Value Journal _July 2020

Issue 46 // July 2020
Redington Value is a value added distributor for the following brands in parts of Middle East & Africa
AWS global customers can now purchase directly from UAE-based software and data
providers through AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange.
AWS Launches Marketplace
And Data Exchange In UAE
selecting from over 7,000 software
listings and data products from more
than 1,500 sellers.
Customers can also procure software
through local consulting partners
with Consulting Partner Private Of-
fers (CPPO) in AWS Marketplace,
which enables Independent Software
Vendors (ISVs) to authorise Consult-
ing Partners to receive wholesale pric-
ing on their software, further helping
them to lower the cost of their tech-
nology by using AWS.
AWS Marketplace provides a new
sales channel for ISVs and Consult-
ing Partners to sell their solutions
to AWS customers around the world
and makes it easy for AWS custom-
ers to find, buy, deploy and manage
software solutions, including SaaS,
in a matter of minutes. AWS Data
Exchange simplifies the process of
finding, subscribing to, and using
third-party data products in the
cloud, and offers more than 1,500
data products from over 100 qualified
data providers.
>> Continued on page 4
Marta Whiteaker, Managing Director AWS
Marketplace EMEA/APJ, said, “We are
excited to welcome UAE-based technolo-
gy businesses into the AWS Marketplace
and AWS Data Exchange. This makes it
easier than ever for customers to procure
third-party software from UAE-based ven-
dors and deploy solutions for their differ-
ent business needs as they accelerate cloud
adoption.Thisexpansionunlocksnewbusi-
ness opportunities for UAE-based partners,
enabling customers from around the world
to discover and subscribe to software from
UAE ISVs and Consulting Partners.”
Systancia will leverage Redington’s market presence and a large channel
partner base to provide its solutions to customers across the region.
ing the entire end-to-end chain of trust,
Systancia allows users to access all their
applicationsefficientlyandsecurelyfrom
their work environment, whatever it
may be. Systancia’s combined virtualiza-
tion and cybersecurity solution, a hybrid
offer (consisting of software products
and Cloud services), gives everyone a
single window to access their entire field
of applications, leaving no application
behind, and thus providing medium to
Systancia Appoints Redington
Value As Distributor For
Middle East And Africa
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an-
nounced that now Independent Soft-
ware Vendors (ISVs), data providers,
and consulting partners based in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) can
transact in AWS Marketplace and AWS
Data Exchange, empowering UAE
based business to access and market
to AWS’s millions of customers around
the world. This expansion also means
that AWS’s global customers can pur-
chase directly from UAE-based soft-
ware and data providers through AWS
Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange,
“Our mission is to provide users with
the most efficient and secure access
to all applications in their work envi-
ronment. And to offer the best com-
promise between operational efficien-
cy and regulatory compliance,” said
large public or private organizations the
best compromise between ease-of-use
and business development on the one
hand, and risk and compliance control
on the other hand, without compromis-
ing the customer and user experience.
With this partnership, Systancia will
leverage Redington’s market presence
and a large channel partner base to pro-
vide Systancia solutions to customers
across Middle East and Africa.
S
ystancia, a recognized European
Softwarevendor,hasannounced
the appointment of Redington
Gulf, as its Gold Value Added
Distributor (VAD) for the Middle East
andAfricaregion,whichtodayisamongst
the world’s fastest growing economies.
Systancia is a provider of certified and
recognized application virtualization
and cybersecurity solutions. By provid-
Sayantan Dev, Redington Value

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3
Dell Technologies Brings Cloud
Capabilities To Edge Environments
Redington Expands Imperva
Partnership To Africa
New Dell EMC VxRail systems and software deliver HCI to
extreme conditions, advance performance and simplicity.
The distributor will enable its African partner ecosystem to
successfully position Imperva’s unique solutions to their customers.
Imperva’s Ap-
plication and Data
security solutions
seamlessly comple-
ment Redington’s
portfolio and will
give us a chance to
offer Imperva solu-
tions in one of the
fastest growing mar-
kets – Africa.”
Dell Technologies has announced
two new VxRail systems—including
the first ruggedized VxRail model
and introduction of AMD EPYC
processors—bringing the power
and simplicity of HCI to the most
challenging and space-constrained
edge environments.
The new ruggedized VxRail D Series
from Dell Technologies brings Vx-
Rail’s simplicity and lifecycle man-
agement capabilities to a compact and
durable form factor, designed to with-
stand remote and harsh environments.
The system, featuring 2nd Gen Intel
Redington Gulf, a leading value
added distributor in Middle East
and Africa has signed an agreement
with Imperva to distribute the Im-
perva security stack in the Afri-
ca Region. This is an extension of
their existing partnership in Mid-
dle East.
