Value Journal - October 2020

Issue 49 // October 2020
Redington Value is a value added distributor for the following brands in parts of Middle East & Africa
As per the agreement, Redington Value will act as a key
distributor for Gigamon solutions in Middle East and Africa.
Gigamon Announces Distribution
Agreement with Redington Value
Traffic visibility solutions company
Gigamon has announced a distribu-
tion agreement with Redington Value,
a value-added technology distributor
of leading solutions in security across
the Middle East and Africa region.
Under this new agreement, Redington
Value will act as a key Gigamon dis-
tributor with local presence in coun-
tries in Middle East and Africa.
For more than a decade Gigamon has
been helping customers see what mat-
ters, from the inside out. Gigamon
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The distribution partnership will see both companies working closely with local
channel partners to deliver comprehensive security solutions to regional customers.
Redington Value Signs Agreement
to Become FireEye Distributor
form. FireEye also offers Mandiant Se-
curity Validation which gives security
practitioners the evidence to manage
and report on their organization’s sys-
temic cybersecurity risks.
“The modern dependency on data
has created a degree of vulnerability,
which if not addressed can cause se-
rious harm to organizations and their
customers. We have chosen to work
with FireEye because I believe their
telligence, and world-renowned Man-
diant consulting. With this approach,
FireEye eliminates the complexity and
burden of cyber security for organi-
zations struggling to prepare for, pre-
vent, and respond to cyber-attacks.
FireEye delivers a complete suite of
detection, protection, and response
capabilities with solutions span-
ning: Network Security, Endpoint Se-
curity, Email Security, and Cloud Se-
curity, all tightly integrated with
their Helix security operations plat-
Sayantan Dev, Redington Value
cybersecurity offerings in West and
North Africa, the UAE and Oman.
This agreement will see both organi-
zations engaging with local channel
partners to provide end customers
with comprehensive security solutions
that offer protection against the latest
cyber threats facing the region.
FireEye works as a seamless, scalable
extension of customer security op-
erations by offering a single platform
that blends innovative security tech-
nologies, nation-state grade threat in-
was the first company to deliver, in a
single platform, network visibility and
analytics across all seven OSI layers
to solve for critical performance and
security needs. Organisations will be
able to capture all network data in mo-
tion, process it, and make it available
to the tools and people who need it so
that organisations can focus efforts on
driving digital innovation.
“To build on our success in the region
and further extend our reach across
the entire Middle East and Africa re-
gion, we are delighted to have part-
nered with Redington Gulf,” said Vijay
Babber, Senior Channel Manager, Gig-
amon MEA.
Babber continued, “With their strong
relationships across our eco-system
play, and their strength in multi cloud
environments, Redington will help
facilitate the distribution of Gigamon
solutions to a wide reach of channel
partners throughout the Middle East
and Africa. This strategic partnership
fits in perfectly with Gigamon’s growth
plans for 2021 and beyond, enabling
us to leverage Redington’s expertise,
technical skills, coverage and relation-
ships to build a stronger channel in the
region as well as to help our customers
achieve 100% visibility in their physi-
cal, virtual and cloud infrastructures.
R
edington Value, a leading
value-added distributor in
the Middle East and Af-
rica, has signed an agree-
ment with FireEye to distribute its
This strategic
partnership fits in
perfectly with Gigamon’s
growth plans for 2021
and beyond, enabling us
to leverage Redington’s
expertise, technical skills,
coverage and relationships
to build a stronger channel
in the region.”

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Aruba ESP Unifies IoT, IT and OT Networks
Nutanix Announces HCI Software Innovations
First fully programmable platform to unify IT, IoT and OT networks with Zero Trust Security and
AIOps enables organisations to automate and optimize safety, security, reliability and productivity.
Nutanix advances security, performance, networking and automation across multiple clouds.
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company, has announced significant en-
hancementstoArubaESP(EdgeServices
Platform) that unifies IoT, IT, and Oper-
ational Technology (OT) networks to en-
able customers to quickly adapt to chang-
ing environments and user requirements.
Aruba ESP is the first fully program-
mable platform to generate contextual
information – about identity, location,
security posture, and applications in use
– to power efficient decision making and
AIOps.Builttointegratewithdevicesand
applications from Aruba’s technology
partners, customers can now become hy-
per-awareoftheiroperatingenvironment
so they can quickly adapt to evolving
business, visitor, and employee demands.
Today, “connected facilities” only pro-
vide device connectivity for subsets of
control services, whereas hyper-aware
facilities can leverage Aruba ESP-gen-
erated contextual data to dynamically
adapt a facility to its occupants and op-
erating environment. Unifying these IoT,
IT, and OT networks under the Aruba
ESP platform, and capturing rich con-
text, enables hyper-aware facilities that
are safer, more adaptive, and enhance
productivity. That represents a quantum
leap forward over what can be achieved
bybasicconnectivityandmachinelearn-
ing-based monitoring.
These enhancements to the Aruba ESP
cloud-native, AI-powered platform are
integral to sensing, analysing, and react-
ing to device data and contextual infor-
mation.Arubaaccesspointsandswitches
now serve as multi-protocol IoT/OT
platforms that interface with the firm’s
expanded technology partner ecosys-
tem. Virtually every subsystem spanning
machine inputs and outputs (I/O) on a
manufacturingfloorthroughmultimedia
devices in the CEO suite can be accom-
modated – from social distance monitors
to gunshot detectors, rotating equipment
monitorstoguestwayfinding–withsolu-
tions tailored for all verticals.
