VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mahindra Satyam has announced its financial results under Indian GAAP for the second quarter ended September 30, 2011. Consolidated Revenue was INR 1,578 crores, up 10% QoQ, EBITDA was INR 242 crores up 13.7% QoQ. Margins expanded by 49 bps QoQ to 15.3%, Profit After Tax was at INR 238 crores versus Rs 225 Crores in Q1, up 5.7% QoQ, EPS was at Rs. 2.02 in Q2 of FY12 quarter versus Rs. 1.91 in Q1FY12. Vineet Nayyar, Chairman, Mahindra Satyam, said, "Our growth momentum continues, for the 5th consecutive quarter. As we come towards the end of our 3-year transformation journey, it is indeed satisfying to see that all our key business performance indicators such as growth, profitability and talent retention, are on course. We have shown significant improvement quarter on quarter, in spite of an uncertain macro-economic environment." CP Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam, said, "This was an eventful quarter for us. Our emphasis on ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Aprimo has announced the appointment of Gundeep Singh Sandhu as Country Manager for Aprimo India. In this position Sandhu will be responsible for all of Aprimo's business with in the Indian market. Working closely with the Teradata team in India, they will be building on the relationship between Aprimo and Teradata to create a successful and efficient partnership that will assist with Aprimo's growth within India's market. Sandhu said, "I am delighted to be given this opportunity to build and execute the marketing strategy for Aprimo India. Along with the market strategy it is critical for Aprimo's growth that we, as a team, work towards a successful partnership with Teradata India." "Sandhu has worked hard to build strong relationships with key corporate decisions makers, system integrators and partners across India; his expertise will immensely benefit Aprimo, and its customers and business partners in the In...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP has felicitated 24 Indian Enterprises with the SAP Awards for Customer Excellence (ACE). The awards were handed over in a glittering ceremony at the fifth SAP ACE Awards 2011 held in Mumbai, India. Peter Gartenberg, MD, SAP India said, "Indian enterprises are creatively using Information Technology to derive significant value from their IT investments and drive business transformation across their organization. With the ACE awards for SAP customers, we celebrate excellence in SAP projects." This year SAP ACE received more than 300 nominations across 21 different categories. The jury panel included Dr. DB Phatak, Professor, Department of Computer Science, IIT Mumbai; Atul Jayawant, CIO, Aditya Birla Group; Pradeep Rathi, Managing Director Sudarshan Chemicals. Recognizing the recent information technology adoption trends, Enterprise Mobility Adoption and Best Cloud ERP Implementation were added this year. Alok Goyal, Chief Operat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Seagate has streamlined its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers worldwide. The new Barracuda family makes it easier for consumers to find the product they need and reduces costs for Seagate's original equipment manufacturer and distribution channel customers by reducing the number of product qualifications and amount of inventory they need to manage. Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager India & SAARC, Seagate Technology said, "A simpler desktop drive product family is exactly what Seagate customers are asking for. The new Barracuda family reflects the reality that end-users want a full range of hard drive capacities and as much performance as we can give them to help manage and store massive amounts of digital content. In addition, our OEM and channel customers want ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In Dhaka, United Commercial Bank Limited has equipped its headquarters with advanced SYSTIMAX connectivity solutions. These combine high performance with simplified network management, supporting systems that deliver efficient services to the population and help keep the nation's businesses competitive. Mohammad Shohel Haider, First Assistant Vice President, IT Division, UBCL said, "The network physical layer is the foundation for everything - selecting the right solutions at this level is the first step in building banking systems to deliver world class service to our personal and business customers. We looked at all the major connectivity suppliers and chose solutions from CommScope's SYSTIMAX range because it is the global leader. The solutions have very high performance, plus they are also exhaustively tested in CommScope Labs and fully proven in financial applications. We knew the SYSTIMAX infrastructure would reliably deliv...