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MEA Cloud Data Center Traffic to Grow 440% by 2020, says Cisco
MIKE WESTON, VP, CISCO MIDDLE EAST
The 6th sixth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index reveals that global cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020. In Middle East and Africa, data center traffic will reach 451 exabytes per year by 2020, up from 105
exabytes per year in 2015. This rapid growth of cloud traffic is attributed to increased migration to cloud architectures and their ability to scale quickly and efficiently support more workloads than traditional data centers.
OOREDOO MARKS A DECADE OF QATAR DATA CENTRE INNOVATION Officially launched in 2006, the Qatar Data Centre was the first facility in Qatar to offer businesses a full suite of enterprise services, evolving into one of the most important technology assets in Qatar’s drive to become a truly “smart” nation. H.E. Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani, Chairman, Ooredoo, said: “Today is a proud day for Ooredoo and for Qatar. The Qatar Data Centre has evolved into the most advanced and sophisticated facility in the region and continues to enable businesses to achieve greater efficiencies and deliver significant success. We will continue to invest in new services and solutions for our customers and look forward to further innovation in the future.”
ARA NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH BULWARK Bulwark Technologies has signed a distributor agreement with ARA Networks. The Value-Added Distributor will distribute ARA Networks SSL Visibility products through its extensive network of channel partners to customers across the Middle East region.ARA Networks delivers Next Generation SSL products for strong & selective traffic decryption and seamless network transmission. SSL-PRISM is an all-in-one network appliance designed to analyze and control SSL traffic and deal with various security threats without the hassles of reconfiguring existing network appliances already deployed on network. The company has been named Global Top 6 Company in Transparent Caching Market by Frost & Sullivan 2013 Report. Bulwark is excited to announce its distribution partnership with ARA Networks. The vendor provides technology that delivers unsurpassed performance & reliability for best Network Traffic Management. Our collaboration with ARA Networks represents a strategic addition, which highly complements our existing product portfolio, enabling our channel partners to deliver cutting-edge technology to customers in the region,’’ says Jose Thomas Menacherry, Managing Director, Bulwark Technologies. “Bulwark’s regional expertise along with a strong partner network will enable in delivering our solutions to rapidly eradicate business challenges caused by rapid traffic explosion, across the region. We are looking forward to a highly fruitful partnership,’’ said Fayez Tinawi, Global Business Development Manager, ARA Networks.
PURE TO MAKE ENTERPRISES NVME-READY Pure Storage’s NVMeReady Guarantee enables every newly purchased FlashArray//M to be upgraded to full NVMe through its EvergreenTM Storage program. “Seven years ago, we saw the potential of flash as an industry standard. We
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have reached a similar inflection point with NVMe, and enterprises will need to be prepared for the shift to take full advantage of technological improvements in 2017 and beyond,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Product, Pure Storage. “.
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Any organization buying new storage today needs to be NVMe-ready to protect its investment. Pure has widened the gap between purpose-built arrays and legacy retrofits, and is best positioned to lead the industry transition to NVMe.”
MATT KIXMOELLER, VP, PRODUCTS, PURE STORAGE