VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HPS  has announced that it has entered into a global services alliance agreement with  Tech Mahindra . Under this agreement, HPS' flagship PowerCARD payments technology  will now be available to Tech Mahindra’s customers worldwide. The alliance will enable Tech Mahindra’s financial institutions and payment processing customers of all sizes to improve their cards and payments businesses by replacing legacy hardware and software with a single, flexible and cost processing effective platform. Abdeslam Alaoui, Managing Director, HPS , said, "Tech Mahindra benefits from a truly global network, and its expansion plans are very much in line with our own strategy. The collaboration between HPS and Tech Mahindra has been excellent and HPS will continue working with Tech Mahindra to deliver modernization programs in electronic payment for any financial institution that is looking to win market share or escape the technology legacy t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Former CTO of SAP, Vishal Sikka  has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer and MD of  Infosys(NYSE:INFY) . He will join as a whole time Director of the board on 14th  of this month and take over the position of CEO and MD from S D Shibulal on August 1. Previously he was a member of the Executive Board of SAP, steering innovation globally.  On his appointment, Sikka said that he is honored to lead Infosys and that he looks forward to work with and learn from talented Infoscions around the world. He is grateful to the Infosys Nominations and Governance Committee, Kamath, Murthy and the board for the opportunity. The board has also elevated UB Pravin Rao, President and whole-time Director, as the Chief Operating Officer, with effect from June 14. Executive Chairman, N R Narayana Murthy and his son Rohan Murty  will step down from their position as Executive Chairman and Executive Vice-Chairman respectively on June 14. Murt

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Juniper Networks(NYSE:JNPR)  and  Aruba Networks  have signed a strategic agreement to deliver open, converged wired and wireless network solutions based on best-of-breed technologies. The partnership includes both joint development efforts and go-to-market collaboration, with the goal of providing innovative solutions for the toughest problems facing enterprises. As part of this effort, Juniper is enabling technology partners, like Aruba, to take advantage of Juniper's programmable silicon by making available key software elements and new programmable application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the High-IQ enterprise - an open, smart approach to enterprise networking that allows customers to fundamentally transform the user and operator experience. This will help foster industry collaboration to accelerate innovation for customers and partners. "Juniper is delivering best-of-breed High-IQ networks to customers t

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As organizations continue to migrate mission-critical applications to the cloud, secure access to sensitive data and application workloads remains critically important,  Fortinet(NASDAQ:FTNT)  has announced support for secure access to the  Microsoft Azure cloud platform . With immediate effect, customers can benefit from a secure  virtual private network (VPN)  access to Microsoft's Azure cloud offering while leveraging Fortinet’s broad and multi-layered security technologies across network, application and content security. "Microsoft Azure's cloud scalability, performance and economic benefits make it a convincing choice for customers wanting to leverage the cloud while continuing to use existing on-premises infrastructure. These customers require secure VPN access from office and branch networks to the cloud, and Fortinet’s next-generation firewall platforms extend on-premises data centers to the cloud while enabli