VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The technology services company  Hewlett-Packard(NYSE:HPQ)  has reportedly notched yet another big deal. According to the latest update, HP has won a Rs 400-crore technology outsourcing contract from public sector lender  Corporation Bank . It is worth noticing here that other biggies of industry including Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, were also in the race to get the Corporation Bank deal. Under the terms of the deal, HP will design and implement necessary enterprise software along with setting up and maintaining bank's data centre. However, it is difficult to say anything confirmed on the deal as both HP and Corporation Bank...... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Intending to expand its smartphones and mobility devices portfolio in the consumer segment,  Intex  has launched five new products including four models in the Wi-Fi networking segment. Additionally, Intex has revealed that it is planning to build its enterprise business by expanding its products category. As part of this business plan, the company is planning to ramp up its product strategy to offer a wide range of networking solutions that will cater to the needs of the users having internet connection by any ISP in India. The wireless modems include W300D and W150D delivering a wireless speed of up to 300Mbps and 150Mbps, respectively. The wireless router portfolio includes W308R andW316R. The new ranges of products are b/g/n devices that provide four times faster wireless speed and are backward compatible with 802.11b/g devices. Vikram Kalia, General Manager -  Product Management, Intex Technologies (India) , said, "Th

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As per the latest update, research firm  Gartner  lowered its projections for  global IT spending for 2013 to $3.7 trillion , while, according to the previous estimate, Garnet forecasted a growth rate of 4.1 per cent in overall IT spending.  It is important to note here that the IT spending was projected at $3.6 trillion in 2012. Exchange rate movements, and a reduction in our 2013 forecast for devices, account for the bulk of the downward revision of the 2013 growth. However, Western Europe's constant currency growth has been inched up slightly as strategic IT initiatives in the region will continue despite a poor economic outlook, said  Richard Gordon, Managing Vice-President, Garner Research Inc. Spending on other segments like data centre systems, enterprise software, IT services and telecom services is forecasted to touch $149 billion, $324 billion, $968 billion and $1.69 trillion, respectively. As far as the outlook for

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As the clamour for free roaming across india continue to grow, telecom service provider  Bharti Airtel  has announced 'free' incoming national roaming packs. The country's biggest telecom company, Airtel became the first to announce  "free incoming calls"  on roaming at a charge of Rs 5 for a day. The customer who will make outgoing calls while roaming is being charged 1.5 paise for a second. The second plan of AIrtel costs Rs. 79 to the users which can avail free incoming calls on national roaming for a period of 30 days. Other telecom providers are expected to announce their plans in this regard in imminent future...... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   To provide high-definition (HD) content transcoding and delivery of HD video via the cloud,  Tata Communications  has announced the launch of cloud-based broadcast quality video transcoding and delivery service. Developed in partnership with Harmonic, the new content transformation service allows  Viacom18  to maximize its return on investments made in creative programming and to tackle piracy by enabling simultaneous syndication play-out anywhere in the world. The new service offers content creators, service providers and media professionals an integrated end-to-end workflow for moving content files to the cloud and transcoding them into broadcast quality formats ready for immediate delivery and transmission globally.  Viacom18 is currently using the service for the daily transcoding and delivery of HD Masters of leading Indian soap programmes to its customers in Pakistan for same-day syndicated play-out.  Sameer Kanse, Busine

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   For the customers to optimize the traditional and cloud deployment models and also to maximize their IT return investments,  HP(NYSE:HPQ)  has announced expansion of its Converged Cloud Professional Services Suite with new Technology Services. The new technology services will provide customers with a single point of support and cohesive cloud solution for hybrid cloud design as well as implementation and support for their unique needs. The hybrid cloud support of HP also ensures the customers to diagnose and resolve issues to free up IT resources for innovation. Biswanath Bhattacharya, VP & GM, India Technology Services, Enterprise Group, HP , said, "Failure to plan workload deployments with the right service levels across the hybrid cloud can lead to outages and poor performance, negatively affecting user experience. HP Technology Services helps provide consistent, enterprise-grade support for hybrid environments so custome