VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd has announced the appointment of Vineet Taneja as the Country Head for its Mobile & Digital Imaging Business. Vineet is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in various leadership roles in companies including Hindustan Lever Ltd., Nokia India and Bharti Airtel. Prior to joining Samsung, Vineet was the Operations Director, South India and Sri Lanka at Bharti Airtel at the time of leaving the Company in February 2013.He was responsible for managing all lines of business , that is , Mobile , Fixed Line Voice , DSL and DTH (Digital TV) at Airtel for South India and Sri Lanka. He is credited with successfully leading the launch of 3G and driving the data and devices business for Airtel in its key geographies of South India. He also successfully led the Bharti Airtel business in Sri Lanka over the past 18 months. Prior to his stint with Airtel, Vineet was the Chief Marketing Offic...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   EMC Corporation(NYSE:EMC)  has announced the EMC Xtrem Family of Flash-optimized server and storage products and introduced a new line of EMC Xtrem SF PCIe-based Flash cards that dramatically accelerate application performance. With the addition of XtremSF, EMC continues delivering the industry’s only best-of-breed portfolio of Flash products. XtremSF is server Flash hardware, available in a broad set of eMLC and SLC capacities. It can be deployed as either direct attached storage (DAS) that sits within the server to deliver high performance – or it can be deployed in combination with EMC XtremSW Cache (formerly EMC VFCache) server caching software to turbocharge network storage array performance while maintaining the level of protection required by  mission-critical application environments . XtremSF joins EMC’s growing portfolio of extreme-performance Flash products, which include Flash optimized hybrid storage arra...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Defenx  has expanded its branches across all metro cities in India. Defenx has made its footprint in Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Chennai. This effort was put in to assure partners on the faster support and services. Since its inception in April 2012, Defenx has expanded their branches to five major cities. The second phase of expansion in the major cities like Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmadabad and Lucknow is targeted to complete before the end of March 2013. With these expansions, Defenx would extend faster support to the channel and also target to increase the business development activities in India. To cater to these strategies, Defenx gives active support to their partners at ground level. The channel partners will be given training on how to sell the Defenx products effectively. Vishal, Chief Marketing Officer, Defenx Software Solutions, said, "It is our first step towards successful penetration to have o...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Although some computer users may actively seek pirated software in the hope of saving money, the chances of infection by unexpected malware are one in three for consumers and three in 10 for businesses, according to a new study commissioned by  Microsoft Corp.(NASDAQ: MSFT)  and conducted by  IDC . As a result of these infections, the research shows that, in 2013, consumers will spend 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion identifying, repairing and recovering from the impact of malware, while global enterprises will spend $114 billion to deal with the impact of a  malware-induced cyber-attack . “Software is pirated in order to save money. However, the reality is that with pirated and counterfeit software, the user ends up paying for malware, Trojan, adware and other harmful viruses,” said  Sumeet Khanna, Director – Genuine Software Initiative, Microsoft India. The Microsoft-commissioned study also found ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Creating a milestone in the Indian education market,  Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO)  has announced the  Cisco Education Enabled Development (CEED 2700) solution . This collaborative, cloud-based video interaction solution will enable efficient delivery of education and skills development courses across the country, facilitating inclusive growth and empowering rural India. Codenamed “Dwara” (after the Sanskrit word for portal to signify a doorway to a new future), the product is the first of Cisco’s groundbreaking  “Internet of Everything”  solutions from India. Helping connect the unconnected, this solution will enable vast rural populations to access expert teachers and master trainers. Such training is nearly impossible in many areas outside urban centres. “CEED”  is the second product to be launched from Cisco's India site with the intent of driving innovation from India to the rest of the world. With successf...