VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Liquidware Labs has announced that it has established operations in the United Kingdom with the hiring of two virtualization industry veterans. This move again demonstrates the company is committed to developing a strong presence in the European VDI market and in the backyard of core competitors, AppSense and RES, both user-virtualization companies. In line with this objective, Liquidware Labs has recently signed agreements with key value-add distributors in the area, including Arrow, Magirus and SDG. These distributors, along with the new local team, will work with partners to expand their portfolios of cost-competitive VDI products in the key areas of assessment, design, migration and validation. As more VARs are equipped to be trusted desktop virtualization advisors, they future-proof their business while facilitating adoption across a wider spectrum of end-clients. Chris Akerberg, Sr. VP, Global Sales & Marketing, Liquidware Labs said

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Insight Enterprises Inc. has surpassed a significant milestone in the emerging area of cloud computing, having now sold more than 1 million seats in various cloud offerings. Insight is believed to offer a collection of Cloud solutions including messaging, security, infrastructure and collaboration. Ken Lamneck, Insight President & CEO said, "Industry trends continue to point to cloud adoption as part of the overall IT strategy for businesses. We anticipate this shift will accelerate growth in all client segments including public, private and hybrid clouds, as clients migrate their selected workloads away from traditional on-premise IT infrastructure and into the cloud." Bill McCarthy, Sr. VP, Cloud Services, Insight North America said, "We are seeing IT workloads like The Collaboration Suite (email, messaging and conferencing), Security solutions, Test and Development environments and in general, Compute on Demand as the ea

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE iBall has launched two new portable speakers, iBall Melody Bar and iBall USB Drum. The Laptop Speaker supports full stereo sound through two high-performance drivers, a built-in amplifier and an acoustically tuned enclosure. The iBall Melody Bar comes with dimensions of 22(W) x 4.5(H) x5 (D) cm. It is magnetically shielded for allowing it to be kept near other digital gadgets. it has features removable clips along with a table top free accessory, whereas, iBall USB Drum is a notebook USB speaker with plug-n-play convenience. It can be used as both - full USB speaker or a stereo speaker with USB power. Sandeep Parasarampuria Director, iBall, said, "iBall has designed each of its products keeping in mind the needs of the users. We know that in today's dynamic lifestyle, presentation and entertainment plays a crucial role - hence these speakers are very user-friendly, hassle free, portable wherein one just has to plug in and enjoy.&quo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Silicon Power (SP) has announced a new milestone hit in Korea. According to the latest statistics released by Danawa, Korea's 3C web portal, SP's solid state disk products jumped to the third sales ranking in Korea (In the period from 1st to 18th of November). This fully demonstrates SP's outstanding product performance to exceed major competitors in a mature market of NAND flash technology and to receive recognitions from customers and over clocking players in particular. Yuan Pei-Jung, GM, SP said, "We have a unique advantage in the memory industry offering premium products that appeal to specific needs of each and every customer. SP delivers the brand spirit of "Memory is Personal". Moreover, we closely partner with local channels to root in end-user markets and recorded excellent sales figures worldwide. With excellent product qualities and post-sales services, we are very confident with our development in Kor

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems has appointed Ambarish Deshpande as Managing Director of India, responsible for sales, alliance strategies and growth of the Indian market. Deshpande will report to Steve Rowland, Vice President of Sales for Blue Coat in Asia Pacific. Steve Rowland said, "An established sales veteran with more than 17 years of experience, Ambrish has an impressive record in building teams, driving market expansion and putting successful channel strategies in place. His extensive network and proven business acumen will help Blue Coat provide next generation WAN optimization and Web security solutions to enterprises throughout India." Deshpande said, "Blue Coat is uniquely positioned with its forward-thinking solutions and technology that help enterprises safely and effectively leverage the transformational forces of the Web and Cloud for their networks. I look forward to leading the team and increasing our presence in India, w

