VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Designed to address the growing RFID market for high-volume item-level tagging, Zebra Technologies Corporation has unveiled its first high-performance RFID printer/encoder in Asia Pacific. The R110Xi4 streamlines business improvement and supply-chain management applications such as item-level tracking, asset tracking, inventory management and more across retail, manufacturing, healthcare and distribution channels. "Targeted at verticals with intensive printing needs, Zebra R110Xi4 is a real workhorse that delivers quality prints in large volumes,"said Andrew Tay, President, Zebra Technologies Asia Pacific. "It is a smart investment for organizations that are ready to make the shift from compliance-based tracking to more item-level tracking as it offers innovation, functionality, and cost benefits without compromising on performance and quality delivery." According to a recent survey from VDC, average corporate investment ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acer has introduced an attractive end customer scheme to celebrate Valentine's Day this season. With its special promo -"Acer Love Machine Offer", the consumer can now charm their valentine with free couple tickets to their favourite movies or a gift voucher to an extravagant lunch buffet at a fine dining restaurant or a Reebok gift voucher. The offer will be valid from 11th to 28th February, 2011 targeting its end-consumers. Customers can avail this offer on purchase of an Acer Aspire notebook only available at select stores across India. Acer has launched several end-consumer schemes and this Acer Love Machine offer too will benefit its users. Customers can choose from the multiple options available to keep impressing their valentine. "We, at Acer, have a clear understanding of the mindset of our consumers, especially the youth and we are extremely confident that this offer will be immensely popular among them during th...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan Infotech has introduced ViewSonic VA1938w - 18.5" monitor with LED and DVI port without speaker. The ultra-slim bezel makes more productive use of the screen area while minimizing the image gap in multi-display applications for continuous data display which enhances the visual experience with clean, minimalist borders around the active image area. Sudhir S, Managing Director, Inspan Infotech, said, "The high quality products from ViewSonic have always excited us. The ViewSonic 18.5" LED Monitor is feature rich and this cricket season will help partners to sell in good numbers." With an impressive 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, it provides greater detail and definition with darker black levels and better overall front-of-screen performance. High brightness and 10,000,000 DCR reflect the true colour, 250 nits high brightness delivers precise accurate colour to realistically display a full array of brilliant sha...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has emerged as the leading 3G mobile infrastructure and services vendor in India with 30-per cent market share. The company has won deals from Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and Vodafone for the deployment of 3G networks in twenty of the country's telecom circles. With the rapid growth of smart mobile devices in India, a strong 3G infrastructure will boost the country's broadband penetration. "3G promises a transformation for India. The opportunity given by our customers to build one- third of India's 3G network infrastructure allows us to implement industry benchmarked practices learnt on networks that serve more than half of the world's3G subscribers," said Ashish Chowdhary, Head of Customer Operation East & Head of India Region for Nokia Siemens Networks. "Our customer-focussed approach, combined with strong local capabilities and our industry-leading...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Idea Cellular is about to launch its Online Application Store based on Ericsson's eStore solution. Using Ericsson's business model that features Software as a Service, Idea will be able to set up a successful business in the mobile application market and easily introduce new services to their subscribers. The ecosystem between Idea and Ericsson will support a developer community, thereby bringing richer, more relevant and better applications and games to the subscribers. The application store will give Idea's customers a superior user interface, transparent and affordable pricing, and all of Idea's 2G and 3G subscribers using mobile handsets that support web browsing will be able to choose from more than 30,000 applications - both free and paid. Ambrish Jain, Director, Operations, Idea Cellular, says, "The application store will offer a rich mobile experience through a combination of both web and mobile platforms. We are...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a five-year contract with du, the integrated telecom service provider in the United Arab Emirates. As an IT Managed Services Partner, TCS will support du in its efforts to enhance customer excellence and service delivery levels. This agreement supplements du's aggressive growth strategy and its continuous focus on enhancing the company's capabilities in service delivery, enriching customer experiences, offering a better scope in developing and managing customer-centric products and services, besides creating more value for shareholders. Fahad Al Hassawi, Chief Human Resources and Shared Services Officer, du, said, "In a dynamic business sector such as telecom, we are constantly looking at enhancing customer experience - made possible by further enhancing our IT operations. With TCS' capabilities, we expect to further streamline our efficiencies in service delivery quality of service...