StarLink Becomes Dell Software's Distributor in the Middle East

Dubai, UAE November 19th, 2013 – StarLink, the region's trusted IT security-specialized "true" Value-Added-Distributor (VAD) has been appointed Dell Software's Distributor in the Middle East for a broad range of legacy-Quest Software products, which are now a part of Dell Software Group (DSG).

As part of this new exclusive distribution agreement, StarLink - already a distributor for DSG's Privileged Password Manager - will be responsible for the distribution of a broad range of other Dell Software Solutions, including products from DSG's Windows Server Management, Performance Monitoring, Identity and Access Management and User Workspace Management business units across the Middle East.

"We believe in StarLink's exceptional capabilities to deliver and market Dell Software's enterprise solutions across the region, and accelerate strategic growth with resellers and clients by offering them powerful yet simple-to-use business solutions to solve the most common and most challenging IT problems", saidDominique Honnay, Director Emerging Markets, Dell Software Group.

"As an exclusive partner for Dell Software, StarLink has heavily invested in the relevant resources and technical excellence to support its channel partners and therein end customers, by providing complete end-to-end services around the solution areas. With this enhanced business relationship with Dell, we aim to offer customers with an industry-leading, differentiated, and easy to manage combination of systems management, security, business intelligence and application software from the Dell Software portfolio", said Avinash Advani, Director - Business Strategy, StarLink.

About Dell Software

Dell Software helps customers unlock greater potential through the power of technology-delivering scalable, affordable and simple-to-use solutions that simplify IT and mitigate risk. The Dell Software portfolio addresses five key areas of customer needs: data center and cloud management, information management, mobile workforce management, security and data protection. This software, when combined with Dell hardware and services, drives unmatched efficiency and productivity to accelerate business results.

For more information about Dell Software, please visit www.dellsoftware.com

About StarLink

StarLink, headquartered in Dubai, is the leading IT compliance driven solutions provider and was founded in 2005. StarLink is recognized as a "Trusted Security Advisor" and market leader in automating the entire IT compliance auditing process to help customers in the Middle East region reduce IT Risk, with a focus on enterprises in the Financial, Telco and Government sectors. StarLink works with organizations to achieve and sustain compliance and optimally manage risks through full policy, procedure and controls lifecycle management. StarLink's solution offerings are now installed in more than 200 data centers in the Middle East, including 100 of the top regional banks and 15 of the regional's top Telcos. The company's customers trust StarLink to secure their critical enterprise data and safeguard access to sensitive data in the most demanding datacenter environments in the region by monitoring, security and auditing privileged user access to provide 100% visibility on all activities.