Storage World Middle East 2005

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA), the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com or www.ca.com/arabworld

Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximise customers' ROI and minimise their risk. By focusing on the customer's perspective as we apply the best hardware, software, and services from Hitachi and our partners, we uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs.

With 2,700 employees, Hitachi Data Systems conducts business through direct and indirect channels in the public, government and private sectors in over 170 countries. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.hds.com.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. We are the information storage standard for every major computing platform and, through our solutions, serve as caretaker for more than two-thirds of the world’s most essential information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

StorageTek (NYSE:STK), a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colorado, delivers a broad range of storage solutions that are easy to manage, integrate well with existing infrastructures and allows universal access to data across servers, media types and networks. StorageTek provides practical and safe storage solutions in disk, networking, services, tape and tape automation. For more information, see www.StorageTek.com, or call 1.800.786.7835

Suns' Network Storage division is a major supplier in the datacentre storage market, representing 27% of the companies revenues in FY03. Sun bases all of its Storage products and solutions on Industry Open Standards, and invests significant funds in R&D, as well as partnering with accepted industry leaders. Network Storage provides a complete family of storage products that support all segments of the storage marketplace. These segments include Data Center, Midrange and Entry Level Storage Systems, Intelligent Storage Platforms, Network Attach Storage Systems, Fibre Channel Switches, Fibre Channel and SCSI HBAs, Hard Disk Drives, Tape drives and libraries, multi-pathing and load balancing drivers, storage management and remote monitoring software, backup software, file system and volume management software, point-in-time copy software and remote replication software. Additionally, several data management solutions are currently being shipped. These solutions include Infinite Mailbox, Enterprise Continuity and the N1 Data Platform.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is TheComputer[tm]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work.

Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at www.sun.com

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. This tradition of IP innovation continues with industry-leading products in the core areas of routing and switching, as well as advanced technologies.

Today, with more than 34,000 employees worldwide, Cisco remains committed to creating networks that are smarter, thanks to built-in intelligent network services; faster, in their ability to perform at ever-increasing speeds; and more durable, with a generational approach to an evolutionary infrastructure. In the Middle East, Cisco has two management hubs in Cairo and Dubai, covering the North Africa, Egypt and Levant and GCC regions respectively. It has further offices in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco and Pakistan.

Cisco is committed to delivering differentiated value to customers and partners through its unique product and service offerings, while closely mapping products and services to its customers' needs and priorities-such as productivity, cost savings, return on investment, and standard of living improvements.

In addition to hardware and software products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings to its clients, including award-winning technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services-directly through its own sales force and indirectly through a network of channel partners-to large enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, service providers, and consumers. Cisco focuses on three broad areas to guide its business growth: core technologies, routing and switching; the service provider market; and Advanced Technology markets. www.cisco.com

CommVault® provides Unified Data Management™ solutions to ensure high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks. The CommVault® QiNetix™ platform, based on CommVault's Common Technology Engine, integrates Galaxy backup and recovery, point-in-time replication, hierarchical storage management, archiving for compliance, service level management and storage resource management software solutions.

With QiNetix, customers solve challenges like shrinking backup windows, high tape costs, fast recovery of critical data, and meeting long-term compliance requirements. This truly unified approach results in easier, automated and lower cost data management, allowing customers to add/integrate QiNetix components, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products. For more information, visit www.commvault.com

McDATA is the expert provider of multi-capable storage networking solutions - hardware, software and services - that enable partners and customers to network the world's business data. Our innovation and experience are behind the success of the most demanding technology companies and their customers.

McDATA's IPS multi-protocol switches unify storage and IP networking architectures to deliver unprecedented scalability, distance-independence and multi-protocol access to traditional SANs. Whether you are looking for greater data center storage consolidation, streamlining backup operations across the global enterprise, or implementing business continuance and disaster recovery strategies, McDATA's IPS solutions are the best-in-class products to get the job done. For more information visit www.mcdata.com

Imation is the world's leading provider of removable data storage products designed to help customers create, protect, and retrieve valuable digital assets. With more than 50 years advancing the performance of removable data storage media formats, Imation is the only developer and manufacturer in this industry with the technology, partnerships, and vision to lead the industry into the future. With a sole focus on removable data media, we develop, manufacture, and sell premium optical and magnetic media technologies to businesses and people who want to capture, create, protect and preserve their digital information. From large data centers to distributed networks that rely on Imation tape cartridges for data processing, security, business continuity, backup and archiving applications, to consumers and small businesses who depend on Imation's CD and DVD discs to store, edit and manage business data, photos, video, images and music on professional and home desktops. Each and every product we deliver carries Imation's more than half century of dedication to developing the world's most reliable removable data storage products — today and into the future. www.imation.com