Imperva is an analyst-recognized,
cybersecurity leader on a mission to
protect customers’ data and all paths
to it, by accurately detecting and ef-
fectively blocking incoming threats,
and empowering customers to man-
age critical risks, so they do not
have to choose between innovating
Xeon Scalable processors, is 20 inches
deep—the smallest VxRail yet—and
can withstand extreme temperatures,
sustain up to 40G of operational shock
and operate at up to 15,000 feet.
It brings IT support to edge locations
where resilient infrastructure is crit-
ical, such as the implementation of a
data center at remote sites, onboard
ships at sea or equipped in aircrafts.
The VxRail D Series is an ideal solu-
tion for manufacturing, industrial,
and oil and gas environments where
conditions create a technical challenge
or space is at a premium.
For the first time on VxRail, 2nd Gen
AMDEPYCprocessorsarenowavailable
in a new, efficient E Series platform. The
VxRailESerieswithAMDEPYCproces-
sors offers customers a new option, with
upto64highperformancecoresandsup-
port for PCIe 4, that can be deployed at
the edge or in data centers. Coupled with
high-efficiency power supply, these com-
pact 1U systems are an ideal option for
customers that need high-performance
computing power, in a single socket plat-
form for edge environments.
The new VxRail E665 system—avail-
able in NVMe, all-flash, or hybrid
for their customers and protecting
what matters most.
“We are excited to partner with
Redington as they expand their
cybersecurity offerings in Afri-
ca,” said Chris Waynforth, Area
Vice President, EMEA North
and Africa at Imperva. “Togeth-
er, with their extensive knowl-
edge of local and region-wide
security landscapes, we will
work to build a strong security
community and help enterprises
build safer software faster and
get ahead of today’s cybersecu-
rity challenges.”
“Cyber Security is increasingly
becoming complex and critical
to enterprises and Imperva is a
leading provider of cybersecurity
solutions that protects business
critical data and applications in
the cloud and on-premise Infra-
structure. Imperva’s Application
and Data security solutions seam-
lessly complement Redington’s
portfolio and will give us a chance
to offer Imperva solutions in one
of the fastest growing markets –
Africa. We expect that our African
partner ecosystem will be equally
excited about this partnership and
look to position Imperva’s unique
solutions to their customers,” said
Sayantan Dev, President at Red-
ington Value. “We look forward to
extending our successful partner-
ship with Imperva in the Middle
East to the African markets and
help enterprises protect their crit-
ical assets from the ever changing
attacks of cybercriminals.”
storage configurations—offers high
performance in a single-socket model
and is an ideal option for database, un-
structured data, virtual desktop infra-
structure and HPC workloads.
As the only jointly engineered HCI
system with VMware, VxRail delivers
a hybrid cloud approach that is sim-
ple to deploy and manage, no matter
where data and applications reside.
The latest version of VxRail HCI Sys-
tem Software helps streamline updates
with the ability to run pre-upgrade
health checks on demand and cloud-
based management and orchestration,
enabling every VxRail cluster to be
maintained throughout its lifecycle,
regardless of location.
VxRail D Series with 2nd Gen Intel
Xeon Scalable processors and VxRail
E Series with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
processors are available globally. Vx-
Rail HCI System Software latest up-
date is now globally available.

4
Fortinet Achieves MEF 3.0
SD-WAN Certification
SAS And Microsoft To Shape The
Future Of Analytics And AI
closely partnering with MEF to devel-
op new SD-WAN security standards.
Fortinet currently leads a key Initiative
in the MEF Applications Committee
on Application Security for SD-WAN
Services (MEF 88) and has won two
MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept awards, one
for developing security standards for
secure connections between separate
SD-WAN devices, and another for
ensuring application security for SD-
WAN services.
“Achieving MEF 3.0 SD-WAN certi-
fication serves as another proof point
of Fortinet’s commitment to MEF and
our ability to support service providers
in delivering differentiated managed
SD-WAN services. We look forward
to continuing our strong partnership
with MEF to define SD-WAN and
security standards to support service
providers and their customers,” said
John Maddison, EVP of products and
CMO at Fortinet.
Microsoft and SAS have announced an
extensive technology and go-to-mar-
ket strategic partnership. The two com-
panies will enable customers to easily
run their SAS workloads in the cloud,
expanding their business solutions and
unlocking critical value from their
digital transformation initiatives. As
part of the partnership, the companies
will migrate SAS’ analytical products
and industry solutions onto Microsoft
Azure as the preferred cloud provid-
er for the SAS Cloud. SAS’ industry
solutions and expertise will also bring
added value to Microsoft’s customers
across health care, financial services
and many other industries. This part-
nership builds on SAS integrations
across Microsoft cloud solutions for
Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365
and Power Platform and supports the
companies’ shared vision to further de-
mocratise AI and analytics.
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Executive
Vice President of Cloud and AI, said,
“SAS, with its recognised expertise in
analytics, data science and machine
learning, is a strategic partner for Mi-
crosoft, and together we will help cus-
tomers across dozens of industries and
horizontals address their most critical
and complex analytical challenges.”
