VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Suncorp Group banks on NetApp to foster a culture of innovation, scale at the speed of thought, and create a future with infinitebusiness possibilities at the storage front. After a string of more than 50 business acquisitions and a major merger, Suncorp became a16,000-employee company with five different divisions, countless unique brands, and an IT infrastructure that was complex and provided a barrier to growth. Realizing the only way to move forward was to dramatically improve theway it did business and unlock the untapped human capital that laywithin, Suncorp made a strategic bet on storage to ignite itstransformation. "We looked to NetApp not only as a technology partner to help us achieve greater business flexibility and efficiency, but to help us materially change the way we do work," said Jeff Smith, CEO, Suncorp Business Services. "We have a strong belief that the companies we partner with are companies that we a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Qualcomm has reconfirmed that it will sell its Indian broadband wireless access (BWA) business to any company that assures long- erm evolution (LTE) technology in India. Talking on the sidelines of the CTIA Wireless conference, Qualcomm Senior Vice-President - Global Marketing Investor Relations, BillDavidson said that the company's strategy was to ensure LTE technology platform took off in the Indian market and to find the right partners for the same. Recently, Qualcomm has announced that it is in an advanced stage of talks with Bharti Airtel to sell its BWA licences in India. QualcommIndia, which took part in the BWA auction last year, got licences for four markets, including the lucrative Delhi and Mumbai, apart froKerala and Haryana. The company paid a total of Rs.4,912 crore and might seek a premium over this from Bharti. At present, Bharti has BWA licences for Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab. Qualcomm pioneered Code Divi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade has announced a number of investments including a $100-million evaluation program designed to enable customers in the Asia-Pacific region to quickly deploy Ethernet fabrics as the foundation for highly virtualized data centers. Brocade believes that the IT trends driving transformation in this region make it prime to adopt this fundamental technology to migrate to private, public and hybrid cloud computing architectures. Ethernet fabric is a new category of networking technology that is purpose-built for virtualization and cloud-optimized data centers. Brocade's Ethernet fabric solution is powered by Brocade VCS technology and available through the Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switch. "Brocade intends to compete aggressively for the virtualization and cloud computing business in Asia-Pacific because this region is so important to our company's long-term growth strategy," said Mike Klayko, CEO, Brocade. "We beli...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Spice Mobility now brings cinema in your pocket with Spice POPKORN, a projector phone that can make movie watching, live TV experience and document viewing possible anytime, anywhere and on any surface. Ab sara sansar movie hai! Spice POPKORN comes with an inbuilt projector that can enable the handset to function like a projector while keeping all other key multimedia features intact. This, clubbed with free accessories like Tripod stand to dock the phone and sleek external speaker, enhances the movie watching experience with a theatre-like feel. The handset offers Analog TV that allows the users to watch live TV even while they are on the move. The handset comes in a Popcorn bag inspired packaging with a laser pointer, tripod stand and a sleek speaker to provide the users convenience while using the projector function. The FM and audio player with exceptional sound quality is a treat for the music lovers. The handset comes with a QVGA scree...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mr Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology, inaugurated the model Rural Service Centre (RSC) of Viom Networks. Based on the vision of the Hon'ble IT Minister, the Rural Service Centre, set up at village Badshahpur in Gurgaon, is an innovative concept of "Power of Tower", developed by Viom Networks for leveraging its existing infrastructure through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to achieve the Government's vision of providing universal education, financial inclusion, telecom services, healthcare, e-governance facilities and other related services to the rural population, thus ushering in the second round of telecom revolution - Telecom Revolution 2.0 - in the country. Mr Kapil Sibal said, "I strongly believe that the telecom infrastructure sector offers a tremendous untapped potential that can be leveraged to enhance various government programmes and initiatives in ru...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft has appointed Bhaskar Pramanik as chairman for its India operations. Prior to the current role, Pramanik served as Managing Director of Oracle India and Sun Microsystems. Pramanik will lead all Microsoft operations in India, which include 5,300 employees spread across two centres in Gurgaon and Hyderabad, and 13 marketing offices. As chairman, Pramanik will oversee Microsoft's sales, marketing and services subsidiary, provide overall leadership on all Microsoft assets in India. "I am excited to be part of a company that has such a wide play across industries, segments, products and services. I look forward to partnering with the business leaders and the entire Microsoft team to grow our business in India and enable the success of all our stakeholders," Pramanik said. Pramanik will report to Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International.Jean-Philippe Courtois said, "Pramanik comes to Microsoft with ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE D-Link DIR-632 is a multifunctional router as it acts as a Router + 8Port Switch + 11N Wireless AP + Print Server. This high-speed router is based on Wireless N technology that gives an option of extended coverage and works with previous-generation wireless devices. Just connect the DIR-632 to cable or DSL modem to share broadband Internet connection with multiple computers, game consoles, or media players, thus making it an ideal device for Cyber café, SOHO and SMB usage With Shareport Technology, D-Link DIR-632 can connect a USB printer or multifunction-printer (MFP) and share it with computers on the network. It can also share a USB storage device among multiple computers for access to files such as video, music, photos and documents. Plus with the latest wireless security features, it prevents unauthorized access, be it from over a Wi-Fi network or from the Internet. D-Link DIR-632 supports WPA/WPA2 standards to ensure data security over...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Gigabyte has officially announced availability of the 3TB+ Unlock Utility that allows GIGABYTE motherboards without Hybrid EFI Technology to recognize and use unallocated space on new 3TB and larger hard disc drives (HDDs). GIGABYTE 3TB+ Unlock optimizes HDD storage space by allowing the user to create a virtual drive with space that exceeds 2048GB, the maximum amount of storage recognized by 32bit versions of operating systems such as Windows XP. The virtual drives are limited to 2048GB, and the user can create up to 128 partitions, as long as there is additional unallocated space on the HDD. 3TB+ Unlock supports both GPT (GUID Partition Table) and MBR (Master Boot Record) partition styles, However, with MBR, the numbers of partitions are limited to 8. 3TB+ Unlock currently supports new high-end motherboard models based on the Intel X58, Intel 6 series and AMD 8 series chipsets, and is in the process of being ported to older chipset models ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Gigabyte has officially announced availability of the 3TB+ Unlock Utility that allows GIGABYTE motherboards without Hybrid EFI Technology to recognize and use unallocated space on new 3TB and larger hard disc drives (HDDs). GIGABYTE 3TB+ Unlock optimizes HDD storage space by allowing the user to create a virtual drive with space that exceeds 2048GB, the maximum amount of storage recognized by 32bit versions of operating systems such as Windows XP. The virtual drives are limited to 2048GB, and the user can create up to 128 partitions, as long as there is additional unallocated space on the HDD. 3TB+ Unlock supports both GPT (GUID Partition Table) and MBR (Master Boot Record) partition styles, However, with MBR, the numbers of partitions are limited to 8. 3TB+ Unlock currently supports new high-end motherboard models based on the Intel X58, Intel 6 series and AMD 8 series chipsets, and is in the process of being ported to older chipset models ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) has announced that it would double its channel presence in India. PBBI currently has 100 partners across levels here. It is looking at adding large System Integrators, value added resellers and partners across regions and verticals. The company made this announcement at the Partner & System Integrators (SI) Event, where the executive management of the company presented about PBBI, plans in India, roadmap for its products to a group of partners, enterprise customers and select invitees. According to John O’Hara, President, Pitney Bowes Business Insight, "The technology leap that India has made over the past decade makes it a truly exciting, important market of the future for Pitney Bowes Business Insight. The channel partner expansion is aimed at capturing more customers across regions and verticals for our cutting edge suite of new products and solutions. An important focus would be the public se...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Longtel Communication Technology has bought a revolution in the mobile handset industry with their long lasting Battery phones, Music phones, Internet phones, Business phones and Entry level phones with superior quality. All models of Longtel come with great features & looks at an affordable price range. With the good response in market, they have launched two new handsets M11 & X50. M11 New Fully loaded movie house handset has come up with MP4 player to play seamlessly all media formats and hot key feature for FM, Music Player and FM recording function. It also has Dual Sim and Dual Standby (G+G) feature with 1.8' High Resolution Display, Audio Player with 3.5MM Jack with 3D sound effect, Mobile Tracker, video recording, Bluetooth, Torch light, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook with Multi Languages. X50 a phone for youth is a power house handset with 1600 (mah) with standby of 30 days. One can carry on the conversation for 8 hours Non Stop....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE 'ZEBRONICS' has unveiled its latest addition to its wide line-up of notebook accessories - the Zeb-NC3000 Premium Laptop Cooling Pad, a cool recliner for notebook computers. The Zeb-NC3000 has been engineered keeping in mind convenience of use, functionality and portability. The retractable USB cord enables you to stow it away neatly and there are no other cables or power adapter required. Moreover, it is angled for comfort of use, which also provides enough clearance for the wide-sweep, 80-mm fan to create an airflow volume of nearly 19 cubic-ft per minute at a speed of 2000 RPM. With its smart flowing lines and choice of two elegant colours - matt black and electric red - the Zeb-NC3000 cooling pad is an ideal accessory, helping to prolong the life of your notebook computer by decrease its working temperature while isolating your lap when using it on-the-go. It is even more useful if the notebook is your main computer sitting on...