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SPECTRAMI sets up Turkey based Operations
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Building on the plan to achieve $100 million, SPECTRAMI has setup an extended base of operations in Turkey. The company is already working to on-board new vendor partners that will provide the momentum towards this target to achieve 80% growth in 2018. Leading their operations in Turkey is Gokhan Bas, Territory Manager. He has a great track record of experience in IT and Cyber Security product sales with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. “Cyber awareness in Turkey has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. SPECTRAMI will help organizations plan and execute an integrated cyber approach to harness the power of information networks to enhance business operations, increase mission performance, and improve customer support, without compromising security or privacy,” said Anand Choudha, CEO SPECTRAMI.
ANAND CHOUDHA, CEO, SPECTRAMI
ExaGrid expanded its Middle Eastern coverage with the appointment of Rami Nasser as regional sales director for the MEA & India. ExaGrid will be adding sales offices in Dubai, Turkey, India, and South Africa. ExaGrid has simultaneously partnered with VAD Technologies to strengthen its channel footprint by providing VAD’s resellers with backup storage product offering to their enterprise customers. FINESSE PARTNERS WITH UIPATH Finesse partnered with UiPath to offer RPA solutions for businesses to automate their processes for increased efficiency and cost optimization. This partnership will benefit Finesse’s existing client base and will be extended to various verticals in the Gulf area and beyond. By delegating these processes to a virtual digital workforce of software robots, company employees will be able to focus on more strategic, creative and customer-facing initiatives. DXC TECHNOLOGY AND AWS COLLABORATE DXC Technology and Amazon Web Services collaborated for a multi-year, global agreement to build a new multi-billion dollar DXC – AWS Integrated Practice that will deliver IT migration, application transformation, and business innovation to global Fortune 1000 clients. The
MENA DATA CENTER SPEND TO REACH $ 5 BILLION BY 2020
DXC – AWS Integrated Practice will offer clients secure, cloud-first solutions that combine the breadth and depth of cloud services offered through AWS with DXC enterprise services to
As the Middle East accelerates its digital transformation and Smart Cities growth, regional data center spend will reach a record-high of USD 5 billion by 2020, said the industry experts. MENA data center spend to reach a record high of USD 5.1 billion by 2020, increasing by 8.5 percent from 2017, according to a recent report by Statista. Much of this spend will go towards enabling Smart Cities, aligned with the GITEX Technology Week theme of “Experience Future Urbanism”. Data center modernization ranks as one of the top digital business priorities for regional CEOs in the next two years, with technology infrastructure modernization enabling new digital business models, argues Condo Protego, the UAE-based IT infrastructure and information management consultancy and solutions provider. “Record-high Middle East data center spend shows that regional CEOs understand that modernizing IT infrastructure can deliver a competitive advantage and enable Smart Cities,” said Savitha Bhaskar, COO, Condo Protego. “GITEX is an ideal platform to showcase how modernized IT can lead to real-time insights for better customer and citizen engagement, new revenue streams, and greater efficiency and data protection.”
enable them to innovate in their industries, be more agile. AGS SELECTS IFS Arabian Gulf Switchgear (AGS), has selected IFS Applications 10 to support its engineer-toorder operations. To cope with the tremendous construction activities in the Gulf region, AGS has quickly scaled its operations to manage production and storage. The company had outgrown its legacy system that was operational for the past 25 years and required a single, integrated enterprise solution that could modernize all core business processes including finance, supply chain management, customer relationship management, projects, manufacturing, document management, HR and payroll.
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