Organizations around the world are
moving to the cloud to innovate and
move faster toward their business
goals. As part of this transition, many
customers are migrating their SAS an-
alytic workloads to Azure to improve
performance and cost-efficiency.
Toprovideaseamlessexperienceandhelp
organizations accelerate their cloud trans-
formation initiatives, SAS and Microsoft
are working together to ensure that SAS
productsandsolutionscanbesuccessfully
deployed and run effectively on Azure.
Fortinet has announced that Fortinet
Secure SD-WAN has been certified to
support MEF 3.0 SD-WAN services.
This certification aims to establish a
common language for defining SD-
WAN technologies and enables com-
munication service and technology
providers to validate that their solu-
tions comply with the highest industry
standards for performance, assurance,
and agility.
Fortinet is among some of the ear-
liest SD-WAN technology vendors
certified by MEF, the world’s defining
This will include optimising SAS Viya,
the latest release of the company’s
cloud-nativeoffering,forAzureaswellas
integrating SAS’ deep portfolio of indus-
try solutions, from fraud to risk to retail,
into the Azure Marketplace to provide
improved productivity and enhanced
business outcomes for customers.
Additionally, through the partnership,
Microsoft and SAS will explore op-
portunities to integrate SAS analytics
capabilities, including industry-specif-
ic models, within Azure and Dynam-
ics 365 and build new market-ready
joint solutions for customers that are
natively integrated with SAS services
across multiple vertical industries.
This further integration will enable
SAS customers to capitalise on the
scalability and flexibility of the cloud
for their analytics and AI workloads.
Supported with joint co-selling and
go-to-market activities, additional
SAS products and solutions will begin
rolling out later this year. This will en-
able SAS and Microsoft customers to
address some of their most critical and
complex analytical challenges while
fostering continuous innovation.
authority for standardized services de-
signed to address the most demanding
networking needs of today’s digital
transformation efforts. The organiza-
tion is comprised of 200 members and
is supported by over 130 service pro-
viders worldwide. Spirent, MEF’s SD-
WAN Authorized Certified Test Part-
ner, validated Fortinet’s conformance
to the industry-leading SD-WAN Ser-
vice Attributes and Services (MEF 70)
global standard.
Fortinet has been actively engaged as
a member of MEF since 2017, and is
SAS’ AI and analytics more tightly integrate with Microsoft Azure;
Microsoft to bring cloud-based SAS industry solutions to its customers.
This demonstrates Fortinet Secure SD-WAN’s ability to comply with the highest industry
standards required by service providers to deliver.
John Maddison, Fortinet
Christophe Corne, Founder and CEO
of Systancia.
“Systancia’s app virtualization, security
access management and authentication
management systems from a technol-
ogy standpoint are amongst the most
sophisticated. We are delighted to add
Systancia to Redington’s portfolio as
we recognize opportunities with many
complementary offerings and innate
synergies. The channel ecosystem will
hugely benefit from this partnership
and we are more than eager to take
Systancia’s solutions to our customers,”
said Sayantan Dev, President at Reding-
ton Value. “Over the next few months,
we will recruit new partners, while con-
tinuing to enable current ones for suc-
cessfully integrating and positioning
Systanica as a part of their portfolio.”
“Working with Redington is a great
achievement for Systancia’s expansion
in the Middle East and Africa. We be-
lieve that our innovative solutions in
the field of cybersecurity, more pre-
cisely in the ZTNA and PAM field will
perfectly respond to the market’s needs
in terms of having a secure access to
the information system, whenever the
end-user is, and through whatever de-
vice he is using,” said Xavier Hameroux,
Managing Director of Systancia.
>> From page 1
Systancia Appoints
Redington Value As
Distributor For Middle
East And Africa

5
A10 Networks Delivers Highest
Performance DDoS Protection
Red Hat Announces Enhancements
To Ansible Automation Portfolio
To ensure the user experience for
business and consumer services that
are migrating to the cloud, QUIC
is rapidly being adopted by content
and cloud providers, leading brows-
er developers, such as Mozilla and
Google, and is backed by the Inter-
net Engineering Task Force (IETF).
The QUIC protocol provides faster
connect times with built-in securi-
ty versus the traditional combina-
tion of TCP and TLS. It also offers
a dramatic reduction in latency that
will enable better user experience for
content-rich web applications. Based
on these benefits, HTTP/3 has also
adopted QUIC for use on the trans-
port layer.
A10 said it is the first major software
and hardware DDoS vendor to pro-
vide DDoS protection for HTTP/3 and
the QUIC protocol. and enables a safer
next generation of web services using
this protocol. HTTP/3 and QUIC pro-
tocol support is available now for all
Thunder TPS customers.
