VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE RAD Data Communications is all set to participate in the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Ethernet Business Seminar series in India. To be held in Mumbai on 18th January and Bengaluru on 20th January, these seminars will provide a unique opportunity for the technology user community to get an inside view of the advanced business Ethernet services available today. "At a time when more and more enterprises are looking at reducing telecoms costs while increasing the speed, performance and scalability of their network, standards-based Ethernet business services are fast emerging as the dominant architecture for enabling the delivery of key business applications," explains, Jayant Deo, President, RAD India. "This is because Ethernet offers the lowest cost-per-bit economics, simplicity, quick bandwidth upgrades, and complete control over an enterprise’s network architecture." With a theme of enabling today's dynamic new applicati

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Obopay has promoted its President, Deepak Chandnani as CEO of Obopay. Founder and CEO, Carol Realini will assume the new role of Executive Chairman. In his new role, Chandnani will focus on the company's significant growth in size and geographic scope, while Realini will continue her focus on corporate strategy as well as furthering Obopay's corporate vision: evangelizing the need for mobile money and building its widespread adoption throughout the world. Chandnani will be based out of Obopay's Corporate Office in Mumbai, India, while Realini will be based out of Obopay's Corporate Office in Redwood City, CA. Having Obopay's two most senior executives based in different corporate headquarters reflects the true global nature of Obopay's business. "Over the last two years, Obopay has shaped and led the way for the mobile banking and payments space globally", said Realini, speaking on Chandnani's promotio

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Reliance Communications has introduced India's first, user generated caller tune service. This exclusive service allows customers to record any content via 'Tune Maker' platform and set it as their own caller tune. Subscribers can also post their creations through which other customers can set it as their caller tunes. RCom has partnered with Hyderabad based Altruist Technologies to create pan-India infrastructure for its new service. According to Anil Pande, Head -VAS, Reliance Communications, "UGC (user generated content) has seen exponential growth over the last few years. India being a multilingual country, voice is an important part of UGC. The service allows voice based content of Users Choice to be shared and set as their Caller Tune. The technology support offered by Altruist enables to edit, link, and create the content posted by customer, besides activating it as Caller Tune" The facility is available Online

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has announced the launch of printers in India, introducing a comprehensive range of printing devices for home offices, small and medium businesses and workgroups. Dell's single- and multi-function printer lineup is engineered to reduce total cost of print by providing increased product reliability with comprehensive warranty and maintenance coverage. The range of printers being launched include 1250C, the world's smallest single-function A4 colour laser-class printer and a host of monochrome printers, including the multi-function 1133 and single-function printers - 2230d, 1130, 1130n, 2330d and 2330dn. While unveiling the products, P. Krishnakumar, Director - Marketing - CSMB, Dell India, said, "Dell is focussed on helping businesses of all sizes operate efficiently and make the most of their IT so they can simplify day-to-day tasks, increase productivity, and focus on innovation. With the launch of these printers in India

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Talking to reporters through video conferencing, Sachin Pilot, Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology said that the Department of Post is looking at computerizing all the 1.55 lakh post offices in the country by the end of 2012. The minister said this after having launched 3G services in seven cities of Gujarat Out of all the 1,55,015 post offices in the country, only 12,604 have been computerized so far and Department of Posts aims to computerise the rest by the end of 2012, the minister stated. Talking about telecom network, he said that only the government-owned companies such as BSNL were putting up infrastructure and providing connectivity in the remote areas, even in Naxalism affected areas such as Jharkhand.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade has appointed Edgar Dias as Regional Director of Enterprise Business for Asia-Pacific (APAC). Dias will be based in Singapore and will lead the company's enterprise strategy and manage its direct-touch sales force. Prior to joining Brocade, Dias served as Sales Director at Juniper Networks where he was responsible for its Campus and Data Center businesses. Before that, Dias spent 10 years at Nortel Networks where he was responsible for sales of its data communications product portfolio across Asia, Middle East and Africa. "Edgar's 15 years of industry experience gives him an intimate understanding of the APAC enterprise business climate and the enterprise networking segment," said Deb Dutta, Vice- President of Brocade Asia Pacific. "I am confident that he will add strategic depth to this role and will strengthen our executive bench in APAC." A key charter for Dias will be to develop and execute strategies

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP India has presented the most compact and energy-efficient colour LaserJet printer at an unbelievable price - HP LaserJet Pro CP1025 Colour Printer at Rs.14,999/-. This all-new HP LaserJet Pro CP1025 Colour Printer is perfectly designed to deliver professional high-quality colour printing at economical cost. HP LaserJet Pro CP1025 Colour Printer is a rich colour printer offering black only prints at the same cost as black & white HP LaserJet printer. With the launch of this power-packed dynamite HP LaserJet Pro CP1025 Colour Printer, users now have the ability to get colour and the right attention in their business documents, design marketing materials in-house and take ideas for printed projects from the HP Creative Studio for Business. This printer allows for flexible media handling while supporting a wide range of media - from 3 x 5 to 8.5 x 14 inches. One can easily adjust spot colours and apply them throughout a document with basi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GIGABYTE Technology has reported a 37% year-over-year (YoY) revenue growth in Q4 FY10, providing a fitting ending to an outstanding year in which its motherboard sales in many Tier-2 and Tier-3 regions grew by over 100%. This result confirms the growing recognition of the value that GIGABYTE motherboards offer to customers in the Indian market, and the success of GIGABYTE's aggressive marketing strategy in the country. Commenting on the growth, Rajan Sharma, General Manager - Marketing and Sales, GIGABYTE India, said, "During Q4 FY10, we continued to successfully execute our proven programmes and schemes for channel partners. We were able to leverage our distribution strength, spread and expertise to reach new regions and partners. Our local resources were spent more on channel building, education, training, marketing and brand-building activities that ensured sustainable and continuous demand generation." GIGABYTE accomplished

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Novell has announced continued momentum and delivery of innovation to the collaboration market, with more than 9,500 customers purchasing or renewing Novell collaboration solutions in 2010. In 2011, Novell will have key product collaboration releases including the highly-anticipated general availability of Novell Vibe(TM) Cloud, its next-generation social collaboration product, which has more than 10,000 users in less than two months of beta availability. "Organizations are increasingly taking more of an integrated approach to their IT investments as they try to make sense of the groundswell of information available in and outside of the enterprise, and as many venture into the cloud," said Michael Fauscette, Group Vice-President, Software Business Solutions, IDC. According to IDC, the collaboration market was $7.8 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach $11.2 billion by 2014. Much of this growth is fuelled by the move to the clou