VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Capgemini has announced the findings of its 2012 e-mobility report examining how the automotive industry is responding to the technological shifts driven by e-mobility - or electric vehicle - services. The study, entitled "Managing the Change to e-Mobility," shows that while demand for electric vehicles is growing across all modes of transportation and provides exciting growth opportunities for automotive companies, it also creates a need for existing business models to be overhauled. Capgemini highlights the need for a 'new network' to be deployed to bring together established and new stakeholder players to shape the industry with innovative products and services. More than half of respondents said customer requirements are drivers for the technology change and 52 per cent believe e-mobility is a customer need. Organizations must be prepared to quickly adapt to customer demands as they shift. The global survey was conducte...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Juniper has announced the appointment of Jitendra Gupta as its Director of Channels and Alliances for India and South Asia. Jitendra Gupta, Director, Channel & Alliances, Juniper Networks India said, "India and South Asia continue to offer outstanding growth opportunities for the networking sector. Service providers are continuing to invest heavily to accommodate growing customer demand while enterprises are increasingly looking to smart network infrastructures to drive productivity and competitive edge. Juniper Networks has a fantastic opportunity to leverage that growth and my mission is to ensure that our channel partners are fully enabled to help us capture market share." Ravi Chauhan, MD, Juniper Networks India said, "Everything we earn in India and South Asia comes through our partners and we are therefore committed to making each and every partnership a success. I am delighted to have Jitendra on board to build out ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ericsson together with Qualcomm Incorporated have performed a voice handover based on the 3GPP-standardized functionality Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) demonstrating users will experience seamless voice services when they move out of LTE coverage, since the call will automatically be handed over to WCDMA or GSM access during the call. Johan Wibergh, Head - Business Unit Networks, Ericsson said, "By accomplishing this advanced LTE handover technology together with Qualcomm, we now ensure that operators can meet consumers' expectations on a high-quality voice over LTE service. Operators will be able to maintain their quality brand for their voice business when they launch voiceover LTE." SRVCC is said to enable operators to deploy voice over LTE, seamlessly handing over to existing GSM and WCDMA installed base as needed. The handover mechanism is supported on Ericsson's end-to-end products and solutions; LTE/WCDM...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ADATA has introduced new single piece 8GB DDR3-1600 high-density memory modules. These 8GB Premier Series DDR3-1600 single piece memory modules allow users to boost system performance over the limitations of memory slot availability. The Premier Series 1600Mbps DDR3 240-Pin (Unbuffered DIMM) is standard pin design modules operating at 1.5 volts, with bandwidth up to 12.8 Gb/second (PC3 12800). The memory modules are made of high density 4GB DRAM. All the modules are in accordance with JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council, JEDEC Solid State Technology Association) and RoHS design and production standards, simultaneously ensuring compatibility with all computer systems adopting the same standard, and are ecologically sound products. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mindteck has reported its financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2011 and announced the mutually agreed upon resignation of its CEO and Managing Director. The company's consolidated revenues stood at Rs.55.05 crores for the quarter, as against Rs. 56.80 crores for the previous quarter ended September 30, 2011. A loss of Rs. 2.49 crores, as against Rs.1.80 crores profit after taxes in the previous year and corresponding quarter was reported, primarily due to the mark to market accounting losses on for exhedges. Pankaj Agarwal, Managing Director and CEO, Mindteck said, "Aside from these potentially reversible losses, the company continues to remain profitable in its operations. We're looking toward the immediate future with much optimism based upon very exciting growth potential emerging within several industry verticals in which we're already focused." During the meeting, the Board also accepted Agar...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Steria has unveiled Workplace On Command, a centrally-managed aggregated services offering which provides users with easy and secure access to enterprise applications, data and cloud services, regardless of location and access device. Workplace On Command is expected to allow organisations to create a bespoke environment, combining infrastructure and services, which is fully supported by Steria and Microsoft. This allows cost-effective access to the enterprise workplace from any device, at any time in any place. François Enaud, Steria Group CEO said, "As smartphones and tablets increase their hold on the consumer market, an increasing number of employees want to use personal mobile devices for work purposes, and this makes the balance of security and mobility a key issue for organisations. As a fully integrated set of services, Workplace On Command offers a unique solution to the challenges posed by the rapid evolution of technology, sq...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ESET has announced the launch of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, a single user retail pack of its flagship product in India. The latest 5th version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus is said to offer various improved features including ESET Live Grid (former ThreatSense.Net), cloud-based reputation and protection technology and New Removable Media Control. This tool automatically prompts the user to scan the content of all flash drives (USB, SD), firewire, CDs and DVDs, so that specific threats can be blocked from trying to get into the system through the media devices. Advanced Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) implemented in the 5th generation ESET products allows tech savvy users to customize the behavior of the whole system. User can define rules for system registry, processes, applications and files. The tool can be used to block unauthorized changes to programs. The Gamer Mode feature in the pack allows the user to switch to silent mode and disables p...