Red Hat has announced key enhance-
ments to the Ansible Automation
portfolio, including the latest version
of Red Hat Ansible Automation Plat-
form and new Red Hat Certified An-
sible Content Collections available on
Automation Hub. The latest release of
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
helps organizations expand automa-
tion to new domains while increasing
productivity and cross-team collab-
oration. As a component of the latest
platform release, new Ansible Content
Collections developed, tested, and
supported by Red Hat enable organi-
zations to get the most up-to-date au-
tomation content.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
helps organizations accelerate their au-
tomation efforts with access to the lat-
est Ansible innovations and technology
as they need it, while still providing the
security features required for produc-
tion ready workloads. In addition to
Ansible Content Collections, the latest
version of the Red Hat Ansible Auto-
mation Platform includes the availabil-
ity of Ansible Tower 3.7, the introduc-
tion of automation services catalog,
and updates to Automation Analytics.
First announced with Red Hat Ansi-
ble Automation Platform in Fall 2019,
Ansible Content Collections provides
a continuously updated set of curated
automation content, helping to short-
en the time to value and improve the
efficiency of maintaining and consum-
ing automation by enabling organiza-
Content Collec-
tions help further
integrate Red
Hat’s manage-
ment products.
Ansible Tower
Content Col-
lection enables
organizations to
configure, man-
age, and operate
their Ansible
Tower environ-
ments at scale.
Red Hat Insights Content Collection
enables organizations to automate
manual tasks by using the Red Hat In-
sights API. Red Hat Satellite Content
Collection enables organizations to
automate manual tasks by using the
Red Hat Satellite API.
The latest innovations available in Red
Hat Ansible Automation Platform, in-
cluding Ansible Content Collections,
are available now on cloud.redhat.
com. New Collections will be released
on a rolling basis.
A10 is offering a leap forward
for service providers with DDoS
protection at the scale required
to stop today’s cyber threats. The
company has released the high-
est-performance DDoS protec-
tion appliance to help service
providers and MSSPs mitigate the
largest DDoS attacks.
tions to reuse Ansi-
ble content at scale.
With the launch
of Red Hat-main-
tained Ansible
Content Collec-
tions, Red Hat is
publishing 17 new
Collections that
are all written and
supported by Red
Hat. Collections are
available for many
popular network, security and cloud
partners, including AWS, Arista, Cis-
co, IBM, Juniper, Splunk, VyOS plat-
forms and more. Collections are pub-
lished asynchronously from Ansible
product releases, making it easier for
organizations to access the latest Col-
lectionsastheybecomeavailable.With
the addition of these Red Hat-written
Collections, there are now 49 certi-
fied Collections available from Red
Hat and partners in Automation Hub.
In addition to extending automation
for partner technologies, Ansible
Thelatest
releaseofRedHat
AnsibleAutoma-
tionPlatformhelps
organizationsexpand
automationtonewdo-
mainswhileincreasing
productivityandcross-
teamcollaboration.
tion in a compact 1.5U form factor,
enabling customers to efficiently scale-
out their DDoS defences as the threat
landscape expands. The Thunder 7655
TPS will be available in Q3 2020.
In addition, A10 is bringing first-to-
market support for HTTP/3 (QUIC)
DDoS protection in software.
Ready-to-use, curated automation for a wide range of platforms, public clouds, network and
security technologies help organizations more easily get started with the latest trusted automation.
Thunder TPS provides 1.2 Tbps blocking capacity with Machine Learning.
The A10 Thunder Threat Protection
System (TPS) 7655 provides up to 1.2
Tbps blocking capacity and 380 Gbps
scrubbing capacity. Combining Ze-
ro-day Automated Protection (ZAP)
powered by artificial intelligence (AI)
via machine learning (ML) and ad-
vanced software mitigations, Thunder
TPS delivers unprecedented protec-

6
Regional SMEs To Leverage The Power
Of Avaya IP Office Subscription
in the Middle East and Africa. A single
app provides voice, video, messaging,
and conferencing and keeps employ-
ees productive on any device from any
location. Avaya Call Reporting is also
an option to provide simple customer
interaction management.
Avaya IP Office subscription supports
Avaya’s latest smart phones and de-
vices and these can also be purchased
with low monthly payments. For team
collaboration, the cloud-based Avaya
Spaces is also available in many areas.
Traditionally, the adoption of leading
communicationplatformsinvolveslarge
fixed costs and long-term vendor com-
mitments, with cloud-hosted communi-
cations often untenable because of legal
challenges. Avaya IP Office Subscription
helps to answer these problems with an
easy-to-deploy, technically advanced
solution that can be consumed on a
per-user, per-month basis.
“This announcement brings Avaya IP
Office up to another new level. The
current climate has shown us that
there is no shortage of organizations
that are culturally ready to digitally
transform. However, many are unable
or unwilling to make upfront invest-
ments in the technologies that will en-
able this transformation. Avaya IP Of-
fice Subscription solves this challenge
by making one of the best-loved com-
munications platforms easy to deploy
and available on an attractive pricing
plan,” said Fadi Moubarak, Vice Presi-
dent – Channels, Avaya International.
