MARKET MOVEMENT
Mindware now master distributor for Ubiquiti,
covering GCC, Pakistan, Levant, North Africa
Mindware announced the signing of a
pan-Middle East contract with Ubiquiti
Networks, manufacturer of wireless data
communication equipment. The distribution
contract will cover all countries under
Mindware’s regional umbrella, from the
Levant and North Africa to the Gulf and
Pakistan, encompassing the full Ubiquiti
Networks’ product range.
“Expanding Ubiquiti’s presence in the
Middle East is one of our top priorities and
Mindware is the ideal partner to help us
achieve that goal,” said Tony Rassavong,
Channel Director of Ubiquiti Networks.
“With Mindware’s combined experience, drive, and reach throughout the region, we
are excited for the accelerated growth with
this partnership.”
“Working with Ubiquiti Networks has
been one of our key objectives this year as
we had identified the vendor’s disruptive
go-to-market model and cutting-edge
technologies – mainly in the wireless
arena – as both relevant and essential
to Mindware’s channel strategy”, added
Nicholas Argyrides, Chief of Sales and
Marketing and Deputy General Manager
at Mindware. “This is the exact kind of
partnership that draws our attention and
eventually our investment as a VAD”.
Etisalat exclusively
leases wholesale data
capacity from Gulf
Data Hub Centrify appoints
StarLink as value
added distributor for
Middle East region
Etisalat announced its exclusive strategic
long-term wholesale lease agreement with
Gulf Data Hub to acquire the full capacity of
its Tier III datacentre to provide datacentre
services to private enterprises, government
entities and cloud service providers.
Gulf Data Hub, part of the UAE based
Al Ashram Group claims to be UAE’s first
carrier and vendor neutral datacentre
facility designed to meet international
standards providing equipment room space
for its customers datacentre equipment.
The Gulf Data Hub consists of two
custom-built buildings comprising of 3,000
sqm of data space each, located at Dubai
Silicon Oasis. The GDH facility in Dubai
Silicon Oasis has two phases, a first one with
4.2MW of IT whitespace with immediate
available capacity, and a second one of 6MW.
Under this 15-year agreement, Etisalat
will have the complete rights to the
space at the datacentre and can lease
out to partners requiring colocation and
cloud facilities. Gulf Data Hub is the 10th
datacentre facility commercialised by
Etisalat positing it as the leading datacentre
colocation and cloud provider in the region. Centrify, a global vendor in securing hybrid
enterprises through the power of identity
services, announced that it has appointed
StarLink as its value-added distributor for
the Middle East. According to the terms
of the agreement, StarLink will promote
and distribute Centrify Identity Services
through its extensive network of channel
partners and solution providers across the
Middle East.
“StarLink is a reputed security specialist
VAD with an impressive track record and
large network of customers and channel
partners across the region. Having already
worked with StarLink in Africa and seeing
the value they brought to our business
there, we felt they would be a perfect
partner for Centrify in the Middle East as
well,” said Kamel Heus, Regional Manager
Middle East and Africa, Centrify.
Compromised accounts are the leading
cause of data breaches today. In this age of
access, trying to build policy that keeps data
secure, without stopping user productivity,
requires a massive security rethink.
Centrify’s risk-based access, based on user
behaviour, stops account-based attacks.
Attivo Networks
signs partnership
with South Africa-
based Networks
Unlimited
Attivo Networks, the leader in deception
for cyber security threat detection,
announced a strategic partnership with
Networks Unlimited, Africa’s leading
value-added distributor. With this
distribution partnership, Attivo Networks
and Networks Unlimited together aim to
extend comprehensive next-generation
deception-based cybersecurity defence
to customers across the South and Sub-
Saharan region.
This agreement with Networks
Unlimited makes it possible for
customers operating in the South and
Sub-Saharan region to fortify their
security defences to immediately
detect, quarantine and remediate cyber
threats by gaining easy access to Attivo
Networks’ powerful line of deception-
based tools for actionable defence.
Through its strong partner network,
Networks Unlimited is committed to
delivering total customer satisfaction
through fast and efficient product
and service delivery, easy support
access, prompt dispatching of relevant
information and optimised distribution
operations. With Attivo Networks as part
of its portfolio, Networks Unlimited will
provide its customers the opportunity
to leverage the best breed of deception
technology as an additional layer of
security to its critical infrastructure.
Next generation deception technology
such as the Attivo ThreatDefend Platform
advances the deception level well beyond
simple emulations. The environment
becomes a hall of mirrors that is high
interaction, runs the same operating
systems and software as the production
assets, authenticates and provides
the technology to dynamically refresh
or respin after engagement to avoid
attacker fingerprinting.
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