VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT)  has kicked off "TechEd 2013,"  Microsoft’s premier technology event for developers, IT professionals, entrepreneurs and students in Bengaluru. The event will help developers and IT professionals hone their skills in app development, and thereby add more apps to the Windows ecosystem. Microsoft is currently making significant investments in working with 1.2-million developers (the second-largest developer ecosystem) and over 1000 Independent Software Vendors to empower them with the tools, technologies and training required to develop high-end skills and to compete in a global marketplace. Joseph Landes, General Manager, DPE, Microsoft India said, “Success of the developer ecosystem is a great triumph story in India. Microsoft has played a big role in enabling this triumph and TechEd 2013 takes it to a whole new level. Today more than ever before, developers, IT professionals and students have the o

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Belkin  has announced the completion of its acquisition of  Linksys . After the acquisition, Linksys’ technologies, including its routers and the popular and innovative Smart Wi-Fi portfolio and services, will be managed and maintained as a separate brand and product portfolio. “Linksys has a rich heritage, a passionate customer base and a wide product line, all of which fueled our decision to acquire the company and our plan to maintain the Linksys brand. The Linksys portfolio will continue to exist and evolve to include even richer user experiences and network management functionality. Smart Wi-Fi is an innovative and easy way for consumers to stay connected to their home network and we look to continue investing in it by adding more features and products,” said Chet Pipkin, CEO of Belkin. Linksys customers and retailers will continue to see new Linksys products come to market in the near future, starting with several announc

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ASUS  has launched  M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard  with Dual Intelligent Processors technology. This motherboard consists of the EPU (Energy Processing Unit) to monitor power consumption system for ensuring efficiency, and the TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) - guaranteeing superior performance for every task, bringing users an unbeatable experience. The TPU chip offers precise voltage control and advanced monitoring through Auto Tuning and TurboV functions. EPU enables a system-wide energy optimization by automatically detecting current PC loadings and intelligently moderating power consumption. This motherboard also comes with a Windows 8 Ready Compatibility. This motherboard also supports AMD CPUs in the new 32nm manufacturing process. AMD 970 Chipset is designed to support up to 4800MT HyperTransport 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and PCI Express 2.0 x16 graphics. It is optimized with AMD’s latest AM3+ and multi-core CPUs to provide exce

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   VMware  has announced  Partner Exchange 2013  on Tour for the India and SAARC region. The tour aims at enabling partners in the region to learn how to grow and transform their businesses for the cloud era with VMware. Partner Exchange 2013 on Tour is expected to attract more than 1,500 senior executives, sales professionals and technical experts from VMware’s community of solution providers, technology alliances, system integrators, distributors and OEMs in the region. The tour kicks off in Mumbai on April 8, 2013 and will also cover Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Partners will have an opportunity to engage and hear first-hand from VMware executives and their peers about new partner programmes, best practices and training roadmaps to help them successfully deliver VMware virtualization and cloud solutions in the region. Leading industry experts and senior executives from VMware – including Dan S

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SAP AG(NYSE:SAP)  has announced that  Avon Cycles, India’s leading cycle manufacturer , and  Nongfu Spring, China’s largest bottled water producer , are now ramping up customers of SAP Business Suite powered by  SAP HANA . The new product suite brings analytics and transactions into a single in-memory platform. “Today marks a significant milestone as we now enable SAP Business Suite to benefit from the power of SAP HANA, which since 2010 has been the core platform delivering real-time business outcomes for our customers by transforming both existing and new applications," said Rajamani Srinivasan, Vice-President – Applications Sales, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “Now the software, at the heart of thousands of the world’s best-run companies, can work and think as fast as our imagination. Together with a strong open ecosystem of partners, SAP Business Suite continues to fully support and optimize all major databases in the industry,

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   McAfee  has delivered the industry’s first-ever whitelisting security solution for  Android-based embedded systems . McAfee Application Control for Android is the only security solution that resides in the Android kernel, embedded in the operating system. McAfee provides protection from the installation or execution of a malicious application on an Android-based device. McAfee also provides protection at the application layer to Android devices. “McAfee is the only security technology provider that provides enforceable security by residing in the Android kernel space. As Android kernel has been adopted on core Linux platform, it was a natural ground for us to extend our whitelisting solution capabilities to Android,” said  Rishi Bhargava ,  Vice-President of Product Management, Embedded Security  at McAfee. “As Android continues to grow in its adoption, McAfee is committed to making this platform as secure and trusted as other comm