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The official spokesperson of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Colonel
Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa'ad, said that the arrival of the Pakistani navy
ship "Shashmir" comes within the framework of combating piracy and
routine and usual work of the Sudanese navy forces.
Sa'ad used the
same comment to describe the arrival in Port Sudan of two Iranian
warships in late October, one week after a Sudanese military factory
rumored to be linked to Tehran was hit in an airstrike Khartoum accused
Israel of conducting.
The arrival of Iranian warships attracted
attention to military cooperation between the East African country and
Iran which Israel considers its top enemy while viewing Sudan as a
conduit of weapons smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
told Sudan official news agency (SUNA) that the arrival of the
Pakistani warship comes also within the framework of naval cooperation
with navy forces from all countries in the world.
He added that part of the reason why the warship was to receive fuel and logistical supplies.
announced that the planned arrival in Port Sudan of two Iranian
warships "for the same purpose" was delayed for reasons concerning the
Iranian side.
Under the terms of the proposal the Dinka Ngok tribe, affiliated with South Sudan, would vote in the referendum to decide on the future of the area along with other permanent residents of Abyei. This would effectively leave out the nomadic Misseriya who travel south into Abyei a few months a year to graze cattle.
The Sudanese government insists that the Misseriya should be allowed to participate. But unless a separate deal is reached with South Sudan by early December, the AU proposal will be binding to the two sides.
The popular commission of Abyei region which organized today's demonstration handed a memo to the AU and the United Nations (UN) expressing their views and reiterating the rejection of Mbeki's plan.
Mahdi Babu Nimir who heads the commission, said in a press conference that the proposal is a "Zionist, French, British and American" one that aims to allow South Sudan to annex Abyei.
He called that a betrayal of the Misseriya and the Dinka Ngok and a blow to peaceful co-existence in the region.
The Misseriya figure went on to say that the Abyei issue is used to remove Sudan from its African dimension and accused U.S. ambassador Susan Rice of working against his tribe in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling her a "speckled snake".
Nimir also had harsh words for the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) of president Omer Hassan al-Bashir saying they marginalized the Misseriya during the north-south peace talks in Naivasha which eventually led to the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
He claimed that Sudan's delegation had little knowledge about Misseriya's tribal structure and also lambasted "influential" Dinka Ngok members in South Sudan government for "spreading lies" in international media on Abyei crisis.
"The issue of Abyei has been hijacked and if it was about courage we could take it [Abyei] by force but we respect the institutions," Nimir said.
The referendum is close to two years past due as it was supposed to be held on January 2011 along with South Sudan referendum but disputes on voter eligibility delayed it.
In New York the Sudan UN ambassador Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman described Abyei as a "sensitive issue" and warned that imposition of "any unilateral solution will not help reach a final peace in the area and might bring people back to square one which we would like to avoid".
"The [United Nations] Security council here or any organ should not behave as a court of justice. This is a legal dispute on a territorial dispute. The two parties must be given time," he told reporters after a briefing on South Sudan by head of UN peacekeeping operations Hervé Ladsous.
"So any kind of quick fix which will not take care of the interests of the two communities on the ground would not help the two states agree on a final suitable solution for Abyei," Osman said.
The Sudanese diplomat emphasized that they should be given more time to seek alternative solutions
But South Sudan UN ambassador Francis Deng told UNSC meeting that his country welcomes the "endorsement of the UN Security Council of any decision made by the African Union with regards to Abyei or other outstanding issues, not as an imposition on the parties but rather as a demonstration of support for the region's considered view of what the most appropriate way forward is the AU endorsement of Abyei plan".
Deng expressed regret that Sudanese president did not take up South Sudan president invitation to Juba to continue discussion on the final status of Abyei.
In Khartoum, the visiting US special envoy to Sudan said that Washington is seeking to narrow gap between Khartoum and Juba on outstanding issues including Mbeki's proposal on Abyei.
Sudanese troops withdrew from Abyei in May to end a year-long occupation that sent more than 100,000 people fleeing towards South Sudan. The area is now controlled by United Nations peacekeepers from Ethiopia.
Osman did not name the two figures arrested or detail their affiliations. He also denied that additional arrests were made but pointed out that some may be summoned and interrogated as witnesses not suspects.
On Thursday morning, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) announced that they have thwarted what they described as a sabotage plot by members of the army, paramilitary forces and NISS.
Later that day the government revealed that NISS ex-director Salah Gosh was among the 13 people arrested. Also among those detained was influential Islamist military general Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Galil who is believed to be the leader of the group widely known as "Al-Sae'ohoon" which formed the core of special forces fighting South Sudan rebels during the civil war since president Omer Hassan al-Bashir came to power in 1998 in a bloodless military coup backed by the National Islamist Front (NIF).
Ibrahim was also in charge of presidential security for seven years.
The arrests further fueled anger among the Islamist base which has been pushing for reforms in the ruling National Congress Party, Islamist Movement (IM) and the government as a whole.
The reformist were already infuriated at the IM convention that took place this month after it brushed aside its main demand to segregate IM from the NCP and maintained the status quo.
Most Islamists as well as opposition figures believe that the arrests was a preemptive move to neutralize reformists and not based on a real plot.
But the information minister insisted that the authorities are in possession of solid evidence implicating those arrested that will be revealed to the public at the right time and after investigations are complete.
He acknowledged however, that some of those detained may end up being cleared.
"The accused is innocent until proven guilty and we don't want to incriminate people," Osman said.
He said that the government is not "stupid" to fake a "serious" case like this and revealed that the plan of the conspirators was to carry out assassinations and arrests of some figures but did not elaborate.
"I cannot say more than this but there is evidence and proof and many large signs confirming this and if it wasn't for that they wouldn't be arrested specially that they are not ordinary people " the government spokesperson added.
In a related statement, the deputy parliament speaker Samia Ahmed stressed that those arrested will be afforded fair trials and denied that the NCP is going through a crisis over the arrests. She also expressed doubts about reports that this issue will be resolved through reconciliation to avoid split in the NCP and the IM.
Sudanese authorities announced on Thursday, 22 November, that they arrested 13 individuals including former chief of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), Salah Gosh, Brigadier General Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Galil "Wad Ibrahim" from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Major General Adil Al-Tayeb from the NISS on suspicion of standing behind a "subversive attempt" that security authorities allegedly foiled earlier on the same day.
