that
it is relevant not only to public
cloud providers such as the likes of
Amazons or Microsofts but each
Redington partner will have to
transform on what they offer to end
customers as a service. Services
will be the next big phase and
those partners who prepare their
businesses today to be conducive to
such an environment will be able to
make the most of the opportunities.
At Redington Value, we offer
support and training in enabling our
partners to make this transition to
the digital era, by ensuring a deep
focus on services and solutions.
Key to
transformation
By Ramkumar Balakrishnan, President,
Redington Gulf – Value Distribution
COLUMN: REDefined
For more information, please write to sales.value@redingtonmea.com
4. Fortinet extends Security Fabric
automation, visibility and control
to cloud environments
This spans private and public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds to
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
Fortinet has announced that it
has extended the performance,
automation, visibility and
management of the Fortinet
Security Fabric into all types
of cloud environments,
spanning private and public
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) clouds to Software-as-a-
Service (SaaS) applications.
The company delivers cloud
security scale, performance and
value for private and public
clouds with expanded virtualised
FortiGate capacities. Enabling
enterprises to pay for cloud
security as needed, Fortinet
solutions are now available
on-demand in the Microsoft
Azure Marketplace. Optimising
automation of public cloud
deployments, FortiGate delivers
enhanced auto-scaling and
orchestration capabilities for
AWS workloads, both on-demand
and bring-your-own-license
(BYOL). New Fortinet VM On-
Demand pay-as-you-go licensing
programme for cloud providers
and MSSPs delivers flexible
pricing and automation options
for end customers. FortiCASB is a
new cloud access security broker
service for on and off-network
visibility and control of Office 365
and other SaaS applications.
John Maddison, Senior
Vice President of Products
and Solutions, Fortinet, said,
“Companies are building
out flexible and scalable
infrastructure with the use of
private and public clouds. As
such, maintaining a strong and
consistent security posture is
essential. Fortinet is enhancing
its security capabilities across
private, infrastructure and
application (SaaS) clouds
through its Security Fabric.
This ranges from increased
scalability, new public cloud
features and SaaS visibility via
a new CASB offering, delivering
optimal security performance at
cloud-scale.”John Maddison, Fortinet
Avayaintroducesframeworkfor
theEverywhereDataCenter
Avaya Pivot addresses key challenges of distributed computing, allowing more
structure and control while lowering risk and complexity.
Avaya has introduced a
framework to help enterprises
deal with the security and
efficiency challenges arising
as the Internet of Things
(IoT), Big Data, and digital
transformation push compute
functions out to the edge of the
network. The Avaya framework
for the Everywhere Data Center
addresses these challenges,
introducing the Avaya Pivot
operating platform and the
Avaya Arc orchestration
engine. The company has also
announced the Avaya VSP
8600, a modular Ethernet
switch specifically designed to
complement the capabilities of
Avaya Pivot and Avaya Arc.
Avaya’s framework for
the Everywhere Data Center
has two essential parts –
Avaya Pivot and Avaya Arc.
The Avaya Pivot operating
platform creates the ability
to deploy virtualised network
functions (VNFs) anywhere
in the network. With the
Avaya Arc orchestration
engine, these functions can be
automatically chained together
into full-featured services using
centralised policy-based tools.
Individual functions could
include network virtualisation,
firewall, IDS/IPS, QoS, and
specialided gateways, which are
selected based upon the unique
requirements of a particular
application.
These two elements provide
the necessary structure and
control directly into the
Campus edge, using concepts
that have been thoroughly
proven in the data center while
avoiding the need for numerous
standalone appliances.
“With new challenges from
traffic at the campus edge,
Avaya is leveraging proven
models taken from the data
center ‘clean room’ applying
them to the more fragmented
environment of the campus.
The Avaya Pivot operating
platform provides native NFV
support on virtual machines
or containers, including
support for virtualised Network
Operating Systems,” said
Maan Al-Shakarchi, Head
of Networking in Europe,
Middle East and Africa, and
Asia-Pacific, Avaya. “As the
complementary orchestration
component, Avaya Arc
provides a means to automate
service deployment and create
intent-based service chains.
Ultimately, the Everywhere
Data Center can reduce latency,
cost and risk while preserving
or enhancing scalability.”
Maan Al-Shakarchi, Avaya
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5. “It provides a Kubernetes-based
platform for traditional and cloud-
native applications with the tools,
greater security features and
capabilities designed to retain
existing IT investments while
planning for future needs and
business growth.”
