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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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Data backup and protection specialist, NovaStor has expanded its international partner network and shown vast global growth. With new distribution partners in Middle East & Africa region, NovaStor strengthened its presence in these markets. NovaStor’s data protection software for small and medium businesses, enterprises, and heterogeneous networks, as well as its platforms for public and private cloud backup, convince resellers and distributors with its ease of use, high stability and excellent price-performance ratio. Read More…

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NetEx recently signed agreement with Dell South Africa to reseller its HyperIP WAN optimization virtual appliance to keep pace with the growing demand in the region. “We are pleased to introduce HyperIP WAN optimization virtual appliances to South Africa for greater return on IT investment,” said Robert MacIntyre, Vice President, Business Development and Marketing at NetEx. “Dell South Africa is an ideal reseller for HyperIP as HyperIP has been proven to reduce replication, backup, and migration times in Dell storage environments by 60 to 90 percent.”
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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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