MDS Systems Integration and VMware win the ‘Summit Partner’ award at IDC CIO Summit 2022

MDS Systems Integration and their partners VMware have won the Summit Partner award at the IDC CIO Summit 2022.

On the MDS SI LinkedIn profile a statement thanked everyone for their hard work: “We are delighted to see our Group Managing Partner Hadi Nader and his team being recognized for the outstanding contribution as an enterprise. Thank you to all of our employees for making it happen.”

According to IDC MEA on LinkedIn, the 2022 edition of the Summit invited CIOs and IT leaders to explore the increasing pace of innovation, examine the region’s evolving technology landscape, and present best-practice strategies that will help organizations transform themselves into digitally resilient future enterprises.

In November 2020, MDS SI reached Principal Level, the highest tier in the VMware Partner Program. Principal partners are the most qualified partners in the VMware Partner Connect. MDS SI demonstrated a broad range of expertise and the ability to best serve their customers’ needs to attain the status. Read more about that accolade from VMware here.

More about MDS SI

MDS Systems Integration (MDS SI) is the UAE’s leading enterprise Systems Integrator, leveraging long experience in the region and providing excellent service through a highly qualified, trained and experienced team of engineers. Since its inception, MDS SI has focused on integrating and delivering customized advanced enterprise Data Centre Solutions which include servers, storage, backup, network and security in the Middle East.

MDS Site & Power win Leviton Strategic Data Center Partner Award 2022

MDS Site & Power has been awarded the Leviton Strategic Data Center Partner Award, 2022. The trophy was presented to MDS S&P thanks to the company’s continuous collaboration on prestigious projects with the American company.

The presentation of the trophy took place after the yearly review meeting between MDS Site & Power and Leviton Middle East, Africa, and APAC in February. MDS S&P have successfully completed multiple multi-million dollar data centers using Leviton structured cabling systems, working to the latest cabling specifications for both copper and fiber, installed as part of horizontal and backbone cabling.

More about MDS Site & Power

MDS Site & Power has been operating in the UAE since 1981. It provides Data Center activities and Turnkey Power projects for Oil and Gas in addition to Telecom and Utilities. MDS S&P Data Center Infrastructure Specialists have skills that range from consultancy and design to final implementation and training. Facility Management and services include consultancy, design, supply, installation and maintenance with a team that has an engineering ratio of 90% with customer satisfaction as its main objective.

MDS CS awarded HPE Gulf Data Solutions Partner of the Year at LEAP 2022

MDS for Computer Systems (MDS CS) was awarded the major Hewlett Packard Enterprise ‘Gulf Data Solutions Partner of the Year’ prize at the HPE Saudi & Gulf Channel Kick-Off FY22 event. The award ceremony was held during LEAP 2022 in Riyadh on February 2.

MDS CS won the accolade from HPE thanks to its work offering customers high-end IT solutions from the global leader’s technology portfolio during the year.

“With our highly qualified and certified people in Channel, Presales, Sales and After Sales – the MDS CS team did great work during FY 2021, providing high quality end-to-end IT Data Solutions to customers in the Saudi market. They exceeded expectations by using world class HPE technologies and solutions to achieve customers’ targets in digital transformation, automation and on-premise cloud services,” said Ayman Al-Ghamri, Product Sales (Channel) & Technology Delivery Manager at MDS CS.

The presentation took place at the HPE event at LEAP for Partners and Distributors in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait.

More about MDS CS

Founded in 1982 by Sheikh Mohammed Mansour Al-Rumaih as Mideast Data Systems, today MDS CS is a well-known and highly reputable organization with a team of professional engineers and technicians, with a large base of satisfied customers including significant numbers of large turnkey projects.

MDS CS takes a highly professional approach to meet each of its customers’ unique business requirements. Its commitment in terms of financial investment and customer support is aimed at a long-term relationship with its customers.

Arab Computers awarded ‘Most Valued Retail & Marketplace Partner of 2021’ by Noon.com

Arab Computers, the prominent Authorized Apple Distributor in Saudi Arabia, was recently awarded ‘Most Valued Retail & Marketplace Partner of 2021’ by the Riyadh-based leading e-commerce platform, Noon.com.

