VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE To free the network gear from bugs and malicious software and also to address the government’s security concerns, Tech Mahindra has been asked by the Department of Telecom (DoT) to set up a $100-million (Rs.550-crore) test lab. Senior officials of the DoT recently visited Tech Mahindra's telecom devices testing lab in Noida, which is managed by its wholly-owned arm CanvasM.  The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, which was originally tasked with the job of setting it up by DoT, has not executed it on time. That is why DoT now has to extend the April 1, 2013, deadline for mobile operators who were mandated to use telecom gear tested by an authorized lab in India. Rajan Mathews, Director General , COAI, said, "Tech Mahindra is keen to set up such a facility since they already run several test labs in the country and overseas."  An executive of Tech Mahindra stated, "We have told DoT about our keenn...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE To link the company’s products into cloud services arrangement and flow management solutions, Arista Networks has unveiled software-defined networking (SDN) extensions to its data center switch operating system. The new release of Arista's EOS software, include APIs for integration with orchestration, provisioning tools and customer applications. Among the APIs are an enhanced OpenStack Quantum plug-in, OpenFlow 1.0 support and enhanced data plane programmability for OpenFlow. According to Arista Networks, the extensions in EOS are designed to speed up provisioning of cloud services and IT workflows from weeks to seconds. These extensions will enable data plane manipulation of flow tables in Arista switches for programmatic control of network path selection. The OpenFlow implementation allows customers to implement a heterogeneous IP and OpenFlow switch. OpenFlow allows the Arista switch to be orchestrated through an Open...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   GIGABYTE Technology (India) has developed 7 series motherboards for the Indian market, which are designed for third-generation Intel Core processors. The motherboard models are G1.Sniper M3 and GA-H77-DS3H. The motherboard series features upgrade for Do It Yourself (DIY) PC users by presenting specifications compatible with future CPUs, VGA cards, memory, SSDs and wireless protocols for a longer time. They provide system upgrade by combining   digital power design Dual UEFI BIOS and GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 4 technologies. GIGABYTE 7 series motherboards feature an onboard mSATA slot, allowing DIY builders to take advantage of advanced SSD-based technologies like Intel Smart Response and Intel Rapid Start. The G1.Sniper M3 motherboard ensures exceptional power delivery and absolute control with an exclusive “Digital” VRM design, GIGABYTE 3D Power and GIGABYTE 3D BIOS (Dual UEFI). This motherboard is priced at Rs.12,500 ap...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As per the latest information, Nokia’s D Shivakumar, who is serving the company as Operations Head for India, West Asia and Africa, has resigned from his post. Shivakumar spend almost 8 years with the Finnish handset maker.  Presently, he is based in Dubai, and oversees Nokia’s operations in about 90 countries. Now, he is planning to come back to India after the June quarter. Shivkumar said, "When I joined Nokia, India had about 80 million mobile phone subscribers. Today, there are over 900 million. I believe that Nokia too had a role to play in this along with mobile operators.” It is worth noticing here that Shivakumar has done an exceptional job at Nokia as he is responsible for driving numerous brand building initiatives in India...... See More