VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In a move that has stunned the industry insiders and analysts, IT security company Symantec Corp has fired CEO Steve Bennett , who had taken over the helm of the company less than two years back.Bennett is the second CEO to be terminated from his job after the company sacked Enrique Salem in July 2012. The board of directors of the Mountain View based software company has appointed Michael Brown as interim president and chief executive officer, until a permanent replacement is found. "We recognise Steve's contributions to Symantec, including developing and leading a series of successful initiatives focused on organisational realignment, cost reduction and process effectiveness," said Daniel Schulman, chairman of Symantec's Board of Directors, in a statement. "Our priority is now to identify a leader who can leverage our company's assets and leadership team to drive the next stage of

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Strengthening its product portfolio in India, Konica Minolta has reportedly launched pagepro1580MF which is a monochrome laser multifunctional printer. The product is equipped with printing speed of 20 papers per minute, supports 16MB memory and can be used for A4, letter, B5, A5, A6 executive size printing. It allows functions such as copy settings colour scanning and job cancel at the touch of a button. The compact printer has an in-built colour scanner and can be easily integrated into any small office or home setting. Tadahiko Sumitani, MD, Konika Minolta , said, “Our operations in India have seen a revenue of Rs.228 crore in the last fiscal and this fiscal is likely to end at the Rs.300-plus-crore mark and we are expecting to grow by 30–35% to touch the Rs.500-crore mark within the next two to three years.” Balakrishnan, EGM - Marketing, Koni

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     AMD(NYSE:AMD) has announced three new game developer partnerships for AMD Gaming Evolved, an ISV relationship programme that assists developers in creating an enhanced PC gaming experience. Rebellion Developments , Square Enix and Xaviant are the latest developers to join AMD in optimizing PC games to make them look better and run better for every gamer on AMD hardware. “AMD is proud to play an instrumental role in enabling quality PC gaming experiences. With collaboration between AMD and leading studios like Rebellion, Square Enix and Xaviant, we can work together to optimize the image quality and performance of highly-anticipated titles for an intense gaming experience,” said Ritche Corpus, Director of ISV Gaming and Alliances, AMD . Rebellion Developments is currently developing "Sniper Elite III" , the latest chapter in an award-winning series that promises to take gamers to the exotic terrain

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Dell(NASDAQ:DELL) has announced it is seizing a new market opportunity with the unveiling of a brand new series of full-featured, enterprise storage arrays designed for mid-sized fibre channel deployments. It will be available first in the Asia-Pacific region and planned globally later in 2014. The new storage array series, with an all-flash solution that can cost up to 76 per cent less than competing pure flash arrays, is the latest addition to Dell’s customer-driven enterprise data center portfolio of purpose-built solutions designed to make IT more efficient and practical. S. Sridhar, Director & General Manager, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India , said, "CIOs of Indian enterprises with mid-sized workloads are required to optimize their IT infrastructure and remain ahead of their peers in providing world-class services to their internal as well as external custom