APC Expands InRow® Cooling Product Family with InRow OA and Refrigerant Distribution Unit

APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced the InRow® OA and Refrigerant Distribution Unit (RDU) pumped refrigerant cooling system. The APC InRow OA expands APC’s leading InRow product line by providing a overhead, energy efficient, refrigerant based cooling solution for data center environments.

“Data center densities continue to increase and efficiency concerns encourage customers to maximize all the available space for physical infrastructure,” said Dave Guidette, senior vice president, Enterprise Systems, Services & Software, APC. “The new APC InRow OA and RDU provide data center managers with increased flexibility by eliminating the need to remove or break-up racks to implement a row-based cooling architecture to meet the needs of higher density loads.”

 

Canon Bubble Jet Printer Sales up, Now No. 1 in Inkjet Printer Industry

Canon Marketing Philippines, Inc. (CMPI) topped the country’s total inkjet printer (IJP) market, securing 33% of the industry’s market share in the Philippines for the first half of 2010 according to IDC placing Canon at the No. 1 position for said market.

Canon’s Bubble Jet Printer’s sales in the first half of the year grew 27% from same period last year. The Bubble Jet Printer market comprises about 25% of CMPI’s total product sales in the country.

 

Singapore emerging as the cloud computing hub in Asia-Pacific

Global and regional service providers have invested in data centers to support new advanced services in the region, which include cloud services. This has created a domino effect for demand: in particular, operators and MNCs require facility design expertise, network and IT infrastructure, the right staff skill levels, and an understanding of the operational requirements of data centers. The latest example is the announcement that Tata Communications is opening another enterprise-class data center for providing outsourced IT services for its customers in Asia-Pacific, as part of its $180 million investment to provide data center infrastructure and managed services in Asia-Pacific between 2009 and 2011. Other global telcos with data centers in Singapore include AT&T, BT, Verizon Business, SingTel, and Orange.

Japan , Singapore, and Hong Kong contain most of the data centers in the Asia-Pacific region. While the facilities in Japan are mainly to support its domestic market, Singapore and Hong Kong are competing to be the preferred location for hosting data centers for service providers that serve MNCs in the region.

 

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is a more-than-credible iPad alternative

The new device is in essence a scaled-up version of Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone (as the iPad is to the iPhone/iPod Touch), featuring a seven-inch TFT display. It is perhaps the most credible Android alternative to the iPad launched so far – although an honorable mention must go to the smaller Dell Streak.

Samsung’s credentials as the creator of a true iPad alternative are strong. Along with HTC and Motorola, Samsung has in recent times been among the most successful vendors in taking on Apple in the smartphone desirability stakes, aping Apple both in leaning towards the quality end of the market in terms of hardware and materials and, quite obviously to those who’ve used a Galaxy S, in terms of the overall user experience.

 

GfK Honors Sony Philippines with its No. 1 Award for camcorder

The widely popular Sony camcorder products, featuring cutting-edge user friendly technologies, was rewarded the top prize – GfK Philippines No. 1 Award.

The annual award presented by one of the largest retail technology research companies recognizes companies with the bestselling brands in the categories of Consumer Electronics, Home Appliances, Information Technology, Photo, and Telecommunications. This year’s award was based on GfK Philippines retail panel data from January 2009 to December 2009 and is a timely seal of approval for Sony Philippines.

 

TTX Chops Power Use in Half and Datacenter Space Over 75%, Eliminates Tape Management

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced that TTX Company has deployed EMC® and VMware® products and solutions to serve as the foundation of the company’s virtual datacenter and next generation backup and recovery implementation.

The new datacenter has enabled TTX, North America’s leading provider of railcars and related freight car management services, to sharpen its competitive edge by speeding access to critical business information; virtualizing 98% of its servers; and significantly reducing operational costs associated with its newly streamlined backup and recovery processes.

 

Huawei Technologies Philippines Hosts LTE Technology Road Show

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, hosted a three-day LTE Technology Road Show that ended on September 3. Visitors were able to tour the Huawei LTE truck and attend presentations to garner a greater awareness of LTE technology. Huawei’s LTE Road Show in the Philippines was part of a six-city Asia-Pacific tour that is scheduled to go through the end of the year.

LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, describes the evolution of mobile technology that delivers to users the benefits of faster data speeds and new services by creating a new radio access technology that is optimized for IP-based traffic. In addition it offers operators a simple upgrade path from 2G and 3G networks. The Huawei LTE Road Show helped the Philippines’ mobile industry get better acquainted with Huawei’s LTE technology and gain a better understanding of its potential and its business advantages.