Asus ZenBook Flip S UX370UA Ultra-Thin Convertible Laptop Launched in India: Price, Specifications

The Asus ZenBook Flip S UX370UA convertible laptop with ultra-thin and lightweight design has been launched in the Indian market. Priced at Rs. 1,30,990, the new ZenBook Flip S UX370UA laptop will be available at retail outlets across the country. It comes with Gen 8 Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB LPDDR3 RAM, weighs 1.1kg, and measures 11.2mm in thickness. The premium Asus laptop comes in metal finish and the company claims it is 50 percent stronger than standard aluminium alloy.

The new Asus ZenBook Flip S UX370UA laptop has a 13.3-inch anti-glare, touchscreen display with full-HD (1920x1080 pixels) resolution and 300 nits brightness. This Windows 10 laptop has 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-8550 processor (up to 4GHz), Intel UHD Graphics GPU, as well as 512GB SSD. There’s a VGA camera for video calls, fingerprint sensor, and a 2-cell Li-ion battery that delivers up to 11 hours of battery life. Connectivity suite of the new model consists of USB-Type C 3.1, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.1 (Dual Band).

Trackpad of the new ZenBook Flip S UX370UA is backlit, and travel between keys is 1mm, Asus claims. The dual Asus SonicMaster Premium stereo speakers are Harman Kardon certified, and the laptop has an amplifier for maximum audio performance. As for the design, the laptop is made from a single block of aluminium and features a spun metal finish that takes 40 steps to create. It comes in Royal Blue colour, with golden accents on the edges. The laptop has a hinge that can turn 360 degrees so that the display can be tilted to various angles conveniently.  

A DCIM Primer

What you need to know

 

CIOs who have their ear to the ground know that the right DCIM software can become a powerful tool for today’s data centers. There’s little doubt that these increasingly complex enterprises face huge challenges in maintaining and improving key deliverables to clients. Pressures from outside and from within are forcing data centers to become more efficient in space and power consumption, in profitability, and in ensuring security in the face of cyber threats.   

 

Situational Awareness to Fully Exploit Resources

 

The right DCIM can provide the situational awareness data centers need to run efficiently, to inventory and employ facilities, hardware, tools, software, and personnel in the most effective manner. No longer do centers have to be saddled with underutilized hardware and software resources (e.g. “zombie” servers). DCIM can provide the much-needed metrics for budgeting, service planning, and compliance audits. With increased situational awareness comes the agility to move with fluctuating business climates, a critically important factor in enhancing availability, reliability, overall quality and serviceability.

 

 

But many data centers increasingly find themselves in quicksand when it comes to updating their management systems, tools, and best practices. For whatever reason, they’re simply unable to plan, economically run or perform much-needed data analyses to improve workflow. 

 

Situational awareness allows CIOs to clearly identify their resources and the way they’re configured and employed. It reveals a data center’s availability (and vulnerability) when it comes to performance, capacity and cost-effectiveness in providing reliable service. 

 

Michael L. Ross, a data center management consultant who has over 10 years helping large data centers reduce their total cost of ownership underscores the importance of management tools like Tuangru’s RAMP DCIM in providing situational awareness.

 

“Ten years ago, data centers were focused on availability and performance. Today, data centers need to understand the total cost of ownership and its elements to deliver a service. You need to manage the cost of the data center plus the infrastructure supporting it as well as maintain high operating efficiencies,” he said

Netgear Orbi Pro Tri-Band Wi-Fi System for Small Businesses Launched in India: Price, Specifications

Netgear has launched a new router in the Orbi series - the SRK60 - for small and medium-sized business in India. The company is bringing Orbi tri-band Wi-Fi to the SMB market in India in the form of the Orbi Pro. The new device by Netgear with its Fastlane3 technology joins the company's Wi-Fi System product lineup as its first purpose-built Wi-Fi solution aimed at SMBs. It is currently available through authorised Netgear partners, other reseller channels, and e-commerce portals at a price of Rs. 39,000.

The company claims that Orbi Pro is the "perfect" Wi-Fi solution for commercial locations such as professional offices, restaurants, retail or bed and breakfast inns, which would benefit from easy to set up Wi-Fi. It said that there is no requirement of wiring, professional installation or added IT costs with Orbi Pro. "With the new Orbi Pro Tri-band WiFi System, DIY feature allows anyone to set up separate WiFi for guests, employees and business traffic