VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   AMI has announced cloud partner segmentation report, enabling Cloud vendors to understand where their partners lag behind in offering efficient cloud services. AMI-Partners have segmented the cloud partner market into two distinct groups: “Cloud Transformed Partners” and “Cloud Laggards”. Partners identified as “Cloud Transformed Partners” have taken the necessary steps to successfully sell cloud solutions. Only a very small proportion (less than one in ten) of Cloud Partners falls into this category. However, their earnings are triple those of their non-Transformed counterparts. They tend to be larger, with approximately two-third of their revenues being derived from cloud solutions and services. These partners have a separate cloud services business unit and a dedicated cloud marketing team. On the other hand, the “Cloud Laggards” are mainly focused on reselling cloud services. Arnab Bhar, Analyst, AMI-India said, “Cloud Tran

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ZOTAC has announced its participation in BYOC with the aim to connect deeper with gamers & enthusiasts and gave them an opportunity to experience GeForce GTX 690, 680 and 670 graphic cards at the experiential zones. ZOTAC will also be hosting a NFS Most Wanted tournament along with other activities at the ZOTAC NVIDIA pavilion. Deepak Gupta, Country Manager, ZOTAC India said, "ZOTAC always strives to give the gamers the best overall gaming experience. It is our constant effort highest benchmarks in graphics.” Gogia, Vice President (IT/Audio/Video BU), Aditya Infotech Ltd, said, “We have been consecutively representing ZOTAC at BYOC. Such gaming festivals always provide an opportunity to connect with youth, gamers & enthusiasts as well as to showcase our brands, latest innovations and capabilities to our end-customers in the fast growing IT industry.  For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HTC has introduced HTC One S, which is packed with the dual-core processor along with high-resolution 4.3-inch screen and ImageSense technology. Faisal Siddiqui, Country Manager, HTC India said, “In continuation to the introduction of One series in India, this is a time to bring a highly desirable lifestyle handset for everyone who want to achieve a unique artistic bling and advanced technology. HTC One S is truly a complete package of style and performance. It is an easy-to-use smartphone that enriches customer experience with superfast camera with unique ImageSense technology and authentic, studio-quality sound with Beats Audio.” Moreover, the handset features 8 megapixel camera along with HTC wireless Media Link and in-built HTC Media Manager software, which wirelessly update libraries and transfer songs without connecting to a computer. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Pixatel Systems has partnered with Wespro Digital to preinstall Pixatel’s Android Productivity Suite on its tablets and smartphones.  Productivity Suite will also be distributed online through the Wespro Digital website.                                                                     Harjinder Singh, Head of Asia Operations, Pixatel Systems said, “Pixatel seeks to expand the Android experience for all users and is excited to partner with Wespro Digital. We enable users to leverage the power of the mobile device for learning, gaming, socializing, and productivity. Since the Productivity Suite will also be distributed through Wespro’s website, all their customers will be able to take advantage of our applications.”  Taroon Vaswani, MD, Wespro Digital Pvt. Ltd. said, “Pixatel’s Productivity Suite provides a new revenue source while increasing user engagement. Discovering great applications on Android is a challenge given the lar

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has appointed Suresh Gopalakrishnan, as the head of its server businesses. Its server business includes the company’s traditional Opteron server chip business as well as the microserver business AMD inherited when it bought SeaMicro in February. Gopalakrishnan will be based in Sunnyvale, California, and report to Lisa Su, Senior Vice-President and General Manager of AMD’s global business units. Lisa Su said, “Under Suresh’s leadership, we will accelerate our disruptive server strategy by leveraging our broad IP portfolio to deliver superior products designed to offer the world’s best performance-per-dollar and power efficiency.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Yahoo! India has conducted an online survey on Yahoo! Cricket. The 'IPL 2012 Public Perception Survey' ran from June 4-9, 2012 on the leading cricket site, and saw a huge uptake with18, 537 respondents in the 6-day span. The insights reflect the ups and downs of this sporting event which takes India by storm each year. While 61.5 % respondents believe that the IPL format has had a positive effect on Indian cricket, at the same time 68.9 % believe that IPL players are involved in match-fixing. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   WorldStage has staged an audiovisual project in cooperation with the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden that brought multimedia artist Doug Aitken’s ambitious “Song1” piece to life across the Washington. WorldStage selected Technomad to create an engaging multimedia event worthy of both the museum and Aitken’s artistic vision. The company also specified and installed Technomad PowerChiton waterproof amplifier modules to power the audio projections. Joshua Weisberg, President, WorldStage said, “We specified Technomad because we wanted fully water-proofed, full-range boxes - and wanted to preserve some amount of stereo imaging. Using full-range boxes at specific locations allowed this to happen.”  For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Demonstrating its ability to customize its Delta media-server product to match the image-manipulation of show-control needs of demanding environments, 7thSense has supplied core technology to the Daily Planet - an immersive dome experience opened this week by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. The centrepiece of the NRC is the SECU Daily Planet. At regular intervals during the day, scientists will use the 40ft high, high-definition curved screen of the dome to present their latest research and its impact on current issues. Ian Macpherson, Director, 7thSense said, “The system design is unique. We supplied a single Delta server to drive all six of the Christie projectors for the main display wall, with 2K x 2K uncompressed media resolution and real-time warp-and-blend to make a single, continuous canvas. A second Delta server then feeds another timeline into the live inputs of the first one. This allows