There is no word so far on when will the suspects stand trial but Gosh, who also serves as an MP, already had his immunity revoked.
A number of lawyers led by Nabil Adeeb, a prominent legal expert and outspoken critic of the government, offered to defend Gosh and held their first meeting at Gosh's office in Khartoum 2 neighborhood, where they formed a defense committee and named Adeeb as chairman and each of Ali Al-Said, Al-Tayyib Abbas, Babikir Abdel Rahman, Adil Ghashum Al-Moos, Omer Hummaid, and Youssef Ahmad Mohammed Osman as members.
Gosh's older brother Abdel Azim Abdella addressed the meeting and thanked the lawyers for their initiative. He expressed their family's concern for the situation of his brother saying that Gosh was now "in the hands of his real enemies who are seeking to liquidate him politically" The lawyers agreed to meet again in the next few days to discuss ways of submitting a legal memo on the situation of the suspects.
In a related context, the head of the security and defense committee of the Sudanese parliament, Mohammed Al-Hassan Al-Amin, announced on Sunday that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) is going to consider dropping Gosh's membership. He also revealed that the request to revoke his immunity was issued a day before his arrest.
He also said that the subversive attempt was a bona fide coup attempt, describing the plan as "foolish"
Gosh's arrest marked the ultimate downfall of the once powerful spy chief who is better known for his deep cooperation with the United States on counter-terrorism following September 2001 attacks in Washington and New York by Al-Qaeda.
Last year Gosh was abruptly sacked by Bashir from his position as presidential adviser for security affairs. No reason was given for the decision but it happened shortly after Gosh was involved in an imbroglio with presidential assistant and powerful NCP figure Nafe Ali Nafe with whom he is rumored to share a rivalry.
His sacking from the Presidential Palace also followed his surprise removal in 2009 by the Sudanese president from the directorship of the NISS. He was also stripped of his leadership position in the ruling NCP.
The pointed out that the decision was taken upon a request filed by the security service accusing Gosh of being involved in military coup violating the national legislations.
He further added that Gosh might lose his parliamentary membership if the court finds him guilty.
Sudanese government arrested 13 military high ranking officers and former officials all are members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) or the opposition Popular Congress Party of Hassan Al-Turabi.
All, they are frustrated by the current regime for different reasons including corruption, non - implementation of the Islamic law, division of the Islamic movement, power struggle or personal ambitions.
Gosh is accused of coordinating the coup against the regime and holding contacts with Western countries to support his move.
Ghazi Salah Al-Deen, head of NCP block at the parliament and defeated candidate for the leadership of the Islamic Movement was also summoned by the security service for his "suspected" contacts with the "plotters".
The former Mujahideen who participated in the war against the former Southern Sudanese rebels launched a petition demanding the release of detained officers who are identified as radical Islamists.
Different Islamic trends within or outside the ruling party inspired by the Arab Spring demanded since several months to reform the party and to exclude what they term "corrupt" people but also back the implementation of Islamic law.
The Initial statement attributed to an NISS source carried by government-sponsored Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website at around 5:00 am local time (2:00 am GMT) said that the plan involved unnamed opposition figures.
Following the announcement, rumors were swirling in the Sudanese capital that spoke of arrests made to senior army officers who are also known to be longtime hardline Islamists.
Rabie Abdel-Aati, an adviser to the information ministry and an NCP figure, added more fuel to the rumors when he went on the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV earlier today and mentioned the name of Major General Kamal Abdel-Ma'Rouf who led military operations last April against South Sudan army in border oil region of Heglig.
Later Sudan army spokesperson Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa'ad would deny that Abdel-Ma'Rouf was arrested and disclosed that he is currently in South Kordofan.
Sudan's information minister and government spokesperson Ahmed Bilal Osman called for press conference and gave the first official version of the events that unraveled today.
Osman said that there were 13 people detained in connection with the alleged plot including ex-spy chief and presidential adviser Salah Gosh, Brigadier General Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Galil who is better known as 'Wad Ibrahim', Major General Adil Al-Tayeb from the NISS. He did not disclose the names of the remaining participants.
The Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV also reported that the former head of military intelligence Brigadier General Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Ouf was also arrested.
Other uncorroborated reports named Brigadier General Fath Al-Raheem Abdulla who headed the joint Sudanese-Chadian border forces and former head of Sudan's armored corps Brigadier General Sideeg Fadl.
Well placed sources later told that former presidential adviser and head of NCP bloc in parliament Ghazi Salah al-Deen Al-Attabani was summoned for questioning by NISS on his possible role in the plot but was later released.
The government spokesperson offered little details on the nature of the plot except to say that those named were planning to destabilize security while also spreading false rumors on health of 68-years old president Omer Hassan al-Bashir who recently underwent throat surgery to remove a benign tumor. Officials insist he is in good health.
"The government has decided to abort this plot just before the zero hour as a preventive measure to avoid entering the country into chaos," Osman said. "There were internal and external contacts [made] that were intercepted to move the ground to topple the regime through spreading rumors about the president's health after his recent ailment".
He stressed that the attempt was "limited" in nature and that it was not part of a wider movement in the army, PDF or NISS and denied any unrest in the military.
Osman said that some opposition parties have "wild dreams" that this move would bring about regime change.
"These are dreams without legs," Osman told reporters.
Multiple security and military sources told that the NISS arrested around 100 pro-government Islamist elements who belong to a group widely known as 'Al-Sae'ohoon" who formed the core of special forces fighting South Sudan rebels during the civil war since Bashir came to power in 1998 in a bloodless military coup backed by the National Islamist Front (NIF) .
Al-Sae'ohoon has been vocal recently over reform demands and expressed bitterness that the NCP leadership has softened stance on Islamic principles and gave too many concessions to South Sudan in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) while allowing for army to suffer military setbacks.
A memo released on Thursday attributed to Al-Sae'ohoon in response to the arrests urged president Bashir to release those detained and described them as the safety valve of the 1989 coup since its inception all through the battles of Heglig this year.
The group underscored that those taken into custody were never carried away by earthly pleasures of power.
The memo blasted defense minister Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein saying he bears responsibility for army failures in relation to South Sudan, Sudan People Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) rebels and airstrikes carried out by Israel inside the country that recently targeted a weapons factory in Khartoum.