Avaya IP Office Subscription will be
made available to select countries
through the Avaya Channel Market
Place, a brand-new tool for Avaya
channel partners to order and purchase
Avaya licenses, massively reducing
sales and deployment times. Born out
of Avaya’s cloud-first approach to busi-
ness, the Avaya Channel Market Place
will simplify any IP Office Subscription
sales process, improving the solution’s
already impressive time to value.
Avaya Holdings has made it easier
than ever for regional small and me-
dium-sized businesses to leverage the
power of agile communications with
the launch of Avaya IP Office Subscrip-
tion. This new offer is now available
from Avaya Partners in select coun-
tries in the Middle East and Africa.
Coming at a time of increased remote
working, necessitating the adoption
of robust communications technol-
ogies, the launch creates a new, sub-
scription-based way of consuming the
all-in-one communications platform
for companies up to 3,000 users, and
which currently serves over 26 million
users worldwide.
Avaya IP Office delivers powerful
communications in a simple package
designed specifically for small and me-
dium-sized businesses, which account
for up to 90% of registered businesses
Avaya launches IP Office Subscription, the simple way to deploy the leading all-in-one
communications and collaboration platform for SMEs without upfront investment.
Veeam Software has announced new
Veeam Availability Orchestrator
(VAO) v3 and new DR Pack, which
provides businesses up to 80% cost
savings while immediately receiving a
purpose-built disaster recovery (DR)
planning and compliance solution for
all workloads, dramatically simplify-
ing and improving DR and business
continuity by eliminating the need
for difficult upfront decision making
around what workloads not to protect.
Danny Allan, CTO and Senior Vice
President of Product Strategy at Vee-
am, said, “Automating manually in-
tensive processes and driving greater
business value by unlocking the po-
tential of otherwise dormant data is
key to a more agile business. VAO v3
provides intelligent orchestration and
testing for business continuity and
disaster recovery (BC/DR) and migra-
tion operations, using our advanced
recovery technology to eliminate the
otherwise manual, time-consuming
and repeatable processes for necessary
DR and migration planning.”
He added that with the new DR Pack,
the firm is changing the game for
enterprise-grade DR by delivering
orchestration and automation capa-
bilities at a price point that is unheard
of in this market. “In today’s world,
all data is essential and the DR Pack
will enable businesses to simply and
reliably extend DR planning beyond
what’s historically been deemed the
most essential workloads to now in-
clude all workloads,” he said.
This new release brings full recovery
orchestration support for NetApp
ONTAP snapshots, enabling users to
reliably ensure the continuity of their
IT services at any scale through exten-
Veeam Announces New Veeam
Availability Orchestrator v3
sible recovery orchestration from Vee-
am-powered backups and replicas and
array-based replication. VAO v3 offers
a unique range of capabilities that can
help businesses to achieve necessary
levels of DR planning and compliance
by automatically testing,dynamically
documenting and executing disaster
recovery plans in as little as 1-click,
from single applications to entire sites.
New VAO v3 adds additional capabili-
ties to offer extensible recovery orches-
tration from array-based replication for
all NetApp ONTAP customers. This
new feature, Storage Orchestration
Plans, will enable customers to orches-
trate failover on NetApp ONTAP stor-
age to a secondary recovery site, wheth-
er it be a DR site or a new datacenter in
the case of datacenter migration.
VAO v3 makes necessary Disaster
Recovery (DR) planning accessible
for all workloads with a new DR Pack
offer ideal for current users of Veeam
Backup & Replication or Veeam Avail-
ability Suite, immediately providing a
purpose-built DR planning and com-
pliance solution. General availability
is expected within the next 30 days.
Latest release of Veeam Availability Orchestrator adds full
recovery orchestration support for NetApp ONTAP snapshots.
Danny Allan, Veeam

7
Mimecast has unveiled its fourth-annu-
al State of Email Security 2020 report.
This report summarises details from
1,025 global IT decision makers on the
current state of cybersecurity. Providing
year-over-year comparisons, along with
the firm’s analysis from the first 100-day
period of the coronavirus public health
crisis, the report is designed to both of-
fer valuable insights into recent attack
trends organizations are challenged with
and to serve as a guide to drive contin-
uous improvement to any organization’s
cyber resilience strategy.
The findings in this year’s State of
Email Security report demonstrate
Micro Focus has unveiled the
new LoadRunner family, a unified
set of enterprise-grade performance
engineering solutions spanning de-
velopers to performance engineers,
incorporating intelligent analytics and
supporting extensive integrations with
DevOps and application performance
monitoring (APM) tools. With the
LoadRunner family of solutions, orga-
nizations are equipped to design better
performing software from the start as
they quickly root out issues and deploy
high-performing applications.
To meet the demands of rapid ap-
plication delivery, modern software
teams need an evolved approach
that goes beyond traditional perfor-
mance testing. Micro Focus supports
a proactive, continuous performance
engineering discipline that includes
60% Of UAE Enterprises Anticipate
An Email-Borne Attack: Mimecast
four key attributes: expansion of per-
formance testing to new roles, inte-
gration into the CI/CD process, end-
to-end performance monitoring, and
continuous improvement.
