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The Saddest Birthday in the World Israel News ...

In this edition we mark the sad birthday of 5-year-old Ariel Bibas, the little redhead being held by Hamas with his baby brother and parents. We also want you to know about the courageous stand taken by Ayelet Samerano against the UNWRA secretary-general in Lausanne.

Read about how long can a hostage survive in captivity, about Turkey in NATO, the threats to Israel from Iran and Hezbollah and what the IDF says might happen.

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Zadara Enhances Storage-as-a-Service Offering with Object Store and other Key Enterprise Services

IRVINE, CA – April 12, 2016 – Zadara™ Storage, the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS), today announced the addition of new storage services to their award-winning Zadara Storage Cloud. The powerful new services, targeted at both enterprises and service providers, deliver a common storage-as-aservice platform that can be deployed at any location, supporting any data type and connecting to any protocol. With traditional on-premise IT infrastructure dropping from 61% in 2015 to just 47% of worldwide external storage spending by 2019, (IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker 3Q15, January 2016), the dramatic transition from CapEx to OpEx storage is underway. “Enterprises need scalable, elastic, enterpriseclass storage-as-a-service that is always aligned their changing worlds, and that’s exactly what we provide,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and co-founder of Zadara Storage. “The new storage services being introduced today reinforce our commitment to providing enterprises and service providers the ability to focus on managing their business, rather than managing their storage.” The new ZIOS™ Intelligent Object Store service provides private, as-a-service, object storage with Zadara’s hallmark isolated resources. Zadara’s unique approach to dedicating resources provides the economic and scalable benefits of multi-tenancy, with the guaranteed performance and security of single-tenancy. ZIOS capacity is infinitely scalable and the performance scales equally, as capacity grows. The product is S3/Swift compatible, and provides different levels of administrative access as well as charge-back billing. ZIOS runs on Zadara clouds and shares the same infrastructure as Zadara's block and file services VPSA™ solution. To further address the growing need for flexible, high-performance, storage-as-a-service within both enterprises and service providers, Zadara has introduced 16Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity and large flash cache options. By adding 16Gb Fibre Channel connectivity, Zadara customers can now leverage their investment in Fibre Channel’s low-latency, high-performance and proven enterprise-grade interoperability together with their Zadara solutions. The addition of large flash cache (up to 3.2TB) enables users to deploy large inexpensive drives to store huge amounts of data, while enjoying the high performance of flash for databases and applications with unique performance needs. Zadara also added support for VMware SRM, larger capacity 1.6TB SSDs, and enhancements to their Docker service - Zadara Container Services (ZCS). 1 “In five years, Zadara Storage has become a growing force in the cloud storage market with a distinctive approach to enterprise storage,” said Nick Sundby, director, storage consulting and business value practice lead at IDC. “The new functionality announced today addresses the widespread need for more performance, security and scalability. With ZIOS, the customer has the useful option of secure object storage on dedicated hardware, combined with the as-a-service pricing that many organizations prefer.” “Zadara Storage continues to introduce features that give them competitive differentiation in the rapidly growing storage-as-a-service market,” said Simon Robinson, vice president, Infrastructure at 451 Research. “Zadara’s approach to delivering storage that evolves with users’ needs reinforces their reputation as an innovator and aligns extremely well with the market demands.” “One cloud model will not rule all," says David Vellante, cofounder and Chief Analyst at Wikibon. "Over the next ten years, we see about $200B shifting to hybrid cloud services from legacy infrastructure management. These services will live in the public cloud, on-premise and at the edge of the network. Zadara Storage is directly participating in this transfer of value by innovating in all three of these areas. The business impact will be more value created for end consumers and less time spent managing infrastructure.” Click to Tweet: #ZadaraStorage introduces Universal Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) that Evolves with your Business - http://bit.ly/1605Release About Zadara Storage Zadara Storage offers enterprise storage-as-a-service, delivering high-performance, highly available file and block storage. The company’s patented, software-defined Virtual Private Storage Arrays™ (VPSA™) deliver flexible, multi-tenant enterprise SAN and NAS technology for peta-scale primary and secondary storage. Zadara is available both via OPaaS (On-Premise as a Service) and through a wide range of worldwide cloud and colocation providers, including value-added relationships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Dimension Data, TelecityGroup, CloudSigma, and others. Visit www.zadarastorage.com, the Zadara Blog, or on LinkedIn and Twitter. Media Contacts (A3 Communications): US: Mary Kae Marinac Phone: 978-685-3136 Email: mkm@mkmarinac.com EMEA: Federica Monsone Phone: +44 (0) 1252 875 203 Email: fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk 2

The Citi Accelerator Program

The Citi Accelerator offers FinTech startups the opportunity to gain unique access to Citi worldwide. The program is 4 months long, and consists of a workspace in Citi’s Tel Aviv Innovation Lab, where the participating companies are mentored by key decision makers at the bank from all over the world during the program. The mentorship at times results in a pilot or POC with Citi. The program includes both Financial and Technological mentorship by Citi personnel and industry leaders and professionals in Entrepreneurship, Business, Fund raising, Legal, Accounting and more. Companies from all FinTech fields are welcome to apply. We are interested in multiple areas of solutions, including data intelligence, capital markets, payments, IoT, consumer banking, analytics and more. We are looking for companies of all stages, and focus on advanced companies who have a working product, preferably with multiple clients. We are looking for capable entrepreneurs who are interested in working hard and making things happen, learning and iterating, and offering innovative solutions for the financial industry. We will be holding a meetup on March 30th where you can learn more about the program.