They went on to say that Hussein sent several generals into retirement only because they expressed their views and provided advice. "[Hussein] is stirring trouble with [former] head of Sudan's armored corps Brigadier General Sideeg Fadl [who is] security valve of the [1989] revolution".
"We are all waiting to see what will decisions will emerge [from you] and you must know for sure that they [detainees] all love you and endear you and have respect for you but your defense minister left them with no option but this one" said the memo.
Bashir has long resisted calls for sacking his defense minister over corruption charges and defeats on the battlefield. Hussein came under fire last April for the ease at which Sudan army lost Heglig oilfield to South Sudan.
Earlier this year multiple army sources told Sudan that a group of 700 army officers urged Bashir to carry out political and military reforms. They also made complaints about the morale and army preparedness. This was in response to the president's call for them to prepare for the possibility of war with South Sudan.
Among the significant arrests made today were for Brigadier General Wad Ibrahim who was one of the strongest candidates for the post of Interior Minister last year and served as military attaché to Sudan in Nairobi for four years.
Prior to that Wad Ibrahim headed Bashir's presidential security for seven years and served in southern Sudan during the civil war for twelve years. He participated in the retake of Heglig along with assisted Major General Abdel-Ma'Rouf.
Wad Ibrahim enjoys tremendous popularity among Islamists and last year he gathered around 1,000 Islamists at his home including former presidential adviser Al-Attabani.
Last week sources told that Al-Attabani declined to run for Secretary-general of the Islamic Movement (IM) due to what he saw as interferences by influential government figures who pushed through amendments he opposes.
The IM convention outcome angered six Islamism factions which vowed to continue to fight for reforms and removing corrupt figures.
Insiders say that Al-Attabani, who also heads the NCP parliamentary bloc, has recently stepped out of decision-making circles due to what they described as his unhappiness with the way the NCP has handled a number of sensitive issues lately.
He was fiercely critical of the government's response to the resolution issued on 24 April by the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) over the situation between Sudan and South Sudan following their brief war in the same month around the border oilfields of Heglig.
Al-Attabani publicly criticized the government for accepting the resolution and its subsequent referral to the UN Security Council (UNSC), basing his objections on what he described - in an op-ed published by the daily Sudanese newspaper Al-Intibaha on 30 April - as the introduction into the AUPSC resolution of articles biased in favor of South Sudan and against Khartoum by the international community.
Gosh's arrest marked the downfall of the once powerful spy chief who is better known for his deep cooperation with the United States on counter-terrorism following September 2001 attacks in Washington and New York by Al-Qaeda.
Last year Gosh was abruptly sacked by Bashir from his position as presidential adviser for security affairs. No reason was given for the decision.
This follows his surprise removal in 2009 by the Sudanese president from the directorship of the NISS. He was also stripped of his leadership position in the ruling NCP.
It is not clear what impact today's arrests will have on the political scene but will likely add more pressure on Bashir who faces multiple armed rebellions, tensions with South Sudan, a struggling economy and disgruntlement within the NCP and the Islamist movement.
High prices for food have added to widespread public anger over losing the south and have emboldened opposition activists to call for protests this summer. Analysts say the crisis has also exacerbated divisions in the government and squeezed the patronage system they say Bashir has relied on.
Bashir along with his defense minister are also subject to arrests warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) which have restricted their movement internationally.
There was no official confirmation by Khartoum.
Earlier today NISS source told government run Media Center (SMC) website as saying that they have foiled a plot to destabilize security led by opposition figures.
The source disclosed that arrests were made that among civilian and military individuals.
There were also unconfirmed reports of arrests made to several senior military commanders who are close to Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.
Gosh is the poster boy of counter terrorism cooperation between the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Sudan's NISS, over which he presided since 2002 until he was surprisingly demoted to the rank of a presidential adviser for security affairs in August 2009.
Last year he was also removed by Bashir from his advisory role for unknown reasons as well with some officials hinting at a power struggle and others speculating a coup attempt he planned.
November 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese finance ministry on Monday quietly issued a decision hiking the price of sugar as part of its ongoing effort to cut subsidies on basic commodities to stop the bleeding in the country's budget.
Decree number (83) signed by the finance ministry undersecretary Abdel-Rahman Dirar itemized several increases in fees and taxes associated with 50 kilogram (110 pounds) sugar bags bought by wholesale merchants.
This would be the second time this year that the government increased the price of sugar through partially removing the subsidies. This has led the price of a 50 kg sugar bag to rise from 156.5 Sudanese pounds (SDG) to 225 SDG last summer. Following today's decision it is estimated that this figure would go higher by at least 30 SDG.
The country is one of the biggest African sugar producers but needs to import at least 400,000 tonnes annually.
Last July the government inaugurated a $1 billion sugar plant plans which aims to reach an annual output of 450,000 tonnes of white sugar within the next three years.
Sudan has gradually started eliminating commodity subsidies which the government asserts that it costs billions of dollars to maintain. This has posed an enormous drain on the budget which is suffering from the impact of South Sudan breaking away last year and taking with it around three quarters of the oil reserves.
A recent report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) showed that oil now accounts for 3%-5% of Sudan's gross domestic product, down from around 15%, while providing a much-reduced 20%-25% of revenue.
The first round of austerity measures, rolled out by the government last summer, impacted sugar as well as petroleum products which sparked rare small anti-government protests across the country including the capital.
But Sudanese officials as well as the IMF argue that more cuts are needed to rein in the deficit, despite staunch resistance by the parliament and labour union.
Today, the Sudanese labour union warned the government against any attempt to increase prices of basic commodities such as bread, sugar and electricity in the 2013 budget.
The union also slammed the finance minister labeling him "non-cooperative" on issues related to workers' dues and reiterated its demand for bumping the minimum monthly wage to 425 SDG.
Earlier this year Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir urged the labour union to agree on lifting subsidies in return for raising wages. He also warned that raising wages without careful review of its implications could further fuel inflation and that the economic situation may not allow for immediate increase in pay.
Ordinary Sudanese are seeing large increases in prices eating into their incomes making it increasingly difficult for them to maintain their current living standards without cutting spending.
