EDITOR ’ S COMMENT
Welcome to Issue 35 of
Intelligent Tech Channels .
On the front cover of this month ’ s edition , we feature Philippe Jarre , CEO of Mindware , who explains how the company has helped its partners during this challenging year and the services Mindware has offered as a leading Value Added Distributor .
He talks about how the channel market in the Middle East has reacted to the pandemic from faster Digital Transformation to coping with financial restraints . He also outlines the focus for Mindware in the year ahead and what areas he focused on when he joined the company as CEO .
This month ’ s Expert Speak comes from Reem Asaad , Vice President , Cisco Middle East & Africa , who talks about Cisco research which reveals CIOs and CTOs perspective on performance and strategies for coping with the pandemic . CIOs cited security , VPN bandwidth , loss of productivity and tech outages as their main stress drivers at present .
In the Future Tech section , Bob He , President of Data Centre Facility , Huawei , explains how the telecommunications company has incorporated advanced Artificial
Intelligence ( AI ) capabilities into its range of data centre facility offerings to further enhance the capabilities of its solutions .
The Editor ’ s Comment on the following pages focuses on Edge Computing and how it is impacting the channel with contributions from Tony Bartlett , Director , Data Centre Compute at Dell Technologies , South Africa and Sherifa Hady , EMEA Channel Sales Director at Aruba , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company . And don ’ t forget to find out about two more channel chiefs on pages 59 to 62 . This month ’ s interviewees are Mohammed Abu Shmais , Sales , Business Development & Alliance Director , Technology Strategies Middle East ( TSME ) and Nick Adams , Vice President of EMEA , Globalization Partners .
And , as usual , we have all of your favourite features and news from around the regions – check our website for daily updates .
I hope you enjoy this edition and do not hesitate to get in touch if you have anything you would like to share with regards to the channel . You can email me at rebecca @ lynchpinmedia . co . uk
Rebecca Miles Editor
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