Details here: The program is free of charge; we do not take equity or invest in the companies. Class #5 begins on May 17th, 2016 The last day to apply to Class #5 is April 7th.

Apply here: Tsafrir Atar Head of Citi Accelerator and External Innovation | Innovation Lab | Citi Israel

 

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Solcon Industies - Come Visit Us at Hannover Messe 2016

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Dear Partners, We are pleased to invite you to join us at this year’s Hannover Messe 2016 conference. Click here for a free entry pass to join us at Hall 11, Stand B32.

As every year, we look forward to seeing you, whether you are already a partner or a first time visitor to Solcon Industries.

Come and see the technologically advanced, first of its kind, IGBT based Medium Voltage Soft Starter, The DriveStart.

* Optimized for applications that require a low starting current and/or a high starting torque * Saves cost, energy and space, while meeting top performance requirements

** Solcon will also be displaying the newest addition to our Digital, Heavy Duty Medium Voltage Soft Starter, The PowerStart HRVS-DN.

Click here for a free entry pass to join us at Hall 11, Stand B32.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Thank you,

Solcon Industries - Sales & Marketing Tea m

 

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Our mailing address is: Solcon Industries Ltd Hacarmel 6 street Yoqneam Elite 2069207 Israel

Solcon Newsletter April 2016

What’s New at Solcon Industries?

The Next Generation of Motor Soft Starters! Come visit us at this year’s Hannover Messe 2016 conference, Hall 11, Stand B32. As every year, the Solcon team looks forward to welcoming you, whether you are already a partner or a first time visitor to Solcon Industries. This year, Solcon will be displaying the newest addition to the Digital, Heavy Duty Medium Voltage Soft Starter, discover our PowerStart HRVS-DN – Next Generation of Motor Soft Starters. Don’t miss viewing the technologically advanced, first of its kind, IGBT based Medium Voltage Soft Starter, The DriveStart. Also on display, will be Solcon’s full line of Low Voltage Soft Starters, the iStarts, ranging 17–1100A.

Solcon Industries announces the appointment of a new CEO, Mr. Gil Briman Solcon Industries welcomed Mr. Gil Briman as new CEO of Solcon Group. Mr. Briman’s previous positions include Vice President of Mellanox Technologies, Asia Pacific region, GM and VP of Amdocs, Head of SI Services. Mr. Briman’s vast experience in software and hardware solutions, as well as his in depth knowledge of deploying systems specific to international and regional requirements, adds a new dimension to Solcon’s expertise in the motor control industry. “As the international market changes, Solcon continues to lead the evolution with new products that build upon our hard-earned reputation as the leading, yet reliable manufacturer of industrial controls,” states Mr. Briman, “I look forward to working with you and sharing our new solutions that are engineered for your industry-specific requirements.”

Solcon Hands-on Seminar Another successful hands-on seminar was conducted in February 2016 by Solcon’s Colombian distributor in Bogota, Electricas Bogota. The seminar took place at Electricas Bogota’s facilities and covered Solcon’s advanced solutions using Low Voltage Soft Starters, both analog and digital. Clients from various relevant industries enjoyed a practical hand-on session using Solcon’s extended line of iStarts ranging from 17 – 1100A, 208 – 690V. Solcon continuous to encourages distributors worldwide to conduct and participate in these types of customer friendly activities that help promote excellent customer service, innovative solutions and brand awareness.

HRVS-DN controlled by PROFIBUS communication for the Water Industry – Desalination Plant The HRVS-DN Medium Voltage Soft Starter can be used to start a single motor or to control the start of several motors in sequence. Using the Multi-Start feature saves space and reduces construction and installation costs provided the soft starter is selected correctly.

In a recent successful installation by Mekorot Development & Enterprise, using three of Solcon Industries HRVS-DN 250A 11000V Soft Starters, with activated and controlled by PROFIBUS Communication, were installed for high pressure pumps at a desalination plant in Cyprus, which received the desalination plant license for 25 years.

Additionally, 23 advanced Solcon motor protection and control relays for electrical motors, models MPS3000, MPS6 and TPR6 , were installed in the Low Voltage network. The plants HMI system used MODBUS Communication to monitor these relays.

Solcon worked closely with the local integrator and the facilities' engineers to design a system that would leverage the existing infrastructure, the factory's future needs and complement the integrator's electrical equipment.

The durability and reliability of Solcon's Soft Starters provided a complete, simple, and cost effective motor starting and protection solution.

