The importance of selecting air conditioning by continental regional

The importance of selecting air conditioning by continental regional (17/08/12) by Sean Handley Orion AC&R Limited

People consider air conditioning to be a generic piece of equipment that will work on any continent, a plug in and use device in many cases. The truth is that many air conditioning manufactures have a continental classification for their systems. Where some air conditioning manufacturers deal with sales on a global level it is essential that air conditioning comes equipped with the relevant devices to match the continent it serves I.e: If a air conditioning system is used in Northern Europe it will have to be equipped with to cope with the harsh winters. Northern Hemisphere Generally air conditioning for Western Europe, North Europe, North America are equipped with a protective and aquatic jacket around the compressor or a crank case heater. This is to protect the compressor from harsh frosts of winter when the unit may not be on for many months. If used for heat pump purposes then it must be able to produce heat in sub-zero temperatures. Most manufactures rate their equipment down to -15DegC for winter heat production. Sanyo did produce a CO2 system that was rated to work at -25DegC but it was to expensive to be popular. For the above continental regions most air conditioning heat pumps are rated at ambient temperature of 38DegC cooling and -15DegC heat pump function. Africa and Southern Hemisphere In Africa and the Middle east where temperatures can sour above 40 DegC the main players on the global air conditioning market (Daikin air conditioning and Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning) have rated their equipment to 45 DegC to cope with the heat. For this region the average  year round temperature is around 17 DegC with obvious highs and lows. The Air conditioning system has the extremes of weather to cope with. Popular European Brands Popular air conditioning brands in Europe are Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Daikin and LG with little impact from the US brands except for commercial equipment such as roof top chillers (Trane and Carrier). There are the cheaper split type systems which are Chinese manufactured and come with no protection for winter or high temperature environments. These systems are generally low quality and past experience shows they have a life span of around 7 years. Summery Buy air conditioning systems that match your climate and continental requirements. If you are using air conditioning in extremes of weather only use a quality manufacturer. The budget systems have no protection so are only good for occasional use. List of manufactures can be found here Call: +44(0)845 5677080            E-mail: Info@orionair.co.uk

Fujitsu Extends 'Make IT Dynamic' Solutions for the Middle East's SMBs

One-stop-shop for integrated, pre-tested, scalable IT Infrastructure with improved backup and virtualization. Dubai United Arab Emirates, April 04, 2011 - Fujitsu






Fujitsu Technology Solutions Holding Information Technology today adds six new solutions to its popular 'Make IT Dynamic' initiative for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East, offering easy-to-manage computing power to suit individual budgets. By choosing special SMB-focused solutions from the leading European IT infrastructure provider, smaller companies in the region can expect worry-free IT solutions designed to underpin their business priorities.

Increasingly for companies of all sizes, right-sized IT infrastructures are critical to their business success. As IT dependency grows, SMBs need to answer tough questions about their future IT strategy - and to be sure that their chosen solution provides the stability and scalability needed to support future growth.

Fujits's 'Make IT Dynamic' initiative addresses this head-on, offering a choice of IT infrastructure building blocks based on reliable Fujitsu PRIMERGY x86 rack and blade servers and ETERNUS storage systems, with built-in scalability to grow with business requirements. Now added to the 'Make IT Dynamic' line-up are the new PRIMERGY BX400 blade server, and the new ETERNUS CS800 S2 Efficient Data Protection Appliance. Both server and storage are specially suited to and developed for midmarket customers. For companies that need further easy-to-implement features on top of their server and storage systems, FujitsuFujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions Holding offers integrated, pre-tested solutions for EASY Backup, EASY Virtualization, EASY SAN, EASY High Availability and Business Continuity.

Chandan Mehta, Product Manager at Fujitsu Technology SolutionsFujitsu Technology SolutionsLoading..., said: "The new solutions with the Make IT Dynamic initiative now complete Fujitsu's comprehensive range of easy and consistent consulting and support, designed to make our customer's IT truly dynamic. We've added innovative mid-market optimized PRIMERGY blade server and ETERNUS storage platforms to the mix, delivering even more value to the Middle East's SMB community, and to our channel partners in the region."

Fujitsu's Make IT Dynamic website includes more information about the initiative, including details of which solutions are available in individual markets, and a useful solution finder that helps customers identify a product combination that best meets their needs.

Pricing and Availability

All products are available in all global regions. The Make IT Dynamic Solution bundles are currently being rolled out to: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Middle East, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and UK. Availability and cost varies by region.

