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60 MinsShow dates: 14-18 October 2012, Dubai World Trade Centre | AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK | Exhibition hours: 11am -6pm

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Avaya will utilise its presence at the 2012 GITEX Technology Week to educate visitors on its latest innovations in enterprise communications. Using the five-day technology event as a platform to focus on the top trends affecting regional organizations, Avaya will showcase its solutions for Cloud and Virtualization, ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD), Social Media, contact centers and Mobility with a particular emphasis on Video Collaboration, connecting customers, partners, and staff together on their device of choice. Avaya will also be demonstrating its latest solutions offered to SME’s throughout the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.

Experts will be on hand throughout GITEX to demonstrate how Avaya can help companies of all sizes enhance their business through video collaboration to provide a simple and collective user experience on any device. As cost pressures continue to increase, businesses throughout the Middle East are considering video solutions as a viable option to decrease

cost of travel while harnessing the productivity benefits of video communication.

Avaya Video Conferencing removes the barriers of distance, helping companies become more effective whether their employees are working from their desktop, conference room, or mobile device. Avaya offers high-definition video conferencing and collaboration that includes clients for desktops and mobile devices, as well as Telepresence room systems built on an interoperable and scalable infrastructure.

Avaya’s innovative networking will also be a hot topic at GITEX this year, including application-ready networking that embraces video, mobility and BYOD. Avaya Networking provides advanced enterprise-class reliability, performance, and security that organizations throughout the Middle East depend on to run their businesses. Avaya will be at this year’s GITEX in Zaabeel Hall Z-C20, showcasing a range of services for all sectors, and companies of all sizes.

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Nexans to strengthen regional networkGlobal cabling solutions company Nexans will arrive at GITEX next month alongside its distributor, Mindware to promote its LAN cabling systems and strengthen its regional network, the company said.

“GITEX, being the largest ICT event in the Middle East, is very important for us. Our participation in the previous editions of Gitex has helped us increase our brand visibility with a focused audience that is looking for the latest and best technologies at the exhibition,” says Tarek Helmy, Regional Director Gulf and Middle East, Nexans Cabling Solutions.

“This year, we plan to promote our best-in-class range of LANmark and LANsense solutions, recruit new regional channel partners and meet customers and partners under a single roof.”

In the field of LAN Cabling Systems, Nexans offers a complete

range of products and value added services providing improved reliability and reduced cost of ownership for network managers, together with faster installation times for installers.

Over the last 20 years, Nexans has developed innovations such as the GG45 Cat7A system and LANsense – an automated infrastructure management (AIM)

platform with power management and environmental monitoring (EMAC) tools.

“Nexans Cabling Solutions has just completed twenty years of successfully enabling thousands of customers globally to invest in future-proof high-bandwidth solutions, lower their operational costs and look to the future with confidence. By participating in GITEX, we would like to show our commitment to the region in terms of our leadership in offering latest and best technologies and our long-term plan to firmly support our channel partners and customers,” Mr. Helmy adds.

Nexans will be exhibiting with Mindware at Stand D-01, Hall 3 at GITEX Technology Week 2012. Senior executives from the company will be present at its stand to meet with customers and partners at the event.

“The main theme of our presence at GITEX this year is to show the comprehensive nature of a data centric security strategy. The data has to be considered the crown jewel of whatever business we happen to be in, and if we look after that then most of the security technologies we have in place already becomes irrelevant.”

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Tarek Helmy, Regional Director Gulf and Middle East, Nexans Cabling Solutions

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“GITEX is the most important IT event in the MENA region and a very important one for us. It is an ideal platform for us to showcase our best-in-class products and meet customers and partners from across the region at a single venue. Participating in these world class IT exhibitions is a part of our annual marketing effort that helps us to communicate new key concepts and innovations to the tech-savvy audience.”

Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International

Dubai eGovernment are set to host 26 government entities at GITEX this year, according to H.E. Ahmad Bin Humaidan, Director General of Dubai eGovernment Department.

The Department has revealed plans for a larger combined stand of 2,700 square meters to host 26 government entities, the best online customer raffle and the launch of its smartphone applications.

Commenting on the Department’s participation, Bin Humaidan said: “Our primary goal is to enable our government partners to display their services

as well as submit electronic complaints and feedback. Other mobile applications would also be released byDubaigovernment entities during the exhibition, said Bin Humaidan.

