VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE All the major Indian telecom operators along with the leading VAS technology organizations will be congregating at the 9th VAS INDIA 2011, a single day International Conference which is being held on 4th February, 2011 in Mumbai. Organized by the Bharat Exhibitions, VAS India 2011 is India's premier and only forum on VAS for fast-growing Indian telecom industry. Now into successful ninth year, VAS INDIA 2011 will offer the best business platform in the country for the Indian telecom industry to conduct business and share their strategic plans for India. A recent study projects that the value-added services market in India is expected to grow to about US$5.6 billion in 2011. Shashidharan, Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions, organizer of the VAS INDIA 2011, says, "VAS India 2011 will help in strategizing a strong vision for MVAS landscape in India as it is an ideal stage between the key influencers and decision-makers under one ro

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amkette has unveiled its new corporate positioning and logo in keeping with the company's diversification into digital lifestyle and other product categories. Amkette has also adopted "digital life redefined" as its new positioning statement as it defines the company's new focus of enhancing the digital experiences of consumers. The company has segregated its businesses into five distinct product categories, including lifestyle products, flash media, storage media, computer peripherals and digital efficiency products. Amkette has adopted a new orange colour logo with the letter "A" that represent a stylish "at the rate" which reinforces its new image as a modern, technology-driven and consumer-friendly company. The colour orange is used to associate with "freshness". Fresh in this context means innovation and aesthetics, two broad values from the Amkette DNA that the organization is focussed on

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE S. Ramadorai, Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, has been appointed Advisor to the Prime Minister in the Prime Minister's National Skill Development Council in the rank of Cabinet Minister. The Council, which is headed by the Prime Minister, seeks to develop a strategy for skill development at the national level along with variations at the state level and formulate strategies to address the skill deficit. "We are delighted that Ramadorai with his vast experience has been given this critical role of helping build skills and competency of India's growing workforce. He has always been very focussed and committed about talent development and has been at the forefront of building the talent ecosystem for the IT industry," said N. Chandrasekaran, CEO & MD, TCS. He added, "Ram's energy, passion and dedication will add great value to this national endeavour that holds the key to raising the growth rate of the

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NetApp India, in partnership with Hexaware, will enable Hexaware to provide a flexible and easy-to-manage secure multi-tenant storage environment. Hexaware's Cloud Service, titled RAINMAKER, is designed to provide IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) to users, and will be provided via NetApp's secure and multi-tenant storage solutions and VMware's vCloud Director. This is also the first implementation of VMware vCloud Director for cloud services on NetApp storage in India. Users will benefit from RAINMAKER as it will not only deliver IaaS, PaaS and SaaS (ERP), demonstrate Secure Multi-Tenancy, but will also provide integrated data protection and an outstanding user experience on the cloud. "There is a major market shift under way with increasing focus on cost control in business. Customers are demanding flexibility and efficiency in their IT