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Avaya gets product innovation award from Frost & Sullivan Avaya, a vendor of business communications and collaboration systems and services, announced it has received the 2011 New Product Innovation Award for Global Desktop Videoconferencing Endpoints from Frost & Sullivan for the Avaya Desktop Video Device. In determining the award, Frost & Sullivan benchmarked the device in five categories: product innovation, use of leading-edge technologies, value-added features and benefits, customer ROI and customer penetration potential. In particular, Frost & Sullivan noted: “A key aspect of the Avaya Desktop Video Device and the Avaya Flare Experience is that it provides unified, people-centric view for relevant communications in an easy to use and intuitive way. As a result, placing a video call is as easy as making a phone call.” “Based on Frost & Sullivan’s independent analysis of the Global Videoconferencing Endpoints market, Avaya is being recognised with the 2011 New Product Innovation Award,” said Roopam Jain, Industry Director, UC and Collaboration, Frost & Sullivan The Avaya Desktop Video Device is a wireless enabled desktop video device that has an 11.6 inch multi touch screen with an integrated high definition video camera. The multi modal device supports the Avaya Flare Experience and is an integrated solution that brings together multiple interactions into a single communications interface. Avaya’s Desktop Video Device supports the entire Avaya Aura applications portfolio and enables a user to consolidate tools such as a desk phone, speakerphone and video endpoint in a single easy to use device.
Schneider recognised for Smart World, Al Ain university implementation Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management, received two distinctions at the recently held Data Centre Middle East Awards. Schneider Electric was named Best Data Centre Middle East for the facility installed for Smartworld, an airport systems integration and aviation infrastructure services provider. The implementation comprised two Tier 3 data centres at Dubai World Central, an urban aviation community located around Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai, UAE. The in-row cooling architecture reduced energy costs by 30% while the installation offered support to critical applications and the IT infrastructure for clients of Smartworld. Commenting on the award, Mustafa Kaddoura, CEO of Smartworld, said: “We have been associated with Schneider Electric for four years, and the facility installed at Dubai World Central is awardwinning.” The Green Award for Sustainability was associated for the UAE University Data Centre project at Al Ain. Visionanire, a solutions and services provider in the intelligent building management domain, designed and built the data centre that has Schneider Electric’s APC Infrastruxure line of products.
Mustafa Kaddoura, CEO of Smartworld
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Olivier Delepine, Vice President, UAE and Gulf countries, Schneider Electric, received the award The new data centre was built in response to the university’s increased requirement for a student-base of more than 12,000 enrolments at the new campus. The new UAE University campus houses one of the largest academic networks in the region with more than 350 wiring closets connected to over 25,000 IP ports that offer a link to the UAEU Data Centre via redundant fibre. At the commencement of the project, the University had established a green ICT mandate to follow the environmental sustainable philosophy of 3R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle. Paul-Francois Cattier, Global VicePresident Data Centre, Schneider Electric, said: “It is always good to be recognised for the successful implementation of solutions. Even more encouraging is the categories in which we have been awarded, reflecting our commitment towards sustainable development while providing technologies that meet individual client needs.”