MARKET MOVEMENT
Ingram Micro to distribute Cradlepoint
across Middle East, Turkey
Ingram Micro announced a channel alliance with Cradlepoint, a global vendor in cloud-based
network solutions for connecting people, places and things over wired and wireless broadband.
As its distribution partner, Ingram Micro will help accelerate the rapid growth that Cradlepoint has
achieved and extend their regional market share in Middle East, Turkey, Africa.
Cradlepoint provides solutions for cloud-managed business continuity, primary and parallel
networking, mobile, and M2M, IoT. Ingram Micro delivers a full spectrum of global technology and
supply chain services to businesses around the world.
STC partners with
Intelsat in Saudi Arabia
Middle East partner Cirrus
is Red Hat cloud certified
Intelsat Saudi Arabia announced that Saudi
Telecommunication Company STC has
extended its relationship with Intelsat to
use the companyís satellite solutions to
support operations for the largest oil and gas
producer in Saudi Arabia. Under a multi-year
agreement, STC, the largest telecom operator
in Saudi Arabia, will use connectivity provided
by Intelsat 10-02, located at 1∞ west, to
provide satellite services to the oil and gas
sector in Saudi Arabia.
The partnership will support the growth
of the VSAT sector in Saudi Arabia. The
telecom operator uses multiple satellites in
Intelsatís globalised network to provide highquality broadband networking for corporate
customers in the banking, government and
oil and gas sectors operating throughout the
Middle East and Asia.
Cirrus announced they have joined the
Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service
Provider programme, offering customers
and independent software vendors
greater confidence from a partner
ecosystem when building their nextgeneration IT projects using Red Hat
solutions.
As a Red Hat Certified Cloud and
Service Provider, Cirrus plans to use Red
Hat JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
to offer its customers in the banking
and finance, and insurance industries
Platform-as-a-Service solutions, as well
as to design and deploy customised
applications for the sectors.
The Red Hat Certified Cloud and
Service Provider programme was
created to offer additional flexibility
to help solution providers better meet
Acunetix appoints
Bulwark as regional
distributor
Acunetix has signed a distribution
agreement with Bulwark Technologies.
Under the agreement, Bulwark’s
channel partners will offer the vendorís
web application security solutions to
enterprise customers across the Middle
East. As part of the agreement, Bulwark
will assist Acunetix to establish and
grow in the region through its channel
network and a complete focus on
partner enablement.
The distributor will also organise
sales and technical training sessions
along with various marketing initiatives
to boost sales in the Middle East.
Bulwark will also provide technical
support to the channel community
through its team of technical experts.
customer needs for cloud-based Red Hat
technologies. By using a Red Hat Certified
Cloud and Service Provider, customers
and partners using custom-developed or
third-party ISV applications certified to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat
solutions, can have greater confidence that
these applications will function as expected
when using them on a public cloud or
managed service provider.
A10 Networks joins Cisco Solution
Partner Programme
Mimecast appoints
Bulwark as distributor
A10 Networks announced it has joined the Cisco Solution Partner Programme as
a Solution Provider. The Internet of Everything continues to bring together people,
processes, data and things to enhance the relevancy of network connections.
As a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Programme, A10 Networks is able to
quickly create and deploy solutions to enhance the capabilities, performance and
management of the network to capture value in the IoE.
The Cisco Solution Partner Programme, part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem,
unites Cisco with third-party independent hardware and software vendors to deliver
integrated solutions to joint customers. As a Solution Partner, A10 Networks offers
a complementary product offering and has started to collaborate with Cisco to meet
the needs of joint customers.
Bulwark announced that they have partnered
with Mimecast, an enterprise email archiving
firm, to provide one-stop shop for email archives
and data security solutions in the region. Bulwark
will distribute Mimecastís full portfolio of security,
continuity and archiving products.
Mimecastís cloud services deliver email risk
management in one integrated subscription
service, whilst reducing the risk, complexity
and cost associated with on premise email
management.
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