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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
SanDisk will be at COMEX 2012 at Level 6, Booth 6130. Their products will also be sold through authorised dealers, mostly on Level 6 of Suntec Singapore.
Click to view or download SanDisk promotions for COMEX 2012.
Check out promotional discounts and freebies for SanDisk at COMEX 2012. Look out for the red priceboard.
Authorised resellers on Level 6 include AD Industries (6647), Challenger (6130), RedDot Photo (6701), Harvey Norman (6101), Bell (6563), Artwork Foto (6393), Million Mobile (6859), Directions (6650/6508), Best Denki (6118), Perdure (6404), Video Pro (6137), Bizgram (6633), Cybermind (6868), and Kao Yap (6111).
Those on Level 3 include Active Notebook (3038), Newstead (3015).
Tags:COMEX, COMEX 2012, COMEX 2012 accessories, COMEX 2012 storage, compact flash, Cruzer, flash drive, IT exhibition, memory cards, microSD, promotions, SanDisk, SD card, Singapore, storage, Suntec, thumb drive
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Western Digital will be at COMEX 2012 at Suntec Singapore at Hall 6, Booth 6205.
Click to view or download WD promotions during COMEX 2012.
Check out WD’s COMEX 2012 promotional discounts for its comprehensive range of desktop external hard drives, portable drives, media players, personal cloud storage, and the Sentinel DX4000 storage server NAS for the small office.
Tags:cloud storage, COMEX, COMEX 2012, COMEX 2012 accessories, COMEX 2012 storage, external disk drives, hard drives, IT exhibition, media players, NAS, promotions, server, Singapore, storage, Suntec, WD, Western Digital
Posted in Accessories, Appliances, Brochures, Events, Exhibition, Gadgets, Prices, Promotions, servers, Specifications, storage drive, Western Digital | 1 Comment »
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
This Thursday, the third of four large annual IT exhibitions in Singapore will kick off at Suntec Singapore. For four days from 30 August to 2 September, the COMEX will open from 12 noon to 9 pm (Admission FREE).
COMEX 2012, 30 August to 2 September, 12 noon to 9pm, Levels 3, 4 and 6. Admission FREE.
COMEX 2012 will be held on three Levels – 3, 4 and 6 of Suntec Singapore. With more than 830 exhibitors, COMEX claims to be Singapore’s biggest IT and consumer technology exhibition.
I will be listing some of the promotions available during the exhibition. To see a consolidated list of postings related to COMEX 2012, click here.
You can also click on the COMEX 2012 button (that looks like the logo above, on every page of tech4tea.com during COMEX 2012) near the top of the sidebar on the right and below the search box.
Here are the floor plans for the exhibitors on Levels 4 and 6.
The four major IT exhibitions in Singapore are:
Tags:COMEX, COMEX 2012, COMEX 2012 accessories, COMEX 2012 cameras, COMEX 2012 computers, COMEX 2012 printers, COMEX 2012 smartphones and tablets, IT exhibition, Singapore, Suntec
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
The S$630,000 will help the underprivileged communities in Singapore, including children in need and the elderly.
“AWWA Community Home for Senior Citizens provides accommodation for elderly Singaporeans who are on public assistance or have no family or means of financial support. Seagate’s generous donation will go a long way in helping us support our residents through counseling services and regular activities to maintain their physical and mental health,” said Keith Lee, Director of Elderly Services, AWWA.
Seagate Technology raised the money as part of a charity drive organised to commemorate the company’s 30th anniversary in Singapore.
“The amount raised this year is the highest in Seagate Singapore’s history of community involvement, a result which has only been possible with the close collaboration and excellent teamwork across Seagate,” said Steve Luczo, Chairman, President and CEO of Seagate Technology.
As a mark to give back to the community that Seagate has been operating in, Seagate employees participated in a variety of activities organized by the company at the Asian Women’s Welfare Association (AWWA) Community Home for Senior Citizens and the Children’s Society Student Care Centre (Henderson).
They provided an afternoon of entertainment for the elderly residents through song and games and and conducted a balloon workshop for the children.
Seagate employees also organized a charity bazaar at Seagate’s Ang Mo Kio office cafeteria for an afternoon, where they ran game stalls to raise funds for the two charities.
