VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Synology has launched DiskStation DS2411+, a 12-bay business-class NAS server designed for SMB users. The DS2411+ is built upon the company's heritage of delivering cost-effective NAS servers with high scalability in storage capacity and high performance. "The DS2411+ prepares SMBs for tomorrow's data growth and demanding workloads, allowing them to tap into additional resources as needed," said Chad Chiang, Product Manager, Synology Inc. When paired with Synology DX1211, its expansion unit, the DS2411+ is expandable to 24 bays to accommodate businesses' staggering data. Data throughput can be ensured with an InfiniBand cable that carries 12Gb/sec SATA signal when bridging a connection. The DS2411+ comes with 2 LAN with failover and link aggregation support, delivering 167 MB/sec writing and 202 MB/sec reading speeds under RAID 5 configuration. Businesses can upgrade its 1GB RAM to 3GB to achieve efficient data sharing i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tradus.in brings a special offer for its customers who will buy iPhone 3GS worth Rs.19,990/- before 10th July, 2011. The offer will include a free Motorola WX 260 Mobile Phone worth Rs.2,190/-. The iPhone 3GS includes features such as 3-mega pixel sensor, three band UMTS/HSDPA, Four band GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 3.5-inch widescreen multitouch display with fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, It has a magnetometer, voice control, Nike + support built in. At 135g, the handset measures 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches. iPhone 3GS is available on the site for Rs.19,990/- with an offer of free Motorola phone worth Rs.2,190 + Free Shipping till 10th July, 2011, inclusive of all taxes. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE TAKE Solutions, in partnership with Give Life, an NGO which undertakes various initiatives for the welfare of underprivileged children in Tamil Nadu, organized the "TAKE Solutions Scholarship Distribution Day". Through this initiative, TAKE provides educational sponsorship (uniforms, books, bags, stationery and school fees) to 500 children annually. Employees of TAKE participated by distributing these to the children at the Government High School, Tambaram. TAKE Solutions, in association with Give Life, has been undertaking these activities for the last three years. This year, as part of the community interaction initiative, employees at TAKE took the lead to visit schools in and around Tamil Nadu to share their experiences with young students. They planned several sessions over a span of 4 months where every session had a theme, e.g. Career exploration or Effective use of Mass Media, to bring more focus and interest. "For o...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Newgen Software has announced the success of its process automation solutions (PAS) for achieving "operational excellence". Speaking on the 6th CII Banking Tech Summit 2011 held on June 28th in Mumbai, Hareish Gur, Vice-President (India & Asia-Pacific), said, "Our world-class solutions have helped banks and financial services organizations in 40 countries to continuously improve their business cycle times, productivity standards and compliance. The inherent capability of our product suite to achieve excellence (or kaizen) in operations has added to the core competence of our customers." Newgen Software has helped banks to automate processes like Loans Management, Account Opening and KYC (Know Your Customer), Fund Transfers & Remittance, Inward & Outward Clearing, Trade Finance (LC, LG, BG), Audit & Compliance, Credit Cards, ForEx Operations, Wealth Management, PDC Management, and so on. The 6th CII Banking...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Array Networks has announced that Oxigen Services has selected Array Networks APV Series application delivery controllers to ensure application availability and a premium end-user experience for its media, telecommunications, transportation, entertainment, billing, Internet and cash card services. Deployed in high-availability pairs at Oxigen's hosted data centers located in Tulip, Mumbai, Array APV Series appliances load balance and process transaction requests from points-of-sale across India, mitigating application performance issues related to burst and uneven traffic patterns to ensure a seamless customer experience. Moreover, the APV appliances eliminate the need for Oxigen to manually reassign IP addresses in the event of application failure, enable server maintenance without application disruption and provide application-level security without impacting application performance. In selecting Array to ensure business services were...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has announced that its strategy of enabling data centre transformation through IT solutions that are virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable continues to generate customer success around the globe. Customers including Infosys (India), StarHub (Singapore) and TSYS (United States) are proof that the HDS vision and product strategy for cost-effectively re-architecting the data center and optimizing existing IT assets to support various cloud delivery models is what customers need. These customers are saving the equivalent of millions of dollars in storage costs and are experiencing data center reliability and availability benefits that far surpass competitive offerings. As the data center evolves through virtualization and cloud strategies, the physical boundaries of IT systems are diminishing. This notion that "Data Has No Center" conveys that data is ubiquitous and that the ability ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Vodafone has warned it faces a doubling of the $2.5-billion tax bill it is contesting in the Indian Supreme Court in July. Andy Halford, Vodafone's Chief Financial Officer, said on Wednesday night that the Indian authorities had threatened to impose penalties for non-payment that could raise its outstanding tax liability to $5 billion. The Indian authorities are pursuing Vodafone for tax that they maintain is due on its 2007 acquisition of Hutchison Essar, a fast-growing Indian mobile operator, for $10.9 billion. A controversy over untaxed capital flows out of India has gripped the Indian Parliament in recent months as the country's leaders battle a series of high-profile corruption scandals, including allegations of a $39-billion telecom licensing scam. "It has put us in an invidious position," said Halford. "(The bill) is either $2.5 billion or it could be double that if we take extreme (scenarios). We have done a lo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Huawei Technologies is planning to offer its 4G solutions to support broadband operators in India by December 2011. The company is in talks with the Indian operators such as Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) for rolling out Long-Term Evolution (4G) solutions. A 4G system provides IP-based mobile broadband solutions to laptops, computers, wireless modems, smartphones and other mobile devices. Huawei is working on LTE solutions since 2005. Ying Weimen, President of GSM, UMT and LTE network at Huawei, said that they are bullish on their entry in India which will be by December 2011 and that they expect full-fledged rollout of LTE network by 2012. Huawei's foray into LTE broadband solutions and 4G technologies indicate its shift toward new verticals in the fast-growing telecom sector in the country. The company is also planning to introduce chipsets for 4G dongles by this year-end in India and will later move on to offer chipsets for terminals,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Looking to exploit business opportunities in the fast growing defence and aerospace segment in the country, global firm Agilent Technologies launched seven of its products at the Aerospace and Defence Symposium, 2011. The newly launched innovations from the company expand its expertise in strategic electronics test for Aerospace and Defence segment. "The symposium has great significance in today's times as India is putting substantial investments in advancing their indigenous capabilities in the strategic areas of Aerospace & Defense, the sector which now has the attention of the large US and European Aerospace giants and large Indian Corporate alike," said Arun Dogra, Country Manager & VP - Sales, Marketing & Support, EMG - Agilent Technologies. The newly launched products and solutions from Agilent Technologies are: 1. Arbitrary Waveform Generator (M8190A) It can deliver simultaneous high-resolution and wid...