Use cases with Aruba ESP-based hy-
per-awareness include smart buildings,
industrial/manufacturing facilities and
the broader Intelligent Edge.
To enable the automation needed to
deliver use cases at scale, Aruba AIOps
uses AI and big data to continuously
optimise, detect, isolate, and remediate
network issues that impact reliability. As
sources of IoT, IT, and OT data expand,
itbecomesincreasinglydifficulttoisolate
the source of problems or optimise the
infrastructure.
Zero-Trust strategy, including: exten-
sions to Nutanix’s native key manager
and data encryption to deliver a simpli-
fied and secure environment for edge
and ROBO deployments; AHV support
for Microsoft’s Virtualization-based Se-
curity (VBS) and Credential Guard that
helps protect Windows VDI desktops
against sophisticated memory attacks.
Lastly, the company announced new se-
curity certifications, including updated
FIPS 140-2 certificates, the government’s
acceptance of all Common Criteria eval-
uation work, as well as the completion of
testing for a listing on the DoDIN Ap-
proved Products List (APL).
The company announced that new vir-
tual networking capabilities in Nutanix
Flow, which are natively integrated into
the Nutanix HCI software stack, are
under development. Flow Networking
will simplify the tasks of creating, iso-
lating, and managing software-defined
networks that connect applications run-
ning in private data centers and in public
cloudenvironments,significantlysimpli-
fying networking for hybrid and multi-
cloud deployments.
Rajiv Mirani, Nutanix
Prism Ultimate, a new edition to Prism,
adds advanced application insights and
automation for troubleshooting applica-
tion-related infrastructure bottlenecks.
Rajiv Mirani, CTO, Nutanix, said, “To
help our customers transition to hybrid
and multicloud operating models, Nuta-
nix has made significant investments in
research and development to advance our
core software stack. These new capabili-
ties will help further strengthen the per-
formance and reliability of our software,
extending our journey across networking,
security, performance and automation.”
based SSDs and Intel Optane SSDs. The
resulting lower latency will deliver up to
50% faster performance for I/O intensive
workloads, such as large databases and
large-scale healthcare applications. The
advancements also improve VM density
to lower the overall total cost of owner-
ship (TCO) for all applications.
Nutanix has also announced Flow Se-
curity Central, a centralized SaaS-based
management plane delivering compli-
ance monitoring, network visibility, and
security operations across both Nuta-
nix-powered private clouds and public
cloud environments.
Security Central provides customers with
a hub for their security operations so they
can easily assess the overall security pos-
ture of their Nutanix deployments, gener-
atedetailedrecommendationstobringen-
vironments into compliance, and provide
the network visibility and context needed
tosecurecloudnetworksandapplications.
Nutanix also announced new security
capabilities, currently under develop-
ment, to help customers strengthen their
Aruba ESP produces AI-powered in-
sights with greater than 95% accuracy to
automatically improve communications
and visibility across and among IoT, IT,
and OT networks. Embedded within
Aruba ESP’s unified infrastructure and
zero trust security framework allows
Aruba AIOps to transcend basic con-
nectivity and simplistic machine learn-
ing-based monitoring. Aruba AIOps is a
game changer for improved uptime and
shortened repair times.
In addition to Unified Infrastructure and
AIOps, ESP generates contextual data
that make networks situationally aware
forenterprisesecurity.TheZeroTrustSe-
curity framework ensures no user or IoT
device is granted entry or ongoing access
unless trustworthy. This framework uses
AI and exchanges security and policy
with more than 130 security technology
vendors to obtain a deep understanding
of each device and its role, allowing hy-
per-aware facilities to fold security activi-
ties into situational awareness.
Enterprise cloud computing compa-
ny Nutanix has announced major new
capabilities in its hyperconverged in-
frastructure (HCI) software, delivering
significant innovations to the data center
and cloud markets. Specifically, these in-
novations will bring up to 50% faster per-
formance, native virtual networking to
simplify multi-cloud deployments, end-
to-end security monitoring to support
a Zero-Trust strategy, and expanded au-
tomation and budgeting capabilities for
cloud resources. In addition to extending
itsHCIsoftwarestacktothepubliccloud,
the company continues to set the bar for
innovation in the fast-growing HCI mar-
ket,puttingtrueITmodernizationwithin
reach of all organizations.
The announcement highlights Nuta-
nix’s commitment to innovation to meet
emerging customer requirements and
further disrupting the industry status
quo. With these new HCI improvements,
Nutanix customers will benefit from:
Nutanix has once again advanced its
HCI architecture to exploit the latest in
storage technologies, including NVMe

4
Gigamon Partners with Nokia
to Deliver 5G Solution
Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle
Maximum Security Zones Now Available
Oracle has announced the availability of
Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle Maxi-
mum Security Zones. With Oracle Max-
imum Security Zones, the firm is the first
public cloud provider to activate security
policyenforcementofbestpracticesauto-
matically from day one so customers can
prevent misconfiguration errors and de-
ploy workloads securely. For day-to-day
operations,Oracle CloudGuard continu-
ously monitors configurations and activ-
ities to identify threats and automatically
acts to remediate them across all Oracle
Cloud global regions. With these capa-
bilities, the company is the only cloud
service provider to offer a cloud security
posture management dashboard at no
additional cost, with numerous pre-built
tools that automate response to reduce
customer risk quickly and efficiently.
