VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)  and  The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)  have released a report on IT enablement of Indian business, titled “IT for India – New Horizons, New Opportunities” by the CII and BCG by Hon’ble Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal at the CII’s Industry-IT Summit 2013 in New Delhi. The report discusses the trends in IT enablement of Indian businesses and lays down the opportunities, challenges and the role of different stakeholders – IT providers, end-user industries and the government’s need to play in faster and better penetration of IT. Kris Gopalakrishnan, President-designate CII and Founder & Executive Co-Chairman of Infosys Ltd, said, "Effective IT adoption by Indian companies will be the key to realizing India’s GDP growth potential. It will improve the competitiveness of the industry, help them grow faster, capture new markets and create new...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Texas Instruments (TI)  has announced that it will host the TI India Educators' Conference aimed at bringing together professionals, academicians and students from engineering colleges across the country. Scheduled to take place on April 4 & 5, 2013 at the Bangalore NIMHANS Convention Centre, the conference will provide a platform for learning and knowledge sharing through project demonstrations, paper presentations and invited talks by experts. The conference will be inaugurated on 4th April by Steve Lyle, Director, Diversity & Workforce Development, TI, in the presence of Brad Ruzicka, Worldwide University Marketing Manager and Dr Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, President & Managing Director, TI India. In a first-of-its-kind initiative by the TI India University Relations Team, the conference is open to professionals, educators and students from all branches of engineering. Over 60 technical papers and 30 poser paper...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Quantum Corp  has announced that an integrated  DXi disk and Scalar tape solution  are expected to save Serco Global Technology Delivery $2 million in storage costs over the next five years. Serco, which delivers a range of managed and outsourced business solutions, has already benefited, reducing disk capacity needs by up to 96 per cent and decreasing restore times by a factor of five. In the last three years, Serco’s technology business has grown steadily from a 50-terabyte (TB) environment into an 800TB infrastructure. Serco expects to reach five petabytes within five years and had sought a flexible solution to protect the increasing volumes of data while reducing excessive management costs. The company identified an integrated disk- and tape-based system as the obvious answer and turned to Quantum for help. Serco now has eight Quantum  DXi8500 disk-based backup systems  and two Scalar  i500 tap...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In an effort to further support its growing partner network,  Dell(NASDAQ:DELL)  has announced the launch of its Enterprise Master Tool. The tool aims to enable the company’s partner network to identify and conclude sales deals with minimum effort and maximum results. The Enterprise Master Tool is partner enablement platform which provides a streamlined mechanism for partners to access information and tools to support them throughout the sales cycle. Partners are presented with different tools and material based on the stage in the sales cycle an opportunity has reached, ensuring they are always armed with the most relevant information to help them configure solutions and close deals. Ajay Kaul, Director & General Manager, Global Commercial Channel, Dell India , said, “Globally, we have nearly 113,000 channel partners, out of which 2000+ are in India. With a large and diverse geographical spread, we needed a single to...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HP(NYSE:HPQ)  has made announcement of new offerings which will enable organizations to use unique contextual understanding to gain actionable security intelligence from Big Data to better detect and prevent threats. Through these offerings, organizations can automatically apply sentiment analysis and event information to their Big Data and security event platforms to gain real-time visibility into the internal and external threat landscape. The new solution will broaden the reach of an organization’s security monitoring capabilities by bringing meaning to raw security data.  The new  HP ArcSight Cloud Connector Framework  allows organizations to easily collect application event and log data from cloud service providers. The HP ArcSight Cloud Connector Framework is based on industry-standard protocols, providing a single, real-time view into user activity and threat monitoring for on-premises and cloud a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Cisco has aimed to increase over 20 per cent growth in Indian video conferencing business in targeting the small and medium business (SMB) enterprises in the country. Minhaj Zia, Director for Collaboration Sales, Cisco India said, “Cisco expects to grow faster or higher than market growth of video conferencing in India which is 20 per cent. We are making video experience to be top notch at an affordable price so that SMBs can also adopt it.” Zia further said, "We are thinking of doing as well is to work on a pay-as- you-go model wherein they don't have to make an initial investment which is very high. We are also exploring options of a premium model where we offer a software-based video conferencing solution to SMBs.” Cisco is expecting to capture the market share of websites which are providing free solutions and are used by many SMBs. The company is looking forward to almost double its revenue share from SMB segmen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Nokia has reported decline in annual revenue to 2,227 million euros in 2012 from Indian business for the second consecutive year as compared to the revenue earned 2,952 million euros in 2010 regardless of increasing competition and currency fluctuation. Nokia has posted 23 per cent dip in revenue from 2,923 million euros at the end of 2011.  Spokesperson from Nokia said, "The year 2012 was one of transition for Nokia. While the first half of the year was challenging, our execution against a focused business strategy started to translate into financial results in the final three months of the year.” The spokesperson further added that sales from India captured company's cumulative revenue across all businesses including devices, infrastructure (Nokia Siemens Networks) and Here (formerly Location and Commerce).  In addition to this the report stated, "We are also seeing the emergence of various local mobile devi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In a shocking move, Bharti Airtel has been ordered to stop offering third-generation (3G) services in seven regions. Also, it is expected that Airtel will soon get another notice for sharing its 3G airwaves with Vodafone and Idea.   Besides this, Airtel may be asked to pay a huge penalty of Rs 500 crore for the alleged violation.  As a matter of concern, it is found that Airtel will not have the permits to offer high-end data services from 18 March. It is important to note that recently DoT( Department of Telecommunication) had imposed a penalty of Rs 350 crore on Airtel for offering high-end data services in Kolkata, Maharashtra, Gujarat and four other regions, where it does not have 3G frequencies.  Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea won 3G airwaves in 13, 9 and 11 circles respectively in the auction took place..... See More