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  • TwinStrata Unveils Cloud Storage Enablement Strategy

    TwinStrata debuts today with its vision for intelligent storage cloudsolutions.

    Taking an innovative approach, the company is bringing to market cloud storage enablement software solutions to help mid-sized companies in a variety of industries address challenges related to protecting and managing the growth of business application data.

    Operational Challenges of Data Management
    Today’s IT data management teams are tasked with selecting solutions that maintain the integrity and availability of data, especially higher value data related to business critical applications. Storage-related solutions need to easily and quickly scale to accommodate future data growth and not require capital intensive upgrades when capacity limits are reached. They must support multiple data formats for all types of business applications. In addition, companies should understand the impact an application outage will have on each line-of-business or on the company as a whole in order to implement appropriate data recovery operations.

    Cloud Technology Ecosystems
    To help companies achieve business agility and efficiency, IT alignment and cost management, several ecosystems started by industry-leading vendors have emerged. EMC with its EMC Atmos Velocity Program and Amazon with its Amazon Web Services are each an example of an ecosystem of solution providers developing cloud enablement solutions that leverage their respective cloud services. These ecosystems will have a significant impact on storage cloud adoption.

    Corporations using solutions from these ecosystems benefit from the cloud. They can now instantly respond to changing business requirements by taking advantage of an adaptable infrastructure and adding resources as needed. Storage cloud infrastructures eliminate lengthy change management cycles when bringing new storage infrastructure online and optimize IT administrative processes to drive efficiency and improve staff productivity.

    "Cloud enablement solutions, like the one TwinStrata offers, will help accelerate corporate cloud storage adoption," said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Companies can realize the availability, security and performance characteristics of local storage, without the capital investment and overhead of housing and managing storage themselves."

    "TwinStrata is working with customers around the world and with industry-leading global technology companies to define and develop intelligent storage cloud architectures and solutions," said TwinStrata CEO & Co-Founder Nicos Vekiarides.

    "The EMC Velocity2 Atmos Partner Program demonstrates our commitment to deliver innovative storage solutions that address the growing needs of our partners seeking to leverage cloud infrastructure. We believe there is an opportunity and approach to cloud storage that delivers financial and functional benefits to both our Partners and the Customers they serve," said Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President of EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group.

    "By making our cloud infrastructure accessible and allowing easy API integration, we enable our partners to develop cloud enablement solutions to help customers realize business agility, drive IT operational efficiency, and improve cost controls. We are pleased to work with TwinStrata to embrace and deliver real-world business value to our joint customers, globally."

    Intelligent Storage Cloud, Cloud Enablement Solutions
    Intelligent storage clouds consist of storage-as-a-service offerings combined with intelligent cloud storage enablement solutions. Cloud storage enablement solutions address the primary concerns that users have expressed regarding enterprise IT adoption of cloud storage solutions and deliver the following features:

    * Compute Anywhere™ application accessibility: on/off-premise, in the cloud
    * Non-disruptive integration with business applications
    * Support for all industry file systems and block-level access
    * Intelligent caching architecture that delivers local performance
    * Support for virtual and physical IT environments
    * Ease of deployment, ability to manage in self-service manner via UI, CLI and API
    * Local and cloud data copies, zero-footprint snapshots
    * Encryption for security
    * Bandwidth savings via caching, compression, deduplication
    * Support for multiple cloud providers, with data mobility across providers
    * Support for providers that offer SLAs for regulatory & compliance requirements

    About TwinStrata
    TwinStrata is a pioneer in the Cloud Storage Enablement (CSE) market with the industry’s first purpose-built architecture and software solution to enable Intelligent Storage Clouds (ISC). ISC deliver simple, affordable and secure storage solutions to enterprise environments. TwinStrata’s solutions address the business need for on-demand IT services, providing new levels of business agility, efficiency, IT alignment and cost management for protecting and managing the growth of business application data. For more information about TwinStrata, please visit www.twinstrata.com

  • GIPS Enables HD Voice and One-Way Video Chat to the iPad

    Global IP Solutions announced the availability of high-definition and Super-wideband Voice as well as one-way Video Conferencing/Chat capabilities for iPad developers, powered by GIPS VideoEngine Mobile.

    According to GIPS, its VideoEngine Mobile supplies iPad developers with “a simple to integrate, high-level software API that contains the complex video conferencing/video chat capabilities into applications running on Apple’s iPad operating system.”

    As video access becomes available from Apple, GIPS VideoEngine will support two-way video chat/conferencing.

    “With over 600,000 unit sales of the iPad to date, demand for this device is clearly continuing to grow,” said GIPS’ Chief Marketing Officer Joyce Kim.

    “With the unique experience that a device like the iPad can deliver, it is imperative that the overall quality exceed all expectations and GIPS is proud to offer HD and Super HD voice and video for the iPad and other mobile devices.”

    Roopam Jain, Frost & Sullivan analyst said, “GIPS technology is becoming increasingly significant with the growth in IP traffic as it offers HD voice and video communication capabilities that adjusts dynamically to available bandwidth on Wi-Fi or cellular networks,” said.

    He added that the introduction of devices like the iPad will greatly increase wide scale voice and video communications beyond corporate boundaries.

    GIPS mobile technology is already available on the iPad, Android, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems.

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  • DOQO Battery Charger at MWC 2010

    At the Mobile World Congress we met with Jan Hoffmann, CEO of Mobil Power Europe, the sole, worldwide representative of the DOQO battery charger.

    He gave us a live demonstration of DOQO that allows you to safely and easily recharge the battery of your mobile phone or digital camera in a wink. The battery is charged for an average period of 15 to 20 minutes at a cost of just 1€/1£. The charging software guarantees that 95% of all mobile phone & camera batteries can be recharged with DOQO.