Oracle Maximum Security Zones and
Oracle Cloud Guard embed decades of
enterprise security expertise and best
practices into the Oracle public cloud
in an autonomous fashion, accelerating
customers’ ability to ramp up to their
cloud estate securely from inception.
Clay Magouyrk, EVP, Oracle Cloud In-
frastructure, said, “With Oracle Cloud
Guard and Oracle Maximum Security
Zones’ security automation and em-
bedded expertise, customers can feel
confident running their business-crit-
ical workloads on Oracle Cloud.”
Now available in all Oracle Cloud
commercial regions, Oracle Cloud
Guard acts as a log and events aggre-
gator that directly integrates with all
With the number of 5G connec-
tions expected to grow from roughly
10 million in 2019 to over 1 billion
in 2023, the need to optimize perfor-
mance is vital to delivering a com-
pelling, scalable customer experience
across the network. The mobile service
provider investments in the infrastruc-
ture needed to support this growth and
ensure the 5G experience lives up to the
hype are staggering as they will invest
USD$1 trillion worldwide between
2018 and 2025. The business need at
the intersection of market demands
and performance requirements lies
at the heart of the joint Gigamon and
Nokia 5G solution. An industry-first,
major Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
services—Compute, Networking,
Storage—and automatically imple-
ments unique components called tar-
gets, detectors, and responders. As a
result, Oracle Cloud Guard provides
security administrators the cloud de-
tect-and-response framework needed
to lower the mean time to respond to
security misconfigurations and scale
out security operations centers.
Oracle Maximum Security Zones
extends IaaS access management to
restrict insecure actions or configu-
rations using a new policy definition
that applies to designated cloud com-
partments. This new Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure service helps ensure re-
sources are secure from inception by
alytics service, which can lead to a re-
duction in buffering in video streaming
services by up to 60 percent.
Shane Buckley, President and Chief
Operating Officer at Gigamon, said,
“Our purpose-built product set delivers
the cost-effective, scalable and perva-
sive network traffic visibility required to
access the real-time, actionable insights
into mobile over-the-top (OTT) video
traffic needed to maintain a world-class
user experience.”
With the latest breakthrough capabilities
from Gigamon, mobile service providers
are able to dramatically lower costs by
utilizing traffic optimization intelligence
to significantly reduce traffic volume
with packet deduplication, subscrib-
er-aware sampling, subscriber-aware
whitelisting, application-aware filtering,
advanced flow slicing and TLS 1.3 de-
cryption. This unique combination of
capabilitiesallowsmobileserviceprovid-
ers to manage prohibitive tool and probe
costs by maximizing existing invest-
ments and increasing resource agility.
Pre-built tools automate threat response and quickly and efficiently
reduce customers’ cloud security risk at no additional cost.
Industry first, purpose-built joint 5G solution delivers real-time analytics required
to significantly enhance the customer experience and maximize investment impact.
Gigamon delivers real-time analytics
for its global customers, providing the
network traffic visibility required by 5G
providers for seamless performance.
Consistent Quality of Experience
(QoE) scores in high-profile 5G use
cases, such as video streaming and
cloud gaming, are critical to ensuring
the strong customer satisfaction need-
ed to accelerate widespread adoption.
Today, video accounts for more than
80 percent of traffic across mobile net-
works, and Nokia Bell Labs Consulting
research forecasts the cloud gaming
market to reach USD$3 billion by 2024.
Gamers and movie lovers typically have
limited tolerance for network delays
and interruptions that degrade QoE, so
maintaining continuous video quality
is crucial. Real-time analytics provide
an end-to-end view on quality, with AI
generating automated recommenda-
tions that help mobile service provid-
ers maintain the expected QoE. As an
example, the Gigamon Visibility and
Analytics Fabric is currently in place to
enhance Nokia’s Predictive Video An-
solutions are world-class and they
support our aim to deliver high qual-
ity protection to our customers who
are facing cyber-attacks targeting their
critical data and assets,” said Sayantan
Dev, President at Redington Value.
“We look forward to working with
FireEye in key markets in the Middle
East and Africa by enabling our part-
ners to use the new security practic-
es as well as providing the required
technical support so that they can take
FireEye solutions to their customers.”
“This distribution agreement with
Redington Value allows us to serve
an increasing number of customers
throughout the region, this includes
locations where we would like to sig-
nificantly expand our footprint,” said
Hussam Sidani, Regional Director of
Gulf, Levant and Africa at FireEye.
“We’re pleased to be working with
a distributor like Redington Value
which has a proven track record of
delivering high quality technology to
its partners. Together, we will strive
to defend organizations facing the
complex Middle Eastern and African
threat landscape.”
Redington Value Signs
Agreement to Become
FireEye Distributor
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enforcing rigorous security best prac-
tices for highly sensitive workloads. Or-
acle Maximum Security Zones includes
policies for several core Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure Services, including Ob-
ject Storage, Networking, Encryption,
DBaaS, and File Storage.
These new services work in tandem
to further Oracle’s second-generation
public cloud, which is built with secu-
rity as a critical foundation.