Bin Humaidan revealed that the unique design of the DeG stand at GITEX came about after consultation with its partners to best demonstrate their services effectively and interact with all customers, while at the same time reflecting an integrated approach through a unified system for administrative, infrastructure, information and core services connectivity in the field of eGovernment.

In anticipation of the GITEX Technology Week 2012, DubaieGovernment has updated its event-dedicated website, http://gitex.dubai.ae, to include complete information on the participating government entities, agenda of the event, concluded agreements, lectures, press conferences and daily activities held on the sidelines of the event.

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effectively and interact with all customers. Together we will accelerate eTransformation inDubaiin line with our leadership’s bold ambition.”

Bin Humaidan announced that DeG would launch two new smartphone applications during GITEX. The first was an mPay application for DEWA bill payments, Dubai Police fines and recharge of RTA Salik. The second mobile application was the Dubai Government application which can be used to access data onDubaigovernment entities, their location and contact details

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Epicor is showcasing its next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution at GITEX. The ERP combines the best of the company’s business applications into a single solution with comprehensive end-to-end embedded capabilities, Epicor claims.

Offering sophisticated support for the virtualised enterprise, it utilises Epicor ICE technology that merges the flexibility of Epicor True SOA with the collaborative and self-evident nature of Web 2.0 concepts to create a resource that’s highly productive, for users ready for the benefits of

mass business interaction and participation.

“Epicor has been moving forward with its long-term growth strategy for the MENA region taking full advantage of the increasing demand for business software solutions in key industries by catering to the evolving business application requirements of enterprises in the Arab world. We are taking part in GITEX as it is the only technology tradeshow in the region specifically designed to encourage interaction among vendors and prospective customers,” said Anish Kanaran,

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help regional organisations to streamline business processes and maximise profitability while inspiring innovation. Epicor now has more than 350 customers and over 20 channel partners across the Middle East and offers a broad range of enterprise software solutions mainly targeted at mid-sized organisations. The company’s ERP software solutions are used around the world in manufacturing, distribution, services, retail, and hospitality environments. Anish Kanaran, Regional Director, Epicor ME

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EMC’s security arm, RSA, is using GITEX as a way to expand on the coverage of solutions demonstrated at its worldwide conferences held prior to the event in Dubai.

Ahmed Abdella, Regional Manager, MENA, RSA, claimed that GITEX is the ideal platform in order to showcase its security solutions, which have been announced at its major conferences, especially its UK event held during the week before GITEX, due to the market relevance of both regions.

“The relevance of the conferences in San Francisco and the UK will have a knock-on effect for our customers at GITEX, therefore it’s important to build on what we started there,” he said.

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stand and will have consultants and demonstrations available, with a keen focus on our solutions as part of the vLab experience.”

Abdella said he believes that having online demonstrations is important at

GITEX as a way of showing people a practical example of what’s on offer.

“With online demonstrations we can show people a genuine example of our products and then, with our consultants, they can have a practical

discussion afterwards,” he said. RSA has been present at GITEX

many times and are therefore used to reaping the benefits from the event.

“It’s a great way to show your brand. Brand awareness is key, so that people can really get a feel for what we are and what we offer. GITEX is an excellent platform on which to do that,” Abdella said.

“Word of mouth is also very beneficial. People who visit our stand but may not require our solutions at the time could pass on what they’ve seen and talked about and other customers may be interested and just hop over and see us. This could result in an increased customer base, increased revenue and increased presence,” he added.

Blue Coat will be demonstrating its entire suite of application delivery networking solutions at GITEX, in order to address customers’ urgent and complex issues.

Speaking about the company’s participation at the event, Dave Ewart, Director Product Marketing, EMEA, Blue Coat Systems said: “Gitex is attended by the key players in the industry and customers looking for solutions to urgent and complex issues. The exhibition is the ideal platform for us to present our innovative range of products and solutions.”

“The Middle East has seen an

increased level of cyber attacks in recent times. We will be conducting sessions to educate current and potential customers and partners on

the latest advances for combating these threats. Bandwidth costs are also a major concern in this region and we are keen to demonstrate our WAN optimisation and carrier-grade caching solutions that help save bandwidth and enhance the end-user web experience,” he added.

