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SUSE and StarLink sign
distribution agreement
for MENA region
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that this association will add tremendous
value to each of our organisations.”
As part of the partnership, StarLink will offer
SUSE’s complete solution portfolio but
based on customer demand and market
needs, StarLink will focus primarily on SUSE
Enterprise Storage and SUSE cloud solutions.
SUSE Enterprise Storage is an intelligent
software-defined storage management
solution, powered by Ceph technology, that
enables organisations to deliver a unified,
highly scalable, resilient and cost-efficient
storage that can seamlessly adapt to
changing business and data demands.
Nidal Othman, Managing Director at
StarLink and (right) Paul-Abi Chahine,
Regional Director, EMEA East at SUSE
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USE, a pioneer in enterprise open
source software, has announced that
it has signed a distribution agreement
with StarLink for the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) region.
The partnership will allow SUSE to continue
expanding its footprint in the region by
leveraging StarLink’s capabilities, channel
community and customer base. For StarLink,
SUSE Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI)
solutions complement and strengthen
its Cloud and Data Center (DC) offerings,
especially in the storage stack, and as such,
complete its Software Defined Data Center
(SDDC) portfolio, providing customers with
the ability to continuously innovate and
adopt new technologies faster.
“Given the cost considerations in the
current market climate, SDDC solutions are
becoming extremely attractive for MENA
enterprises as they can potentially reduce
costs by more than 50% vis-à-vis the
traditional datacentre solutions,” said Ramzi
Jalajel, sales director of the Cloud and DC
division at StarLink.
“Also, with SDDC, the ecological footprint
can be reduced by around 70%, which
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translates to significant power savings and a
lower total cost of ownership (TCO).”
Nigel Othman, Managing Director at Starlink,
added: “As we prepare for the ‘cloud-ready
future’, over the last few years we have been
investing in expanding our capabilities and
solution portfolio in the areas of SDDC, cloud
storage and backup.
“As a leading provider of enterprise open
source solutions, SUSE’s innovative SDI
portfolio perfectly complements the SDDC
solutions in our division and we look forward
to this partnership as we strongly believe
The solution has been designed to help
enterprise DevOps and IT Operations teams
reduce complexity and regain control of
IT assets, ensure compliance with internal
security policies and optimise operations
to reduce costs. SUSE OpenStack Cloud
is an enterprise-ready technology for
building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
private clouds, giving customers access
to automated pools of IT resources to
efficiently develop and run applications
and workloads in the data centre. Providing
customers with the flexibility to quickly
and easily respond to new demands. SUSE
OpenStack Cloud closely integrates with
SUSE Enterprise Storage, powered by Ceph,
for highly scalable and resilient software-
defined storage capabilities.
“According to recent research by Research
and Markets, the SDDC market is expected
to grow at a CAGR of 19.88% between
2017 and 2022,” said Paul-Abi Chahine,
Regional Director, EMEA East at SUSE.
“This is in line with the demand we are
seeing for our solutions in the MENA region
and to that end, we are aggressively looking
to expand our market reach.” n
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