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RightScale Makes Singapore Hub for Asia Pacific

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE RightScale has announced the launch of its Asia Pacific operation in Singapore marking the continued expansion of its international presence beyond the Americas and Europe. Equipped with business development, services, technical and marketing functions, the Asia Pacific operation serves as a launch pad for the California-based company to meet the strong demand for cloud management services in the region. RightScale's Director of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Jason Tan will lead the company in reaching out to target markets including North Asia, India and South East Asia. Founded in 2006, RightScale delivers a fully automated cloud management platform that offers complete control and portability for organizations to design, deploy, manage and automate business-critical applications on private and public clouds with ease and control. RightScale has launched more than 2 million servers. The key reason behind this growth is Right...

Royal Haskoning chooses TCS to support international growth

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that it will enable Royal Haskoning in its plans for rapid growth across markets byproviding a flexible and controlled support environment. Towards this objective, the companies signed a multi-year multi-million IT infrastructure deal, which will form the base for Royal Haskoning's future operating model. This deal further strengthens TCS' position as a full services player in the Dutch market, where the firm operates a global delivery center (Eindhoven) and has over 1000 experts catering to leading companies such as KLM, ABN AMRO, Rabobank and the ING Group. It also marks another step forward in the trend of leading companies looking at growth in emerging markets and consequently looking for innovative ways of setting-up their operating model to support this expansion. "The partnership with Royal Haskoning is another example of how our full services play executed in our Global N...

Airfone launches new model, AF-555

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Airfone India with its every launch tries to adopt latest technologies, to provide maximum choices to its customers. With its rapid launch and good response from its Jacks and Real Media Video Player, Dual Speakers and CDMA handsets in the market, this time they have arise with adding new feature in their handsets with their latest model AF-555 fully touch screen phone. Airfone has come up with touch screen feature with its new model AF-555. The handset has attracting looks and it comes in 3 colors red, black and silver. It consist the feature of Dual Sim and Dual Stand by with attracting 7.2 cm Screen QVGA Touch Panel along with genuine leather cover. AF-555 has Nimbuzz Social Networking with one touch access to Facebook and Twitter. The Handset is comprised with attracting features, few of them are- Opera mini, 1.3 Mega Pixel Camera, Fm Radio, Bluetooth, Contact backup Feature, Auto call recording, Auto phone book update, Phone book memo...

Yahoo! reveals top searches related to the Japan earthquake

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE As Japan grapples from the aftermath of one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, people all over the world resorted to prayers while seeking more information on the disaster. In an attempt to find out the top concerns of online users during this recent earthquake catastrophe, Yahoo! has meticulously aggregated searches from all over APAC (includes Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and Southeast Asia) to reveal detailed information on the most searched keywords - 'Earthquake' and 'Tsunami'. Yahoo! Search Trends witnessed a sharp spike in a short period of time relating to the news and information on the Japan earthquake and tsunami. In India, 'earthquake' and 'tsunami' related search queries spiked 15000%. In Taiwan, 'earthquake' and 'tsunami' related search queries increased 80,000% in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake. In Hong Kong, the search volume for keyword 'earthquake' ...

MIEL e-Security launches Managed Security Service

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MIEL e-Security has launched its latest Managed Security Service - MIEL's Endpoint Diagnostic Service (MEDS). MIEL offers this simple, cost-effective & efficient endpoint diagnostic service over the cloud. MEDS offers endpoint diagnosis of firewalls, installed software, audit logs, screen saver, antivirus, enabled services, running programs, auto updates, USB drives, password policy, patches and agent health. The service is an agentless architecture, scans endpoints based on best practices and gives compliance reports. According to M. N. Kutty Nair, Chairman & Managing Director - MIEL, "with new threat landscape evolving, end-point security is a must because of increase in unauthorized file sharing, data theft and malicious software. The focus has also increased because of compliance regulations and consumerization of IT - as the use of laptops, Blackberry and social media has risen." The MEDS product can check over 20...

IBM consolidates Leadership Position in India Storage Market

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM India has announced that according to newly released data from IDC, the company has emerged number one in revenue for fourth quarter (Q4) and full year 2010 in the India external disk storage systems. According to the IDC report, IBM maintained its 2010 leadership with a 26.2% market share, in revenue terms, and over 4% points lead over its nearest competitor. In addition, in Q4 2010 IBM maintained leadership with a 29% market share and a 7% point lead over its nearest competitor, in revenue terms. The IDC report states the overall External Disk storage market in India declined 1.5% in CY 2010 The launch of a series of powerful IBM systems in 2010, including the IBM StorwizeV7000 and the IBM System Storage DS8000, helped to strengthen the company's leadership position in the market. The StorwizeV7000 is designed to dramatically improve storage efficiency and costs while providing clients exceptional ease-of-use and performance in a m...

Rashi completes ATi - HP Workstation Meet

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rashi Peripherals has recently concluded its first-ever ATi-based HP workstation meets in seven cities across the country. The meet was held at Bangalore moving to Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad and finally culminated at Delhi informing about new developments, technology in workstation addressing partner issues and facilitating one- to-one networking with the partners. The meet saw a very enthusiastic attendance by key HP workstation partners across all the cities. Speaking on the successful HP Workstations partner meet, Vinay Awasthi, Director, PSG, HP India, said, "For the first time, we at HP have initiated dedicated Workstations Channel Partner training programme and have got very encouraging response from our partner community across geographies. Our partners are of great value to us and through these initiatives we are aiming to gear them better to cater to customer needs and add to their business profitability. We will...

VIA launches VIA ART-5450

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VIA Technologies has launched its VIA ART-5450 embedded box PC system, designed to offer embedded developers the ideal system platform for today's sophisticated logistics and fleet management applications. "The transition to more elegant and integrated real-time fleet management eco-systems demands increasingly intelligent and networkedin-vehicle devices," said Daniel Wu, Vice-President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. "The VIA ART-5450 matches leading communications features with unrivalled stability, creating the ultimate in-vehicle logistics solution." Based on a uniquely compact, fanless and rugged design, the VIA ART-5450 offers a full feature set that includes a range of wireless3G communications, dual display and advanced power management support, creating a flexible and stable platform for in-vehicle systems that control, monitor and manage commercial vehicles. For More Details See www....

K7 Computing reveals their new Product range amongst their Channel Partners in Chennai

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE K7 Computing has launched their new product range at the "K7 Titans Meet 2011" amongst K7 Security Solutions Partners (K7 SSPs). K7UltimateSecurity and K7SecureWeb are the enhanced version of K7TotalSecurity. Highlighted at the event was their new patent pending technology called "NANO SECURE TECHNOLOGY" (NST). NST is the next-generation security CORE enabling effective security solutions at multiple layers analyzing and collaborating various events to detect and block existing as well as future threats. The way NST intercepts and processes the events delivers superior protection without slowing down the computer. Kesavan, Founder & CEO of K7 Computing, said that the entire event happened to be one of the best-ever opportunity for them to interact with its loyal and committed K7 SSPs (Security Solutions Partners), who help them to reach K7 products to the end- consumer. "With many positive feedbacks from all the ...