Midis Group appoints Ernest Sales to run Hewlett Packard Enterprise business across Eastern Europe and Africa
Beirut, May 1 2019: Midis Group announces the appointment of Ernest Sales to run its Hewlett Packard Enterprise business across Eastern Europe and Africa. Ernest had previously started with the group as Chair of K-Tuin, Midis’ recently acquired retail network in Spain. He joins Midis Group after a successful global career within Hewlett Packard, most recently running North America sales for HP Enterprise, but previously as HP’s Head of Middle East and Africa.
“Ernest embodies the key Midis Group values of integrity and accountability, and he strengthens the global multinational experience set of our executive team. He will help us capitalize on the tremendous potential of our HPE relationship. And he will also surely provide strong guidance as we continue to develop the Midis Group more widely in the years ahead,” said Nabil Bustros, CEO of Midis.
The Midis Group relationship with HP Enterprise continues to strengthen, and the group, with Ernest, is more committed than ever to realize the full spectrum of opportunities for the partnership.
Mindware Acquires Arrow ECS – Channel ME Online
Channel ME has just published, in their print edition, a feature interview with Mindware CEO Philippe Jarre. Jarre talks about the Arrow ECS acquisition and outlines company plans to build a billion dollar business through timely acquisitions and organic growth.
“Mindware has acquired regional distributor Arrow ECS increasing its overall business by 15%. The merged entity will immediately take on Mindware’s name. In the next two years, the VAD plans to build a billion dollar business through timely acquisitions and organic growth.
Mindware will also extend its existing partnership with Dell EMC to include Arrow’s strong capabilities with EMC in the UAE. After the acquisition, Mindware’s UAE market will be as big as its total business two years back. For partners, this integration means that they have access to a bigger product range and a broader reach across the region.”
Read the article online on Channel ME here
Mindware are a Midis Group company
Mindware acquires Arrow Electronics’ enterprise computing solutions business in Middle East
Dubai, UAE – April, 2019: Following approval by governmental authorities in the United Arab Emirates, Mindware FZ-LLC, the renowned distributor of quality IT products to the Middle East and North Africa, announced the addition of new intelligent IT solutions to its wide-ranging portfolio, by acquiring Arrow Electronics’ enterprise computing solutions business in the Middle East.
The agreement includes distribution of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions FZCO product and services portfolio in the Middle East
The acquisition is part of Mindware’s growth strategy to advancing as the leading Value-Added Distributor in the region. Via this acquisition, Mindware will expand its Dell EMC territorial coverage and enhance its security portfolio with additional global vendors such as RSA, CheckPoint, Forcepoint, and TrendMicro.
Arrow Electronics has recruited a large number of enterprise re-sellers, always operating as their trusted technology advisor and growth enabler.
“This acquisition reinforces our strategy to support the digital transformation of the regional IT industry and the high demand for Storage, Cloud, and Security solutions,” said Philippe Jarre, CEO of Mindware. “Moreover, it significantly strengthens our position in this rapidly growing segment. We are delighted to welcome the Arrow team to Mindware,” added Jarre.
About Mindware:
Mindware is part of the Midis Group, an international organization comprised of over 150 companies across the emerging markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
https://www.midisgroup.com
As the leading Value-Add Distributor of the finest IT products in the Middle East and Africa, Mindware’s extensive portfolio includes world-class global brands reaching out to over 3,500 resellers across more than 25 countries.
Mindware’s comprehensive offerings include a selection of networking, security, virtualization, unified communications, and storage leading brands such as Dell EMC, Juniper, Microsoft, McAfee, Citrix, and Veritas. As part of its VAD methodology, Mindware also offers supplementary value-added services to its reselling partners including pre-sales consultancy, implementation services, local technical support, marketing enablement tools, and multiple channel-enabling programs. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Mindware has been uncompromisingly serving its customers for more than a quarter-century in the Middle East and Africa.
www.mindware.net | www.mindwarecloud.com
For more details, follow Mindware on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (MindwareVAD) and LinkedIn (Mindware).
New Beirut iSTYLE Apple Authorised Reseller boutique opens at Holcom technology hub
Beirut, March 14th, 2019: at a memorable night event held at their base at the Holcom technology hub, Midis Group premiered it’s new iSTYLE Apple Authorised Reseller boutique in the presence of VIPs, businessmen, clients, media representatives and Apple fans.
More than 300 invitees attended the boutique launch, MC’d by Lebanese national champion Maxime Chaya, who welcomed guests and introduced the iSTYLE boutique concept. There was a lot going on to celebrate at the opening: iSTYLE Apple Experts shared tips and shortcuts in tutorial workshops, while a live art show featured a caricaturist and a calligrapher both using iPads, creating unique memories for attendees. DJ ED’N’RAY kept everyone moving playing the latest sounds on his MacBook Pro.
