Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Dirty Dozen Spam Relaying Countries revealed by Sophos

China dramatically disappears from list of worse spam-relaying nations for the first time

MUMBAI / BANGALORE, India – April 28, 2010 – IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the first quarter of 2010. The United States of America continues its unpopular reign as the king of spam, relaying more than 13 percent of global spam, accounting for hundreds of millions of junk messages every day.

However, most dramatically, China - often blamed for cybercrime by other countries - has completely disappeared from the so-called "dirty dozen", coming in at 15th place with responsibility for relaying just 1.9% of the world's spam.

The top twelve spam relaying countries for January to March 2010 are as follows—

1 United States 13.1%

2 India 7.3%

3 Brazil 6.8%

4 South Korea 4.8%

5 Vietnam 3.4%

6 Germany 3.2%

7 United Kingdom 3.1%

8 Russia 3.1%

9 Italy 3.1%

10 France 3.0%

11 Romania 2.5%

12 Poland 2.4%

13 Others 47.3%


"All eyes aren't so much on which countries are on the list, but the one which isn't. China has earned itself a bad reputation in many country's eyes for being the launch pad of targeted attacks against foreign companies and government networks, but at least in the last 12 months they can demonstrate that the proportion of spam relayed by their computers has steadily reduced," said Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos. "A new dirty 'gang of four' - South Korea, Brazil, India and their ringleader USA - account for over 30% of all the spam relayed by hacked computers around the globe."

Spam accounts for a staggering 97 percent of all email received by business email servers, putting both a strain on resources and wasting a huge amount of time to lost productivity. Used largely as a method for selling counterfeit or illicit goods such as fake pharmaceuticals, luxury watches and false diplomas, virtually all spam comes from malware infected computers (called bots, or zombies) that are controlled by 'botherder' cybercriminals.

Computer users can unwittingly allow their PCs to become part of a botnet in a number of ways, including clicking on malicious links that are frequently contained within the spam messages that the botnets are used to distribute. The only way for users and administrators to reduce the risk of being compromised is to run anti-spam and anti-malware protection and ensure all software and hardware is up to date with security patches.

"Countries such as the USA would do well to remember that cleaning-up infected PCs in their own back yard will be an important step in fighting cybercrime. Furthermore, we all shouldn't forget that if no-one bought products sold via spam there would be a lot less incentive to send junk email," explained Cluley. "Computer users should not just protect their computers from threats like malware and spam; they should also pledge to never ever buy anything advertised via spam."

By continent, Asia continues to dominate in spam, with more than a third of the world's unsolicited junk email relayed by the region. Although the US remains the top offender by country, North America as a whole has reduced its spam throughput since last quarter, dropping from second to third place. The breakdown of spam relaying by continent is as follows—

January to March 2010

1 Asia 33.7%
2 Europe 31.2%
3 North America 16.9%
4 South America 14.7%
5 Africa 2.6%
6 Others 0.9%

Sophos recommends that companies automatically update their corporate virus protection, and run a consolidated solution at their email and web gateways to defend against spam and viruses.

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About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use, and that deliver the industry’s lowest TCO. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, UK and Boston, US. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Inspan launches Corsair 800DW Special PC Cabinets

First ever high end, feature rich cabinet from Corsair for Power Users in India

CHENNAI / BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – April 26, 2010 – Inspan Infotech, one of the largest IT distribution companies for motherboards and hardware components, announced the launch of Corsair CC800DW – the first ever cabinet product from Corsair worldwide. This feature rich, high end PC cabinet from Corsair is designed for power users in India

The Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Full Tower is an elegant and feature-laden chassis that true enthusiasts will relish. The pre-cut cable routing holes (with included rubber grommets) virtually guarantee an airflow-friendly clutter-free interior. The four drive hot-swap drive bay enables the smooth upgrade or swapping of the hard drive. This helps the power users to share and transfer their high volumes of data. Once the applications increase one may want to upgrade the heat sink. The CPU back plate cutout helps in this process.

The three-zone cooling keeps those hot drives out of the path of fresh air to power supply, CPU and GPU. To provide more cooling there is a pre-drilled top for a triple 120 mm radiator for water cooling. A four-drive SATA hot-swap drive bay sits in the front of the case, making it easier to install or swap hard drives on the fly. A unique cable routing system virtually eliminates cable clutter that can impede airflow.