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP and Bank of Baroda have been working together through an Enterprise IT agreement to support its banking transformation. This is helping the bank to support its rapid expansion plans, streamline its operations and utilize emerging technologies to deliver innovative new services. The bank selected HP for this transformation, including assessment and refresh of the bank's applications and IT infrastructure. HP will provide application modernization services and business intelligence to support new business services. HP consulting services will map out the datacenter transformation, utilizing HP Converged Infrastructure. This includes server, storage and networking, supported by HP Mission Critical Support. HP will also a roll out a new mobile banking solution platform allowing customers to access banking services through mobile devices. "At Bank of Baroda, we are embarking on a new phase of banking transformation that will allow ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HDFC Bank has announced one common easy-to-remember telephone number for its millions of PhoneBanking customers. The Bank already offers this service in 9 regional languages. Now customers in Mumbai, New Delhi & NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata can call 61606161 and Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Indore, Kochi, Patna (Bihar and Jharkhand) can call 6160616 for all their queries and banking needs. The numbers for upcountry locations remain unchanged. Ramnath Raikar, Head - PhoneBanking, said, "With over 3.5 million calls every month, our PhoneBanking has emerged as popular channel for our customers. Being increasingly on the move, they should, therefore, welcome this change." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems has announced VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) support on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and through the platform's unique 3D scaling architecture, can extend this capability to more than 100 virtualized multivendor storage arrays. As the first storage platform to offer full VAAI support for virtualized storage, Hitachi VSP provides a truly integrated foundation for growing VMware environments, giving customers the flexibility and scalability they need while protecting existing investments. "While other vendors may support VAAI, only Hitachi Data Systems has the external storage virtualization necessary to address our customers' top business needs to optimize application performance and reduce IT costs," said Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data Systems. "Competitive approaches require customers to 'rip and replace' existing infrastructures and go through the painstaking p...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Top Notch Infotronix, the brand owners of India's Leading IT brand 'ZEBRONICS' added new product in portable media player range, its called STEM. Commenting on the launch of STEM, Pradeep Doshi (Director Sales, Topnotch Infotronix) said " This player is launched to signify the Zebronics tagline Music for every pocket. Gifts were never so affordable and yet so useful. We have tried to make the product very easy on consumers pockets, also micro SD cards are very popular nowdays so we have launched this product. " STEM is a portable media player with Micro SD card support. You can use micro SD card upto 16GB capacity. It also works as a card reader/writer for micro SD cards. It can be also used as a pen drive to transfer data. The STEM player does not have any onboard memory. It gives you freedom to choose space as you need. It comes with built in lithium battery. There are 5 button on the front ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Go IP Global Services and SenSage have announced their partnership to offer SenSage products for reducing security fraud and compliance risks for a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse and log management solutions. Recognizing the varied technical skills, experience and market reach required to take this product line to market SenSage has partnered with Go IP as its solution reseller, whereby Go IP will cater to SenSage's entire line of products and services. "This partnership will enable us to strengthen our solutions in Telecom Operators, Internet Service Provider and the Financial Services market by providing robust and adaptable Security Intelligence solutions to our customers," said Rahul Swarup, MD and CEO, Go IP Global Services. "This will not only help them in conforming to their compliance reporting needs but also help them effectively deal with the numerous online security threats using innovative ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE PTC has selected ITC Infotech as a Strategic Services Partner (SSP) for PTC's enterprise business market in India. Rafiq Somani, Area Vice President, PTC said, "ITC Infotech has been delivering end-to-end IT solutions and services across industry verticals with world-class technology and state-of-the-art infrastructure. With a proven track record of sales, service and support, ITC Infotech was a partner of choice to help PTC expand their service and solution arm in India." Speaking on the partnership, Ashwani Maheshwari, CEO, India and APAC business said, "With this strategic partnership, we look forward to leveraging emerging market opportunities. Companies are increasingly seeking ways to achieve efficient product realization, and together with PTC, we can add significant value with our end-to-end capabilities." He further added, "Over the years, we have established a close working relationship with PTC. We ha...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Riverbed Technology has announced enhancements to its Riverbed Optimization System and Cascade solutions that provide the globally connected enterprise with business-level visibility and control for all types of traffic and applications. With the upcoming releases of version 9.0 of Cascade, with its advanced network and application performance analysis and visibility solution, and version 6.5 of RiOS, Riverbed will provide a broad range of functionality that both extends visibility from the network engineer all the way to the C-suite and gives IT the ability to allocate resources based on the business needs of enterprises. "With a widening variety of applications and services distributed over the network, enterprises require better insight into application performance to make intelligent IT decisions that further business goals," said Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner. "Robust traffic management capabilities su...