Middle East: Kodak Alaris Information Management has signed a value-added distributor partnership with Allscan Middle East that will enable the distributor to promote and offer the entire portfolio of Kodak Alaris document scanners and information management software to enterprises across the region. Allscan will also offer Kodak Alaris backed local service and support for organisations that use the company’s award-winning document scanners. The agreement is an extension of the excellent partnership the two companies have shared in the South African market over the last several years.
High-end server and motherboard vendor Supermicro has appointed broadliner Asbis as its distributor in the region1. In terms of the agreement, Asbis will supply channel partners with Supermicro's entire product array. In addition, Asbis Middle East will help the vendor to onboard systems integrator for the vendor's advanced IT/hyper-converged infrastructure and building block solutions for data centre, cloud, enterprise, Hadoop/big data, HPC and embedded systems.
Network and telecom VAD DVCOM Technology has announced that it will help 2N, a subsidiary of the Axis Group and provider of IP intercoms systems, elevator systems, access control, IP audio systems, M2M and telecommunications solutions to grow its reseller footprint and channel business in the region2.
Redington Value, the value division of broadliner Redington, has inked two distribution deals, with Nexthink (endpoint security)3 and Gemini Data (security appliance for Splunk)4. Both vendors will be available in the region through Redington Value offices in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
Network vendor TP-Link has signed a distribution agreement with network and security VAD Sariya IT Distribution for Saudi Arabia. In terms of the agreement, Sariya IT Distribution will supply channel partners in Saudi Arabia with TP-Link's entire SMB product range and services5. According to the vendor, the partnership with Sariya IT Distribution is aimed at helping it to strengthen its footprint in the SMB segment in the country.
UK-based cyber-security software provider Osirium Technologies has appointed its first distribution partner Spectrami for the MENA region to expand its partner base in the region through its offices in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. "Spectrami has built an excellent reputation working as a 'Vendor Extension Model' (VEM) which suits the Osirium business approach. Its goal is to reflect the same experience that a vendor would offer directly and, due to the level of intelligence behind our technology, we understand the value in this. We know this relationship will start some exciting engagements in the region and have every confidence that Spectrami will be a great distribution partner", said Duncan Fisken, Business Development Director for MENA at Osirium.
Finally, security VAD StarLink has signed up VMware as a new partner, adding the virtualisation giant into its already extensive portfolio of security vendor partners6. The new partnership is based on VMware NSX which ties into the virtualised solutions of some of StarLink vendor partners, explained Nidal Othman, managing director StarLink. "VMWare was a very strategic and great milestone in the history of StarLink. The partnership, which is around VMWare NSX, complements many of the technologies that we have in our portfolio", Othman said. The VMware, StarLink partnership is VMWare's first and only NSX specialised distribution partnership in the world, revealed Ossama Eldeeb, senior manager, MENA partner organisation (source: Intelligent Tech Channels Africa, ITP Middle East 1, 2, 5 and 6, Reseller Middle East 3 and 4, Channel Post MEA).