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ASUS has recorded 14% growth for its graphics card business in India. The strong growth of the midrange segment where users can get very capable graphics cards in the Rs. 7000 - Rs. 15000 price bracket coupled with the growth of gaming and animation industry in India has given a boost to this segment. Owing to superior design and a complete range of products based on both NVIDIA and AMD Radeon GPUs, ASUS has witnessed a strong growth in this segment in 2011. Currently the TAM for graphics cards in India stands at 300,000 units annually of which ASUS accounts for approximately 20%. Vinay Shetty - Country Head - Component Business, ASUS (India) said, "ASUS Graphics Cards are renowned world over for their superior build and design that offers users with unparalleled performance and reliability. This along with our 3 year warranty on all graphics card and an extensive service network of 81 ASP points across India has helped us to register a ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE With the recent launch of Nokia's NFC enabled handsets, PayMate has partnered with Nokia to showcase to the Indian market some of the capabilities of NFC and bringing NFC to the Indian mainstream. NFC (Near Field Communication) uses radio frequency identification technology to allow an NFC enabled device to swap information instantly in real time. Ajay Adiseshann, Founder & MD, PayMate said, "Besides being a cost effective and user-friendly technology, the basic requirement to be able to use this technology is having an NFC enabled device. The NFC technology being quite popular in tech-forward countries such as South Korea and Japan, we are proud to have collaborated with Nokia on the largest deployment of NFC touch points in India, which also happens to be one of the single largest deployments worldwide of NFC technology, and look forward to seeing the potential of NFC in areas such as mobile payments." Viral Oza, Director ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dax Networks has launched DX-137G-FN50-O-H; a 3G enabled 2 mega pixels IP Camera. Priced at Rs. 52,060, DX-137G-FN50-O-H comes with megapixel technology integrated with 3G module. The 3G module is specially designed for WAN network surveillance with SD card storage up to 32GB for video and picture snapshots. It supports H.264 and MJPEG dual streaming up to 30 Frames per Second (FPS) for all video resolutions to provide high quality and bandwidth efficient compression formats. The camera has a built-in web server that allows users to control it remotely via browsers. DX-137G-FN50-O-H is a day-night, IP66 rated outdoor waterproof camera. Its CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) sensor and 3G module help detect even the slightest movement. The built-in infra-red LED provides up to 50 meters of clear night vision. The integrated 3G module enables a cable-less environment for video broadcasting and streaming between the 3G IP camera and...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Axis has announced a range of thermal Network Cameras, AXIS Q1922 and AXIS Q1922-E with VGA resolution and the large variety of lens alternatives. In addition, the VGA resolution provides more pixels on the detected object. "After the successful introduction of our first thermal network cameras, we are now launching the new AXIS Q1922/-E. The new camera models have superior VGA resolution which will enhance detection quality and range considerably. The greater resolution will also enable easy and reliable integration of third-party applications such as trip-wire and motion detection offered by our wide network of development partners. AXIS Q1922/-E allows the customer to easily integrate thermal surveillance with any network video system to further enhance 24/7 security even in challenging conditions," said Erik Frännlid, Director of Product Management Axis. AXIS Q1922 is designed for indoor surveillance, while AXIS Q1922-E is an I...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Alvarion Ltd. has announced that uMAX has selected its 4Motion solution to the roll-out a sizeable 4G network in its capital Harare. uMAX has commissioned Alvarion's 4Motion solution to introduce Zimbabwe's first 4G network for the delivery of high-speed wireless broadband services to residential and business customers in the 2.5 GHz frequency. uMAX will use Alvarion's 4G solution to deliver services such as VoIP, video-streaming and high-speed Internet. The deployment of Alvarion's end-to-end 4G solution is supposed to be designed to supply its residential and corporate customers with more advanced broadband services enabled through USB dongles and other indoor and outdoor Customer Premises Equipment. uMAX claims to be the first service provider to enable consumers and businesses access to such services in Zimbabwe. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE India is soon believed to introduce the dot-Bharat domain name in Hindi in May. The move is said to enable organizations and individuals to register their website addresses in Hindi and later in more local languages. In June, the country received approval to register domain names in seven Indian languages from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which governs domain names internationally. These are Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. The government is expecting the first set of applications to come from Political Organizations, Hindi-language News Media, Entertainment Companies and Consumer-Focused Firms when it opens the application process for dot-Bharat next year. When the remaining IDNs are opened up, it is said to be register websites with extensions such as dot-Hindostan (in Urdu) and dot-Indiya (in Tamil). The government is to give trademark holders first rights on a dot-Bharat domain name to...