Analysts say that the fast deterioration in the value of SDG relative to the dollar, decline in national income, shortage in foreign currency and inability to borrow is restricting Khartoum's ability to buy food on the international market.
Last month Sudan's inflation was estimated to be at 45.3% compared to 41.6% in September driven mainly by food prices.
November 19, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan has rescheduled plans to resume oil production and exports out of neighbouring Sudan, in order to reach an understanding with Khartoum over security issues, the head of the state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (NilePet),Paul Adong, said Sunday.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir declared on 14 November that his country's oil production will be restarted this week, after nearly a year of suspending it over a dispute with Khartoum on transit fees for exporting the crude through the north's pipelines.Adong, who did not give a revised date, said preparations to resume pumping Southern crude through Sudan are continuing and have not been suspended despite the postponement. He said that discussions over security arrangements regarding the establishing a demilitarised buffer zone and alleged backing of rebel groups either side of the border were ongoing.In September the two sides signed a Cooperation Agreement, which will see South Sudan pay between $9.10 and $11 a barrel to export its crude through the north. Juba will also pay $3.08 billion to help Sudan overcome the loss of three quarters of oil production due to Southern secession.The flagging economies of both nations, since South Sudan separated last year, have made a deal to resolve the oil dispute, which began in January, crucial for the finances of both nations.South Sudan relied on oil revenues for 98% of its income and Sudan had budgeted for transit fees of over $30 per barrel in its annual budget. South Sudan's pre-shutdown oil production was approximately 350,000 barrels per day (bpd).However, Sudan has insisted that border security arrangements agreed in the September deal must be finalised before oil exports can resume.Meetings earlier this month in Juba, chaired by the defense ministers of the two countries to discuss the establishment of previously agreed demilitarized border buffer zone and the ways to end cross border attacks and rebel presence in both sides of border, ended without progress.Speaking to the Sudanese parliament on 14 November after his return to Khartoum, Sudanese defense minister Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein blamed the South Sudan government for the breakdown of the implementation of the deal.He accused Juba rejecting his attempts to place the issue of South Sudan's alleged backing of rebels in South Sudan on the meeting's agenda and said his counterpart had refused to hand over the names of citizens northern citizens seeking to join the Southern army (SPLA).NilePet's Adong told Sudan Tribune that Khartoum had begun to include "completely new demands" in the security deal which his country "did not make a commitment" to during negotiations held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.On 14 November the Sudanese oil minister Awad al-Jaz told a visiting South Sudanese delegation led by the Undersecretary of South Sudan's oil ministry, Machar Aciek Ader Nyang, that implementing the oil accord was contingent upon finalizing a deal on security arrangements.The two sides discussed technical details for restarting oil flow in a closed session but Al-Jaz stressed the importance of security to provide a conducive environment for oil production.NilePet's Adong, who was part of a South Sudanese delegation that visited Khartoum last week said that the resumption of oil production has "been rescheduled because [the] Sudanese government wants security arrangements to be concluded first."In South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, which both border South Sudan rebels - who fought with the SPLA during the civil that resulted in country's partition - have been fighting the Sudanese government since last year.The SPLA-North claim to control 40% of the border and South Sudan has argued that they should be included in the security. This and Juba's offer to mediate between its war-time allies and the Sudanese government has been given short shrift in Khartoum."The reason for rescheduling resumption date for production and export through Sudanese territory is that [the] Sudanese government link the full implementation of the nine agreements with security arrangements. Sudan wants disengagement of SPLM-North and South Sudan to be included. This demand is not provided for in the nine agreements"; said Adong.He said that security and oil resumption discussions between Juba and Khartoum are ongoing.
Khartoum, Nov. 17 - The 8th Conference of the Sudanese Islamic Movement Saturday concluded its sittings Saturday evening at the Friendship Hall and issued its final communiqué.
The concluding sitting was attended by the President of the Republic Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, and number of leaders of the political parties and Sudan guests.
The conference affirmed in its final communiqué the firm stand of the Sudanese Islamic Movement in support of the Palestinian people.
The conference called for intensive cooperation and dialogue between the Islamic Movements.
The conference called for immediate stoppage of the massacres against the Muslims in Myna mar.
The concluding sitting was attended by the President of the Republic Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, and number of leaders of the political parties and Sudan guests.
The conference affirmed in its final communiqué the firm stand of the Sudanese Islamic Movement in support of the Palestinian people.
The conference called for intensive cooperation and dialogue between the Islamic Movements.
The conference called for immediate stoppage of the massacres against the Muslims in Myna mar.
November 15, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir declared that his country's oil production will be restarted next week after nearly a year of suspending it over a dispute with Khartoum on fees that should assessed for exporting the crude through the north's pipelines.
Kiir made the announcement during a meeting he held today in Juba with visiting Kenyan deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta."It is after the successful completion of negotiations with the Sudan [that we] will re-launch the transporting oil [pipeline] next week" he said.Last September, the two countries reached an agreement on the oil driven mainly by the economic difficulties they faced that were compounded by the oil shutdown whuch denied them billions of dollars in revenues.Under the final deal, South Sudan will pay between $9.10 and $11 a barrel to export its crude through the north. Juba will also pay $3.08 billion to help Sudan overcome the loss of three quarters of oil production due to southern secession.South Sudan's pre-shutdown oil production was approximately 350,000 barrels per day (bpd).In Khartoum the Sudanese oil minister Awad al-Jaz told South Sudan's oil Undersecretary Machar Aciek Ader Nyang that implementing the oil accord is contingent upon finalizing a deal on security arrangements.He underscored the importance of security to provide conducive environment for oil production. The two sides discussed technical details for restarting oil flow in a closed session.Nyang told reporters upon arriving in Khartoum that South Sudan oil will reach global markets by year end and stressed the importance of cooperation between the two countries on areas related to oil.The Secretary General of the Ministry of Oil Awad Abdel Fattah on his end told reporters that South Sudan oil will arrive at Port Sudan terminals within two months if a deal on security arrangements agreement is reached.The statements by Sudanese cast doubts over whether Khartoum will allow oil flow to resume in the event that security deal remain elusive. Sudan accuses its southern neighbor of backing rebels fighting its army in border states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan. Juba however denies these allegations..
Khartoum, November 14 - President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, returned home Wednesday evening from Saudi Arabia after undergoing sA uccessful surgery.
