TOKYO & MIDRAND, South Africa.-Friday, February 9th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- NEC Corporation (NEC) (TOKYO: 6701) today announced an increase in investment in XON Holdings Proprietary Limited (XON), an ICT solutions company based in the Republic of South Africa, making it a subsidiary through NEC Europe Ltd. XON, a Systems Integrator throughout Sub-Saharan Africa established in 1996, designs, builds, operates, and manages information and communication technology (ICT) solutions created specifically for customers. In a bid to expand its business in Africa, NEC made an investment in 2015 in XON that saw NEC take up a 25% stake in XON to unlock synergies between NEC’s African operation and XON. Following the successful synergies and value created through the first transaction, NEC decided to increase its investment in XON in a second transaction that sees NEC increase its stake in the merged XON-NEC Africa business to 59.1%. NEC expects rapid growth in its Sub-Saharan Afri ... Read more »

U.S.-specific proposal would protect C-band video and data transmissions and support accelerated 5G roll-out by mobile operators LUXEMBOURG & WASHINGTON -Friday, February 9th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Leading satellite companies SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) today announced alignment on a proposal to the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which seeks to protect the wide array of established satellite services in the 3700-4200 MHz C-band downlink spectrum while opening a specified portion of that spectrum for terrestrial mobile use. The joint proposal, which was developed in response to the unique U.S. telecommunications environment, aims to protect the quality and reliability of the extensive services provided by satellite operators in C-band to U.S. broadcasters, media and data companies. The proposal ensures the continued seamless distribution of video and audio programming to more than 1 ... Read more »

Doha, Qatar-Samedi 10 Février 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] QNB Group, la plus grande institution financière au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique, a annoncé la clôture réussie de la syndication de prêts privilégiés non garantis de 3 ans dont le montant s’élève à 3,5 milliards de dollars américains. La syndication a été bien soutenue par 21 banques internationales et la facilité a été augmentée en raison de la forte demande du marché. La nouvelle ligne de crédit sera utilisée à des fins générales. La syndication a été entièrement consentie par un syndicat de 9 Souscripteurs, dont Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited (BAML), Banque de Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. ; Barclays Bank PLC ; Deutsche Bank AG, succursale à Londres ; Intesa Sanpaolo SPA, Succursale QFC, Mizuho Bank Ltd. (Mizuho) ; Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation et United Overseas Bank Limited. BAML a été mandaté en tant que coordinateur de la documentation, tandis que Mizuho a été mandaté en tant que c ... Read more »

Enterprise solution ingests a 2PB full backup at 432TB/hr. in a single system WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -Friday, February 9th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, announced its largest, most powerful appliance in its arsenal of backup storage with data deduplication – the EX63000E. The EX63000E appliance has 58% more capacity than its predecessor, allowing for a 63TB full backup. Leveraging the strength of ExaGrid’s scale-out technology, up to thirty-two (32) EX63000E appliances can be combined in a single scale-out system [an increase from twenty-five (25) combined appliances previously], allowing for a 2PB full backup, which is a 100% increase over the previous 1PB. The EX63000E has a maximum ingest rate of 13.5TB/hr. per appliance, so when thirty-two (32) EX63000Es are combined in a single system, the maximum ingest rate is 432TB/hr. The Dell EMC DD9800 has a maximum full backup capacity of 1PB at 68TB/hr. w ... Read more »