“Building on our legacy in perfor-
mance testing, the LoadRunner family
lets our customers engineer perfor-
mance early in the lifecycle all the way
through the end-user experience,” said
Raffi Margaliot, Micro Focus Senior
Vice President Application Delivery
Management. “An integral part of the
strategy was also streamlining the
architecture and improving the user
experience to enable greater collabo-
ration and flexibility across our Load-
Runner solutions.”
Micro Focus Introduces
New Family Of Software
Times are changing: The threats you
can’t see impacting your brand
This latest research from Mimecast
comes at a time when organizations
across the globe have been forced to
adopt remote work policies for em-
ployees in response to the coronavi-
rus pandemic.
Over half of organizations (54%) sur-
veyed, report anticipating an increase
in web or email spoofing and brand
exploitation in the next 12 months, and
it is a rising concern. In fact, 74% of re-
spondents in the UAE feel concerned
about a web domain, brand exploita-
tion, or site spoofing attack, and 80%
are concerned about an attack that di-
rectly spoofs their email domain.
It is critical for organizations to look
beyond their email perimeters to deter-
mine how cyber threat actors may be
using and damaging their brands online.
Yesterday’s threats are unwavering
year over year
Similar to years past, impersonation
attacks, phishing attempts and ransom-
warecontinuetobeamajorproblem,ac-
Micro Focus LoadRunner family ca-
pabilities enable users to implement a
proactive performance strategy, seam-
lessly collaborate, share and reuse, op-
timize performance with community
analysis, scale with broad support and
adjust licensing based on need.
LoadRunner extends existing support
of APM tools with a new AppDynam-
ics partnership. The correlation of data
across these tools generates more gran-
ular results, increases cooperation, and
centrally archives historical data for
trending, automated comparisons and
SLAvalidationsacrossmultipledatasets.
The Micro Focus LoadRunner family
of performance engineering solutions
includes LoadRunner Profession-
al, LoadRunner Enterprise, LoadRun-
ner Cloud and LoadRunner Developer.
LoadRunner Developer is available free
of charge and includes up to 50 virtual
users. These solutions help teams de-
liver high-performing apps that sur-
pass customer expectations using end-
to-end performance engineering.
that despite high levels of confidence
in respondents’ cyber resilience strat-
egies, there is a clear need for im-
provement. The large majority (77%)
of global respondents say they have
or are actively rolling out a cyber re-
silience strategy. In the United Arab
Emirates, 80%of respondents are do-
ing the same. Yet an astounding 60%
of respondents in the UAE, and glob-
ally, believe it is inevitable or likely
they will suffer from an email-borne
attack in the coming year. UAE re-
spondents cite data loss (54%), a de-
crease in employee productivity (40%)
and business downtime (24%) due to a
lack of cyber resilience preparedness.
cording to the research. Seventy percent
of UAE report participants said phish-
ing attacks remained flat or increased in
the last 12 months and 68% report the
same of impersonation attacks.
Ransomware also continues to wreak
havoc, two-thirds of UAE respondents
(66%) said ransomware attacks impact-
ed their organization, citing data loss,
downtime, financial loss and loss of
reputation or trust among customers.
The need for a strong human defence
The report also shines a light on the
urgent need for a more cyber aware
workforce. Encouragingly, 100% of the
respondents’ organizations offer secu-
rity awareness training at varying fre-
quencies and formats. However, 74% of
those surveyed reported having been
hit by malicious activity spread from
employee to employee, pointing to the
fact that the format or frequency of
these trainings could be the problem.
With frequent, consistent, engaging
content that humanises security, secu-
rity awareness training is an effective
way to reduce risk inside the network
and organization.
Fourth annual Mimecast State of Email Security 2020 report finds greatest new concern for customers is email and web Spoofing.
New capabilities of LoadRunner family deliver a proactive, end-to-end continuous testing
approach to help bolster customer satisfaction and business results.
Raffi Margaliot, Micro Focus

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CrowdStrike, a player in cloud-de-
livered endpoint protection, has an-
nounced the CrowdStrike Falcon plat-
form is bolstering its Linux protection
capabilities with additional features,
including machine learning preven-
tion, custom Indicators of Attack
(IoAs) and dynamic IoAs. Crowd-
Strike delivers proven breach preven-
tion and visibility from its cloud-deliv-
ered platform via a single lightweight
agent that supports endpoints and
cloud workloads on all platforms in-
cluding Windows, Mac, Linux and
mobile devices.
As one of the primary Operating Sys-
tems (OS) of business-critical appli-
cations servers, Linux systems have
frequently been the target of stealthy
and brazen cyber criminals. Enterprise
workloads continue to be migrated to
the cloud at a rapid pace, and this mi-
gration has accelerated in the wake of
the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s rap-
idly evolving cloud workloads require
an all-encompassing solution that can
provide deep runtime security for Linux
hosts, whether they are running on pub-
lic or private clouds or on-premise data
centers, including securing container
workloads running on Linux hosts.