FujitsuOTAReprogramingSolutionwillbecombinedwithVMwareIoTsolutionstoenableautomobile
manufacturersandpartnerstodrivesolutionswithconnectedcarsandautonomousdriving.
Fujitsu and VMware has
announced an expanded strategic
collaboration to bring innovative
IoT solutions to customers
in the automobile industry.
Extending Fujitsu and VMware’s
longstanding collaboration,
Fujitsu, VMware offer IoT solutions
in the automobile sector
the Fujitsu OTA Reprograming
Solution will be combined with
VMware IoT solutions, enabling
automobile manufacturers and
partners to drive robust solutions
in the future with connected cars
and autonomous driving.
“Fujitsu has partnered
with VMware since 2006, and
we are pleased to say that our
partnership with VMware now
extends to the IoT industry as
well. For our OTA Reprograming
Solution, as we are seeing
increasing demands from
automobile manufacturers
and their tier 1 components
manufacturers as a global
standard, we will provide an
OTA platform for connected
cars by integrating VMware IoT
solutions into our secure and
effective OTA Reprograming
Solution. We look forward to
fostering these offerings in our
mobile business,” said Shikou
Ashesh Badani, Red Hat
Enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform expands application support, enhances platform
security, while adding new innovations.
Red Hat has announced the
general availability of Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform
3.5, the latest version of Red Hat’s
enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-
native container application
platform. While enabling
enterprises like Swiss Railways,
Produban and Pioneer to actively
Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.5 now available
embrace cloud-native applications
in mission-critical roles, Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform
3.5 also helps enterprises retain
existing IT investments through
expanded support for traditional
business applications. This dual
application support is provided
by new security enhancements
as well as several innovations
emerging from the Kubernetes
upstream community.
As a leading contributor to
both the docker and Kubernetes
open source projects, Red Hat
provides an enterprise-ready
container platform based on
Kubernetes 1.5, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and the integrated docker
container runtime through
the latest version of Red Hat’s
container application platform.
This helps customers to more
quickly roll out new services with
the support of a stable, reliable and
more secure enterprise platform
powered by the world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform.
Ashesh Badani, General
Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat, said,
“While containerised applications
and associated infrastructure
present a vision of enterprise IT’s
future, traditional applications
still function as the workhorse for
modern businesses and should not
be left behind as enterprises add
next-generation services to their
technology mix. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.5 provides
a Kubernetes-based platform
for traditional and cloud-native
applications with the tools, greater
security features and capabilities
designed to retain existing IT
investments while planning for
future needs and business growth.”
Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 3.5 is available now via
the Red Hat Customer Portal.
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Kikuta, SVP, Head of Mobility
IoT Business Unit, Fujitsu.
To help global automobile
manufacturers and their tier
1 components manufacturers,
Fujitsu will team with VMware
to provide a one-stop service to
meet automobile manufacturers’
reliability requirements by
integrating VMware IoT
solutions into Fujitsu’s OTA
Reprograming Solution.
“The connected car industry
continues to proliferate, and
innovative and sophisticated
technologies play a key role in the
way automobile manufacturers
can create a unique and enjoyable
experience for drivers,” said Mimi
Spier, Vice President, Internet
of Things, VMware. “We see our
collaboration with Fujitsu as a
significant benefit for automobile
manufacturers, as we empower them
to easily and quickly deploy software
updates in a secure and seamless
manner to their connected cars.”
“The connected car industry continues
to proliferate, and innovative and
sophisticated technologies play
a key role in the way automobile
manufacturers can create a unique
and enjoyable experience for drivers.”