5
QR Codes Pose Significant Security
Risks to Enterprises: MobileIron
Huawei Launches Digital OptiX Network
Solutions in the Middle East
Huawei has announced the launch of
its digital OptiX network solutions in-
cluding Single OptiX, Campus OptiX,
and DC OptiX solutions at the Huawei
Middle East Digital OptiX Club 2020,
an online technology summit held vir-
tually last month. The online summit,
which hosted C-suite executives and
IT professionals from across various
industries in the region, was designed
to help enterprises proactively cope
with the opportunities and challenges
brought by new technologies and ap-
plications, as well as pave the way for
digital transformation in the foresee-
able future.
David Shi, President of Enterprise
Business Group at Huawei Middle
East, said, “Huawei is confident that
our Single OptiX, Campus OptiX
and DC OptiX solutions will help
enterprises in the Middle East sharp-
en their digital competitive edge
through an intelligent optical net-
work foundation.”
Huawei Single OptiX network solu-
tion brings innovative technology
in speed, O&M, site and security.
Super 200G commercial application
and new sites (MS-OTN, OXC) can
reduce the Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) by 50%. Additionally, Intel-
MobileIron has announced the results
of a new consumer sentiment study,
which revealed QR codes are rising
in popularity and use. Sixty-four per-
cent of respondents stated that QR
codes make life easier in a touchless
world – despite a majority of people
lacking security on their mobile de-
vices, with 51% of respondents stat-
ing they do not have or do not know if
ligent O&M can enable reactive to
predictive health visualization, health
prediction, smart commissioning
and precise troubleshooting reducing
OPEX by 30%.
Huawei Campus OptiX network solu-
tion enables fully optical campus net-
work connections through an IP plus
POL architecture. Not only does it
share the advantages of flexible capac-
ity, powerful service processing, ser-
vice automation, and intelligent O&M
with IP networking, but also integrates
the favorable features of optical tech-
nology in energy-saving, simplicity,
and high efficiency. This makes the
solution particularly suitable for air-
ports, educational institutions, hotels,
offices, and other campus scenarios.
The solution helps enterprise custom-
ers improve O&M efficiency by 60%,
reduce power consumption by 30%,
and support smooth network upgrade
in the next 30 years.
fore, with 32% most recently hav-
ing scanned a QR code in the past
week and 26% most recently having
scanned a QR code in the past month.
Hackers are also capitalizing on se-
curity gaps during the COVID-19
pandemic and increasingly targeting
mobile devices with sophisticated
attacks. Mobile devices are appeal-
ing targets for hackers because the
mobile user interface prompts us-
ers to take immediate actions, while
limiting the amount of information
available. Plus, users are often dis-
tracted when on their mobile devic-
es, making them more likely to fall
victim to attacks.
Almost three-fourths (71%) of re-
spondents cannot distinguish be-
tween a legitimate and malicious QR
The solutions are designed to enable enterprises’ digital transformation with a fully optical network foundation.
Majority of respondents scan QR codes despite security risks,
according to the findings of a study done by MobileIron.
David Shi, Huawei Middle East
they have security software installed
on their mobile devices.
Mobile devices have become even more
important and ingrained in everyone’s
lives during the COVID-19 pandemic,
and nearly half (47%) of respondents
have noticed an increase in QR code
use. At the same time, employees are
using mobile devices – and in many
cases, their own unsecured devices –
more than ever before to connect with
others, interact with a variety of cloud-
based applications and services, and
stay productive as they work from any-
where. Many employees are also using
their mobile devices to scan QR codes
in their everyday lives, putting them-
selves and enterprise resources at risk.
According to the findings, 84% of
people have scanned a QR code be-
code, whereas 67% of those surveyed
are able to distinguish between a le-
gitimate and malicious URL.
While most respondents (67%) are
aware that QR codes can open a URL,
they are less aware of the other ac-
tions that QR codes can initiate. Only
19% of respondents believe scanning
a QR code can draft an email; 20% be-
lieve scanning a QR code can start a
phone call; and 24% believe scanning
a QR code can initiate a text message.
51% of respondents have privacy,
security, financial or other concerns
about using QR codes, but still use
them anyway; 34% have no concerns
about using QR codes.
Alex Mosher, Global Vice President
of Solutions, MobileIron, said, “A uni-
fied endpoint management solution
can provide the IT controls needed
to secure, manage and monitor every
device, user, app and network being
used to access business data, while
maximizing productivity. Organiza-
tions can also build upon UEM with
a mobile threat defense solution to
detect and remediate mobile threats,
including malicious QR codes, even
when a device is offline.”
Leveraging this latest Campus OptiX
solution, Huawei will work with eco-
system partners to continuously help
customers achieve optimal experi-
ence, eco-friendly operations, efficient
O&M, and agile innovation.
Huawei OptiXtrans DC908 features an
ultra large capacity of 800 Gbit/s per
wavelength supporting flexible config-
uration between 100G and 800G, and
future-proof Super C+L technology to
achieve 220 wavelengths. Meanwhile,
Huawei’s AI technology enables in-
telligent network O&M, which can
automatically predict more than 60%
of gradual failures and reduce false
alarms through automated analysis of
the failure origins. This flagship prod-
uct helps enterprise customers easily
cope with the challenges of massive
data flows in the cloud era, continu-
ously reduce the cost per bit, maximize
the value of optical fibers, and improve
customer’s return on investment.

6
Soft Skills and Tech Critical to
Maximize Value From AI: Microsoft
tives. The majority (77%) of those work-
ingwithinanorganizationusingmoreAI
say their organization is actively prepar-
ing them for a digital future that will be
increasingly powered by AI.
