HP offers low-cost servers

HP's new NS2000 completes the company's multicore NonStop line-up of fault-tolerant servers by giving SMEs the same high performance that larger enterprises get, but for a lower price, reports eWeek.

The move by HP is the latest by vendors looking to bring their high-end hardware platforms to new customers, in particular smaller enterprises and emerging markets.

In October, IBM rolled out the System z10 Business Class, aiming its low-cost mainframes at SMEs.

Meeza has signed an agreement with Fuego Digital Media, a software-on-demand company headquartered in Qatar, to provide it with highly available, scalable and secure data centre services, according to AME Info.

Fuego is building the Fuego OnDemand service to provide simple Web-based business applications in Arabic, English and French to the 5.3 million SMEs across the 22 countries of the Middle East and North Africa region.

Kevin Higgins, Fuego's CEO, says: “Increasingly, the Web is becoming the primary means of an organisation's interaction with customers, citizens, partners and employees”.

Vitesse, a provider of IC solutions for carrier and enterprise networks, announced what it calls the first complete physical media dependent chipset for 10 Gbps Ethernet passive optical networks (10G-Epon), TradingMarkets.com reports.

Designed to be used in fibre to the home deployments, the chipset provides OEMs a migration path to implement faster data rates within the existing network infrastructure.

Driving the need for these higher data rates in FTTH are densely populated residences, such as multi-dwelling units and SMEs, where bandwidth-intensive triple-play applications and services are now a requirement.