Three separate cooling chambers provide optimum isolated cooling zones for hard drives, graphics cards, and power supply. All of these are cooled by three included 140mm fans, with room for up to four more 120mm fans, including the triple 120mm radiator friendly top exhaust panel. There are isolated cooling chambers for cool-running devices. Unique cable routing holes guarantee a clean and clutter-free installation. There is a provision for up to seven fans for very high cooling potential. Tool-free optical drive installation makes building a system faster than ever.

Corsair CC800DW is black in color and has 4 USBs, 7 expansion slots. It has a steel structure with Aluminum face plate. It can house ATX, mATX and EATX motherboards with I/O for Headphone and Microphone.

Corsair CC800 DW is a product that addresses the need for highly customized and special purpose PC cabinets pin pointed. With PC Power user community is increasing every day the demand is growing in this segment rapidly. We feel that there is a customer segment waiting just for this product.” said Sudhir S, Managing Director of Inspan Infotech, ”Corsair CC 800 DW enables partners to address altogether a different customer segment that is more insisting on power performance than the value performance.” adds Sudhir.

Price, Warranty and Availability
Corsair CC800DW is priced at an MRP of INR 25,000 and is available ex-Stock. This product carries a 2 year warranty.

Product Image
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About Inspan Infotech
Inspan Infotech is one of the leading IT distribution companies in India with distribution of established brands like Mercury, IXA, Genius, BenQ, Corsair, Cyberclean, Numeric, A-DATA, and ViewSonic etc. Inspan has proved to be one of the fastest growing companies in India registering double the growth rate of IT industry in India for last two years. Inspan has grown due to its strong channel partner network and strong association with major vendors. Inspan believes in providing full value to its partners and is constantly working to add more value per job done. Inspan is looking to constantly add new product lines to complement and leverage on its existing strength to provide more value to partners. With 22 branches across all regions of the country and 3,000 channel partners, Inspan is poised for the next big jump. Website: www.inspaninfotech.com
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Hackers exploit McAfee False Alarm to spread Scareware Attack, Sophos Reports

System administrators at risk of infection from fake anti-virus traps

MUMBAI / BANGALORE, India – April 23, 2010 – IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, is warning that hackers are exploiting a problem with McAfee's anti-virus product that has caused hundreds of thousands of computers around the world to repeatedly reboot themselves, effectively becoming inoperable.

McAfee accidentally issued a detection update yesterday which mistakenly detected a harmless Windows file, svchost.exe, as "W32/Wecorl.a", and caused critical problems on affected PCs.

Hackers, however, are compounding the problem by using blackhat SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques to create webpages stuffed with content which appears to be related to McAfee's false alarm problem - but are really designed to infect visiting computers.

Sophos has identified malicious webpages which appear on the first page of Google results if users search for phrases associated with McAfee's false positive.

"It's bad enough if many of the computers in your company are out of action because of a faulty security update, but it's even worse if you infect your network by Googling for a fix," explained Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant for Sophos. "These poisoned pages are appearing on the very first page of search engine results, making it likely that many will click on them. If you visit the links you may see pop-up warnings telling you about security issues with your computer. These warnings are fake and designed to trick you into downloading dangerous software, which could result in hackers gaining control of your corporate computers or the theft of your credit card details."

In the past, hackers have used the same techniques to infect users hunting for information about Sandra Bullock's marriage problems, Tiger Woods' car crash, and the death of celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Natasha Richardson.

"SEO poisoning is one of the fastest-growing areas of cybercrime today," explained Cluley. "The hackers know that users turn to search engines when they are looking for the latest news on a breaking story, and are lying in wait to infect the unwary."

Sophos recommends that businesses protect their users by running a web security solution which scans every webpage and link clicked upon for malware and criminal activity.

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About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use, and that deliver the industry’s lowest TCO. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, UK and Boston, US. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Inspan launches Genius Traveler 900 Mouse

World’s smallest receiver that can be stored inside this Wireless 2.4GHz Mouse

CHENNAI / BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – April 20, 2010 – Inspan Infotech, one of the largest IT distribution companies for motherboards and hardware components, announced the launch of Genius Traveler 900 – the world’s smallest wireless mouse first time in India. The micro receiver is so small that it can be stored within the mouse itself.

