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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems announced that CallPlus has selected its CacheFlow 5000 appliance to manage bandwidth from Internet content from outside the country. CallPlus estimates that 90-95 per cent of its traffic is for international content, and the demand is growing at a rate of about 50 per cent per year, by volume. Initial trials of the Blue Coat Web caching appliances conducted by CallPlus showed a reduction in its bandwidth consumption by over 40 per cent. At the same time, the speed of content delivery and quality of video experience increased due to the use of caching, further claims the company. Adrian Dick, Chief Technology Officer, CallPlus said, "Once we deployed the caching technology, we were serving web traffic considerably faster than our main competitors Blue Coat provided a solution that both reduced costs and improved customer experience; it was the only solution to meet our payback hurdle." "The experience from Cal...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Micro Strategies has been recognized at Microsoft's 2011 East Region Partner Awards ceremony at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. These annual awards recognize top partners and acknowledge the extraordinary contributions of partners serving small, mid-market, and enterprise commercial customers. Micro Strategies was recognized with two awards - the NY Metro Corporate Accounts Customer Satisfaction Award and the East Region SMB Partner of the Year Award. "Micro Strategies is committed to serving our customers in all aspects of their businesses. Receiving the Corporate Accounts Customer Satisfaction Award from Microsoft is high praise. It acknowledges our expertise across the Microsoft Platforms and our Gold Level Certifications in areas such as SharePoint, Windows Server Hyper-V, System Center and virtual desktop and applications," said Jim Veraldi, Executive Vice President, Micro Strategies. He added, ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ybrant Digital Ltd and LGS Global Ltd will be merged. Both firms are based out of Hyderabad. The combined entity would be called Ybrant Digital Ltd. Ybrant Digital, which raised $100 million in equity and debt, from private equity firms such as Oak Investment Partners and GE Asia-Pacific, recently acquired the US-based Lycos. LGS Global is an IT outsourcing projects firm with a turnover of Rs. 315 crore in 2010-11. The board, which met on Monday has approved the merger plan and swap ratio. The exchange ratio is put at six equity shares (Rs 10 each) of LGS for every one equity share of Ybrant of Rs. 10. The merger is subject to regulatory approvals from stock exchanges and the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, India. Suresh Reddy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ybrant, would be the Chairman and CEO of the combined entity. Subba Rao Karusula, Managing Director of LGS, would be the Business Head of the LGS Division of Ybrant. Shares of LGS ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Softbank Mobile and Ericsson had demonstrated the benefits of a new feature, cooperative transmission control/coordinated scheduling in LTE radio base stations, which improves cell-edge user performance. The test, conducted using commercially available LTE terminals, clearly demonstrated the strong potential of coordinated radio resource management functionality in LTE networks. Coordinated scheduling avoids the severe interference that can otherwise be encountered at the cell edge between base stations that operate on the same frequency. By coordinating the base stations' use of radio resources, it is possible to improve cell-edge user throughput by a factor of two or three, while simultaneously improving overall cell throughput. Therefore, Softbank Mobile developed this function as Eco-LTE - Enhanced Cooperative transmission control on LTE. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VMware has planned to unveil revised vSphere 5 licensing terms on Wednesday that will give customers the ability to allocate more memory to their virtual machines. Channel partners contacted by CRN confirmed that VMware had already alerted them to the licensing changes. Industry speculation of coming changes to vSphere 5 licensing has been bubbling since last Thursday, when blogger Derek Seaman reported that VMware was planning to boost the amount of memory that customers can allocate to virtual machines running on the host, which VMware calls vRAM. According to Seaman, vSphere 5 Enterprise's vRAM allotment will jump from 32GB to 64GB, vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus will go from 48GB to 96GB, and vSphere 5 Essentials and Essentials Plus will go from 24GB to 32GB. VMware will also limit the amount of vRAM that counts against a customer's licensed pool to 96GB per virtual machine, even if the customer allocates more, Seaman reported. Paul M...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amkette has announced "Ab har koi hoga wireless" campaign. This campaign will focus on offering consumers and channel partners of Amkette - technology committed to a Wire Free World. In addition to this, Amkette will bring in a new set of digital products to ease the consumer's life and catalyze convergence of wireless technology. Therefore, the aim behind this campaign has been to provide consumer's "Freedom from Desk". For its consumers, Amkette will come up with quantity and range-based schemes for products that can be availed over the Amkette website and across the retail outlets. Our campaign "Ab har koi hoga wireless" begins today, it makes me proud to be able to materialize this campaign as we have consistently been innovating and bringing products focussed on "Freedom from wires", thus inspiring Wireless Digital Lifestyle! It is an opportunity to interact and reinforce our relationship ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced expansion of the HP Networking "A Catalyst for Change Trade-in Promotion" for qualifying customers in Asia-Pacific that enables clients to upgrade from existing complex, proprietary and expensive network gear to simpler, open standards-based HP solutions that deliver up to 66-per cent lower total cost of ownership. In Asia-Pacific, the "A Catalyst for Change Trade-in" is the first HP Networking programme to deliver savings to customers through cash rebates upon purchase of the HP A-Series, E-Series and V-series switches. The order must be accompanied with a trade-in of eligible networking equipment of any brand. The programme will run until October this year in Australia, India, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand. "Under the single vendor stronghold of the past, enterprise networks have gotten too complex, difficult to manage and expensive. HP Networking gives organizations a choice...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel has sought shareholders' approval for an annual pay package of up to Rs. 70 crore to its Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal in the next five years, but any hike would not be given in the current fiscal. "The Human Resource Committee of the board of directors of Bharti Airtel makes recommendation for certain senior level positions which is then approved by the board every year. The Human Resource Committee on July 29, decided for no increment in the remuneration for Sunil Bharti Mittal for the FY 2011-12," claimed a company statement. The proposal to revise the remuneration of its Chairman and Managing Director, Sunil Bharti Mittal up to a maximum of Rs. 70 crore as proposed in the company's 2011 AGM notice, is an enabling provision for the next five years, and should be seen in that light, the statement further stated. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has revealed plans to invest Rs. 1,000 crore for setting up a training institute at Thiruvananthpuram. TCS and Kerala government have signed a memorandum of understanding for setting up a clutch of facilities in the state. These facilities will involve big-ticket investments. The MoU was signed between the additional chief secretary (industries and IT); T. Balakrishnan and Chandrashekharan, in the presence of the chief minister Oomen Chandy, at the golden jubilee celebrations of Kerala State Industrial Development Centre in Kochi. Techno Park leased 82 acres to TCS last December to set up a global training academy. TCS plans to set up a 10,000-seat campus in Techno city, which will set global benchmarks for corporate learning institutions. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Telecom Commission has given its nod to imposing a uniform licence fee of 8.5 per cent on all telecom operators. Operators currently pay between 6 per cent and 10 per cent of their annual revenues as licence fee. Though the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had recommended bringing down the licence fee to a uniform 6 per cent, a panel set up by the DoT pegged this at 8.5 per cent in order to protect Government income. The Telecom Commission in its meeting on July 22 overruled the TRAI suggestions and ratified the views of the DoT committee in this regard. This move will benefit operators in Metro areas which are currently paying 10 per cent of the annual revenues. However, Internet Service Providers and Long Distance Telephone operators would have to pay out more as they currently pay only 6 per cent. For pan-India players, this move will not have any major impact as they end up paying about 8.5 per cent of the overall revenues on an aver...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dell has announced an integrated data centre solution that enables customers to operate facilities at higher temperatures and even without chillers. In line with the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) A3 and A4 classifications, the servers, storage and networking equipment of the Dell Fresh Air cooling solution are capable of short-term, excursion-based operation in temperatures up to 113 F (45 C). In addition to ASHRAE's updated standard, The Institute for Energy, a European guidance body, has issued the "European Union Code of Conduct for Data Centres. New data centre construction exemplified by companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo has demonstrated a shift toward fresh air-cooled data centres that do not rely on chiller technology. However, the standard allowable temperature maximum of 95 F (35 C) for today's IT equipment limits the locations where they can be used without...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AMD has announced its participation with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), HP and Clarkson University in a significant research project that looks at the industry-wide challenge of channeling renewable energy directly to data centers. Alan Lee, Corporate VP, Research & Advanced Development, AMD said, "The distributed computing model of the cloud parallels the distributed power-generation model of solar and wind energy. Directing power to data centers from these emerging renewable energy resources without relying on a large-scale, traditional electrical grid is a key challenge. One ultimate goal is the co-location of dynamic energy sources with dynamic computing resources to improve the economics, performance, and environmental benefits of both infrastructures." Because wind and solar-derived energy can be intermittent, this study will also examine critical questions of how to automatically s...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Apple has been placed first in the global Smartphone market in the second quarter. It has 18.5 percent of market share and has dispatched 20 million iPhones, as per market report. The Samsung Smartphones have a market share of 17.5 percent and has dispatched around 19.2 million Samsung Smartphones which is very closer to Apple's market share. Nokia is at third place with the market share of 15.2 percent from 38.1 percent which was a year back and depicts a great downfall. The Nokia has been experiencing a great downfall in market share as consumers prefer to have more classy OS those are manufactured by Apple and Google. This drop has lead to partnership of Nokia with Microsoft for windows OS in their devices. The next version of iPhone is all set to come out in this September. The iPhones have been a smash hit among the consumers and the other reasons for the success is the wide and wise expansion into international markets. The Strateg...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Yahoo! has announced the launch of Yahoo! Sports Radio as the Internet Company seeks to turn its popularity as an online destination for sports fans into success over the airwaves. The Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! said the national sports radio network will be available on over 180 affiliate radio stations across the United States, Sirius Satellite Radio, and through digital and mobile partners. The network is being launched in partnership with Houston, Texas-based Gow Broadcasting, whose Sporting News Radio stations are being rebranded as Yahoo! Sports Radio. Yahoo! Sports boasts 50 million monthly unique users, making it the top online sports destination in the United States. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to industry buzz, Google Chrome is now the world's third most popular web browser with one in five users preferring it. Google Chrome has also emerged as Britain's second most popular web browser, edging Mozilla's Firefox and nibbling at Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the current leader. Chrome accounted for 22 percent of the British web market, compared to 45 percent of users preferring Internet Explorer. Apple's Safari stood at the fourth place with nine percent share. But experts pointed out that Internet Explorer's market share was falling despite the programme already pre-installed on almost every computer sold in Britain, claims industry report. Google said its surge in popularity could be explained by its speed of delivery results, its security and a new ad campaign. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The latest robot from China mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of the water strider-a long-legged insect that effortlessly skims across pond and lakes surfaces. The new aquatic robot weighs as much as 390 water striders but does not sink when placed on water. In fact, it stands, walks and runs effortlessly on its surface. Scientists claim that the bionic bot is a vast improvement over previous devices of this kind, positioning it as a prime candidate for military spy missions, water pollution monitoring and other applications. Its body is about the size of a quarter; has 10 water-repellent, wire legs and also two movable, oar-like legs - propelled by two miniature motors. Prior to this, tiny aquatic devices have been designed by scientists, which were based on the water strider. But until now, no one has found a way to make robots that stand effortlessly on water surfaces and also walks and turns freely. These robots are not only prac...