Mansoft Qatar WLL, a subsidiary of Mannai Corporation QSC, has opened its Mansoft-EMC Velocity Signature Solution Centre.The opening took place yesterday at W Hotel. The centre replicates a framework of technology that demonstrates EMC proven solutions in approved environments, based on the immense success of EMC’s own Global Solution Centers.This centre is designed to demonstrate and deliver new economic solutions by virtualising conventional data centre into cloud networks, thereby providing a total experience of the solution and benefits to the customer.This solution centre incorporates the latest trends and represents the evolution of new data centre technologies, thus providing an ideal environment for IT professionals. Mansoft Qatar WLL focuses on the virtual computing environment, addressing major issues related to servers, storage, virtualisation, cloud, backup/archiving and disaster recovery to reduce implementation risks, operational cost and increase productivity. “We will help our customers understand and evaluate the best data centre solutions available on the market in line with their cost constraints, risk management policies and service level requirements,” said CEO of Mannai Corporation Alekh Grewal.Vice president of EMEA Channels EMC Philippe Fossé said: “Supporting our partners in the delivery of world class technologies lies at the heart of EMC’s business. As businesses worldwide look to virtualisation and cloud technologies, it is more important than ever for us to work with our partners to demonstrate the power and flexibility of these services in a secure environment. The new EMC Velocity Signature Solution Centre with Mansoft is therefore an important step forward in helping businesses in the Middle East transform their IT through the cloud.”Senior vice-president and regional manager of EMC Turkey Emerging Africa and Middle Region Mohamed Amin said: “At EMC we strive to fulfil the needs of our customers and the EMC Velocity Signature Solution Centre is considered to be the first of its kind in Qatar. This centre is designed to demonstrate to customers how they may transform their data centres into flexible, scalable pools of virtualised infrastructure that can deliver IT as a service to business units in a much more agile way, while offering the greatest efficiency, control and choice.The centre will also provide comprehensive solutions development, live and remote demonstrations and development of near-customer environments via EMC’s Customer Integration Lab. The solutions demonstrated are based on the strategic collaboration that combines best-of-breed information infrastructure technologies from EMC, virtualisation from VMware, and networking and compute solutions from Cisco and will focus on helping customers in their IT transformation towards the Private Cloud.