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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Polycom Inc. has announced that it is leading the Chinese market in video conferencing systems with 51.4% market share in 2011, according to the latest results by CCW Research. The results are highlighted in the report “Development Trends of Chinese Market Videoconferencing Systems 2011-2012.” The findings by CCW Research reveal that the value of the video collaboration market in China grew by 20.6% in 2011 over the previous year, as immersive telepresence, HD room and desktop systems, as well as mobile video endpoints were increasingly adopted. According to CCW Research, the overall market is expected to continue a growth trend in 2012, driven by emerging video cloud services. Steven Li, VP & GM, Polycom China said, “Video collaboration has become mission-critical in business because of the significant savings in travel costs, improvements in productivity, and ability to make faster, more informed team decisions. In China

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IBM has announced that Birla Sun Life Insurance (BSLI) has deployed IBM’s Cognos TM1solution to radically transform the entire planning cycle, from forecasting and analysis processes to budgeting and profitability modeling. Mayank Bathwal, CFO & Head - Institutional Sales said, “With IBM’s Cognos TM1 we are able plan better, monitor performance at a granular level and thus manage profitability and capital more efficiently. The solution is easy to use software which our Finance Team can learn easily with minimal change management or skills upgrade. Also the finance team is able to support the solution for their business users with minimal support from IT Team.” Prashant Tewari, Country Manager, Business Analytics, IBM Software Group India/South Asia said, “We are glad to be associated with a brand like Birla Sun Life Insurance. IBM’s solutions have helped enterprises to improve their planning and sales module for a long time

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Canon India Pvt. Limited has launched its new consumer printer campaign around the PIXMA E series, a revolutionary range of home printing solutions. The campaign, 'Can a printer print love?' emphasizes on creating awareness around the endless possibilities of printing. Canon has roped in Bollywood actress, Anushka Sharma as the face of the digital and print campaign. The campaign targeted at reaching out to over 11 cities looks at creating awareness around the added benefits of PIXMA's E series printers. Dr. Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. VP, Canon India said, 'The Canon PIXMA E series is the best thing that has happened to 1.3 million units inkjet printers industry in India. For Indian middle class households with school going children, it is a big value adds. We are positioning this category as a great enabler for users to express their emotions and feelings in a creative and fun way. We are leveraging our new young brand amba

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Comguard Networks has released Array Networks’ APV 800 Series multi-tenant virtualized application delivery appliances and vAPV soft-ADCs. These products will give enterprises and service providers the ability to run multiple application delivery controllers across Array Networks hardware appliances or as virtual machines on commodity servers running VMware ESXi or Citrix’s XenServer hypervisors. For cloud and managed hosting service providers these new virtualized appliances deliver tremendous advantages for offering infrastructure services. The new APV Series appliances enable consolidation by packing more load balancers into less space, they come at less cost, easy deployment and maintenance. By deploying APV virtualized appliances, service providers can offer their customers services a right balance of on-demand flexibility, performance, features and price - while simultaneously lowering capex and opex and increasing profit mar

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC has appointed Praveen Sahai as Vice President of Channels for EMC India and SAARC region. In this role, Praveen will be responsible for growing and driving EMC’s partner strategy in the region. He will also spearhead EMC’s distribution and systems integrators strategy, deepening current partnerships and creating new ones to increase EMC’s footprint in the market. The company has identified 2012 as the year of the channel and this appointment reinforces EMC’s commitment to the channel community. Joergen Jakobsen, Vice President, Channel Operations, Asia Pacific & Japan, EMC said, “The Indian sub-continent is an extremely important market for EMC’s overall strategy in the channel segment. The channel has worked as a prime growth engine in this market and we continue to have a determined focus on channel development. Praveen’s appointment will strengthen our commitment to the channel community as we plan for further growth in th

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   XAGE has launched its new M198 EKA handset which has a Loud Speaker along with Music & Torch dedicated keys.  The handset features 1.8-inch wide colour screen display, Li-ion 1000mAh battery and supports Micro Card up to 8GB. Moreover, the phone is available in black and white colours. For More Details See www.varindia.com

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Jacada and AGC Networks have entered into a partnership that enables contact centre agents to connect to customer data in a simplified and consistent way regardless of the channel creating more effective customer interactions while reducing operational costs. “BPOs in India are being asked by their worldwide customers to provide innovative customer service solutions as their interactions with these organizations become more complicated due to multi-channel communication options and the rapid growth of call center applications. Hence, organizations are looking to add value to processes such as end-to-end automation, seamless integration across channels, and the reduction of transaction turnaround time,” said Guy Yair, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, EMEA & APAC, Jacada. SanjeevVerma, President, AGC Networks, said, “Customers are a critical component to making an organization successful or not, and how you intera

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Red Hat has announced strong partner support for Red Hat Storage. Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 debuts with an ecosystem of partners, including Cisco, Groupware, Intel, Mainline and Synnex. Ranga Rangachari, General Manager, Storage, Red Hat, said, “Scale-out storage is now an integral part of mainstream IT, and the partner ecosystem surrounding Red Hat Storage is a big part of our vision to help organizations reduce their storage costs while addressing the massive growth in unstructured data. Coupled with our rich partner ecosystem, Red Hat has the opportunity to transform the enterprise storage industry in the same way Red Hat Enterprise Linux disrupted the proprietary UNIX market.” Mark Balch, Director, Data Center Group, Cisco, said, "More customers are looking for scale-out, distributed storage for data analytics, archive and cloud applications. Cisco is working with Red Hat and other storage solution vendors to deliver