President Al-Bashir was received at Khartoum Airport by big masses and a number of seior government officials, including the First Vice President of the Republic, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, and federal ministers, leaders of the political parties, the Sufi sects, women associations and students' unions.
November 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese oil minister Awad al-Jaz said today that the country has 762 million barrels of oil reserves as of 2012 and disclosed that his ministry is seeking to boost gas reserves as well.
In statements shown on privately-owned Blue Nile TV, Abdullah Hassan al-Bashir who is also a physician, disclosed that they are awaiting the results of a biopsy performed on his brother which would confirm the nature of the tumor.
The results should come out as early as Saturday, he said without providing further details.
Bashir's brother's statements contradicts those made by other officials in the presidency and the government who said that the Sudanese leader suffered from lipoma that caused a vacuum between vocal cords.
The 68-years old president underwent surgery last August in Qatar performed on his throat that was only recently officially acknowledged. He has limited his appearance and speeches ever since which gave rise to rumors regarding his health and the nature of his illness.
This week it was announced that Bashir traveled to Saudi Arabia on a private visit during which he will undergo medical checks and meet with Saudi officials. A day later however a statement by the government said that Bashir underwent a successful "minor surgery" without elaboration.
Official sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, justified this by saying that the operation was not anticipated but rather necessitated by the results of the tests he took.
Bashir appeared today at the Sudanese embassy in Riyadh and addressed his supporters for the first time since the surgery.
"I assure you that I am in perfect health and do not suffer from any side effects after a small surgery I had yesterday that was successful," he said in a clear and normal sounding voice.
He addressed the recent attack on a weapons factory in the Sudanese capital which Khartoum blamed on Israel.
"Of course, many people wonder how Israeli's planes sneaked from the Red Sea to reach Khartoum without people engaging with it," Bashir said.
The Sudanese president pointed out that his country has two options to stop such attacks the first of which is normalizing ties with Israel but he swiftly dismissed that option and emphasized that Israel will remain the number one enemy of Sudan.
"Israel is the Zionist enemy and Israel will remain the enemy" and went on to say that the viable alternative is seeking to acquire military capabilities to enable it to respond "in kind".
However, he acknowledged the superiority of Israel's military and noted that the Jewish state used technology that enabled it to avoid radar detection..
"The aircrafts that hit Khartoum and bombed the compound were F-15's and they are American planes that were in use since a long time ago but they added new features [so that] no radar detects it. Even radars in Djibouti and the U.S. base and the French base were unable to detect those planes," he added.
Bashir also reiterated his rejection to excluding Misseriya tribe in Abyei from taking part in the referendum as the African Union plan proposes saying it paves the way to Dinka Ngok being granted the region and subsequently being annexed by South Sudan.
He emphasized that Abyei is a land belonging to the Misseriya who hosted the Dinka Ngok in the past in reference to the period of Dinka-Nuer conflicts.
Abyei lies on the border between South Sudan and its northern neighbor. Since South Sudan seceded in 2011 various issues have remained unresolved. Despite the success of the most recent round of talks held in Addis Ababa in September, Juba and Khartoum have failed to agree upon the future of the Abyei region.
"Abyei will continue as a part of Sudan and all Misseriya will participate in the Abyei referendum," Bashir said.
The African Union's Peace and Security Council has given Sudan and South Sudan until December 5 to agree on the final status of Abyei, which Sudanese troops withdrew from in May to end a year-long occupation.


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Parts rusting after zinc phosphating: brown residue = flash rust?
A discussion started in 2000 and continuing through 2017 . . .(2000)
Q. We have a zinc/phosphate immersion tank followed by hex-chromate seal. Control of this Zn Phosphate tank is maintained by analyzing the free acid/total acids. In the last two weeks, iron parts exposed to only 12 hours slack time prior to painting are developing rust. Assume that adjacent production lines have been the same consistent mix for the last three months and that the tank is only operated when the daily temps, F.A.(lowest allowable), and T.A. are in spec.
Q1) Should this tank be monitored for any other mitigating cations.-two suspects are Al or Cr.
Q2) Does the sealer need total dissolved solids spec.David E [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]
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Q. We are noticing a red/brown residue on parts leaving our E-Coat immersion Zinc Phosphate tank, after line stoppages. The residue is apparent in as little as 10 minutes after a line stop/shutdown if suspended above the tank (without entering a rinse tank). My immediate reaction would be a flash rust issue but I would not think that it would be apparent after 10 minutes. I plan on doing a salt spray analysis with several different controls to see if long term quality is affected. Could this be a flash rust issue, or is it just a property of the zinc phosphate chemistry/drying process?Devon DuBose
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A. Hi Devon,
Without actually seeing the parts, it is hard to say what your residue is.
But flash rust can occur within the 10-minute time frame you describe. In fact, if the conditions are right, corrosion can be seen within a minute or so.
I would not bother with performing a salt spray test to determine whether flash rust is present. It would be easier to look at the residue using an inexpensive microscope. You will be able to discern the rust even at 50X or 100X magnification.
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Thanks for the reply. I was interested in the salt spray analysis just to see the long term effects if any, as there are no immediately visible defects after an extended line stoppage once the line continues through E-coat. I am however fairly certain that the residue is rust but will take your advice and take a peak under a microscope.
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Q. I'm working at a company in a shop for zinc phosphating of a mild steel body of a 6 cylinder compressor. The problem is after removing the body from phosphating tank, it is getting corroded at some points. Also the layer forming is not uniform and getting removed on slight rubbing against other surfaces. The process specifications are as follows
1) dipping in HCl for derusting 3 to 4 hours,
2) rinsing in water,
3) dipping in phosposol zinc, catalyst 17 powder (as specified by supplier),
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What could be possible reasons? Also suggest remedies.
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Hi Sunny. Your experience is already broader than mine. I can't even imagine pickling/derusting in HCl for 4 hours :-(
I'm surprised the surface isn't so porous and spongey that cold phosphating is impossible. We'll have to wait for a reader who knows their stuff :-)
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Q. Hello ted, HCl acid is 35 percent diluted actually.
And, appending to above question:
4) water rinsing in dip tank
Acceptance range for zinc phosphate
Total acid- 150-180 pointage
Free acid- 12 to 16
Acceptance range for HCl acid
Acid pointage- 20-25
Actually in our case lots of fluctuations are there in each parameter like free acid in zinc phosphate bath sometime drops to 10, HCl acid pointage to 16
What could be the most affecting part?
