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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The survey, sponsored by RSA, was the third survey conducted by CyLab Adjunct Distinguished Fellow, Jody Westby, and comparisons with the 2008 and 2010 data clearly show ongoing gaps in governance. Using the Forbes Global 2000 list, the 2012 survey represents the first analysis of cyber governance postures of major corporations around the world. One of the most important advance findings is that boards and senior management still are not engaging in key oversight activities. Even though there are some improvements in key "regular" board governance practices, less than one-third of the respondents indicate their boards and senior executives are undertaking basic responsibilities for cyber governance. Although improvements are shown in the formation of board Risk Committees and cross-organizational teams within their organizations, nearly half of the respondents indicated that their companies do not have full-time personnel in key p

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE At Mobile World Congress 2012, Amdocs has announced results for the communications industry's first benchmark to report the performance of integrated real-time charging and SCP (service control platform) software on open (e.g. non-proprietary), cost-effective, hardware systems. The benchmark demonstrated support for 220 million prepaid and postpaid customers. The benchmark ran Amdocs' Convergent Charging and SCP products on IBM Blade Center servers and IBM Storwize Unified Storage Systems at the IBM Telecommunications Infrastructure Center for Business Support Systems in Montpellier, France. "Service providers today understand the importance of integrating network and BSS capabilities to monetize new services and deliver a differentiated customer experience. Amdocs delivers on this through the integration of our SCP and real-time convergent charging engine. This benchmark validates the ability of our integrated approach to suppor

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE StellarData Recovery has launched the updated version of Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery v5 to repair corrupt or inaccessible Exchange Database(s). The new launched version features support MS Exchange 2010&MS Office (64 bit), 30%faster saving process, and preview of mailboxes. "Database corruption is an unseen enemy to your MS Exchange Database that impacts its integrity and usually impairs its functionality.MS Exchange database is susceptible to failure due to reasons such as corrupt database header, exchange dirty shutdown, corrupt or improper database backups that eventually makes EDB files and STM files inaccessible. In such situation, Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is an out and out solution for administrator to repair back corrupt database and get complete mailboxes back from the EDB file." said Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Data Recovery. Stellar Phoenix v5 now recovers missing attachments & STM fi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SMART has demonstrated the positive impact of integrating technology solutions in Indian government school classrooms at the Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyala (RPVV), Surajmal Vihar. SMART Technologies worked with RPVVs, comprised of nine government schools in Delhi, to install SMART Board interactive whiteboards in each school for improved learner interactivity and engagement. Linda Thomas, Vice President, Products, SMART Technologies led a showcase visit to the schools, along with a panel of dignitaries. Renu Sabharwal, Principal, RPVV School, Surajmal Vihar said, "Integrating SMART solutions in our classrooms have made a significant impact on the students' engagement in the class. The teachers have highly benefitted from using interactive learning tools, especially while teaching abstract concepts of Maths and science which can now be easily taught with the aid of graphs and diagrams. We are very pleased with the outcome and would re

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GreenField Software (GFS) has been awarded a contract by Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC) for GFS Crane DC. Shekhar Dasgupta, Founder & CEO, GreenField Software, said, "IDFC is India's leading integrated infrastructure player in India and having them as one of the first adopters of our software in the country is a matter of great pride for us. We are extremely confident that IDFC will see ample value of this implementation by improving their operational and energy efficiency, reducing energy costs and managing and reporting their sustainability performance with respect to power consumption,e-waste and emission in their Data Center." Kumanan Vetrivel, Senior Director-IT, IDFC said, "We are very happy to collaborate with GreenField Software for GFS Crane DC. Being India's leading financial services institution with sustainability management as one of our key performance goals, we wanted to be

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MindTree has announced that Subroto Bagchi and Dr. Albert Hieronimus will assume new roles in the Company’s Board of Directors as Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, effective April 1, 2012. "MindTree is now poised for scaling greater heights. It is a time when visionary leadership requires to be combined with fulltime executive involvement. Subroto Bagchi is, clearly, the best man for the job in this next phase of growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. I welcome Subroto in his new role and am confident that he will drive the company’s strategy, values and vision for the future," said Dr. Hieronimus. Bagchi said, "We are grateful to Dr. Hieronimus and the Board of Directors for their strong support to MindTree over the years. It is an honor to be elected as Chairman of the Board of one of the most admired companies in the industry. Along with Krishna kumar’s support and the guidance by the Board of Directors,

