GNi, a provider of infrastructure-as-a-service hosting solutions, has reportedly signed a strategic partnership agreement with Avisé Partners, to enable software-as-a-service through dedicated hosting on an international level.

 

Avise Partners is a firm dedicated to provide trans-Atlantic market expansion services allowing US and European technology companies to accelerate their business.

 

This partnership is said to significantly extend GNi’s global presence with a new sales and support office in Paris which will offer an enhanced level of service to European customers like 3D Duo.

 

“Avisé Partners and its commitment to serving European customers, including SaaS (News - Alert) providers, represent the ideal alliance for GNi as our global customer base grows,” said Robert Yusin, general manager of Field Operations at GNi.

 

“We are pleased to join forces with Avisé Partners to leverage our technology-infrastructure expertise and deliver sales and engineering support from our new Paris office,” added Yusin.

 

As a dedicated hosting provider for more than 200 companies in online games, Software-as-a-Service, Web 2.0, and Online Digital Media, GNi has been focusing in the delivery of secure and robust server and network management to its customers. GNi’s infrastructure is said to support more than 12.8 million registered users. Its solutions is said to offer a variety of systems including rapid on-boarding and deployment.

 

“GNi delivers the highest possible quality of service for its dedicated hosting offerings, making it a perfect match for Avisé Partners’ clients as well as its end-user base,” said Pierre Vacherand, Director of Business Development at Avisé Partners.

 

Vacherand also mentioned that this partnership has allowed Avisé to expand into the IaaS market in Europe with a world-class hosting provider.

SMART Modular Technologies (News - Alert) has released a new “rugged” version of its Xcel-10 solid state device.

 

SMART Modular Technologies is a provider of memory products, offering standard and custom products to top-tier OEMs in the computer, industrial, networking and telecommunications sectors.

 

The new SSD is designed specifically for defense and industrial applications where high shock, vibration, and temperature tolerances are on level with performance and reliability. Xcel-10 drive is optimized for random, small-block transfers typical of business applications and offers higher performance, higher reliability, and lower power operation, resulting in lower total cost of ownership as compared to hard disk drives.

 

The ruggedized version has a SATA 3Gb/s interface and can operate at temperatures ranging from -40 deg C to 85 deg C. It also features improved environmental specifications of 50g operating shock and 16.4g operating vibration. As the SSD is to be used in defense applications where data elimination important it is incorporated with ATA-7 security erase feature. Both Normal and Enhanced Security Erase modes are provided to eliminate all user data on the drive when activated.

 

Housed in a 2.5-inch form factor, the new SMART Xcel-10 SSD is available in capacities up to 128GB, and delivers 5,580 IOPS at 100 percent read or 980 IOPS at 67 percent read, 33 percent write, for random I/O using 4K block size which makes it ideal to deliver high performance in both sequential and random I/O applications.

 

Mark Dupaul, SMART’s senior product marketing manager has explained that since the SSD supports both high sequential performance – measured in MB/s – and random I/O performance – measured in IOPS – in a ruggedized package it is ideally suited for wide range of applications, including flight data recording and rugged laptops. The Xcel-10 now meets the needs of land, sea, and air-based applications that require greater environmental durability and increased data security.

 

SMART had launched Xceed (News - Alert) iSATA Embedded Solid State Drive and had released TouchScape line of open frame displays.

 

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