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28th June 2011, Radisson Blu St Helen's Hotel, Dublin

 In 2008, Huawei,€15 billion revenue generating hardware company teamed up with one of the top ten software companies in the world, Symantec. Symantec generates revenues of up to €4 billion. Together they formed Huawei Symantec with a mission to take the storage market by storm and up until now have remained relatively unknown in Ireland!
 
Huawei Symantec facts after just 3 years:

• Added to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-end Disk Arrays in 2010 and 2011
• Over 1,000 customers across 40 countries worldwide
• Over 900 patents in important Networking and Storage technologies
• Over 60% year on year growth since its inception

Interested in learning more about how Huawei Symantec can reduce your costs and whilst maintaining the quality of your environment?  

Join us at the Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel on Tuesday morning, 28th June 2011 for this free and unique networking event with live demonstrations and some goodies too!

Reduce costs whilst maintaining the quality of your environment!

Agenda

8:00am: Registration (Tea, coffee and light snacks served).

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Did you know?:

1.   Origina provide IT Training courses? Origina IT Training offers onsite, offsite and bespoke courses. Some of the courses include: Cloud Computing, ITIL & Project Management, Microsoft, VMware & Virtualisation, UNIX & Linux, IBM Hardware & Software, and many more. Contact training@origina.com or 01 294 2300 for further information.

 

2.   Our IT Server Support, Raphael Ardiff, was a backing singer for Barry Manilow when he played in the Point a few years ago.

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Huawei Symantec N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System Achieves Industry’s Highest SPECsfs2008 Benchmark Results

Huawei Symantec, a leading provider of network security and storage appliance solutions to enterprise customers worldwide, announced that its N8500 clustered NAS storage system achieved performance peaks in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s (SPEC) SPECsfs2008 test, achieving the industry’s highest results with regard to NFS and CIFS benchmarks, clocking in at 636,036 and 712,664 Ops/Sec, respectively. This marks the second time that Huawei Symantec has achieved the industry’s best evaluation results, replicating the feat that it first achieved in 2009. SPEC is a non-profit organization that aims to produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of performance benchmarks for computers and computer hardware. SPECsfs2008 is the core version of the SPEC benchmark that measures file server throughput and response time. It provides a standardized method for comparing performances across different vendor platforms. Eighteen major manufacturers of NAS file servers have released results based on the performance of their key products after being evaluated by this benchmark.

Huawei Symantec’s N8500 system is a key product in the N8000 series of scale-out NAS product, targeting the midrange and high-end NAS market. The N8000 series clustered NAS storage system architecture uses a Multi-node All Active Cluster technology with all engine nodes in the same cluster. This allows them to work concurrently on transaction processing and enables them to access single file at the same time. In addition, the N8500 system supports as many as 256 namespaces, and each of them is able to include 1 billion files at maximum. It also supports scalability up to 16 engine nodes, allowing for linear growth of system performance. The most recent SPEC evaluation and the resulting performance scores were achieved using 8 engine nodes, meaning that considerable potential has yet to be explored with regard to overall performance.

"The Huawei Symantec N8500 clustered storage system is a flagship product that boasts high reliability, scalability, and availability. We have continually developed this product so that it stays well ahead of the competition, and its performance in these benchmark results affirms the fact that the N8500 system is the best in its field," said Mr. Fan Ruiqi, Vice President of Huawei Symantec. "Compared to its main competitors, the N8500 system is able to achieve higher performance standards with lower construction and operation costs."

About SPECsfs2008 Benchmarks

SPECsfs2008 measures the throughput and response time of NFS and CIFS servers based on workloads that represent the activity of large-scale servers in real customer environments. Reflecting the capabilities index of software and hardware platforms, it is chosen as the authorized IT system index by the telecom, media, HPC and financial industries.

Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/ as of April 7, 2011.

NFS results are available at http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html CIFS results are available at http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008cifs.html

Symantec and Huawei snatch storage benchmark crown

Huawei Symantec has blown EMC and its nearly all-flash VNX off the SPECsfs2008 benchmark throne with a clustered NAS system without using SSDs. Spinning rust rules, OK?...

Read full story on The Register!

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Origina Survey Indicates that 30% of Irish Companies are putting their Business at Serious Risk

Irish businesses with no data protection controls at major risk of losing important company data and receiving significant fines from the Data Protection Commissioner  

Key Findings:

o    30% of organisations surveyed admitted to having no data protection controls in place

o    37% do not have a clear directive as to how long data should be retained

o    65% don’t have a clear insight into the different types of data they are storing and 38% admitted that don’t know how much data is actually being stored

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Smarter Business

Date: November 17th 2010

Venue: National Gallery

In a turbulent economy, companies need to seize every viable opportunity possible. Yet, as the global markets struggle, any margin for error or inefficiency has virtually vanished. Join Origina and IBM for a briefing session at which IBM will share its insights into some of your key business challenges. Designed specifically for MDs and Directors of midsize companies in Ireland, this seminar will give you IBM's vision of what your future IT structures could look like. After the briefing, we hope you'll join us for a chance to enjoy a glass of wine and take in an exclusive private tour, featuring the Gallery's collection of works by Irish artists.

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2.15 Registration  

2.30 Start  
Introduction – The MD's Dilemma & IBM's Response
Anne Sheehan, Sales Director, IBM Ireland  

The Economic Imperative for Smarter Business in 2011
Dr Mary Keeling, IBM Institute for Business Value