Genius Traveler mouse is equipped with a 1600 dpi advanced optical engine that makes it easy to turbo scroll through long documents and internet pages. Its advanced 2.4 GHz wireless solution ensures the great movement control which is appreciated in smaller mouse. This mouse is also environment friendly, designed for power saving ensuring longer battery life up to 8 months.

Best suited for netbooks and newer generation sleek notebooks, this mouse has a convenient seesaw design with which pages can be scrolled within no time by pressing of up or down arrow. Thus it helps one to look very quickly at beginning and closing of a long matter or screen shot.

It is compatible with Windows Vista/XP/2000 as well as with Mac 10.2.8 or later. Easy to install software is provided in CD/DVD media. The piano black color with silver streaks is a perfect match for the contemporary stylish netbooks and note books

It is quite appreciated at many times if you are able to look at the top-line and bottom-line! Especially with larger spread sheet kind of applications, top executives need to scroll through quickly, particularly on the move. We feel this feature of this mouse is quite useful. Of course the size is mini that makes it convenient to carry.” said Sudhir S, Managing Director of Inspan Infotech, ”Genius Traveler 900 will come handy for those high flying executives who are on the move.” adds Sudhir.

Price, Warranty and Availability
Genius Traveler 900 is priced at an MRP of Rs. 1,499 and is available ex-Stock. This product carries a 3 year warranty.

Product Image
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About Inspan Infotech
Inspan Infotech is one of the leading IT distribution companies in India with distribution of established brands like Mercury, IXA, Genius, BenQ, Corsair, Cyberclean, Numeric, A-DATA, and ViewSonic etc. Inspan has proved to be one of the fastest growing companies in India registering double the growth rate of IT industry in India for last two years. Inspan has grown due to its strong channel partner network and strong association with major vendors. Inspan believes in providing full value to its partners and is constantly working to add more value per job done. Inspan is looking to constantly add new product lines to complement and leverage on its existing strength to provide more value to partners. With 22 branches across all regions of the country and 3,000 channel partners, Inspan is poised for the next big jump. Website: www.inspaninfotech.com
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Adaptec MaxIQTM SSD Cache Performance Solution Increases Performance for Japan’s Largest Server Farm

A.T. WORKS Gains Significant Performance Increases for Web Applications

BANGALORE, India — April 12, 2010 — Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT), the global leader in I/O innovation, today announced that its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution has been implemented by A.T. WORKS, Inc., Japan’s premier Internet services provider and manager of the country’s largest server farm.

A.T. WORKS turned to Adaptec’s MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution after searching for an affordable solid state disk-based (SSD) Web and database server solution for those customers dissatisfied with performance offered by SATA or SAS-based hard disk drive (HDD) arrays. Ideal for data centers running applications with high “read” operations such as Web serving, file serving, and databases, the A.T. WORKS solution uses customized Intel® SSDs used as cache with Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Caching Software, plus Adaptec RAID 2405 and Adaptec RAID 5405 Unified Serial® controllers to create high-performance hybrid arrays made of SSDs and HDDs. The implementation of the Adaptec MaxIQ solution at A.T. Works doubled the performance of SATA HDD RAID 1 configurations with static Web pages, and significantly outperformed SAS HDD-only configurations with dynamic Web pages.

We had been looking for a cost effective way to add SSD components to our servers for quite awhile, but SSD capacity is less than that of an HDD and the relative cost per gigabyte is much higher,” said Takuji Ikeda of A. T. WORKS’ Engineering Division. “With Adaptec MaxIQ, we’ve been able to create a hybrid solution of SSDs and HDDs to meet growing customer demands for large capacity, high-performance storage solutions at an affordable price.”

After seeing the results, A.T. WORKS now encourages its customers currently using Adaptec Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial® storage controllers to upgrade with Adaptec MaxIQ. With 9,000 hosted specialized servers, A.T. WORKS relies on Adaptec MaxIQ, and the included Adaptec Storage Manager™, a centralized interface to enable, disable, and configure cache levels, to provide the best performance possible for its customers.

About Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution
The Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution addresses the needs of I/O intensive data centers by creating high-performance hybrid arrays – storage arrays that use both SSDs and HDDs – to deliver up to five times the I/O performance of HDD-only arrays and up to 50 percent savings in capital and operating costs.

