VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced that the company's object store, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), has been honored with a Visionary Product Award at the 2012 Storage Visions Conference, a leading event focusing on digital storage and the entertainment content value chain, held January 8-9 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hitachi Data Systems was recognized in the Enabling Professional Storage Technology category for the benefits HCP brings to organizations, including simplified IT, reduced costs and reduced risks. Miki Sandorfi, Chief Strategist, File, Content and Cloud, Hitachi Data Systems said, "As the amount of unstructured data continues to grow, HDS is dedicated to providing solutions that will help customers store, access and view that data more efficiently. Hitachi Content Platform enables organizations to achieve the benefits of IT consolidation, cloud, archiving, backup reduction and more without compromising security o

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Lenovo has announced that its "Do Network" is believed to be on its mission to helping Doers to bring life to their ideas for a better community, as it sees over 1,269 entries submitted across Indonesia, India and Russia for its Do Network competition. In India, passionate Indians have submitted 609 entries. Based on the theme of "technology invention", the challenges proposed by the Do Network in this cycle of the campaign seek to address the problems that exist in local communities. This includes portable education, traffic jams, or products. The fourth, a wildcard challenge, is also provided to allow Doers to pursue their individual ideas that may not fall under the specific challenge categories, but still fit with the technology invention theme. "We are thrilled at the tremendous interest in the Do Network here and the quality of the projects that have been submitted so far. Voting for the projects has begun and

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Polycom has announced several key initiatives that further its social business strategy, including strong customer momentum with IBM and strategic product updates, such as native integration of Polycom Real Presence video solutions with the recent version of IBM Sametime. The integration of Polycom's video solutions with IBM social business platforms IBM Sametime and IBM Connections helps companies tap into the transformational power of social and web platforms, empowering video calls from within the email and social business interfaces users. "Video collaboration is mission-critical in organizations today, and the ways companies are using video is rapidly evolving. Everyday more people gravitate to social networks as their primary way to share and stay connected. Polycom is committed to developing integrated solutions with companies like IBM to power a social video experience that helps our customers realize and maximize the inhere

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mahindra Satyam has announced that it will participate at the Annual Meeting 2012 in Davos: 25th - 29th January, 2012. Vineet Nayyar, Chairman, and C. P. Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam, will participate at the World Economic Forum to discuss and deliberate on the impact of transformation and the "Mahindra Rise" initiative; a call to world businesses to innovate new business models that will meet the challenges of the current century, including population growth, sustainability and economic development. "We, as companies, have to cultivate and breed innovation so that it becomes part of every organization's culture. That is why the Mahindra Group has developed the Rise initiative. The challenge is to shape new business models for a brighter future. This requires close cooperation from both external and internal stakeholders," said C. P. Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has announced that it is expanding the transparent display market with production of a 46-inch transparent LCD panel, beginning this month. Younghwan Park, Sr. Vice-President, LCD marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics, said, "Transparent panels, an exciting application of next-generation display technology, have unlimited potential to change our viewing habits over the next several years. As a strong supporter of the transparent display market, Samsung plans to develop this technology into a new growth engine for our LCD business." Samsung's 46-inch transparent LCD panel features a contrast ratio of 4,500:1 with HD (1,366x768) resolution and 70-per cent colour gamut. A 2012 CES Innovations Award honoree, Samsung's transparent LCD panel is being produced for a wide variety of retail display applications such as product showcases, commercial freezer doors and platform doors of subway stations in North Ameri

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AirLive has released its newest wireless router for electric socket AirLive N.Plug. It is wireless b/g/n network device with built-in power adapter, so users can just plug it into the electric socket and share internet and 3G internet connections immediately. The AirLive N.Plug contains hardware switch that allows user to manually switch between AP, Router and Repeater mode. The device can be secured by WPS button by simply pushing it on the router and repeater. Also the IPTV, game console, media player or personal tablet can be wirelessly linked to the internet with AirLive N.Plug in repeater mode. The software part of AirLive N.Plug is built upon the new AirLogic software architecture that offers superior performance and rich set of functions. It also features firmware recovery system, multi operation wireless mode, Virtual AP function, bandwidth control and many other great functions. The coverage of AirLive N.Plug is wide with the 802.11