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40% of organizations suffer from Office 365 account takeovers. As these data breaches make headlines with growing consistency, the resulting financial and reputational costs mount.

Extreme Networks is also placing emphasis on strengthening relationships with its regional distributors and engaging new channel partners. As a channel-centric organization, Extreme is committed to providing both VAR and MSP end-users in the META region with cloud-based, end-to-end networking solutions that meet their needs—and those of their customers.

Business priorities and challenges are evolving, so the technology they rely on needs to advance too. The large majority (87%) of the UAE’s ITDMs acknowledge that their IT infrastructure will have to change dramatically in the next five years to support new ways of doing business.

One of the most alarming business trends is the exponential growth in data, and especially “dark data,” or data that is unquantified and likely obsolete or trivial.

Over the past 3 years, I have become more excited about the opportunity we have each and every quarter. We have industry-defining technology that provides our customers with unique solutions for their desired outcomes, with a talented and motivated team to keep our customers at the center of everything we do,” said Kaddaras.

More than 100 Infoblox partners from the EMEA region came to Vienna for three days under the motto "Ignite Next Level Partnership." In addition to presentations from the Infoblox Channel Partner team, participants attended a discussion with Infoblox CEO Jesper Andersen and other members of the executive team.

Governments are struggling in many areas, following disruptions including changes in leadership, reorganizations and funding shortfalls. For many government CIOs, disruption will affect their IT budget growth, and the funding and launch of new business initiatives will suffer,” said Alia Mendonsa, senior research director at Gartner.

Litigation affects organizations of all sizes, industries, and regions. Often, IT and legal staff are asked to respond to and manage multiple litigation events - creating challenges in the ability to scale human and technical resources. Internal investigations, subpoenas or being sued involves a discovery request of all relevant materials, including the proliferation of electronic data, that may be called into investigation during the legal matter.

The availability of data in the modern business means it’s not simply about speed of decision making, but speed of thought. Quick thinking is different to decisive action. You can decide quickly but decide badly.

SAP has promoted Sergio Maccotta to the role of Senior Vice President of SAP Middle East South. Maccotta, previously the leader of the Strategic Customer Program team for SAP EMEA South, will continue to be based in Dubai.