Western Digital today announced availability of its new innovative WD Se line of hard drives, designed specifically for scale-out datacenter deployments, mid-sized network attached storage (NAS) deployment, and backup/archiving applications.Read More…
SanDisk the leader in flash memory storage solutions signed up with Mitsumi, who are one of the largest IT distributors in Africa with a presence in over 19 countries in Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Tunisia, Morocco, Zambia and Namibia.Read More…
The Regional Manager for Channel Marketing & Sales for world’s leading SSD brand, Plextor, Bill Liu explains the benefits of SSD Many people ask me these days how they can benefit from the use of an SSD if their budget is tight and they can’t really afford a large-capacity SSD.Read More…
Data storage and analytics giant, EMC, has unveiled a new suite of data domain systems, tipped to deliver enhanced performance and scalability.Read More…
Leading SSD brand, Plextor sponsored an overclocking team at recently held ASUS’ overclocking event in Belgrade of Serbia with major overclocking teams participating in the competition including Extreme OC team, HW Gurus, break twelve world records. The overclocking event saw Perica_barii, the Master of Overclocking, along with his teamRead More…
Ash Ashutosh, Founder & CEO at Actifio
Leading new age storage vendor, Actifio announced that it has been chosen as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies for 2012. Actifio’s Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) is a single, virtualised storage system for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and test/development, delivering instant access to information at 90 percent lower cost than the traditional tools. Actifio PAS optimises the management of copies of data, by capturing data once and re-using it for multiple applications, eliminating backup software and its associated backup and restore windows, individual point tools for replication, and test and development.Read More…
Iomega today announced the signing of MANTRAC as its in-country B2B distributor for Egypt. This new move is to ensure its B2B products and solutions are readily available to System integrators, Surveillance SMB market, SMB Resellers and VARs in the Egypt. “We are focusing on the SMB channel, this comes as part of a wider plan along with Iomega investment in the ME region to be in ground to support the SMB market at the same time support the SMB business to business distribution structure, with MANTRAC being on board we are fulfilling another part of our B2B formula, MANTRAC has been chosen because of its strength and reach to different channel segments, whether it is System integrators, resellers or corporate resellers. Read More…
Khwaja Saifuddin,senior sales director, Middle East & South Asia, WD
Storage specialist, WD appointed Logicom as its distributor to sell wide range of components in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait and the entire product portfolio in Lebanon and Jordan.
“Penetrating newer geographies and making our products available in smaller markets is one of our key focus areas in the Middle East in 2012. Logicom will help us enhance our channel pull and drive growth in the area. We are delighted to have Logicom as our distributor, and look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship”Read More…
Global leader in flash memory storage solutions, SanDisk unveiled high performance X100 solid state drive (SSD). SanDisk X100 SSD is available in capacities up to 512GB1 and utilizes multi-level cell (MLC) technology, a SATA 6Gb/s high-performance interface, advanced multi-streaming features and tiered caching technology. The drive offers up to 500/420 megabyte per second (MB/sec)2 sequential read/write speeds, and enables a user to copy a 4GB high-definition movie in less than 10 seconds (Standby Mode). Read More…
After completing the merger with Samsung hard disk business, Seagate consolidated its distribution strategy in the region and appointed the erstwhile distributor of Samsung storage solutions, ECS Distribution as the authorised distributor for Seagate in Egypt. ECS will distribute both Seagate internal and external hard drives for the retail market, on a non-exclusive basis. “This is an exciting time in the storage industry with rapidly evolving opportunities in many markets including mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage. With their understanding of local market characteristics and requirements, these four new distributors are well placed to take advantage of these opportunities to grow their business and Seagate’s business in the region.” said, Mark Whitby, vice president for EMEA Sales and Marketing of Seagate.Read More…
Leading innovator in digital storage and content management solutions, Iomega signed PC DealNet as an in-country B2B distributor in Qatar and Jordan. Iomega believes that this new channel move will allow its products and solutions readily available to System Integrators, surveillance SMB market, SMB resellers and VARs in Qatar & Jordan. “With our focus on the SMB channel, this comes as part of a wider plan in Iomega’s investment in the ME region, to be on the ground to support the SMB market as well as the SMB business-to-business distribution structure. Read More…
World’s leading storage solution provider, WD announced the appointment of Anamika Budree, as its country manager of South Africa. With this move WD expects to gain greater penetration in the local market and establish a strong base in South Africa. During the course of 2011, WD gained ground in the retail market in South Africa, signing an agreement with Massmart to stock branded WD products across stores throughout the country. The vendor also has three distributors with distinctly different markets.Read More…
