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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Intending to change the way organizations protect against sophisticated threats, the networking giant Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO ) has launched next-gen threat-focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW). Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services provides the full contextual awareness and dynamic controls needed to automatically assess threats, correlate intelligence, and optimize defenses to protect all networks. By integrating the proven Cisco ASA 5500 Series firewall with application control, and the industry-leading Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS) and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) from Sourcefire, Cisco is providing integrated threat defense across the entire attack continuum - before, during and after an attack. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is an adaptive, threat-focused NGFW that delivers superior, multi-layered protection, extending its capabilities far beyond legacy NGFW solutions. Until now, NGFWs h

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys and Microsoft extend partnership over adoption of Cloud Solutions Infosys(NYSE:INFY) has announced expansion of partnership with Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT) to help enterprises transform their business and tap opportunities in a cloud-first, mobile-first world. As one of Microsoft’s partners globally, Infosys has thousands of Microsoft Certified Professionals. It will now expand its capabilities for analytics and other service offerings on Microsoft technologies. Infosys will also establish a global centre of excellence for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning capable of training more than 1,000 engineers by the end of fiscal year 2015. Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice-President, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft, said, "Our mobile-first, cloud-first world provides a unique opportunity to help customers accelerate and transform their business. Working together, Infosys and Microsoft will bring the benefits of enterprise-grade cloud compu

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS hosts its Annual Channel Meet in Goa ASUS is holding its annual channel meet in Goa from September 18th to 21st, 2014. Over 160 partners are attending this meet, including Partners, Regional Distributors, national Distributors, Branch Heads, Head Office and Territory Product Managers. The partners will encounter a mix of entertainment along with the corporate interactive session with product and process updates for ASUS Gold Partners, Asus Wholesale Partners, ASUS Exclusive Stores, Regional Distributors and partners. The first day of the meet witnessed performances by celebrated comedian Sunil Pal and dancers from India’s Got Talent. The meet has been organized to reward the partners on the successful completion of the targets to be as primary partner and be part of the tour along with ASUS Wholesale Partners, National Distributors & Regional Distributors. Peter Chang, Regional Head – South Asia & Country Manager - System

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Seagate strengthens PCIe Portfolio with new flash accelerator cards Seagate Technology has announced the expansion of its Seagate Nytro XP6000 product family with the introduction of two new PCIe flash accelerator cards- the Nytro XP6302 and XP6209 cards. The new cards are designed to address market demands both for high performance and high capacity in a smaller form factor and for thermally challenging environments, such as low-profile servers with lower airflows. The new Nytro XP6302 card delivers high PCIe flash capacity with competitive performance characteristics in a half-height form factor. The Nytro XP6302 card is designed for optimal density and for graceful performance scaling for high thread count and queue depth workloads. The second expansion to the Nytro portfolio, the XP6209 card adds a new 1.86TB capacity point doubling the capacity.  The new 1.86TB SKU addresses customers’ needs for increased capacity density in l