New Solutions to Meet a Range of Customer Challenges

Each of the new solutions in Fujitsu Technology Solutions Holding's extended 'Make IT Dynamic' initiative eases recognized customer pain-points, while providing partners with additional value-added solutions from a trusted major vendor, committed to its channel:

Easy High Availability and Operations - for easy entry into the world of efficient server life-cycle operations and cost-efficient high availability. Deploying new physical or virtual servers, replacing failed servers or switching over servers to spare servers now takes only a matter of minutes.

Easy Virtualization with BX400 and Microsoft Hyper-V - for easy and cost-effective entry into the world of blade server technology and server virtualization. System Center Essentials 2010 as part of the solution provides comprehensive unified management for complete IT environments that enables proactive IT management and increased IT efficiency.

Easy Virtual Storage with BX400 - for easy and cost-effective entry into the world of blade server technology in combination with integrated shared storage. By leveraging the virtual storage appliance with Data ONTAP-v software, customers can benefit from NetApp's proven and innovative storage efficiency capabilities such as snapshots that help customers achieve greater cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Easy Backup to Disk with ETERNUS CS800 - for an easy and cost-effective entry into the world of disk-based backup, enabling the customer to use Network-Attached Storage connectivity instead of introducing and administering Fibre Channel technology necessary for tape-based backup. This makes the whole datacenter easier to manage.

Easy Backup to Tape - for easy protection of a company's most valuable asset - its data. EASY Backup to Tape comprises ETERNUS LT and Symantec Backup Exec running on a PRIMERGY server that allows data protection in a very affordable way.

Easy Backup for Startups - ideal for SOHO (small office home office) or SMB customers who want to increase operational efficiency and data safety but who do not have an in-house IT department. EASY Backup for Start-Ups offers server reliability together with effortless backup - at a competitive price.

PRIMERGY BX400 - Blade Server Technology for SMBs Looking for Scalable Efficiencies and Consolidation

The PRIMERGY BX400 was built from the ground up to be a user-friendly, versatile and all-in-one infrastructure designed for midsized customers that have large computing and storage requirements. At the same time, it is fully compatible with each component of the PRIMERGY BX blade server portfolio. The system itself is built on four cornerstones:

Easy-to-use: Easy installation processes and execution of basic management tasks helps users to save valuable time and can cut the daily operations by up to 60 percent.

Energy-efficient: Reduce your electric bill by up to 30 percent, put less strain on the air conditioning, and reduce the IT related CO2 emissions.

All-in-one-box: Modular infrastructure to meet office and datacenter environments that enables to use 50 percent more capacity in the same space with latest technology and high performance.

Cost-sensitive: Consolidated design is more affordable to buy and efficient to own than conventional IT

ETERNUS CS800 S2 Data Protection Appliance - Affordable Disk Backup with Deduplication

Designed to broaden access to efficient data protection into the mid-market, ETERNUS CS 800 is a turnkey data protection appliance and provides a simple and affordable solution for customers which follow a disk backup strategy with deduplication. The advanced deduplication technology reduces typical capacity requirements for disk-to-disk backup by up to 90% to reduce costs. ETERNUS CS800 provides maximum disk performance and highest scalability. Backup data replication between sites uses global deduplication to reduce typical network bandwidth needs by a factor of 20 or more. ETERNUS CS800 also supports the Symantec OpenStorage and Path-to-Tape.

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Images of the PRIMERGY family are available online at: http://mediaportal.ts.fujitsu.com/pages/search.php?search=primergy%2C+family&archive=0

Images of the ETERNUS family are available online at: http://mediaportal.ts.fujitsu.com/pages/search.php?search=ETERNUS%2C+family&archive=0

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About Fujitsu
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Fujitsu Technology Solutions Holding is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 170,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu Technology Solutions Holding combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$50 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com

Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Fujitsu Technology SolutionsLoading... is the leading European IT infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India, serving large-, medium- and small-sized companies as well as consumers. With its Dynamic Infrastructures approach, the company offers a full portfolio of IT products, solutions and services, ranging from clients to datacenter solutions, Managed Infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Fujitsu Technology SolutionsFujitsu Technology SolutionsLoading... employs more than 13,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group. For more information, please see: ts.fujitsu.com/aboutus.

All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Information provided in this press release is accurate at time of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.

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LG Air Conditioning Academy, the first of its kind in the Middle East, has recently concluded its latest MultiV II

LG Air Conditioning Academy, the first of its kind in the Middle East, has recently concluded its latest MultiV II training course for a number of engineers from the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) at the InterContinental Hotel - Aqaba.

The Academy's choice to organize the training course, in which 25 engineers took advantage of, stems from its commitment to enhance the skill set of local engineers in all sectors, develop their practical knowledge and inform them of the latest technological advances in air conditioning systems. Moreover, the Academy also aims to invest such skills in the rich, unsaturated Aqaba market, as it requires a vast number of qualified staff that is familiar with the latest worldwide technologies.