“iSTYLE Apple Premium Reseller operates one of the biggest chains of Apple stores in Central Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, running 56 dedicated Apple points of sale and recently acquired 15 stores in Spain,” said Mr. Nabil Bustros, Chairman and CEO of Midis Group. “iSTYLE in Lebanon is not only a store, it is a success story as a brand, hence the opening of this second boutique,” said Mr Bustros.
iSTYLE stores are certified by Apple as Premium Resellers. This means living and breathing the Apple experience, offering a full range of official Apple products and complementary offerings, coupled with unmatched Apple expertise, advice, and proficiency. The iSTYLE team are directly trained and supervised by Apple in order to transfer the right Apple experience to consumers.
To provide a complete Apple solution, iSTYLE has partnered with ABMCARE, an experienced Apple Authorized Service Provider, to offer a comprehensive approach to customer service. For professional users, timely service is king, so ABMCARE offer the region’s quickest repair service “on the spot”.
ABMCARE is the sole distributor for Apple service in the Middle East, managing over 30 service channels in the region, equipped with state-of-the-art repair facilities as per Apple’s guidelines for a service center. ABMCARE technicians are highly qualified and certified by Apple to be able to service all Apple products, including desktops, portables, iPhones, iPads, iPods and Apple accessories, with customer satisfaction as an integral part of their mission.
Now it’s launched, Apple fans can check out the iSTYLE boutique at the Holcom Building, Corniche Al Nahr, open Monday to Friday from 09:00am till 7:00pm and Saturday from 9:00am to 2:00 pm.
Too busy to get along to the boutique?
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Mindware appoints Philippe Jarre as new CEO
February 1, 2019 Dubai – Mindware has appointed a new CEO, Philippe Jarre.
Philippe has spent 25 years as CEO across a broad spectrum of companies in the technology sector, notably IBM.
At IBM, Philippe worked across a wide range of tech sectors and held a variety of leadership positions, from a post as VP of retail banking in Europe, based in London, to Global General Manager for cloud, business continuity and security business in New York and General Manager for IBM Global Services in France. Additionally he was CEO at Gulf Business Machines in Dubai, where he led regional business development.
Philippe spoke about the reasons for joining such a major group of companies. “Midis group has more than 40 years of experience in the region, offering the region’s broadest portfolio, including leading global brands throughout the MEA region. The commitment to customers is unrivalled. The culture has grown out of the understanding that customers are of primary concern”
“Midis is a name that resonates in the region, which is very important. The Group is extremely strong financially and therefore has been able to weather many challenges over the years. Moreover Mindware is a solid reality within the Midis Group with an extraordinary potential of partnerships development continuing to succeed in the Region”.
Philippe graduated from the prestigious Central Supelec in Paris (France).
Go to Mindware.net
eHosting DataFort highlights the key trends for upsurge in Managed Security Services in UAE
eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region’s leading Cloud Infrastructure, Managed Hosting and Security Services Provider, today announced the growing trend of Managed Security Services (MSS) globally as well as in the Middle East. Few reasons for the increasing demand are the increased levels of Cyber threats, in-house shortage of security skills talent, digital transformation and increased adoption of BYOD due to the progressive increase in the mobile workforce. Simultaneously, organizations are also relying on MSS providers with portfolios that include advanced predictive security intelligence and analysis as well as detection services to manage and mitigate the complex security landscape.
Markets and Markets projects that the global MSS market will expand at a CAGR of 14.6 percent between 2016 and 2021 and that the sector will be worth nearly USD33.7 billion by 2021. The research also suggests that the increase is not just related to growth of enterprise IT infrastructure, but also corelates to the increase in compliance requirements. Simultaneously, SMBs are now adopting advanced IT technologies and are keen to ensure a secure IT infrastructure. This segment is expected to see the highest growth of Managed Security Services during the projected forecast period.
“The frequency and very powerful security threats that organizations are facing are now being recognized and discussed in boardrooms. Focused efforts are going into detailed strategies to build and implement comprehensive security for risk management and protection. The fast-paced developments in cybersecurity also call for specialized skills. Most organizations are unprepared to adapt to this next chapter. As MSS providers, we see increasing number of CIOs contracting these services to reduce the vulnerabilities to attacks as well as enable a quick response to information security breach incidents.,” said, Yasser Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting DataFort.
According to a Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report, there is a deficit of 1 million security practitioners, increasing to 1.5 million by 2019. Globally, 26% of organisations are facing staffing shortages, and 35% are facing expertise shortages with security jobs growing at 12 times the rate of the overall job market, and 3 times the rate of general IT. This skills shortfall is the basis for the increasing use of MSS globally.
Digital penetration across the government and business sectors in the Middle East has been growing at a very rapid pace. The push is being spearheaded by local governments especially in countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt with digital transformation strategies to building smart cities as well as for eCommerce. While the progress has very positive consequences for the society at large as well as businesses, it also brings along the added challenges of cybersecurity.
“As an MSS provider, we focus on ensuring that our services are positioned to provide advanced threat intelligence and management for larger organizations as well as the growing SMB markets in the Middle East. Our team of skilled professionals and experts are equipped to provide short as well as long term security strategies and we have continued to grow our customer base by meeting their diverse demands. This is supported by the substantial investments we make in updating and upgrading our services with new technologies and services to stay abreast with the dynamic threat environment,” added Zeineldin.
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