Based on its recent analysis of the European uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) markets, Frost & Sullivan has recognized Eaton with the 2008 European Uninterruptible Power Supplies Company of the Year Award. Eaton's excellence in its core UPS business and customer satisfaction demonstrate an extraordinary level of business performance.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated unparalleled excellence within its industry. The award is based on numerous factors including the company's business development, competitive strategy, customer satisfaction and leadership. This recipient is perceived to exhibit outstanding management and consistent growth. The company must offer high quality products and/or services and have a positive social and economic impact on local and national communities.

Eaton credits much of its success to a combination of customer-driven initiatives, product line innovations, acquisitions and geographic expansion. Eaton embarked on an aggressive growth strategy as part of its expansion campaign to strengthen its UPS business. The 2007 acquisition of MGE Office Protection Systems™ brought the company considerable geographic expansion and complementary UPS products. The acquisition also increased Eaton's presence in the region and its distribution network in serving customers. Additional expansion across western and eastern European countries came through the company's acquisitions of the Moeller® Group, Balmen Electronic and PK Electronics NV. In Southeast Asia, the company acquired Taiwanese UPS manufacturer, Phoenixtec. Eaton also broadened its power quality product portfolio by purchasing Pulizzi Engineering and Aphel Technologies.

"Eaton added close to 50 channel partners just in Europe to cover important sales and services businesses across the Middle East, North America and Europe," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Chandni Raj. "Eastern Europe and Russia together helped Eaton's business increase dramatically, mainly due to its successful strategy of opening new offices, adding resellers and enhancing distribution and servicing capabilities."

With such vast resources at its disposal, Eaton has maximized customer satisfaction and sales support by conducting special training programs to equip its customers and distributors with advanced skills and knowledge regarding products and services. The company also conducts an annual review of its customers to gain constructive feedback and establish best practices. Eaton's review revealed a much higher customer satisfaction rating than in previous years, mainly due to its strengthened distribution capabilities, expanded services network and enhanced product portfolio.

“As utility rates continue to climb, it is critically important to produce the best efficiency possible. For example, by using the Powerware BladeUPS over a five-year period, more than 20,000 EURO may be realized in utility bill savings for a typical 60 kW data center that pays 8 cents per kWh,” added Brickhouse. Powerware rack-based solutions include accessories like power distribution units (Powerware ePDU) made specifically for the enclosures and Powerware Rack Power Modules (RPM) to deliver power in an organised manner to loads of various voltages, power cords and layouts. Remote monitoring device Powerware ERM is also available for continuously monitoring environmental conditions within the rack, providing an added level of security for critical assets.

Eaton is also pursuing its specialization in Information Technology (IT) and data centre solutions by launching the Eaton enclosure power distribution unit (ePDU™), which can support varying power levels in a rack and monitor power consumption down to the individual server. Also introduced were the Eaton BladeUPS™, a rack-based solution tailor-made for high-powered blade servers, and the Eaton 9130 UPS. While already being remarkably efficient at below 30 percent load, Eaton's BladeUPS was further upgraded to interface with the Eaton rack power module (RPM) for advanced scalable power protection in high-density computing environments.

Eaton is represented in Malta By: Sirap Limited of Sirap House, Sliema Road, San Gwann Tel: 21385653 email info@sirap.com.mt or visit www.sirap.com.mt

D-Link has left Linksys, Belkin and Netgear trailing behind in worldwide shipments of Wireless N products, according to leading analyst firm In-Stat. D-Link claimed the top spot with 584,000 Draft 802.11n units shipped worldwide claiming 33% of the market share, followed by Linksys at 28.4%, Belkin with 17% and Netgear at 13.2%, according to the In-Stat WLAN market share report*.

"D-Link has emerged as the leader in shipping Draft 802.11n products, a clear indication that the market is confident with the technology that it has to offer," said Norm Bogen, "Despite the fact that 802.11n is still in the draft phase, the market has clearly adopted the technology as sales worldwide are increasing steadily with more and more users enjoying the increased speeds and range that the Draft 11n products deliver to home and small business networks." The new generation wireless local area network (WLAN) technology, Wireless N offers dramatic improvement in data throughput and improvement in useful range over legacy 802.11b and 11g equipment. In the home, Wireless N enables consumers to fulfill the potential of their fast broadband internet connections at the same time as making HD streaming and lag-free multimedia gaming a reality. In the office environment, 802.11n is capable of supporting key applications such as VoIP with throughput, Quality of Service (QoS) and security rivaling wired connections.

D-Link is represented in Malta by Sirap Computers of Mensija Road, San Gwann. They can be contacted on 21 385653 email info@sirap.com.mt or visit www.sirap.com.mt

MSI has released new editions of the MSI Wind Notebook in different colours and the “Love Edition” which is the ideal Xmas gift for your loved ones. This NetBook weights almost 1 kg makes it ideal for outdoor use and people on the move. Living in the new age of the internet, users have the need for effective internet connection for professional and personal use. The MSI Wind Notebook meets the demands of the modern people, by providing lighter and more convenient notebook computer with longer battery life. Connected to a 3G internet system it gives you the freedom to use internet everywhere!! The MSI Wind Notebook has Bluetooth 2.0, Wireless 802.11G and a 1.3 Mega Pixel webcam, a large 10.2” wide LCD display and powered by the Intel ATOM 1.6Ghz CPU.

"The embedded LED power-saving backlight technology can provide better colour in richness and brightness. The 1024 x 600 resolution delivers full display of Web Pages while browsing which gives users freedom when exploring the internet. It has the same agronomical keyboard used on the larger notebooks but the space between the keys is 17.5mm, allowing you to be as comfortable as you can.

Unlike its other competitors that have compromised the memory capacity to decrease in size, the MSI Wind Notebook is equipped with the 2.5 inch standard hard drive 160GB and 2GB DDR2 Memory.

MSI is represented in Malta by Sirap Computers of Mensija Road, San Gwann. They can be contacted on 21 385653 email info@sirap.com.mt or visit www.sirap.com.mt

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