In a press release announcing the awards, Noon.com celebrated its most distinguished sellers across Saudi Arabia, awarding trophies to its brightest retailer partners as a mark of appreciation for their excellence and continued support throughout 2021.

Layth Sibai, General Manager, Arab Computers, received the award at their office in Riyadh from Abdullatif Sultan, VP – Commercial, Noon eCommerce. “Thank you Noon.com for this award. We are very proud of this success and are looking forward to a growing and prosperous business together in the coming years,” said Layth Sibai.

“Noon was created with customers and sellers in mind, helping provide SMEs across the region with the tools and support they need to grow,” says Ahmed Gadouri, from Noon. “From here, for here, without our sellers we wouldn’t be where we are today”.

More about Noon.com

Noon.com was formed with the objective of fostering an ecosystem of regionally based digital companies in order to secure the region’s future digital landscape. Noon’s mission is to provide customers and companies in the region with outstanding value and support.

Noon launched its consumer platform in 2017 and has since evolved to become the largest online shopping destination in the Middle East. Primarily a digital e-commerce platform powered by in-house technological talent, Noon has swiftly developed strong native capabilities throughout its marketplace, fulfillment, logistics, and payment systems.

More about Arab Computers

Part of the Midis Group, Arab Computers is an Apple Authorized Distributor in Saudi Arabia selling all Apple products and third-party accessories through Authorized Channels. The Company aims to enable every person in the Kingdom to acquire the very best Apple products. Arab Computers distributes and sell products for multiple brands such as Moshi; iRobot; B&O; Epico; Roidmi. The Company also plans major campaigns and marketing programs to assure profitable business for its network of resellers and partners.

MDS & CDA have won certificates from Al Ain Municipality in UAE

MDS & CDA have won certificates from Al Ain Municipality in the UAE for successful public business partnerships, delivery, and commissioning.

For MDS, the recognition came because of their recurrent project for Al Ain Municipality, supported in all the authorities’ infrastructure related to desktop, servers, and storage. For Computer Direct Access (CDA), the certificate was awarded for the excellence of their delivery of a recurrent support contract and for support of back-up projects in December 2021.

“We would like to extend our sincere appreciation for the received awards and recognition by our strategic partner Al Ain Municipality,” said Hadi Nader, Group Managing Partner for MDS SI.

“Receiving such awards are a great privilege and honor. Thank you to Al Ain Municipality’s respected management and team for your business partnership and trust. MDS will always do its utmost to provide and deliver the best solutions and associated professional services, aiming as always to meet and hopefully exceed our end-users’ expectations and merit their satisfaction.”

Advanced Business Computing Qatar wins Dell and Google Cloud Partner status in SEEMEA region

Advanced Business Computing W.L.L. Qatar is celebrating two major achievements. The company achieved DELL Technologies’ Proven Partner Services Competency for Data Center Infrastructure, and was announced as a Google Cloud Certified Partner for the SEEMEA region.

The Dell Partner status is a considerable business achievement, to gain that coveted title of Partner, the company had to demonstrate comprehensive deployment capabilities and skills across multiple Dell technologies portfolios.

In an email to ABC colleagues announcing the Dell award, Fahed Alhejazi, Technical Services Manager, wrote this: “I am proud to announce that ABC is the only Dell Proven Partner Services for Data Center infrastructure in the Gulf & UAE. I would like to thank all for your continued support – and special thanks to our technical team who achieved and completed all the requirements thanks to their hard work and dedication.”

In the second of the two wins, as of November 2021, Advanced Business Computing Qatar became one of the first Google Cloud Partners in Qatar – with the current status as described below and in the Partner Directory for Google Cloud Partner Advantage:

• Selling of Google Cloud Platform for the SEEMEA region (Southern Europe and Emerging Markets)
• Services on Google Cloud for the SEEMEA region (Southern Europe and Emerging Markets)

More about Advanced Business Computing W.L.L. Qatar

Advanced Business Computing W.L.L Qatar is one of Qatar’s top Information Technology Products and Services providers. The company partners with top vendors in the industry: it is a Dell Technologies Titanium Partner, an Apple Authorized Reseller, a Microsoft Gold Partner and a VMware Enterprise Solutions Provider. Highly experienced and well trusted as an IT partner in Qatar market, ABC has built a reputation based on providing superior products, solutions and services, blended with unbeatable customer care.

