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Friday, October 3rd, 2014
The Plantronics EncorePro 500 Series is designed for customer service centers and offices and promises greater comfort for all-day wearing, superior noise-canceling for clearer calls, and increased reliability to help manage costs.
The noise-canceling technology in the EncorePro 500 Series ensures more focused and private calls, so conversations will be heard clearly with fewer misunderstood words and with reduced background noise from keyboards and close talkers.
Plantronics also announced next-generation DA Series USB digital audio processors for their headsets that deliver a more complete audio experience by providing context for every call.
The new Plantronics customer service solutions aim to help organisations improve metrics, attract and retain Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and create a better customer experience.
The series includes the following models (all models support wideband audio):
- EncorePro 510/520 (dedicated over-the-head): US$88-126
- EncorePro 530 (over-the-ear): US$110
- EncorePro 540 (convertible): US$120
The EncorePro 540 has simple design yet offer high-performance audio regardless of the preferred wearing style.
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Tags:call centers, EncorePro, EncrorePro 500, headsets, Plantronics
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
New additions to Canon’s imagePRESS color production cutsheet press series promise advanced levels of print quality, productivity and versatility in both commercial and in-house print colour-critical environments.
The new Canon imagePRESS C800 series aims to boost productivity and deliver outstanding print quality for corporate and service providers in Singapore.
The new Canon imagePRESS C800 series caters to the rapidly-evolving needs of corporate print rooms and print service providers (PSPs) in Singapore.
Key capabilities include:
- Versatility
- Print quality
- Precision and consistency
- Maximised productivity and efficiency
- Customised and adaptable workflows
The above capabilities are elaborated below with more details from the press release.
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Tags:C800, Canon, colour printers, cutsheet, imagePRESS, press, printers, production
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Monday, September 29th, 2014
Intel and Mitsubishi Electric has announced a new collaboration to develop next-generation factory automation (FA) systems with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and a pilot program at Intel’s backend manufacturing facility in Malaysia.
“The collaboration between Mitsubishi Electric and Intel on this IoT project has enabled field data from semiconductor manufacturing lines to be collected and analyzed to improve operational performance, yet also contribute energy savings for a more sustainable society,” said Masayuki Yamamoto, group senior vice president, Factory Automation Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
The pilot demonstrates the benefits of IoT in a factory setting with a focus on delivering productivity enhancement through innovative functions, such as predictive failure, by combining Intel’s expertise in developing solutions for IoT and Mitsubishi Electric’s “e-F@ctory” automation capabilities.
Intel realized a savings of US$9 million over the course of the pilot.
“We believe that other manufacturers can benefit from this joint Intel-Mitsubishi Electric solution, which combines big data analysis, optimized data capture and processing to deliver improved performance and optimized maintenance,” said Yamamoto.
IoT and Big Data in Action
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Tags:analytics, Atom, Big Data, data, e-F@ctory, Factory Automation, Intel, Internet of Things, IoT, Malaysia, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Electric, Revolution, Revolution Analytics, Revolution R Enterprise
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
Our phone numbers are something we hand out readily to our contacts, yet we would like to protect them from misuse. StitMe is a service that enables users to control who can call you and when, without divulging your real number.
StitMe allows you to keep your mobile number private and control who can call you and when.
I was having tea the other day with Gurtaj Singh and he caught my interest with this app that he had launched just recently in the US.
Clean break
Is your kid going to college and you’re worried that he/she will end up bullied and harassed by calls from friends or ex-boyfriends/girlfriends?
Get him/her to use StitMe instead.
That way, should/when they break up, the other party would not be able to harass your kid through calling.
It’s called StitMe and is not available outside of US yet but it sounded like it had great potential to solve one of the biggest dilemmas of the modern age.
You want as many friends, colleagues and potential contacts to be able to contact you, but you don’t want to receive calls from unwarranted telemarketers because your telephone number had been harvested and compiled in some call list that are being sold or circulated without your consent.
Worse still, in the US, anybody can use your telephone number to do a reverse number lookup (the equivalent of a Whois query) and get personal information about you like your residential address etc.
StitMe is compatible with iOS and Android devices.
Currently it is only available in the US.
This is where StitMe comes in – users of the free service need not hand out their real telephone numbers anymore.
Between two StitMe users, all you give out is your StitMe User ID.
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Tags:Apps, service, smartphones, StitMe, Tech Focus, technology
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Friday, September 19th, 2014
Infosys and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is expanding their partnership to deliver next-generation infrastructure and data center transformation solutions to enterprises.
Infosys will also establish a center of excellence to co-create ‘pay-per-use’ solutions with HDS.
The new solutions will help improve operational efficiencies and facilitate smooth transition of their IT infrastructure to new cloud-based environments.
“Hitachi Data Systems and Infosys have a long history of collaboration. We are pleased to take our relationship to the next level by delivering the latest Hitachi Data Systems ‘Continuous Cloud Infrastructure’ solutions to help our mutual customers, around the world, deploy the most available, automated and agile environment for next-generation data centers and cloud solutions,” said Brian Householder, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems.
Enterprises can then convert a significant share of their capital expenditure, related to infrastructure and data center management, into operational expenditure.