What should be ideal values and ratio of F.A. & T.A. , Acid pointage of HCl?
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December 31, 2016
A. First, you might try using sulfuric acid instead of HCl. Chlorides are notorious corrosion cataysts/promoters.
Second, straighten out your phosphate bath excursions! Run your free and total acid numbers near the top of the range, rather than letting them sink below the lower limit. The analytical procedures are quite straightforward and you can easily do them yourself.
Lastly, a little higher temperature in the bath might help. 60 C or higher, I'd suggest.
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NATIONAL SECURITY "In other words, debt burdens, rain-forest decimation, or even famine do not become part of the security calculus for our purpose unless they threaten to have political outcomes that either affect the survivability of state boundaries, state institutions, or governing élites or weaken the capacity of states and regimes to act effectively in the realm of both domestic and international politics."
THIRD WORLD NATIONAL SECURITY Primarily domestic origins of insecurity: Often not single nation, but various competing groups. Lack of popular legitimacy of governments: often represent only élite or ethnic/social interests. Lack of institutional capacity to maintain law and order. Threats are perceived to be from and to the regime in power.
AFRICAN NATIONAL SECURITY "Currently, it is difficult to determine exactly how most African governments define their security, because most of them do not make their doctrines and calculations public. Instead, it is usually the head of state, the chief of security, army generals, and a small number of fellow officers who make their calculations and take whatever actions they consider necessary. This usually implies a rather narrow definition of security, based on considerations of military defence and regime stability. In addition, a few governments go even further. The readiness of some governments to hastily label any political opponents as 'terrorists', even when they are only advocating legal and non- violent action, suggests that some leaders confuse 'national security' with government survival, or even personal power." Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
MIGRATION AND INSECURITY "Like a number of other security challenges, migration-related insecurity increased significantly following the end of the cold war. And like so many of these challenges, the events of 9/11 have intensified awareness of and debate about migration. The migrant is more easily construed today than earlier as a potential national enemy, and the subsequent securitization of the migrant and migration in general has had enormous consequences for both individuals and states." Source: Burgess, JP, "Non-military security challenges", in Snyder, CA, Contemporary security and strategy.
MIGRATION AND INSECURITY (cont) "From the point of view of the arrival of societies of migrants, be they refugees or other, there is a distinct insecurity created. Host societies experience threats to social stability through problematization of endogenous cultures, itself answered by various forms of xenophobia. Demographic changes and with them economic changes can be perceived as threatening as a function of changes in family and group make-up. Cultural, religious and ethnic identity can be the source of conflict and security. …./cont
MIGRATION AND INSECURITY (Cont) These changes in populations carry with them changes in the ways that developed state-based societies care for citizens and those who have legal right to care. These changes motivate significant dynamics through the politics of border security, homeland, security, integration, citizenship and cultural pluralism, etcetera. The relationship between security, insecurity and migration is also linked, to a greater or lesser degrees, to human and narcotics trafficking, and associated international criminality. Source: Burgess, JP, "Non-military security challenges", in Snyder, CA, Contemporary security and strategy.
CAUSES OF, AND ESTIMATION OF NUMBERS OF ILLEGAL MIGRANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA Causes: Overstayers Poor borderline control Corruption Marriages of convenience Falsification of documents Numbers: Estimates range from 500,000 to between 3 and 5 million, with some estimating between 2-3 million Zimbabweans alone, mostly illegally in South Africa. Refugee numbers are much smaller, but many of the refugee applications are fraudulent. (2008 – 110,000 applications for asylum – only 10,000 genuine).
DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA: 2008 TOTAL: 288, 836 Selected subtotals: Zimbabwe: 167,692 Mozambique: 96,826 Malawi: 5,259 Swaziland: 3,086 China: 394 Bangladesh: 146
SAPS ACTIVITIES AT SOUTH AFRICA BORDERLINES 2008/2009 Stolen / Hijacked vehicles Arrests95 Seizures530 ValueR53,000,000.00 Firearms and ammunitions Arrests156 Seizures265 firearms and 209 rounds of ammunition ValueFirearms: R265,000.00 Ammunition: R1,045.00 Narcotics Arrests348 Cannabis174,270,034 gram ValueR243,978,046.60
SAPS ACTIVITIES AT SOUTH AFRICA BORDERLINES 2008/2009 Illegal immigrants / Aiding and abetting Arrests50,153 Illegal goods Arrests80 ValueR45,398,372.00 Human trafficking and maritime-related offences Arrests87
SOUTH AFRICAN POLICIES AND VIEWS ON ILLEGAL MIGRATION AND BORDERLINE CONTROL Borderline Protection: July 2009 648 police officers for 4,862 km of landward borders = one per seven kilometres Operation Corona (Proposal) SANDF redeployed on borderline between 2010-2014 From 1 April 2010: 540 soldiers on Zimbabwe and Mozambique borders (3,240 soldiers less than in 2004. Aim is about 2,000 in 2014). Lesotho border "Security along South Africa's border with Lesotho is ineffective and citizens are forced to look after the safety of their own communities." - D Maynier (DA) – 20 July 2009
SOME IMPLICATONS OF (INEFFECTIVE) BORDERLINE CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA RSA White Paper on International Migration, 1991 "3.1It has been noted that illegal aliens have the following negative impact on the provision of services and on our society: they compete for scarce resources with millions of South Africans living in poverty and below the breadline; they compete for scarce public services, such as schools and medical care, infrastructures and land, housing and informal trading opportunities; they compete with residents and citizens for our insufficient job opportunities, and offer their labour at conditions below those prescribed by law or the applicable collective bargaining agreements; a considerable percentage of illegal aliens has been involved in criminal activities; and they weaken the state and its institutions by corrupting officials, fraudulently acquiring documents and undeserved rights and tarnishing our image locally and abroad."