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE After consolidating its presence in Eastern India, Techcom has turned its gaze to the South Indian market by entering Karnataka. The company is penetrating with the range of mobiles from Rs.1,500 to Rs.4,000, with the business focus to reach mass market with innovative and stylish phones. The launch of the phones mark yet another business milestone for Techcom as it brings forth a world-class range of hand held products within the reach of consumers. Speaking at the event, Sandeep Kumar Kedia, Director - Mobile Business, said, "Techcom's new handsets are in sync with the company's history of innovation and commitment towards bringing affordable quality products to life. Karnataka is one of the strongest markets for mobile phones and we have been receiving positive response from the same. With deeper penetration of mobile telephony into semi-urban and rural areas, the market is slated to grow further. We aim to sell about 1.25 l...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Logitech has announced that it has teamed up with Computer Source Ltd., Bangladesh and appointed it as the sole regional distributor for the Bangladesh region. The appointment of Computer Source Ltd. is aligned with the Logitech's strategy to increase its geographical presence and penetrate deeper into untapped markets. Computer Source Ltd. is the largest technology distributor in Bangladesh and has an established distribution network. As a result of the agreement, Logitech can now offer its leading- edge products and solutions to customers in the fast emerging Bangladeshi market. Logitech's Country Manager - India and South West Asia, Subrotah Biswas, said, "Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing markets for computer accessories in South Asia and our efforts are built around attracting capable and committed partners who can take our innovative products and solutions to the end-customers. Computer Source brings in experience, ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Belkin India's complete ranges of Surge Protectors have been protecting nearly two million electronic/household devices in India. Belkin's surge protectors come with a lifetime warranty which means Belkin will replace, free of charge, any Surge Protector that is defective or expires after protecting any electronic device. This feature has added to an achievement in terms of overall market growth. Mohit Anand, Managing Director, Indian Subcontinent, said, "With this product line, Belkin has increased manifold its presence in household and enterprises. Our surge protectors are protecting many devices worldwide that has helped us to become a leader in this market. And with this Belkin once again commit to deliver world-class product to Indian consumers." Researchers proclaim that around 53% of the equipment failure can occur due to extreme lighting or power failure. If the surge or spike is high enough, it can inflict severe d...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Socomec UPS India is all set to capture the Indian UPS market by launching its new best-in-class environment-friendly UPS systems in India. Socomec is launching two new UPS products Masterys IP+ and Modulys Green Power which would add to its already existing wide range of products available in India targeting the industrial and in the IT Data Centre Modular expansion requirements. Addressing the media, Jerome Rodriguez, Managing Director, Socomec UPS India, said, "Today's business environment is characterized by rapid, unpredictable changes where organizations are striving for seamless working infrastructure to deliver optimum results. Automation and technology advancements in industrial and service environment have led to an increasing need of absolute certainty in the power supply. Observing the market trends, we are delighted to announce the launch of our two new UPS for the Indian market which are aimed to address the needs of t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Yahoo! India R&D is organizing the second "Apache Hadoop India Summit 2011" on 16th February, 2011. The day-long event will provide the Indian cloud computing community with a chance to hear speakers from the leading Internet and technology companies and learn how organizations are driving business results through Apache Hadoop and cloud computing. According to Hari Vasudev, Vice-President, Cloud Platform Group, Yahoo! India R&D, "As one of the largest Internet companies in the world, Yahoo! initially used Hadoop for projects within Yahoo! Labs and has since built it into a robust platform used across our business to develop increasingly personalized consumer and advertising experiences at a global scale. As the largest contributor to the Apache Hadoop project, Yahoo! considers it important to bring the community together to discuss best practices, trends and innovations." Participants at the Apache Hadoop India...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Buffalo has opened its first retail Brand Store Delhi, in the Nehru Place area, which is considered as an IT hub in the city. "The exclusive Buffalo store is a step towards enhancing the overall purchase experience for our consumers in India. We have hastily increased our presence in the Indian consumer market with our product range and by expanding our reach. As the digital home market expands, we expect markets for wireless LAN and network-attached HDDs to expand in concordance," Susumu Kobayashi, Country Head, Buffalo India This is Buffalo's most comprehensive and innovative store that features the entire range of the Buffalo products that have been launched in India till yet. Set up with an intention to provide a unique level of service, the store offers complete range of NAS and Networking products and provides an opportunity to its customers to check and get hands on the product before owning one. With the launch of Buffa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Silicon Power has expanded the microSDHC memory card capacity to 32GB. This super large capacity is aimed to satisfy users of content-rich devices in all their data storage needs. In just a fingernail-sized card, over 9,000 photos, nearly 500 minutes of full HD videos, more than 6,000 songs and thousands of files can be stored in mobile handsets, digital cameras, ebook readers or electronic photo frames. It provides users the versatility of having instant access to valuable data anytime and anywhere. In addition to microSDHC single pack, this high-capacity memory card also comes in two adapter packs: SD Adapter pack and SD and miniSD Adapters pack. The adaptor packs increase the ways of data sharing and caters to consumers with different usages needs. It provides versatility and convenience to users on transferring and processing data on many platforms to users. Silicon Power 32GB microSDHC Class4 memory cards are in compliance with the 2.00...