“We are extremely thankful to Seagate for their generosity. Most of the children from Children’s Society Student Care Centre (Henderson) come from low income families and the funds raised will be a great help in providing a conducive environment to enhance the development of these needy children, who are the future of Singapore,” said Chia Boon Khiang, Director of Funding, Singapore Children’s Society.
Tags:AWWA, charity, Seagate, Singapore
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
SanDisk launched in Singapore today the Cruzer Glide, Cruzer Facet, Cruzer Pop, and Extreme USB flash drives; as well as the Extreme Pro microSDHC UHS-1 card, and the Extreme SSD. Detailed prices and capacities below.
Mr Cheah Hon Wai (second from right), Senior Manager, Product Marketing Management, Asia Pacific; and Mark Eng (third from right), Country Manager, Singapore – launching SanDisk’s latest range of portable memory devices in Singapore at The Screening Room.
Following the global launch in India, and subsequent launches in Taiwan and Korea, SanDisk has launched its new range of portable storage drives in Singapore.
Compared to the range of devices SanDisk released at its previous launch in September last year, the devices have naturally increased tremendously in read/write speeds.
The new devices are tabulated below.
| Memory device |
Price & Description |
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SanDisk Extreme Pro microSDHC UHS-1 Card
(8GB: S$69, 16GB, S$119)
- For smartphones and tablets
multi-tasking games, email, photo & Full-HD video recording.
- Up to 95 MB/s read and 90 MB/s write speeds.
- Compatible with microSDHC-slotted devices.
- Ideal for UHS-enabled smartphones & tablets.
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SanDisk Extreme USB Flash Drive
(16 – 64GB: S$44.50 – S$139.50)
- USB 3.0-enabled offers up to 190 MB/s performance.
- 10 times faster than USB 2.0 drives.
- Transfer 3GB and 40GB files in 20 sec and 4 min respectively.
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Cruzer Glide USB Flash Drive
(4 GB – 64 GB: S$7.90 – S$80.90)
(128GB: S$150.90 in Q3 2012)
- SanDisk’s highest-capacity USB drive.
- 5-year limited warranty.
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Cruzer Facet USB Flash Drive
(4 GB – 32 GB: S$7.90 – S$40.50)
- Stainless steel casing.
- Fashionable with rich colours and faceted texture.
- Available in blue, red and white.
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Cruzer Pop USB Flash Drive
(4 GB – 32 GB: S$7.50 – S$39.50)
- Innovative pop design conceals and protects connector when not in use.
- Rich colours and patterns.
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SanDisk Extreme SSD
(120GB, 240GB, 480GB)
- Solid State Drive (SSD) for the retail market instead of OEM.
- Up to 550/520 MB/s in read/write speeds.
- Offers low power consumption, silent and quick boot & launch.
- 10 times faster than a 7,200 RPM hard disk.
- Released earlier in Feb 2012.
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Tags:Cruzer, drive, Extreme, Facet, Flash, Glide, microSDHC, Pop, SanDisk, Singapore, SSD, storage, The Screening Room, thumb USB 3.0
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
Singaporean adventurer and motivational speaker Khoo Swee Chiow will attempt to scale the summit of K2, the world’s second highest mountain, with the support of title sponsor Seagate Technology.
Khoo Swee Chiow will climb K2, one of the most notorious mountains in the world. Photo by Kevin Mayea.
The Seagate K2 2012 expedition, from 20 June to 20 August, will see Khoo Swee Chiow join an international team of 13 climbers from China, South Korea, USA, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Spain, Nepal and Singapore.
“Swee Chiow has shown incredible tenacity and determination in realizing his dreams. His expeditions have made it possible for him to instill confidence, leadership and excellence in thousands of people through motivational talks,” said BanSeng Teh, senior vice president and managing director for Asia Pacific & Japan, Seagate Technology.Khoo Swee Chiow and his team will be climbing the mountain along the Abruzzi Ridge, otherwise known as the Southeast Ridge, from the Pakistani border.
On this climb, Khoo Swee Chiow is taking Seagate Backup Plus hard drives to store and backup his photos, videos and journal files for him to share his story when he returns.
