Bahrain-based Hilal Computers along with EMC, a leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service, and Riverbed Technology are holding an event to demonstrate the latest in cloud computing.

The seminar will be held on Tuesday at the Crowne Plaza, Manama, said Hilal Computers, a leading computer hardware and software systems integrator and solutions provider.

Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyse their most valuable asset - information - in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

EMC-differentiated value stems from their sustained and substantial investment in research and development, a cumulative investment of about $10.5 billion from 2003 to 2010.

To strengthen its core business and extend the market to new areas, EMC has invested $14 billion in acquisitions over the same period and integrated 36 technology companies since 2006.

EMC ranks 152nd in the Fortune 500 based on total consolidated revenue of $17 billion. Hilal Computers partnered with EMC six years ago and carries Premier Partnership status.

Together with EMC, Hilal Computers has delivered many IT related solution across different verticals such as banking and finance, government, education, transportation and airline.

It has an experienced team of EMC business and technology consultants specialised in different segments of EMC technologies and dynamic organisational structure facilitates such needs.

Riverbed Technology is an IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network optimisation solutions liberate businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation and providing faster, less expensive and more responsive IT infrastructure.

Hilal Computers has taken the next step in its evolution by achieving Gold Partner status with Riverbed Technology.-TradeArabia News Service