Actualités

Westcon ME finds a Blue Coat
2012-05-16
Middle East : network and telecom VAD Westcon ME has been appointed by Blue Coat as its distributor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (albeit the distributor is seldom active in French-speaking North Africa). Through this partnership, Westcon Middle East is allowed to distribute the entire Blue Coat portfolio, including its family of ProxySG Web security appliances, MACH5 WAN optimisation devices and PacketShaper appliances for network application visibility and control.

Westcon Group announces Lync In-a-Box catalogue
2012-05-14
Westcon Convergence has become the first pan-EMEA distribution partner for Microsoft’s Lync-in-a-Box solutions catalogue. The Lync In-A-Box hardware catalogue brings together tested and qualified phones, gateways, video and USB devices for Microsoft Lync so partners and customers can take advantage of the broad choice, price range and variety of hardware solutions for Lync, in a simpler and more efficient way. Microsoft Lync-in-a-Box catalogue should be available through Westcon Convergence offices in Belgium, Denmark/a>, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Westcon Group hires former Avaya Channel Chief to lead EMEA operations
2012-03-08
Network and telecom VAD Westcon Group has tapped a former Avaya veteran to lead its newly converged European unified communications, European security and Africa, India and Middle East operations. Jeremy Butt brings to Westcon more than 20-years of sales and marketing expertise, leading successful worldwide channel efforts at Avaya and Motorola. As newly-appointed EMEA Executive VP, Jeremy Butt will bring together separate regional business units into an EMEA regional unit. Responsible for strengthening partner relationships and expanding the reach of Westcon's Unified Communications and Security business practices, he will drive profitability for new and existing customers and markets across the distributor's eco-system of partners.

Arbor Networks expands distribution deal with Westcon
2012-03-05
Middle East : Arbor Networks, a provider of security and network management solutions for next-generation data centres and carrier networks and a subsidiary of Tektronix, has extended its distribution partnership with Westcon to include Westcon Middle East. In November 2011, the companies announced that Westcon would distribute Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System (Pravail APS) for enterprise data centre availability and the Peakflow SP platform for service provider networks in Latin America.

Comstor adds Cisco Ironport to address E-Mail and web security
2011-03-23
Middle East : further expanding it’s broad-based technology solutions, VAD WestconME has announced it will offer Cisco IronPort E-Mail and Web security solutions to reseller partners across the Middle East through its Cisco-dedicated business unit Comstor.