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has announced that the Fortinet FortiGate-5140B handled 526 Gbps of blended application traffic and security attacks during recent massive-scale testing. These definitive real-world tests were created using the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM, the industry's only product capable of creating stateful application traffic at the massive-scale required to stress today's high-performance firewalls. During the tests, the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM was able to push 526 Gbps of real-world traffic from applications such as Facebook, Pandora radio and AOL Instant Messenger, through the FortiGate-5140B. The FortiGate 5140B performed at speeds that were three times faster than any competitor's published results and maxed out at 559 Gbps of UDP traffic. Putting the performance in context, the FortiGate-5140B can inspect 10,000 downloaded iTunes songs every second or 36 Million songs per hour, or it can inspect 228,000 average size Web p...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys has announced the rotation of top leadership to broaden experience and accelerate client value. The Company announced that BG Srinivas, Global Head of Manufacturing & Engineering business will take over as the new leader of the company's Financial Services & Insurance business. Ashok Vemuri, present Global Head of its Financial Services & Insurance business will now lead the company's Manufacturing & Engineering business. S D Shibulal, CEO and Managing Director, Infosys said, "We have always focused on giving our leaders a diverse set of experiences over time to fully realize their potential. Ashok and BG's track record in leading high growth organizations has been superb. This change allows them to leverage cross-industry experience to help our clients Build Tomorrow's Enterprise." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Supertron has been appointed by Smartlink Network Systems Limited to distribute DIGILITE motherboard across India. Supertron will address thousand of VARs, Resellers, partners and systems integrators across India. V. K. Bhandari, Chairman & Managing Director, Supertron Electronics Ltd., said, "Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. is one of the key players in the Indian IT market with two decades of experience and DIGILITE is one of the fastest-selling motherboard brands in India. We are delighted on the appointment as a distributorfor DIGILITE motherboards across India. We take it as an opportunity for us to offer quality motherboard brand to our channel partners and further build on the relationship which we have enjoyed with Smartlink." Rajan Sharma, Vice-President - Sales, DIGILITE, said, "With Supertron's strong distribution networkand excellent channel alignment DIGILITE, will be focussing on exploring as well as develo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Axis Communications has introduced its new chip - ARTPEC-4. It is designed to offer video with lower noise and higher light sensitivity for sharper images of moving objects. The chip is a key enabler of Axis' Light finder technology, which allows cameras to 'see' clearly in dark and low-light conditions. In this latest chip, Axis has further improved H.264 compression. ARTPEC-4 supports simultaneous H.264 and Motion JPEG streams, and the built-in multiple streaming means that video streams can be optimized individually. With a powerful CPU and a coprocessor for accelerating video analytics, ARTPEC-4 also boasts more processing power for intelligent video analysis. This is in particular beneficial for analytics applications running on the AXIS Camera Application Platform for scalable, distributed analytics in video surveillance. ARTPEC-4 offers improved de-interlacing and multi-channel video ports on one chip, it lowers the cost ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has launched Champ Deluxe Duos, its latest Dual SIM phone. The elegant and feature rich, Champ Deluxe Duos (C3312), with its 2.8" display offers the largest touchscreen in its class. The large touchscreen is filled with a Smart Touchwiz user interface that is intuitive and easy to use. Samsung's ChatOn Multi IM feature offers new ways to instant message from the mobile. "Consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to share files, data, music in addition to accessing SNS from their phones. The large display of the Samsung Champ Deluxe Duos and its TouchWiz interface provide a superlative mobile experience to consumers while the dual SIM support ensures that users get maximum benefit by choosing the relevant tariff plans and at the same time separate their personal life from their professional life. We will be further strengthening our dual SIM range this year with more launches in both the smartphone and the fea...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE According to the Cisco Cloud Index, more than 50 per cent of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based by 2014, and global cloud traffic will grow more than 12 times by 2015, to 1.6 zettabytes per year. Based on these trends, Cisco announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities. These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments, and give customers a significant advantage while addressing emerging trends like cloud, video, mobility, and the proliferation of 10 GE. With this announcement, Cisco becomes the extensive provider of 1/10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet and converged networking switching solutions. Supporting the transition to higher networking speeds, in addition to Cisco's recently announced Cloud Verse solution, is a key element of Cisco's strategy to help its customers meet the deman...