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Cyberoam- Growing with Partners proposition for partners and Cyberoam recently awarded its end-customers. With the concluMEA region partners for their sion of this year’s event we are contribution in marketing, upbeat of continuing this good sales and distribution. MEA work in the future.” Mr. Ravinis rapidly evolving as a key der Janotra, Regional Managermarket for Cyberoam and the Middle East, Cyberoam, company has established a commented: “Evolving security strong presence in the region . market is forcing them to redraw This year’s meet at Amsterdam their IT blueprints and start over. was a huge success in terms of Though, the state of security execution and partner engage- RAVINDER JANOTRAREGIONAL MANAGER SALES, has improved markedly over ment. Harish Chib, Sr. VP MIDDLE EAST, CYBEROAM the years, there is still a lot to be New Business Development, done. Our partners stand united in this cause and Cyberoam commented: “Cyberoam provides we are committed to strengthen them in every unmatched opportunities for partners to capture possible way to build a stronger resilience against the market with its wide range of offerings and emerging cyber threats and challenges.” subscriptions. We have always made a win-win
PALO ALTO UNVEILS POWER PACKED FIREWALL Palo Alto Networks has a new powerful addition to its NGFW family— the PA-7080. According to Saeed Agha, GM, Palo Alto Networks Middle East the PA-7080 offers prevention capabilities, intelligence and simplicity for the large and the fast growing organizations in the Middle East. Palo Alto Networks security platform consists of the Palo Alto Networks NGFW, Threat Intelligence Cloud, and Advanced Endpoint Protection. The platform eliminates the security, performance, and operational shortcomings of legacy products and siloed security architectures. It is designed to prevent successful cyberattacks while delivering scalable performance, policy automation, and orchestration.
FORTIFYING NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE GCC governments are urged to secure critical national infrastructure in the face of high risk of more sophisticated cyberattacks in the emerging Internet of Things era, industry experts announced today. “While GCC governments and organizations are increasingly connecting industrial automation processes for smart intelligence on the back end of organizations, and on the front end citizen services,operational technology is at a rising risk for cybersecurity attacks,” said Asef Sleiman, General Manager, Enterprise Network and Cyber Security Solutions, Omnix International, a GCC-based systems integrator that has recently launched a cybersecurity division.
STARLINK BUCKLESUP MEDIA SECURITY
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StarLink has noted a surge in security projects in the Media vertical in the Middle East in 2015. Since media products are in high demand and completely digital, there is a high risk of being breached with sensitive data being leaked.“With our Channel Partners, we have been involved in multiple large Media security deployments this year, helping organizations in the industry to implement better next-generation-threat detection technology, security operations centers, and best-of-breed incident response tools” said Nidal Othman, Managing Director of StarLink. Avinash Advani, VP Business Strategy at StarLink added, “A data breach for a Media company can not only hurt the organization’s reputation, but it can bring business operations to a standstill incurring huge costs due to downtime. Media organizations are constantly in the spotlight and therefore they must ensure that they identify critical assets and put in place a defense-in-depth, multi-layered security architecture for the protection of users, networks, applications and data.”
EMC EXPANDS PARTNERSHIP WITH SAP The EMC Federation, including newly acquired Virtustream, has introduced new innovations, partner programs and customers across its Hybrid Cloud portfolio. The EMC Federation provides customers with the industry’s most complete Hybrid Cloud portfolio, able to support all workloads and all cloud models –private, public and managed clouds. Through a common platform, customers are
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now able to manage multiple clouds and cloud service providers as one logical cloud, with the distinction between on premises and off premises being eliminated. Virtustream is now one of a select few premier strategic providers of cloud infrastructure services for SAP business-critical applications in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. Apart from that new capabilities across the federation include;
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VMware has enhanced its vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Services with Disaster Recovery OnDemand adding a pay-for-what-youconsume pricing option, and the addition of Site Recovery Manager Air; VMware vCloud Air Object Storage is a portfolio of highly scalable, reliable and cost effective storage services for unstructured data; A new “Federation Ready” partner credential program and a
new Federation End-User Computing Solution aimed at driving the complexity out of deploying and maintaining VDI; VCE has expanded VxRack, its innovative hyper-converged rackscale system, with a new offering based on VMware software. This enables IT organizations to quickly and cost effectively deploy Hybrid Cloud infrastructure based on a VMware software-defined architecture.