PRO TECHnology, based in Dubai, is a pioneer in providing turn-key solutions on storage, backup, high availability and digital archiving catering to the Middle East and North African Markets. The Storage Solutions Division [SSD] has developed solutions to serve the needs of the E-Government, E-Business, Digital Archiving and a wide variety of applications related to storage. The media asset management software from Canto Software AG is the lifeblood for the media houses. The agency operations include Storageflex Solutions of Canada, VERITAS Corporation, Qualstar from U.S.A, Canto Software AG & DAX Digital Archiving Solutions. And recently it became a tier 1 partner for IBM.

Currently PRO TECHnology is present in both the regional as well as the domestic markets. It works through its excellent network of partners in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Levant and Egypt. With its team of highly qualified storage and networking professionals, the company has undertaken major IT projects and provided total solutions to the international and local clientele through its team of channel partners. The key benefits which its partners enjoy are the strong support back up both in terms of pre-sales and after sales support; excellent opportunities in distributing unique products. www.protech.ae

Forefront Technologies is a major IT Distribution operation with a primary focus on the Document Management, Document Imaging and Storage Industry's Systems and Solutions. Established since 1995 in the exclusively sited Hub of the Jebel Ali Free Zone - Dubai, UAE. Forefront’s regional representations and distribution include names like Fujitsu (Document Imaging Scanners and Storage Components), Fujitsu-Siemens Computers (Mobility and Business Critical Computing products and solutions), Kofax (Image Processing and Image Enhancement Tools), nStor (Fibre Channel and SCSI-based RAID storage and SAN solutions), Tandberg Data (Tape Information Storage Products), Netcore (Network Scanner Servers), Imageware (Large Format and Book Scanners), Captiva (Document Capture Solution) and Vidar (Large Format Scanners).
In line with its ambitious and bold regional expansion plans, "Forefront Technologies – Saudi Arabia" operation branch was established in Riyadh, K.S.A in 2002 to provide Business Partners and Users with a unique local sales and support infrastructure. Forefront who is expanding its grid coverage of local regional offices, now embarks on a substantially sizeable network of System Integrators, Value Added Resellers and Distribution Partners across the Middle East and North Africa Region. www.forefrontec.com

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Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., nStor is a wholly owned subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: NSO) and developer of data storage solutions that are ideally suited for both large enterprises as well as small to mid-sized businesses. The Company's flagship controller technology and StorView Storage Management software form the foundation for the NexStor family of turnkey solutions that support Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and Macintosh operating environments. Designed for storage-intensive environments and mission-critical applications, nStor's products are offered in various architectures including Fibre Channel, SCSI and SATA and are focused on addressing customers' business needs and applications. The Company markets its storage solutions through a global network of OEM partners and systems integrators. For more information, visit www.nstor.com.

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Tandberg Data Asia Pte Ltd (TD Asia) is a subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA, a leading global supplier and manufacturer of professional tape information storage products based on the SLR, DLT tape and LTO Ultrium technology platforms.
Established since 1992, TD Asia is headquartered in Singapore with centralized administration, finance, logistics, and technical support and service functions. The company has state-of-the-art, full-fledged service center to support all customer and partner needs in the region.
With presence in more than 14 countries in the region TD Asia markets and sells through its channel partners, storage products based on tape drives, autoloaders, libraries, NAS products, media, software and hardware components for mainstream configurations. TD Asia works closely with partners to focus on enabling the 2nd tier channels of system integrators, value-added resellers and solution providers to ultimately provide the most cost-effective storage solutions that best fit the needs of customers and end-users. www.tandberg.com.sg

DICOM Group plc (“DICOM Group”, London Stock Exchange, DCM) is the global leader in the Information Capture market. Information Capture improves the performance of many business applications such as document and content management and converts non-digital and digital documents into structured data streams.

