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Dell announced the launch of PowerVault MD3500 and PowerVault MD3600i storage solutions to meet the rigorous customer demands, as part of its ongoing focus on providing enterprise-class technologies to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The PowerVault MD3500 featuring the Dell Scalable File System, provides affordable scale-up NAS functionality for smaller scale, high availability deployments. The system works with PowerVault MD32x0i and MD36x0i storage arrays to help provide affordable unified storage with iSCSI, CIFS and NFS access to block and file data. With no architectural limits to file-system size, it is designed to give customers more flexibility than traditional unified storage.
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Intel Corporation and Micron Technology today introduced a new, finer 20-nanometer (nm) process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory. The new 20nm process produces an 8-gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash device, providing a high-capacity, small form factor storage option for saving music, video, books and other data on smartphones, tablets and computing solutions such as solid-state drives (SSDs). Read More…

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Dell recently annouced that it will invest US$1 billion in data centres to deliver leading solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options to help customers capture the benefits from new compute and information delivery advancements. Over the next 24 months, Dell will build multiple highly efficient data centers around the world to provide its customers access to public and private cloud technologies and its world-class IT outsourcing capabilities.

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Blue Turtle Technologies recently signed up an sole distribution agreement with Nolio to distribute its products and services across southern Africa. Apart from sales, Blue Turtle will also offer sales support, training and implementation of Nolio Application Service Automation Platform (Nolio ASAP) in Southern Africa region. Nolio ASAP automates release deployment processes of multi tier, distributed applications and their configuration settings across the application life cycle in different environments.
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Nokia appointed Tom Farrell, as the General Manager for Nokia Lower Gulf, a region comprising UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. Mr Farrell has been with Nokia for seven years in various roles, most recently leading the Services Sales and Delivery team globally to bring Nokia’s Ovi services to millions of consumers in collaboration with mobile operators and retailers. Prior to that, he worked within the Nokia marketing organization and in strategy and business development. Read More…

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Geekay Distribution signed the distribution agreement with AFA Interactive that would give it exclusive rights to distribute the complete portfolio of Ben 10 gaming accessories including video game, digital entertainment device and electronic segments in the Middle East region. The Ben 10 gaming accessory line includes wired and wireless game controllers, remotes, nunchuks and protective shells as well as portable gaming cases and accessory packs for Nintendo, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles.Read More…

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Xerox launches two new high speed black-and-white printers – the Xerox Phaser 4600 and Phaser 4620 in the region. Designed for large workgroups, these new printers offer advanced features and print speeds of up to 52 and 62 pages per minute. Xerox Phaser 4600/4620 offers wide range of media printing capabilities from transparencies and cardstock to envelopes and labels. And, it comes with Secure Print and Image Overwrite that electronically “shreds” information stored on the printer’s optional hard drive. Read More…

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Alcatel-Lucent announced that Tunisiana, a mobile operator and a subsidiary of Qatar Telecom, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to transform its mobile network to IP as Tunisiana prepares to evolve to 3G and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Based on its High Leverage NetworkTM (HLN) architecture, Alcatel-Lucent’s IP solution gives Tunisiana the infrastructure necessary to meet the demands of its customers for increasingly sophisticated and high bandwidth mobile services. This includes offering a genuine mobile broadband experience with video, multimedia and data services as well as mobile banking applications. In addition to driving new revenues, Tunisiana will garner significant benefits of an all IP transformation with increased reliability, scalability and speed all while reducing operational cost and complexity.Read More…

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Global PC shipments declined 3.2% during the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11) compared to the same time last year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Although the forecast for the quarter was already conservative – IDC expected a mere 1.5% growth in shipments – a steady but still cautious business mentality and waning consumer enthusiasm persisted. A spike in fuel and commodity prices and the disruptions in Japan added to the mix, further dampening a market struggling to maintain momentum.
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Asus today announced the release of Asus Eee Pad Transformer, an innovative tablet with an expandable keyboard docking station with combined battery life of up to 16 hours. Transformer runs on new Android 3.0 OS, Honeycomb. Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, the Transformer browses the web at blazing speeds, providing a snappier response time and better performance when multi-tasking. An IPS Panel made from durable and scratch-resistant glass is viewable at angles up to 178°, and produces a crisper and more accurate color range by up to 50% when compared to other tablets in the market.

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Capitoline, the leading independent data centre designer, auditor and trainer has signed an agreement with BICSI to offer the BICSI Data Centre training programme DC110 in Middle East & Africa by their BICSI-qualified trainers, in association with its dubai based partner esharp FZCO. It will offer full range of BICSI training, such as RCDD and OSP among others. Capitoline’s DCE programme leads on standards such as TIA 942 and ISO 27000 plus numerous other ISO and European standards whereas the BICSI DC110 programme draws heavily on the new BICSI-002 data centre standard.Read More…

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Bulwark Technologies, distributor for NetSupport Products in middle east region is please to annonce the release of NetSupport Assist; the new cost-effective and efficient way for teachers to manage and engage with their students in a Mac and Linux environment. Twenty-first century education is providing students with inspiring learning opportunities and giving them unparalleled access to a diverse range of computing assets. However, providing the latest ICT infrastructure is only half the equation. Ensuring it is used in the most effective way represents the other half.Read More…