NEWS
Redvine Networks continues SD-WAN
partnership growth with VeloCloud
M
anaged SD-WAN provider, Redvine
Networks, has reaffirmed its
partnership with VeloCloud with continued
investment in deploying gateways
nationally and internationally and extending
its footprint across sub-Saharan Africa.
“Redvine has been a VeloCloud partner
for the last three years and has deep
experience and in-depth understanding
of SD-WAN,” said Gareth James, VMware
Network and Security Manager for Sub
Saharan Africa.
“Over the term of our relationship, we
have seen that Redvine has a customer
centric, solution-based approach, and
we have consistently seen successful
deployments as a result of this. Redvine
is a pleasure to deal with, and we have no
hesitation in recommending them to any of
our customers.”
Binesh George, CEO at Redvine, added:
“We have seen a steady increase in the
number of customers migrating from
traditional MPLS networks to SD-WAN,
with many telling us they want to partner
with specialised, network agnostic solution
providers like us.”
“Control, choice and transparency have
become the cornerstones of the SD-WAN
deployments that we have rolled out.”
Since the inception of its partnership with
VeloCloud in 2016, Redvine Networks has
invested in establishing cloud gateways in a
number of locations nationally, as well as in
Namibia, Zambia and Botswana to provide
customers with flexibility and redundancy
that keeps business online. “We are already
working on deploying additional gateways
in East and West Africa and furthering
our investment in our partnership with
VeloCloud,” said George. “The demand
for better quality of service and enabling
always-on business means it is essential to
have the right technologies in place.”
Mindware becomes Citrix Service
Provider Distributor
M
indware has announced it has been
appointed by Citrix as the Authorized
Citrix Service Provider (CSP) Distributor in
the Middle East region.
Under the Citrix Service Provider
Distributor programme, Mindware would
provide product and service fulfilment,
technical and business enablement and
support to the Citrix Service Providers in the
Middle East.
The Citrix Service Provider Program
is a Citrix partner programme designed
specifically for service providers who provide
paid third party hosted software services to
end-user customers.
In addition to complete Desktops-as-
a-Service offerings, many Citrix Service
Providers host a single application or
applications for an ISV which does not have
a SaaS-based offering, provide NetScaler
as a service, mobility (mobile device
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management) as a service and/or managed
services to their clients.
With Mindware becoming the Authorized
CSP Distributor in the Middle East region,
integrators that aim to become a Citrix
Service Provider would benefit from more
than 15 years of product, technical and
licensing expertise as a Citrix distributor. They
would also get access to skilled consultants
and experts as well as to the Citrix Cloud lab
environments to demonstrate the value of
Citrix SaaS solutions to customers.
Philippe Jarre, CEO, Mindware, said:
“Mindware is delighted to be appointed
as an Authorized Citrix Service Provider
Distributor for the Middle East. Our
distribution relationship with Citrix has
grown over the years. This new programme
is a natural extension as the technology
adoption matures from on-prem to the
cloud. With Citrix, our partners/ service
Philippe Jarre,
CEO, Mindware
providers will have all the elements to create
scalable, reliable, private or public cloud-
based offerings. This will help our partners
to be more productive and profitable.”
Piotr Faderski, Partner Director, Emerging
Markets, Citrix, said: “As a Citrix Service
Partner Program Distributor, Mindware
will help manage and support the service
providers in the region who want to build
and deliver complete hosted service portfolio
(hosted desktops and hosted apps, mobile
device management and secure file share,
infrastructure for self-service provisioning
and secure networking). Mindware will also
support in the hosted workspace activities of
these partners and ensure on-time reporting
for their products.”