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ASBIS Enterprises, an expert in IT distribution in the EMEA emerging markets, has been appointed as a distributor by Netgear, a global provider of technologically advanced networking products. The distribution agreement covers all 26 countries that ASBIS addresses in the EMEA region. ASBIS will be offering Netgear’s complete range of products for end-users, business customers and service providers, including solutions for wireless, storage, security, web/email security, routers, firewalls and switches.
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Tandberg Data announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the RDX business from ProStor Systems and with this it will acquire the RDX business, including intellectual property rights. RDX technology is a disk-based removable storage system with portable cartridges that combines the benefits of tape—reliability, portability, archive life and low cost—with the performance, speed, random access and ease of use of hard disk technology. Tandberg Data will work closely together with current RDX license partners, to further grow the removable disk market through continued investment in R&D, sales and marketing of the RDX technology.Read More…

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HP announced a worldwide early access program for the new upcoming HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). HP has an installed base of nearly 100,000 EVA units deployed worldwide and the early access program will represents a significant opportunity for clients to accelerate storage consolidation projects and reduce datacenter costs without retraining administrative staff. Part of HP’s Converged Infrastructure portfolio, the HP P6000 EVA represents the company’s fifth generation EVA and features increased capacity and performance improvements.
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SanDisk the global leader in flash memory cards, has moved to take full advantage of the exponential growth in mobile phone usage on the African continent and has invested resources and marketing assets to support and complement this growth. “Africa is currently the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. Mobile phone penetration rates represent a great opportunity for flash memory on the continent.

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EMEA research shows that enterprises are putting the cloud at the heart of their IT strategy, with 48 percent seeing it as key to empowering agility and business performance. As organisations strive to compete in today’s economy, with workers demanding instant access to information wherever they are, the cloud is becoming a critical part of modern business strategy. Supporting this trend are the results from a new research project from Brocade indicating that 48 percent of EMEA businesses are already actively deploying cloud architectures, with more than half of respondents citing business agility as the key driver.
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Dell announced the launch of PowerVault MD3500 and PowerVault MD3600i storage solutions to meet the rigorous customer demands, as part of its ongoing focus on providing enterprise-class technologies to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The PowerVault MD3500 featuring the Dell Scalable File System, provides affordable scale-up NAS functionality for smaller scale, high availability deployments. The system works with PowerVault MD32x0i and MD36x0i storage arrays to help provide affordable unified storage with iSCSI, CIFS and NFS access to block and file data. With no architectural limits to file-system size, it is designed to give customers more flexibility than traditional unified storage.
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Intel Corporation and Micron Technology today introduced a new, finer 20-nanometer (nm) process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory. The new 20nm process produces an 8-gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash device, providing a high-capacity, small form factor storage option for saving music, video, books and other data on smartphones, tablets and computing solutions such as solid-state drives (SSDs). Read More…

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Dell recently annouced that it will invest US$1 billion in data centres to deliver leading solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options to help customers capture the benefits from new compute and information delivery advancements. Over the next 24 months, Dell will build multiple highly efficient data centers around the world to provide its customers access to public and private cloud technologies and its world-class IT outsourcing capabilities.

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Blue Turtle Technologies recently signed up an sole distribution agreement with Nolio to distribute its products and services across southern Africa. Apart from sales, Blue Turtle will also offer sales support, training and implementation of Nolio Application Service Automation Platform (Nolio ASAP) in Southern Africa region. Nolio ASAP automates release deployment processes of multi tier, distributed applications and their configuration settings across the application life cycle in different environments.
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Capitoline, the leading independent data centre designer, auditor and trainer has signed an agreement with BICSI to offer the BICSI Data Centre training programme DC110 in Middle East & Africa by their BICSI-qualified trainers, in association with its dubai based partner esharp FZCO. It will offer full range of BICSI training, such as RCDD and OSP among others. Capitoline’s DCE programme leads on standards such as TIA 942 and ISO 27000 plus numerous other ISO and European standards whereas the BICSI DC110 programme draws heavily on the new BICSI-002 data centre standard.Read More…

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Fujitsu today announced that it is providing PRIMERGY server and ETERNUS storage customers with enhanced access to the market-leading data protection suite Backup Exec from Symantec, making it easier to back up and protect vital business data. Fujitsu is offering Backup Exec as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) product, providing the software together with its high-performance and reliable ETERNUS storage systems and PRIMERGY x86 servers
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Fujitsu recently added six new solutions to its popular ‘Make IT Dynamic’ initiative for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East, offering easy-to-manage computing power to suit individual budgets. Fujitsu claimed that by choosing special SMB-focused solutions from its stable smaller companies in the region can expect worry-free IT solutions designed to underpin their business priorities. Increasingly for companies of all sizes, right-sized IT infrastructures are critical to their business success. Read More…