MDS CS named a Platinum Partner by Micro Focus in IT Operations Management & Security

MDS for Computer Systems (MDS CS) has been named a Platinum Partner by Micro Focus in IT Operations Management & Security for the Fiscal Year 2022.

MDS CS is the only Tier 1 Direct Buyer Partner with Micro Focus in Saudi Arabia, where the orders can be placed directly by MDS CS with Micro Focus, and not through the distributor.

“The MDS CS team is very pleased to see our business relation with Micro Focus recognized in this way,” said Mr. Omran Aljundi, MDS CS/MHP General Manager – Saudi Arabia.

“We have joined forces to make our partnership a big success and it is good to see the teams’ efforts being rewarded.”

More about Micro Focus

Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers. It delivers mission-critical technology and supporting services that help thousands of customers worldwide manage core IT elements of their business so they can run and transform—at the same time.

More about MDS CS

Founded in 1982 by Sheikh Mohammed Mansour Al-Rumaih as Mideast Data Systems, today MDS CS is a well-known and highly reputable organization with a team of professional engineers and technicians, with a large base of satisfied customers including significant numbers of large turnkey projects.

MDS CS brings a highly professional approach to meet each of its customers’ unique business requirements. Its commitment in terms of financial investment and customer support is aimed at a long-term relationship with its customers.

ESET Middle East and Husni Hammoud are big winners at Reseller Middle East Awards 2021

ESET Middle East and Husni Hammoud were winners at the Reseller Middle East Partner Excellence Awards 2021, held on November 23 at the Habtoor Grand Resort in Dubai.

ESET Middle East were honored to be awarded “Best Endpoint Vendor of the Year” and Husni Hammoud, Managing Director, Technetium/Midis Group, won the award for Outstanding Executive of the Year (Vendor).

The citation for Husni Hammoud’s award is as follows: ‘You have exemplified your commitment to the channel industry through your proactive approach, outstanding vision, and commitment to excellence, despite the challenging market conditions.’

Husni Hammoud gave thanks for the award, which was accepted by his daughter, Elissa Hammoud: “I have been in the field more than 30 years, building knowledge, valuable relations/ networks and sharing experiences, but nothing can make you successful as a leader more than strong commitment, a devoted team and having a highly trusted and supportive organization behind you.”

ESET Middle East’s award citation was detailed and generous: ‘ESET has demonstrated excellence and resilience amongst the region’s channel industry by adopting a dedicated channel approach, sustaining and driving their business despite challenging market circumstances, and by leading the space with pioneering strategies and solutions.’

Demes Strouthos, General Manager at ESET Middle East said this about the award: “Our commitment as ESET is to offer the absolute best in cybersecurity to our valuable customers. The Reseller Middle East Partner Excellence Awards 2021 highlight our consistent efforts to provide robust and reliable endpoint protection despite the ever-evolving threat landscape in the region.”

According to their website, Reseller Middle East’s Partner Excellence Awards has been the industry’s most prominent event over the last decade. Now in its twelfth year, the event showcases and applauds the successes of regional channel businesses, saluting the excellence and resilience of individual executives and firms.

More about ESET Middle East

ESET began life as a pioneer of antivirus protection, creating award-winning threat detection software. Now, ESET’s goal is to make sure that everybody can enjoy the breathtaking opportunities that technology offers. ESET’s multi-layered technology allows us to detect and react to threats faster, helping all our customers benefit from stronger and more effective protection.

ESET Middle East has its regional office in Dubai Internet City and manages an extensive partner network in 11 countries, namely the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Libya.

MDS CS accepts Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year Award at Cisco Partner Summit 2021

MDS for Computer Systems (MDS CS) has won the Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year award at the Cisco Partner Summit 2021. The event, on November 9 and 10, was the 26th annual Partner Summit.

On their Partner Summit blog, Oliver Tuszik wrote about the Summit and the awards: “Cisco Partner Summit is always a time to celebrate the incredible things partners have made possible, and every year, as part of this great event, we recognize our top-performing partners and their incredible achievements.”

In response, an MDS CS spokesperson said this: “We are proud to win the Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year award at the Cisco Partner Summit. We are very grateful for the continuous support from the Cisco Team. This award reflects our continuous dedication to Enterprise Networking business in Saudi Arabia, accommodating our customer’s dynamic needs and maintaining higher and faster ROI.”

