MARKET MOVEMENT
NGN International partners
with Centra Hub for process
integration
Centra Hub has announced it has signed a regional partnership
agreement with NGN International, a systems integrator and IT
consultant, which was established in 2015 in Bahrain as part of
the NGN Group. According to the agreement, Centra and NGN
International will collaborate to leverage their technology and
process integration strengths across the region.
NGN has been operating in Turkey and the Middle East since
2005. The company is a trusted technology partner of various
enterprises, including Bosch, British American Tobacco, Daikin,
Toyota, Mercedes, Qatar National Bank, Burgan Bank and Turkcell
among others.
NGN creates business solutions for complex information,
computing, telecoms and engineering systems, with the focus
on datacentres and cloud solutions, call centres and networking
infrastructure, IT infrastructure services, information and network
security, advanced analytics and reporting, Big Data, application
development, business and ITSM processes, building information
(Left to right) Nisith Naik CEO of Centra Hub and Yaqoob Al Awadhi CEO
of NGN International.
modelling and smart cities, transportation and logistics processes, IT
outsourcing, virtual reality and 3D solutions, Internet of Things and
Blockchain technologies.
NGN offers services based on its own commercial datacentres
and its public cloud, and also creates private and hybrid clouds
based on client datacentres. NGN’s Star of Bosphorus Data Centre
has a Tier III design certificate and is targeting the acquisition
of facility and operational sustainability certifications from the
Uptime Institute.
Evanssion to distribute hyper converged cloud
storage solutions from Cohesity
Evanssion, a regional value-added
distributor for cloud transformation and
information security solutions, has signed
a distribution agreement with Cohesity, a
provider of hyper-converged secondary
storage platforms. According to the
agreement, Evanssion will operate as value
added distributor across the Middle East,
Levant, North Africa and India, providing
Cohesity’s complete suite of solutions.
“Enterprise IT is moving towards a
software defined and hyper-converged
architecture. This trend is apparent in the
current market demand for secondary
storage and backup solutions from
organisations that especially generate
massive amounts of data,” said Ashok
Chakravarthi Arulmozhi, Managing Director
at Evanssion.
“About 80% of an enterprise storage
capacity is consumed by secondary
data, and this imposes a huge burden
on enterprise IT budgets. As a pioneer in
introducing hyper-converged technology
in secondary storage, we believe Cohesity
has the capability to enable organisations
Ashok Chakravarthi Arulmozhi, Managing
Director at Evanssion.
to consolidate and manage secondary data
cost-effectively. Our partners are keen to
introduce Cohesity to their key customers
and we are committed to grow Cohesity’s
footprint across all major verticals.”
Cohesity delivers a web-scale, hyper-
converged storage system that spans
both private datacentres and cloud. It
consolidates fragmented, duplicated and
inefficient storage silos across backup,
archive, file and object services, test
development and analytic workloads into
an efficient data fabric. Cohesity makes it
easy for organisations to incorporate cloud
storage into their enterprise via archival,
tiering and replication to the cloud.
Ievo appoints
Network Information
Technology as META
distributor
Ievo, a manufacturer of fingerprint
biometric solutions, has announced that
Network Information Technology, an
Ingram Micro company, has been named
the distributor for its product range for the
META region. After establishing a strong
foothold in the domestic and European
markets, this is the next step in a long-term
strategy to gain market share in export
territory markets. The new partnership is
central to growth plans and builds upon
the work already done on increasing the
knowledge base of not only the Ievo brand,
but biometric security solutions in general.
With over 20 years of experience of
the security market, Network Information
Technology offers Internet Protocol
solutions to security challenges working in
close partnership with system integrators,
consultants and vendors to deliver high
value for end users. Network Information
Technology also has partnering arrangements
with reseller companies across 56 countries.
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