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Synology has announced DiskStation DS1512+, a 5-bay NAS server for delivering high performance and scalability with complete business solutions to small and medium businesses. "NAS severs today are expected to produce higher levels of reliability and availability. With today's introduction, Synology customers can share and access data on DS1512+ in full confidence and satisfy the productivity, versatility and reliability they demand. Synology DS1512+ features a passive CPU cooling technology and a fan redundancy mechanism of two user-replaceable 80mm fans, thus eliminating a single point of failure and ensure continuous system uptime during malfunction. The dual LAN network failover support allows DS1512+ to sustain the potential of one network discontinuity while maximizing system availability at all times," said Peter Chen, Product Manager, Synology Inc. Among the first to support 4 TB hard drives, the DS1512+ can easily scale

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AXIS has launched Q60-C PTZ Dome Network Cameras, the first PTZ network cameras with integrated active cooling. It is the high-speed pan/tilt/zoom cameras, with powerful zoom and resolutions up to HDTV 1080p, operate in heat up to 75 °C (167 °F). Furthermore, with the ability to withstand sandstorms, the easy-to-install and highly compact IP cameras meet the military standard, MIL-STD-810G. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SUSE has announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This latest update offers improved performance, reliability and efficiency, while maintaining enterprise quality and application compatibility. Customers can use SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 to deliver mission-critical IT services faster, more reliably, and more cost effectively. "In order to stay ahead of our competitors, we need to exploit every possible advantage - including IT advantages. During internal tests, we've been impressed with the overall performance, reliability and quality and are looking forward to moving our production workloads onto SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2," said Urs Frey, Services Informations technologie, Die Schweizerische Post. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE PRQA \ Programming Research has announced a major upgrade to QA-C++. Version 3.0 is a substantial new release of this static analysis tool for C++ environments that incorporates a deep-flow dataflow analysis technology along with support for the major features in ISO C++ 2011. QA-C++ 3.0 contains the same advanced dataflow analysis engine, coupled with Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver that was recently introduced in QA-C 8.0. This dataflow engine is now further enhanced with pointer aliasing and function call bindings within a translation unit for true and detailed inter-function capability. "Our technical delivery continues to be focused on industrial-strength use of C and C++ languages. We hold a pre-eminent position in compliance to coding standards and defect prevention. Our focus on precise source code analysis also allows us to deliver uniquely high grade bug-detection in both language-use and dataflow categories in this

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Emerson Network Power has offered insight and recommendations for properly evaluating, selecting and operating smart hybrid energy solutions at telecom cell sites. There are opportunities for improvement ranging from more precise configuration and dimensioning of hybrid systems to implementation of intelligent hybrid technologies that make hybrid solutions even more efficient and change the value proposition for some network providers. "Telecom operators are evaluating different combinations of hybrid technologies, capital investment and OPEX to narrow down on the solutions that can deliver the lowest TCO. Even as the emerging generation of intelligent hybrid technologies promises reduced operational costs along with increased visibility and control, service providers should also look at engineered best practices that can provide measurable benefits across their network, without significant capital investment," said Pratik Chube, C

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Polycom and HTC Corporation have announced an agreement to collaborate and enable Polycom RealPresence Mobile on select HTC smartphones and tablets in mid-2012. "Video collaboration is a critical application within mobile platforms, and offering Polycom's RealPresence Mobile on HTC smartphones and tablets will provide tremendous value and opportunities for our customers. Polycom's mobile video application supports our commitment to provide authentic audio and amazing imaging on our devices and together, we can now extend this experience to our enterprise customers," said David Jaeger, Executive Director, Global Enterprise and Services for HTC. As part of the agreement, these select HTC devices will be certified Polycom-ready and optimized for RealPresence Mobile. Real Presence Mobile, powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, is a secure, enterprise-grade video software solution for mobile devices that extends the reach

