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VIPERA COSMETICS, the award winning European cosmetics brand, announced today that it has expanded its operations further into the GCC and Levant regions of the Middle East. To that end, VIPERA entered into a partnership agreement with Maison De Prince to retail VIPERA COSMETICS products exclusively in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Lebanon.

Business organisations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region are gearing up to hear the most pressing business challenges in the industry. CEOs and high profiled businessmen and women will gain insight into strategy execution successes from 1400 companies and new management concepts.

The largest and first bank of its kind in Egypt, Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt, today signed a phased agreement with ITS (International Turnkey Systems) Group, a leading solutions provider for both Islamic and conventional banks, to deploy ETHIX-Financial Solutions, the leading banking technology solution from ITS. The solution is being deployed as part of Faisal Islamic Bank’s aggressive expansion plans in Egypt, a market that is set to witness exponential growth in the Islamic banking sector.

SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today announced that Gartner (Nasdaq: IT) has positioned SonicWALL in the leaders quadrant of its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management.

Corodex Electromechanic Co. LLC/Roediger Vacuum GmbH is celebrating after winning the “Water Reuse Project of the Year for UAE” in the prestigious MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2012, the only awards programme in the GCC to recognise completed quality projects.

Corodex Electromechanic Co. LLC and Roediger Vacuum GmbH are geared up to introduce their award-winning and environmentally friendly Vacuum Sanitation Systems to Qatar this week. The system aims to decrease the dependence on water by using air.

SonicWALL, the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, announced that it has won the prestigious VAR (Vendors and Resellers) 2011 Choice of Channel Award in the ‘Security Appliance Brand of the Year’ category. VAR Magazine, a B2B publication for the IT market in the Middle East region recognises companies that have made a significant contribution to the region’s channel during the year.

In the current economic climate it is vital for companies in the GCC region to not only understand how to manage risk, but to also strategically implement plans so that growth can take place. These critical issues are just some of the topics which will be discussed during the IIR Balanced Scorecard Forum (BSC) 2012, to be held on April 21 and 26 at the Address Hotel, Dubai.

As network usage and the number of devices accessing the Internet continue to increase both at home and in the office, network performance is often adversely affected by legacy firewall solutions that struggle to keep up with new threats while still allowing productive workflow. When faced with a choice between enforcing security and paralyzing the network, many SMBs will risk scaling back on security to facilitate productivity. In answer to this challenge, SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today introduced the new SonicWALL® TZ 215 – the most secure, highest performing Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall available on the market today for small, retail and branch offices. The TZ 215 delivers the most effective anti-malware, intrusion prevention, URL filtering and application control capabilities along with the broadest mobile platform support for laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Magnetic Emission Control AS (MEC AS), a leading Norwegian company that develops groundbreaking emissions reduction and fuel efficiency technology, today inked a dealer agreement with QOPH Engineering Enterprise (QOPH) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.