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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sunil Dutt has marked an end to his career with HP PSG and joins Blackberry to head its India business. Before his resignation to HP India, he was serving as the Vice-President & General Manager of HP PSG division. May 30th would be his last working day at HP. In an earlier statement released, HP India said that PSG is on a look out for a replacement for Sunil and the new head will soon be announced to the media. Sunil Dutt joined as the head of HP PSG in November 2009, replacing Ravi Swaminathan. He is accredited with making several changes in the HP PSG distribution. Prior to HP, Dutt has worked for some of the renowned brands in the country like Samsung, Nokia, Barista, Whirlpool, Wipro and Philips, holding distinguished positions. Though Sunil Dutt is unavailable for comments, strong career prospects can be cited as one of the reasons for him to quit HP. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced a US$38M investment in a new IBM Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre in Singapore, which will provide businesses in India with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloud computing. The new facility will extend IBM's globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centres in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia-Pacific - China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. Scheduled to be launched in April, the Centre will make available IBM's comprehensive cloud services and technology portfolio via the company's cloud delivery infrastructure. These services are designed to enable clients to reap the benefits of business and IT transformation; increase flexibility and agility; accelerate time to market; reduce costs; and increase security and compliance of public cloud environments. "The new Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Symantec Corp. has announced new versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition, providing businesses of all sizes with advanced protection while improving system performance. Complete with advanced features to secure virtual infrastructures and powered by Insight, Symantec's award-winning community and cloud-based reputation technology, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is designed to detect and block sophisticated new threats earlier and more accurately than any other security product. Security threats have become more sophisticated and more widespread, creating a challenge for traditional signature-based security solutions. Last year, attackers unleashed more than 286 million distinct malicious programmes, an average of more than nine new threats every second of every day. In fact, Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report XV revealed that India ranked fifth for malicious activities

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced a programme for channel partners who want to quickly capitalize on the rapidly-expanding cloud market opportunities with HP's broad cloud portfolio. Unveiled at the HP Americas Partner Conference in Las Vegas, the HP CloudSystem Partner Programme provides tools for channel partners to build expert cloud practices by evolving their business models and developing cloud-focused skills. As a result, they can expand their portfolios and increase revenues with cloud solutions that help transform their customers' businesses. HP's new programme targets a cloud market opportunity that is projected to grow to $143 billion by 2013. The HP CloudSystem portfolio enables partners to build and manage complete, integrated cloud solutions across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Resources for channel partner cloud practices include Cloud Centres of Excellence demonstration sites, the Cloud Enablement programme, trai

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ajai Chowdhry, Founder, HCL & Chairman, HCL Infosystems, was today awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian recognition in the country, by the Hon'ble President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil. Ajai Chowdhry is one of the six founder-members of HCL, India's original IT garage start-up founded in 1976, is today a global enterprise of over Rs.24,000 crore with a global headcount of 79,000 people. Ajai took over the reins of HCL Infosystems, the flagship company of the group, as President & CEO in 1994. He was appointed Chairman of HCL Infosystems in November 1999. Under Ajai's stewardship, the company's turnover has grown to Rs.12,221 crore from Rs.400.6 crore in 1994. Employing over 7,200 people, it has emerged as the country's information-enabling powerhouse. Ajai Chowdhry reacted, "When I got together with my friends 34 years back to start HCL, all we had was a barsati, some money and t