VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Designed to help companies of all sizes easily administer and monitor employee access to information behind the firewall, SonicWALL has launched two new remote access SSL VPN security solutions. These solutions, SonicWALL ventail 10.5 represents a major software upgrade to existing enterprise-class solutions, while the SonicWALL SRA 1200 is a new appliance tailored to SMB customers. SonicWALL's new offerings provide enterprise customers a feature-rich solution and enhanced smart phone support and also bring affordable, powerful features and protection to the SMB market. The Aventail 10.5 solution provides secure access to corporate resources and supports thousands of concurrent users from a single appliance. It ties the unique mobile device ID to a specific user, confirms the user's identity and verifies the security status of the end-point. The new features include Active Sync support for the Apple iPhone, iPad, Google Android and Symbian mobile devices and provides secure e-m...

Nucleus Software has won a major order from Dhanlaxmi Bank. Nucleus will implement its award-winning FinnOne suite of products across the Bank's 271 branches to power its retail lending business. Muralidharan R, President, Information Technology & Operations, Dhanlaxmi Bank, said, "Retail lending will be the focus this year for the Bank and considering the high volume of loan transactions in retail assets business, the Bank required a robust end-to-end solution that facilitates quick turnaround time." Niraj Vedwa, COO, Nucleus Software Exports Ltd., said, "Choosing a next-generation solution such as FinnOne will give Dhanlaxmi Bank the technological edge in offering world-class products and services to their customers. We are confident that this partnership will enhance the Bank's productivity and build up value-added solutions for their customers." FinnOne will enable Dhanlaxmi Bank to efficiently manage all the stages of loan application process, right...

Intel has felicitated various schools, teachers and students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in ICT integration in school curriculum. Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal felicitated eight schools, eight teachers, twelve students and six regions across India to acknowledge innovative teaching-learning practices adopted by them. The winners spanned across cities like Lucknow, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chandigarh and Pune. The contest "Best Integration of Technology in Education" is aimed at strengthening ICT capacities across four categories, namely, student, teacher, school and region. The evaluation criterion followed a stringent screening schedule that involved internal evaluators from Intel perform the first stage of screening. The objective of Intel's association with KVS & NVS is to equip and empower the schoolteachers and students with techniques in developing 21st century skills to prepare them to face the challenges of tomorrow. Classm...

Dell India is incorporating some changes in its leadership team, primarily with new leaders for its Large Enterprise (LE) business unit. Sameer Garde, who has been the Dell India country head and led Dell's LE business for the last about 18 months since the company's reorganization into a customer-centric BU structure, will continue to lead as the country manager for Dell India, but his role gets extended as he takes on as the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Director for Services Sales and Marketing. Bringing his experience from various leadership roles within Dell International Services and Dell India, Sameer Garde will play an important role in the go-to-market strategy for Dell Services in APJ. Vikas Bhonsle, who has completed a 10-year association with Dell, will be the new General Manager for India LE operations. In his current role-leading LE for the western region, he has successfully built a solid team to drive Dell’s evolution as a key a solutions provider in the Indian I...

NetApp has integrated its unified storage systems with Symantec's Thin Reclamation API to help SAN customers automatically reclaim storage space and improve overall storage efficiency. This solution gives customers the ability to manage, reduce and reclaim storage space throughout the entire data lifecycle so they can improve planning and reduce their overall IT footprint and management costs. NetApp unified storage helps customers store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost by using several storage efficiency technologies inherent to the NetApp Data ONTAP operating system. These technologies help customers get more use out of the disk they have while improving manageability and performance. "Symantec offers the industry's leading cross-platform thin optimization solution, enabling organizations to benefit from the true cost and efficiency advantages of thin provisioning," said Don Angspatt, Vice-President of Product Management, Storage and Availabil...

Polycom has signed a multi-year, strategic global agreement with Microsoft Corp. to deliver integrated end-to-end unified communications (UC) and to improve customers' business productivity. Under the agreement, Polycom plans to develop market standards-based UC solutions that span the enterprise, small-to-medium business and government markets. "Polycom and Microsoft deliver a winning combination to our customers around the globe by delivering seamless, easy-to-use, high-definition communications at the click of a mouse," said Andrew Miller, Polycom president and CEO. "Polycom is 100 per cent committed to delivering best-in-breed, standards-based, fully interoperable UC solutions to market, and Microsoft is integral in helping us achieve this goal and meet the needs of our customers." Offering a broad portfolio of integrated solutions spanning voice, video and application integration for Microsoft UC, this agreement makes Polycom a member of Microsoft’s key str...

For managing and monitoring custom applications, VMware has launched SpringSource Hyperic 4.4 solution. In integration with VMware vCenter Server, Hyperic 4.4 maintains a continually updated inventory of VMware vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, enabling IT Administrators to pinpoint, correct and prevent application performance problems occurring across physical, virtual and private cloud infrastructures. "Hyperic 4.4 delivers a completely new level of integration with VMware vCenter Server designed to streamline the task of managing virtualized applications," said Javier Soltero, CTO of Management Products for the SpringSource division of VMware. "Hyperic now provides system administrators complete, automatic visibility of virtual infrastructure resources as well as a completely new user interface built to enable analysis and correlation of every metric and event from VMware vSphere hosts up to the application." The Server integration enables application operators to ensu...