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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VARINDIA, India's frontline IT publication recently organized the tenth edition of its Star Nite Awards 2011 to felicitate IT industry achievers of the year 2010-11for their outstanding performance. Organized by Kalinga Digital Media Pvt Ltd (KDMPL), it recognized IT vendors, solution providers and partners for their sincere and relentless efforts towards the growth of the Indian IT industry. The much-awaited 10th VARIndia Star Nite Awards, 2011was held with great pomp and fanfare on 4th November, 2011 at Hotel Eros Hilton, Nehru Place, in New Delhi in the presence of the distinguished audience of more than 500 people, comprising government officials, CXOs, foreign guests, distributors, VARs, SIs and channel partners from across the country. The auspicious lamp lighting by the honourable Chief Guest, Shri Shankar Aggarwal, IAS, Addl. Secretary- IT, Govt. of India marked the beginning of the event. The other dignitaries who graced the occ

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Riverbed Technology has announced that Minnwest Bank has deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances at each of its two data centers. With Riverbed wide area network (WAN) optimization, Minnwest Bank has executed a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that protects more than eight terabytes (TB) of company data every day. Minnwest Bank has improved business continuity and now meets a recovery point objective of one hour or less, and in most cases approximately 15 minutes. With accelerated DR processes, Minnwest is able to reduce bandwidth utilization, decrease bandwidth costs and reduce IT management costs. More important, Minnwest is able to process transactions faster, thus ensuring better customer service. Jonathan Schiller, CEO, MinnData, IT operations group within Minnwest Bank, said, "We realized that our nightly cobbling of tape backup and sending them off-site was a time-intensive process that was not reliable and not viable long-term. If

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Belkin India has announced a festive program Belkin Utsav to add to the celebration, for their channel partners. The program began on October 1, 2011 and ends on December 31, 2011. The program is to empower channel partners to gift loved ones using Sodexo Gift Passes. Under the promotion, every channel partner is too rewarded for sales made during the period of the promotion. Channel partners can take home Sodexo Gift Passes up till Rs.42,000 on business of up to Rs.10 lakh. For a business of up to Rs.7,50,000, the channel partners are entitled Sodexo Passes worth Rs.30,000. Only purchases made through authorized volume Belkin partners during the program period will be considered. The program is valid for structured cabling business also. Mohit Anand, Managing Director, India subcontinent Belkin Inc., said, "Our aim at all times is to create excitement and an unmatchable sales experience for our valued channel partners and Belkin Utsav

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fujitsu has announced a special line of mobile and desktop CELSIUS workstations optimized specifically for users of Autodesk 3D software in design, engineering and entertainment environments. Professionals using Autodesk software suites require workstations that have enough all-round performance to maximize the software's advanced capabilities. Fujitsu is targeting this market with a new lineup of eight different Fujitsu CELSIUS workstations optimized for Autodesk. The purpose-built, competitively-priced workstations have the performance to meet Autodesk users' needs, and eliminate the risk of incompatibility between hardware and software. Alok Sharma, Country Manager, Workplace Systems, Fujitsu India, said, "For design professionals and engineers, finding the right configuration of hardware and software to cope with their computing needs can be time consuming and risky. We are taking the guesswork out of the hardware selection p

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Alvarion Ltd. has announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Wavion for approximately $30 million in cash. This firm is an Israeli-based technology leader in carrier-grade WiFi applications. Wavion's revenues for the past 12 months total about $16 million. The deal is expected to close before the end of the year. Alvarion intends to combine Wavion's best-of-breed WiFi platform with its 4G RAN solution and recently-acquired DAS (distributed antenna systems) capabilities to create a full suite of capacity and coverage solutions that is not available from any other vendor anywhere in the world. Alvarion believes that current coverage and capacity challenges cannot be addressed effectively by any single technology. The acquisition of Wavion marks another milestone in Alvarion's strategic business plan aimed at shifting its primary focus from WiMAX-based RAN solutions to becoming a multi-technol