Based in Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority Dicom is the master distributor for Kofax, Kodak, Fujitsu, Bell+Howell and Avision scanners; Plasmon storage hardware and Qstar storage software The company has established recognition in imaging and storage distribution and services through a network of authorised system integrators and value added re-sellers(VAR) throughout the Middle East, Sub-continent and Africa. With access to a centralized logistics service and a global technical support team with the expertise of a high end information capture market, Dicom prides in being the only document capture distributor around the region. DICOM Group's core competence is development, consulting and provision of Information Capture products and services. Through authorized partners and its own sales and service organization, DICOM Group has helped blue-chip enterprises in more than 60 countries to accomplish superior office efficiency. DICOM Group supports its channels and customers with some 800 information capture specialists, being directly present in 33 countries in Europe, the USA, South East Asia and Australia. www.dicomgroup.com

Founded in 1997, ACAL Storage Networking supplies the IT channel throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa, with best of breed storage networking solutions. These solutions are designed to enable an organisation to connect their servers to their storage devices, creating a Storage Area Network (SAN).

With a strong independent "storage agnostic" position, regardless of the servers and storage being supplied, ACAL Storage Networking are the proven partner of choice. The ACAL Storage Networking philosophy is based upon outstanding technical excellence and first class customer service. Combining all these factors with a comprehensive portfolio of best of breed solutions, ACAL Storage Networking is without doubt, the leading independent storage networking distributor. www.acalsn.com

CNT is the expert in today's most cost-effective and reliable storage networking solutions. For over 20 years, businesses around the world have depended on us to improve business efficiency, increase data availability and manage their business-critical information. CNT’s newest product is the UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD), a new generation storage networking platform that delivers unprecedented scalability, flexibility, and investment protection to meet dynamic and evolving business requirements for IT strategies like SAN consolidation, tiered storage, ILM and utility computing. For more information, visit CNT's web site at www.cnt.com or call 763-268-6000.

iStorage Inc provides a family of network storage products providing customers with a cost effective solution to everyday business problems - server consolidation, backup management, business continuity and compliance strategies. iStorage integrates iSCSI technology to deliver storage systems that plug and play at customers site for RAID, NAS, SAN and IP SAN as well as disk-to-disk-tape backup appliances. www.istorageinc.com

Brocade offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. The Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify SAN implementation, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.

STME is a leading integrator of Information Storage Solutions and services, working with best of breed technologies to provide customers with business focused solutions to manage, store, and protect their information. Founded in 1982, STME has grown to have 14 offices in 11 countries across the Middle East. We review our partners on a continual basis to keep abreast of emerging technologies, and to ensure that we can always offer best-of-breed solutions. Having a broad range of relationships enables us to help customers evaluate the different products and technologies available with an understanding of the latest developments and enabling us to offer the right level of scalability, flexibility, performance and cost for your needs.

STME have a team of highly skilled professionals who design, implement and support the solutions offered, delivering real benefits and actual cost savings to our customers, across all industry verticals. STME ensure that our consultants and engineers are trained and accredited to the highest manufacturer standards. www.stme.com

Oceanic (Ocean Computers, LLC.), is a premier provider of total solutions for AUTO/ID marketing and security applications, we design each program element to your specification and supply everything necessary to ensure the successful performance of our services and products in your application.

Since its inception in 1990 Oceanic (Ocean Computers, LLC.) based in Dubai, UAE has been providing AUTO/ID solutions and support to various customers, from Fortune 50 corporations to small businesses.

Oceanic offers all of the best of breed manufacturers in the AUTO/ID industry with unparalleled service and pricing.
Many of our Client Partners take advantage of our complete range of services, which includes:

Secure Identification
Time and Attendance
Access Control Systems
Smart Card Solutions
Biometrics
Instant Cash Access
Loyalty Programs
Membership Cards
National ID Cards
Driving Licenses
Health Care Cards
ATM Cards
Job Costing data collection

Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp®) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today’s data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance™ has pioneered technology, product and partner firsts that continue to drive “The evolution of storage.ä” NetApp storage solutions include specialised hardware, software and services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments. Major corporations and service providers, including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments and Yahoo!, utilise NetApp global data management solutions.

In the Middle East NetApp supplies enterprise class storage systems to customers such as Saudi Aramco, Xceed Egypt, PDO Oman, Occidental Qatar and Oman and ADCO in Abu Dhabi. NetApp has extensive coverage in the region through partnerships with companies such as storage specialists STME and ARA Systems.
Information about Network Appliance solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com