For more information please email us at: info@solcon.com

 

 Solcon Industries Ltd . Hacarmel 6 street . Yoqneam Elite 2069207 . Israel

Mellanox Partners with Nutanix to Deliver Effortless Enterprise Infrastructure

Mellanox Partners with Nutanix to Deliver Effortless Enterprise Infrastructure

Integration with Unique Ethernet Switch Makes the Network Invisible Too, Achieves "Nutanix Ready for Networking" Validation

SUNNYVALE, CA and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL - February 24, 2016 - Mellanox(r) Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced today that it has joined the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Program to provide a simple to use and fully converged solution for compute, storage and networking to enterprise customers. The Mellanox SX1012 is a unique half rack width, top of rack 10/40 Gb/s Ethernet switch solution that provides network invisibility and has been validated as "Nutanix Ready for Networking" following functional and compatibility testing.

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, storage and virtualization into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.

Mellanox provides the highest performance and most reliable Ethernet solutions, which deliver data faster to applications to unlock system performance. Mellanox Ethernet switches are simple to use and deliver predictable, high network performance for any workload. The Mellanox switches offer flexibility for various configurations of different scale, network speed, and high availability requirements, as well as the ability to scale from 10/25 Gb/s to 40/50/100 Gb/s. The Mellanox switch solutions include the NEO network orchestration and automation software platform to make the network invisible too. It makes the entire solution easy to deploy, even for people without a networking background.

The Nutanix Ready validation has been achieved for the SX1012 unique half rack width switch, that supports up to 48 10Gb/s ports and provides a future proof path to 40Gb/s at a fraction of the cost, power, and area of other offerings. The Mellanox switches seamlessly work with Nutanix enterprise cloud solutions, delivering transparent networks to customers with the benefits of rapid and scalable cloud-like application deployment, and the cost and control advantages of on-premises infrastructure.

"Networking is critical to hyperconverged solutions and Mellanox Ethernet switches make the network truly invisible by forwarding data at full line rate with zero packet loss for any packet sizes and port combinations," said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing, Mellanox. "Our Ethernet switches work in concert with Nutanix so that applications are easy to deploy and manage. Together with Nutanix, we offer data center customers an efficient solution with the lowest CAPEX and OPEX on the market."

"We are pleased with the continued expansion of our Elevate Technology Alliance Program which fuels the delivery of open, innovative, and transformative next-generation IT solutions that can fully leverage Nutanix invisible infrastructure," said Venugopal Pai, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Business Development, Nutanix. "We have seen worldwide deployment and great customer experience together with Mellanox. Our customers and channel partners are realizing the value of Mellanox as a perfect complement to Nutanix enterprise cloud solutions."

"We installed the Nutanix system with Mellanox SX1012 switches in one of our data centers," said Richard Palumbo, CEO, Itrica, a hyperconverged system reseller and virtual data center service provider. "The Nutanix and Mellanox solution was very easy to deploy and manage, allowing us to quickly roll out virtual data centers to our healthcare customers. We highly recommend Mellanox switches with the Nutanix system."

The Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Program provides partners with technical resources, testing and documentation processes, marketing support, and sales enablement to develop comprehensive customer solutions. Nutanix Elevate Partners deliver validated solutions to market in the areas of Application Development, Applications and Operating Systems, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Desktop and Application Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, Management and Operations, and Networking and Security.

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העברה: GIA 2016

Poalim Hi-Tech is proud to take part once again in the 2nd annual Global Innovation Awards competition, joining JVP and Shengjing360 together with Microsoft Ventures, EMC, EY Israel, HFN, Nautilus by AOL, and PR Newswire.

We are happy to introduce you to this exciting initiative being held simultaneously in China, Israel, USA, and Europe. The competition offers prizes totaling $1.5 million, an opportunity for investment from a special $25 million fund established by Shengjing Group for the competition, as well as significant exposure in the global market and meetings with leaders of tech industry.

Last year, three Israeli startups – DiaCardio, Wayerz, and SecuriThings – represented Israel in the worldwide finals in Beijing in August 2015. The competition was a huge success. We are especially proud that DiaCardio came in first place in the global competition and that all of the Israeli startups gained global exposure. The two other Israeli startups, Wayerz and SecuriThings, also received prizes, investments, and enormous exposure worldwide

The Global Innovation Awards is now receiving submissions by entrepreneurs and startups that want to take this amazing opportunity to advance their project globally.

We see it as a great opportunity to advance your startup, and we recommend you to apply and maximize your potential. Startup submissions will be accepted until May 15th, 2016.

Be sure to look out for upcoming events and meetups in the coming weeks, and feel free to pass information about the Global Innovation Awards to your networks and contacts.

To learn more about the competition, please visit www.jvpvc-gia.com. To apply, press here.

Good luck!

GIA Team

 

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Intel Threat Brushed Off as Mellanox CEO Dodges Stock Rout

As part of an article on Mellanox battle for market share with Intel, the Washington Post Business with Bloomberg reported that Mellanox CEO "brushed off Intel Corp.’s rival hardware on an analyst call last week" and also reported that claimed that the Mellanox stock is up 20% this year, while Intel's is down 14%.