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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC has announced that it will attend TM Forum Management Forum Asia 2012 on February 7-8 in Singapore. As a Conference sponsor, NEC will focus on "Cloud Service" and will present NEC's Cloud solutions at the exhibition. Ken Sugata, General Manager, Global Carrier Cloud Division, NEC Corporation said, "NEC responds to a wide range of customer requirements, such as network systems for carriers and IT systems for various industries, in addition to the development of devices and terminals that support access to the Cloud. With the growing trend towards computing via Internet and mobile computing, it is evident that the cloud computing business model is here to stay and will transform the way how businesses operate. NEC as a total solutions provider is in a unique position to integrate both IT and network solutions to help businesses improve their efficiency, manage their IT costs, and achieve new business revenues with our u

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE KPMG India has launched its Technology Center in Bangalore. Located at World Trade Center (WTC) in Bangalore, this center houses technologically advanced teams specializing in enterprise applications, business intelligence and analytics, as well as network design, architecture, data management, and application development. Michael J Andrew, Global Chairman, KPMG said, "We have always believed in providing additional value to our clients. This brand new India Technology Center is a testimony of the same. Our decision to locate the center in Bangalore is complimented by the wealth of relevant talent and strong educational facilities which will be the key in growing this center." Russell Parera, CEO, KPMG India said, "We have created the Center for the benefit of our local and international clients who can experience our capabilities in delivering advanced technology solutions. The information technologists working at this Center

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NetApp India has appointed Deepak Visweswaraiah as the Vice President of Continuous Product Engineering, based in Bangalore. He will be responsible for the design and development of storage products that help organizations build an IT infrastructure that is more responsive to changing business needs. As a senior member of the NetApp R&D team, Deepak will be responsible for NetApp's Continuous Product Engineering group across the globe and will also help achieve the company's globalization goals. Manish Goel, Executive Vice President, Product Operations, NetApp said, "India is vital to our global growth strategy, particularly in the area of product innovation, and is one of our fastest growing markets worldwide. Deepak, who brings with him a wealth of global product engineering expertise, will be crucial in our endeavor to harness and develop the talent pool at our Bangalore engineering team in a way that continues to raise t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BluePhoenix Solutions has announced that Mel Keating has been appointed as BluePhoenix's new Chairman of the Board of Directors. Shimon Bar-Kama, CEO said, "Mel is a proven leader who has demonstrated his value to many companies in his service to their Boards. The Board believes that Mel has the experience and skills required to assist in a turnaround at BluePhoenix." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE V.Bharathwaj, former global Chief Marketing Officer of 24/7 Customer, starts a new business venture 'MyndGenie Systems'. Bharathwaj said, "Emotional wellness management is a new space that completes and complements physical fitness. MyndGenie is a result of my passion to enable people live up to their potential, everyday, using neuroscience methods. For the first time globally, emotional wellness management through brain science will be simplified and delivered using a unique combination of software and services'. MyndGenie will be based out of Bangalore and is set to launch shortly in major cities. It will provide services for the Indian and international markets. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced the signing of a multi- year, multi- million euro contract with Europcar. After a rigorous evaluation process, Europcar Information Services (EIS) selected TCS to manage strategic IT Services development for its French operations. Pascal VALLERENT, Skill Center Director, Europcar Information Services said, "The objective of the partnership is to continue to improve our structured and standardized development process across Europcar. We were looking for a partner with the highest standard in quality; demonstrated flexibility and one that could help us optimize both time-to-market and cost control. TCS scored high on all counts and its strong global delivery model (GNDM) and industry knowledge of our field was key criteria in our selecting them for this project. TCS' localization strategy with mixed teams at all levels also proved to be a key factor in the selection process." Kumar Na

