BOC acquires HP Products

BOC Pakistan acquires HP Technology Infrastructure products from New Horizon. To equip the newly built plant at Lahore, BOC procured HP products. The technology infrastructure products will help the Company to operate the processes smoothly.

BOC Pakistan Limited (Formerly Pakistan Oxygen Limited) has played a distinguished role since it was established on 8 June 1949. The Company was one of the pioneers of the infant state of Pakistan in the field of Industrial & Medical Gases and Welding Technology and has all along proved a steady partner in the economic development of the Country.

Deployment of Office Printing Solution at KICT

New Horizon deploys Office Printing Solution at Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT). The solution is deployed at various departments of the organization.

New Horizon's Office Printing Solution is a total printing solution enabling KICT to manage your print environment with the latest HP printer technology, supplies, and support and maintenance services. With this solution the company can reduce operating cost by per page copy cost solution with best line of HP Laser and Multifunction printers. New Horizon is one the selected partner to provide HP Office Printing Solutions.

Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT) is located in the natural deep-water harbor of the Port of Karachi, Pakistan, which handles 80 percent of the country's international trade.

New Horizon virtualizes RMI

New Horizon provides Rehman Medical Institute (RMI) infrastructure virtualization solution based on Microsoft and Citrix technologies. New Horizon also provided technology infrastructure products to RMI which include HP Servers, Storage, and HP Thin Clients.

The infrastructure virtualization solution provided by New Horizon consists of Server Consolidation and VDI. Through Microsoft Hyper-V Server Consolidation solution, RMI will be able to run 50 virtual servers on 2 physical servers. This will provide a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling RMI to improve server utilization and reduce costs. The other part of the infrastructure virtualization solution is VDI powered by Citrix XenDesktop 5 which will enable RMI to deliver on-demand virtual desktop and applications anywhere their users work, anywhere their business takes them, to any type of device, bringing unprecedented flexibility and mobility to their workforce.

Previously, New Horizon has signed an agreement with Rehman Medical Institute for the establishment of complete LAN and Voice Infrastructure and for the establishment of inbound call-center.

Located at the gateway of Khyber, Rehman Medical Institute has revolutionized the concept of medical care in the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. The management totally believes that IT expenditures are investments, not expenses and it pays off in the long run. This remarkable effort from such an institution will open a new era of technology in KP, where the people will have access to healthcare facilities of international standards.

Sindh High Court acquires Technology Infrastructure products

Sindh High Court acquires Technology Infrastructure products from New Horizon. The products include HP ProBook 4520S Laptops, HP 3130-MT Desktops bundled with APC BR500 Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS), HP P-1102 Laser Jet Printers, and additional APC BR500 UPSs.

Sindh High Court procured technology infrastructure products to revamp their IT infrastructure. They replaced the obsolete technology to the latest which will help them in seamless and smooth operations.

Left to Right: Mr. Syed Aqib Asghar, Senior Account Manager, New Horizon; Mr. Abdul Rasheed Mahar, Director IT, Sindh High Court; Mr. Naseer Ali Khan, Account Director, New Horizon; Mr. Arif Khan, Hardware Engineer, Sindh high Court

New Horizon provides Microsoft licenses to Freight Connection

New Horizon provides Microsoft licenses to Freight Connection to enhance the productivity of the organization. The licenses provided include Windows 7 Professional Edition, Office 2010 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, and SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition.

Freight Connection was looking to avail the services of Microsoft which will increase their efficiency, productivity, and security of systems. By acquiring the licenses, the Company will receive security upgrades from Microsoft to keep their infrastructure secure.

Freight Connection Pakistan (Pvt) Limited (FCPPL) is part of Rais Hassan Saadi Group. FCPPL's main services span from Liner & NVOCC agency business, General Freight Forwarding engaging excellent network of associates throughout the world and Afghan Transit Trade.

Data Steel replicates data

Data Steel replicates their business critical data through Veeam Backup and Replication technology provided by New Horizon.

Previously, New Horizon provided a complete virtualization solution to Data Steel which included the server consolidation and virtualization of desktop environment powered by VMware technology.

As Veeam is the premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and the best choice for data backup and replication in a virtualized environment, New Horizon proposed the technology for fulfilling the requirement of Data Steel.

By using Veeam to replicate the business critical data, Data Steel will have the following benefits:

• Database-consistent backup
•   Reduced storage costs with data de-duplication
• Faster backup and restore with synthetic backup
• Replica rollback
• Integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)

DATA Steel Pipe Industries is a market leader in the production, delivery and service of Steel line pipes in Pakistan and aims to provide the best products and services with maximum value for money.

NIT equips its Sales force with HP Elite Notebooks

National Investment Trust Limited (NIT) procured HP Elite Notebooks from New Horizon for its sales force. The notebooks procured are bundled with Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System and Office 2010 Standard Edition licenses.

The NIT sales force will improve their work mobility and manageability. They can access their work from remote locations which will increase their productivity.

The National Investment Trust Limited (NITL) is the first Asset Management Company of Pakistan, formed in 1962.

1 Link gets Virtualized

1 Link Guarantee Limited virtualizes its IT environment by consolidating the physical servers through VMware technology. As a VMware Enterprise Partner, New Horizon is authorized to provide and deploy VMware technology at enterprises in Pakistan.

VMware vSphere Virtualization Solution will providemultiple benefits to the organization. 1 Link Guarantee Limited can control its IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere, can cut their capital and operating costs while increasing IT service delivery without being locked into limited choices of operating systems, applications, and hardware, can reduce hardware and operating costs as much as 50% and energy costs up to 80%, by saving more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized.

This solution reduces the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%. It also decreases downtime and improves reliability with business continuity and built-in data disaster recovery. This solution is capable to deliver IT services on-demand now and in the future, independent of hardware, OS, application or infrastructure providers.

1LINK (Guarantee) Limited is a consortium of major banks that own and operate the largest representative shared financial services network of Pakistan.

New Horizon steps forward for the improvement of IT Sector

New Horizon contributes towards IT industry by having two of its resources as the members of the FPPCI Standing Committee. Syed Adil Ali - Head of Solution Design Center and Kumail A. Morawala - Manager Solution Design Center were selected as the members of this committee which focuses on the improvement of the IT Sector in Pakistan.

Elsewhere, Senator Haji Ghulam Ali, President FPCCI has appointed Mr. Asghar A. Morawala, as Chairman FPCCI Standing Committee on IT & Business Processes & Outsourcing for the year 2011.

The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, is the parent body, having its members of General Body and Executive committee, form all Chambers of Commerce & Industry and Associations of Trade & Industry of Pakistan, and it plays role in planning, proposing new technology initiatives and acting as a bridge between private sector and Government of Pakistan.

The members of the Committee consist of very experienced and professional people from the field of IT, who are contributing effectively by sparing time for the meetings / activities of the Committee.

The members include Yusuf Jan, CEO of Mixit Inc. USA as Senior Vice Chairman, and Mr. Nadeem Elahi Country Head TRG Group of Companies, along with other professionals of repute.

The Standing Commitee is of the view that IT & Business Process Outsourcing sector is ignored in all aspects for the last few years. Now it is time to re-structure the activities, to focus on the IT Sector in Pakistan through the Research papers, Journals and Awareness Seminars on application of new Technologies in all fields.

The committee has also taken up its representative nomination of different board of directors in ministry of Science and Technology, and coordinating with government to identify and make IT parks and resource centre at small level, paving the way for technology awareness and its implementation knowledge in Urban and rural areas.

This is the basic criteria of the committee to proceed further in the coming days.

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