VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Maxim Revenue Management solutions (MaximRMS) and RezNext have announced their strategic partnership. Through this partnership, RezNext is distributing a custom-tailored version of the MaximRMS e.FLEX revenue management system throughout India, Middle East, North Africa and South-East Asia. Named “ReV powered by Maxim”, the MaximRMS revenue management system is fully integrated with the complete suite of RezNext products. Mike Kistner, Chief Executive Officer, RezNext Global Solutions, said, “We are demystifying revenue management by providing a simple technology solution that can provide the most advanced analytics. ReV powered by Maxim will empower revenue managers across all star categories of HOTELS TO understand demand periods better, identify booking pace and leverage recommendations to optimize revenue. The solution is fully integrated with PMS, GDS and OTA channels, along with competitive, reputation, and other data streams. Adding our own custom-tailored revenue managemen

Socomec has organized an event “Open Day” for its northern region distributors and key customers at its Gurgaon manufacturing facility on 2nd April, 2015 in the august presence of special guests Michel KRUMENACKER, Deputy CEO, Bruno PLISSON, Group Commercial & Service Director (DCS), Christophe BRULE, Regional IAP Director, Olivier TREMOUILLE, Managing Director, and JEAN Jacques BOULAIN, Asia Industry Director. It gave an opportunity to the visitors to experience the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility spread in 2,100 square metre. Michel KRUMENACKER, Deputy CEO, Socomec, said, “We are very excited to take a step forward and to enter directly into the market for Switchgear and energy meter products. India will remain the highest potential market globally. Hence, our key objective is to further strengthen our existing market-leading position by having more distributors to bring innovative solutions, as per the needs of our customers.” Olivier TREMOUILLE, Managing Director

CP PLUS has launched its unique product a Wireless Cube IP Camera. It will empower video surveillance in homes and offices. Comprising newfangled features, the product is aesthetically built and meticulously designed to meet all the security-related needs of homes and offices. Aditya Khemka, Managing Director, CP PLUS India, said, “The durable and user-friendly Cube Camera is an innovative way to solve one’s security issues at home or office. The leading-edge specifications of the device lend it the prowess to provide high-end security solutions to its users. ” It comes with 3.6mm fixed lens and a 1-megapixel CMOS image sensor. Its Cube Camera is capable of two-way audio and it helps at security level with its in-built microphone that has an effective range of 5 metres / 15 feet. It is built with enhanced capability of recording in a video resolution of 1280 x 800 at up to 30 frames per second. It has an in-built PIR sensor installed that detects human motion, thus elevating the

Xiaomi has announced the global launch of its next product – Mi 4i – in India, a first for the company. Slated to be unveiled on April 23, 2015, the event will be graced by its CEO & Founder Lei Jun, President Bin Lin and Global Vice-President Hugo Barra. The smartphone Mi 4i is expected to be the international version of Mi 4. Xiaomi has gained brand recognition in the international market as it is trying to become the third-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, after Samsung and Apple. Till now, Xiaomi has restricted itself to markets like China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Turkey, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Hungary and Myanmar.   See more at: http://www.varindia.com/xiaomis-introduces-indias-first-smartphone-named-mi-4i/#sthash.80xlyw0i.dpuf

To make businesses more efficient, HP has announced a re-engineered, sleek new series of LaserJet printers. It is built around the latest in toner formulation, new Original HP Toner cartridges with JetIntelligence. The HP LaserJets series printers use up to 53 per cent less energy, take up to 40 per cent less space and wake up, print and duplex in a fraction of the time. “Business customers are looking for smart, affordable solutions that seamlessly integrate into today’s smaller, more communal work spaces. We started with the customer and designed the new LaserJet platform from the inside out to be leaner, faster and smarter than ever before to help meet the demands of the modern office,” said Parikshet Singh Tomar, Country Category Leader, Printing & Personal Systems, HP India. Original HP Toner cartridges with JetIntelligence deliver up to 33 per cent more professional-quality prints, 2 peak printing performance, and protection against counterfeits with innovative anti-fr

Symantec has announced expansion of Incident Response Services into several new markets, a move that enables organizations to proactively address security needs, enable continual security improvement and overall cyber resiliency. Symantec’s Incident Response Emergency Response Service is now available in North America, the UK and select Asia-Pacific regions. Samir Kapuria, Vice-President & General Manager of the Cyber Security Services Business, Symantec, said, “The launch of ourSamir Kapuria Vice President symantec 150x150 Symantec offers Incident Response Services across Globe expanded Incident Response Service empowers our customers to shift the balance between attack and victim, waiting and chance, and reactive and proactive by better preparing their incident response strength. Our customers have already seen the value of our Incident Response offerings, and we are seeing this rise, doubling the number of customer engagements over the last quarter.” Given the sophisticat