Incarceration statistics indicating categories of crime involving foreigners in South Africa: April 2009 SOME IMPLICATONS OF (INEFFECTIVE) BORDERLINE CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA (Cont) Crime categoriesUnsentencedSentencedTotal Economic crimes1 1211 7812 902 Aggressive crimes1 3561 6322 988 Sexual crimes206208414 Narcotics282507799 Other292507799 Total3 2574 6357 892
SOME IMPLICATONS OF (INEFFECTIVE) BORDERLINE CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA (Cont) "Zim soldiers behind wave of heists "An intelligence officer confirmed that former Zimbabwean military men were using their skills to good effect in South Africa – employing South Africans as runners to help them get accommodation, hideout spots and vehicles. "'A number of soldiers are leaving the Zimbabwean army and coming [here]. The group that was involved in last Sunday's shooting involved people with serious military training,' he said "Police suspect that the weapons recovered, which include AK-47s and other powerful guns, were supplied by Mozambicans, while the Zimbabweans oversaw the operation in cahoots with several locals. "'Unfortunately our hands are tied … Anything involving Zimbabwe or our [other] neighbours is handled via Pretoria,' said an official. "Kenny Fihla, head of Business Against Crime, said the involvement of foreigners in crime was becoming a serious problem. "'We should not be apologetic. We do have a sense that illegal foreigners are involved in these armed heists and robberies,' he said." Source: Sunday Times, 2 July 2006
SOME IMPLICATONS OF (INEFFECTIVE) BORDERLINE CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA (Cont) Violence against foreigners in South Africa: selected examples 1994-1995 – Alexandra 2007 – Port Elizabeth and Delmas 2008 – Alexandra and beyond (spread over four provinces) 2010 – De Doorns, Balfour and Orange Farm Causes of violence against foreigners have been explained in terms of issues related to poverty and poor service delivery, employment opportunities, involvement in crime, instigation by a so-called "third force" and generally "xenophobia".
WE ARE NOT ALONE – LOOK AT ANGOLA (AND BOTSWANA) "Angola: Armed Forces Chief Warns About Illegal Immigration Risks "The head of staff of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), General Francisco Pereira Furtado, has called on attention for the consequences of illegal immigration phenomena provokes for the country's economy and national defence, Angop has learned. … "He underlined that illegal immigration constituted in the last times one of the greatest threats to economic and social stability, a situation caused by the vulnerability of national borders and weak mechanisms of supervision, which is a concern of the Angolan State. "The high-ranking army official said that since May 09, an operation code- named Crisis, under co-ordination of FAA, that in 37 days, expelled 18,000 illegal foreigners in the diamond rich Lunda-Norte Province. "Francisco Pereira Furtado said that the operation follows the world financial and economic crisis that affects the diamond sector and provoked the abandonment of 11 huge diamond projects in the country." Source: allAfrica.com, 24 June 2009
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This morning I made Banana Chocolate Chip muffin tops, and I thought you might like the recipe.
Tammy's Can't Top Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin Tops
3 large ripe bananas
1 cup sugar
1 egg
4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour, to make them feel healthy
1 teaspoon each, baking soda and salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips, semi-sweet is my fave
Turbinado sugar crystals
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease muffin top pan and set aside.
In a bowl, mash bananas - you should end up with about a cup. Beat in sugar, then egg, then butter. Stir in the chocolate chips. In another bowl, mix together your flours, baking soda and salt. Add to banana mixture and stir just until all flour is moistened. Pour batter into muffin top pan, a scant 1/4 cup in each. Sprinkle sugar crystals on top of each muffin top.
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By Andrew Dent
Challenged on the Storage Front
A recent Forrester report claimed that Enterprise data has grown 47% over the last two years. Despite the fact that much of this data is unstructured, and not performance sensitive, much of it is stored on expensive tier one storage systems. This cost of provisioning such storage is excessive. Additionally, storage arrays, with their long life span, together with poor data growth forecasting, means customers typically purchase much more storage than they need. There is a resulting need in the market for storage solutions that are optimized for the workload they are hosting. These storage solutions should be easy to deploy to avoid overprovisioning.
Such issues are particularly pronounced when thinking about VDI. When a customer comes to consider VDI, they often become entangled in a complicated storage discussions, due to the storage intensive nature of VDI. It's important when embarking on a VDI discussion that the customer, specifically storage architects, are aware of the various storage options available to their implementation. Proper consideration here may have dramatic implications on the storage costs, and affect the outcome of the opportunity.
In this article we conduct a qualitative exploration of storage options on the market today. This article will help you have more enlightened discussions on storage with customers, and will potentially lead to more optimized storage designs.
When choosing VDI storage, there are two primary choices: local direct-attached storage (DAS) or shared storage.
The least expensive and easiest VDI storage option to configure is direct-attached storage (DAS). With DAS, the main advantage is that the hypervisor can communicate directly with the storage. That means network bandwidth limitations or latency, don't constrain storage communications. Another advantage is that when direct-attached storage is used, another host will not affect disk I/O. In a shared storage environments, all of the host servers must share disk resources. If a host happens to carry an unusually heavy workload, that host's tasks can potentially rob other hosts of disk I/O. This is not a problem when each host has its own storage.
Despite the benefits of direct-attached storage for VDI, it isn't always reliable. DAS offers no provision for failover. If the host server fails, then any storage devices that are attached to the host become inaccessible. Many variants of DAS are available. Examples are hard-disk drives (HDDs), SSDs and add-in flash modules that appear to the OS as a hard drive. DAS is best suited to non-persistent environments.
Shared storage
The preferred method for providing storage to virtual desktops is shared storage. In this architecture, each virtualization host connects to a centralized storage pool where the individual virtual hard disk files reside. Because all hosts are connected to a centralized storage pool, the infrastructure is protected against host server failure. If a host fails, its workload can be moved to a different host within the cluster.
The most common form of shared storage today is the SAN. Many VDI pilots, or even medium sized installs, are often deployed on excess general purpose SAN capacity. This is problematic in that VDI workloads have a much different performance profile than many other server workloads. VDI storage challenges, are at their root a bi-product of the Microsoft Windows Operating System. The OS itself, was designed to leverage a dedicated low latency local hard drive able to handle heavy disk write I/O. There are performance bottlenecks when this model is deployed concurrently on a traditional SAN. There is no effective way to guarantee QOS for the initial deployment, or any way to scale this deployment. These bottlenecks have traditionally been managed by over-allocation of resources, thru the use of lots of spinning disks to service the I/O. But such over-allocation is CAPEX heavy, increasing the time to ROI.