Seagate’s newly designed external storage – Backup Plus hard drives – deliver easy setup, one-click backup and the ability to save and share content on Facebook and Flickr.
In addition to Seagate Technology, they will be supported by other sponsors including Microsoft, Canon, Millet, Adventure21, Iridium, Energizer, Oakley, Touch&Print, Banana Boat, Powertraveller, GoPro and Meteorological Service Singapore.
“K2 will be the hardest climb of my life, much harder than Everest. After more than 20 years of climbing, I feel the time has come for me to give it a go,” said Khoo Swee Chiow, who first climbed Everest in 1998.Standing at an elevation of 8,611 metres above sea level, K2 is known for its high level of difficulty and notoriously high casualty rate.
It has a daunting death rate of 26 percent per ascent, six times higher than that of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest.
To date, only 302 climbers have successfully reached K2’s peak, a number that pales in comparison to Everest’s 3,500.
Tags:adventurer, Canon, expedition, K2, Khoo Swee Chiow, Microsoft, Oakley, Seagate
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Kronicles has launched, in Singapore, a new Backup-as-a-Service solution for small and medium businesses (SMB).
The solution includes both on-site and off-site backup and promises enterprise-class reliability and fast recovery at affordable subscription-based pricing starting from S$5,000 per month (before government subsidy).
Kronicles BaaS includes both on-site and off-site backup.
Only last week, I wrote about EMC’s “Disaster Recovery Survey 2012” which found that “81% of businesses in the Asia Pacific and Japan might NOT be able to recover lost data and systems in the event of a disaster”.
“71% of all organizations had lost data or suffered systems downtime in the last 12 months” – Vanson Bourne interview of 2,500 IT decision-makers.The results point to outdated backup and recovery infrastructure in businesses in Japan and the Asia Pacific.
Kronicles has come to the rescue with their new “Backup-as-a-Service” (BaaS), powered by technology from Quantum.
In the customer’s office, a POD (Periphery Onsite Device) backs up 30-days worth of data from a customer’s email and application servers.
The POD provides on-site backup for quick recovery.
The POD provides quick recovery of files over the local network, which is typically faster than an Internet connection.
Every day, during off-peak hours, data is copied over a dedicated link to Kronicles’ secure data facility for off-site protection.
In Singapore the data resides in-country within Starhub’s Tier 3 data center.
At the end of each month, Kronicles provides a copy of the data on an LTO tape, which can either be returned to the user or stored at a secure third=party location that can be returned on demand.
At any one time, there is a local copy of data for everyday operations, one stored on Kronicles’ cloud for business continuity, and one copy on tape for long-term archival.
Following today’s launch in Singapore, the service will be launched next in The Philippines and Malaysia.
Pricing
In Singapore, SMBs can leverage the Productivity and Innovation Credit Scheme from the government, which will reduce the customer’s S$5,000 monthly outlay for the Gold package to only S$1,600 per month, after offsetting tax benefits.
Three price packages are available. The basic Gold package – at S$5,000 per month – includes 200GB to 1TB of data backup, support for three to 10 Windows servers, up to 30-day history.
The Platinum package – at S$8,000 per month – includes 1TB to 2TB of data, three to 10 Windows servers, and up to 60-day history.
Customers with even more stringent requirements can discuss the Platinum Plus package with Kronicles.
Is the data secured? “Yes, data is encrypted with up to 256bit encryption when the data is ‘in flight’. At the data center itself, the data is not encrypted but protected,” says Pramotedham. The data on the back-up tapes are also not encrypted.A War Room for DR and BCP
Piti Pramotedham, Group CEO of Kronicles, described something that caught my attention during his presentation.
He described how a “War Room” can be set up in StarHub’s Media Centre should a customer’s premises be gutted by, say, a fire.
The customer, together with its partners, can set up shop in the War Room while their IT servers are re-constituted from the backup servers.
Is the data of one customer physically compartmentalised from that of another customer? “Yes, at the data center, it’s like a bank vault – so you see a whole wall of storage dedicated to one customer, separate from that of other customers,” say Piti.This can be completed in a matter of hours, after which, the customer and its partners can resume “business as usual”.
