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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Sophos  has reportedly released  Sophos Server Protection  - an easy-to-use and flexible server antivirus solution that defends data without sacrificing performance. It is the latest entry in a Sophos arsenal that provides simple, yet complete security for servers, the network and end-user devices. Increased migration to virtual servers and the ever-growing threat of attack on critical data are presenting new challenges to IT professionals, as they look to maintain high performance and density of servers, without compromising on security. Sophos Server Protection addresses these challenges by integrating agentless antivirus for vShield and full antivirus clients for Windows, Linux, Mac and UNIX into one centrally managed product. “Servers need the best protection against malware, but managing that protection while maintaining server performance across a diverse environment has inevitably increased complexity and demands on t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Distinguished members of  IEEE  believe that internet-enabled vehicles will play an instrumental role in improving the future of commuting. It is estimated that,  by 2025, 60 per cent of the cars on the road will be internet connected , which will promote advanced safety features, upgraded vehicle software protection and the continued adoption of autonomous vehicles. Internet-connected vehicles will also play a vital role in improving safety and convenience features. As technology supports the communication between people, we will also begin seeing a shift in how vehicles interact with each other, known as vehicle-to-vehicle communication.  “Through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, cars will be able to travel in closer proximity at faster speeds, as well as automatically reroute to avoid hazardous weather conditions or congested roadways,” said  Christoph Stiller, IEEE Member & Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, G

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   TRENDnet  is all set to kick-start their first set of road shows from September 3, 2013. The 3-city road show will be conducted in Delhi, Secunderabad and Cochin partnering with  Abacus Peripherals , national distributor for TRENDnet in India. Dealers, resellers and system integrators in and around the cities are invited. Atul Jain, Country Manager, TRENDnet India , said, "The idea behind these road shows is to let partners know how they can increase their product offerings to their customers by catering them some niche products and achieve better profitability. TRENDnet has a wide array of Cloud and IP Camera and the market has good awareness about the quality of the products as well. We would want our partners to communicate the same to the customers." TRENDnet has plans to educate the partners on the wide range of TRENDnet products catering to the needs of Home, SOHO and SMBs. TRENDnet would be displaying its produ

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Intending to secure traffic traversing virtual networks at the hypervisor level,  Fortinet(NASDAQ:FTNT)  has announced a proof of concept. With this approach, the security enforcement point is no longer required to be directly in the flow of traffic on the physical network and allows for injecting security controls before the traffic traverses the virtual network layer. Specifically, the proof of concept will show secured traffic flow in a VMware virtualized network environment that highlights security policy enforcement of communication across and between physical and logical workloads. This proof of concept will debut at  VMworld 2013 in San Francisco , FROM August 25–29 in Fortinet’s booth (#642). “Historically, security controls were required to be directly in the path of affected communication flow. Our VMware integration allows for a much less intrusive design and enables dynamic policy control. Today’s demonstration enha

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Hewlett-Packard(NYSE:HPQ)  Printing and Personal Systems Group, India has further extended its commercial PC portfolio with the announcement of  HP EliteBook Revolve 810  and HP ProBook 430. EliteBook Revolve has the ability to transform with the flick of the wrist to deliver a convertible computing solution to match any need. It is designed for businesses that require both an ultrathin notebook and a touch-enabled tablet. Driven by the latest, third-generation Intel Core processors and optimized for Windows 8, the HP EliteBook Revolve 810 offers the incredible performance and visuals of a full-power notebook alongside the flexibility of quickly switching to a tablet with a touch-enabled high-definition (HD) display.  HP also introduced  ProBook 430 , a business notebook with the power and performance that perfectly suits its solid design and elegant finish. Made of aluminum, with a spill-resistant keyboard and a soft-touch

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Wipro Ltd  has announced the launch of a range of information technology (IT) products for the aviation industry. The aviation IT product portfolio comprises of two categories of solutions: enterprise and mobility solutions. Enterprise solutions include products for crew management, route profitability analysis, loyalty management, inflight catering, aircraft maintenance planning and crisis management. Mobility solutions include products for pilots, cabin crew and flight dispatchers. These solutions have played a key role in enhancing customer service and operational efficiency of  Qatar Airways . Now these already proven solutions can be brought to market and deployed in a variety of means such as licensing or Software as a Service, said Akbar Al Baker, CEO, Qatar Airways. Anand Sankaran, Senior Vice-President & Business Head, Global Infrastructure Services, Wipro Infotech , said, We are developing new IPs with Qatar Airwa

