Noticias Ghana

ADS on the Silver Peak
2012-02-01
Africa : France-based network and security VAD ADS has been chosen by WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak as its official distributor for the whole African continent.

EET in RAID with United Digital
2012-01-31
Danish broadliner and sparepart specialist EET has acquired British RAID server vendor United Digital and its Mac-oriented brand Hive. The goal is to push its high-end products out of the United Kingdom. Thus, United Digital servers should be available soon to resellers in Europe through EET offices in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, while Hive products were already distributed in all countries.

Ingram Micro names Alain Monié CEO
2012-01-30
Broadliner Ingram Micro has promoted Alain Monié to CEO. Monié, who will also retain his current title of president, succeeds Gregory Spierkel, who will remain at the company until April 15, 2012, to assist in the management transition. Monié, a 61yo French national, is currently the company's president and COO. He joined Ingram Micro as executive vice president in January 2003 and was appointed president of the APAC region a year later. He was promoted to president and COO of the corporation in August 2007 and resigned three years later to become chief executive officer of April Management, a Singapore-based pulp and paper industry giant. On Nov. 1, 2011, Monié returned to Ingram Micro in his current role, re-assuming his prior responsibilities : a nearly flawless engagement for someone who was groomed to be Spierkel's successor. Before Ingram Micro, Monié was the head of LATAM operations at Honeywell International and APAC operations at Allied Signal, where he led the company's expansion into China and India. Monié has been a member of the board of directors of Amazon since November 2008, and was recently elected to the board of Ingram Micro in November 2011.

iAXCESS becomes distributor for Vision Solutions
2012-01-24
MEA : information availability editor Vision Solutions has chosen Sharjah-based security VAD iAXCESS as a new distributor of its products for business continuity, disaster recovery and data replication, including its Double-Take line of products.

ISP*D hand in hand with Axence
2012-01-11
German software specialist ISP*D has been appointed by Axence Software as the official distributor of its networking monitoring and mapping tool in the whole EMEA region.