The Adaptec MaxIQ solution features SSDs used as cache, plus MaxIQ SSD Caching Software. The software introduces a patent-pending Learned-Path algorithm that alleviates the bottleneck that can occur between server processors and hard drives by copying frequently-read data directly into an optimized SSD cache pool for faster retrieval in future requests. MaxIQ also updates “hot” cached data on subsequent writes to the same blocks to maximize storage efficiency.

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About Adaptec
Adaptec is the global leader in I/O innovation. The Company provides innovative data center I/O solutions that protect, accelerate, optimize, and condition data in today’s most demanding data center environments. Adaptec products are used in IT environments ranging from on-demand cloud computing to traditional enterprise data centers. Its products enable data center managers, channel partners and OEMs to deploy best-in-class storage solutions to meet their customers’ evolving IT requirements. Around the world, leading corporations, government organizations, and medium and small businesses trust Adaptec technology. More information is available at www.adaptec.com, on its blog, storageadvisors.adaptec.com and at adaptec.com/facebook and twitter.com/Adaptec_Inc.
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Sophos Strengthens its Data Protection Strategy with SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50 and SafeGuard Easy 5.50

Breadth of latest SafeGuard solutions reinforces Sophos’s position as a strategic partner committed to the strongest data security and the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO)

MUMBAI / BANGALORE, India – April 11, 2010 – IT security and control firm Sophos today announced the release of version 5.50 of Sophos SafeGuard ® Easy and Sophos SafeGuard ® Enterprise, the industry’s first and only data protection product line designed to address the broadest array of customer requirements, implementation options and long-term data protection plans. This latest advancement furthers Sophos’s commitment to provide customers with a new approach to comprehensive security and data protection that reduces cost and complexity.

Leading the Industry in Product Depth and Expertise

In the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection, the analyst firm noted, "Every company must include mobile data protection in its IT operations plan." Sophos has delivered upon this message by offering two distinctly different data protection offerings that are ideally built upon the same award-winning platform.

Sophos SafeGuard ® Enterprise 5.50, the industry’s most advanced, multi-layered endpoint data security encryption and data leakage prevention (DLP) solution, is ideal for customers who are most concerned with the breadth of Sophos’s central policy management capabilities and the ability to secure desktops, laptops, removable media and other portable devices. The SafeGuard Enterprise engine complies with most recent standards and modern platforms to optimally support current and future needs of enterprise customers in securing their infrastructure.

For customers primarily addressing regulatory requirements such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Sophos SafeGuard® Easy 5.50 is an ideal, simplified full disk encryption solution for laptops and PCs. Given its shared engine platform, Safeguard Easy customers can seamlessly upgrade to SafeGuard Enterprise without the need to re-encrypt the company’s endpoints.

Leading the Industry in Lowest TCO
The new versions of Sophos SafeGuard solutions introduce several new capabilities that ultimately aim to further reduce the customer’s TCO, such as—

  • Forgotten full disk encryption passwords can now be securely recovered with the Local Self Help functionality. Users simply answer questions they created during the initial enrollment to retrieve their password - bypassing the help desk completely, with the added benefit of lowering help desk costs.
  • New Server Installation Wizard enables administrators to install the Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise server and client components, and required Microsoft server components, faster with accurate configuration settings.
  • Administrator Accounts enhancements allow administrators to audit and perform essential tasks on PCs during encryption rollouts. Managing security officer roles and groups has also been made easier especially for large deployments.
  • New administrator access options and updated policy controls provide a variety of deployment alternatives for both centrally- and non-centrally managed environments- from a few PCs in remote offices to over 100,000 PCs including those in service provider type deployments. IT administrators can easily rollout encryption across heterogeneous environments ensuring users are protected at all times regardless of their location.
  • The latest Sophos SafeGuard solutions fully support Windows 7 64-bit support - including Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise modules — Device Encryption, Partner Connect, and Management Center. SafeGuard Enterprise Management Center and Server also support Windows Server 2008R2 (64-bit).
The new SafeGuard Enterprise Server Installation Wizard allows us to install the server components and Management Center more quickly and efficiently – that’s a big plus,” said Vojta Borovian, Senior Desktop Engineer at LECG, a global management consultancy and business advisory services firm. “The improved management features allows us to easily upgrade to the new version by exporting policies, such as device protection from the existing 5.40 Management Center and importing into the 5.50 Management Center. We liked the new Administrator Accounts features as it gives the option of assigning administrative rights to groups and allows them to easily perform essential deployment tasks on PCs while ensuring that end-user access to PCs is auditable for compliance. Overall, we found SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50 to offer enhanced, easy-to-manage data protection, which allows our IT team to be more efficient.”