CrowdStrike Falcon offers a unique
platform-centric approach, securing
diverse workloads via a single agent.
Falcon’s lightweight, intelligent agent
detects and prevents malicious pro-
cesses using dynamic IoAs. Falcon
also enables customers to tune be-
havioral detection and prevention for
their environment using custom IoAs.
CrowdStrike’s cloud machine learning
engine is constantly tuned and en-
StorageCraftUnifiesBusiness
ContinuityStackWith
ShadowXafe4.0
CrowdStrike Falcon Expands
Linux Protection With Enhanced
Prevention Capabilities
riched to provide timely and reliable
malware detection without the need
to manage and update signature files.
More than 50% of CrowdStrike cus-
tomers protect their cloud workloads
through Falcon’s complexity-free user
experience that allows them to avoid
additional point products.
Amol Kulkarni, Chief Product Officer
at CrowdStrike, said, “As workforces
and workloads become increasingly
complex, Falcon is able to protect Linux
systems in a variety of environments
including containers, offering our cus-
tomers the ability to automatically pre-
vent even the most complex malicious
activity from cyber threat actors. We
are committed to giving our customers
the most transformative cloud work-
load protection platform on the market
to keep their critical systems operation-
al and their data secure 24/7.”
Through harnessing the power of
the cloud, Falcon unifies all the tech-
nologies required to successfully
stop breaches on Linux, including
next-generation antivirus (AV), end-
point detection and response (EDR),
managed threat hunting, and threat
intelligence integration.
based and agentless solution. It also
allows users to manage remote sites,
instantly restore, and replicate and re-
cover to a central on-premise, data cen-
ter location, or to use StorageCraft Di-
saster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
Cloud for orchestrated recovery.
Seamless integration with lead-
ing business management plat-
forms: ShadowXafe 4.0 eliminates
pain points around licensing and bill-
ing through consolidated automated
licensing and billing on ConnectWise
Manage and Automate business man-
agement platforms.
Shridar Subramanian, CMO at Stor-
ageCraft, said, “By significantly ex-
panding the use case deployments of
ShadowXafe, and enabling it to coexist
with OneXafe Solo implementations,
we give customers unmatched levels
of protection, simplicity, and flexibili-
ty. For our channel partners, it instant-
ly extends their market and revenue
potential without additional CAPEX
or OPEX. They also benefit from in-
creased efficiency and productivity
and a reduction in management, com-
plexity, and training costs.”
Designed specifically for SMBs, Shad-
owXafe 4.0 is quick to deploy, easy to
manage, and reliable even under the
most demanding circumstances. It en-
sures SLA-driven data protection and
delivers robust recovery for physical
machines and VMs. Tightly integrated
with StorageCraft cloud-based DRaaS,
ShadowXafe provides total business
continuity and orchestrated recov-
ery with a single click. In the event of
system failure, ransomware, data cor-
ruption, or natural disaster, SMBs can
perform VM recovery in milliseconds
and restore their entire infrastructure
in seconds using StorageCraft’s patent-
ed VirtualBoot technology.
StorageCraft ShadowXafe 4.0 is avail-
able immediately through Storage-
Craft’s global network of authorized
resellers and distributors.
StorageCraft has announced a signifi-
cant upgrade of ShadowXafe, the com-
pany’s flagship data and system back-
up and recovery software. Available
immediately, ShadowXafe 4.0 gives
users the ability to enhance and extend
their business continuity solution with
greater flexibility and operational effi-
ciency while reducing cost.
Unlike competitive alternatives that
force customers to choose between
flexibility and simplicity, ShadowXafe
4.0 delivers both. It allows users
the flexibility of managing multiple
physical and virtual environments
and workloads with the simplicity of
OneSystem, the StorageCraft central-
ized cloud-based management sys-
tem. By offering a ‘right fit’ protection
platform, customers can now easily
customize across specific customer
Service Level Agreements (SLA), Re-
covery Time Objectives, and Recovery
Point Objectives.
Unified Management: ShadowXafe
4.0 provides a unified workflow and
management system that enables it to
coexist with the recently introduced
OneXafe Solo plug-and-protect back-
up and recovery appliance. As a result,
customers can now mix and match
software and hardware environments
according to their requirements.
Hyper-V, vCenter and ESXi sup-
port: With Hyper-V, vCenter and ESXi
support, customers can protect large
and mid-range virtual machines (VMs)
with a single click, and protect high
SLA VMs with ShadowXafe’s agent-
Flagship data protection and recovery software enhanced to deliver
unparalleled performance, flexibility, and simplicity.
Falcon’s industry-leading technology secures cloud and container workloads, offering
customers the comprehensive solution needed to stop breaches across all environments.