Commenting on the course's conclusion was LG Air Conditioning Academy's Manager, Eng. Hussam Ebbini, who expressed, "We have chosen to conduct a course for Aqaba's engineers to enhance their practical experience and skills in air conditioning systems engineering. Aqaba is currently launching various investment and development projects that require highly-trained forces knowledgeable with the latest worldwide technologies. As the first of its kind in the Middle East, the Academy will continue to organize such courses to include the largest number of local and regional engineers."

The engineers expressed their delight at such an initiative, and Eng. Jaafar Al-Quoda from Aqaba Development Corporation expressed his admiration for the establishment such an Academy in Jordan, possessing years of expertise and engineering skills that are fit to compete on a worldwide level in the air conditioning engineering market. He also noted that the course has enabled him to enhance his engineering, academic and practical skills.

Furthermore, Engineer Ma'an Al-Fakara from the Aqaba Special Economic Zone stated that this course enabled him to know more about new high-end technologies such as LG's Solar System. He noted that the course is easy to understand and relies on practical applications, as it is conducted by engineers working in different sites.

It is worth mentioning that the LG Air Conditioning Academy has achieved massive success during its short period of operation and since its launch in April, 2010. The Academy has actively trained over 500 trainees from diverse sectors including students, engineers, contractors and consultants from Jordan and the Middle East. Moreover, the Academy's facilities include an exhibition for LG's latest air conditioning, lighting and solar energy products, in addition to a conference hall, a training room equipped with the latest LG MultiV equipment, and systems and networks that enable trainees to perform technical work efficiently.

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LG air conditioning aims to maintain top market share in MEA, targeting 15,000 unit sales in GCC

According to GFK, a global market research group, LG currently holds the lead position in major countries across the MEA with a market share of approximately 30%, giving it the largest monthly market share in MEA. The company is looking to further consolidate its position by securing a larger chunk of mid- to high-income consumers, who typically place a premium on technology.

With the very latest air conditioning technology offering even and powerful cooling, LG is targeting the GCC markets with the aim of securing the sale of 15,000 units with a product that is dynamic, powerful and efficient.

The Titan can blast out cool air over a distance of up to 10 meters, the longest range of any air conditioner on the market today. The Jet Cool function and the 4-way Swing system enable the unit to blow cool air in practically any direction at maximum speed, making rooms cooler in the shortest possible time. Additionally, a special Multi-stage Tropical Compressor combines a highly efficient motor, minimized oil circulation and a specially designed resonator and cylinders to ensure powerful cooling even in extreme weather conditions.

To ensure the Titan provides customers with the most comfortable and refreshing environment, LG has added unique health features. LG's Air Purifying system is equipped with special filters that eliminate germs, capture harmful airborne viruses, and remove unpleasant odors. In particular, the plasma filter, which eliminates germs by burning microscopic dust particles through its patented electric field, represents the latest in LG's innovation.

LG Electronics (LG) is set to release the Titan, a premium residential air conditioning model, in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). This updated version of an already successful, high-tech LG air conditioner will deliver powerful cooling made to withstand the region's often punishing weather conditions.

The Titan is also built to last, an essential requirement in what can be an extremely hot region. The Multi-stage Tropical Compressor is designed to function, unhindered, for 24 hours a day, despite possible sandstorms and temperatures as high as 60°C. The Inbuilt Automatic Voltage Switcher helps the unit respond to unstable power supplies, while the Anti Corrosion Gold Fin coating makes the unit's heat exchanger more resistant to corrosion.

"The Middle East and Africa market is expected to be a huge market for the air conditioning industry, with demand for high-end models quickly rising," said Mr. H. S. Paik, President of LG Electronics Gulf FZE. "To make sure we stay the unquestioned leader of the AC market in this region, we're going to keep raising the bar for air conditioners that keep customers perfectly comfortable and cool, whatever the temperature outside."

The Titan will be released Across GCC region from March onwards.

LG Air Conditioning saw worldwide sales increase by 50.5% in the last quarter of 2010

LG Air Conditioning saw worldwide sales increase by 50.5% in the last quarter of 2010, compared to the same period in 2009. Full year sales reached $4.2bn, 12.2% higher than 2009.

Significant growth was experienced in Middle East, Africa, Central and South America and stronger overseas commercial ac sales.

The Korean manufacturer also confirmed that it would not be making a bid for US air conditioner manufacturer Goodman Global despite being approached by San-Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. Japanese manufacturer Daikin is still considering making a bid.