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Unistal Systems Pvt. Ltd. has introduced new products Quick Recovery for Digital Media; Quick Recovery for SQL Server; Quick, Recovery Access Password, Quick Recovery Internet Explorer Password and Quick Recovery Windows Live Messenger Password in its Quick recovery range of products. Quick Recovery for Digital Media is Digital Media data Recovery software that recovers lost, deleted, formatted data from logical drives and detachable digital media devices. It is a powerful tool that helps you to recover deleted images, video or music from variety of memory cards storage devices including Compact Flash, Memory Stick, MMC Card, etc. Quick Recovery for SQL Server is advanced database recovery software that retrieves and repairs corrupted/ damaged/ inaccessible database files. If MDF files got corrupted, its advanced scanning technology deeply scrutinizes the corrupted file and repairs them. Therefore, there remains little chance to lost corrupt

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is presenting Intel India Embedded Challenge 2012 - an embedded design contest for students, interested individuals and entrepreneurs from all over India. The contest has been put forward to inspire the vast technology-savvy community in India to architect, design and develop novel embedded applications based on Intel Atom processors in areas such as Consumer Electronics, Digital Security Surveillance, Medical, Storage and others. The Intel IEC 2012 has two main categories: Student Category and Professional Category.The Contest details are available at www.intel.com/education/in. Both the categories involve development of a prototype using Intel Atom Processor. Shortlisted participants will be given a choice of Intel Atom Kit for prototyping their innovation. Mentoring support will be provided to shortlisted participants from student category only. The finalists will showcase successful usage / service models

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Genius has presented the new 30 watt SW-G2.1 1200 GX Gaming Speaker Series. The satellite speakers are believed to use selected paper-cone material with high-density foam to deliver loud sound performance. With a 4-inch strong driver that protrudes from the subwoofer, SW-G2.1 1200 brings much deeper and richer bass for a booming effect. The SWG2.1 1200 is said to bring acoustic fidelity and performs magnificently while playing games or listening to all kinds of music.The Genius SW-G2.1 1200 GX is available at the price of US$44.9 with 1 year warranty. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Canon India has displayed its innovative range of wide format and production printers, with path-breaking technology at the 8th Pamex 2011, the International Exhibition on Printing and Allied Machinery Industries. Canon also launched its star product Oce ColorWave 300 multifunction printer at the exhibition. The single footprint of the Oce ColorWave 300 wide format all-in-one system allows one to replace separate printers, scanners and copiers by one system and helps save floor space due to its integrated color scanner. Controlled from one operator panel, a single compact unit effortlessly handles all your color and black & white technical document tasks. The single footprint also enables the ease of use and workflow efficiency of an Oce B&W system and the versatility of a color plotter. The product is also said to environment friendly as waste is eliminated by the use of automatic original and media size recognition and image positi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Entrepreneurs - Bala Parthasarthy, Sanjay Swamy and Shripati Acharya - have launched AngelPrime, a unique "incubator" that plans to launch multiple start-up companies focussed on three areas: Electronic Payments, eCommerce, Smartphones and Tablet-based applications. AngelPrime brings ideas and entrepreneurs together, fuelling this with much-needed mentorship and seed-capital to rapidly create successful start-ups. Together with the explosion of mobile data traffic, affordable Smartphones & Tablets and new digitally verifiable identities like UID, there is a unique opportunity for next generation of entrepreneurs to start with a clean slate and build applications and products that can leapfrog existing technologies. While numerous funds pour capital into later stage companies, the very early stage start-ups or entrepreneurs with ideas are highly starved of investment and critical mentorship. "AngelPrime's approach is to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Monster India has launched "Monster College" - a pan-India online campus hiring initiative. Monster College is to collaborate with educational institutes across India. As a first step in this process, Monster College has signed a deal with Syntel, a leading IT and BPO firm, to help them source the right talent from nearly 2,000 engineering colleges in India. The concept for Monster College has grown out of Monster India's initiative for Syntel campus recruiting in 2010. Syntel was challenged with reaching the most qualified graduates at all AICTE-approved institutions across India, irrespective of geography or reputation. Named "Syntellect", the goal of Syntel's revolutionary pan-India hiring initiative was to create a positive national impact by extending job opportunities to graduates at every accredited college and University across the country. More than 135,000 students from 2,800+ colleges took the Syntellec

