VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has opened a branch office in Ludhiana, Punjab as part of the company's continued geographic expansion across India. This branch is IBM's seventh new office to be opened in India in the past 12 months. "We are seeing strong demand for our solutions and services in Ludhiana as businesses in the city turn to IT to increase efficiencies and improve customer service. Crucial to Ludhiana's economic development are small to medium sized enterprises which spur innovation in the region and are at the center of a thriving export market in the city," said Vivek Malhotra, VP and Territory Executive – North and East, IBM India & South Asia. Inaugurating new office Jugdiep Singh, MD, SPS Apollo said, "As one of the largest cities in Punjab, with strong economic and population growth, companies and organisations in Ludhiana are coming under increasing pressure to transform. By working with IBM we are able to leverage the

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Genius has presented a new set of portable stereo gaming speakers, SP-i250G for the GX Gaming line. It has two omni directional stereo speakers. The advanced 40mm neodymium speakers provide deep low notes in a small portable cabinet. Also one can just use one speaker with any audio device. SP-i250G uses a special mechanism to turn the power on/off and adjust the volume by twisting the middle cover. As an added feature an LED ring in the middle of the speaker will change different colors when music is playing. The Gold plated plug makes sound signal transmission smoother and decreases noise. Moreover, it also comes with pouch for each speaker and charging is easy by using a USB port. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wishtel has launched the world’s first tablet computer to feature support for native Indian languages. The tablets come with a rich set of personal productivity, social media, communications, and entertainment apps. These include eBook reader app that will allow users to enjoy eBooks in Hindi and other Indian languages on their device, as well as a growing range of course content for ICSE, CBSE and state boards plus engineering, medical, and other higher education offerings. Designed and manufactured in India, Wishtel "IRA" and "IRA Thing" have been tailored to meet the specific needs of the Indian user and combine advanced multimedia, connectivity, and computing capabilities with a rich feature powered by VIA WonderMedia PRIZM WM8650 ARM SoC. Milind Shah, CEO, Wishtel, said, "This launch is the first step in our long-term vision of bringing people closer to technology by creating gadgets that truly touch their live

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC has announced a plan to establish an NEC Mobile Network Excellence Center (NMEC) for the offshore development of mobile communication systems in Chennai, India in April this year. The NMEC is the first mobile communication system development center that the NEC Group will establish in India. The center will design and develop hardware and software for the PASOLINK series of ultra-compact microwave communication systems, widely accepted as key products for mobile backhaul in the global market. Initially, the NMEC will be located in the NEC India office in Chennai. The center is expected to relocate to a new office in Chennai by the end of this year. "NEC will recruit local talent and work closely with Indian development partners in order to create a global development system. NEC had previously decided to produce PASOLINK systems in the Special Economic Zone near Chennai, India and will begin shipping products from June this year. Th

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, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software. 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 manag

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE GE has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the Advanced Systek. The transaction will enhance GE's ability to offer solutions to customers in regions such as South Asia and the Middle East. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. By combining Advanced Systek's capabilities with GE technology and world-class product suite of flow meters, control valves, UPS, controllers and instrumentation, this transaction enables the GE Oil & Gas business to broaden its offerings for the industry and deepen its relationship with customers seeking solutions. Under the terms of the transaction, the senior management team of Advanced Systek will continue to serve as directors and will work with GE to utilize their industry expertise to help the business grow. John L. Flannery, President & CEO, GE India, said, "GE and Advanced Systek complement each other very well. Advanced Systek's capabilities and its established track record in

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE VASCO Data Security International (VDSI) has announced the next step in its DIGIPASS as a Service strategy with a new free services program for web application providers/web site owners. The new program is open for everyone who owns a website with password protected content. Web application owners can integrate a button on their website at no cost, allowing their users to activate and use one-time password technology to log-on. Online application providers will, thus, be able to eliminate all support and back-office costs related to password management for their customer base, while protecting the content of their site with one-time passwords that are more secure than any static user name or PIN code. "The launch of this program for web application providers is the next big step in our DIGIPASS as a Service offering. The services program offers every application provider with an easy to integrate solution that helps to reduce costs whil

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Affle and Samsung have launched 'The Cricket Hub' - a massive mobile marketing campaign for Samsung's new Omnia W phone. As part of this campaign, Affle has created a branded mobile cricket destination (m.thecrickethub.com) on which cricket fans can access unprecedented and unique cricket content delivered within an innovative Samsung Omnia W Windows Phone experience. The key highlights of this content campaign are the content and the user experience. The content is being created exclusively by Affle and its partners and includes various off-the-field facts, trivia, news bites, live score and exciting contests. The user experience is designed such that users when accessing "The Cricket Hub" will experience it in Samsung Windows interface highlighting key product features of the Windows style design, which includes User Interface being built on the "Live Tiles" concept. Sankalp Mehrotra, Regional Director, Busi

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ISI, Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for broad collaboration in the field of analytics for the Telecom vertical. In this collaboration, Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam will leverage their domain strengths and leadership along with ISI's academic brilliance in the field of Analytics to develop joint solutions in data mining and data analytics. The key objective of this collaboration is to provide solutions to the telecom service providers for their business problems using the combined approach. This unique model, over time, would be leveraged to address business issues in other verticals. L. Ravichandran, President, Tech Mahindra, said, "With the rapid growth of devices and an increased data carriage capacity of the networks, we are experiencing data explosion. There is imperative business of extracting meaning from this available data through data mining and anal

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC has expanded portfolio of cloud services to help customers accelerate the adoption, consumption, optimization, and management of cloud technologies. The new services help customers accelerate their IT transformation initiatives. The new EMC services announced address the transformation of people, process and technology and range from strategy and business case development, to design and deployment, to support, optimization, and education. Carl Eschenbach, Co-President, Customer Operations, VMware, said, "VMware and EMC have a strong services relationship for helping mutual customers virtualize business-critical applications, modernize application platforms and deploy end-user computing solutions. With more than 2,500 VMware-trained professionals, EMC's technical depth and expertise enable customers to reduce costs, increase agility and build scalable infrastructures. By expanding its cloud services portfolio, EMC demonstrates th

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has delivered the highest level of combined intrusion prevention system (IPS) performance and catch rate of the industry. Those results were achieved with the FortiGate-3950B, Fortinet's next-generation firewall appliance for large enterprise and data center environments, and are based on the tests performed using Breaking Point security testing products and NSS Labs test criteria methodology. Following the NSS Labs IPS testing methodology, two L4 and L7 tests were conducted on the Fortigate-3950B appliance, one with IPS optimization enabled and the other without. The traffic set up was unidirectional and a large number of IP addresses were used on both the client and server sides to provide the most realistic testing conditions that reflect the largest number of devices present on a network. "Beyond marketing claims, we believe that it is essential to validate the performance of our network security solutions using metric-