The new data center transformation solutions, developed by Infosys and HDS, are tailored to meet refresh cycles of enterprise data centers.
The two partners will also create reference architectures and solution frameworks to accelerate private cloud deployments.
Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub is a first-of-its-kind solution that helps enterprises build and manage a unified hybrid cloud environment.
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Tags:cloud, data centers, enterprise IT, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Infosys, infrastructure
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
The new portfolio promises dramatically increased compute capacity and efficiency, speed of IT service delivery, and application performance.
With new technology features and workload-optimised design, the new server portfolio advances HP’s vision for compute, the future of data center technology.
HP has announced a new portfolio of HP ProLiant Generation 9 (Gen9) Servers that promises to help customers reduce cost and complexity, accelerate IT service delivery and enable business growth.
Pricing and availability
The new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers are now available through HP and worldwide channel partners.
Flexible investment and migration solutions including technology refresh, trade in, dual usage and transition services available from HP Financial Services.
Pricing will vary based on model and customer configurations.
IT organizations – under increasing pressure to quickly and efficiently deliver more applications and services, as well as store and deliver exponentially increasing amounts of data while reducing costs – are constrained by traditional data center and server architectures.
The new HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers are designed to address these challenges, delivering flexible, scalable computing resources that are aligned to companies’ business goals.
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Tags:Gen9, HP, OneView, ProLiant, servers
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Thursday, September 11th, 2014
The slew of new solutions from Seagate aim to help organisations manage massive data growth.
The slew of new Cloud and Enterprise Solutions from Seagate includes Enterprise Hard Disk Drives, Cloud Systems and Solutions and PCIe Flash Accelerator Cards. Images are from Seagate and are not shown to scale.
The slew of new Cloud and Enterprise Solutions from Seagate includes:
- Seagate® ClusterStor™ 9000, the ultimate high-performance system designed for big data customers.
- Seagate® EVault® Enterprise Backup & Recovery Appliance.
- New Seagate® Nytro® XP6000 PCIe flash accelerator cards.
- 8th generation enterprise hard drives for datacenters and cloud service providers.
More details from the press release below.
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Tags:cloud, ClusterStor, datacenters, enterprise IT, EVault, Flash, Nytro, PCIe, Seagate, storage
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
The Dell PowerEdge 13th generation server portfolio features customer-inspired engineering built to optimise price performance for the widest range of web, enterprise and hyperscale applications.
Dell has unveiled its most advanced and easy-to-manage portfolio of PowerEdge servers, designed to help customers worldwide address and optimise the evolving spectrum of application and workload requirements.
The new Dell PowerEdge servers has begun shipping on 8 September, 2014.
For Dell OEM customers, PowerEdge 13th Generation platforms offer state-of-the-art technology with OEM-customer inspired features delivering greater flexibility, choice, and scalability while being lifecycle optimised and transition-friendly.
The portfolio features state-of-the-art advancements in storage, processing and memory technology coupled with industry-leading systems management capabilities.
The new Dell PowerEdge portfolio – which begins with five form-factors across blade, rack and tower servers – provides customers with choice in how they address industry trends including cloud computing, mobility, big data, and software-defined infrastructure.
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Tags:DELL, Intel, PowerEdge, servers, Xeon
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
The latest Intel Xeon processors promise to accelerate data center transformation for the digital services era. New technologies provide a range of capabilities and are central to enabling a software defined infrastructure. Pricing below.
The latest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3.
Intel has introduced the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600/1600 v3 product families to address the requirements of diverse workloads and the rapidly evolving needs of data centers.
Pricing
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family will be offered with 26 different parts that range in price from $213 to $2,702 in quantities of 1,000.
Intel Xeon processor E5-1600 workstations will be offered with six different parts in prices ranging from $295 to $1,723.
The new processor families include numerous enhancements that provide performance increases of up to 3x over the previous generation, world-class energy efficiency and enhanced security.
To facilitate the explosive demand for software defined infrastructure (SDI), the processors expose key metrics, through telemetry, which enable the infrastructure to deliver services with the best performance, resilience and optimised total cost of ownership.
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Tags:Acer, Asus, DELL, Haswell, HP, Intel, Lenovo, processors, Toshiba, Xeon
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
The all-flash enterprise storage array company was positioned for its completeness of vision and ability to execute.
According to Gartner, Pure Storage leads the pack alongside established giants IBM and EMC.
Pure Storage has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (SSA) by Gartner.
The news comes on the heels of Pure Storage being ranked #2 in worldwide SSA market share behind IBM, based on Gartner’s 2013 revenue estimates, and the fastest growing of the vendors evaluated.
Source: Gartner “Market Share Analysis: SSDs and Solid-State Arrays, Worldwide, 2013,” June 2014.
According to Gartner, companies considered to be “leaders” drive the market’s transformation with a clear vision and a strong ability to execute.
Leaders in SSA have generally made strong customer gains.
They provide feature sets that are appropriate for current customer use case needs.
Leaders also show evidence of superior vision and execution for anticipated requirements related to technology, methodology or means of delivery.
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Tags:awards, Flash, Gartner, Pure Storage, storage
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