StarLink hosts Annual Partner Summit 2018 in Dubai
Thinking beyond the network perimeter and securing the path to innovation
Sunday, March 25, 2018 - Dubai, UAE - StarLink, the fastest growing “True” Value-Added-Distributor (VAD) in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region hosted its much-awaited channel event of the year – the Annual StarLink Partner Summit at the prestigious Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa on March 21st.
With over 300 plus Channel Partners from across the META region, the event was a huge success. The event theme “Partnering for Innovation”, was very much in alignment with StarLink’s vision to empower partners to achieve channel autonomy and supporting them in stepping up and taking a holistic approach in assisting customers in the region to achieve data governance, enterprise mobility, security intelligence and visibility with the industry’s best-of-breed IT Security technologies.
During this event, 3 key initiatives were announced. The StarLink Innovation Centre - a platform for creative collaboration and driving technology-led innovations to tackle the most pressing real-world IT challenges. The StarLink Academy - a facility to empower aspiring IT professionals with top of the range training programs enabling them to become future cybersecurity leaders. The StarLink Marketplace - an e-commerce destination in the cloud that provides existing and new partners flexibility with payments, scalability, end-to-end visibility and instant order processing features.
This event provided resellers an opportunity to engage and network one on one with participating vendors – Citrix, ForeScout, Quest, One Identity, Lookout, Riverbed, Extreme Networks and Palo Alto Networks. The vendor presentations were highly informative, providing various product updates, as well as deep insight into channel partner programs, in an effort to ensure that the Channel is well equipped with essential sales and marketing tools, to drive their business objectives.
One of the key highlights of the event was the 2017 Partner Appreciation Awards. The categories and winners were:
- Computer & Power Technology - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Vision
- Alpha Data - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Focus
- Gulf Business Machines - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Leadership
- Al Moammar Information Systems Company - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Strategy
- Innovative Solutions - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Integration
- FutureTec - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Sales
- SecureTech - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Growth
- PRO TECHnology - Partner Appreciation Award for Data Center Excellence
- Versos - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Initiatives
- Al Jeraisy - Partner Appreciation Award for IT Security Management
Nidal Othman, Managing Director at StarLink commented, “We were extremely excited to receive an overwhelming response with high-level turnout from the executive management teams of strategic partners from across the META region, which in itself is a reaffirmation of the trust and faith they have upon us.”
He added that the latest initiatives, StarLink Innovation Centre, StarLink Academy and the StarLink Marketplace are designed at supporting the channel community to empower their business and build a top-level security ecosystem.”
About StarLink
StarLink is acclaimed as the fastest growing “True” Value-added Distributor across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa regions with on-the-ground presence in 16 countries including UK and USA. With its innovate Security Framework, StarLink is recognized as a "Trusted Security Advisor” to over 2200 plus enterprise and government customers that use one or more of StarLink’s best-of-breed and market-leading technologies, sold through its Channel network of over 1100 Partners. The StarLink Solution Lifecycle helps Channel Partners differentiate offerings and assists customers to identify key risks and define priorities for addressing IT Security gaps relating to compliance and next-generation threat protection. For more information about StarLink, please
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