VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Ari Jaaksi has joined McAfee  as senior vice-president and general manager, Mobile Engineering and Operations.  In this role, Jaaksi will be focussing on the alignment of McAfee's mobile go-to-market strategies and developing and delivering mobile security products for the company's consumer and enterprise users.   Todd Gebhart, Co-President, McAfee, said, “Ari’s experience in developing mobile and wireless software and hardware products for large, high-tech companies will prove to be a valuable asset as we continue to grow and strengthen our mobile product portfolio. He has built and led successful teams globally for well known mobile brands, and we are excited to have him on board... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank (SVC)  has chosen  IBM's BladeCenter solution  to optimize their IT infrastructure to support their branch expansion plans.  Shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank embraced IBM BladeCenter to run their virtualization solution and gain operational efficiency. The bank aims to grow to 250 branches across the country and achieve Rs.25,000 crore business turnover by 2014. With IBM’s BladeCenter solution, SVC could consolidate and virtualize servers with improved and uninterrupted functioning of business critical applications. They could also quickly deploy these applications as per requirements. SVC has attained a smarter and energy-efficient IT infrastructure that provided high Return on Investment (RoI)... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to  Cisco Global Cloud Index , the global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow six-fold - a 44-per cent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) - from 683 exabytes of annual traffic in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016.  The vast majority of the data center traffic is not caused by end-users but by data centers and cloud-computing workloads used in activities that are virtually invisible to individuals.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   With the introduction of new applications for its inkjet printers, innovative product range and state-of-the-art production facilities,  Canon aims to become No. 1 in the Inkjet printer category by 2015 . According to research by IDG, in the last quarter of 2011, Canon has surpassed Hewlett-Packard to become the leader in the ink-jet printer market in China with a market share of 41 per cent. In 2008, the company only held 23 per cent of the market for those products.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Trend micro  has reported that a type of malware named  Dorkbot dupes users of Skype  into clicking on a link. The link, in turn, directs them to download a file which includes the malware.  The link (which includes the user name of the recipient) goes to a file hosted at a legitimate file locker service. The file downloaded is a variant of the DORKBOT malware family, which is detected as WORM_DORKBOT.DN.  This malware allows an attacker to take complete control of the user’s system. Its capabilities include password theft form various websites (including pornographic sites, social media, file lockers, and financial services), and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass  $3.7 trillion in 2013 , a 3.8 percent increase from 2012 projected spending of $3.6 trillion, but it’s the outlook for big data that is creating much excitement, according to Gartner, Inc. “By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States,” said Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of Research... See More