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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade has announced that Omega Healthcare has standardized on an enterprise-wide Ethernet switching infrastructure from Brocade at its facilities in India to improve application and network performance. These issues that Omega experienced with its legacy networking infrastructure had been causing frustration among the staff and adversely impacted employee satisfaction, leading to high attrition. After an exhaustive evaluation process, Omega selected the Brocade BigIron RX for their network core and the Brocade FastIron Series switches to extend Power over Ethernet (PoE) at their network edge. This resulted in significantly faster application response times and screen refresh rates on the thousands of networked devices that access Omega’s campus-wide LAN. "We were looking for a networking vendor whose core strength was in high-performance switching," said Kamalraj Chandrasekharan, Associate Vice-President - Technology, Omega Healt...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE National Instruments has announced two new products that extend the communication and measurement capabilities of the NI wireless sensor network (WSN) platform. The new NI 9792 is a programmable WSN gateway that can communicate with NI WSN measurement nodes as well as other hardware through a variety of open communication standards. The gateway combines an NI LabVIEW Real-Time controller and an integrated WSN radio so that LabVIEW Real-Time applications can run locally on the gateway to aggregate data from NI WSN devices, making the NI 9792 ideal for embedded, wireless data-logging applications. The NI 9792 gateway, which is programmable with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module for standalone operation, features a high-performance 533 MHz processor and 2 GB of onboard storage for embedded data-logging applications. The new gateway also features integrated Web (HTTP) and file (FTP) servers, which makes it possible for remote access to measurement dat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys Technologies and Oracle have announced the completion of a highly successful business transformation programme incorporating the implementation of Oracle Utilities Network Management System at Seattle City Light, one of the nation's largest municipal owned utilities. Tasked by the Seattle-based utility to help leverage its investment in new technology for better customer service, Infosys utilized its industry-leading systems integration capabilities and consulting solutions to implement the Oracle solution within an expedited timeframe of 16 months. Kelly Enright, Director of Customer Service and Executive Sponsor, Seattle City Light, said, "Our investment in technology has helped us better inform our customers and equip our operations personnel to improve overall customer service, especially during storm season. The implementation of the Oracle system was smoothly expedited from a timeframe perspective while working with I...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP has inaugurated two computer labs in the city for the benefit of underprivileged children and local youth, as a part of its social responsibility programme. Through the initiative "Project Lakshya", SAP pledges to impart basic computer literacy to 100,000 underprivileged youth across India by the end of 2011. Both labs in Mumbai have been implemented along with NGO partner Shikhar. Peter Gartenberg, Managing Director, SAP India, inaugurated the computer lab in Navi Mumbai. The other lab is in Jogeshwari. Both labs are well equipped with 10 computers pre-loaded with simple, user-friendly software, and will act as a hub to provide basic computer literacy. Together, these labs will target to train over 2,000 underprivileged children from the vicinity. "At SAP, we understand that education has the power to impact lives and transform societies in a single generation," said Peter Gartenberg. "Computer literacy is becom...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fujitsu has the highest growth among the top five vendors in the worldwide server market for 4Q10, according to Gartner. With global year-on-year growth of 12.6 per cent in server unit shipments, Fujitsu increased both sales and market share. In the expanding x86 server market segment, Fujitsu also delivered the strongest growth among the top five server vendors, increasing global year-on-year sales of its PRIMERGY lines by 12.5 per cent in comparison to a market average growth of 6.3 per cent. In EMEA, PRIMERGY x86 industry standard servers enjoyed a huge 20.8-per cent year-on-year growth in shipments, more than a factor of four times the average market growth of 4.8 per cent. Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice-President, Datacenter Systems, says at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, "We believe the latest independent market figures underline that Fujitsu is on the right track by focussing on customer needs and delivering better long-term value....