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to build and operate its TD-LTE (time division duplex long-term evolution) network in Maharashtra. TD-LTE is a 4G mobile broadband technology that delivers instant internet access and can support video streaming and high-definition video conferencing. Bharti Airtel will deploy its TD-LTE network in the 2.3 GHz frequency band allocated by the Indian Government for broadband wireless access (BWA) technologies. Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, Bharti Airtel (India & South Asia), said, "In the next five years, data will be the main thrust in India, riding on the waves of 3G or 4G technologies. As per industry estimates, mobile data traffic in the country will increase nearly 100-fold by 2015 and consumers will stream nearly 600 hours of video content - every second, thus paving the way for the ensuing data revolution! LTE provides ultra high-speed data access, in conjunction with 3G, this will lead t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft has announced availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview that offers an experience for testing the operating system and is available to the widest range of people, following the initial release of the Windows 8 Developer Preview late last year. The Developer Preview received more than 3 million downloads. "With Windows 8, we re-imagined the different ways people interact with their PC and how to make everything feel like a natural extension of the device, whether using a Windows 8 tablet, laptop or all-in-one. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview brings a no-compromises approach to using your PC," said Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, Microsoft. At a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event in Barcelona that was attended by partners from Europe and around the world. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Reliance Communications has made payment of US$1,182 million. (Rs.5,825 crore at the US$ exchange rate of Rs.49.30) to make the largest-ever redemption of all the outstanding Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCBs) from the US$1,000 million issued in February 2007 and due on March 1, 2012. The redemption amount is inclusive of the premium of 27.69%. The Company has made payment to the Principal Agent of FCCB – Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch. The paid-up equity capital of the Company will remain unchanged post redemption of these FCCBs. Accordingly, Reliance Communications will be not required to allot 6,17,25,849 equity shares of Rs.5 each arising out of the potential conversion of the said FCCBs. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE National Instruments (NI) has announced four new NI Single-Board RIO board-level embedded devices featuring a real-time processor, Spartan-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA), analog and digital I/O and more built-in peripherals for custom embedded control and monitoring applications. The new devices provide engineers with off-the-shelf FPGA and real-time processor technology through NI LabVIEW while maintaining the custom I/O often required for high-volume deployments through the option of a RIO Mezzanine Card connector. The connector provides direct access to FPGA digital input/output (DIO) lines and certain processor-specific functions for mating custom daughter cards. NI Single-Board RIO alleviates the effort of designing an entire system from scratch. The devices also feature built-in analog I/O so engineers can take advantage of the company's analog expertise in addition to their application-specific circuitry. The devices'

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM India has launched its Smart Cloud Entry, specifically designed to address customer requirements in India. The IBM Smart Cloud Entry enables organizations to deploy self-service provisioning of virtualized workloads, allowing them to easily start the transition to a cloud-based infrastructure. It also includes basic workload metering to support a "pay-per-use" business model. A new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit and IBM has found that among 572 business leaders surveyed, almost three-fourths indicate their companies have piloted, adopted or substantially implemented cloud in their organizations - and 90% expect to have done so in three years. And the number of respondents whose companies have "substantially implemented" cloud is expected to grow from 13% today to 41% in three years. "Cloud computing is much more than simply saving on IT implementation costs because it offers an enormous op

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Intel has launched the Intel Future Scientist programme in India, aimed at enabling the innovators to have grounding in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The Programme is designed to help science teachers present their curricula from an inquiry-based perspective. "Intel Future Scientist programme", developed in India, was launched at the Asia Science Educator Academy in December 2011. Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Member of Planning Commission of the Government of India, said, "At every level, science education remains crucial for India’s continued growth as a knowledge economy. Kindling the spirit of enquiry through science in the early years of education among the youth can be an effective means of sharpening the thinking process. This, in turn, is crucial to become a successful researcher or an innovator and to be endowed with a scientific bent of mind in addressing problems of modern life. I hope the In

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE It is announced that Samsung lit up MWC this week, bringing the Samsung Galaxy Beam to Western markets. It is a phone that lets users to cast content directly onto walls using its built-in projector. The Samsung Galaxy Beam was first launched in Singapore in July 2010, although the feature of a built-in pico projector did little to propel the handset up the popularity charts. Almost two years down the line, Samsung reckons the time is right to revisit the prospect, pitching a refreshed Galaxy Beam to the rest of the world. The Beam now packs a 4in, 480 x 800 display and a 1GHz dual-core processor running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. There is also 8GB of internal memory expandable to 32GB through Micro SD cards, and a 2000mAh battery. The projector itself is able to cast a 50in beam with a 720p resolution, the perfect weapon in the quest to bore family members when returning from holiday with hundreds of self-absorbed snaps. For More Details See