GIGABYTE Honored for Green Computing



GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, was proud to attended the "Climate Savers Computing Initiative Forum" hosted by Intel and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) on April 3rd last. During the event, GIGABYTE was honored for their contribution to green computing. By minimizing electricity waste and reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions, GIGABYTE and the CSCI group hope to reduce global CO2 emissions from computing platforms by 54 million tons per year.

"Green computing is becoming an ever increasingly important issue as global warming continues to escalate," commented Tony Liao, Director of Marketing at GIGABYTE UNITED INC. Developing new ways to help curb energy consumption and lower carbon emissions not only benefits the environment, but hardware venders wanting to succeed in tomorrows markets need to take the development lead today. I want to thank Intel and the CSCI group for giving GIGABYTE the opportunity to participate in such an important endeavor."



With manufacturing facilities and corporate headquarters in Taiwan, GIGABYTE adheres to strict manufacturing and emission regulations, not in place in most other regions of Asia. Going hand-in-hand with ROHS compliance, GIGABYTE complies internationally with WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directives limiting the negative effects of the disposal of electronic equipment. Furthermore, in a conscious effort to reduce waste, GIGABYTE has recently increased the tolerance level for recycling of onboard components on RMA (Return Material Authorization) goods, allocating more resources to repairing damaged components rather than simply replacing them
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Over 50 Mainframe Customers Complete Migration to HP Integrity Systems

HP on 18 April, 2008 last announced that in the past 18 months, more than 50 Asia Pacific and Japan customers have successfully migrated from legacy mainframe systems to HP Integrity systems to support mission critical IT environments. Companies moving to next-generation data centers from diverse industry sectors have replaced legacy systems, including IBM mainframes, with HP Integrity to minimize high hardware maintenance and software licensing costs.



Fueled by increased demand for HP Integrity and Integrity NonStop servers in Q4 2007, HPs Intel Itanium (EPIC) processor-based server revenues grew 53.0 percent in Asia Pacific (excl. Japan) region(1). According to IDC, HP tied for the top position in the Asia/Pacific (inc. Japan) Unix server market in revenue terms, securing 33.0 percent market share measured in 4, 2007.
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Recent HP Integrity server innovations include:

New Operating Environments (OEs) for HP-UX 11i v3 with built-in virtualization software simplify and speed up customers UNIX deployments, and help reduce lifetime maintenance costs.

QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium on HP Integrity servers helps users move enterprise applications from SPARC-based hardware to HP Integrity servers running Linux.

HP Integrity BL870c - the first four-socket HP Integrity server blade combined with the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem. Designed and developed in Singapore, the server can save up to 25 percent more power.

HP Insight Dynamics - VSE - brings together the best of HPs industry-leading infrastructure management portfolio to deliver the first integrated solution that lets customers visualize, plan and change their physical and virtual resources.

More news from HP, including links to RSS feeds, is available at www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom
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Acer Releases Aspire Gemstone blue design

When Acer first launched its revolutionary Gemstone design in May 2007, it was aware that such move marked a turning point in its product strategy.

The new look of Acers consumer notebook line brought more than a mere product restyling: it created a whole new identity for Acers award-winning consumer notebook series and opened a new chapter in Acers brand values: the immediacy and the quality of the new notebooks clearly conveyed Acers new approach to developing products that are easy-to-use and dependable through care, innovation and design.

The move proved to be the right one as the first release of the Gemstone design was a clear success the world across. The Gemstone case reinforced the belief that design is the key to opening a dialogue with image-conscious customers as design effectively conceals complex technologies and architectures behind a single button, making the object easier to use and more pleasing on the eye.

The design of the two new notebook lines is characterized by a dominant feature that animates the product: blue, color and light, is the element that identifies the design of this new series, named appropriately Aspire Gemstone blue.

Acer is represented in Bangladesh by Executive Technologies Limited, the only authorized business and service partner of Acer Incorporated, Taiwan. Hotline: 01919-222-222
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ASUS Achieves Certification

ASUS, the world renowned IT solution provider, has won the first ASIA Windows Server 2008 x64 and x86 logod server system certification with its TS500-E4/PA4 server and DSBV-D serverboard in early March - ahead of all other manufacturers.

Windows Server 2008, which was launched on the 27th of February this year, operates on x86 (32 bit) and x64 (64bit) hardware, and contains many improvements such as virtualization, server core installation options and management system installation.

Before being available to the market, Microsoft R&D engineers have cooperated with main partner ASUS in terms of system compatibility tests. The ASUS DSBV-D server board and TS500-E4/PA4 server are the first server hardware to be certified, and with the WHQL Certification, the DSBV-D and TS500-E4/PA4 are able to enable full use of brand new functions that include the Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT). To know more about the above mentioned product, contact : 01713257900
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ADC KRONE Hosts TrueNet Workshop Dhaka

ADC KRONE a global leader in providing communications network infrastructure solutions, held a TrueNet workshop for its customers in the growing market of Bangladesh. The objective of the workshop was to address the changing infrastructure needs of the country. The event entitled Strategies for Implementing Reliable Data Centers and LAN Networks highlighted innovative product portfolio of ADC KRONE and how these can be implemented to maximize profitability for mission-critical installations.

The workshop was held in conjunction with ADC KRONEs channel partner CSL; and the event was witnessed by representatives from various sectors like service providers, banking and finance, government, universities, media and manufacturing organizations. Given the fact that network infrastructure will drive the growth and momentum in the country.