Day: March 10, 2022

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Customertimes Announces The Give Back to Ukraine Fund

NEW YORK, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Customertimes announces the launch of The Give Back to Ukraine Fund, a humanitarian initiative to support those who have been directly impacted by the war.

This independent account will be governed by the Customertimes executive board, and 100% of the contributions will be used to support employee volunteer efforts on the ground and provide housing, medicine, clothing, and food for our Ukrainian team.

Since its launch March 3, 2022, The Give Back to Ukraine Fund has raised more than $95,000 USD. Additionally, the C-level staff at Customertimes has collectively agreed to donate their own salaries for the month of March to these rescue efforts.

“I would like to personally thank our colleagues and partners for their contribution to The Give Back to Ukraine Fund,” says Dmitry Sidnev, CEO and Co-founder of Customertimes.

“The funds are helping our colleagues and their families who are volunteering in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, and Romania to provide food, water, clothing, relocation, housing, transportation, and medical assistance to those that need it most. We are also supporting our team directly, ensuring everyone is safe and has access to food, shelter, and supplies.”

Contributions can be made through Square or via wire transfer, and the company will provide an independent report of every dollar that is spent through the fund. Results will also be published on the company website for complete transparency.

To learn more:

About Customertimes

Customertimes Corp. is a global consulting and software firm dedicated to making the top IT technologies accessible to customers. With more than 4000 projects completed and 1600+ highly skilled experts, our solutions are engineered to help clients realize true business transformation and achieve maximum value from their technology investments. An early entrant into the Salesforce consulting and implementation space in Eastern Europe and an award-winning product development organization, Customertimes Corp. currently has headquarters in New York City, along with regional offices in London, Paris, Toronto, Kyiv, Poznan, Riga, and Podgorica. For more information, visit www.customertimes.com.

Media Contact:
Meriel Sikora
Customertimes
212-520-0059
meriel.sikora@customertimes.com

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La solution FusionPower6000 de Huawei remporte le prix du produit d’innovation au Data Centre World 2022

LONDRES, 9 mars 2022 /PRNewswire/ — La solution Smart Converged FusionPower6000 de Huawei, un système d’alimentation et de distribution de pointe, a remporté le prix DCW dans la catégorie Produit d’innovation de l’année lors du Data Centre World 2022 qui s’est récemment terminé à Londres.https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1761647/image_5003324_11238039.jpg

Les Data Centre World Awards, décernés chaque année, sont conçus pour reconnaître et récompenser les innovations et les réalisations dans le secteur mondial des centres de données. Le fait que Huawei ait remporté le prix de l’innovation cette année montre que l’industrie reconnaît FusionPower6000 pour sa haute densité et son efficacité, sa livraison simplifiée, ainsi que sa sécurité et sa fiabilité accrues.

Avec un modèle disparate du système d’alimentation électrique, la plupart des centres de données de moyenne et grande taille manquent d’optimisation du système et de surveillance et de gestion à liaison complète, souffrant d’une faible efficacité et d’une consommation d’énergie élevée. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, la solution FusionPower6000 fournit des solutions d’alimentation et de distribution intégrées de niveau MW pour les grands centres de données en intégrant les liaisons pleine puissance du transformateur moyenne tension au chargeur. La solution primée présente trois caractéristiques principales :

  • Simple : avec des composants modulaires remplaçables à chaud, tous préfabriqués en usine, le délai de commercialisation est réduit de 75 %, tandis que la maintenance est simplifiée.
  • Écologique : la convergence à liaison complète permet de réduire l’empreinte physique de plus de 40 %. L’efficacité de la liaison électrique atteint également 97,8 % en mode Super ECO, fournissant de l’énergie de manière respectueuse de l’environnement.
  • Intelligente et fiable : les opérations et la maintenance (O&M) sont facilitées grâce à un système visualisé, à la prédiction des pannes et à la maintenance proactive optimisées par l’intelligence artificielle (IA), à la prédiction de la durée de vie des composants de base, aux paramètres de commutation en ligne et à la reconnaissance du son et de l’image.

En tant que choix privilégié pour les systèmes d’alimentation et de distribution des grands centres de données, la solution FusionPower6000 de Huawei a été largement utilisée dans divers secteurs, notamment l’énergie, les transports, les TIC et les installations de colocation. Par rapport aux solutions traditionnelles, la solution de Huawei a permis au centre de données du CTICC Cloud, une filiale du China Transport Telecommunications & Information Centre (« CTTIC »), d’économiser plus de 40 % d’espace (environ 750 mètres carrés) dans le système d’alimentation et de distribution, de déployer 350 armoires supplémentaires et d’économiser plus de 16 000 mètres de câbles d’alimentation. De plus, le centre de données modulaire préfabriqué ne prend que deux semaines pour être installé sur place. La technologie d’IA permet une maintenance prédictive, renforçant ainsi la sécurité et la fiabilité du système d’alimentation.