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE UCWeb has announced their strategic expansion with the launch of their latest UCWEB 8.0 version for Android in India. The new product UCWeb 8.0 version for Android promises a more superior experience to its users. UCWEB 8.0 comes with five performance indices of mobile browsers - speed, intelligence, safety, low-energy consumption, and expansibility. It has an average speed over 50% higher than those of other mobile browsers in 3G network, and up to 30% faster than other mobile browsers when accessing Internet in WIFI environment. Yu Yongfu, Chief Executive Officer, UCWeb, said "We see great traction in the Indian mobile Internet space. We are quite buoyant about significant opportunities here and are actively looking at partnering with all the leading Indian telecom companies. We believe that growth in this space can be driven by technical expertise and innovation, which are synonymous with our philosophy of growth." The company h...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat has added Cloud-Connector to its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization appliances and virtual appliances. Cloud-Connector allows companies with Blue Coat WAN optimization solutions deployed in branch or remote offices to instantly apply Web security from the Blue Coat Cloud Service. Having secure "branch-to-cloud" direct Internet access, enables companies to stop the common practice of backhauling Internet traffic to and from the corporate data center and offers a chance to re-architect the Wide Area Network (WAN) to meet the new application realities. Branch-to-cloud topology lowers networking costs and speeds access to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. "With the rapid adoption of cloud-based services and applications, companies are re-thinking the typical enterprise standard of routing Internet traffic from branch offices through a central data center or headquarters. If an enterprise can easily get...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has redefined telepresence technology and introduced Cisco TelePresence for small and medium-sized business. With this offer, customers can purchase or lease, select multipurpose and personal endpoints and connect those endpoints to a hosted service called Cisco TelePresence Callway, part of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud. The hosted service reduces the complexity and costs with TelePresence which have been hurdles to adoption for smaller businesses in the past. The Callway service is managed by Cisco and sold through Cisco Authorized Partners. Callway subscriptions start at $99 per month and include unlimited calls to any TelePresence endpoint as well as to any standards-based video device from third parties over the Internet. Multi-party bridging capabilities for up to 12 participants are also available. This offer, combined with industry-leading on-premises infrastructure and trusted partnerships with 14 service providers delivering ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced that the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has chosen HP Converged Infrastructure to support its operations in 15 offices around the world with improved technology performance to meet demands of operating global charity efforts. "We needed to upgrade our existing facility to meet increased demands of our global charitable work both presently and in the future. With the help of HP, we were able to relocate to a new building to continue support for our global fundraising efforts and donor demands," said Phyllis Bayer, Director, IT Operations and Facilities, International Fund for Animal Welfare. The new data center now includes HP Integrity RX2620 and RX6600 servers running on HP-UX to effectively support critical business applications. IFAW's infrastructure also includes HP Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA), designed to handle its growing storage requirements as a result of their donor database applicat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Rashi Peripherals has launched its CBF-7 program to reach B, C and D cities in India with affordable solutions, personal computing and digital technology products. Rashi's initiative is said to have ushered in an IT revolution in the emerging markets across the country. This initiative will reach 5,000 channel partners and a few thousands students who will be given usage and budget-based advice. CBF-7 is the seventh edition of Channel Business Forum. CBF-7 is themed "Possibilities Unlimited" this year and will cover 51 cities in a span of 46 days. CBF-7 kicks off from Jalandhar (Punjab) and culminates on December 24, 2011 at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. In these 46 days, CBF-7 will cover 51 B, C and D cities across all corners of the country, and in the course traverse 41,000 kms. Suresh Pansari, Director, Rashi Peripherals, said, "Young talent in these emerging markets is looking for right kind of tools to unleash their potent...