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Dell(NASDAQ:DELL)  has unveiled newest additions to its line of commercial PCs - the  Latitude 7000 Series Ultrabooks , Latitude 5000 Series and Latitude 3000 Series laptops. With this new suite, Dell balances sophisticated design, quality construction and uncompromised durability to offer businesses of all sizes a wide variety of solutions. The Latitude 7000, 5000 and 3000 Series are available with touch display options, leading the way for business touch devices that enable better interaction with customers, enhanced student engagement, improved patient care, and collaboration among knowledge workers. "These exciting new additions to the Latitude line provide our commercial customers what they have been asking for by bringing touch capability to the workspace at desirable price points," said  Kirk Schell, Vice-President, Commercial Computing Group, Dell . "The new Latitude 7000 Series builds on the success of t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT)  has made Office Mobile available on the Android phones in India and across 14 markets in APAC at no extra charge for  Office 365 subscribers  via Google Play. Any Office 365 subscription plan that includes the full Office 2013 desktop applications also includes Office Mobile.  Specifically, these plans are:  Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, Office 365 Enterprise E3 and E4, Office 365 Education A3 and A4, Office 365 ProPlus, and Office 365 University. Similar to Office Mobile for Windows Phone and iPhone, Office Mobile for Android phones allows Office 365 subscribers to access, view, edit and share Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on the go from their Android phones......... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kingston Technology Company  has announced the SSDNow E50, the company's  latest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) .  SSDNow E50 enables performance-focussed organizations that do not have heavy endurance needs to obtain the same enterprise-level performance as Kingston's  SSDNow E100  but at a more cost-effective price point. "We found that there was demand within our customer base and partner community for an SSD that offers enterprise-strength reliability and superior features but with lower endurance capabilities and associated costs," said  Nathan Su, Flash Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston . "Based on this feedback, we developed SSDNow E50 and are pleased to further expand Kingston's SSD family to support the evolving needs of our customers and partners." SSDNow E50 allows companies to take advantage of enterprise-level SSD performance for tasks such as data caching, frequentl

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   NComputing  has announced the latest major release of its award-winning  vSpace Server software . Available immediately, the new release of vSpace Server software extends application and desktop virtualization capabilities to Windows Multipoint Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The vSpace Server software is a core component of the vSpace Virtualization Platform, a fully integrated, end-to-end solution from NComputing, to deliver the true benefits of desktop and application virtualization to millions of users worldwide. Market pressures, budget constraints and a mobile workforce are increasingly driving organizations to  desktop virtualization  as a viable alternative to traditional PC computing. Through a unique combination of simplicity, performance and value, NComputing removes the barriers and accelerates the adoption of desktop virtualization for today’s high priority IT initiatives, including mobility, BYOD and mig

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CP PLUS GmbH & Co. KG , Germany has launched its "Bright Ideas" Campaign in India. The "Bright Ideas" Campaign defines constant innovations in surveillance technologies based on the needs of customers by the CP PLUS. Under the "Bright Ideas" Campaign, CP PLUS kicked off its first Technology Road Show in Delhi on 24th August, aiming to showcase its preview of upcoming security technologies. After Delhi and Mumbai, CP PLUS will roll out these road shows in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad on 3rd, 5th & 7th September, 2013, respectively. Commenting on the CP PLUS "Bright Ideas" Campaign,  W. E. Wroldson, Managing Director, CP PLUS GmbH & Co. KG , expressed, "India remains the important and potential market for us. Our engineers at CP PLUS TeknoLogix Lab are dedicatedly working to bring in effective and value-added solutions for security professionals." At the  CP PLUS Tec

