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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE OCZ Technology Group Inc. has appointed Ankur Sarkar as Sales Manager for driving business operations in South Asia, including India. Ankur is responsible for developing an extensive channel and support network for OCZ in association with OCZ's consumer & enterprise product distributors across South Asia. He plays an instrumental role as Sales Manager for SSD Product Group & Enterprise Class Power Management Product Group, in carrying forward OCZ Technology's ongoing initiatives across markets be it the consumer, SME & enterprise customer. He is also responsible for educating the customer segments, providing effective pre-sales support to the channel, imparting marketing and technical training and offering seamless support services to the end-user as and when required. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE American Megatrends India, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Megatrends Inc., USA has announced the launch of SafeTrends 2.0. SafeTrends 2.0 is a breakthrough Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software suite for Windows environments that offers complete protection of valuable digital media. It is an ideal data backup solution for SMBs and SOHOs running Windows-based desktops and laptops. SafeTrends 2.0 employs a variety of innovations to backup and restore important data, by continually monitoring changes in selected files, and backing them up on one or more selected locations (local machine, local area network, corporate intranet, Internet/cloud). With both local and remote backup options, it provides users the flexibility to choose what data they want to save, and the time and storage location for the same. Consequently, SafeTrends 2.0 features the events log to review the activity and fine-tune the performance of a particular project.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SP/Silicon Power has announced its participation in CeBit 2012. The Company will unveil the next generation of storage products that will catch the eyes of international buyers and professionals. This time SP/Silicon Power will announce Marvel M60 the high quality and super speed USB flash drive, Touch 836 the USB flash drive with oriental Chinese dragon pattern and the popular mini-sized Ultima U01 with capless design. Furthermore, professional and amateurs photographers would be interested in the high capacity and transfer speed SDXC UHS-1 64GB memory card. Meanwhile, for enthusiastic gamers SP/Silicon Power will also present the 8GB DDR3-1333 Modules, the powerful and slim SATA III SSD and a variety of stylish USB flash drives and portable hard drives. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Capgemini has presented the 'Capgemini Leadership Award for Innovation 2012' to its Indian client VFS Global at the NASSCOM Global Leadership Awards, held in Mumbai. "We are honored to present along with NASSCOM this award to VFS Global, an important client who is committed to bringing a positive business impact through technology. With over 40 years of global expertise and collaborating with leading corporations, we are keen to make a positive impact on society through our solutions." said Salil Parekh, CEO, Application Services (UK, North America & Asia Pacific) and Global Financial Services. "We are honored to have won this prestigious award. Over the last 10 years we have managed to inculcate the value of innovation into the organizational culture. This was actually not too difficult to achieve due to our legacy, where the creation of VFS Global itself was one of the biggest and most successful innovations bo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Trend Micro has appointed Rajat Sahu as Product Marketing manager for India and SAARC. He will be responsible in this role to spearhead the branding and marketing for Titanium range of consumer products (Titanium Maximum Security, Titanium Maximum Mobile Security) for consumer and channels in India and SAARC. Rajat Sahu said, "Being one of the leaders in IT security solutions globally, I found the opportunity challenging and exciting to bring to the end users (home IT users) a globally proven and established product "Titainum Maximum seciurity" brand for protecting their digital data across PC & Mobile platforms." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE PTC has announced the findings of new research from Tech-Clarity. The study, Developing Software-Intensive Products, showed that the majority of respondents significantly increased the amount of software, the importance of software and the innovation driven by software in their products over the last five years with nearly seventy five percent of the respondents planning to increase these efforts further over the next five years. Jim Brown, President, Tech-Clarity said, "This survey indicates a noteworthy trend in that companies have significantly increased the use of software in their products across all manufacturing industries, in both large and small companies. The biggest increases in both the amount of software and the level of innovation driven by that software were found in automotive and high-tech industries. Another interesting discovery was that medical device manufacturers have increased the ratio of software engineers mor

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CommScope has unveiled GeoLENs Locate, the newest offering from the CommScope family of location technologies, carriers can now support targeted emergency messaging for public safety communication and opt-in mobile marketing opportunities, as well as social networking and enterprise applications. Currently, mobile location capabilities are primarily limited to determining and updating the location of a specific subscriber's mobile device in response to an emergency call, "friend-finder" request, or other location-based application. GeoLENs Locate goes beyond that to deliver a comprehensive, real-time means of integrating multiple subscriber locations and allowing highly-defined, area-targeted messaging and more value-added services. GeoLENs Locate accomplishes this by combining high-performance area location geofencing software from Intersec and active, specific location updating support from CommScope GeoLENs Mobile Location C