À l’avenir, Huawei continuera d’investir dans l’innovation pour créer un système d’alimentation électrique plus dense, efficace, sûr et fiable pour le secteur des centres de données et de conduire l’industrie vers le développement durable.

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African Union Urges Putin to End Conflict

Senegalese President and chair of the African Union Macky Sall has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a lasting cease-fire in Ukraine. Sall’s talk with Putin comes just a week after Senegal abstained from a U.N. vote to condemn the Russian invasion. African nations have interests in seeing an end to the war but also in not upsetting Putin.

Sall’s request as chairman of the African Union Wednesday was a contrast to his actions as Senegalese president a week prior, when Senegal joined 16 other African countries in abstaining from a U.N. vote to condemn the Russian invasion.

Senegal is considered a beacon of democracy in West Africa, so the move came as a surprise to many.

“[Non-alignment] has been the default posture for many African countries over the years where they prefer not to get involved or not to get in between great power rivalries,” said Joseph Siegle, the director of research for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. “And so, it isn’t a vote of support for Russia, but a vote for trying to maintain neutrality.”

Russia has a plethora of business dealings throughout the African continent. Senegal, for example, signed a $300 million deal with Russian oil company Lukoil just last year. The company also has operations in Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana and Nigeria. Russian mining companies are also active throughout Africa, from extracting diamonds in Angola to aluminum in Guinea and uranium in Namibia.

Most notably, Moscow is Africa’s leading supplier of weapons. Since 2015, it’s signed military agreements with more than 20 African countries.

Furthermore, private Russia military companies with close ties to the Kremlin have gained an increasingly strong foothold in African countries such as Mali and the Central African Republic.

So, while it may be in the best interest of many African countries to avoid tension with the Kremlin, leaders are beginning to feel the ripple effects of the war.

“Russia is a country that exports a lot of products, notably gas and raw materials like wheat,” said Abdou Rahmane Thiam, head of the political science department at Dakar’s University of Cheikh Anta Diop. “That can have an economic impact especially with regards to trade.”

Luckily, the African Union does have some sway, Thiam said.

“International relations are not only decided by major world powers — the African Union is still a regional institution. It can be considered an influential voice,” Thiam said. “Russia also needs Africa. It’s in their best interest to listen to the spokesperson of the African Union.”

In a statement about the call, the Kremlin referred to the invasion as a “special military operation to protect Donbass” and did not mention Sall’s request for a cease-fire. Instead, it stated that Russia was asked to safely evacuate foreign citizens and said both leaders had reaffirmed their commitment to further develop Russian-African relations.

Source: Voice of America

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Withdrawal of Peacekeepers Draws Fears of ‘Security Threats’ in Contested Abyei

The spokesperson for U.N. peacekeepers in the contested Abyei region says the mission will face huge security challenges if the U.N. withdraws Ethiopian troops from the force as planned.

Ethiopia contributes all 2,000 soldiers in the U.N. Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA), which monitors the oil-producing Abyei territory on the border between Sudan and South Sudan.

In April 2021, Sudan asked the United Nations to remove Ethiopian troops from UNISFA after negotiations broke down between Sudan and Ethiopia over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile.

Speaking to VOA’s South Sudan in Focus on Thursday, UNIFSA spokesperson Daniel Adekera said withdrawal of the Ethiopian troops would hamper the mission’s ability to deter attacks because UNIFSA is still waiting for a deployment of troops from China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The U.N. Department of Peacekeeping said the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops is ongoing, and that “some repatriations have taken place.”

“With the withdrawal again, given high reduction of the troops, it’s certain there is going to be security gaps and no matter how we try to deploy in critical areas, criminals will also study your deployment and they will evade and go to flashpoints,” Adekera said.

Briefing journalists Wednesday in New York, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said long-standing grievances and disputes between communities in Abyei and neighboring areas have resulted in weeks of violence.

“The mission is talking with local leaders and is urging the parties to exercise restraint,” he said. “They have also stepped up patrols of the areas most affected by the recent violence and have also provided shelter and protection to people fleeing the fighting.”

Adekera said recent attacks by armed men from South Sudan’s Warrap state and from Sudan appeared to be “well-coordinated.”

“I would think it is politically motivated [conflict], and it has to do with disagreement over land,” he said.

Abyei’s inhabitants, who are mainly the Dinka Ngok, voted to join South Sudan in an October 2013 referendum, but Sudan’s government rejected the results.

A U.N. Security Council resolution established UNISFA in June 2011 and gave it the mandate to use force to deter threats in area.

Adekera said confronting various armed groups in Abyei can be challenging.

“It is not a conflict that is conventional,” he said. “In most cases there are hit-and-run people, more of what you can call guerrilla attacks.”

Last year, the Security Council extended the mandate of the Abyei peacekeeping mission to May 2022 and urged Sudan and South Sudan to demilitarize the area.

Source: Voice of America