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NetApp announced that it was ranked #34 out of 100 on Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” list for 2011. NetApp was recognised for building a culture of innovation that has transformed the foundation of its customers’ business and been a catalyst to their success. Most importantly, NetApp innovation provides its customers with the technology, products, people, and service that allow them to outpace, out innovate, and outperform their competition to achieve remarkable results for their business.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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Seagate today unveiled GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage which will be available in the Middle East from mid-August. GoFlex Satellite is the first battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device. With 500GB and Wi-Fi access over 802.11 b/g/n and a rechargeable battery, this latest member of the GoFlex family provides the ability to carry an entire library of video, music, pictures and documents with you. Devices are wirelessly connected directly to the GoFlex Satellite drive by use of the free GoFlex Media app or a web browser.Read More…

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Southern African construction company WACO Africa has implemented Mimecast Unified Email Management (UEM) to reduce complexity during migration to Microsoft Exchange.

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based e-mail archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange, was implemented by WACO Africa to assist in disaster recovery, business continuity and e-mail backup. WACO Africa was created through a buyout by management and an investment capital firm, resulting in the separation of the local operation’s management and back-office activities from those of its US and UK operations. Read More…

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Iomega, an EMC subsidiary signed Jumbo IT Distribution, the distribution arm of Jumbo Electronics as its in-country B2B distributor for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to insure that its B2B products and solutions are readily for System integrators, Surveillance SMB market, SMB Resellers and VARs in the UAE. Cizar Abughazaleh, regional director for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey at Iomega, said, “We are focusing on the SMB channelRead More…

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Data Robotics the makers of the award-winning data storage products for small businesses and professionals, announced that the company has officially approved a name change from Data Robotics, Inc. to Drobo, Inc. “Our customers and resellers have come to recognize us by the Drobo brand and product name so we decided to make it official. We’re just doing what they told us to do.” explained Tom Buiocchi, CEO at Drobo.
In Middle East, Drobo works with its dubai based authorised distributor Intuit Technology to market its wide range of storage products.Read More…

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Seagate began distribution of the Pulsar XT.2 solid state drive (SSD) that combines outstanding and consistent performance with the data integrity and drive endurance needed for the most demanding enterprise environments, and is on track to commence channel shipments of the Pulsar.2 SSD, the first Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash-enabled SSD from an enterprise hard drive maker. The Pulsar XT.2 SSD combines Single-Level Cell (SLC) flash with a native 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface to make it the fastest drive in the Seagate portfolio. The 2.5-inch SSD with up to 400GB of capacity is optimized for complex, mixed workloads typical of enterprise environments such as online transaction processing (OLTP), database or web indexing, and email.Read More…

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Western Digital, today announced the availability of WD Scorpio Blue Slim mobile hard drive for notebooks with 1 TB capacity in the region. The new 1 TB hard drive utilizes 500 GB-per-platter areal density and is available in the highest capacity for 2.5-inch hard drives in the industry-standard 9.5 mm, two-platter (2-disk) form factor. WD Scorpio Blue mobile hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. Read More…

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NETGEAR, a networking and storage specialist plans to penetrate and create a stronger market presence in Qatar’s ICT segment and has ultimately set a QAR 10 million revenue goal in 2013. The move complements the latest Qatar IT Industry report released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) stating that the country’s rapidly developing ICT segment is posed to reach a value of QAR 13.47 billion over the next two years. The report shows that the country’s telecommunications, government, oil & gas, and finance vertical markets have been identified as market segments with high IT spending which reflect Qatar’s move to diversify and increase the private sector’s role and participation in the move towards development.
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LG Electronics unveiled its N1A1 Network Storage, which delivers complete data security with efficient and stable performance. Touted to be user-friendly that is specifically tailored to meet the high standards and expectations of advanced home users.

The new N1A1 combines the features of an external hard drive and network storage device, raising the expectations for convenient home data management. It can be switched among these two modes using external controls. Ethernet and USB interfaces provide even greater flexibility. It automatically runs back-ups from multiple computers, delivering reliable, distributed data recovery that is tailored to specific needs.
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Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of their computing, applications and data storage requirements to this emerging destination. According to Gartner, the industry is poised for strong growth through 2014, when worldwide cloud services revenue is projected to reach $148.8 billion. More and more organizations across the Middle East are discovering the benefits of cloud computing and are looking to embrace the cloud. Early adopters of cloud technologies have viewed the migration as a business imperative, despite the potential dark lining of service outages and exposure to security and privacy risks. Read More…

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The external disk storage market in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) recorded a 16.9% year-on-year increase in terms of value in the first quarter of 2011 to total $366.8 million. International market research company IDC has recorded the capacity sold at 163.1 petabytes, which was double the figure reported in the same period last year. Fiber channel SAN-attached storage continued to hold the largest value share at 62.1%. However, the category grew only a modest 5.5% year-on-year, far behind the rapidly expanding NAS and iSCSI storage systems.
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