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Net4 India Ltd has announced the consolidated financial results for the 3rd quarter ended December 31st, 2011. The second quarter numbers have seen a big jump, with consolidated PAT for Q3 increasing to Rs. 9.57 cr from Rs. 6.46 cr, an increase of 48.14 % YoY. Consolidated Revenues for the quarter increased by 48.37 % on a YoY basis, from Rs. 85.54 cr in Q3 FY10/11 to Rs. 126.92 cr in the quarter ended 31st December 2011. Jasjit Sawhney, CMD, Net4 India said, "There has been consistent growth across most of service areas. Our web services business has witnessed significant increase in volumes, driven by aggressive marketing campaigns and highly competitive service bundles. On Data Centre & Cloud services we saw a notable increase in the order size, on account of a greater Managed Services mix. During the last quarter we have added 45,000 new customers and our overall sales pipeline remains robust." For More Details See www.vari

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NAV has relocated their northeast regional office to larger facilities in Pearl River, NY in a move that reflects an overall increase in business throughout the region as well as North American Video's (NAV) recent acquisition of Nexus Technologies Group. Jason Oakley, President & CEO, NAV said, "The location and added space of the new facility will enable us to offer enhanced services and support to our customers as well as better facilitate the integration of the two companies. It takes us into the future and positions us in the strategically important New York market to build on our business model while continuing to grow in New York and across the northeast region." Biscardi said, "This move will complete the physical merger of NAV and Nexus. With all personnel in one location, we can work smoothly and efficiently as a team to serve all of our customers." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dataton's WATCHOUT has been deployed as multi-image technology in the newly refurbished Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. The National Maritime Museum now consists of a series of themed and interactive exhibits, all of them featuring AV, lighting and network design by local integration firm Rapenburg Plaza. Most impressive among these exhibits is the 'Voyage at Sea' - a five-room, 20-minute immersive walk-through cinematic experience in which museum visitors are taken on a journey through five centuries of Dutch maritime history. The centerpiece of 'Voyage at Sea' is a 360-degree, oval-shaped projection which uses ten edge-blended projectors with wide-angle lenses, along with 'snap-on' cartridges custom-designed by Rapenburg Plaza for additional image filtering. Jorinde Wiegel, Rapenburg Plaza said, "Because of the way they had to be mounted and distributed in the room, it was

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ericsson reveals how do teenagers prefer to communicate and socialize with each other. Ericsson believes that their behavior has important implications for the future of devices and technology. Ericsson ConsumerLab carried out research into what those implications will be in between June and November 2011. Ann-Charlotte Kornblad, Sr. advisor, Ericsson ConsumerLab said, "Behaviors are dynamic, and shift as people enter different life stages. Teenagers start to use communication tools in the same way as adults do as they get older. They will continue to use "their" tools such as texting, Facebook and video chat, but at the same time, they understand the need to use voice and e-mail as they move into the next stage of their lives." The survey shows that the common usage of texting and Facebook has changed the dynamics of teenage dating. The biggest changes can be seen in the courting process, where the goal is to ask the oth

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, has achieved exceptional benchmark results from VDI-IOmark testing based on the delivery of high-performance, scalable and file-based tools essential for managing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Hitachi NAS Platform has a superior ability to offload critical VDI functionality and delivers massive scalability and clustering capabilities. This is vital for organizations to drive operational efficiencies that further extend their investments in virtual environments, to reduce operational costs and to improve centralized management of enterprise virtual desktop implementations. Russ Fellows, Sr. partner, Evaluator Group said, "We are pleased that Hitachi Data Systems is the first to announce their VDI-IOmark performance results. IT users can be confident that VDI-IOmark results provide an accurate and fair method for comparing sto

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC Corporation and Indra have launched a new cloud management solution. The solution will provide broad variety of innovative services and mobility to companies in markets throughout the world. Operational improvements, cost reduction and a focus on core business are the major benefits for customers of this new cloud management system. This cloud management system uses "desktop as a service" (DaaS) to provide a complete map of functionalities that cover the various typologies of virtual offices and their associated services. The virtual workplace will be accessible from any device under a monthly payment plan. NEC will provide the technological solution and infrastructure for both hardware and software for these services, while Indra takes care of the professional consultancy, operational services and the hosting of infrastructure. Both companies have set up a joint working office in the DaaS cloud within the Indra cloud in order

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab has conducted its first South Asia Distributor Meet in Mumbai. The meet was attended by Kaspersky Lab’s retail and enterprise distributors from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Kaspersky Lab was represented by Harry Cheung, Managing Director, APAC, Altaf Halde, Managing Director, South Asia, and Jagannath Patnaik, Channel Sales Director. The meet aimed at outlining the business roadmap for Kaspersky Lab in South Asia for 2012. Harry Cheung said, "Today, we are a strong player in the security marketplace in South Asia, including India. Among all regions under Kaspersky Lab - APAC, South Asia region has experienced maximum growth in 2011 and we look at continuing the momentum." Altaf Halde said, "We discussed new products to be introduced, the corporate roadmap and marketing initiatives that we could run in the respective South Asia territory markets to continue experiencing high growth." For More Detai