No Additional Cost
All existing Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise and Sophos SafeGuard Easy customers who are covered by the maintenance contract and have the appropriate license are entitled to receive the latest version at no additional cost. Sophos SafeGuard Easy customers interested in upgrading to Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise 5.50, please contact your Sophos account manager.

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About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use, and that deliver the industry’s lowest TCO. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, UK and Boston, US. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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95% of Facebook users oppose privacy policy changes, Sophos poll reveals

MUMBAI / BANGALORE, India – April 9, 2010 – A survey released today by leading IT security company, Sophos, reveals that controversial changes Facebook is planning to make to its privacy policy are being universally slammed by users.

The study, conducted amongst 680 readers on Sophos's website and Facebook page, found that an overwhelming 95 per cent of the respondents think the privacy changes are ‘a bad thing’.

Only two per cent of the respondents polled said that they would support the change, with the remaining three per cent saying they did not understand what changes Facebook was proposing.

In March 2010, Facebook proposed a number of controversial changes to its privacy policy, paving the way for it to share personal information with ‘pre-approved’ third-party websites. This means that, if you're logged into Facebook and then visit a third party website, that site will be able to access the following:

- your name
- your profile picture
- your gender
- your friends and connections
- your user ID
- any content shared using the ‘Everyone’ privacy setting

Consequently, users may find that when they visit a website it already knows who they are; their date of birth; where they live; and who their friends are. All, without ever having given the site explicit permission to access that data. According to Facebook, only a small number of pre-approved sites will be offered this feature, and users will be given the option to disable the feature."

As a result of a rise in public consternation around these changes, Facebook published a response which sought to justify its position and to reassure users that the company would only offer personal data to ‘carefully selected partners’. It also outlines that partners would be ‘required to provide an easy and prominent method’ for users to opt out directly from their websites and delete any cached personal data.

"The results of this poll send out a very clear message to Facebook - its users aren't happy. Most Facebook users still don't know how to set their Facebook privacy options safely, finding the whole system confusing and long- winded," said Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos. "The onus should not be on Facebook users to ‘opt out’ of this new feature but to ‘opt in’ - making a conscious choice to engage, rather than having to make a conscious decision to decline."

"Once again, it feels like online privacy is being eroded by stealth. Too many websites are chipping away at their members' privacy and security, potentially exposing their personal data to third parties that were never in the equation when they first signed-up for the service," continued Cluley. "Facebook would be doing its hundreds of millions of users a service if it thought again about this new privacy policy."

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About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use, and that deliver the industry’s lowest TCO. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, UK and Boston, US. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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R&M converts Liaison Office into Indian Subsidiary

This reiterates R&M’s focus and aggressive approach in the Indian market

BANGALORE, India – April 6, 2010 – Swiss cabling specialist Reichle & De-Massari (R&M) has announced the conversion of its India Liaison office to Indian subsidiary. This reiterates R&M’s focus and aggressive approach in the Indian market. For R&M, India is one of the fastest growing markets in the region.

From a modest start of its India operations in 2006, R&M stormed its way into the top five cabling companies by the end of 2009 due to its technological superiority. R&M has also invested in a demo and training centre in Bangalore for the partners and end users.

Speaking on the occasion, Gaurav Ahluwalia, Managing Director, R&M India said, “R&M India Pvt Ltd is another step towards delivering value to our customers. This change brings with it the opportunity for us to further cater to our customers increased demands. It also gives us the flexibility to expand our operations and create inroads into new verticals, markets and regions in India.”

This new status of Indian subsidiary is another milestone for R&M’s expansion in the Indian market. With this, we are expecting a double digits growth this year. The Indian subsidiary will help us in capitalizing on the success we have already achieved in the Indian market. India is a key market for R&M (Asia-Pacific) and we view it as powerful driver of growth in the Asia-Pacific market,” informed Laurent Amestoy, President, APAC, R&M.

