VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Plintron Global Technology Solutions Private Limited (Plintron) and Lycamobile has announced their global partnership to lead the MVNA (Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator) market. This partnership builds on Plintron's successful 14 country launch of Lycamobile's services and hosting on a private cloud based mobile core network infrastructure. In the last one year, Plintron and Lycamobile jointly have been instrumental in commercialization of the MVNA business model in the UK. MVNA is a partnership of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) and Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) to enable mobile telephony based services for other brands. This service will enable a range of brands to launch a mobile proposition to complement their core businesses in the most efficient cost and timeframe. Mohan Kumar, Founder & CEO, Plintron said, "In the dynamically growing telecom industry, the MVNA model would play a vantage role in the c...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adding to its stable, FUJIFILM India Pvt. Ltd. has introduced FinePix T 200 - a super-slim digital camera. FinePixT 200 has an impressive 14-mega pixel resolution that won't miss the finest details of the subject. Images are captured sharp, clear and in vivid colours, even when printed at large sizes. It is a highly sensitive camera with maximum sensitivity of ISO3200 resulting in photos appear natural and more true to life even with limited available light. "Fujifilm is putting efforts to bring more and more quality products to its customers. The latest addition to the list of fine digital cameras by Fujifilm is the super-slim FinePix T 200. Its compact body and user-friendly features are sure to attract the attention of camera buyers and photography enthusiasts," said K. Tanaka, Managing Director, Fujifilm India. A. Rajkumar, Country General Manager (DSC), Fujifilm India, said, "FinePix T 200 breaks the cluttered segment...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Logitech has announced the availability of its award-winning range of Harmony remotes in India. Equipped with advanced features like wireless RF technology, full-colour touch screen, one-touch activity control, ergonomic design and rechargeable batteries, the Logitech Harmony remotes are designed to enhance the digital entertainment experience. The Logitech Harmony remotes are optimized to control multiple devices and consequently minimize the piling up of remote controls. Logitech Harmony remotes can be easily set up - just connect it to your computer and you are guided through every step of configuring your remote. "The Logitech Harmony remotes simplify the complexities involved in today's home-entertainment systems," said Subrotah Biswas, Logitech Country Manager for India and South West Asia. "The Logitech Harmony remotes are powerful, yet elegant replacement to multiple remotes that are needed even for a simple task l...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Thriveni Earthmovers Private Limited has partnered with IBM to build a scalable and efficient IT environment. Thriveni will implement enterprise SAP ERP for improving process efficiency and ensuring greater business insights. IBM will be the systems integrator for the entire deployment and will also provide application management support (AMS) for the next five years. The ERP system will run on IBM's Systems X server and storage. As part of the deal, IBM will help Thriveni integrate its entire operation onto a single IT platform encompassing different business units, including finance, purchasing, planning & budgeting, plant & project operations, and human resource. The new system will also ensure regulatory process compliance - related to environment, health, and safety - involved in mining operations through better controls and check points. "Since its inception two decades ago, Thriveni has grown significantly and the leg...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade has expanded the award-winning Brocade VDX product family with two new switch models designed to deliver a comprehensive solution for future-proofing data center networks, cost-effectively supporting 1 GbE server and storage environments and allowing Ethernet-based server access to all the data stored on Fibre Channel SANs. The Brocade VDX switches support VCS fabric technology, enabling enterprises to gracefully evolve their traditional network architectures to an Ethernet fabric in order to better support virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers. "First-generation VDX 6720 was unveiled in November 2010. And now with VDX 6710 and 6730, we are announcing second generation of our solutions," informs K P Unnikrishnan, Marketing Director, APAC, Brocade Communications Singapore Pte Ltd. Further, Brocade has announced significant advancements to the Brocade CloudPlex architecture with new Brocade Virtual Compute Blocks. ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has launched a fast and simple-to-use backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware customers. Acronis vmProtectTM 6 has been engineered exclusively for VMware vSphereTM servers (v4.0, 4.1 or later) using ESX and ESXi hypervisors. It provides businesses with a simple-to-deploy, easy-to-manage disaster recovery solution for agentless back up and quick recovery of their VMware virtual environments. Priced at US$499 per CPU and with unlimited P2V (physical to virtual) migrations, Acronis vmProtect 6 represents an affordable backup, migration and disaster recovery solution for the growing number of businesses moving to a VMware virtualized server environment. Bill Taylor-Mountford, President, Asia Pacific, Acronis said, "Protecting VMware servers should be neither complex nor costly. By using a solution that speaks directly to VMware requirements, businesses can accelerate their virtualization adoption. IT managers need never ques...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Video Lumiere Son (VLS) has invested in its offering to end customers by adding five Delta media servers from 7thSense Design to its inventory. Cyril Toussaint of VLS explains, "There are plenty of video playback systems out there, but most of them compress the image in some way. For example, this compression inevitably leads to the creation of artefacts such as banding effects when displaying shaded tones. Out of respect for the artists' work, we prefer to use uncompressed video wherever possible. However, until Delta came along, none of the uncompressed playback systems had enough flexibility for the events we were being asked to support." Cyril Toussaint further shares, "Delta gives us edge-blending, multiple warping features, real-time 3D object mapping and, last but not least, fast timeline encoding. Furthermore, the fact that 7thSense Design uses high-end hardware such as SSD hard drives and multiple-output graphics ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Inspan Infotech has announced the penetration of 'Inspan Insights - 2011' road show series for Q2. Continuing on the momentum built in last Quarter, Inspan continued to reach out to its partners at Coimbatore and Pondicherry. The road show attracted an overwhelming response in both the places. With 65 channel partners attending at Coimbatore and 35 channel partners at Pondicherry. The participation ratio has gone up compared to the Q1 series that was held at Kannur, Mallapuram and Calicut. This initiative from Inspan was supported by brands like Mercury, Genius & Corsair. Viewsonic, ADATA, MSI Lap Tops, Numeric and Quick Heal Anti-Virus products were also on display. Jayasimha Daruru, National Manager at Genius presented a detailed Genius product road map, new product information, Q2 reseller's scheme and launched new products. Corsair team unleashed the future roadmap and introduced lots of new products that corsair has launc...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Volunteers from the Gurgaon office of Sapient has carried out a collection drive of toys, games and other sports equipment for donation to Butterflies, an NGO that works for the benefit of destitute and underprivileged children of Delhi and NCR region. Commemorating the Sports Day celebration organised by Butterflies, members of the India Leadership Team, along with other volunteers handed over the collection at a function held at the India Gate, attended by over 200 children and the members of the NGO. This joint initiative will benefit around 500 underprivileged children who have limited or no access to any kind of toys. Pawan Vaswani, Director & Office Lead of Sapient Gurgaon said, "Sapient takes its responsibility as a global citizen to heart and has a focussed initiative on giving back to the society. It is a matter of immense contentment to partner with Butterflies for this noble initiative to make a difference in the lives of...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IMImobile has launched a unique service, My SMS which breaks the language barrier in India. 'My SMS' application from IMImobile is said to empower the users to access content in their local language. My SMS is an SMS based application which allows user to request SMS services in their native language and get messages in requested language on demand. My SMS is an application which allows a user to receive SMS in his very own language irrespective of the make of his handset. This application will overcome one of the major limitations of SMS and will increase the overall penetration of P2A SMS. The benefit of this application is it can be provided as a white-label application for Telecom Operators, Media Companies, Device Manufacturers and Enterprises. This service is available in 8 major languages, English, Hindi, Telegu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi and Bangla. The USP of this service is its easy scalability of the application w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos has made a video demonstrating how easy it is to hijack a Facebook Page, due to a loop hole in the social network's settings. While the onus is on Facebook Page creators to be careful about who they grant admin access to, it is possible for newly appointed administrators to hijack the Page, removing the original creator's admin rights - effectively taking permanent control of the Page. Facebook's own help pages state that 'the original creator of the Page may never be removed by other Page admins'; however Sophos video proves this may not be the case. Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos said, "There are two issues here. Even if a trusted friend or colleague is working as an administrator on a Facebook Page, it is possible that their account may be compromised, giving the bad guys a chance to hijack the Facebook Page you've created. The other possibility is that the Page founder grants a str...