Extreme Networks adds 10 partners

Extreme Networks has strengthened its Middle East Africa (MEA) channel, adding 10 more channel partners to its regional base, says Channel EMEA.

The new partners include Saudi Arabian ISP Awalnet and South African IT infrastructure outfit Breakpoint Solutions. Extreme reckons the new partners will add to the vendor's channel-based project implementation capabilities.

Aziz Ala'ali, regional director for Extreme Networks MEA, said: “It is a great pleasure to announce our recent expansion in the region which adds Saudi Arabia to our regional operations. Widening our base of knowledgeable channel partners is a core objective for us at Extreme Networks.

Security vendor, Imperva, has opened an Australian office and established a local channel for its products, reports ARNnet.

“We're starting from scratch, we've not had a presence there [in Australia] before so I do expect it to be a significant growth. We'll probably see Australia contribute a minimum of 40% of Asia-Pacific's revenues,” Imperva vice-president of Asia-Pacific, Stree Naidu, said.

“Imperva is at the point of growing its presence globally and not having an Australian office and physical presence just didn't make sense. It's one of the main things that we've thought is critical for our growth across the whole business itself.”

Cisco Systems used the recent Red Hat Summit to once again push its unified computing system vision, according to SearchDataCenter.com. The Cisco Unified Computing System all-in-one data centre server runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Cisco execs at the show also described the close collaboration between Red Hat and Cisco in bringing the so-called Cisco data centre server - which combines data, networking and storage functions in one box - to market.

In one of two Cisco workshops at the show, Cisco product manager Joe Vaccaro said under a Cisco-Red Hat partnership forged last March, Cisco agreed to act as an original equipment manufacturer, selling and supporting its UCS systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but has worked with Red Hat to define a new blade architecture.