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Raya Integration has been awarded the Cisco’s Highest Growth Partner of the Year in Egypt during Cisco Partner Sales Year End Event 2012. The event held on July 10th 2012 at Kempinski Nile Hotel and was attended by Cisco’s top partners in Egypt. Cisco demonstrated its ongoing focus and commitment to its channel partners by recognizing the achievements of its top performing partners for the year 2012.

The award recognizes Raya Integration as one of Cisco’s sales arms in Egypt. It reinforces Raya’s excellence in developing and implementing Cisco’s Architecture Solutions and emphasizes the highest level of commitment from Raya towards the Commercial sector.

“We take pride in our ongoing strategic collaboration with Cisco for fifteen years. This fruitful collaboration has allowed us to expand Cisco’s outreach in the Egyptian market, as well as establish ourselves as one of the leading Networking, Collaboration and Data Center solutions providers across different sectors, positioning us as Cisco’s best Service Partner in Egypt,” commented Hisham Abdel Rasoul, CEO of Raya IT.

Raya’s Networking and Professional Services team has been always successful in delivering and implementing Cisco-based services and solutions to customers through their high level of skills. All team members are highly certified with the latest certificates in all their fields of work.

“Our Cisco Partner Sales Year End Event recognizes and reinforces partners’ performance excellence. We are proud to have selected Raya for Cisco’s Highest Growth Partner of the Year Award in Egypt in 2012 due to its outstanding performance in promoting Cisco’s technology in Egypt” said Olaf Krahmer, President and General Manager, Cisco, Egypt. Rasul Douglas Authentic Jersey

Raya Data Center successfully received USTDA’s support for a feasibility study grant that will be dedicated to Raya’s investment in a new data center in New Cairo, providing Raya’s newly launched cloud-computing services. The grant was signed by U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson representing USTDA, Medhat Khalil, Raya Holding Chairman and CEO, and Reem Asaad, Raya Data Center CEO at the U.S. Embassy in Garden City, Cairo on Thursday, July 12th.

The $285,804 grant, provided by USTDA, will fund a feasibility study that will develop the fundamental design requirements, technology, and implementation plans for Raya’s new data center facility. The feasibility study will guide a major investment by Raya with a comprehensive technology and business analysis needed for service definition and implementation planning. The facility, which represents an important investment in the Egyptian economy, will build a new Tier IV Data Center with the ability to offer a range of services from co-location, managed hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, data center management & security, professional services, and cloud services from simple email and website hosting to customized applications, ERP, and CRM Portals.

Raya’s new facility that will be established according to Tier IV, the highest international data center standard, comes in line with Raya Data Center’s expansion strategy that aims to introduce a wide range of latest hosting services to the market in Egypt and the Middle East, while nurturing the newly-introduced cloud computing culture in Egypt. In addition, Raya Data Center’s current facility is the first ISO/ IEC 27001 certified data center in Egypt by the British Standard Institute (BSI), providing companies with services customized for different organization sizes and industries.

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Powerful Pairing to Deliver Game-Changing Business Software Training Courses, Inspire Innovation Across Country

Raya Academy and world-leading business software company SAP today announced a training partnership set to significantly boost Egypt’s IT sector.

Raya Academy will help SAP up-skill workforces across the country, with a particular focus on certification training in key company offerings such as enterprise resource planning.

The news represents a noteworthy addition to the SAP Education entity, which is one of the world’s largest IT training organizations with more than 400 classroom based courses and in excess of 100 e-based courses.

It will also have a notable impact on SAP’s ambitious expansion plans in the MENA region, which includes certifying 2,000 new consultants within the next four years and increasing the localization of SAP® solutions to meet fast-growing regional industry needs.

A part of Raya Corp, one of the Middle East’s largest IT-led conglomerates, Raya Academy has established an industry-leading reputation for delivering world-class training through its own courses, as well as on behalf of major corporations like Microsoft and Intel.

“As the world’s leading business software company, SAP is the perfect training partner for Raya Academy,” said Adel Abdel Moneim, General Manager, Raya Academy.

Our powerful union is all about meeting market demand for the skills that matter, and adding significant, influential momentum to Egypt’s potential-rich IT sector.”

SAP trained 2,700 individuals across the MENA region in 2012, and the addition of new partners like Raya Academy will markedly improve on that figure this year. Additional SAP training partners from both Egypt and the wider MENA region are expected to be announced in the coming months.

SAP’s commitment to Egypt’s IT industry also encompasses its Mawared initiative, a young professional […]