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE RAH Infotech and Wavion have entered into a distribution agreement for Wavion Wireless Networks solutions for India. Ashok Kumar, CEO, RAH Infotech, said, "At RAH, it is our continuous endeavour to provide our channel partners leading technology solutions that are reliable, cost-effective, and help enhance their business and as one more step in that direction we are pleased to inform our distribution rights association with Wavion Wireless Networks. Wavion unique and advance wireless technology is well suited to a large part of our customer base that is looking for leading convergence technology to cope with the rapid infrastructure growth throughout the region." Suneet Saxena, India Country Manager, Wavion Wireless Networks, said, "Wavion Wireless Networks is transforming the unlicensed broadband wireless access market with powerful solutions based on Beamforming and 11n technologies. RAH Infotech represents an excellent fit f

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC was the second leading projector brand in India in Q2, 2011, according to the latest industry report by Future Source Consulting. According to the report, NEC India achieved an overall number three position in H1 of 2011, establishing itself as one of the most preferred projector brands in India with a strong focus on the education segment in India. According to this report, the Indian projector market grew 21% in H1, 2011 versus H1, 2010. The growth has essentially been fuelled by the growing demand from the education segment which constitutes nearly 45% of the overall projector market. Rajiv Bhalla, Associate Vice-President & Country Head - Sales & Marketing, NEC India, said, "We are extremely bullish about our growth prospects in the projector market in India and will continue to make deeper inroads in the education vertical, whilst strengthening our product basket & services capability to increase momentum and garne

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sony's leadership in content creation and production solutions is believed to be unparalleled be it providing solutions for broadcasters moving to digital and HD digital file-based workflow or being the forerunner in future technologies like 4K and OLED. Sony claims to be well positioned to enable workflow innovation with Sony's XDCAM solutions, the next generation of file-based workflow. From the point of capture with Sony's state-of-the-art XDCAM cameras to file sharing and archival solutions, the possibilities are endless to transform the process and optimize every step of the workflow. The XDCAM family of solutions continues to grow in line with widespread adoption by the broadcast industry. The full range of XDCAM products and solutions are now available in India. Another facet of Sony's broadcast technology portfolio is OLED monitors that have been garnering praise for their unrivalled picture quality and integrated func

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has published an international study, according to which the desire of young professionals and college students to use social media, mobile devices, and Internet more freely in the workplace is strong enough to influence their future job choice, sometimes more than salary does. The study was commissioned by Cisco and conducted by InsightExpress, a third-party market research firm based in the United States. Cisco commissioned the study to maintain its understanding of present-day challenges that companies face as they strive to address current and future employee and business needs amid increasing mobility capabilities, security risks, and technologies that can deliver applications and information more ubiquitously - from virtualized data centers and cloud computing to traditional wired and wireless networks. The global study consists of two surveys - one centering on college students, the other involving young professionals in their 2

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft India has topped the Windows Phone Marketplace opening for customers in India with "I unlock Joy", a unique Application Development and Submission Program, where technology professionals and students get to receive Windows Phones. "I unlock Joy" program for developers will start from November 1, 2011 and will continue till March 30, 2012. This program is already open to student developer community which is receiving good traction/response and will conclude on December 18, 2011. The "I unlock Joy" program for student developer community provides a platform to showcase innovation and creativity. In turn, the student developers will receive a Merit Certificate, a Windows Phone T-Shirt and a 2GB USB Flash Drive for 1 app published on Marketplace and a Windows Phone for 4 published apps. "I unlock Joy" is a maiden attempt particularly focussed to bring out the creative zeal among women and is an ap