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Help AG integrates Skybox Security into its MSS offering
(Left to right) Stephan Berner, CEO at Help AG and Jono Clarke Storey,
Channel Director at Skybox.
Help AG has signed an agreement with Skybox Security that will
allow the company to integrate Skybox’s security management
solutions into its Cyber Security Operations Centre, adding new
security analytics capabilities to Help AG’s Managed Security
Services offering. As a Skybox Premier Partner, Help AG will
also offer the Skybox Security Suite for vulnerability and threat
management, firewall change management and compliance
monitoring within both IT and OT environments, to enterprises
across the Middle East.
The Skybox Security Suite is an award–winning security
management platform with an attack surface visualisation layer and
a suite of five security management solutions for vulnerability and
threat management and firewall and security policy management.
The Suite unifies data from more than 120 network and security
technologies, including virtual and cloud environments, and uses
modelling, simulation and analytics to extract the contextual
intelligence needed to simplify complexity and eliminate attack
vectors in both IT and OT environments.
“The partnership with Skybox will enable our MSS customers
to drive even greater value from their existing cyber security
investments with threat management across the entire attack
surface,” said Stephan Berner, CEO at Help AG. “As a reseller
dedicated to IT security alone, we are keen to bundle our expertise
in consultancy, integration and support around the solutions offered
by Skybox, thereby creating a truly differentiated offering.”
Initially leveraging Help AG’s local presence in the UAE, Saudi
Arabia and Qatar, the companies will look to engage with leading
organisations from Oil & Gas, government, finance and utilities
sectors in these countries. Customers will be able to either consume
Skybox security management solutions as a part of Help AG’s MSS
offering, or choose to have the reseller integrate the suite into their
IT infrastructure. Help AG will also offer comprehensive Level 1 and
Level 2 support services on behalf of the vendor and has created a
Skybox Security Lab environment to rapidly and reliably recreate
any troubleshooting issues customers may face.
Mitsumi appointed as distributor for Dell EMC in Africa
Mitsumi Distribution, an ICT and telecoms distributor in the Middle
East and Africa, announced it has been appointed by Dell EMC
Middle East as an Authorised Dell EMC Enterprise Distributor for
the Africa region. The move demonstrates its confidence in its ability
to help grow the brand across the region. Since the Dell Consumer,
Commercial and SNP African distribution partnership first began in
2009, Mitsumi has played an integral role in helping to grow the Dell
business across the region.
As an authorised distributor, Mitsumi will distribute Dell
EMC storage products, including all-flash arrays, hybrid storage
platforms and networked-attached storage solutions in Angola,
Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Kenya, Liberia, Mayotte, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles,
Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Other Dell EMC
enterprise IT offerings include servers, converged infrastructure
and cloud infrastructure products.
Reseller partners across Mitsumi’s entire African footprint
now have access to the Dell EMC portfolio, including an extensive
and innovative range of flash storage, hybrid cloud and advanced
datacentre solutions. In October 2016, Mitsumi also gained Dell
Consumer Product distribution rights for the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait,
Oman, Qatar, Yemen; and Libya, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq for the
wholesale industry only.
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Mitsumi distributes a wide range of products covering PC,
notebooks, mobility, datacentre, storage, hardware, services and
telecommunications products from various well-known vendors.
Mitsumi operates in 11 Middle East and African countries; including
the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Algeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda,
Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana and Cameron.
Established in Kenya since 1996, Mitsumi Distribution is an
authorised distributor for leading global IT hardware brands, including
Canon, Dell EMC, Hitachi, HP, iSurf, Samsung, Toshiba and Wiko.
Mitesh Shah, Managing Director, Mitsumi Distribution.
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