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE INSIDE Secure has announced that its SecuRead NFC solution is securing and powering the HID Global iCLASS digital keys and mobile secure identity feature available on multiple new NFC-enabled smartphones. "Last year we announced our commitment to bring market-leading iCLASS access control and identity credentials to NFC mobile phones by building this capability into all of our NFC solutions, and now we are seeing the first results of this partnership. Multiple smartphone manufacturers have the opportunity to incorporate this technology into their next-generation NFC mobile devices, and INSIDE will continue to add value to its NFC solutions through additional functionality to serve the needs of the market," said Didier Serra, executive vice president and general manager, U.S., INSIDE Secure. "There is a tremendous opportunity for NFC and iCLASS virtual credentials to transform not only the corporate mobile phone but also more c

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Trend Micro has taken the top spot in real-world threat protection with its Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security, which outperformed all other SMB security products in both reliability and depth of protection. As measured by independent test labs, the Trend Micro security solution, engineered for small and mid-size business IT environments, leads the industry in overall protection against web threats. Trend Micro subjects its solutions to real-world tests that measure total protection provided by security products. In real-world tests, all attack samples are sourced live from the Internet at the same time, presented to the tested products simultaneously, using realistic attack vectors, and all security layers and countermeasures within a product are given the opportunity to block an attack sample. After completely evaluating Worry-Free Business Security defences, real-world testing has demonstrated that it provides a superior level of pr

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP AG and SuccessFactors have announced that SAP's subsidiary, SAP America, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with SuccessFactors. The acquisition will add SuccessFactors' widely respected team and technology to SAP's powerful cloud assets, significantly accelerating SAP's momentum as a provider of cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure. The combination of SAP and SuccessFactors will establish an advanced end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise solutions for managing all relevant business processes. The SuccessFactors board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction. The per share purchase price represents a 52% premium both over the December 2nd closing price and the one month volume weighted average price per share. The transaction will be funded from SAP's cash on hand and a 1 billion Euro term loan facility. The closing of the tender offer is conditioned on SuccessFactors stock

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Autonomy, an HP Company has announced an information platform, Autonomy IDOL 10, designed to help organizations understand and process 100 per cent of enterprise information in real time. The platform combines Autonomy's infrastructure software for automatically processing and understanding unstructured data with the high-performance real-time analytics engine for extreme structured data from Vertica, an HP Company. By enabling computers to understand the shades of grey in the world, rather than simply the black and white found in databases, Autonomy Information Management allows businesses to automate key processes and improve an organization's efficiency. "For far too long, organizations have confined structured data to relational databases and unstructured data to simplistic keyword matching technologies. IDOL 10 brings these worlds together, allowing organizations to automatically process, understand, and act on 100 per cent

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Iomega has launched Video Surveillance Storage Management solutions in partnership with Tulip Telecom and MindTree Limited. The partnership is said to provide India's first video surveillance services based on cloud technology. The cloud solution involves Iomega StorCenter network storage devices, Tulip's national broadband network with cloud data centers, and MindTree's video management software. The solution provides local cloud video surveillance solutions for SMBs and distributed enterprises. The solution will be made available on all Iomega StorCenter ix and px series in India. Jonathan Huberman, President, Iomega Corporation said, "Iomega is helping to redefine video surveillance technology by delivering a high performance, low cost all-in-one IP solution targeting small businesses and distributed enterprises. Our product not only delivers on the promise of an easy to install and use security appliance but also adds bu

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE At "Fujitsu Forum", its annual customer event, Fujitsu has outlined its vision, key products and services, enabling customers to create flexible IT infrastructures to meet future business demands. In doing so, Fujitsu allows enterprises to follow a path of seamless convergence from today's on-premise IT solutions to tomorrow's cloud-based computing. Underlining the depth and breadth of its expertise in enabling customers to reshape their IT, Fujitsu presents a set of solutions. Among the announcements, highlights range from a new software marketplace for cloud-based applications through to a breakthrough in data analytics that enables the use of Big Data in real-time decision-making. Fujitsu Forum has also announced the launch-pad for solutions developed for the special needs of small and mid-size businesses helping them gain greater business velocity by simultaneously increasing the agility of their IT systems while also r