To address the skills gap in today’s work-
force, Microsoft has set up a virtual train-
ing ecosystem designed to benefit em-
ployees specializing in skills needed for
future jobs. Initiatives like the Microsoft
Cloud Society are part of this framework,
which has to date reached over 256,000
members across the Middle East and
Africa. Additionally, platforms such as
the AI Business School are empowering
individuals to remotely upskill in areas
around AI, Cloud, Data and Security.
Global research released by Microsoft
reveals that companies see the biggest
business benefit from artificial intelli-
gence (AI) when they combine deploy-
ment of AI with skilling initiatives that
focus on both tech and soft skills. Sur-
veying more than 600 employees and
leaders within larger enterprises across
the UAE, the research focuses on skills
needed to thrive as AI becomes increas-
ingly adopted by UAE businesses, giving
enterprises insights into where to best
place their investment.
“The high-tech UAE economy advanced
by initiatives such as the National AI
Strategy 2031 will accelerate new eco-
nomic and social opportunities for cit-
izens, governments and businesses and
generate significant growth, a high pri-
ority in the current UAE economy,” said
Ihsan Anabtawi, COO and CMO, Mi-
crosoft UAE. “This new study analyses
how AI leaders are driving more business
value in the new environment as compa-
niesskill,upskillandreskilltheworkforce
to make them future ready. Those ahead
of the curve will empower employees to
unlock inherent business value from AI,
ensuring their firms increase capacity to
be more agile, adaptive and resilient.”
Among the UAE companies that are the
most mature in terms of AI adoption, the
majority of their senior leaders (93%) say
theyareactivelybuildingtheskillsoftheir
workers or have plans to do so. Further,
almost two-thirds (78%) of employees
at these businesses say they have already
benefitted from reskilling programs.
The research shows that companies
prioritizing AI are focused on ensuring
it’s complementing the talents of their
people. These businesses are cultivating
employee skills across every category
– ranging from advanced data analysis
and critical thinking to communications
and creativity.
In the UAE, almost all workers (97%) are
keen to take part in AI reskilling initia-
The Microsoft research focuses on skills needed to thrive
as AI becomes increasingly adopted by UAE businesses.
SD-WAN solution that is app-defined,
autonomous and cloud-delivered. With
powerful ML-based capabilities, we de-
liver dramatic reductions in “day two”
operational costs.”
Palo Alto Networks has added machine
learning (ML) and analytics features to
CloudGenix SD-WAN to simplify net-
work operations and improve capacity
planning. Where possible, the system
automates problem resolution as well,
freeing up operators to focus on higher
value activities. New analytics features
make capacity planning simpler by al-
lowing operators to easily understand
what WAN connections they are using,
when they are using them, and what
applications are driving that use. Palo
Alto Networks plans to expand the use
of ML to other use cases in the future.
The CloudGenix ION 1000 is a powerful
Palo Alto Networks Introduces
Next-Generation SD-WAN Solution
small form factor SD-WAN appliance
designed for retail and SOHO use cases.
The ION 1000 is fanless, small and quiet
enough to be placed in a work environ-
ment when no equipment room is avail-
able. As organizations re-architect their
teleworking approaches to support re-
moteworkforcespost-pandemic,theION
1000enablesperformancecontrols,avail-
ability and security for the home office
that is consistent with enterprise policies.
The CloudGenix ION 9000 is the larg-
est and most high-performance Cloud-
Genix SD-WAN appliance to date, de-
livering twice the performance of the
current flagship device. It is ideal for
large branches and campus locations,
supporting multi-gigabit through-
put and a “fail to wire” high availabil-
ity capability designed to mitigate
the effects of physical WAN outages.
CloudGenix SD-WAN seamlessly inte-
grates with Prisma Access, the industry’s
most comprehensive secure access ser-
vice edge (SASE) platform.
ThemachinelearningandPrismaAccess
security integration capabilities are avail-
able now through CloudGenix 5.4 and
CloudBlades 2.0. The CloudGenix ION
1000 and ION 9000 are available now.
Two new SD-WAN appliances expand Palo Alto Networks CloudGenix SD-WAN
solution’s reach, down to the smallest branches and up to multi-gigabit campuses.
As SD-WAN has become the primary
WAN architecture, organizations are de-
manding solutions that deliver a better
user experience while being simpler to
deploy and manage.
PaloAltoNetworksisintroducinganum-
ber of new additions to its Next-Genera-
tion SD-WAN solution such as:
• Machine learning-based capabilities
to further simplify network opera-
tions
• A small form factor SD-WAN appli-
ance designed for retail and small of-
fices/home offices (SOHO)
• A high-performance SD-WAN appli-
ance suited for large campus locations
• Seamless integration of Prisma Ac-
cess cloud-delivered security
Kumar Ramachandran, Senior Vice
President of Product Management for
firewall as a platform at Palo Alto Net-
works, said, “CloudGenix SD-WAN
is the industry’s first next-generation
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In turn, Gigamon are able to assist
Redington in providing solutions
that allow for cost savings and tool
optimisation which are sure to reso-
nate with their partners and custom-
ers during these challenging times.”