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6. 6
Aruba - Enablement Session - Dubai - 5 April
Cyberark - Technical Bootcamp - Dubai - 13 April
Gigamon and Checkpoint - NSX Roadshow - Dubai - 19 April Microsoft - Security Seminar - Doha - 23 April
Check Point - Security Seminar - Dubai - 5 April
Fortinet - NSE4 Bootcamp - Doha - 3-4 April
Microsoft - Security Seminar - Kuwait - 23 Microsoft - Security Seminar - Manama - 24 April
Microsoft-SecuritySeminar-Muscat-24April
EVENTS
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7. Red Hat - Datacenter Infrastructure Solutions Seminar - Dubai - 11 April
Trend Micro - Security Forum - Doha - 5 April
VMware Airwatch Bootcamp Dell EMC-Hyper convered Infrastructure event- Jeddah- 26th April
Splunk - Partner Immersion Bootcamp - Dubai - 27-29 April
Trend Micro - Technical Bootcamp- Doha - 26-27 April
Dell EMC-Hyper Converged Infrastructure event-Riyadh-13th April Fortinet-NSE4 bootcamp - Jeddah-24th April
Oracle - Optimised Infrastructure for Optimised Results - Muscat - 19 April
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EVENTS
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8. EVENTS
Oracle - Optimised Infrastructure for Optimised Results - Ethiopia - 27 April
Oracle - Optimised Infrastructure for Optimised Results - Senegal - 20 April
Cisco - Partner Event - Nigeria - 13 April
Cisco-EndCustomerEventWithCASPERTechnologies-Nigeria-6April
Cisco - End Customer Event With Neurotech - Kenya - 26 April
Oracle - Optimised Infrastructure for Optimised Results -Ivory Coast - 18 April
VMware-VMware airwatch Bootcamp-Riyadh
Fortinet-NSE4bootcamp-Jeddah-25thApril Red Hat - Jboss Event - Riyadh- 26th April
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10. 10
Registered SecureFirst channel partners reach 10,000 in 150 days since SonicWall
became an independent company with 20 percent of new partners.
SonicWall has announced key
milestones as an independent
cybersecurity company
since it separated from Dell
and introduced the SonicWall
SecureFirst Partner Program on
November 1, 2016. With over
10,000 partners already registered
as SonicWall resellers, the firm has
introduced two initiatives designed
to help these partners secure
customers in the shifting cyber
arms race – SonicWall University
to train partners on cybersecurity,
and new global marketing
programmes and incentives to
help the SonicWall channel deliver
their cybersecurity solutions and
services for small and medium-
size businesses (SMBs).
SonicWall University – this
channel enablement programme
is designed as an extension
of the SecureFirst Partner
SonicWall announces key milestones
Program, helping communicate
insights SonicWall has gleaned
from the SonicWall GRID
Threat Network to the partner
community in a structure they
can learn from easily.
“The response from
SonicWall’s channel partners
to our spin out from Dell
far exceeded even our own
expectations,” said Bill Conner,
President and CEO. “We’re
excited that 10,000 partners have
already joined the SecureFirst
Partner Program and pleased
to welcome 2,000 new partners
to SonicWall. Now, we are
announcing major investments in
education and marketing to help
enable these 10,000 partners
to assist their customers with
securing their business. We
know these cyber threats are
shifting and small to medium-
size businesses are increasingly
becoming targets, but they often
lack in-house expertise and rely
on trusted partners to keep their
infrastructure secure.”
The company has also
unveiled a major marketing
campaign in response to
partner requests to help educate
prospective and current customers
on the most pressing cyber threats
today. Partners can access
prepackaged campaign materials
and apply for market development
funds online through a new
SonicWall Partner Portal. Partners
can earn special discounts
and rebates for using these
programmes to drive business.
SonicWall University is
available globally now at no
cost to authorised partners
participating in the SonicWall
SecureFirst Partner Program.
XGen security infuses high-fidelity machine learning into a blend of threat protection
techniques to best protect against threats across any user activity and endpoint.
Trend Micro has announced it
is enhancing protection of small
business endpoints by leveraging
its newest capabilities of XGen
security, including machine
learning, inside Trend Micro
Worry-Free Services. XGen
security infuses high-fidelity
machine learning into a blend of
Trend Micro leverages XGen
security capabilities in Worry-
Free Services
threat protection techniques to
best protect against the full range
of known and unknown threats
across any user activity and
endpoint. It constantly learns,
adapts and automatically shares
threat intelligence across the
platforms and applications that
matter most to customers.
Trend Micro’s XGen
security approach for small
businesses uses proven methods
to quickly identify benign data
and known threats, freeing its
smart advanced techniques,
such as application control,
exploit prevention, behavioral
analysis, sandboxing and
machine learning, to more
quickly and accurately identify
unknown threats. According to
the firm, it is the first to infuse
‘high-fidelity’ machine learning
into its approach – uniquely
analysing files both before
execution and at runtime, using
‘noise cancellation’ features like
census checking and whitelisting
to reduce false positives. All of
these capabilities are fueled by
the cloud-based global threat
intelligence of the Trend Micro
Smart Protection Network, which
supplies rapid response updates
when a new threat is detected,
enabling faster time to protection.
