Boldon James chooses Starlink
2017-08-31

Middle East: Boldon James, a provider of data classification and secure messaging solutions, has appointed security VAD Starlink to cover Turkey and Africa. StarLink, acclaimed as the largest value-added distributor of IT security solutions across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, will add Boldon James Classifier to their enviable portfolio of top security vendors. This latest development means StarLink's extensive partner and customer base in Turkey and Africa will now have access to Boldon James' market leading Classifier data classification product range. StarLink, who have on-the-ground presence in 11 countries (in the region, in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates), are recognised as the "Trusted Security Advisor" of choice to over 2200 enterprise and government customers, and assist their customers to identify key risks and define priorities to address IT security gaps in relation to compliance and next-generation threat protection. This is something that is required more and more in Turkey and Africa, as highlighted at the recent Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference; where close to 70% of the region’s IT experts expressed concern regarding their company's information security measures. Furthermore, Gartner recently revealed that Middle East and North Africa (MENA) spending on information security technology and services would reach €1.175B by the end of 2016; an increase of 8% over 2015.

Boldon James Classifier empowers users to assign a value to data that they create and handle, in the form of a visual and metadata classification label. Classifier can then prevent sensitive data from being distributed in error whilst enforcing security policy and best practice across the organisation. After an extensive market evaluation, StarLink selected Boldon James as its exclusive data classification vendor based on the superiority of its product, technical and customer support in comparison to other vendor offerings in the market. The new partnership with StarLink will foster growth of the Boldon James brand and Classifier product range across the region.

Nidal Othman, Managing Director at StarLink, said: "we are delighted to be partnering with Boldon James as our exclusive data classification vendor in Turkey and Africa. Their offering in terms of product, as well as, the excellence of their technical and customer support, is simply leaps and bounds above the other offerings available on the market, and one we are proud to be able to present to our network."

Martin Sugden, Managing Director of Boldon James, said: "in the growing Middle East, Turkey and Africa markets, it's vital that businesses adopt global best practice around data protection. Boldon James Classifier is a simple and cost-effective way to protect sensitive data, and works with a wide range of best-of-breed security and data management tools to protect organisations. We are delighted that Starlink selected Boldon James as their exclusive data classification vendor, who will help drive awareness across the region. This is another exciting strategic partnership for Boldon James and demonstrates our commitment to supporting our customers and channel partners in the META region."

StarLink appointed as a Symantec VAD
2017-08-22

Middle East: security VAD StarLink has been appointed as a VAD for Symantec in the region. As a platform-independent software company without bias to an individual operating system or hardware environment, Symantec helps customers manage more technologies with greater efficiency, on more platforms – even in virtual environments – than any other company. With multi-platform software and a worldwide delivery and support infrastructure, Symantec helps customers optimize technology investments throughout their lifetimes. StarLink is acclaimed as the largest value-added distributor of IT security solutions across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. StarLink's extensive partner and customer base in the Middle East (covered through offices in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) will now have access to Symantec's market leading Enterprise product range. Nidal Othman, Managing Director at StarLink, said: "this exciting new business relationship is an organic one, with Symantec's acquisition of BlueCoat. Following the success we previously achieved with Blue Coat, we are glad to be part of Symantec’s journey in establishing itself as the industry's largest pure play cyber security company, and we are committed to work together with our channel to help realize our collective goal of, ‘Defining the Future of CyberSecurity."

An acquisition for Ingram Micro and new partners for Axiz, Starlink and Tarsus
2017-05-24

MEA: broadliner Ingram Micro has acquired the business assets of Dubai-based company Network Information Technology LLC (NIT), a distributor of physical security solutions in MEA (Middle East and Africa) region. NIT's current management team will operate as a business unit of Ingram Micro META (Middle East, Turkey & Africa), led by managing director Bassel Fakir, who reports to Dr. Ali Baghdadi, senior vice president Ingram Micro and chief executive Ingram Micro, META. Dr. Baghdadi commented: "with the acquisition of NIT, Ingram Micro gains a well-established foothold as a recognized expert in the physical security market, further expanding our capabilities in the rapidly growing and higher value Middle East and Africa market. NIT customers and vendors will benefit from an even greater breadth of value add services and solutions to help them realize the promise of technology. Our company cultures are well aligned and together we look forward to offering NIT’s high value solutions across META and expanding into new geographies."

Security VAD StarLink has become a certified member of the Pure Storage Partner Programme (P3) and will now distribute Pure Storage's All-Flash enterprise storage solutions to its customers in the region through its offices in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Under the accord, StarLink will sell, install and support Pure Storage's products, through its extensive network of channel partners, to enterprise and government customers in the Middle East and Africa. Nidal Othman, managing director StarLink, said: "we see huge synergy between our data centre and cloud objectives and the simplicity and efficiency of Pure Storage's All-Flash portfolio. We are thrilled to explore the opportunity that this partnership will provide us as the MEA region accelerates its pace on the cloud journey."