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for customers to rapidly integrate into
their existing environments.”
Nutanix’s DaaS offering, Xi Frame, is
a cloud-based service providing com-
panies with a way to run virtual apps
and desktops on their choice of infra-
structure — including on-premises
with Nutanix AHV and in the public
cloud with Microsoft Azure, Google
Cloud Platform, or AWS. It removes
the headache normally associated with
remote work expansion while securely
delivering virtual workspaces, for both
employees and customers, in under an
hour and helps businesses to minimize
management overhead for their desk-
top and app deployment.
Enterprise cloud computing firm Nuta-
nix has announced that it added several
new capabilities to its Desktop as a Ser-
vice(DaaS)solutionXiFrame,delivering
an even richer experience for enterprise
customers, including strengthened se-
curity, increased flexibility, and broader
availability. The new capabilities include:
enhanced onboarding for on-premises
desktop workloads on Nutanix AHV,
expanded support for user profile man-
agement, the ability to convert Windows
Apps into Progressive Web Apps (PWA),
and increased regional datacenter sup-
port to 69 regions across Microsoft
Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Am-
azon Web Services (AWS).
An already strong offering to help cus-
tomers deliver remote work capabilities
in minutes, Xi Frame delivered a re-
cord quarter, based on total revenue, in
Q3 of fiscal year 2020, and represented
an important contribution to Nutanix’s
Nutanix Strengthens Desktop
as a Service Solution
mendations. Remote desktop and DaaS
solutions that can support organiza-
tions’ long-term needs are well placed
to see increased adoption.
Nikola Bozinovic, VP and GM Desktop
Services at Nutanix, said, “The current
global situation has driven many com-
panies to embrace remote work even
when they didn’t
have the basic
building blocks
in place ahead of
time. Nutanix Xi
Frame was espe-
cially well-posi-
tioned to meet
their needs. To
help our custom-
ers, our focus has
been squarely on
delivering excep-
tional service and
making it easier
end user computing business which
brought in about 20% of new customer
deals during the same quarter.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a
drasticshiftinoperationsformostcom-
panies around the globe. Many had to
turn on a dime to deliver remote work
capabilities to employees overnight,
with solutions like
Xi Frame helping
them in the pro-
cess. While coun-
tries slowly begin
to reopen, many
companies are
looking at extend-
ing remote work
programs in light
of increased pro-
ductivity during
the lockdown and
continued social
distancing recom-
Nutanix Xi Frame delivers new features for enterprise-ready
and easy to deploy remote work solution.
To help our
customers, our focus
has been squarely on
delivering exceptional
service and making it
easier for customers
to rapidly integrate
into their existing
environments.”
Nikola Bozinovic, Nutanix
HPE To Deliver New Return-To-Work
Solutions To Help Firms Accelerate Recovery
New offerings will be implemented by HPE Pointnext Technology Services and use a blend of
HPE hardware and software technologies, and solutions from rich ecosystem of partners.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has
announced five new return-to-work
solutions that will help organiza-
tions accelerate business recovery
and reopening plans in the wake
of COVID-19. The new solutions,
which will assist in controlling the
spread of the virus and enabling busi-
ness continuity, will be implemented
and managed through HPE Pointnext
Technology Services for a fast, seam-
less transition. These solutions will
scale for businesses of all sizes using
secure, high-performing HPE servers
for the edge, Aruba AI-powered net-
work infrastructure, and technologies
from HPE’s rich ecosystem of partners.
HPE has been working closely with
customers that have experienced dis-
ruption due to COVID-19 related
shutdowns and has helped keep their
businesses running by building or
enhancing remote work capabilities.
The five new return-to-work solutions
that HPE has introduced will address
the next phase for customers who are
anticipating at least a portion of their
employees to safely return to their reg-
ular place of work in company facilities.
These new solutions include social dis-
tancetracingandtracking,touchlessen-
try, fever detection, augmented reality
and visual remote guidance, and work-
place alerts and information sharing.
Saadat Malik, VP, IoT and Intelligent
Edge Services, at HPE, said, “As busi-
nesses are reopening and returning em-
ployeesonsite,ournewrobustsolutions,
featuring a range of HPE technologies
and partner capabilities, are helping
them make this transition safely while
building on a highly differentiated, long
term workplace digitization strategy.”
The five new return-to-work solutions
will be deployed by HPE Pointnext
Technology Services, which consists
of diverse expertise and support for
global scale, and brings together HPE’s
extensive hardware and software ca-
pabilities with cutting edge offerings
from a rich ecosystem of partners.
The new solutions will use HPE Pro-
Liant servers, HPE EdgeLine Con-
verged Edge Systems and Aruba
AI-powered network infrastructure to
power and process cameras and video
analytics at the edge as well as enable
location services. The solutions also
leverage technologies from partners
that provide intelligent surveillance
and thermal cameras, and AI software
for video analytics.
The new return-to-work solutions will
be available worldwide.

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