“Small businesses are not
immune to the 500,000 new,
unique threats created every
day. In fact, Trend Micro saw
a 752 percent increase in new
ransomware families that
ultimately resulted in $1 billion in
losses for organisations worldwide
in 2016,” said Partha Panda,
Vice President, Corporate and
Business Development, Trend
Micro. “These threats and attacks
can disrupt operations and
require costly fixes and manpower
to correct. Advanced security
protection is critical to ensure
small businesses vigorously defend
against today’s cyber-attacks and
those to come in the future.”
“Advanced security protection is critical
to ensure small businesses vigorously
defend against today’s cyber-attacks
and those to come in the future.”
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11. The Malwarebytes integration with ForeScout helps businesses accelerate their incident
response, stop zero-day exploits and reduce their exposure to emerging security threats.
Malwarebytes has announced
an integration with ForeScout
Technologies, to provide joint
customers real-time threat
Malwarebytes integrates with
ForeScout to deliver real-time
threat visibility and remediation
visibility and remediation for both
managed and unmanaged devices.
The Malwarebytes
integration with
ForeScout helps businesses
accelerate their incident
response, stop zero-day
exploits and reduce their
exposure to emerging security
threats. With the integrated
solution, customers benefit
from a reduction in attack
surface through the capability
to proactively prevent
compromise, sweep the network
for latent threats, assess the
enterprise-wide exposure to
and impact of an active threat,
and automate real-time threat
response directly from the
ForeScout CounterACT console.
This integration employs the
following Malwarebytes enterprise
offerings which communicate bi-
directionally with the ForeScout
CounterACT console:
• Malwarebytes Breach
Remediation, which provides
advanced threat sweeping,
confirmation, investigation
and thorough removal via
an extensible and agentless
application.
• Malwarebytes Endpoint
Security, which provides next-
generation protection from
advanced zero-hour threats
using six unified defense
“With Acuity, we’re
turbocharging HCI and
redefining the next generation
of the enterprise data center.”
Solution features advanced policy-based management to simply and
predictably run multiple enterprise workloads with optimal performance.
platform delivers greater
performance, scale and
efficiency across a wider range
of applications to overcome
these limitations.
It simplifies workload
management with Pivot3’s
fifth-generation policy-
based management engine
and comprehensive data
services. As a priority-aware
software platform, Acuity
Pivot3, provider of
hyperconverged infrastructure
(HCI), has announced the
release of Acuity, the industry’s
first priority-aware HCI software
platform that enables IT to
confidently consolidate multiple
mixed-application workloads
onto a single infrastructure
while also delivering
breakthrough performance.
Until now, organisations
have deployed HCI for single,
standalone use cases — like
virtual desktop infrastructure
— due to the unpredictable
performance of multiple
applications on the system, lack
of automation, and inefficient
scale and capacity that restrict
data center consolidation.
Pivot3’s new Acuity software
Pivot3 releases Acuity
intelligently and automatically
applies resources to mission-
critical applications for
guaranteed performance and
predictable results.
Acuity’s advanced policy-
based management engine has
been optimised to make the
most efficient use of NVMe PCIe
flash to deliver six times the
performance of conventional
HCI solutions. This means IT
can improve response times
for databases, enterprise
applications, business analytics
and VDI. Acuity also delivers
increased density, enabling
IT to run two to three times
more virtual machines per HCI
node, resulting in a smaller
datacenter footprint and
significant reductions in OPEX
and CAPEX.
“With Acuity, we’re
turbocharging HCI and
redefining the next generation
of the enterprise data center,”
said Ron Nash, CEO, Pivot3.
“Businesses are demanding
more out of hyperconvergence,
and expect these solutions to
effectively manage multiple
mission-critical applications. By
bringing together breakthrough
performance and sophisticated
intelligence, we’re supporting
the transition to the private
cloud and software-defined
data center in a way that’s
never been seen before.”
Monty Venkersammy, Malwarebytes
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layers to proactively block an
attack before it begins.
• The integration provides
customers with visibility
into emerging threats,
rapid threat detection and
remediation and automated
threat response.
“Today’s threats are
more destructive than ever,
hitting organisations at
an unprecedented velocity
and sophistication – easily
overwhelming and evading
perimeter security defenses,”
said Monty Venkersammy,
VP of Business Development,
Malwarebytes. “Automatically
identifying devices
appearing on the network
and understanding their
contribution to the enterprise
attack surface is vital to
preventing malicious activity
in a breach. This integration
not only provides critical threat
visibility but additionally the
power to respond, delivering
thorough investigation and
remediation in real-time.”
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