At GITEX, Blue Coat will highlight key products in its web security and optimisation product lines, including ProxySG, the Blue Coat Cloud Service, CacheFlow, MACH5 and PacketShaper. Through the industry’s first ‘Unified Web Security’ solution, which combines ProxySG appliances and the Blue Coat

Cloud Service, Blue Coat delivers global threat protection, universal policy and unified reporting to all users on devices across any network.

Blue Coat PacketShaper and MACH5 optimisation solutions aim to provide visibility, control and acceleration for businesses. CacheFlow aims to provide advanced caching technology to scale service delivery to meet the increasing demand for online video, large file downloads and other Web 2.0 rich media content while improving subscriber experience.

Blue Coat can be found in Zabeel Hall, Stand ZL-B6.

Expanding horizonsMohammed Amin, EMC’s Senior VP and Regional Manager for Turkey, Emerging Africa and the Middle East, will now also oversee the fast-growing Eastern Europe region, excluding Russia. He spoke to us about the company’s strategy to grow the business in these dynamic markets and how EMC is uniquely positioned to exploit the opportunities around cloud and big data.

Now you are going to oversee the Eastern Europe market as well. What kind of opportunities do you see in these markets for EMC?What we are trying to do is to create a go-to-market strategy for the emerging markets, which includes Eastern Europe. I am tasked with leading our sales efforts in what we now call the TEEAM region (Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East). Eastern Europe is a very dynamic market and growing at a faster pace from an economic growth perspective compared to Western Europe. Some of the big countries in this region, including Poland, Romania and Hungary, are witnessing high growth. Did you know the GDP of Poland equals that of Saudi Arabia? I am very excited about the opportunities we have there.

Last year, you were talking about ramping up your presence in Qatar and Kuwait, with a special focus on Africa. How have those plans panned out?We are on track. Now, we have a 15-member team in Qatar, which is going to be 25 soon. We are growing close to 100 percent and according to the IDC report, we have more than 45 percent market share in Qatar alone. We are going to open an office in Kuwait soon and the African market is growing at a rate of more than 50 percent for us.

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Mohammed Amin, EMC’s Senior VP and Regional Manager for Turkey, Emerging Africa and the Middle East

EMC is inviting GITEX delegates to connect with EMC experts to discuss the latest IT transformation trends, strategies for deploying Big Data analytics tools into the fabric of the business, and how to meet the stringent and diverse governance and compliance demands facing multi-national corporations today. Attendees will receive hands-on demonstrations of the company’s world-class portfolio of transformational IT products and solutions.

At GITEX, EMC will be showcasing how Cloud, Virtualisation and Big Data solutions can drive the transformation of IT infrastructures and revolutionise business operations to give organisations an edge over their competition. Participants will also be able to attend vLab demos taking place at EMC’s stand to experience the simplicity of EMC’s industry-leading management software, VMware integration, security features from its RSA division, and end-to-end functionality.

EMC will be present at GITEX Cloud Confex, Hall 6, Stand CLD 7 from 14 to 18 October 2012 at the Dubai World Trade Center.

growth rate?Yes we have. And in fact, we have 41 percent market share in the addressable market in the region, which comprises enterprises, mid-market and SMEs. As you know we are not a big player in the SME market, so if you look at the enterprise market our share would be close to 60 percent.

But hasn’t EMC been moving downstream over the last couple of years to address the SME market?Historically, EMC was perceived as an expensive brand, which mainly caters to the enterprise market. But over the last years, we have rolled out products targeted at the SME market with products that start from $10,000. We are taking this market very seriously and we are pleased with the success in the last 12 months.

This sure looks like a good time to be in the storage business. Do you think this market will be commoditised?We are not a storage company, we are an information technology company. Only 43 percent of our revenues come from hardware, the rest comes from software and services. Our competitors, who can’t offer what we can, try to label us as a storage company. I wouldn’t say the storage market is a good place to be in today. If you look at the last quarter results of our competition, most of them have declined while we have grown. EMC has the right strategy and we are executing very well against it. Our market share equals that of our main three competitors’ market shares put together.

Having said that, I don’t think the storage market will be commoditised. There is more business coming in with lot of

data being generated and the market will continue to grow in two dimensions – 75 percent of growth will be in the enterprise space, and the mid-tier and SME market will continue to grow in parallel. Analysts predict the global storage market will grow at CAGR of 7 percent over the next three years, which is not bad.

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