VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To strengthen its presence in the promising telecom market of the Maharashtra region, UTStarcom has roped in Aanand Bankar as General Manager – Sales, Mumbai. Aanand will be leading sales & operations development for UTStarcom to bring potential business growth in existing markets, and capturing emerging markets in the western region. The company is expanding its footprints in India and aggressively hiring industry experts across different levels to increase its market share in the fastest-growing Indian telecom sector. Prior to joining UTStarcom, Aanand Bankar served as the Head – Key Account Management (India & SAARC), ECI Telecom, Mumbai, where he played a vital role in supervising and controlling a team of Pre-Sales Managers, leading commercial negotiations, conflict resolution with customers and new account acquisition. William Wong, UTStarcom’s Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We are delighted to welcome Aanand Bankar on board, as he will be offering his expertise

To accelerate service delivery for cloud providers, Cisco has extended its cloud and data center relationship with Microsoft to include a new technology platform. Aziz Benmalek, General Manager, Hosting Service Providers, Microsoft, said, “Today, we are expanding collaboration with a solution that will allow our mutual partners to deliver services quickly and grow revenue faster with a cloud-enabled platform. The work we have done to integrate Cisco ACI with Windows Azure Pack will allow cloud providers to dramatically accelerate time-to-market, while decreasing costs. Together, Cisco and Microsoft are helping our partners evolve with the current market demand and rapidly-shifting customer needs.” The Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform will provide the building blocks for cloud providers to evolve beyond traditional Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings to create combined IaaS, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions tha

To help customers quickly identify and address software vulnerabilities, HP has announced that SAP will resell HP Fortify application security software as part of its quality assurance solutions portfolio. SAP is now offering the solution under the name SAP Fortify software by HP. As an expansion to a longstanding reseller relationship, SAP Fortify by HP helps address this need by enabling SAP customers to identify, triage and fix vulnerabilities in production applications, while also helping reduce risk by enabling security to be built in during software development. “With SAP Fortify by HP, SAP customers can now enhance the management of their software security risk by enabling proactive security testing throughout the entire software development lifecycle,” said Jyoti Prakash, Country Director, India and SAARC countries, HP Enterprise Security Products (ESP). Application security helps strengthen SAP’s quality assurance portfolio of solutions, allowing users to identify vul

To fulfill the promises made before the Delhi polls, the Aam Aadmi government has decided to hold consultations with various stakeholders to provide free Wi-Fi connection in the capital. Invitations are invited from interested persons, organizations, stakeholders to send their suggestions on business models, technologies, implementation strategies and any other aspects on email – delhiwidewifi@gmail.com till March 23. Aiming to help in bridging the digital divide and provide an impetus to education, entrepreneurship, business etc., the AAP government is taking steps to make Wi-Fi connectivity freely available in public spaces across the national capital. The consultation meet with the stakeholder is scheduled to be held from 24th to 26th March at Delhi Secretariat. The present government ensures active involvement of various stakeholders from industry associations, internet service providers, telecom service providers, value added service (VAS) /Over The Top (OTT) players, tel