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Brocade(NASDAQ:BRCD)  has reportedly collaborated with  VMware  to develop a new management pack that enables enterprises to proactively manage Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) operating within highly virtualized environments to lower operational costs and increase application availability. Specifically, Brocade has collaborated with VMware to develop the  Brocade SAN Analytics Management Pack  for the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, which automatically sends real-time SAN health and performance metrics information from Brocade SAN fabrics into vCenter Operations Management Suite. The integration leverages the unique behavioural learning functionality in vCenter Operations Management Suite to provide useful baseline metrics and trending information for data traffic, as well as identifying SAN bottlenecks between servers and storage to enable more proactive application performance monitoring. This further simplif

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ASUS  has announced Z87-Deluxe/Quad, the first motherboard in the world with Thunderbolt 2 technology certified by Intel. Based on the new Intel Z87 chipset and ready for the latest fourth- generation Intel Core processors, the ASUS Z87-Deluxe/Quad ATX motherboard has two Thunderbolt 2 ports for connecting up to 12 devices at once. Each port has up to 20Gbit/s transfer rate and is backwardly compatible with Thunderbolt 1. Z87-DELUXE/QUAD  has been subjected to tremendous compatibility, BIOS validation, video/audio and other tests to verify its quality and design. Being the world’s first certified motherboard for Thunderbolt 2 technology also means setting the standard for all of the upcoming products, which is something that ASUS has always done, said  Joe Hsieh, ASUS Corporate Vice-President & General Manager  of the Motherboard and Desktop System Business Unit. Thunderbolt 2 supports daisy-chained connections with up to

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kobian  has reportedly announced the launch of its first  Dual-Core 7in Tablet - mTAB Star . Powered with the latest MediaTek chipset and Cortex A9 Dual-Core processor, mTAB Star performs at topnotch level. Enjoy lighting fast uploads and downloads with the inbuilt 3G feature. Powered with Android 4.1, the tablet is built in with 4GB storage expandable to 32GB, SGX531 3D engine, v2.1 Bluetooth support. Video calls and capturing memories and videos get easier with the Dual Camera and the special featured flash for the best picture shoots. Immerse in endless reading, social networking and internet surfing with in-built Wi-Fi module and call anyone, anytime through 3G SIM facility. Sushmita Das, Country Manager - India, Kobian Pte Ltd , said, "mTAB Star will compete and stand strong as the ultimate choice for purchase this festive season across the consumers for its lightweight and advanced features at an attractive cost.

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SAP Asia Pacific(NYSE:SAP)  and Japan has reportedly announced that SAP Labs India has won the CMO Asia’s “ Best Organization for Women Talent Development ” award across Asia for its contribution to the empowerment of women in the industry. The award specifically recognizes the efforts undertaken at SAP Labs India to engage women successfully and have cheered and supported the development of women professionally. CMO Asia is a peer networking body dedicated to knowledge exchange through leadership and networking amongst decision-makers across industry segments.  CMO Asia’s recognition validates our commitment to the empowerment of our women employees. At SAP, there is a strong emphasis to nurture and inspire young women employees to develop their skills, abilities and career, which has resulted in a significant growth of women leaders, said  Bhuvaneswar Naik, Vice-President Human Resources, SAP India . Women constitute a sizabl

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Canon India  has appointed Andrew Koh as Senior Director of the brand’s Imaging Communication Products (ICP) business effective August 2013. Koh is based in New Delhi and operates out of Canon India’s headquarters located in the National Capital Region (NCR). In his new role as the Senior Director of the ICP business in India, Koh would be responsible to steer Canon’s positioning as leaders in Digital photography and help grow the pie for Digital SLR category. Congratulating Koh on his new role,  Dr Alok Bharadwaj, Executive Vice-President, Canon India , said, “Andrew has joined us at the time when it is a challenging year, particularly in the photography domain. There are a lot of opportunities to be explored. India is a young country and our youth are exhibiting growing intent in high-quality photography. Andrew’s addition to team India is a strategic decision to drive long-term growth for the company and specifically for the