Storage architects need to think beyond this "over-provisioned SAN" approach when considering VDI. Selecting the right storage medium for VDI deployments will radically alter time to ROI. Increasingly there are a number of options on the market which enable organizations to capture faster time-to-ROI for VDI deployments.
I/O Acceleration Software
I/O acceleration software is designed to slide into any new or current storage deployment, and reduce the load on the back-end storage array. This type of solution can be very helpful when an organization has already made a large purchase in a specific storage array, but that array may not have been originally intended for VDI. By offloading the higher I/O requirements to an I/O acceleration software solution, organizations can further leverage their current storage, keeping costs under control.
An example of I/O optimization is to improve the way virtual desktops use storage. Virtual desktop images duplicate a lot of information. There is an opportunity to consolidate this duplicate information in real-time before it is stored. This will reduce I/O and also reduce storage capacity.
Product in this space include Citrix IntelliCache (XenServer only), Atlantis ILIO and Microsoft Clustered Shared Volumes.
To mitigate the I/O limitations with traditional hard disk technology many vendors have used SSD (Solid State Drives) or flash memory to service workloads with high I/O requirements. SSD's have no moving parts and are not limited by the mechanical aspects of a traditional hard disks operation. SSD's are also superior in terms of I/O and data transfer. This performance however, does come at a cost. This cost premium has been mitigated somewhat through the combined use of SSD's and HDD's in an approach that uses different types of storage – Hybrid Storage Arrays (see below). Space can also be a challenge with SSD's. PVS only stores the 'write-cache', which makes SSD viable – but for MCS, if you have multiple master images, space management can be difficult.
Hybrid Storage Arrays
Hybrid storage players sell arrays that combine SSD storage, flash-based SSD, RAM, and traditional rotating hard disks to create a high-end storage platform. By doing so, hybrid storage vendors can provide customers with storage solutions that boast the capacity advantages of traditional SAN storage solutions, with I/O performance levels that are often orders of magnitude greater than what would be possible with a similar number of traditional hard disks by themselves.
Hybrid Storage arrays include software storage software services, which are commonly found in enterprise arrays including, Data protection and replication, Clustering capabilities for scale-out configurations, Capacity optimization, such as data deduplication/compression, and Reporting and predictive analytics.
Hybrid storage arrays are ideally suited for single-purpose solutions, such as VDI. Many of these solutions can be integrated within a SAN fabric, but most are delegated to DAS, or deployed as separate storage fabric. This creates specialized storage dedicated to servicing the needs of the VDI deployment. This creates simplicity because customers do not have to involve their existing storage teams to implement the solution. This means that typically one vendor is responsible for the storage, and thus, organizations have one number to call.
The hybrid storage approach vendors in this space include GreenBytes, Nimble and Whiptail.
Storage and Convergence
As interest has increased in Hybrid storage arrays, extensions of this model are beginning to appear in the market. Storage is increasingly being considered as another component of the 'converged infrastructure' space, and devices are appearing on the market that package both storage and compute in the one form factor, optimized for VDI deployment.
A high profile player in this space is Nutanix, who converges compute and storage in a single appliance, purpose-built for high performance virtualization. A single Nutanix node, contains two six-core Xeon 5600 processors, with eight cores allocated to run hypervisors and virtual machines, and four cores allocated to run the Nutanix virtual storage controller. This controller virtualizes a pool of Intel and Fusion-io solid state disks and Seagate SATA drives, and presents virtual machines with block and file I/O access to data spread across these disks inside the cluster. A single Nutanix node is able to support over 20,000 IOPS in a 2U form factor - perfect for the high I/O generated by VDI workloads. Another interesting play here is FlexPod. Flexpod is a reference architecture for server, storage and networking components that are pre-tested and validated to work together as an integrated infrastructure stack. The stack consists of products from multiple vendors and is sold by NetApp Inc.
Convergence still an emerging space. There is great interest in convergence, as it promises to reduce costs and speed deployments. There are however, a number of barriers to its widespread adoption. Purchasing of compute and storage is currently siloed within IT department. This has the opportunity to complicate joint sales. Additionally at this early stage in the market, the technical and operational benefits of this approach in reducing long-term operational expense or not clear.
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Storage solutions, like other infrastructure, are increasingly being moved into software. This allows the purchase of software products that can transform commodity storage hardware into virtual storage arrays, and serve as an alternative to rigid, single-purpose storage appliances. In SDS environments, applications, developers, and other business stakeholders will be able to define their storage requirements and have their request fulfilled without needing to know anything about the underlying storage hardware infrastructure. SDS is a key component in the software-defined data center, and it will need to integrate with other pieces, such as software-defined networking (SDN), to accelerate access to IT resources.
Though most perceive storage products as highly specialized proprietary hardware appliances, the vast majority of storage appliances on the market are essentially commodity x86 server hardware running the vendor's proprietary software stack (as per our Nutanix example). Ultimately, as software-only storage options become more mature and storage professionals accept commodity hardware as a viable alternative to integrated storage appliances, we will get to a point where storage functionality becomes just another application run on servers. In this scenario, file (NAS), block (SAN), and object storage will be created on demand using commodity CPU, RAM, hard drives, and flash resources.
The key components of an SDS solution are:
Many analysts see software-defined storage as the future of storage; however, more maturity is needed in this market before every organization will be able to deploy these types of solutions. The longer term benefits of automated provisioning, virtualization, and QoS are compelling for the VDI use case.
Lets Go!
In this article we have taken a look at advancements in storage. Near term, I/O acceleration solutions and Hybrid Storage arrays are very useful systems that enable us to reduce the cost of VDI deployments, and these trends look set to continue with the arrival of converged storage, and software defined storage. Like many complicated solutions the devil is in the detail with respect to bottom line costing's. It is impossible to point to any one storage solution as the way to reduce a customer's storage costs. But on all VDI opportunities, it is important that customers understand the drivers of storage costs, and are aware of solutions in the market that have the potential to reduce costs.
Like any solution, it's important to remember that storage costs will not be the only driver. Our traditional storage partners - NetApp, HP, Dell and IBM all have established reference architectures with sales and support networks to back them up. Many of the newer storage vendors have yet to get to this level of maturity, and such issues should be considered within the overall context of the opportunity.


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