Dubai, UAE: Huawei, the next generation network solutions provider for telecom operators around the world, has confirmed its participation in the Arabcom 2010 Summit as platinum sponsor.

Coherent to Huawei’s vision to enrich people’s lives through communications, Katia Tayar, Founder and President of Arabcom Group, has expressed her appreciation for Huawei’s support.

Tayar underscored the importance of this year’s event as she disclosed that “Arabcom 2010 Summit will focus towards its theme: Broadband Convergence for a Sustainable Future Vision 2020 geared towards examining the latest telecom developments, investments, regulations, networks, devices, services, applications, security access in conjunction to the Arab World market. Hence, a vital platform for telecom ministers, regulators, investors, operators, carriers, industry leaders and professionals from across the globe to discuss vital issues”.

Jean Louis Farwagi, Vice President of Arabcom Group commented, “We are thrilled to have Huawei’s tremendous support for the Arabcom 2010 Summit as platinum sponsor.” Huawei is a driving force behind the All-IP convergence age which brings added value to this year’s event in terms of the innovative products and services that they provide.”

From 2010 the SNIA Europe Academy will become the Datacenter Technologies Academy (Twitter hashtag #DCTAcademy). Why? Because times – and datacentres – are changing, and so are your requirements and what you expect from a top educational event. The Datacenter Technology academy is a series of comprehensive, one-day conferences designed to provide storage professionals with regular educational programs on key technologies and solutions.  Below are the dates and locations for 2010:

• 31^st March - Abu Dhabi
• 27^th April - Zurich
• 18^th May - London
• 16^th June - Rome

With so many events to choose from, why do people come to the Academy? For a number of reasons:

• the content of the presentations is of extremely high quality and vendor neutral (approved by SNIA Europe and therefore will not be a vendor’s product pitch)
• you get access to industry experts, analysts and consultants, without having to engage in costly contracts
• you get to see several vendors in one place, in one day, and these are not just partners within an eco system but truly separate vendors and resellers
• with dates in several countries it covers most of the key EMEA markets
• and of course, it is free to attend.

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, will demonstrate its wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions at its ‘Think Fast, Think RiverbedÒ’ seminars taking place on March 9 at the Grand Habtoor Hotel in Dubai and March 10 at the Sheraton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Many organizations are delving into new IT initiatives such as virtualization, private clouds, IT consolidation and cloud computing.  These organizations can leverage Riverbed WAN optimization to improve remote and mobile employee productivity, enable private clouds, and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility. During these seminars, Riverbed will showcase how its solutions can speed the performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times. Riverbed Steelhead® products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration.

“Organizations are constantly under pressure to improve the performance of their IT functions while reducing overall IT costs. During the seminars we will discuss how Riverbed can assist in achieving both of these goals through its broad range of solutions, including Steelhead appliances, CascadeÒ, Steelhead Mobile and the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP),” said Philippe Elie, Regional Director, South Europe, Middle East & Africa, Riverbed.