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   It seems the depreciating value of the Rupee is taking a toll on the prices of IT products. As per the latest report,  LG Electronics India Private Limited (LGEIL)  has announced a marginal increase in the prices of its IT products. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, IT Sales Head, LG India , said, "The increase in the prices of our IT products is the the macroeconomic situations that are beyond our control. This price hike was necessitated due to the ongoing rupee depreciation. An increase of Rs.500 to Rs.1,500 would be applicable on all the monitor models, and Rs.100 on optical drives. We have tried to absorb the maximum cost to minimize the price increase and provide our customers with the best in class products." The price increase across all the IT products would come with immediate effect....... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   RAPOO  has reportedly conducted its first partners' meet in Mumbai recently. The meet attracted 250+ partners in and around the Mumbai. RAPOO global heads addressed the partners. RAPOO provided a platform to the ITDA members who officially launched their logo at the event. RAPOO announced the lucky draw winners for " RAPOO Malamaal Offer ", conducted between July 5 & 16, 2013 and also "RAPOO Bumper Offer", which was an on-the-spot lucky draw for all the attendees. Oliver Shi, APAC General Manager, RAPOO , highlighted the global business of RAPOO and introduced a vast range of RAPOO products to the partner community. He assured full support from RAPOO to all the partners despite the volumes they would commit to move in the market. Oliver introduced upcoming products and his plans to develop a strong after-sales support system to assist the partners. He also communicated briefly on his plans for the big la

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  has made an official announcement that it has expanded its partnership with  VMware  to deliver a broad range of solutions for unifying virtual and physical networks within a virtualized data center environment. These solutions, which will include VMware NSX L2 Gateway integration and VXLAN routing capabilities across access, aggregation, core and edge tiers of the data center network, will offer enterprise customers seamless management of workflows across virtualized and non-virtualized systems. Juniper Networks' VXLAN routing and gateway capabilities enable both intra- and inter-data center solutions and accelerate the transition to software-defined networking (SDN). "Network virtualization is rapidly transforming virtual data centers today, and as enterprises seek to simplify IT by accelerating their use of private and hybrid cloud environments, physical and virtual networks must be viewed and

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IDC  has recently named  HP India(NYSE:HPQ)  as #1 vendor of PC (for a third successive quarter) and for Printers yet again. HP has reinforced its technology leadership in India through its superior lineup of innovative, new PC and printing products and offering best-in-class services. "In terms of vendor share, HP recorded its highest-ever quarterly market share with an astounding 34.1% share, accounting for one-third of the India PC market for Q2 2013," said  Kiran Kumar, Research Manager, IDC India . "Though the enterprise PC business was primarily driven by the single-largest notebook deal in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the vendor also led the consumer PC business in India with their well-established channel network and incentive programmes tied with their effective pricing strategies," adds Kiran. "The IT marketplace is transforming rapidly, and technology companies are challenged to deliver inno

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In a first-of-its-kind move to offer its subscribers the best in calling tariffs,  Videocon Mobile Services  has introduced a special US and Canada ILD (International Long Distance) Pack. This never before voucher is available for both new and existing subscribers and offers the lowest calling rates to the US and Canada across the industry. This voucher offers free ILD calls to US and Canada at an effective price of less than 10P/minute, which is a discount of 98% on the rack rate of Rs 6.40 per min. The brand has made international calling even cheaper than local calls. This pack will offer the subscribers of Videocon Mobile Services 1,000 minutes of calls to the USA and Canada at a nominal price of Rs.105 for existing customer and Rs.135 for new acquisitions, validity of the pack being four weeks. Arvind Bali, Director & CEO, Videocon Telecommunications Ltd , said, Videocon Mobile Services is engaged in bringing the best

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In order to simplify IPsec VPN access for Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X users, WatchGuard Technologies  has announced a new partnership with  NCP Engineering . NCP's best-of-breed remote access VPN technology is available in a new WatchGuard IPSec Mobile VPN client for the XTM family of unified threat management appliances. The solution reduces administrator set-up and gives end-users one click VPN access. The new IPSec Mobile VPN client delivers key features including support for two factor authentication, pre login to Windows domains, FIPS 140 2 conformant IPsec algorithms, and a secure personal firewall. The addition of  NCP's universal IPsec VPN client to WatchGuard's VPN solution  means that, regardless of enterprises' mobile devices, operating system requirements or networking infrastructure, customers can quickly and easily meet the remote access demands of their employees. NCP is a leader in secure remo

