VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ciena Corporation has announced the strategic evolution of its packet-optical portfolio designed to enable intelligent infrastructures using advanced silicon, software and switching technologies. With these new platform configurations, Ciena's market-leading intelligent switching, optical control plane and coherent optics combine to provide the most economical way to support existing and emerging services over a network that is efficient, resilient and differentiated. By integrating these innovations across multiple packet-optical products, Ciena provides its customers with a complete, applications-optimized portfolio that offers maximum flexibility for their next-generation core and metro networks. As the industry trends toward more mobile and cloud-based applications, the delivery of private line and Ethernet services, which today represent 77 per cent of the $91-billion market for telecom business services, must become more dynamic an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab, in partnership with B2B International, a global research agency specializing in business research, has conducted a Global IT Security Risks Survey. The survey results highlight that 91% of companies have experienced at least one IT security event from an external source in the last 12 months. More than 1,300 IT professionals in 11 countries participated in the survey. The most common security threat comes in the form of viruses, spyware and other malicious programs. 31% of malware attacks resulted in some form of data loss, with 10% of companies reporting the loss of sensitive business data. Only 70% of companies have implemented anti-malware protection fully across their businesses; 3% have no protection at all. The level of anti-malware implementation varies from country to country: in emerging markets 65% of companies have adopted it, while in the UK and the US levels of implementation stood at 92% and 82%, respectively. De...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel is moving towards a restructuring exercise that will merge three separate businesses, triggering a large-scale job cull for the first time in the services sector since the 2008 economic slowdown. Under this exercise, Bharti Airtel plans to merge its mobile, satellite TV (DTH), and fixed-line and broadband telemedia business, which jointly account for about 90% of the company's revenues and the vast majority of its workforce, into a single entity. The merger, apparently aimed at cutting costs and boosting efficiency at the country's biggest telecom operator at a time of falling profits, is expected to lead to big job losses, with estimates putting the number at more than 2,000. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia's latest smartphone N9 would not be available in India even as it launches in Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE and Vietnam. According to industry sources, the absence of countries like the US is understandable as the company does not have carrier support for its devices there. They say for India the company may follow strategy it followed for N900 which was launched in the Indian market a few months after its launch in other countries. The new smartphone in the company's flagship N-series, comes with in a curved design and features a 3.9-inch active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display. The N9 smartphone will be available in three colours - black, cyan and magenta - and would offer storage of 16GB and 64GB. The smartphone would ship with an 8-MP came...