HP today announced the integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication. This integration enables clients to optimize cloud delivery with features like automated storage tiering to improve performance, and thin storage offerings to eliminate over-provisioning.Read More…
The data explosion that continues to grow at exponential rate and is expected to hit the 35 Zettabytes of digital data by 2020 is now a worrying factor for most of the enterprises across the globe and they are looking to migrate to virtualised environments to reduce costs, improve quality-of-service (QoS) and make more efficient use of resources.
As per an survey conducted by Gartner, identified that nearly half of respondents rank data growth as one of their top three challenges, along with performance and scalability. While all the top data centre challenges impact cost to some degree, data growth is linked to the increased costs relative to hardware and software maintenance, as well as administration and services.
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Western Digital recently hosted a forum called, “Meet the Pioneers of Today and Tomorrow” to provide a free and direct platform for WD to interact and meet face-to-face with its channel partners and retailers with the aim of opening new horizons for growing and fast-tracking the business in the Middle East. The forum hosted over 80 attendees and included constructive debates about the future plans to nurture and develop the storage market in the UAE and the Middle East region by utilizing the latest storage technologies, capacity requirements, and interface evolutions.
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Western Digital today announced the acquisition Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and the new entity will result in a customer-focused storage company, with significant operating scale, strong global talent and the industry’s broadest product lineup backed by a rich technology portfolio. WD expects the transaction to be immediately accretive to its earnings per share on a non-GAAP basis, excluding acquisition-related expenses, restructuring charges and amortization of intangibles.
Ctrltech (Control Technologies) to offer comprehensive datacenter infrastructure solutions including Power, Cooling & Monitoring. To ensure highest uptime of Datacenter operation, Ctrltech infrastructure solutions provides continuous un-interrupted pure power supply to safeguard the datacenter from the erratic or impure powers supply which can potentially damage the computer hardware or in worst case can cause a power distribution system failure. Its power supply design solutions insures that in case of failure of power supply from Grid and local power generator, there is enough power for the datacenter to function seamlessly with the power backup equipment such as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to serve load.Read More…
Avnet added yet another feather in its cap by acquiring the rights to distribute complete suite of Oracle Software (Technology Stack) and Oracle Hardware including the wide range of Oracle Applications, Hardware and Technology products in all the countries of MENA region – KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.Read More…
Intel today announced the launch of Intel Solid-State Drive 510 Series, which features fast SATA 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) performance to take full advantage of Intel’s transition to higher speed SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms. Supporting data transfers of up to 500 megabytes per second (MB/s), the Intel SSD 510 doubles the sequential read speeds, and at up to 315MB/s more than triples the sequential write speeds of Intel’s current 3Gbps SSDs, to transfer more data in less time. This makes it ideal for demanding gamers, media creators, performance-intensive workstation users and any technology enthusiast.Read More…
Avaya today announced that it is extending the capabilities of its Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (Avaya VENA) beyond the data center to the campus network thereby, setting up yet another significant milestone in Avaya’s data networking strategy and delivers the virtualization capabilities of Avaya VENA to the company’s Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 8800 and 8600 products. Avaya VENA simplifies the enterprise network, helping organizations streamline the deployment of cloud-based services and improve the delivery of always-on content. It brings network virtualization and IEEE Shortest Path Bridging (802.1aq) to the campus, enabling Avaya ERS 8800 and 8600 customers to install, provision and manage real-time applications and services in minutes rather than days. Read More…
Trend Micro today announced the launch of two new new products which will further extend the company’s strategy to help enterprises reap the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing without giving up high levels of security along the way. Trend Micro SecureCloud 1.1 provides enterprise-class data protection through encryption in the cloud, while Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5 Update 1 offers performance improvements that will enable the Deep Security virtual appliance to provide agentless intrusion detection and prevention using VMware vShield Endpoint for higher virtual machine density levels.
Leading data centre consultants from UK, Capitoline announced the setting of an joint venture company Capitoline FZC based out of dubai to service the growing requirements of the region. New office would serve the entire Gulf region and aslo India from here. Capitoline FZC will be headed by Kandasamy Ganesan as General Manager and will provide services of audits, design and training for data centre and computer room projects. The new facilities will also be able to offer a dedicated theoretical and practical training environment.
Toshiba today unveiled the new STOR.E ART4 external hard disk drives featuring SuperSpeed USB technology (USB 3.0) for super-fast data transfers with a transmission rate of up to 5 Gigabit per second. The sleekly designed external hard disk drives comes with 5 year warranty. The small dimensions and light weight of less than 190g, rubberised edges and power supply via the USB connection, STOR.E ART4 is ideal for mobile usage and makes it suitable for stationary usage, making a very smart desk too.
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Buffalo launched its new USB 3.0 multi-drive products in addition to its existing range of USB-attached storage products. The new range of USB 3.0 DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad will be available in 3 variants. The USB 3.0 DriveStation Duo is a unit that features twin RAID enable drives in two bays accessible via a USB 3.0 that connects and transfers data using 5Gbps USB 3.0 and 480MBps USB 2.0 connections to the computer. The USB 3.0 DriveStation Quad, on the other hand, sports four RAID enabled drives in four bays. Read More…
