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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE D-Link has rolled out another world-class product from its stable. The D-Link DNS-320 is a ShareCenter 2-Bay Network Storage device, designed for users looking for a central storage location for sharing or backing up data. D-Link DNS-320 network-attached storage (NAS) solution features an upgraded hardware platform and intuitive user interface, enabling consumers to easily share documents, files and digital media with everyone on a home network. This next-generation storage device provides users with centralized storage to help protect, manage, share, stream and remotely access data. With D-Link DNS-320 files are protected by the built-in RAID 1 mirroring technology from drive failure, and protected by various backup solutions. D-Link DNS-320 is packed with dual SATA 3.5-inch drive bay for up to 4TB of total storage, ensuring plenty of storage for today's home users. Further, it also has a single USB 2.0 port, RAID support, integrated P...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cloud computing users and IT service providers in Asia-Pacific are embracing Hitachi Data Systems solutions. The newly launched converged data center solutions combine and optimize enterprise-class storage, Hitachi Compute Blade servers and industry standard network infrastructure components that will further support rapid development of cloud in Asia-Pacific. Hitachi Data Systems solutions let customers deploy an integrated portfolio of cloud solutions and services. They simplify and accelerate cloud deployments to meet the needs of companies of all sizes. The single, underlying platform deployment approach also lets customers build and scale cloud solutions as quickly or as slowly as they want to - without the need to undo pre-existing IT systems, thus protecting their IT investments. "Asia-Pacific is a fast developing yet fragmented market. Enterprises across the region have very different requirements when they look for the latest c...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has introduced a number of new telepresence products and enhancements as part of its collaboration portfolio designed to give customers new ways to simply, quickly and cost- effectively scale telepresence throughout their organizations. The advancements also enhance "any-to-any" interoperability between Cisco TelePresence endpoints and any standards-based devices, and make the telepresence experience even more intuitive with user-friendly features and capabilities. The announcements, combined with Cisco's previously announced medianet architecture, advances Cisco's objective to unlock the power of video for its customers. Cisco is making video easier to use, helping customers rapidly deploy video everywhere, and putting people back in the centre of collaboration. To complement its portfolio of TelePresence offerings ranging from immersive systems to desktop solutions to PC and Mac software clients such as Movi, Cisco ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ramco Systems has launched Ramco OnDemand - Analytics and Gateway products on the Cloud. With this launch, Ramco Systems strengthens its leading position as a provider of Enterprise cloud products. The company currently has 3,000-plus users for its ERP on the Cloud and expects to touch 7,000 users in 12 months. P. R. Venketrama Raja, Vice-Chairman, Managing Director & CEO, Ramco Systems, said, "Cloud is a revolutionary business model that dramatically changes the way businesses are run. At Ramco, we have been working on the technology to offer simple, powerful, easy and less expensive solutions that can handle complex business situations. All our products are built on the powerful Ramco VirtualWorks and DecisionWorks platforms, ensuring that they are cloud-ready by design. We are working towards fusing both these platforms to offer a robust world-class enterprise product that is capable of covering the entire business cycle from tr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia has announced its pre-order scheme for the Nokia E6, Touch and Type business smartphone. Nokia E6 will be amongst the first of the Symbian Anna smartphones to be launched in India. Consumers can experience the Nokia E6 live at Nokia Priority stores, in select cities and towns across the country. To get the Nokia E6, consumers need to log on to www.nokia.co.in/E6, fill an online form and indicate their preference for the nearest Nokia Priority store. On receiving a call (within 24 hours) from the store, consumers can secure their Nokia E6 by depositing a booking amount of Rs.2,000/. The Nokia E6 offers a good battery life and out-of-the-box Microsoft messaging experience on a business smartphone, including access to Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Communicator Mobile and Microsoft SharePoint. