Noticias Yemen

FVC signs Zoho
2012-02-02
MENA : network, security and telecom VAD FVC has signed a partnership agreement with Zoho Corporation, a private company which offers a comprehensive suite of award-winning, on-line business, productivity & collaboration applications. FVC will represent Zoho in the region as a VAD for their online Cloud Applications, mainly Zoho CRM, Zoho HRIS, Zoho Projects, Zoho invoicing and Zoho Web Conferencing. This will be addition to FVC Cloud vision of bringing Emerging Cloud services to the region and equip resellers to offer cloud services. Zoho solutions will be available through FVC offices in Dubai, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.

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.

Spain gets its cloud distributor
2012-01-20
Spain : the small family of cloud distributors in the EMEA region has a new member : AvantaaS has recently opened its doors in Madrid. The company offers several cloud services including virtual desktop and applications as a service, IaaS, virtual datacenters or collaboration tools. Among the shareholders of AvantaaS, we can find Pedro Galatas, who is better known as the president of network and security VAD Afina Sistemas, and Pedro Tortosa, the CEO of system integrator Ermestel. Currently, the only identified partner is VirtualSharp, a cloud disaster recovery provider. VirtualSharp is currently making a strong push in the EMEA region, with several partnerships signed in multiple countries : Aptec in the Middle East, Systematika in Italy and Altimate in Belgium and Luxembourg.