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Fujitsu's ETERNUS DX makes DR for Storage affordable for SMEs

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fujitsu safeguards small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the high risks of data-loss due to disaster without adding complexity to their ICT infrastructure. ETERNUS Storage Cluster enables transparent failover of ETERNUS DX storage systems to automatically keep businesses running in the event of planned or unplanned outages. When it comes to mission-critical data that must be available around the clock, a disaster-proof configuration is an absolute must to keeping web stores trading, transaction databases available, and virtual machines up-and-running. However, such configurations are usually only available in conjunction with upper midrange and enterprise systems, commonly out of the price range of SMEs, and so complex that many IT organizations don’t feel comfortable managing these intricate environments. So, wherever possible, they simply avoid them - putting their businesses and reputation at risk. T

DDoS traffic in 2014 has origin in India – Symantec research

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to a new global research from security experts at Symantec, India topped the global top 50 ranking of countries that have witnessed the highest volume of “originating DDoS traffic”, with 26 per cent of all DDoS traffic originating from the country, followed by the USA with 17 per cent. “The sources for DoS attacks are often countries that have a high number of bot-infected machines and a low adoption rate of filtering of spoofed packets. While this does not mean that the people behind the attack are located in India, as the attacks are often orchestrated remotely, it is a reflection of India emerging as a hotbed to launch these attacks, potentially because of the low cybersecurity awareness, lack of adequate security practices and infrastructure,” said Tarun Kaura, Director, Technology Sales, Symantec India. The research titled, “The Continued Rise of DDoS Attacks”, was conducted by Symantec’s Security Response team

Dell introduces NFV Platform to meet growing customer demands

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Dell has introduced its NFV solution offerings and companion starter kits, comprising Dell systems and software combined with software from open ecosystem partners and open-source distributions to help jumpstart carrier trials and adoption. Dell’s NFV solutions can help telecommunications service providers improve cost structures of existing service delivery and simply and quickly enable new service innovation and creation. This is achieved by virtualizing the telecommunications and mobile service infrastructure using industry-standard compute and open networking platforms, combined with commercially available software packages at the infrastructure, management, orchestration and service layers. Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India, said, “Due to the exponential growth of data and expectation from consumers for high-speed telecommunication services, telecom service players cannot meet

Champion launches new phones during festive season

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Champion has announced availability of “My Phone 41 & 51” during the festive season of Diwali. Both the phones are available with a special festive MRP of Rs.3,999 and Rs.4,999 for the Indian market. Both the smartphones run on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system. My Phone 41 and 51 feature 10.16cm (4) WVGA and 12.7cm (5) FWVGA Capacitive Touch Screen and are powered by 1 GHz Dual-Core and 1.2 GHz Dual-Core processor. These smartphones are powered by 1,400mAh battery and 1,650mAh battery, respectively. With Dual-SIM configuration (GSM+GSM), these handsets have 5MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera and 2MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera, respectively and also have 2GB and 4GB internal memory, which can be expanded up to 32GB of storage unit. Kapil Wadhwa, Director, Champion Computers Pvt. Ltd, said, “My Phone 41 and 51 are two offerings from our range of smartphones for those who are wa