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South Africa based leading IT distributor, LOOPHOLD Security Distribution unveiled the SonicWALL NSA E8510. The network security appliance (NSA) E8510 provides 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity in a compact, 1U rack mountable form-factor to accommodate security, performance and power efficiency requirements of modern high-capacity networks. With the ability to block or throttle application usage on a user or group level, and its compact form factor and affordable price, the E8510 is an ideal solution for corporate, healthcare and education deployments.
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Cisco recently announced that it will be hosting its Cisco Expo Qatar 2011 on Tuesday 31st May 2011, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha. Under the theme, ‘Collaboration and Virtualization without borders’, the Expo will bring together around 600 key customers, partners and business decision makers to discuss and experience the latest and most innovative global megatrend. It will also examine the critical role that information and communications technologies play in the development of innovative business solutions and will include a series of in-depth sessions and demonstrations covering the power of collaboration and video, borderless networks, cloud and virtualization and emerging technologies, which are transforming businesses to Networked Enterprises in the region hence driving business results, productivity, competitiveness and societal change.Read More…

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Comztek expanded its relationship with HP by bagging the rights to distribute HP Networking beyond South Africa to across the Southern Africa region. This new move has come after few months when Comztek was first awarded the distribution rights only for South Africa, now with the extension of the distribution rights Comztek will now be able to serve its resellers as well as its customer base in all the countries of the South African region like Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Fujitsu introduced thin clients powered with eco-friendly power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. Despite drawing only a trickle of power over Ethernet networks, the FUTRO S700 and FUTRO S900 are among the most powerful thin clients available today, boasting up to six times enhanced performance over previous models. Fujitsu is taking Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology from its pioneering Zero Client line to introduce the technology to its thin client line. Offering both power and Ethernet via a single cable for increased flexibility and connectivity, PoE technology requires very low power consumption, benefiting both the environment and companies’ bottom lines.
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South Africa based leading IT distributor, LOOPHOLD Security Distribution launched SonicWALL’s WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series, an extension of the current SonicWALL next-generation firewall (NGFW) suite. The SonicWALL WXA Series consists of the WXA 5000 virtual appliance, the WXA 2000 and WXA 4000 hardware appliances and the WXA 500 Live CD. WXA series allow businesses to select the right deployment solution for their network. It also significantly improves WAN performance between regional and branch offices, and reduces traffic by up to 95% besides providing faster access to mission-critical applications, resulting in increased employee productivity.

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Brocade, the leader in fabric-based data center architectures, recently announced that its OEM partners, including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP and IBM, have agreed to support their new next-generation Fibre Channel technologies which will help the enterprise customers migrate smoothly to private cloud architectures. Brocade today announced world’s first fabric-based, end-to-end networking solutions based on industry-leading 16 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel technologies.
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Netgear recently hosted sales and technical training sessions for its key partners from Middle East in Dubai. The event was attended by around 40 of the company’s top partners in the region and was aimed at increasing more awareness on the key networking and storage products of Netgear and the advantages and benefits obtained from its use.The training sessions were presented by Richard Jonker, Managing Director for Emerging Markets, Netgear who talked about strategic sales and marketing initiatives, while Neil Smart, VAR Systems Engineer, UKI, Netgear, conducted the technical aspect of the training.Read More…

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R&M the cabling specialist, targets data centers with its new HD panel packs 48 RJ45 ports into a single compact unit in the 19’’ rack which allows more room for active components to be fit into the cabinet. The HD panel can be fitted with both unshielded and shielded copper cabling or also with fiber optic cabling. For copper connections, R&M recommends the current Cat. 6A module in the shielded and unshielded versions (Cat. 6A in accordance with ISO 11801). LC and MPO/MTP adapters are both suitable for fiber optic cabling.
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Avaya will showcase its new data networking solutions at Interop Las Vegas that will allow customers to simplify the design, deployment, and management of data centers and next generation networks. The new offerings extend the reach and capabilities of the Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA), an enterprise-wide virtualization strategy that simplifies the network, streamlines the deployment of cloud-based services and improves the delivery of always-on content.Read More…

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Saudi Arabia based Naizak announced that it has been signed a value-added distributor for Blue Coat Systems to help build the partner network across the Middle East and distribute the entire range of market-leading Blue Coat solutions for WAN optimization, application performance management and Web security. The core area of focus will remain on expanding the Blue Coat WAN optimization business in the region. Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances accelerate and optimize email and file access in addition to enterprise applications, live and on-demand video, web content and cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.Read More…

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Frequent disturbances in mains and power outages can lead to companies incurring high IT service loss and equipment damage, cautions APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services. While the need to reduce data centre power consumption and carbon footprint cannot be taken lightly, some of the approaches being taken to eliminate UPS electrical losses are highly questionable. The comments were made by Shri Karve, Director of Business Development, APC by Schneider Electric, to highlight the fact that UPS which are designed to switch between various modes of operation (i.e., topologies) in order to increase energy efficiency may eventually compromise the protection of the IT equipment.
While the need to reduce data centre power consumption and carbon footprint cannot be taken lightly, some of the approaches being taken to eliminate UPS electrical losses are highly questionable.

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Optimus Technology and Telecommunications, announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Opti-UPS and they will distribute Opti-UPS across the Middle East and Africa region with exclusive distribution rights in Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain. Opti-UPS has an extensive range of products, which include standby, line-interactive and online UPS products besides stabilizers and surge busters that have gained the trust of worldwide customers.

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