“Many organisations now want
to have visibility on the network
traffic. Customers today are over-
whelmed by managing multiple
security solutions,” said Sayantan
Dev, President at Redington Val-
ue. “Gigamon has been the leader
over the years in providing great
visibility to the network traffic
with GigaSecure. By entering into
a strategic partnership with Giga-
mon, we can further simplify how
our customers protect their net-
works and make it easier for our
partners to deliver unparalleled
data-in-motion visibility into pub-
lic, private and hybrid environ-
ments in the region.
Gigamon
Announces
Distribution
Agreement with
Redington Value

7
Cisco’s Webex collaboration platform
enabled the rapid adoption of new
remote learning models by univer-
sities and schools across the Middle
East and Africa (MEA) during the
COVID-19 pandemic. 538 education-
Trend Micro has released its annual
mid-yearroundupreport,whichreveals
COVID-19 related threats as the single
largest type of threat in the first half of
the year. In just six months, Trend Mi-
cro blocked 8.8 million COVID-19 re-
lated threats, nearly 92% of which were
spam delivered via emails.
Cybercriminals shifted their focus
from January through June to take
advantage of global interest in the
pandemic. The risk to businesses was
compounded by security gaps created
by a completely remote workforce.
During the first half of 2020, the UAE
experienced a combined 13,100,616
email, URL, and malware threats de-
tected. The UAE saw 6,042,459 email
threats, 6,187,404 URL victims, 34,360
URL hosted, and 836,393 malware de-
tections. Ransomware continues to be
a major issue. The UAE’s ransomware
attacks count for 4.27% of the world’s
ransomware attacks.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
saw 56,870,977 combined email, URL,
and malware threats detected during
the first half of 2020. Cyber-threats
included 41,236,550 email threats,
13,181,016 URL victims, 2,392,097
Cisco’s Webex Enables Rapid Adoption of
New Remote Learning Models for MEA
malware detections, and 61,314 URL
hosted threats.
“The UAE and the GCC’s high levels
of cyber- attacks show that while the
pandemic has dominated all of our
lives during the first half of 2020, it’s not
slowing down the cybercriminals,” said
Majd Sinan, Country Manager, UAE,
Trend Micro. “The UAE’s IT leaders
must continue to adapt their cybersecu-
rity strategies to account for increased
threats to their new normal. That means
protecting remote endpoints, cloud sys-
tems, user credentials and VPN systems,
as well as refreshing training courses to
turn that newly dispersed workforce
intoamoreeffectivefirstlineofdefense.”
In total, Trend Micro blocked 27.8
billion cyber threats in the first half of
2020, 93% of which were email-borne.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) de-
Trend Micro Blocked 8.8
Million COVID-19 Threats
– leveraging advanced security and
authentication features to protect data
and provide added peace-of-mind.
Webex empowered teachers to go
beyond delivering lessons, allowing
them to hold dialogues and interact
with students, with features such as
instant chat and polls to keep them
engaged. Digital whiteboarding also
enabled group work, while session
recording functionality allowed stu-
dents to access or revisit lectures at
their convenience.
“Due to the pandemic, educational
institutions in the region have had to
face the challenge of adapting quick-
ly by deploying new solutions which
have enabled students to continue
gaining access to quality education.
This required the collective efforts
tections increased by 18% from the sec-
ondhalfof2019,inpartduetoscammers
trying to capitalize on home workers be-
ing more exposed to social engineering.
Among all the threats in the first half
of the year, ransomware was a constant
factor. Although the number of de-
tected ransomware threats decreased,
Trend Micro saw a 36% increase in
new ransomware families compared
to the same time last year.
Global organizations have also been
burdened by a significant spike in
newly disclosed vulnerabilities. Trend
Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)
published a total of 786 advisories,
representing a 74% increase from the
second half of 2019. Some of these
came as part of Microsoft Patch Tues-
day updates, which have fixed an av-
erage of 103 CVEs per month so far
in 2020 — including the largest num-
ber of patches ever issued in a single
month (129) in June.
Trend Micro also observed a 16% in-
crease in vulnerabilities disclosed in
industrial control systems (ICS), com-
pared to the first half of 2019, which
could create major challenges for smart
factory owners and other organizations
running IIoT environments.
al institutions in the region delivered
over 65 million minutes of meetings,
and more than 185,000 sessions over
the digital meeting platform between
March 1st and June 1st, 2020.
As 91 percent of the world’s student
population was faced with the reality
of not being able to attend universi-
ties and schools in person, distance
learning became a vital way of en-
suring continuity, and encouraged
institutions to accelerate their invest-
ments in digital transformation.
Recognizing the concerns of educa-
tors, which range from compliance
and online safety, to student privacy
and stimulating participation, Cisco’s
Webex platform provided a vital link
in enabling institutions to continue
educating students in a secure manner
of governments, local service pro-
viders and technology enablers, who
worked tirelessly towards a seamless
transition to remote learning for all,”
said Reem Asaad, Vice President, Cis-
co Middle East & Africa.
She added that deploying Webex
has also proven that digital learning
is not merely a temporary stopgap
solution, but rather an invaluable
part of the education experience,
which opens up a new range of col-
laboration opportunities for educa-
tors going forward.
“This is possible when you use an
integrated and secure collaboration
platform that caters for the various
interaction requirements and styles
required by an effective education
process,” she said.
More than 65 million minutes of meetings were supported over 3 months,
assuring education continuity in the Middle East and Africa region.
Trend Micro observes a 16% increase in vulnerabilities disclosed in Industrial Control
Systems (ICS), creating challenges for smart factory owners and IIoT environments.
