VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Schneider Electric IT Business  has announced the appointment of  Nikhil Pathak  as Country General Manager and Vice President, IT Business for India. Nikhil takes over from Shrinivas Chebbi, who has moved to a new role as the Vice President, Buildings Business, Schneider Electric India. In his new role Nikhil will be responsible for driving the growth of IT Business in India. Nikhil joined Schneider Electric India in 2010 as the Vice President for Building Business and was responsible for IBMS and Critical Security business. Nikhil carries with him more than 23 years of professional experience managing very diverse leadership role ranging from Sales and Distribution, Services business, Supply Chain and Business processes.   "Nikhil has successfully managed the Buildings Business for Schneider Electric India so far, and I am extremely pleased with his decision to move to the IT Business. Our IT Business has grown under

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kaspersky Lab  has conducted 9 training programmes for its retail partners, out of which 8 were technical trainings and the remaining one was a sales training. The format was a two-day training course with hands-on lab exercises. The training programmes took place in four different cities: Mumbai, Nasik, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Kicked off along with the launch of  Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business (KESB) , the trainings are part of the ongoing partner enablement undertaken by Kaspersky Lab for its B2B partners. Till now, more than 77 engineers got trained in the programme that was participated by over 49 partner organizations from across South Asia. "In order to sustain our growth momentum, partner enablement is one of our key imperatives in FY 2013. We have embarked aggressively on the B2B training front, and we believe partners will derive value from our programme as the unified nature of our new KESB solution ensu

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   McAfee India  has announced new Summer Bonanza Scheme for its partners who have registered for the  McAfee Rakshak Retailer Programme . This Bonanza scheme will provide the registered Rakshak partners, an opportunity to earn exciting points and cash rewards on the purchase of McAfee's 2013 edition of consumer product range. This product range includes McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2013, McAfee Internet Security 2013 and McAfee Total Protection 2013. Lubna Markar, Sr. Marketing Manager India & South Asia, McAfee , said, "Being a channel- focussed company, partner growth and profitability forms the basis of our strategy. Summer Bonanza offer is one of the many such channel profitability schemes in line with this focus and we hope that our Rakshak partners maximize the opportunity. Currently, we cater to 1,200 partners for the McAfee Rakshak Retailer Programme and we are sure such regular incentive and loyalty schemes will help u

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   WD(NASDAQ:WDC)  and  SanDisk Corporation(NASDAQ:SNDK)  have announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature flash memory technology from SanDisk and hard drive technology from WD. SanDisk is supplying its  iSSD storage devices  for the WD Black solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD), the 2.5-inch SSHD solution, which utilizes both WD proprietary hybrid technology and industry standard SATA IO technology. "I am delighted for SanDisk to team up with WD on these exciting new hybrid products. By combining SanDisk's unparalleled flash memory expertise and technology with the hard drive know-how of WD, WD Black SSHDs offer outstanding hard drive-like capacity, and the slim form-factor and the level of performance that you will only get with flash memory solutions," said  Kevin Conley, Senior Vice-President & General Manager of Client Storage Solutions, SanDisk . Matt

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As per an announcement made by  Dell(NASDAQ:DELL) , it has acquired a cloud start-up firm Enstratius . The acquisition is expected to give Dell another way to provide end-to-end-cloud solutions. Founded in 2008, Enstratius provides single and multi-cloud management capabilities as well as DevOps space, which will help Dell to move deeper into the software business. Enstratius is available as a  Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)  or as on-premises software. Presently, the company supports more than 20 public and private cloud platforms, including OpenStack,  VMware , Rackspace, Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure , with the added flexibility to easily add new clouds. It is worth noticing here that Dell has been making some interesting moves with its cloud approach in the recent times. Recently, Dell launched Project Fast PaaS, part of the new Dell Cloud Labs, which also includes Project Sputnik, the Linux laptop for developers and