VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Canopy, the Atos Cloud powered by EMC and VMware, has appointed Philippe Llorens as CEO. Philippe will lead the Canopy team to further strengthen its offering and market positioning in order to firmly establish it as the European leader in cloud serving clients globally. Ursula Morgenstern, Global CEO of Canopy, the Atos cloud, and Enterprise Software, said, “We are delighted to welcome Philippe to Canopy and are sure that with his experience, he will lead the team to further improve our service to our clients.” Philippe Llorens, CEO, Canopy, said, “I am excited to be joining Canopy which offers clients the complete cloud portfolio to support them on their journey to becoming a digital business tomorrow. We have an excellent basis on which to further strengthen our business and I am looking forward to working with the Canopy team and our clients.” With over 30 years’ experience and a proven track record of success in the software business, IT infrastructure and services,...

Cyberoam has announced a new firmware – CyberoamOS 10.6.2 for its UTM and NGFW security appliances. Among many updates included in the new firmware are the increase in Firewall throughputs by up to 430%, IPS throughputs by up to 210% and UTM throughputs by up to 190%, inclusion of User Threat Quotient (UTQ) offering security intelligence to spot risky users in network, availability of Cyberoam in Discover mode (popularly known as TAP mode) to help partners and customers evaluate Cyberoam security and Application Visibility & Controls for HTTPS-based Micro-Apps. Abhilash Sonwane, SVP – Products & Technology, Cyberoam, says, “We moved many notches up in offering high-performance security at the time of launching our NG Series security appliances. With CyberoamOS 10.6.2, we have touched even higher scales by further leveraging the fast path technology over Cyberoam’s multi-core platform. Our new performance breakthroughs will help Cyberoam customers boost network security p...

ZipDial has become the first Indian technology product startup to be brought by Twitter.  This is the third such deal led by a global corporation following the acquisitions by Facebook and Yahoo last year. announced in an official tweet  on Tuesday  morning is expected to cost Twitter $34-35 million. The Bengaluru based startup, co-founded by Valerie Wagoner has built a thriving business round the “missed call”. This feature is expected to help Twitter reach people who will come online for the first time in countries such as Brazil, India and Indonesia, mostly using a mobile device. Twitter’s purchase has spurred anticipation in India’s exit-starved technology product sector. According to a study by iSpirt and investment bank Signal Hill, India recorded just 141 deals, compared with 4,728 in the US during 2010 and 2013.   See more

Monster has launched the ‘Monster Salary Index’ aimed at successfully empowering jobseekers with a benchmarking to compare their salaries with other anonymous profiles across a broad spectrum of industry domains, experience, functional groups both in India and other global markets. For employers, MSI is an online salary survey that aims to provide employers with practical information and helps them make informed decisions by analyzing the salary market and optimizing employee remuneration.  Analysing the trends of the Indian market, the report shows that with a median gross salary of Rs 291.0, finance is the second most lucrative sector. Employees in this field are highly educated, and for these it reflects in their salaries with an average of Rs 300 per hour. Overall the Monster Salary Index shows the following median salary trend across sectors in India. Focussing on other sectors, the report reflects that the median salary gap between the highest paying industry and th...