More about MDS CS

Founded in 1982 by Sheikh Mohammed Mansour Al-Rumaih as Mideast Data Systems, today MDS CS is a well-known and highly reputable organization with a team of professional engineers and technicians, with a large base of satisfied customers including significant numbers of large turnkey projects.

MDS CS brings a highly professional approach to meet each of its customers’ unique business requirements. Its commitment in terms of financial investment and customer support is aimed at a long-term relationship with its customers.

Midis Group affiliates win awards at GITEX Global 2021

Midis Group affiliates have been successful at GITEX Global 2021, winning awards in many categories. Our companies and affiliates are always the leaders in their sectors, offering innovative products and services, and developing new thinking and solutions to the challenges of the day. Though the last two years have tested the resilience of many in the IT sector, the companies winning awards below have shone through the difficult times and achieved growth and success.

At the GEC Awards on October 17, Mindware won the prize for Top Distributor (infrastructure)

Also at the GEC Awards, October 17, Midis System Integration Group were pleased to win the trophy for Top System Integrator in Infrastructure

Barracuda Networks received the Best Email Security Vendor of the Year Award at the Future Enterprise Awards, October 17

Commvault announced MDS for Computer Systems as their Saudi Best Partner of the Year at GITEX 2021

eHosting DataFort won the prestigious Service Provider of 2021 Award from Hewlett Packard Enterprise at Gitex 2021

ESET Middle East wins Best SMB Endpoint Security Vendor at CISO 50 & Future Security Awards

ESET Middle East has won the award for Best SMB Endpoint Security Vendor at the CISO 50 and Future Security Awards. Demes Strouthos, General Manager, ESET Middle East, received the award at the 2021 event on September 8 at the Habtoor Grand Resort, Autograph Collection, Dubai.

“Thank you very much for this award. We are very proud and excited and would like to thank, on behalf of ESET Middle East, Tahawultech for this great initiative, which it is convening each year,” said Demes Strouthos at the awards presentation.

“Keeping the confidence of your customers and their channel is the most important thing – we will keep working towards this, always providing – of course – the best solutions for our customers.”

The awards are organized, and all nominations vetted, by the Tahawultech.com and Security Advisor ME editorial teams. Winners of the awards will have demonstrated exemplary leadership and innovative approaches in securing today’s digital enterprises.

According to the award website, “CISO 50 businesses are busy fast-tracking innovations that go beyond traditional approaches and solutions. With information security gaining serious traction in the business world, the role of today’s decision makers has become more important than ever to safeguard the credibility, integrity and profitability of the business.”

In June 2021 ESET’s Husni Hammoud and Demes Strouthos were both interviewed by Tahawultech.com at GISEC 2021 about Cybersecurity: Threats, Solutions and Outlook. Watch their interviews here

MDS CS has achieved Diamond Innovator level in the Palo Alto Networks NextWave Partner Program

MDS for Computer Systems (MDS CS) has achieved the elite Diamond Innovator level in the Palo Alto Networks NextWave Partner Program. This is the highest level of partnership in the extensive NextWave partner program, which includes approximately 6,500 partners helping 80,000 customers around the world succeed with the company’s technologies.

According to the Palo Alto website, the NextWave Partner Ecosystem is a community of world-class security experts and leaders who are committed to prevention and to making breaches a thing of the past. “Together they provide a new approach to security that is rapidly gaining momentum.”

Writing on the MDS CS LinkedIn profile, the company gave this statement:

“We are proud to be awarded the Diamond Innovator level part of Palo Alto Networks NextWave Partner Program. We are very grateful for the continuous support from the amazing PNW team. This award reflects our contribution to Palo Alto Networks business in the Kingdom with more growing opportunities and collaboration.”

More about MDS CS

Founded in 1982 by Sheikh Mohammed Mansour Al-Rumaih as Mideast Data Systems, the company started its activity by hiring highly qualified staff with thorough experience in the relevant and specialist fields of Computers, Data Communications, Electro-Mechanical installations and support Systems.

Today, MDS CS is a well-known and highly reputable organization with a team of over 75 engineers and technicians with a large base of satisfied customers including a significant number of large turnkey projects.