The aim is to suffer minimal disruption in times of disaster.
Pramotedham says that Kronicles insists that customers practise this once a year to ensure everything is well-rehearsed.
For SMBs that doesn’t yet have any Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP), this is like having DR and BCP thrown in together with the BaaS.
Tags:BaaS, backup, cloud, Kronicles, launch, service, Singapore, StarHub
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
81% of businesses in the Asia Pacific and Japan might NOT be able to recover lost data and systems in the event of a disaster. New independent research sponsored by EMC points to outdated backup and recovery infrastructure.
The survey also found that 71% of all organizations had lost data or suffered systems downtime in the last 12 months.
Vanson Bourne interviewed 2,500 IT decision-makers in private and public sector organizations in Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Each organization ranged between 250 and 3000-plus employees and represented a variety of industries including manufacturing, retail, financial services and telecoms, among others.
These findings highlight the need for backup transformation from antiquated technologies that are not suited for today’s data growth or availability expectations.
A move to next-generation backup and recovery solutions ensure continued business operations in the event of a natural disaster, malicious activity or more routine and common disruptions to IT systems.
In fact, the research showed that the causes of systems downtime are often the commonplace disruptions to IT, such as hardware failure or data corruption, rather than natural disasters or other major incidents.
Other key findings are summarised below:
- Hardware failure (60%), data corruption (49%) and loss of power (44%) were cited as the primary causes of data loss and downtime.
- 42% of organizations cite loss of employee productivity as the most likely consequence of data loss and downtime.
- 44% of organizations who store a backup copy offsite for disaster recovery still use tape for recovery, and 37% still use CD ROM (although 62% now use disk-based storage).
- 83% of these organizations want to replace tape all together, highlighting the need for next generation backup and recovery.
Commissioned by EMC and conducted by independent research company Vanson Bourne, ‘The Disaster Recovery Survey 2012: Asia Pacific and Japan’ looks at the state of backup and disaster recovery in the region to understand how well companies are prepared for data loss and systems downtime.
For the full report, visit EMC’s website here.
Tags:Asia Pacific, Australia, China, data, Disaster Recovery, EMC, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, loss, Malaysia, research, Singapore, study, survey, Thailand, The Philippines
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
The 7mm 2.5-inch mobile hard drives delivers lower power consumption and are available in 500GB (S$139.99) and 320GB (S$109.99) capacities.
The new Scopio Blue 7mm mobile hard drive can be used in both ultrabooks and mainstream notebooks.
The slim, energy-efficient 7mm hard drives for ultrabooks are the latest additions to Western Digital’s Scorpio Blue line of mobile hard drives.
The single-platter small form factor of the new hard drives are compatible with industry-standard 9.5 mm slots for mainstream notebooks as well as slimmer notebook and ultrabook devices that require a thinner 7mm drive height.
Below is the fact sheet for the Scorpio Blue family of mobile hard drives.
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Tags:7mm, disk, drive, hard, mobile, notebooks, Scorpio Blue, ultrabooks, Western Digital
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Western Digital has introduced My Passport Studio – its first 2TB portable drive dedicated for Mac users. It is available now at S$369.
Western Digital My Passport Studio 2TB portable hard drive, S$369 for Macs.
The new My Passport Studio portable drive maintains its elegant and protective all-metal casing to complement the MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
All-metal casing to match MacBooks.
It is compatible with Apple Time Machine for quick and easy automatic backup of Mac hard drives, allowing Mac users to use one drive for the protection and transport of virtually all their digital content, everywhere they go.
In addition to the USB 2.0 interface, My Passport Studio has two high performance FireWire 800 ports.
The dual FireWire ports provide blazing fast upload and transfer speeds while also allowing users to daisy chain additional drives or other peripherals such as HD camcorders.
My Passport Studio also features hardware-based encryption and password protection software, and an all-metal design constructed for scratch resistance and a sturdy feel in your hand.
WD had just launched its My Passport 2TB portable hard drive last week.
Tags:2TB, Apple, hard drive, Mac, portable, storage, Western Digital
Posted in Accessories, Availability, Gadgets, Mac OS, storage drive, Western Digital | 4 Comments »