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE LAVA Mobiles has unveiled its all-new QWERTY phone LAVA B8. Lava B8 promises to be a complete business phone as it has all the features that a business phone should have - Push mail, Wi-Fi, Touch pad and long Battery. This device would help professionals and young entrepreneurs, who always want to access mails and remain connected, on the go. Commenting on the launch of LAVA B8, Sunil Raina, Chief Marketing Officer, LAVA International Ltd., said, "The launch of Lava B8 fulfils the need of a large segment of businessmen and professionals to remain connected at all times through its unique combination of features like Push mail, Wi-Fi and Track Pad. Through our customer insight-driven innovations, we constantly attempt to bridge the customer need gap in keeping with our core value of empowering people. The push mail and Wi-Fi ensure connectivity and smarter management of professional & personal tasks, up to 10 Email accounts can be ad...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE LAVA Mobiles has unveiled its all-new QWERTY phone LAVA B8. Lava B8 promises to be a complete business phone as it has all the features that a business phone should have - Push mail, Wi-Fi, Touch pad and long Battery. This device would help professionals and young entrepreneurs, who always want to access mails and remain connected, on the go. Commenting on the launch of LAVA B8, Sunil Raina, Chief Marketing Officer, LAVA International Ltd., said, "The launch of Lava B8 fulfils the need of a large segment of businessmen and professionals to remain connected at all times through its unique combination of features like Push mail, Wi-Fi and Track Pad. Through our customer insight-driven innovations, we constantly attempt to bridge the customer need gap in keeping with our core value of empowering people. The push mail and Wi-Fi ensure connectivity and smarter management of professional & personal tasks, up to 10 Email accounts can be ad...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston Technology has released the HyperX T1 Black DDR3 triple-channel memory kit. The new memory kit is designed to meet the performance requirements for the new Intel Core i7-990X chipset and X58-based motherboards, and are available in kits of three or six modules and in capacities up to 24GB. "Our new HyperX T1 Black triple-channel kits give enthusiasts the opportunity to combine performance and to style into their PC build," said Ann Bai, DRAM Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston. "These high-capacity kits are ideal for the X58 products on the market, especially the new GIGABYTE G1-Killer gaming motherboards." "GIGABYTE is excited about the launch of Kingston's new Black T1 HyperX memory as it comes so soon after the GIGABYTE G1-Killer gaming motherboard announcement," commented Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing, GIGABYTE. "With their similar colour schemes and target ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Seagate began shipments of the industry's most elegant, easy-to-install 3TB desktop drive, the Barracuda XT hard drive, a product that eliminates the need to purchase extra hardware or software to overcome the 2TB barrier. The Barracuda XT hard drive delivers the highest available capacity for home servers and workstations, high-definition video editing and production systems, high-performance PC gaming systems and desktop PCs. The Barracuda XT hard drive with free Seagate DiscWizard software is a complete, easy-to-deploy solution. DiscWizard software makes it simple to configure the computer operating system and device drivers to access the full 3TB of capacity on legacy systems using Windows XP and PC BIOS and on personal computers equipped with newer versions of Windows or the new UEFI BIOS. "Seagate is squarely focussed on delivering the storage performance, capacity and innovation to ensure that technology transitions remain se...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Backed by a robust network of 1,800-plus 3G sites, Bharti Airtel has formally announced the launch of its 3G services in Delhi NCR. Riding high on the success of its 3G launch in seven other cities across India, the telecom company has ensured a seamless 3G experience for 76 lakh Airtel mobile customers in this region. As the undisputed leader in the Indian telecom industry, we are truly driving the mobile data revolution in the country. Today, with just over a month since our rollout began, our 3G network covers around half a million customers, has 4,500 sites and is available across 7 cities," said Atul Bindal, President - Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel. Airtel's 3G services are already in the seven cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mysore, Manipal, Udipi and Jaipur, and by March 2011, it will be available in all the 13 3G-licence circles. Airtel's 3G network is HSPA+ that allows users to access the Internet at speeds ...