R&M has pioneered some of the latest technological innovations. It has recently launched LC Duplex compact fiber-optic connector system in the Indian market and the new fiber optic cable guidance product called the R&M Raceway System. Last year also saw R&M launch Cat. 6A module (ISO/IEC).

With the scaling up of operation and addition of dedicated specialists for industry verticals like IT/ITES, BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing, and automotive, the company has registered an increase of 18 percent in its turnover. Besides this, R&M‘s manpower has gone up by 25 percent. Today, R&M works with 90 partners and three distributors, and is aiming for number three slot by end-2010.

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About R&M
R&M is a leading supplier of passive cabling solutions for high-quality communication networks. With its copper and fiber optic systems the company contributes significantly towards ensuring operational reliability in voice, data and image transmission - worldwide. As a systems provider R&M has set itself the target of developing optimum functionality and, above all, satisfying the highest quality criteria. R&M also provides maximum installation and maintenance convenience. R&M solutions stand out by virtue of their maximum availability combined with cost-effective network operation. R&M’s high level of product quality and forward-looking system design ensure that the networks are sustainable and the investments safeguarded. R&M cabling solutions are used in office buildings and homes, by net-work operators and in industry. More information is available at www.rdm.com
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Monday, April 5, 2010

Corsair® Breaks PC Mark® Vantage World Record Using Force Series SSDs

Sub-zero cooled Corsair PC smashes previous world record score thanks to eleven Corsair F200 SSDs and Dominator® GTX memory

HYDERABAD / BANGALORE, India – April 5, 2010 – Corsair®, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced that it has set a new world record score in PC Mark Vantage, using a performance PC powered by eleven Corsair Force Series F200 SSDs in a high bandwidth RAID configuration.

The World Record score of 32,947 was achieved by a Corsair-built system based around the Intel® Core™ i7-980X six-core processor, cooled to sub-zero temperatures. The system was powered by a Corsair HX1000W PSU, 6GB of Corsair Dominator GTX2 memory, and eleven 200GB Force Series F200 SSDs. The recently-announced Force Series SSDs utilize the sophisticated SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor to deliver unparalleled sequential and random read/write performance.

Using liquid nitrogen on a Kingpin Cooling F1EE LN2 pot, the team at Corsair's Labs in Fremont, California, overclocked the Intel Core i7-980X processor to a frequency of 5791MHz and The Corsair Dominator GTX2 memory to a frequency of 2144MHz, CL 7. Combined with the incredible performance of eleven Force Series F200 SSDs in RAID 0 using an Areca® ARC-1680D-IX-12 PCI-E RAID controller, Corsair was able to smash the previous world record score of 31,333 by 1,614 points.

"Enthusiasts are accustomed to seeing Corsair breaking DRAM speed records, but this latest world record success clearly demonstrates that Corsair now offers class-leading products in other product categories too," said Andy Paul, President & CEO of Corsair. "The incredible data throughput provided by eleven Force Series SSDs in RAID 0, together with a Corsair HX1000W power supply and Dominator GTX memory, proved to be an unbeatable combination for this extreme-performance PC."

The complete list of components used in the record-breaking Corsair PC can be seen below:
- 11 x Corsair Force Series F200 SSDs
- 6GB Corsair Dominator GTX2 DDR3 @ 2144MHz
- Corsair Professional Series HX1000W power supply
- Intel Core i7-980X processor
- ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card
- EVGA® X58 Classified motherboard
- Kingpin Cooling F1EE Liquid Nitrogen pot
- Areca® ARC-1680D-IX-12 PCI-E RAID card

Complete details regarding the test setup, methods, and results can be found here.

For more information on Corsair solid-state drive products, please visit: http://www.corsair.com/products/ssd_home.aspx

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About Corsair®

Founded in 1994, Corsair Memory, Inc., is a worldwide leader in high performance components for personal computers. Specializing in very high performance memory and ultra- efficient power supplies, our flagship products, Including Dominator™ memory modules, are the choice of overclockers, enthusiasts, and gamers everywhere. Our expertise in design and manufacturing is also evident in our complete line of Flash Voyager® and Flash Survivor™ USB storage devices. Corsair offers 24/7 customer support via forums and the Tech Support Express helpdesk. For more information, please visit www.corsair.com

Copyright© 2009 Corsair. All rights reserved. All company and/or product names may be trade names, trademarks, and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice.
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