VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Intel has announced that R. Sivakumar will be moving to a new role within Intel and the appointment of Debjani Ghosh to the role of Managing Director for its Sales and Marketing organization in South Asia. The change is effective January 1. Ms.Ghosh will be based in New Delhi. Sivakumar said, "I've twice had the privilege of working in this exciting region during my career at Intel. I am confident that under Debjani's leadership Intel will continue to connect more South Asians to exciting opportunities through technology. We are fortunate to have a strong and stable leadership team with a tremendous vision for growing this market and an execution track record that's the gold standard in the industry. I have great confidence in what the future holds for this team as Debjani takes over the reign." Ms. Ghosh said, "I am excited about this opportunity and look forward to coming home to India. I also look forward to w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE eScan 11 has entered into a strategic OEM alliance with Acer India (Pvt) Limited to provide eScan security solution along with their PC/Laptops running on both Windows & Linux OS. Sunil Kripalani, Sr. VP, Global Sales & Marketing, eScan said, "We are excited about this OEM alliance with Acer, as we strongly believe this brings value for the users together with a world-class desktop / laptop vendor along with complete security protection for the Acer users and a strong value proposition. This strategic alliance brings us together an opportunity to reach address the growing Indian customer base and give them a worry free environment for their day-to-day computing requirements." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE 7thSense Design has announced their project involvement with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the Radio City Rockettes for the 2011 edition of this production. For this project, 7thSense design worked with Madison Square Garden Entertainment, producers of the Christmas Spectacular, batwin+robin productions and Visual Acuity. Two racks of Delta Media Servers were able to produce a 'pixel map' of the show's entire laser-scanned 3D display surface for the production's new digital mapping technology. This enabled batwin+robin's content creators to place media exactly where they needed it inside the theatre, without having to work in a 3D modeling environment. Ian Macpherson, MD, 7thSense Design, said, "This year's Christmas Spectacular will showcase the extensive use of true 3D mesh-based projection mapping on an architectural scale, with multiple, high-power projectors from Digital Projection blending ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Polaris has upgraded its campus and data center network with new switching infrastructure from Brocade. The solution will support increased developer productivity with improved performance, greater security while delivering a 30 percent lower total cost-of-ownership. "We work in an environment which is highly critical, real-time and runs 24X7X365, this makes our network even more vital and spurred the need for a revamp of our campus and data center networks. The solution proposed by Brocade answered our need for increased performance and security while offering greater scalability, flexibility and a 30 percent better total cost-of-ownership compared to the present system," said Shashi Mohan, CIO & CTO, Polaris. Brocade FastIron SX Series switches have been deployed to form a scalable, secure, low latency, and fault-tolerant 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) IP core. Within the Polaris data center FastIron SX 800s have been deployed to ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Michael Sentonas, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer- APAC, McAfee summarises notable highlights of 2011 from the information security landscape. 2011 saw a rising tide of hacktivism among people who wanted their voices to be heard or who wished to attack the reputations of businesses and other organisations. In addition to defacement (the primary activity of hacktivists) and distributed denial of service, these attackers utilised social media for newer sophisticated attacks. McAfee Labs saw marked increase in malware sophistication and targeting as well as a continued increase in the overall volume of daily malware threats throughout the year. As reported in our latest threat report, we expect to count almost 75 million unique malware samples by year's end. We noted some significant increases this year in stealth malware techniques, often referred to as rootkits. The botnet trajectory saw crests and troughs throughout the year...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Canvas M has launched its service "Saral Rozgar" with Tata DOCOMO. It is a mobile VAS solution from Canvas M targeted at providing utility based services to bottom of the pyramid, the blue-collar job segment. Using this service, a blue collar job hunter will be able to create resumes and apply for jobs through their mobile handsets over a simple human assisted voice call by dailing a short code 541410 using their TATA DOCOMO number. On the other hand the service lets a Job Provider access this pool of registered Job seekers over WEB (www.saralrozgar.com) or voice & employ a blue collar job worker matching their requirement & criteria. The service also enables both the parties to connect with each other by simple click of button on mobile. To access this service, Tata DOCOMO subscribers will only pay Rs 10 for 10 days with 25 free minutes of free browsing. A top up option of Rs 5 for 12 minutes can also be availed. Jagdish M...