VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP has announced that it will work closely with Citi and The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to co-innovate a cloud-based services platform. The highly interoperable, multi-bank platform aims to seamlessly integrate banks with their corporate customers. A combination of SAP’s deep expertise in enterprise resource planning (ERP), treasury management software and new cloud services technologies is driving the solution development. Sanjay Poonen, President, Global Solutions, SAP, said, “SAP has prided itself in customer-centric innovation, in this case creative innovations in banking that can increase the velocity of information flow between banks and their corporate customers.” “Integrating banks with corporate ERP and treasury systems has always been an expensive proposition for banks and corporations alike. Furthering SAP’s commitment to the cloud, the banking industry and our many thousands of corporate customers, this solution will dramatica

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HyperCITY has implemented Oracle Retail solutions to integrate retail store operations and help deliver better insight into its 12-store hypermarket business to optimize sales, profitability and customer service initiatives. In addition, the Oracle Retail solutions integrate with existing Discovery Club customer loyalty programme and employee discount interfaces to allow HyperCITY to coordinate activities, manage compliance and provide a comprehensive view of the business.• “Our investment in Oracle Retail solutions is enabling us not only to provide a more consistent customer experience in store but also to optimize our performance by better matching consumer demand with merchandising and operational requirements. Ultimately, this will help HyperCITY to continue to deliver that differentiated and superior shopping experience that we are committed to providing,” said Mark Ashman, CEO, HyperCITY Retail India. “HyperCITY has

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Intel Corporation and Lava have announced the general availability of the XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside. Lava also announced its long-term partnership with Croma, for promotion and sale of the XOLO X900. The partnership between Intel and Lava was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. The XOLO X900 is based on Intel’s smartphone reference design featuring the Intel Atom processor Z2460 with Intel Hyper Threading Technology and supporting HSPA+ 3G connectivity. This phone features 1.6 GHz Atom processor with Hyper Threading Technology along with 400 MHz graphics clock and the full 1080p HD video encoding and playback. It also features an 8-mega pixel camera delivering advanced imaging capabilities including burst mode that allows 10 pictures to be captured in under a second. “Through XOLO X900, we are happy to bring to the Indian market a device that addresses the needs of those for whom speed and

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced new versions of Hitachi solutions built on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track. These new solutions add broad support for System Centre 2012. This support provides seamless integration with the Virtual Machine Manager component of System Centre 2012 and transparent live migration of virtual machines on the same site and across multi-site deployments up to distances of 200 kilometres. The new Hitachi solutions built on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track also support full provisioning of compute and storage resources and combines Hitachi compute and storage with industry-standard network infrastructure and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Centre 2012 software. “The new Hitachi solutions built on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track provide our customers with a consistent and scalable infrastructure as a service that can be quickly deployed to host Microsoft applications,” said Brian Householder, S

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GIGABYTE has launched its GIGABYTE B75 series motherboards, designed to offer small business users a simple, easy way to manage office IT infrastructure using the new and exclusive Intel Small Business Advantage software suite. Henry Kao, Vice-President, GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit, said, “The GIGABYTE B75 series represents an exciting step in the GIGABYTE’s commitment to Intel’s business platforms, and we are investing significant company resources to promote broad adoption amongst our global customer base. We plan to go to market on the launch day with no less than 4 models that will be an integral part of our product portfolio as we believe the features offer an opportunity for our system integrator and retailer partners to differentiate their products and services with the elegant and easy-to-use Intel Small Business Advantage IT management system.” GIGABYTE B75 motherboards are designed to fill the gap between traditional entry-l

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hewlett-Packard has launched its new Indigo Press 5600 for the Indian market. HP has partnered with Redington as the official distributor of this newly launched press. Built on the success of HP Indigo 5500, the HP Indigo 5600 model runs at 68 ppm in standard colour mode, 136 ppm for two-colour jobs and 272 ppm for mono jobs. In addition, the press features EPM, allowing colour printing at 90 ppm. A new red-fluorescing invisible ink for the HP Indigo 5600 model gives PSPs a path to pursue new security-printing applications. A white ink option and upgraded media sensors on the press allows full-colour printing on black and fully transparent substrates, features that help PSPs expand into new markets. The white ink feature, when combined with Color-Logic software, also gives users the ability to produce metallic effects. Puneet Chadha, Director – Graphics Solutions Business, HP Imaging and Printing Group India, said, “As a technology company,

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has announced the opening of its first “Samsung Mobile Brand Store” in Delhi. This store features Samsung’s entire smartphones range, including tablets and accessories. The Store was inaugurated on site by B. D. Park, President & CEO, South West Asia, Samsung Electronics and Managing Director, Samsung India Electronics Ltd.; Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Samsung Mobile & IT; H. C. Ryu, Vice-President, West Asia Sales & Marketing, Samsung Electronics and leading film actor Shazahn Padamsee. “The Samsung Mobile Brand Store is a significant step in the direction of creating new, unique and holistic product experiences for consumers at the retail level. The Samsung Mobile Brand Store will allow consumers to engage and interact with Samsung Smartphones and tablets through convenient table top displays, multiple product demonstrations and dedicated areas for interacting with Samsung Product Consultants. We are confident that our

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia Siemens Networks is strengthening its TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution) technology to support the 1.9GHz frequency bands. The move is said to allow operators to use existing 1.9GHz spectrum allocations to provide TD-LTE services. China Mobile has specific plans to evolve its TD-SCDMA network to dual-mode, supporting both TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE services in the 1.9GHz band via a simple software upgrade. Markus Borchert, President, Nokia Siemens Networks, Greater China said, "The expansion of our TD-LTE portfolio to the 1.9GHz bands marks another step forward in Nokia Siemens Networks' commitment to driving the TD-LTE ecosystem by supporting China Mobile's strategy, and at the same time accelerating TD-LTE deployments globally. TD-LTE provides a much faster and highly responsive mobile internet experience, offering speeds of up to 112 megabits per second (Mbps) and enabling HD video and immersive interactive gami