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hewlett-Packard has launched its first HP Indigo 7500 Digital offset press for the Indian market. Glo Digital Press grabs the first mover advantage to enhance its digital printing capabilities by installing the press in its printing press located in Coimbatore. T.S.Ramanan, MD, Glo Digital Press said, "We enjoyed a great success with HP Indigo press 3050, installed in 2007, but we simply needed more capacity. With the installation of HP Indigo 7500 Digital Offset Press we can now handle more jobs in less time, and still deliver the same high quality print our customers expect. We're also attracting new business by promoting the capabilities of our new press, such as the wide variety of substrates it can print on. White ink would enable us printing of high value pages on specialized substrates, including transparent, metallic and color media. We largely would cater to segments in Photo Division, Commercial Printing, Book publisher an

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Onward Technologies Limited (OTL) has firmed up its operations in Europe by opening an office in Frankfurt, Germany. The new office will cater to Europe's high-growth market for mechanical engineering services (EDS) and service its widening base of clients from various industries. The new office in Frankfurt will facilitate the company to build local client relationship management, delivery and execution. This is in line with the global expansion plan of the company catering to demand from its customers and prospects in the main regions of the company, mainly Europe and North America. With this strategy, Onward Technologies enjoys a distinguished status in the Engineering Services sector. Harish Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director, Onward Technologies Ltd., said, "We are pleased to announce the opening of our first office in Germany. This will provide us an opportunity to serve the customers in the European region. Our team in

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has reiterated its commitment to the Partner-Led strategy, a scalable go-to-market model designed to address the growing small business and mid-market segments in India. Backed by significant investment, Cisco's Partner-Led strategy will focus on increasing geographical reach, building partner capability and drive business for products, solutions and services specifically for the India market. Pramodh Menon, President of the Partner Business Group, Cisco India & South Asia, said, "Over the past years, we have experienced remarkable growth in the Partner-Led segment. Today, this segment is a major contributor to Cisco's revenue in the country, with significant headroom for market development and expansion, particularly in the tier-II and upcountry markets. With the right mix of solutions and strategy, we are focussed on opportunities to grow the business for our partners and will make the investments needed to accelera

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has launched Dual SIM smartphones in the Indian market - the Galaxy Ace Duos (SCH-i589), Galaxy Y Pro Duos (GT B5512) and Galaxy Y Duos (GT-S6102). The Company also strengthened its feature phone Dual SIM portfolio with the launch of Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos (C3312) and Star 3 Duos (GT-S5222). "We are very proud and delighted to announce the launch of these innovative hybrid mobile devices. These devices combine the effectiveness of all the smartphone features and at the same time give consumers a unique opportunity to maintain their work life balance. With the increasing demand for being connected 24x7 and yet maintaining a personal life balance, these innovative Dual SIM smartphones enable the mobile consumers to be socially networked through their phones anytime, anywhere, and at the same time separate their personal life from their professional life," said Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Mobile and IT, Samsung India. "

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia Siemens Networks has launched Customer Experience Management (CEM) on Demand portal. CEM on Demand provides a new portal as a single entry point to dashboard views of mobile operators' key performance indicators (KPIs) and recommends actions they can take to improve their customers' experience. "Understanding, listening and reacting positively lie at the heart of strong relationships. This Valentine's day, we want to put a little love back into how people feel about their mobile operator,"said Amiram Mel, Head, Customer Experience Management, Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia Siemens Networks' CEM on Demand comprises various "content packs" combining sets of customer-centric reports and dashboards that show the insights derived from KPIs for networks, services and devices. Based on these insights, the portal recommends action to be taken to improve the customer experience. By choosing the content packs t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Honeywell has opened a new technology centre in India, further expanding its technology development capabilities in the key areas, including refining, petrochemical, low-global-warming and nylon technologies and applications. The ceremony was attended by Shri Jaipal Reddy, India's Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, and other dignitaries. In this facility in Gurgaon, India is said to feature pilot plants for developing and demonstrating refining and petrochemical process technology by UOP, part of Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) strategic business group. The centre will also perform other product and application development for PMT, including fluorine and nylon technologies. Honeywell invested $34 million in the 8,830-square-metre (95,000-square-foot) centre. Rajeev Gautam, President & CEO, Honeywell, said, "This new facility will allow Honeywell to put its vast resources to work in collaborati