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Continuing with its focus to foster innovation amongst users,  GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co.  has announced its latest range of 8 series motherboards based on the new Intel H81 Chipset (PCH) supporting the latest fourth-generation Intel Core processors. GIGABYTE Intel H81 series motherboards include ATX and Micro-ATX models, bringing together a blend of features and technologies that offer the absolute best in terms of quality, durability and overall lifespan. GIGABYTE H81 series motherboards  stand out from the competition with signature features that guarantee the utmost in both performance and reliability. High-quality components for key areas of the motherboard are joined by an updated and improved UEFI DualBIOS which offers a customizable, full HD BIOS environment, plus the new GIGABYTE App Center, which combines key GIGABYTE applications in a simple, unified interface. GIGABYTE H81 series motherboards also provide additional USB

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Mahindra Comviva  has reportedly extended its partnership with  Vantrix , a pioneer in mobile video optimization and delivery solutions. Through this extended association, Mahindra Comviva will effectively manage, optimize and monetize the explosive growth of video traffic that service providers are experiencing in their markets. With this partnership,  Vantrix's advanced video optimization solution , Bandwidth Optimizer, will be integrated with Mahindra Comviva's Mobile Data Platform (MDP), which is targeted at addressing the broadband traffic and specifically Video Traffic for Policy Management, Optimization and Monetization (MOM). This integrated solution will enable service providers to manage, optimize and monetize their mobile broadband video traffic while offering their subscribers a high performance and rich media experience, leading to increased data adoption and reduced network congestion. Madan G. Onkar, Vice-Pre

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Hexaware Technologies Limited  has announced that affiliates of  Baring Private Equity Asia ("Baring Asia")  have signed definitive agreements to purchase approximately 125 million Hexaware shares, from Promoter Entities, led by Atul Nishar (which holds 27.7% of currently outstanding share capital), and GA Global Investments Ltd (which holds 14.1% of currently outstanding share capital), an affiliate of General Atlantic ("GA"), in aggregate representing 41.8% shareholding in Hexaware. Under the terms of the Share Purchase Agreement, Baring Asia will pay the Promoter Entities and GA a price of INR126 or INR135 per share aggregating INR1,575–1,687 crore (approximately $242–260 million based on INR/USD rate of 65), with the higher price of INR135 per share being payable on Baring Asia reaching 50% or above aggregate shareholding in Hexaware in the transaction. Atul Nishar, Chairman, Hexaware , said, "Since I f

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HP(NYSE:HPQ)  has announced new  HP Converged Storage innovations  that enable customers to maximize the return on investment (RoI) of their virtual infrastructure by lowering costs while increasing agility and capacity utilization with Data Tiering. Extending its six-year leadership in software-defined storage, HP has announced new  HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)  software functionality. These new features include automated sub-LUN (logical unit number) storage tiering and increased VMware and Microsoft integration to improve efficiency and performance. New licensing options provide deployment flexibility to support current workload requirements and future growth needs. HP also introduced two software plug-ins for  HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage , one for use with VMware, and the other for use with SAP. These plug-ins help customers simplify management of complex application deployments. "To reduce data cent

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IDC  has reportedly revealed the PC shipment report for Q2 2013. The report says that the overall India  PC shipments for Q2 2013  stood at 3.53 million units, i.e. a substantial year-on-year growth of 24.0% over Q2 2012 and a quarter-on-quarter surge of about 30.2% over Q1 2013. According to  Kiran Kumar, Research Manager , "State-led manifesto-driven spending on notebooks steered commercial investments in the Indian PC market in Q2 2013. Special projects currently being executed in states like UP, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu accounted for roughly one-third of the total PC market size in Q2. However, the organic demand for PCs in India outside special projects has weakened, which remains a cause of concern for PC vendors.Further, rupee slide derailed enterprise spending, as the investment decisions remained seemingly delayed across most of the verticals." On the other hand, the consumer market in Q2 witnessed a marginal