To reinforce its position, Barracuda has enhanced its channel program to provide the necessary structure and tools to allow resellers to successfully sell and support Barracuda solutions for mutual customers. The new program is designed to accelerate profitability for loyal partners, and to attract new, motivated partners. “Over the years, we have added a tremendous amount of innovative technologies to our solution portfolio to provide our channel partners with the bestMichael Hughes Barracuda 300x300 Barracuda enhances worldwide Partner Program possible options to solve security and storage challenges for customers. We will continue to focus on ensuring our partners are equipped with the necessary tools and resources to solve these IT challenges, but also better aligning the program to meet the different needs of resellers at every partner level,” said Michael Hughes, SVP – Worldwide Sales, Barracuda. In an effort to reward and better support VARs at all levels of the partner p

NVIDIA has launched the new Quadro M6000, built for professional design and visualization applications. The Quadro M6000 provides 12GB of GPU memory, 7.0 teraflops of peak single-precision performance, support for up to four 4K displays, and the power efficiency of NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture in one powerful package. The card packs in 3072 CUDA cores, 192 texture mapping units, and 96 raster operations pipelines. On an average, it delivers 30 per cent faster performance (1), including 2.4x faster ray tracing (2) and 36-bit colour support for high-dynamic range displays. By pairing the Quadro M6000 with the newly announced NVIDIA Iray 2015, professionals will be able to experience the highest level of visual realism and interactivity in design workflows, while more than doubling the rendering speed. NVIDIA Iray is a highly interactive and intuitive physically based rendering technology that generates photorealistic imagery by simulating the physical behavior of light and materi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Elements14 has joined hands with TE connectivity (TE) to offer the most comprehensive range of interconnect components to drive power in machinery and automation for HMI, robotics, PLC, servo motors and servo drives. TE’s broad portfolio of product solutions supports in every aspect of industrial production processes, from simple machinery to fully integrated factory automation. Sean Mak, Head of Supplier Management, Element14 Asia-Pacific, said, “Our customers find our microsites easy to use and helpful in selecting TE products quickly, based on the specifications they require. We are proud to launch this TE microsite, the seventh we have created as a specific showcase, on our new transactional website platform which we have upgraded to make finding, choosing and ordering easier and more personalized for our customers.” “Element14’s new microsite with its powerful enhancements will allow us to deliver an extraordinary customer

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cambridge has announced two large business relationships with leaders in both the power electronic and consumer goods industries. Through its recently announced gold-level membership in Oracle Power Network(OPN), CTE is providing migration and cloud implementation services like Oracle E-businessSuite to a company in the power electronic/automation space. CTE’s experience with Oracle’s offerings allows them to seamlessly enhance this company’s service quality, saving them significant costs as they migrate Oracle’s services to their business ventures. Aashish Kalra, Chairman, Cambridge Technology Inc., said, “Our Gold Level membership within the Oracle Partner Network has given us a lot of momentum as we continue driving our services to boost our client’s value through migrating their systems towards the intersection of cloud and big data. It is great to work with such great companies, and we’re excited to see what the future holds.” CTE’s

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to news sources, Amazon.com is believed to have acquired data-migration start-up Amiato last year. The Palo Alto-based start-up specializes in taking data from a variety of modern databases and migrating it into Amazon’s online archiving service named Redshift. The company received $2 million in funding from Data Collective, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and others. This acquisition targets small companies, particularly niche like 2lemetry, an Internet-of-Things firm Amazon purchased last month, and Israeli semiconductor start-up Annapurna Labs, which the online retailer agreed to buy in January. Amazon came up with its first set of Web-services products almost 10 years ago. The business division in which Web-services sales are logged brought in $1.67 billion in sales in the company’s most recent quarter. Amazon will start breaking out its Web-services unit as its own line item later this month when it reports its next q

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ericsson has tied up with Bonnier Broadcasting to supply online video platform to the over-the-top (OTT) and live TV subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service. Ericsson did not reveal the details of the deal. The networking supplier will provide managed services including content management and preparation, digital rights management, subscriber management and billing and advertising insertion for multiple devices and platforms. The online TV service will be launched at the end of this year. Bonnier Group content includes sports, local and international drama series, sitcoms and Swedish and international feature films will be available both on-demand and live. Multiple platforms will be supported, including the web, iOS and Android devices. Ericsson’s Managed Player masters the combination of OTT delivery and playout to deliver content to consumers. It is powered by Ericsson Mediaroom Reach, a scalable adaptive bitrate-based technology pl