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Swisscom and Ericsson have launched a partnership to develop the M2M market. Swisscom will offer enterprises, from different industries both in Switzerland as well as Swisscom customers abroad, services to leverage efficiencies along their customers' value chain from production to distribution. The first trials will start in February 2012. The commercial introduction of services is scheduled for the summer 2012. Urs Schaeppi, Head, Swisscom Corporate Business Unit said, "We are entering this partnership– in which Ericsson supports us not only with its M2M connectivity platform, but also with its extensive experience of the worldwide M2M market- with the clear ambition not only to be first in an emerging market, but also to provide our customers with the kind of superior offering they are used to from us. Our ambition is to provide enterprise customers with a scalable, easy-to-configure-and-maintain, telecom-grade solution that helps

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE QNAP has organized Reseller Meets in six major cities of India to strengthen its presence in the country. These Reseller Meets will take place in February this year across six cities, viz., New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai. Reseller Engagement Programs are aimed at providing technical training to all the participants and strengthen and expand the current partner network. As part of the programme, QNAP will introduce various products to the participants. QNAP will introduce its latest TurboNAS Firmware 3.6, which provides a great opportunity to have the first-hand experience on the latest software features that QNAP has designed. QNAP's new line of NAS products would include innovative multimedia, business and cloud features. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Compuware has announced that BT Global Services has joined the CloudSleuth partner community. Now as a CloudSleuth partner, BT Global Services will share with the CloudSleuth community best practices and expertise on the challenges and benefits of cloud computing. BT Global Services will also participate in the CloudSleuth Global Provider View. CloudSleuth will monitor the performance of BT's On Demand Compute service, which is hosted in five of BT's European data centers in the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Steve Holt, GM, BT Compute, BT Global Services said, "We are really excited to be a CloudSleuth partner. It's important for our customers that we continue to show innovation and market leadership, and demonstrate that we understand the importance that application and service performance play in the cloud market. With all the hype and uncertainty that surrounds the cloud; enterprises are looking for trans

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE National Instruments has announced the promotions of three leaders to its Executive management team, two of whom started at the company early in their careers and have guided strategic projects that deliver on long-term plans for customer success. Dr. James Truchard, NI president, CEO & Co-founder said, "As our business serves increasingly complex applications that address the world’s toughest engineering challenges, we need to have leadership sharply focused on key areas to deliver high-quality products and support while planning long-term opportunities for our customers. The contributions of David Fuller, Duncan Hudson and David Loadman have been instrumental in helping to drive company growth and propel innovation, and I look forward to their continued leadership." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amdocs has launched two new solutions - Amdocs M2M (Machine-to-Machine) and Connected Home solutions - that will enable service providers to create new revenue streams, provide a unified customer experience and allow them to compete with over-the-top providers, all of which will help them increase average revenue peruser (ARPU). Amdocs M2M solution is a pre-packaged, pre-configured end-to-end solution based on production-proven technology that allows service providers to quickly onboard and support partners offering M2M applications, whereas Amdocs Connected Home solution is a cloud-based solution that can be easily integrated with existing business and operational support systems (B/OSS) and core network elements. This solution can allow service providers to increase revenue by up to 5 per cent. "We expect to see interest for these solutions across North America and Europe. As part of the Amdocs CES portfolio and combined with our wid

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE DIGISOL has organized its first edition of "Distributor Sales Empowerment Programme" (DSEP) which is aimed at providing complete training about DIGISOL products and solutions for its distributor's sales and pre-sales personnel. "Distributor Sales Empowerment Programme" consists of training of various modules like IP surveillance, switching, wireless and others. Under the programme, along with product training, special technical training is also provided which consists of hands on laboratory test, followed by certification. 'This Programme, which started from 2nd February, 2012, will continue till 4th February, 2012 and is held in the Smartlink's Goa facility. The first batch of DSEP consists of 50 sales and pre-sales personnel of the distributors' from all over India. This training will be scheduled every other month. K. R. Naik, Executive Chairman, Smartlink Network Systems Ltd., said, "The idea behi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), the signature initiative by the Adobe Foundation, has celebrated the completion of six successful years of the programme in India by screening over 22 short films made by children from the underserved community. Further, the Foundation also announced the AYV Aspire Awards, a global online media festival honouring young people who creatively communicate their vision for change in their communities and their lives. Students aged 13-18 are invited to compete across eight sub-categories – animation, documentary, music video, narrative video, poetry-experimental video, audio, graphic design and photography and can submit their entries through an educator or mentor by April20, 2012. The Adobe Foundation has also announced scholarships worth Rs.125,000 for meritorious AYV students. Dr. Naresh Gupta, Sr. Vice-President, Print & Publishing Business Unit & Managing Director, Adobe India, said, "We are humbled by

