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Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) embarked on a large-scale project to replace its aging desktop computer environment of 17,000 computers, the utility leader also decided to upgrade its operating system to help resolve ongoing application compatibility issues. SEC has begun upgrading to the Windows 7 Enterprise operating system and is already experiencing improved business continuity, simplified IT maintenance, and improved employee productivity. Read More…

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Ericsson and Pacific Controls recently signed an MoU to jointly develop ICT enabled smart solutions for sectors such as Energy, Utilities and certain areas of Government to offer smarter services and products to their end-users. Commenting on the partnership, Dilip Rahulan Chairman & CEO of Pacific Controls said: “We are very pleased to collaborate with Ericsson. We are continuously offering innovative technology solutions to add value to our customers’ businesses and enable them to achieve their goals.”Read More…

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EMC introduced its new EMC Symmetrix VMAXe storage system, innovative storage technology designed for virtualized cloud and mission critical IT environments. The VMAXe system enables IT organizations to accelerate their journey to cloud computing. Symmetrix VMAXe is based on the industry leading Virtual Matrix Architecture and innovative software as larger Symmetrix VMAX systems used in the world’s largest data centers. Read More…

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Help AG signed an reseller agreement with Riverbed, which allows Help AG to sell entire Riverbed product portfolio gives visibility to enterprise customers with Riverbed Network Performance Management solution and plans to focus heavily on delivering the Riverbed Cascade network performance management (NPM) solution to enterprise customers. Riverbed Cascade provides customers with enterprise-wide application performance analysis, discovery and dependency mapping as well as proactive alerts on network and application performance bottlenecks.Read More…

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Saudi Arabia based leading ICT solutions provider MATCO IT, recently achieved VMware’s highest partnership level to become a Premier Partner. VMware recognised MATCO IT’s proactive approach to promoting VMware solutions besides acknowledging its technical skills and experience obtained from successfully deploying virtualization technology by awarding MATCO a Premier Partner status. Toni Prince, General Manager of MATCO IT, said, “Achieving the VMware Premier Partner status is consistent with our policy in reaching the highest partnership levels with our strategic vendors’
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Xerox launched its new Wide Format Multifunction Printer Xerox 7142 that would provide cost effective printing solutions for architectural, engineering and construction companies, manufacturing firms and even commercial printing organisations. The compact Xerox 7142 MFP employs high-resolution color scanning and printing technology to ensure crisp, accurate image quality on jobs such as construction plans, electrical wiring diagrams and mapping. The system scans hard copy documents to electronic files and copies existing prints of all standard sizes – up to 15 metres in length. Read More…

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EMC Corporation recently announced its next generation mainframe virtual tape library (VTL). Designed for use in IBM z/OS environments, the new EMC DLm6000 is the industry’s fastest mainframe VTL with 2x the performance of its nearest competitor. By leveraging the latest advances in EMC Data Domain and EMC VNX storage systems, the DLm6000 enables mainframe users to minimize their storage and replication costs anddramatically improvetheir disaster recovery capabilities.Unlike competing products, the DLm6000 is the only solution that can address the full range of mainframe tape workloads with a single, consolidated all-disk system. Read More…

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Fujitsu announced that it has been awarded the contract to provide corporate performance management reporting, business intelligence and consulting services to Africa’s leading distance learning institution and the largest university in South Africa, the University of South Africa (UNISA), which teachs to approximately 3,00, 000 students in about 137 countries worldwide. UNISA’s Department of Information and Strategic Analysis (DISA) is responsible for business intelligence and institutional research in the university, and is currently located in the portfolio of the Vice-Principal Strategy, Planning and Partnerships. Read More…

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South Africa based leading IT and advisory consultancy Barnstone has been appointed as an exclusive partner for the leading financial software solutions provider, Trintech in sub-Saharan Africa. “Creating financial statements to present to the market has always been an onerous undertaking, and one that has become more and more complex as business has globalised and regulations have proliferated,” says Conrad Steyn, director of Barnstone. “Our clients were continually asking for an industry-leading solution that automated the management of their financial close, replaced fragmented and manual processes with a workflow approach and delivered a high level of control. Trintech delivers all this and more.”Read More…

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Avnet Technology Solutions, the leading Value Added Distributor in the region recently held a special training workshop Improving Datacenter Efficiency with Oracle for its Preferred Partners in Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “Datacenter Efficiency” workshops were supported by Linux Plus Information LLC in Egypt, OMNIX Qatar Co in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which had two different workshops found their support from National DataServe & Turnkey Solutions and Baud Telecom Company respectively.Read More…

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South Africa based VM Consulting, the master distributor of Appian BPM in Africa entered the West African market by securing its first client in Angola. “We are proud to be associated and representing Appian in South Africa and Africa. VM Consulting is excited to be embarking on our first Appian project in Angola. VM Consulting will be delivering the Appian BPM Solution to the largest insurance business in Angola, ENSA Seguros de Angola, SA.” said Vanessa Miller, Managing Director for VM Consulting.Read More…

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Software AG announced that Forrester Research in its Q2 2011 report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, gives Software AG top scores in overall strategy, product architecture and market presence. In evaluating vendors, Forrester Research, Inc. looked at Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools of the third generation with capabilities across the entire EA management lifecycle and noted a Leader offers “the most-advanced EA tools evolving into the new EAMS market.” Forrester further stated: “An EAMS centralizes the most-strategic information on IT and the business.” In this report, Forrester evaluated Software AG’s ARIS Platform.Read More…