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia has launched the Nokia Lumia 710 and Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones, which come preloaded with the timesPoynt application. The new app, developed in partnership with Times Internet Limited (TIL) and Poynt Corporation will enable users in India to move beyond discovery of their local area to locate restaurants, nightlife, events, movie theaters and weather information. A free application powered by data from Timescity.com, timesPoynt features the ability to allow users to click-to-call businesses, get directions, browse listing websites, send details to a friend or add listings to their device calendar or address book. "Preburning timesPoynt on Nokia Smartphones, augments our reach in the savvy-mobile audiences. With this, we hope to see significant uptakes in our search queries and consequently more contextual and location-based advertising," said Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited (TIL). "We have seen tremendous upt...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced new applications services designed to accelerate the building or migration of applications to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. With the new HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure, applications developers can quickly design, build, test and deploy applications for the Windows Azure platform. The services also enable clients to accelerate adoption of the Windows Azure platform as part of their hybrid service delivery environments. Additionally, clients can manage risk and optimize IT resources with a methodical approach to assessing, migrating and developing applications on the Windows Azure platform. With usage-based pricing for the platform, clients also can align IT costs with changes in demand and volumes. Marshal Correia, Director, Enterprise Services, HP India, said, "As their needs shift, enterprises want to confidently and rapidly adopt cloud-based applications. HP helps clients speed time to market...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has revealed FortiGuard Labs' 2012 threat predictions, highlighting eight threats to watch out for next year. FortiGuard predicts that it'll see the first instances of ransomware on a mobile device in the coming year. Worms, malware that is able to quickly propagate from one device to another, have by and large remained absent from the Android operating system, but FortiGuard Labs believes that will change in 2012. Using anonymous fund transferring services, human networks and payment processor safe havens, cybercriminal syndicates have operated with impunity for years. However, FortiGuard Labs believes more people will be tracked and captured in 2012. In 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw an increase in global collaborative botnet takedowns including Rustock and DNS Changer. Meanwhile, arrests were made against international members of Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. This crackdown will continue in 2012, and the team believ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Delta recently organized its Customer Meet for its key customers in Nepal with the help of their partners. While the meet at Kathmandu was supported by Digitech Technics, Techno-chem Automation was its partner at Biratnagar. The event was planned to share more information on Delta products, service support and Delta's plans for the Nepalese market. The event witnessed active participations from many customers. Participants shared their experience using Delta UPS and appreciated the quality of the products and service support extended by its partners. "Delta is keen to reach out to each region and have close interaction with all its customers," says Suhas Joshi, Director – Sales UPS, Delta Power Solutions. Delta used the platform to showcase all UPS products with accessories that can bring more value to them like extended charger for long backup application, maintenance Bypass switch for hot swappable and faulty UPS without an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Canon India Pvt. Limited has moved into a new corporate headquarters. The new office premise was inaugurated by Kensaku Konishi, President & CEO, Canon India. The premise is estimated to be a 100,000 square feet office housed in Cyber Terraces in Gurgaon. The office is designed around the core principles of Kyosei. Canon's new headquarters is a model workplace for employee collaboration, environmental sustainability and a growing, dynamic company in the 21st century. Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. VP, Canon India said, "The new office of Canon is a symbol of our continued growth and expansion. We are celebrating our 15th year Birthday in India in 2012. Our new headquarters is a perfect symbol of Canon, a global market-leader that all of our employees have collectively envisioned. Leveraging the latest advancements in employee collaboration and design, this new building reinforces many of the core values of our company - innovation, collabo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to a Quest Software survey of more than 200 organizations, improving business agility, delivering cost savings, meeting increasingly demanding user expectations, and managing the growing mobile workforce will be the top drivers of IT spending on virtualization initiatives in 2012. In addition, more than half of the respondents surveyed indicated that at least 25 percent of their 2012 IT budgets will be allocated to virtualization projects across a broad range of critical initiatives, including backup and recovery, virtual desktops, network management, and performance and capacity management, thus highlighting the clear need among the end-user community for comprehensive virtualization management solutions. Mark Bowker, Sr. Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group said, "Virtualization management of both servers and desktop is quickly becoming a high IT priority as businesses virtualize more mission critical workloads and embrace des...