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60 MinsShow dates: 14-18 October 2012, Dubai World Trade Centre | AT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK | Exhibition hours: 11am -7pm

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Fortinet, a provider of high performance network security solutions sees a clear ROI from their participation at GITEX Technology Week.

Bashar Bashaireh, Regional Director at Fortinet Middle East said, “For seven years we participated at GITEX through our channel partners Secureway and Computerlinks. Last year we decided to revise our strategy and invested in an independent stand as an appreciation for the ROI from GITEX. The exhibition gives us access to a host of prospects from around the region such as KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Pakistan among many others. While we agree that all these leads may not be successful, even a quarter of them our then our investment is justified.”

“In 2012, this need to participate at GITEX was further fuelled by the investments we have been making in the region. Not only have we grown our operations and team in the region significantly but our partners too have enjoyed significant benefits with the announcement of our new channel programmes for the EMEA region and

the announcements of new partnerships such as with Oxygen in Saudi Arabia,” Bashaireh added.

The company has clearly invested in its presence at GITEX Technology Week, with a dedicated stand in the Security Pavilion that is 30% to 40% larger than the previous year. “We have executives flying down from all corners of the world, to meet and greet our customers and partners, host presentations to help them understand the security challenges of today and gear their

networks against the greatest threats to their network using the latest Fortinet technologies,” he said.

Fortinet has introduced four new additions to its wireless access point product family with the release of the FortiAP-320B, FortiAP-223B, FortiAP-112B and the FortiAP-11C. The new FortiAP models provide customers looking to integrate secure wireless access with their network security with significant advantages that include faster connections, simplified deployment, centralised “single pane of glass” management and reduced total-cost-of ownership. The devices work seamlessly with the wireless controller functionality embedded in every FortiGate network security device.

The company has also introduced strong two-factor authentication clients- the FortiToken-200CD, FortiToken-Mobile and FortiToken-300, providing businesses with the flexibility to choose which token solutions best fit their environment from a security and ease-of-use

Bashar Bashaireh, Regional Director at Fortinet Middle East

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SAEED signs pact with AvayaSAAED, the UAE-based traffic accident service provider, has today at GITEX signed a framework agreement with Avaya as the solutions partner for all of SAAED’s networking, unified communications and contact center needs in the Middle East. The agreement equips SAAED’s staff with Avaya’s end to end state of the art solutions in order to properly address all traffic-related issues, including minor accidents, breakdowns, insurance claims and auto repair logistics.

This partnership allows SAAED to enhance its overall communications with Avaya’s solutions for networking, mobility with unified communications, and contact center technology across its sites, designed to increase performance, reduce costs and accelerate the response time of SAAED staff. It also encompasses a broad suite of Avaya technology solutions and expertise, enabling Avaya to

implement, source, manage and enhance technology operations throughout SAAED networks. By using Avaya for this complete end-to-end implementation, SAAED can move to a standardised communications model, creating a centralized system to manage all of its operations.

Taking part in today’s framework agreement signing on the Ministry of Interior stand at GITEX were Chairman &Board Director H.E.

General Hussein Al Harethi, who also serves as Director General of the Abu Dhabi Traffic Department, as well as Ibrahim Yousef Ramel, Chief Executive Officer of SAAED. Representing Avaya were Michael Bayer, Avaya President, Europe Middle East and Africa and Nidal Abou-Ltaif, Avaya Vice President of Middle East, Africa and Turkey.

“Avaya has a solid track record across the Middle East in successfully delivering innovative solutions to some of the region’s largest public sector departments, banks, and telecoms companies. Our expertise in working with the police and other civil service departments in the UAE as well as Avaya’s proven networking, mobility and contact centre solutions will enable the SAAED initiative to benefit staff throughout the UAE,” said Nidal Abou-Ltaif, VP of Middle East Africa and Turkey, Avaya

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standpoint. The new tokens work in conjunction with both FortiGate and FortiAuthenticator platforms according to Bashaireh.

The overarching theme of Fortinet’s presence at GITEX is to help customers cope with BYOD. “The BYOD revolution urges organisations to look at how to embrace an unavoidable practice while minimising its risks. We are pleased to be part of GITEX, as this is a great platform for us to demonstrate how our new wireless and authentication products along with other embedded security technologies can help organisations deploy a robust, flexible and cost-effective BYOD security infrastructure,” he concluded.

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du goes green

Cisco outlines SDN strategy

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As part of its continued efforts to adopt green solutions and achieve sustainability in the UAE, du has announced its plan to increase the number of Genset Efficiency CO2 emission-reducing, turnkey energy management systems and monitoring solutions in its mobile base stations.

The announcement was made during GITEX Technology Week 2012 and coincides with du’s support of the upcoming World Energy Forum as a lead sponsor.

Present at the announcement was Farid Faraidooni, Chief Commercial Officer, du and Ayad Abul-Ella, CEO, Heliocentris, accompanied by Jasem

Al Marzouki, Senior Director, Civil and Electromechanical, du, and Michael Kutschenreuter, General Manager Middle East and

With the continued implementation of the green solutions, du expects a saving in fuel consumption of 6.8 million litres and reduction in CO2 emissions

by 17,000 tonnes by end of 2014.“We have selected Heliocentris

for its experience in the field and proven track results. Sustainability is a cornerstone of our business strategy, and we are proud to have achieved reductions of 60% in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from the BTS solutions installed so far. Today we are expanding the number of green solutions in our network to contribute to the UAE leadership’s vision of a green economy,” said Faraidooni.