MDS Site & Power wins ISO 14001 environmental management and ISO 45001 occupational health & safety management certification

MDS Site & Power have achieved certification in two new and crucially important ISO categories – ISO 14001 (Environmental management) and ISO 45001 (Occupational health and safety management), alongside their existing ISO 9001 (Quality management) mark.

“It’s really important that companies working in our industry segment manage their businesses and operate with strong adherence to health, safety and environmental standards,” said Khaled H. Nehme, Projects Director of MDS Site & Power.

“Working hard to achieve these new standards is a major gain for MDS Site & Power and gives us a significant head start in the market. It also shows our commitment to provide the optimum levels of health, safety and environment for all our employees, clients and contractors by providing a safe working environment and complying with all applicable HSE legislation, regulations and standards.”

According to the website of the international standards organization itself, ISO 45001 is the new ISO standard for occupational health and safety (OH&S) and it has become one of the most eagerly awaited standards in the world, set to drastically improve levels of workplace safety.

ISO 14001 is as important as ISO 45001 for companies working in Site & Power sectors; while the latter checks health and safety of development and working around major installations, the former is about key environmental impacts across a range of criteria.

Again according to the ISO website, 14001 certification provides assurance to company management and employees as well as external stakeholders that environmental impact is being measured and improved.

Mindware wins twice at Lenovo Gulf Channel Awards 2021

Mindware was successful twice at the Lenovo Gulf Channel Awards FY20-21, winning PCSD Commercial Distributor of the Year for both UAE and the Gulf.

The Awards were held virtually on July 7 for the second year. The event serves as a continuation of Lenovo’s channel drive initiative, which the company uses to interact with customers solely via their partner network. Lenovo developed the approach to ensuring its diverse product portfolio reaches audiences at speed and scale.

More about Mindware

As one of the leading distributors of the finest IT products in the Middle East and Africa, Mindware’s extensive portfolio includes top-class global brands reaching out to over 4,000 partners. Mindware’s comprehensive offering includes a selection of infrastructure, networking, security, and storage leading brands.

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 since 1991, Mindware has been uncompromisingly serving its customers for more than three decades.

BlueTech Holding wins twice at the Lenovo LENA Channel Awards 2021

BlueTech Holding has won two key prizes at the Lenovo LENA Channel Awards virtual event – Commercial distributor of the year for Lebanon and Commercial distributor of the year for Jordan.

The awards were held virtually on July 7 for the second year. The event serves as a continuation of Lenovo’s channel drive initiative, which the company uses to interact with customers solely via their partners network. Lenovo developed the approach to ensuring its diverse product portfolio reaches audiences at speed and scale.

This success follows earlier good news announced in April where BlueTech Holding signed an agreement with Lenovo ISG to act as distributor for the North, West and Central Africa markets.

More about BlueTech Holding

BlueTech Holding Ltd. is a technology distributor boutique, specialized in providing end-to-end technology advisory solutions for its business partners in more than 30 countries across the Levant, Gulf and Africa regions. As a strategic and focused distributor for IBM and Lenovo for more than 20 years, BlueTech Holding serves its partners through five subsidiaries expanding in Lebanon, UAE and Jordan as well as in North, West and Central Africa. BlueTech Holding capitalizes on their international experience to serve business partners locally.

OBM named Enterprise Growth Partner of the year at the Lenovo Gulf Channel Awards FY20/21

Overseas Business Machines (OBM) was named Enterprise Growth Partner of the year at the recent Lenovo Gulf Channel Awards FY20/21, held virtually this year on July 7.

“We are honored to be recognized as Enterprise Growth Partner of the Year during the Lenovo Gulf Channel Awards. This recognition reflects OBM’s technical and thought leadership with immense synergy along with Lenovo. Thank you, team Lenovo for this recognition! I am also grateful to our loyal customers and to the amazing OBM team for all their efforts”, said Mohamad Al-Bolbol, General Manager, Overseas Business Machine.

More about Overseas Business Machines

Overseas Business Machines (OBM) is an Integrated IT Solution company based in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. OBM bring value to businesses by providing Hardware, Software, Networking and Security solutions not only for sustainability and growth but also to provide much needed competitive edge. The company provides the right IT solution by thoroughly understanding business processes. They put lots of effort into clear and precise communication to ensure delivery of high quality effective solutions with minimum cost. OBM solutions are designed considering the risks and strengths of client business.