Secure Enterprise Content Delivery Networking Seminar

Mindware (leading Middle East IT distributor), Foundry Networks (leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions), Juniper Networks (leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network) and Network Appliance (world leader in Secure Web Caching / Enterprise Content Delivery and Bandwidth Accelleration solutions) will jointly present a seminar "Secure Content Delivery Networking Seminar" in four strategic locations - Abu Dhabi (19th April 2005), Jeddah (24th April 2005), Riyadh (26th April 2005) and Al Khobar (27th April 2005).

This will be the first phase of the joint road shows which will cover UAE and Saudi and the second phase will cover countries such as Egypt, Oman, Kuwait, etc.

The seminar is focused on informing IT Managers, decision makers and network administrators within enterprises, how to benefit from advanced networking, security and storage solutions and meet the demands of mission critical networks. This half day seminar will cover new technologies and products from the three market-leading vendors.

Foundry has maintained its leadership in 10-Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 4-7 and continues to drive the price/performance curve with the most diverse, feature-rich and affordable solutions on the market. Within this seminar Foundry is going to talk about 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Layer 4-7, Sflow, Server Acceleration and network security.

"We have the product breadth, scalability and financial viability to continue expanding our portfolio of products and serve both enterprise and service provider customers", said Farook Majeed, Regional Manager, Foundry Networks MENA

Network Appliance has pioneered and maintained industry leading Network Caching technology using product firsts that continue to drive the evolution Secure Network and Application Layer Caching for Telecom/ISP as well as Enterprise Markets.

NetApp's "NetCache" family of Integrated Hardware and Software solutions integrate seamlessly with both Juniper and Foundry using common industry Standards such as IP and Ethernet.

"By combining our respective best in class technologies, we have created a new definition of Next Generation High Performance Networks that work securely End to End across both the LAN (Local Area Network) and Enterprise WAN's (Wide Area Networks ) including the Internet", said Mr. Malek Akilie, Channels and Partners Manager, Network Appliance

Juniper Networks' purpose-built, high performance routing platforms and security products enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver solutions for building secure and assured networks which are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications.

"The primary challenge faced by network managers today is the successful integration of multiple services and applications into a single, cost-effective and reliable infrastructure," said Mohamad Abdul-Malak, Regional Manager for Juniper Networks in the Middle East. "The broad portfolios of routing and security products offered by Juniper Networks enable our customers to create and operate secure and assured networks, whatever the scale and focus of their business".