Reem Asaad, Cisco Middle East & Africa
Majd Sinan, Trend Micro

8
Global leader in data integration and
data integrity Talend has announced
a significant update to Talend Data
Fabric, a single platform that delivers
complete, clean and uncompromised
data in real time. The new release
will focus on advanced capabilities
within the Talend Trust Score, which
instantly assesses the reliability of
an organization’s data. With this up-
date, Talend will provide the industry’s
first measure of data health that intel-
ligently diagnoses and resolves data
integrity issues in multi-cloud, hybrid
and on-premise environments. Talend
Trust Score will help companies confi-
dently use their data to make decisions
quickly that drive revenue, innovate
faster, and reduce cost and risk.
Because data assessed by the Talend
Trust Score will be indexed, optimized
and ready to use, it will help accelerate
cloud migrations and keep business-
es operational, improve data science
and analytics and operational use cas-
es, and comply with data governance
initiatives. As part of Talend Data Fab-
ric, advancements in the Talend Trust
Score include:
Trust any data at first glance: With
Talend Trust Score, datasets are all
automatically indexed with a crawler
to give organizations a complete pic-
ture of their data health before they
start using it. Data can be assessed
in multi-cloud, on prem, and hybrid
environments, including cloud data
warehouse and data lakes offerings
from industry leading companies.
Ooredoo Kuwait partners with Nutanix to
launch VDI-as-a-Service for businesses
Talend Introduces
Measure of Data Health
Explainable trust and resolu-
tion: The Trust Score exposes the
dimensions used to calculate data
trust, allowing organizations to un-
derstand how data was measured.
These dimensions include validity,
popularity, completeness, discover-
ability, and usage. Talend Data Fab-
ric also automatically resolves data
problems by recommending the ap-
propriate transformations using se-
mantic awareness.
Incorporation of artificial intel-
ligence (AI) and human exper-
tise: Talend Trust Score blends the
best of advanced AI and human
expertise to build context around
data and give a complete picture of
data health.
Ciaran Dynes, SVP Products, Talend,
said, “With this release, Talend fur-
thers its commitment to providing
organizations with the data integrity
necessary to remain competitive in to-
day’s data driven market.”
Talend Data Fabric’s new features in
the Talend Trust Score will be available
starting in Q4.
workspaces, delivered by VDI, enable
users to access applications and in-
formation from anywhere while data
remains secure, making them ideal
for end-user computing needs. The
advantages of VDI-as-a-Service are
around flexibility, scalability, security
and cost savings
with the OPEX
model being
highly favoured
by businesses
looking to save on
high up-front in-
frastructure costs.
Bilal Agha, B2B
Marketing Direc-
tor at Ooredoo
Kuwait says, “Our
company is at the
forefront of tech-
nology innovation
and we are proud
to be the first telco
service provider in Kuwait to introduce
VDI-as-a-Service, in response to the
needs of our business customers. We
have partnered with two world lead-
ing vendors – Nutanix, that delivers
a web-scale, hyperconverged solution
purpose-built for virtualization and
cloud environ-
ments and Citrix,
a leader in virtual
desktop infra-
structure. We
believe that this
solution will find
great uptake by
both public and
private organiza-
tions in the coun-
try as they realize
that technology
workers are going
to increasingly
demand work-
place flexibility in
future.”
with a view to provide a fully sup-
ported solution for desktop virtualiza-
tion to small and medium businesses
(SMBs) and enterprise customers.
Aaron White, Regional Sales Director,
Middle East, at Nutanix said, “We are
pleased to partner with Ooredoo to
help organizations speed up their dig-
itization efforts through the VDI-as-a-
Service offering. Companies will now
be able to spin up and provision desk-
tops in record time without having to
provide new hardware to users spread
across the country.”
Ooredoo will offer VDI-as-a-Service on
a subscription basis out of its data centre
facilities that offer integrated network-
ing, security, service SLAs and a host of
other solutions to business in Kuwait.
Physical desktops and laptops are be-
coming a poor fit for today’s dynamic,
digital workplace. Intelligent digital
The telecom service provider has implemented Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform combined with Citrix Virtual
Desktops software in its data center with a view to provide a fully supported solution for desktop virtualization.
Talend Data Fabric ensures the reliability and accuracy
of data to help companies run on trusted data.
We believe that
this solution will find
great uptake by both
public and private
organizations in the
countryastheyrealize
that technology
workers are going to
increasingly demand
workplace flexibility
in future.”
Ooredoo Telecom has signed a part-
nership with Nutanix, a leader in
enterprise cloud computing, to offer
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)-
as- a-Service to businesses in Kuwait.
The telecom service provider has im-
plemented Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
Platform combined with Citrix Virtu-
al Desktops software in its datacentre
Bilal Agha, Ooredoo Kuwait

9
Automation intelligently automates
the end-to-end lifecycle management
of network functions and services to
simplify operations and accelerate ser-
vicedeliverywhileoptimisingresource
utilisation. Telco Cloud Automation
also now supports infrastructure and
Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) man-
agement automation to streamline
workload placement and deliver opti-
mal infrastructure resource allocation.
It also significantly simplifies the 5G
and telco edge network expansions
through zero-touch-provisioning
(ZTP) whenever capacity is required.
Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager, Telco and
Edge Cloud Business Unit, Vmware,
said, “With support for cloud native
technologies in the Telco Cloud Plat-
form, CSPs can now boost their inno-
vation speed to deliver new applica-
tions and services, reduce operational
complexities, and realise substantial
total cost of ownership savings, fur-
ther accelerating the rollout of their
5G networks.”
VMware has announced its 5G Telco
Cloud Platform, a consistent cloud
first solution powered by a field prov-
en, carrier-grade, and high-perfor-
mance cloud native infrastructure
with intelligent automation. This new
platform includes Tanzu Kubernetes
Grid – an embedded Kubernetes dis-
tribution – that will allow Commu-
nication Service Providers (CSPs) to
reliably build, manage and run con-
tainerized workloads across private,
telco, edge and public clouds.
VMware Advances 5G Telco Cloud Portfolio
ly embrace cloud native technology
and deliver applications and services
across multi-cloud infrastructure.
As CSPs evolve from NFV networks
to cloud native and containerised net-
works, VMware is evolving its VM-
ware vCloud NFV solution to Telco
Cloud Infrastructure, providing CSPs
a consistent and unified platform de-
livering consistent operations for both
Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
and Cloud Native Network Functions
(CNFs) across telco networks. Telco
Cloud Infrastructure is designed to
optimise the delivery of network ser-
vices with telco centric enhancements,
supporting distributed cloud deploy-
ments, and providing scalability and
performance for millions of consum-
er and enterprise users. These telco
centric enhancements enable CSPs to
gain web-scale speed and agility while
maintaining carrier-grade perfor-
mance, resiliency, and quality.
Tightly integrated with Telco Cloud
Infrastructure, VMware’s Telco Cloud
VMware’s multi-cloud platform sim-
plifies and accelerates the rollout of
5G networks, transforms operational
models through multi-layer automa-
tion while seamlessly integrating with
today’s networks. By embracing cloud
native principles with VMware’s Telco
Cloud Platform, CSPs will be enabled to
deploy innovative applications and ser-
vices to market faster in the highly com-
petitive 5G communications landscape.
The VMware Telco Cloud Platform
provides a cloud-first network ar-
chitecture to accelerate 5G and edge
innovation while delivering service
agility, operational consistency and
integrated lifecycle management au-
tomation from infrastructure up to
network services. The VMware Telco
Cloud Platform combines VMware
Telco Cloud Infrastructure – an evo-
lution of the vCloud NFV solution
– and VMware Telco Cloud Automa-
tion – the recently launched multi-do-
main orchestration and automation
capability. The 5G ready Telco Cloud
Platform is tailored for CSPs to easi-
With VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform, CSPs will be enabled to deploy innovative applications
and services to market faster in the highly competitive 5G communications landscape.
Mimecast Announces
Integration with Theta Lake
Mimecast Cloud Archive for Theta Lake streamlines governance archive
of communications and productivity apps in the remote working era.
Mimecast has announced the availabili-
ty of Mimecast Cloud Archive for Theta
Lake. The robust integration is designed
to streamline risk analysis and gov-
ernance efforts in the current remote
working era to enable capture, retention,
eDiscovery, and automated risk detec-
tion across relevant productivity applica-
tions. Key productivity applications in-
clude e-mail, audio, video, and chat data
from Webex Teams, Webex Meetings,
Zoom (Meetings, Phone, Chat), Micro-
soft Teams (Chat, Calls, and Meetings),
RingCentral Office, Slack, LogMeIn,
BlueJeans, and more. Integrating archive
data into a unified environment can
help bring significant benefits including
speedofsearch,riskreduction,costmin-
imization and user-friendly compliance.
“Although the way we conduct busi-
ness has dramatically changed in
recent months, governance require-
ments remain and are increasing with
new privacy regulations and litigation
on the rise. All organizations must
adapt to intelligently capture, manage
and retain their communication data,”
said Garth Landers, Director of Prod-
uct Marketing at Mimecast. “Mime-
cast Cloud Archive for Theta Lake is
designed to streamline information
governance in the remote working era,
allowing key stakeholders to quickly
analyze data, manage risk and monitor
productivity applications.”
Theta Lake provides a fully-featured,
supervised-focused media player,
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted
review workspace, timestamp of risk
detections and a search across any con-
tent – spoken, shown or shared. When
combined with Mimecast Cloud Ar-
chive, the solution helps organizations:
Retain and supervise unified commu-
nications – Capture, archive, and search
across video, audio, chat, and other
unified communication content with-
in Mimecast fromMicrosoftTeams, Cis-
co Webex, RingCentral, Zoom, Slack,
BlueJeans, and other UC sources.
Quickly find messages – Create saved
searches in Mimecast Cloud Archive
to easily retain important content effi-
ciently. Search across UC content meta-
data, along with transcripts, risk scores,
types of risks that were automatically
identified in content, and more.
Manage compliance and risk – An-
alyze content against regulatory,
corporate compliance, conduct, se-
curity, data leakage, and custom poli-
cies. Theta Lake uses AI and ML to de-
tect problematic content across voice,
content shared on screen, webcam im-
ages, virtual whiteboards, documents,
chat messages, and shared media.
Comply with regulations – Integra-
tion will help your organization meet
financial services and regulatory re-
quirements for compliance supervi-
sion and other use cases.
Intuitive user interfaces – Providing
faster insights and greater productivity
for all stakeholders including IT, legal
and compliance.
Garth Landers, Mimecast
Shekar Ayyar, VMware

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