  • Antica: Solutions for Telcos Worldwide

    Antica, a networking company specialized in providing solutions tailored for telecommunications companies, was present at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

    They were presenting SESS, PayBridge and SmartRouter, the products focused on increasing revenue for mobile operators, and developing models based on prepayment.

    This year, their flagship product is Antica Convergent Policy Manager, that allow service providers to manage the traffic policies that are applied to subscribers and works with multi-vendor DPI devices, or acts as a PCRF when the network support a 3GPP PCC architecture.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Li Wei of SIM Technology

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we talked to Li Wei, Deputy General manager at SIM Technology Group, a leading mobile handset and wireless communications module developer in China.

    They design and develop multi-platform mobile communications terminal solutions ranging from 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G to 3.5G.

    The subsidiary Shanghai Simcom turns out over 200 mobile handset solutions each year. It is ranked number 2 based on worldwide shipment on ABI recent research report.


  • RealVNC: The Original Cross-Platform Remote Control Solution

    At the Mobile World Congress we spoke to James Weatherall, Chief Scientist at RealVNC, a company that provides remote control software which lets you see and interact with desktop applications across any network.

    RealVNC was founded in 2002 by the original developers of VNC to promote, enhance and commercialize VNC. With over 100 million software downloads, VNC is a de facto standard for remote control.

    The software has a widespread user base from individuals to the largest multi-national companies.


  • Need for Converged Devices Makes a Case for Smartphones in India

    According to Frost & Sullivan, smartphones are expected to hit “a purple patch” in the Indian market, as consumers increasingly seek a single converged device to support multiple functionalities on the go. Smartphones cater to both individual and enterprise users due to their consumer- and productivity-centric approaches.

    Analysts claim that the application development community and mobile operating systems participants are the key enablers of smartphone ecosystem, wherein users prefer a single point of access and management of content. In this scenario, product innovation and the application portfolio will be the primary market growth drivers.

    "With Web 2.0 (social networking, microblogging) technologies gaining traction and the youth demographic keen on adopting smartphones, applications are expected to emerge as the key differentiating factor," says Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Thejaswi Parameshwaran.

    "Touch screen technologies and customized interfaces in terms of innovative product features will also propel the market ahead."

    With the urban markets having matured in terms of feature phone usage, numerous mobile users in this demographic are looking to upgrade to a smartphone. This replacement market will be predominantly populated by the younger demographic, which are early adopters of technology and avid users of Web 2.0 technologies.

    "The smartphone ecosystem is looking to build a distinct identity in the application community with handset manufacturers, service providers, and operating system developers having content portals that enable consumers to access a wide variety of applications," notes Parameshwaran.

    "However, over 70 percent of the population consumes only voice services, and data services have not yet gained traction, which can slow down the adoption rates of smartphones."

    To compound participants’ issues, the existing data bandwidth is insufficient to support data-intensive applications. They are hoping to remedy this issue and support smartphone-based applications by deploying high-speed 3G networks, as Frost & Sullivan claims.

    According to the report, in a highly competitive market where handset manufacturers and service providers vie for subscribers, a comprehensive value proposition is likely to be the factor that will tip the scales. Both these stakeholders will be aiming to lure consumers with an end-to-end service offering, significant investment in product R&D, and attractive revenue sharing agreements with content developers.

    Meanwhile, with the emergence of open source operating systems, there is a paradigm shift toward a collaborative ecosystem, wherein participants leverage each other’s expertise. This has fostered an environment of strategic alliances that will help offer a one-stop shop for handsets, data plans, and the point of access for an application ecosystem.

    "All participants of the ecosystem will have to collaborate to develop an end-to-end value proposition that will engage consumers and thereby, increase customer loyalty and satisfaction," observes Parameshwaran.

  • DxO Makes Mobile Cameras Smaller and Cheaper

    At the Mobile World Congress we met Rémi Lacombe, VP of Business Development at DxO Labs, a company whose business model is based on developing and licensing intellectual property of optics and silicon architectures.

    Their embedded imaging product portfolio integrates a range of image processing and extended depth of field technologies for camera phones. They are focusing on making cameras for smartphones smaller and cheaper.

    In a traditional camera module design, the image processing is done completely independently of the lens design. The sensor is chosen, then the optics. An ISP is then adapted to the sensor and optics.

    DxO says its DOP technology breaks century-old optics design limitations by co-optimizing the image processing and the optics as a whole system. The result is that the accessible space of lens performance is greatly enlarged.


  • Simply Phone with hagenuk

    At the Mobile World Congress we spoke with Ralph Kimmig, General Manager of ITM Einkaufs, an internationally operating manufacturer and marketer of telecommunication and electronic devices located near Karlsruhe/Germany.

    Many of their mobile phones are dedicated to senior or handicapped people. The phones include features like Fall Detection Sensor, SOS Emergency Number as well as Dual SIM Card functionality.

    Hagenuk – the long establish German brand for telecommunication end devices is specialized in user friendly telephones with convincing design in the domains of fixed line network corded, fixed line network DECT and GSM mobile devices.


  • Moovade: Ideas on the Move

    Moovade is a startup that was created to further develop iNTERACT – the award winning mobile platform that enables a new level of interaction between mobile phones and kiosks.

    At the Mobile World Congress we talked to Frédéric Feytons, CEO & Co-Founder of the company.

    Further to its flagship product, Moovade is expanding its product portfolio with mobile solutions such as Feedr, a smart, limited footprint add-on that enables any public screen to "print" any rich media content into consumers’ phones, allowing for a costless and maintenance-free printing.