Mobility accessory vendor Targus has appointed South African broadliners Axiz and Tarsus Distribution as its preferred master distributors for Southern Africa. Through the appointment of Axiz and Tarsus Distribution, the company aims to support the evolution of the mobile workforce in SA by putting all the tools and accessories they need within easy reach through providing the right peripheral and accessory support required. According to the manufacturer of computing accessories, both the selected distribution companies will serve corporate and retail markets regionally with the full range of Targus products. The range spans Targus' signature laptop and tablet cases, as well as accessories and peripherals including docking stations, privacy screens, laptop coolers, locks, styluses, and screen protectors amongst others (source: ITP Middle East and Channel Post MEA).

Enterprise Systems and Starlink ink new distribution deals
2017-04-24

Middle East: network and security VAD Enterprise Systems has signed a value added distribution agreement with network access management vendor ANTlabs. The agreement will enable Enterprise Systems' regional channel partners to offer ANTlabs products to UAE enterprise customers. Plus is aims to empower Enterprise Systems to recruit and manage partners in building steady revenue streams and scale ANTlabs business in the region. Enterprise Systems will focus on government, finance, healthcare, hospitality, transportation, oil & gas, and education sectors.

Its competitor StarLink has expanded its solutions lifecycle portfolio by signing a distribution agreement with Rubrik, a converged data management company. Under the agreement, the VAD will sell, install and support Rubrik's products and solutions through its extensive network of Channel Partners to enterprise and government customers in the GCC (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) as well as Egypt. Nidal Othman, Managing Director StarLink, said: "StarLink continues to build a diverse portfolio for our partners, and with focus tremendously shifting to cloud-based solutions, having Rubrik onboard is very timely. Apart from being a world-class cloud data management platform that allows backup, recovery, replication and analytics, I am most excited about how Rubrik can prevent ransomware from being able to access and encrypt backup data and that Rubrik's approach can provide much of the benefit of Isolated Recovery at a fraction of the cost." Roland Stritt, Director Channels EMEA for Rubrik, said: "we are thrilled to partner with StarLink and bring Rubrik to their huge channel network. With our new approach to cloud data management, data protection and archival, we have not only eliminated the complexity of legacy solutions, but also reduced our customers data centre footprint and capex costs by up to 50%. We see increased demand for our solution in the region and look forward to StarLink's expertise to help us meet this demand." (source: ITP Middle East and Reseller Middle East).

New distributors for Authlogics, HID, HPE and Nexthink
2017-03-13

MEA: authentication vendor Authlogics has appointed network and security VAD EliteVAD and broadliner AxizWorkgroup to grow the customer base for its multi-factor authentication platform across Middle East and Africa (thanks to EliteVAD offices in Dubai, Egypt and Kuwait and AxizWorkgroup teams in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia), focusing on the enterprise market and specifically the financial services sector. Authlogics recently launched its Authlogics for Retail Banking. The platform enables banks to replace hard-tokens and passwords with highly secure, convenient and consistent 1.5 Factor Authentication or 1.5FA, 2FA and 3FA logon methods. Authlogics for Retail Banking can be deployed for customers accessing online, mobile and telephone banking services, as well as providing additional layers of security for ATM and Point of Sale devices.

Network and security VAD SCOPE Middle East has become a member of the HID Advantage Partner Programme. According to SCOPE, the HID Advantage Partner Programme is a loyalty-based initiative which provides partners with the ability to evolve their relationship with the vendor for scalability and overall growth. Under the programme, SCOPE will distribute the full range of IAM Solutions, including HID Global's ActivID Authentication solutions and ActivID Credential Management System. In addition, SCOPE will work closely with HID Global to enhance end user value in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Sparepart specialist Service Parts Logistics (SPL) has long been the authorised channel for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, enabling it to supply genuine original HPE parts and upgrades to its customers. This year SPL has added genuine HPE networking and storage equipment to their customer offering via the HPE authorised spares channel. In terms of the range of networking and storage equipment made available by HPE, SPL stocks the full current portfolio, as well as versions of previous generations of hardware at much reduced pricing – from HPE Flexfabric and modular switching, to fixed port switching, routing, security and wireless access points and controllers. Similarly, with regards storage, SPL is ideally positioned to offer a "shopping cart" solution where every item from hard drives to chassis is available as an equivalent spare through its HPE channel.

Finally, security VAD StarLink has signed a distribution agreement with Nexthink, a leader in end-user experience management. StarLink will sell, install and support Nexthink end-user IT analytics solutions through its extensive network of channel partners to enterprise and government customers in the region, through its offices in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. By combining real-time endpoint analytics and end-user feedback Nexthink helps IT improve business impact. Nexthink’s unique analytics and visualizations provide new insight and enable IT to adopt proactive operations, reduce costs and ultimately enhance end-user business productivity. Nidal Othman, Managing Director of StarLink, said: "we are happy to be appointed a Nexthink distributor for the META region especially since Nexthink complements our Solutions Lifecycle Portfolio. Offering unique end-user experience management solutions to enable companies to improve their IT services, enhance their security and ensure compliance, Nexthink shows great potential in the market." Ghassan Al Kahlout, Regional Director Saudi Arabia and Turkey at Nexthink, said: "Nexthink aims to establish a strong foothold in META regions and StarLink can make this possible with its expertise and rich experience in enabling technology companies reach full market potential. Teaming with StarLink moves us even closer to delivering on the promise of end-user experience management for organizations of all sizes." (source: Intelligent Tech Channels Africa and ITP Middle East)

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