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has partnered with Sify Technologies Limited to enable the latter to immediately roll out an on-demand security solution to their cloud computing customers and its Clean Connect service. The services are designed to guarantee secure bandwidth and clean connectivity to their enterprise customers. Fortinet's end-to-end virtualization functionality, available on the FortiGate integrated multi-threat security platforms, enables Sify to provision security resources, on-demand, from a shared appliance while providing an unmatched range of security services quickly and easily to its customers. Sify's On-Demand Security solution offers cloud computing customers the ability to deploy the security layer on an on-demand basis, therefore providing complete end-to-end Opex-based services. These cover the areas of security, WAN edge, unified switching, computing and storage. The solution allows customers to address data center requiremen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Under a new agreement with Tata Communications, Verizon is extending the range of its immersive video, or telepresence, offering to enable virtual face-to-face collaboration in more locations around the world. The agreement enables meetings to take place between Verizon's telepresence customers and any public or private telepresence room on the Tata Communications Global Meeting Exchange. This will supplement Verizon's telepresence offering powered by its expansive global Private Internet Protocol Network service. Similarly, Tata Communications telepresence customers can use Verizon's facilities to communicate with Verizon customers. Farooq Muzaffar, Vice-President of enterprise network and communications solutions, Verizon, said, "As businesses expand beyond the traditional four walls of an office building, we are seeing more of our customers turning to advanced collaboration tools like telepresence for a bigger impa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Steel has launched Valueabled.Com an online campaign. It seeks to provide a forum for Indians, especially the youth, to come forth, discuss and debate on the values and beliefs that shape up our lives today. This digital campaign seeks to provide a common platform for all stakeholders to discuss and understand better, the values that make us what we are. This digital platform, powered and independently administered by TATA Steel, seeks to promote active involvement via the website, social media like Facebook and Twitter, through polls and discussion forums, in the debate on the values that shape India and in turn shape our daily lives. Through this platform, people can voice their opinion, hear others speak their mind, cast their votes in polls online on issues that garner their attention, watch videos on related issues, etc. In all, this initiative aims to actively engage the stakeholders to showcase the psyche of the nation with regard...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC Corporation has announced that domestic sales activities for its "Virtual PC Center 4.0" (VPCC4.0), an enhanced version of the company's existing Virtual Desktop thin-client system, will begin on June 30, 2011. The VPCC 4.0 enables a wide variety of terminals to access its Virtual Desktop through web browsers without installing special connection modules. It also features optimized architecture and operations, including a "Session Management Function" (Connection Broker) that strengthens transmissions between virtual desktops and terminals, as well as improved user-friendliness. The VPCC 4.0 features a newly developed linking function through the XenDesktop(R) from Citrix(R), and enables virtual desktops to be accessed using either the RDP or ICA connection protocol. As a result, users may conveniently select the protocol that is most suitable to their working environment. Looking forward, NEC aims to continue lev...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wipro Infotech has been selected by the Department of Excise & Taxation, Government of Punjab, to deploy the Tax Management System across the State. As part of the scope, Wipro will be responsible for design, implementation and management of IT infrastructure and outsourced transaction processing along with other support activities. This includes procurement, deployment, operations and maintenance of the Department's IT infrastructure at various project locations as well as data migration, setting up of various front windows, training, helpdesk and maintenance activities. Migration of the application and data as required for implementation of GST is also a part of the project. There are 23 tax districts in Punjab for which there are about 100 offices at all levels. The revenue is collected in the shape of various levies such as Taxes, Excise duties and fees, etc. To implement this, the Government created an autonomous body called E...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ariston Thermo has chosen Verizon communications and networking solution that will enable to drive more effective collaboration across its extensive operations and implement a range of advanced services. Verizon's solution consists of a consolidated and fully managed global IP-enabled network platform that can be quickly expanded to support Ariston Thermo's changing business needs. The solution also includes the deployment of advanced, IP-enabled collaboration services, including Hosted IP Centrex using Voice over Internet Protocol, to deliver further productivity and cost and management efficiencies - key goals for Ariston Thermo. "Our company growth has been driven by innovation and our ongoing desire to explore new trends and new markets, and that applies just as much to our use of technology as to our product development and service delivery," said Giovanni Daconto, Ariston Thermo Group's IT Manager. "Our glob...