VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has appointed Alex Pinchev, as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining he was the President, Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing at Red Hat. "Acronis has built its reputation on providing easy-to-use, cost effective solutions for data protection, backup and disaster recovery for government organizations, businesses and home users worldwide. As we enter the next phase of the company's growth, we have a very strong customer base, a great partner ecosystem, talented team and a portfolio of intellectual property that will be leveraged to take advantage of the growing opportunity within the virtualization and cloud markets," said Alex Pinchev, President & CEO, Acronis. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Open Group and the Interactive Technology Software and Media Association (ITSMA) have announced that they have partnered with a consortium of leading European and Indian research and technology developers to identify future areas for coordination of government funded IT research. Supported by the European Commission, the Fostering Cooperation in Computing Systems for EU and India (EU-INCOOP) project is investing over 460,000 EURO (US$630,000) to bring together leading researchers from India and Europe to identify priorities and develop a joint research roadmap that is said to increase cooperation and address future technology needs in each region. The roadmap and recommendations is claimed to be used to identify areas of common interests and foster closer links between Governments’ funded research projects in Europe and India. A Rajashree Iyer, Director, ITSMA said, "With computing technologies being an important driver behind India...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SafeNet has announced the availability of a new identity and transaction protection solution that addresses multiple levels of risk associated with online banking and trading transactions. SafeNet's new eToken 3500 is believed to be an innovative electronic signing and strong authentication token-based device that will enable financial services organizations to successfully achieve the right balance of risk mitigation, cost-effectiveness, and usability when securing Banking applications. The SafeNet eToken 3500 uses an optical sensor to read financial transaction data from a Web browser, generating a unique electronic signature that validates each transaction, reducing threats such as Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) and Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), in which hackers hijack legitimate user identities during a transaction and redirect funds. Additionally, the optical features of the device claim to scan the transaction data automatically, eliminati...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MSI has announced the world's first graphics cards equipped with the brand new AMD28nm Radeon HD 7900 GPU, R7970-2PMD3G5, which is built on the latest PCI Express Gen 3 standard. MSI's R7900 series graphics cards are equipped with 3GB of high-speed GDDR5 graphics memory, and also come with MSI's Afterburner overclocking utility that allows users to adjust the core voltage to increase overclocking potential. MSI'sR7900 series features AMD's Eyefinity multi-display technology, and combined with support for Display Port 1.2 and HDMI 1.4a interfaces, stereoscopic 3Dcapability, and 7.1 channel lossless True HD and DTS-HD audio formats. MSI's R7900 series graphics cards have also implemented an all-solid capacitor design to guarantee stability even when working under full loads over extended periods of time. The R7900 series graphics cards have also adopted the brand new AMD 28nm graphics chip to provide higher performa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has introduced three new members to its FortiWeb Web application firewall product family - FortiWeb-4000C, FortiWeb-3000C FSX and FortiWeb-400C. The new product line is designed to address the diverse needs of large enterprises, service providers and mid-sized organizations that must protect strategic Web applications from security breaches and data leakage. Fortinet is also introducing enhancements to the FortiWeb 4.0 MR3 operating system that provide new logging and reporting, ease-of-use and security and configuration capabilities. The FortiWeb-4000C targeting large data centers, is an enterprise-grade Web application firewall appliance that supports 70,000 transactions-per-second and 2 Gbps throughput. A key attribute of the FortiWeb-4000C is hardware-based acceleration for enforcing data loss prevention (DLP) policies. FortiWeb-3000CFSX offers highly flexible deployment options with intelligent layer-seven load balancing and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has announced that Burris Logistics has standardized its information infrastructure on EMC selecting EMC Symmetrix VMAX and EMC unified storage over NetApp and IBM, for its exceptional reliability, performance and value. Its EMC infrastructure has enabled Burris to easily virtualize 80% of its IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies as it moves to the cloud achieving more than $1 million in cost savings by virtualizing and consolidating its server footprint. Bill Poore, Director of Infrastructure, Burris Logistics, said, "Burris prides itself on something we call 'wow service' - going above and beyond our customers' expectations. VMAX fits perfectly into that strategic focus. It has met oursix-9's uptime goal while delivering outstanding performance and reducing our costs. These attributes make a significant difference in our business." "Since i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wipro Technologies has launched "FLoW" an Oracle-based Pricing, Supply Chain and Finance Management Solution for the retail sector. The solution will provide retail franchises and wholesalers greater data visibility needed for faster and more accurate trading transactions. The technology is a composite solution to the Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS), developed in line with result of customer feedback. "FLoW" will enable users get a comprehensive view of their wholesale operations in sync with other functionalities of Oracle's Retail Suite. This significantly increases visibility and operational efficiency, as users can now see and manage their Retail, Franchise and Wholesale operations on one integrated dashboard. The flexibility of the solution means that retail franchises and wholesalers have more control overpricing, fulfilment and billing. Additionally, the solution which is fully aligned with Oracle Re...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Epson has expanded its K-series monochrome inkjet printers with the New Epson K300 - an all in one monochrome printer with an auto document feeder (ADF). These new mono inkjet printers are believed to be specifically designed to outperform mono laser printers for customers who only need to print black and white documents at very low cost per page. Like other Epson's K-series printers, the Epson K300 is said to design to help customers lower the cost of printing with the lowest black page printing costs per page in the industry. The Epson K-series printers are supposed to offer users one of the lowest cost per page (cpp) of any monochrome cartridge-based printer at only 0.60 paise. This cost per page is up to 70% lower than original toner used by laser printers of similar price. The new printers both are expected to feature a built in duplexer that helps customers conveniently save money by printing on both sides of the paper. Duplexers ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SMART Technologies Inc. has announced a no-charge upgrade enabling four-touch interactivity on its education line of the SMART Board 800 series interactive whiteboard and the SMART Board 8070i interactive display. For use with SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, four-touch interactivity is claimed to be available on all shipping 800 series interactive whiteboards and 8070i interactive displays. Additionally, customers with existing interactive whiteboards and displays are expected to upgrade to this feature at no cost and with no additional hardware. The 800 series interactive whiteboard and the 8070i interactive display support multi-user writing and common multi-touch gestures currently recognized in Microsoft Windows 7 and Mac Snow Leopard operating systems. The four-touch functionality is said to increase opportunities for collaboration by giving students more hands-on time at the interactive whiteboard or display. SMART Techn...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL Technologies has announced itsQ2 FY 2012 results. It has estimated a 43.3-per cent jump in net profit to Rs.572.7 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2011. The company's net profitis claimed to stand at Rs.399.7 crore in the October-December quarter of 2010. HCL is believed to be focussed on both market share and EPS expansion. The company follows July–June fiscal year. Shiv Nadar, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, HCL Technologies, said, "As the uncertainty around economic environment continues, the world will demand companies to be deeply conscious of the accompanying social sensitivities. As economies contract and the job environment remains challenged, we at HCL are committed to creating local jobs, contributing to the welfare of local communities and pushing the pedal on enterprise philanthropy in continuing cognizance of our social responsibility." Vineet Nayar, Vice-Chairman & CEO, HCL Technologies, s...