News Kuwait

Devil to attack Europe
2010-03-11
Germany : broadliner Devil has announced that it was starting up plans to expand out of German boundaries. Following a good first half-year, its founder Karsten Hartmann has left the company and given its reins to Axel Grotjahn who will pilot the expansion, through acquisitions. Target countries have not been mentionned. Only Benelux has been said not to be a short-term option (source : Computer Reseller News Deutschland).

3M improves distribution capabilities with Aptec partnership
2010-03-11
Middle East : 3M's Electro and Communications division has strengthened its existing ties with GCC-wide technology distributor Aptec, in a deal that will serve to streamline the distribution process for 3M resellers and end users across the region. The distribution partnership will focus on 3M Premise Solutions, which offers full data cabling systems in both copper and optical fibre, giving freedom of choice in the design and optimization of the overall network architecture. These will be available in the region through Aptec offices in Dubai, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

OCZ partners with EZY for Enterprise SSD
2010-03-10
Memory and flash vendor OCZ Technology has signed a strategic partnership with global distributor EZY Infotech to further strengthen fulfillment of OCZ’s solid state drives (SSDs) for enterprise clients on a global scale. The partnership will allow for the distribution of OCZ’s SSDs into EZY’s catalog in Croatia, Dubai, Germany, India, Pakistan, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Colour Confidence protects screens with PChOOD
2010-03-10
British-based Colour Confidence has started the distribution in EMEA region of PChOOD monitor hoods.

Netmotion goes two-tier
2010-03-08
American mobile VPN vendor Netmotion Wireless has started a two-tier strategy in order to conquer more rapidly European market. « We entered Europe through an exclusive partnership with a British representative in 2007. Since then, we opened subsidiaries in France to cover Southern Europe and in Germany for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Our British representative covers now UK and Northern Europe through system integrators», explains Mikael Taillepied, Southern Europe director of the company. In these two regions, Netmotion Wireless has started to build a distribution network on local integrators, just like it does in the US. It is now seeking distributors to expand more rapidly.

« Our German office has signed a partnership with Hako Computing, and we just stroke a deal with French Yatoo, which is specialized in mobility in healthcare environment : this market is a tremendous opportunity for us, as a French law has recently been passed, which requires healthcare professionals to encrypt their exchanges when they access patient data», Mikael says. The company is now seeking other distributors in Europe : « we are opened to any profile, but I guess either security VADs or mobility specialists would be the best profiles», Mikael plans.