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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Zinnov has released its latest study titled 'Indian SMB ICT Adoption Insights' highlighting the current state of IT adoption in the SMB segment in India, and predicting the likely trends going forward. The study provides a detailed analysis of the different opportunities, challenges and scope related to IT spending and technology adoption in the sector that may result in SMBs contributing to over one third of the total domestic IT spend by2015. The study reveals that today five lakh SMBs in India have websites and two million SMBs are accessing the Internet. Increased adoption of PCs by SMBs is also another significant factor that will fuel the growth of this sector. Four million SMBs in the country are using PCs which is expected to grow at thirty percent from 2011 to 2015, resulting in doubling the base of SMBs with PC, reveals Zinnov. Further splitting the SMB market in India, the study finds that Retail is the single largest vert

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has announced that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to simplify storage for its Big Data capacity and performance. The demand for new products in shorter timeframes whilst reducing dependency on physical testing had put pressure on JLR engineers to improve and streamline virtual simulation processes and deliver actionable analysis to the manufacturing teams. JLR evaluated a number of different solutions and selected an EMC Isilon scale-out NAS system due to its "no-compromise" approach to performance and capacity. The company deployed 54 nodes within the cluster of the Isilon X-Series platform, providing a central CAE storage area that mounts to the client infrastructure. The HPC clusters provide a single CAE data management solution for virtual simulation and physical tests. Additionally, JLR is using a separate Isilon NL-Series cluster for disaster recovery and backup, with Isilon Sy

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced that its Ultrastar enterprise-class solid state drive (SSD) family is the industry's first to use 25-nanometer (nm) single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash. The drives also conform to the Trusted Computing Group's Enterprise a Security Subsystem Class encryption specification, helping customers protect sensitive data, and reduce the costs associated with drive retirement and reuse. The new Ultrastar SSD400S.B family is available in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities, and features 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. "Security is a growing concern among enterprise customers, especially those in financial services, e-commerce and online transaction processing. Our solid state drives are designed to deliver the highest level of performance, while reducing total cost of ownership. With our new 25nm SLC SSDs, our enterprise customers now have the highest level

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Oracle has introduced its Big Data Solutions Platform to help customers tackle Big Data and make decisions faster. Oracle's big data strategy is driven by its overall approach to data management with Engineered Systems in which hardware and software are engineered to work together for performance, reliability, and scalability. Moreover, this Platform includes Oracle Big Data Appliance, which in conjunction with Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Exalytics. "Each of these systems consists of integrated hardware and software, preconfigured, pre-tested and engineered for a certain class of data management requirements. This unique Big Data approach from Oracle relieves customers off the integration involved in assembling a suitable set of hardware and software components to create big data architecture. In addition, it allows customers to leverage commercial quality support with the entire system being supported by a single vendor," sai

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ABACUS PERIPHERALS PVT LTD. has unveiled two quarterly schemes as "Win In Winter with PowerColor" and "PowerColor Deco display Competition" to show Powercolor mettle in India.Objective of these schemes is believed to create brand awareness & to increase visibility of PowerColor in the market. These Schemes is also said to provide an opportunity for all the participants to win attractive incentives. According to the scheme- "Win In Winter with PowerColor", partners selling stipulated number of POWERCOLOR Graphic Cards are claimed to be eligible for attractive gifts from Abacus Peripherals. And for "PowerColor Deco Display Competition" the participants have to decorate their showrooms with POP materials of PowerColor as well as promote it. The best decorated shop across the country will get a chance to win exciting gifts like Bajaj Motorbikes, Blackberry Mobile phones and many other consolation prize

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SkillSoft has released a new industry report from Bersin & Associates. The report, "Next Generation Leadership Development: SkillSoft's Evolving Portfolio Exemplifies the Changing Nature of Leadership Programs," authored by David Mallon, VP, Bersin & Associates and Laci Loew, Sr. Analyst, Bersin & Associates, discusses the changing nature of today's leadership development programs. In the report, Bersin & Associates explores the evolution of blended formal and informal development programs, the importance of developing leaders at all levels and how SkillSoft's solutions address today's leadership development needs. Having flexible and blended development solutions such as SkillSoft’s platform is essential when looking to step up to the evolving needs of today's leaders. David Mallon, VP, Bersin & Associates said, "As businesses evolve their approach to leadership development by matching

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Pingar has announced the expansion of its global partner network with the signing of an agreement with CMC Limited. The agreement, Pingar's first partnership in India, is believed to provide CMC and its enterprise clients with an increased ability to manage unstructured data to gain efficiency and improve the quality of business process, collaboration and content management programs. R. Ramanan, CEO & MD, CMC said, "Our client base demands that we provide technology for continuous improvements to business operations. Pingar's ability to integrate with existing enterprise systems and extend their capabilities to gain efficiencies and strategic knowledge from unstructured data represents a rich area of value to CMC customers." Peter Wren-Hilton, CEO, Pingar said, "CMC's culture of high levels of service delivery and innovative solutions fits with Pingar's emphasis on pioneering research and development. Their

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Vodafone has appointed Analjit Singh as non-executive Chairman of Vodafone India. Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Vodafone Group, said "Analjit has been a longstanding, reliable and trustworthy partner in India." Nick Read, CEO, Vodafone's Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific region, said, "I am delighted to announce Analjit's appointment as Chairman of Vodafone's operations in India. Analjit brings a wealth of business experience and is one of India's leading entrepreneurs. He knows our business well, having been the Founder and Chairman of Max Telecom, the business which has grown to become Vodafone India with nearly 150 million customers." Analjit Singh said, "It is a great honour to become Chairman of Vodafone India, a company I have been involved with since its inception. The business has performed strongly in the market under Vodafone's stewardship and I look forward to working with Vodafo