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CommScope has innovated sector sculpting to satisfy the tens of thousands of spectators who fill venues in numerous cities every day. The sector sculpting technique is deployed via the new family of CommScope specialty antennas and combined with an outdoor distributed antenna system to address the unique needs of high traffic, highly visible venues that can strain or impede networks that are ill-prepared for the crush of wireless traffic generated by customers. Philip Sorrells, VP, Site Solutions, CommScope said, “When you look at the challenges mobile operators are facing today and the projections for as few as three to five years from now, the capacity issue is a real concern-whether it’s in an outdoor DAS scenario or the macro cellular network. Investing in capacity with sector sculpting solutions offers network providers one of the best opportunities to meet requirements now and in the years ahead, which can give them a solid ret

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   BenQ has announced LX60ST/ LW61ST projectors. These short-throw education projectors incorporate BenQ's mercury-free Bluecore light engine. "We are more than pleased to announce the launch of our BlueCore education projectors. Our endeavour has always been to provide world-class solutions for traditional as well as modern digital classrooms that make content simpler for students to learn new things with high level of retention. BenQ India is leader in the Short Throw projector category with 30.99% market share, by adding Blue Core engine projector we are one big step closer to fulfilling our endeavour of providing the best to education industry," said Rajeev Singh, Country Head & General Manager, BenQ India. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Huawei has recently expanded its relationship with Microsoft for the creation of Huawei's first Windows Phone handset. Part of the Huawei Ascend family, the Huawei Ascend with Windows Phone 8 expands Huawei's smartphone portfolio and brings the Windows Phone operating system to an even bigger audience. "2012 is building up to be a great year for Huawei. Now, we are poised to end the year with a big bang with the introduction of our first smartphone running on the Windows Phone platform. We are very excited about this relationship with Microsoft which will enable us to provide our customers with a bigger array of Huawei smartphone choices," said Shao Yang, Chief Marketing Officer, Huawei Device. It is great to welcome Huawei to the Windows Phone family. The only phone with Live Tiles, Windows Phone brings you closest to the people and things you care most about, With Huawei's impressive global capabilit

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Dassault Systemes has announced that Tata Technologies' heavy use of Dassault Systemes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform, based on Version 6 technology, for its recent small urban electric vehicle study - the eMO (for electric MObility), enabled Tata Technologies to complete the project quickly and accurately. The eMO study was undertaken to demonstrate the feasibility of developing an electric vehicle at an attractive price, and at the same time confirming their global experience, knowledge and innovation capabilities.  "We needed a highly regarded partner for this project, as we were relying on it to showcase our multi-dimensional approach to vehicle engineering and development. We have a deep history with Dassault Systèmes and were confident that CATIA and ENOVIA V6 applications would help us leverage the talents of a global engineering team to meet numerous design and cost constraints, as well as create the targeted user expe

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IBM has announced new predictive analytics software that automatically correlates and analyzes big data to help clients embed hyper-intelligence into every business decision.  In addition to generating insights on internal data in a matter of seconds, the software measures the impact of social networking channels and factors this information into organizational decision-making.  "In today's marketplace, when a customer says they are not happy, companies must decide how to react - not later that day, or in an hour, but instantly. With these new technologies, winning organizations can embed analytics into under-served areas of their business, empowering all employees to make information-based decisions," said Deepak Advani, Vice- President, Business Analytics Products and Solutions, IBM. IBM is also extending the analytical functionality with the inclusion of its newest Entity Analytics capabilities.  For the first

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   NEC has participated in Japan's first DWDM transmission of 100Gbps per wavelength, realized using commercial fiber cable along Japan’s highest volume transmission route connecting the 710 km between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. These results were accomplished through 100Gbps optical transmission trials carried out by NTT Communications Corporation. Tests were conducted using existing commercial cable with the intention of introducing 100Gbps-DWDM systems to backbone networks in the near future. These actual operating conditions present a variety of operational challenges, including fluctuations in optical signal loss due to transmission route changes and variability in optical fiber characteristics (Chromatic Dispersion, Polarization-Mode Dispersion. NEC's 100Gbps-DWDM system addressed these issues by utilizing a transponder equipped with its internally developed 100G DP-QPSK digital coherent optical transceiver module, which d

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Check Point has introduced a new line of security appliances designed to fight Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The new DDoS Protector appliances deliver multi-layered protection and up to 12 Gbps of throughput to help businesses stop and defend against the widest range of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.  "DDoS is emerging as a weapon of choice for hackers; they form weapons of mass disruption.  The DDoS protector appliance line from Check Point marks our entrance into a new and critical area of network security.  As the prevalence of DDoS attacks continue to rise, it is important to enable our customers to protect themselves and diminish one of the biggest security risks across today's threat landscape," said Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, Regional Director - India and SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies.  Check Point DDoS Protector appliances safeguard organizations by blocking all major

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Epson has launched two new series of projectors that include EB-Z8000 series and EB-Z10000 series. These projectors feature high brightness of up to 10,000 lumens, resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels and high contrast ratio of 5,000:1 along with Epson Cinema Filter, a Faroudja DCDi video processing chip, Super-resolution technology and Frame Interpolation.  "This new line of ultra-bright models helps us provide even more options for customers with large or bright venue projection needs in addition to delivering the extreme image quality and product reliability Epson is renowned for," said Samba Moorthy, Director - Sales & Marketing, Epson India. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SAP has released a benchmarking report that revealed that companies with mature best practices double their operating margins and experience three times higher revenue growth compared to those with average mobile practices. The study’s analysis framework evaluated customers in four areas for competitive advantage, including mobile strategy, creation of mobile apps, control of mobile devices and consumption of mobile apps.  The leading companies from the study reported that 37.5 per cent of users with mobile access to cross-functional applications experience more than 43-per cent higher productivity compared to companies in the bottom tier. While the average company reported that less than 32 per cent of its workforce is mobile, 97 per cent of those companies have centralized IT departments managing their mobile solutions.  "While mobile is now the primary way people communicate, connect and transact, our latest benchmarkin