Making the digital economy a reality

Armed with the vision that focuses on enabling the emerging. middle east market to capitalise on the digital economy, stme can be described as nothing less than a market pioneer in fuelling the growth of the storage market. as a key distributor, implementation and services partner in the region to some of the world’s most wellknown storage product and technology companies, stme today can rightly claim to have established best practice norms in its business approach right from the start.

Today, the company continues to lead the way, even in a market with changing dynamics. The vision for STME is clearly to move the industry away from looking at storage and related technology as a point solution and instead embrace it as
an enterprise strategy. The big push for the company over the next two years will be to focus on building its capabilities on the consulting and service delivery front, thereby further securing its position of being a strategic partner to its clients rather than a technology enabler. The trend we notice is clearly seeing storage move away from being a need-based investment, to being an integral part of the enterprise infrastructure. Intelligence is strongly moving into the networking infrastructure and today storage investments are all about giving an enterprise the flexibility both to consolidate and to grow its business and data.

We should know best, having had the distinction of implementing the largest networked storage implementation and largest storage project in the Middle East and with a range of customers including Blue-chip majors, banks, energy companies, airlines, telecom providers and government departments, totalling over 1,520 terabytes of disk and 19,000 terabytes of tape storage implemented in the region. Our mission is to enable companies in the Middle East to thrive in the new digital economy by helping them establish a world-class information infrastructure and adopt a common approach to information management. As a company, we integrate and deliver the world’s most advanced and comprehensive range of technology solutions to organisations in the Middle East. In addition, we offer exceptional pre-and post-sales support to all our customers across the Middle East.

UNDERSTANDING THE CUSTOMER

STME believes that our business has evolved, based on us having understood the customer’s requirement as a partner in progress, rather than as a solution vendor. This has strongly fuelled the company’s growth and its move into the consulting business, with an aim to partner with the region’s evolving business houses. Best Practice in the IT industry is all about enabling our customers to service and deliver to their clients and stakeholders with maximum efficiency. On our part, we enable the client’s business objectives by offering them a service-backed commitment on all fronts right from products to support and advice. STME, with its strong service orientation and standardised products and solutions is certainly breaking new ground across markets in the Middle East.

Companies in the region are getting to a point when investment in a scalable IT and storage infrastructure can unlock millions in potential benefits. To enable our customers to do that, we focus on storage infrastructure solutions and offer best-of-breed technology, backed by 24 years of experience. STME offers organisations the chance to benefit from its total understanding of all aspects of storage related issues, whether they are backup strategies and policies, NAS or SAN, the need for consolidation or the most well known, disaster recovery. With operations spread across 11 countries with 14 offices in the Middle East, value added services include 24x7 support, expert customer site assessment and service consultancy. The support infrastructure is certainly the backbone of our business. Of particular importance in the delivery of Best Practices, is STME’s focus on enhanced staff training, quality of technical resources that the company has and offering products and solutions that are industry standard and facilitate total IT flexibility in the enterprise. With over 2/3rds of our resources, being certified engineers, we ensure that we understand, offer and support a solution that is tailor made for the customer’s unique requirements. With a mission to organically grow the company in the coming years, STME believes that the continued delivery of world class solutions, combined with in house services, will position the company as a player that can expand much beyond this region.

ENABLING TECHNOLOGY THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

STME can help enable Best Practice using storage solutions in the following areas:

• High Availability - Business Continuance, Disaster Recovery, Replication and Clustering
• Data Protection
• Storage Management including storage consolidation
• Virtualisation
• Networked Storage - SAN, NAS and CAS
• Database Performance Enhancement
• Application Performance Management
• Broadcasting and rich media
• Information lifecycle management

BEST-OF-BREED BEST PRACTICE

STME has partnered with best-of-breed technology vendors to offer their products and solutions to customers in the region:

SUN Microsystems www.sun.com
Symantec www.symantec.com
Hitachi Data Systems www.hds.com
Network Appliance www.netapp.com
Cisco Systems www.cisco.com
Dell www.dell.com
Imation www.imation.com
Emulex www.emulex.com
ACAL Storage Networking www.acalfcs.com
Brocade www.brocade.com
Connected www.connected.com
Blue Arc www.bluearc.com
Lxi www.lxi.com
Netex www.netex.com

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN REACH US

Abu Dhabi +971 2 6727438 Salesabudhabi@stme.com
Al Khobar +966 38937403/04/05 salesalkhobar@stme.com
Bahrain +973 17692112 salesbahrain@stme.com
Cyprus +357 26 945101 salescyprus@stme.com
Dubai +971 4 3390677 salesdubai@stme.com
Egypt +202 4142689 salesegypt@stme.com
Jeddah +966 2 6577953/7954 salesjeddah@stme.com
Jordan +962 6 5850368 salesjordan@stme.com
Kuwait +965 2451380 saleskuwait@stme.com
Lebanon +961 1 350349 saleslebanon@stme.com
Oman +968 601243 salesoman@stme.com
Pakistan +92 21 5873646 salespakistan@stme.com
Qatar +974 4369893 salesqatar@stme.com
Riyadh +966 1 4401548 salesriyadh@stme.com