The Genset Efficiency solution controls the operation of mobile base stations’ diesel generators. An automotive-style hybridization of

the diesel genset, with a battery in combination with intelligent energy management, increases efficiency and considerably reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by at least 50%. In addition, the Energy Manager increases the transparency of operational tasks by monitoring the network infrastructure, and thus decreasing downtime of the towers as well as maintenance efforts.

This project is managed by the Heliocentris branch office (P21), located in Silicon Oasis, Dubai, which was launched at the end of 2011 to cater for the company’s growing operations in the Middle East and Africa.

Cisco unveiled ‘Cisco ONE’ its position on Software Defined Networking (SDN) at GITEX 2012 today. Cisco’s positioning and strategy involves making the network more programmable and virtualised, which requires more than SDN technology. The company’s strategy has three parts: SDN, network virtualisation, and programmability via application programming interfaces (API’s) which are the specifications intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.

Cisco believe that despite the current noise in the market, the adoption of SDN technologies

(including OpenFlow) is still small because the technology is still in its infancy. Furthermore, SDN and OpenFlow technologies do not cover all switching functionality – only a small portion of the switch or router’s overall functionality. Cisco has been actively participating in OpenFlow and SDN’s development, collaborating in the leading industry groups and it will continue to support industry efforts to develop SDN technologies and related standards.

Cisco ONE will deliver an open, programmable environment that will continue to deliver on the concept of the network-as-a-platform - in other words, making networks more application-aware,

applications more network-aware, and networks more conducive to developers and application hosting. “Even in the Middle East we are finding that definitions of SDN are

still very fragmented and vendor interpretations are also equally different. The general consensus is that SDN is bigger than OpenFlow, but it is still largely perceived as a controller and agent’s architecture with de-coupling of control and data plane. A lot more can be achieved quickly with programmatic access as many customers just want quicker, multi-layer programmable access. Diverse customers have different motivations when it comes to SDN based on urgency of business drivers, in-house IT expertise, and requirement to customize applications. No one size fits all,” said Rabih Dabboussi, GM of Cisco, UAE.

Rabih Dabboussi, General Manager, Cisco, UAE

Bee Ware secures Web apps

Kurmi presents apps for UC platforms

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Bee Ware is a software developer specializing in securing and optimizing Web applications. Available in the form of an Appliance, Bee Ware’s solutions guarantee both performance and trust, enabling Web technologies to be used with total security. Bee Ware is present at GITEX to showcase its i-Suite, a dedicated platform for securing Web applications and services.

Made up of selected functional packages, i-Suite can be deployed on one or several i-Boxes (Appliances that support Bee Ware’s products) depending on performance needs and the constraints of existing

architectures. Also available in the form of a virtual machine or as Software as a Service, the i-Suite platform includes various modules.:

The i-Suite solution from Bee Ware provides full-spectrum

protection for Web applications while accelerating the publication process. This non-intrusive solution is adaptable to all environments and simplifies administration thanks to 100%

graphical, wizard-assisted management of configurations and security policies.

The i-Suite solution’s excellent quality/price ratio guarantees reduced delivery times and deployment costs, along with optimum continuity of service. For companies using i-Suite, that continuity translates into savings of time (through optimized application performance), money, and image (by protecting against denial-of-service attacks).

With a view toward developing new partnerships (technological and resellers) internationally, Bee Ware plans to open a Middle East office in late 2012.

Kurmi Software, which provides provisioning and management applications for Unified Communications platforms, has introduced a new range of solutions at Gitex in Dubai.

The convergence of IT and UC is bringing unique business benefits but also introducing a new set of challenges for the CIO. Enterprises and Service Providers tame the complexity and operational risks through technology solutions with a comprehensive set of native connectors interacting with most industry’s hardware and software vendor solutions.

Building upon ten years at the heart of the communication convergence, the French company delivers a new generation of solutions responding to higher demands for operator and enterprise grade streamlined processes. In doing so, Kurmi Software’s

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customers are seeing higher levels of productivity from their UC management teams, better control of the otherwise sprawling software and hardware costs as well as a powerful future-proof approach with maximum flexibility.

Kurmi addresses both enterprise market and cloud service providers

with an integrated provisioning platform and user life cycle management solution.

The company claims its Kurmi Unified Provisioning for administrators dramatically reduces administration by enabling the provisioning of staff into UC

environments at the click of a button. The solution leverages advanced user profiling techniques, bringing together multi-vendor environments into one user- intuitive platform and sets access to applications based on job requirements such as voice and telephony, conferencing, messaging, presence, instant messaging and collaboration.

Kurmi Unified Selfcare for end users improves the end-user experience and reduces pressure on the IT department by helping employees self-manage their UC environment. End-users can handle simple tasks such as managing voicemail, configuring call forward, adding a photo or request PIN code and password resets without the active involvement of the help desk. It also provides an advanced browser based ‘Click to Call’ facility.

Kurmi Software is exhibiting at the French pavilion.