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has participated in the Media Expo, Mumbai. HP's Graphic Solutions Business division is showcasing, its latest series of HP LATEX Design jet Large Format Printers. HP, displaying its Latex Technology, aims to set a stage for greener technologies for indoor and outdoor advertising. The Media Expo will be a three-day event to be held from 3rd to 5th February, 2012. At the expo, HP is showcasing three large format printers - HP Designjet L26500, HP Designjet L28500 IN theLATEX range and HP Designjet Z6200 in the Photo Printers range, to edify the print service providers about the latest advancements in HP PRINT technology. "HP has always believed in strong market presence in the printing space. Now with an initiative of reducing the carbon footprints, HP's Latex Technology promises the consumer a greener tomorrow while providing him the best-of-the-class prints. The eco-friendly promise by HP will take the printing industry to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel has launched www.airtel.in/hellotunes an online library of India's largest collection of Hello Tunes. Airtel mobile customers in India are expected to enjoy the convenience of discovering, browsing, sampling, buying and even gifting from visiting this website. Airtel also announced that it has released a brand new and intuitive user interface for www.airtel.in/start, which is said to allow customers to browse, search and buy from a vast collection of its Value Added Services (VAS) including missed call alerts, Airtel Radio, Airtel Talkies, Mobile TV, Friends Locator etc. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Micron Technology Inc. has appointed D. Mark Durcan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Durcan will also serve as a Director on Micron's Board of Directors. The Board of Directors also announced the appointment of Director Robert E. Switz as Chairman of the Board and Mark W. Adams as President. Switz said, "We are fortunate to be able to appoint someone with Mark's operations and technical leadership experience to serve as the company's CEO. Mark has been instrumental in Micron's success in his role as President and COO and has garnered the respect of the company, his team members and the industry at large." Durcan said, "We are deeply saddened by Steve's loss and will miss his hand at the helm. I have provided the Board my ongoing commitment to work with the management team and continue to move the company forward." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Corsair has announced the Corsair VS450, 450W power supply, especially for India and China markets. This PSU is ideal for entry level buyers. Corsair VS450 gaming PSU features a single +12V rail, offering compatibility with the latest components. The ultra-quiet, 120mm deliver excellent airflow at an exceptionally low noise level by varying fan speed in response to temperature so it will never intrude on your music and games. The VS450 is designed to deliver 80% energy efficiency which means less heat generation and lower energy bills. M A Mannan, Country Manager - India, Corsair said, "Gaming PSUs which produce less noise and give high performance have been in demand in these markets. So here we come with the feature rich PSU for the entry level buyers. Fulfill your desire of fast and safe gaming with Corsair VS450." The Corsair VS450 power supplies will be available from Corsair-authorized storefronts in APAC region. For More Det

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Google's Managing Director - Media and Platforms, JAPAC, Shailesh Rao has resigned from the company, according to market buzz. Twitter Inc. is believed to hire Shailesh Rao. Shailesh Rao joined Google in March 2005 as the Director of local search. In 2007, Rao was named the Managing Director of Google India. Prior to this, he was a VP - Products at Yodlee. In January 2012, Shailesh Rao was named the Internet Professional of the Year 2011 at IAMAI's 2nd India Digital Awards. For More Details See www.varindia.com