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ZTE has bagged India’s largest GSM deal from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL). ZTE will now support 10.15 million BSNL’s GSM lines across the country and thereby help increase its subscriber base.  Under this partnership, ZTE will be involved in planning, financing, engineering, supply, installation and testing, commissioning and annual maintenance of the GSM lines. The procurement of these lines for expansion of 2G and 3G services will cover all BSNL telecom circles in the Northern and Southern zones Cui Liangjun, Chief Executive Officer, ZTE India, said, “We are excited to partner with BSNL to support their ambitious growth plans in North and South India. We are confident that this association will help BSNL to offer competitive mobile communications that can meet the present and future telecommunication needs, and help ZTE boost its business in the Indian subcontinent.”  For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Epson has shipped a total of 80 million high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT liquid crystal panels for 3LCD projectors, enough for more than 26.5 million projector units. Samba Moorthy, Director – Sales & Marketing, Epson India, said, “Epson is the leader in the development and manufacture of the HTPS panels. Going forward, we will further cement our position as the market leader by enhancing and expanding our lineup with products that leverage our unique technologies to meet specific market needs.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   D-Link had recently charted extensive growth strategy for 2012-13. So while the company has already devised aggressive sales & marketing plans, it now looks forward to extending exclusive service support to enterprise business customers. As a result, D-Link (India) Limited has announced “Next Business Day Warranty” support on its enterprise product line. Sanjay Sehgal, Vice-President – Enterprise & Project Business, D-Link (India) Limited, said, “One of the key agendas for us this year is to establish D-Link as a prominent player in large enterprise domain and maximize our market share. While D-Link already has a strong and impressive product range that includes both Active and Passive networking solution, we are now looking at enhancing the overall customer experience by offering exceptional service support. ‘Next Business Day Warranty’ support is another step towards offering service support that is at par with global sta

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Microsoft has announced that Wipro has migrated to Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for its ease-of- use and its single, simple-to-use user interface for real-time communication and collaboration needs. Lync Server 2010 is being rolled out to all employees in phases across all worldwide locations. "Lync Server 2010 provides us with a single solution for all modes of real-time communications. We also wanted the same solution to cater to our dial-in conferencing needs for users across the globe in different regions. This has been rapidly achieved for certain users in the U.S. and now is being planned for other regions, including India," said Ramesh Nagarajan, Chief Information Officer, Wipro. "This deployment has been one of the fastest large-scale rollouts of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 in India, and we are delighted with our association with Wipro for this solution," said Karan Bajwa, General Manager, Enterprise an

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Samsung India has announced its incentive programme for the Indian Contingent. Samsung's 2012 "Olympic Ratna" programme, which provides a scholarship for high potential sportsmen and women, saw the addition of ace shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu and MC Mary Kom, the only Indian woman boxer to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games.  B. D. Park, President & CEO, South West Asia HQ, Samsung Electronics, said, "At Samsung, we are committed to growing the Olympic movement in the country and are proud to have been associated with the Indian Olympic Association since the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998. Through the Samsung Olympic Ratna Programme that was first instituted at the Athens Olympics, we have sought to nurture and develop Indian sporting talent. Our support of the Indian Contingent, our Incentive programme as well as our ‘Olympic Ratna’ programme, are all aimed at enriching the growing sporting culture in t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Mahindra Satyam has appointed Edward ‘Ted’ Pretty as the Chairman for its Australian and New Zealand operations. He will also be supporting the Company’s Asian region for telecom business expansion. Ted will be driving the strategy for Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra across network engineering and operations, business intelligence & analytics, cloud, mobility and security. Ted’s experience will also facilitate expansion plans in the region as the Organization explores opportunities to offer a higher service suite to businesses in the region. Rohit Gandhi, Sr. VP, Mahindra Satyam (Asia Pac, India, Middle East and Africa) said, “Ted joins us at a time when the Industry is poised to transform. We look forward to benefit from his experience, leadership and feel confident that Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam will continue to excel in driving relationships, fostering innovation and deliver service excellence to our customers.”

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Antec Inc. has released the High Current Pro 1000 Platinum power supply, the first kilowatt-class PSU offered by Antec certified for 80 PLUS Platinum efficiency. Delivering a minimum of 1000 watts of Continuous Power, the HCP-1000 raises the bar for PSUs by offering enthusiasts and overclockers full modularity, maximum efficiency and future-proof compatibility. The HCP-1000’s four +12V rails deliver 40A each with low ripple & noise levels and an output ratio of up to 100 percent. Characteristic of Antec’s top-line power supplies, this unit delivers stable DC current with all Japanese capacitors and keeps cool with a 135mm thermally-controlled double ball-bearing fan. Mafalda Cogliani, Global Marketing Director, Antec said, “We wanted to give users the best possible feature set for their investment in a 1000 watt power supply. We designed a highly versatile, practical cabling to maximize cable management options and pushed H

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HCL Infosystems Ltd. has signed an agreement for acquiring Edurix Business of designing and implementing content for the K-12 education segment. Edurix Business is part of Attano Media and Education Private Ltd. It is believed that the company is looking at creating pocket-friendly products that cater to various segments of consumers, especially students. For More Details See www.varindia.com

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Bharti Airtel is said to launch customised cloud computing services for small and medium business enterprises. The company is partnering Hewlett Packard (HP) for the new offerings. The new partnership with HP would provide infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service to small businesses of sizes as low as five employees in a company to 500 people. Najib Khan, Chief Marketing Officer - Airtel business, said, "We have three focused areas - global, enterprise and government, and SMBs - to provide them solutions. Through different suites, we become their chief information officers on cloud to collaborate. The entire suite would be available now for connectivity, load applications, take care of data centres and managed services, and enable them on cloud. The information technology team of companies would not have to worry on shared infrastructure as Airtel would use its own data centres situated in the country."