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Blue Coat Systems has announced the addition of Mail Threat Defense to its portfolio of Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions. With the addition of mail threat defense, the company provides in-depth protection against the common trifecta of attack vectors – web, email and network –for unparalleled defense against advanced threats across the enterprise. Email is a potent channel for malicious intent and highly successful targeted attacks. According to Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, the email attack vector accounts for 80% of APT malware used for cyber-espionage. Blue Coat Labs recently uncovered Inception . Framework, a highly sophisticated malware attack targeting military diplomats and business executives using infected email attachments as one of the many layers of the cyberattack framework. “As email phishing and other malware schemes grow increasingly sophisticated and deceptive, even the most well-meaning, cautious employees can be fooled into clicking

Array Networks has announced availability of its new mid-range AVX7600 virtualized appliance. The AVX7600 can support both ADC and SSL VPN instances and supports up to 16 entry, eight small, four medium or two large virtual appliances per system. Support for pay-as-you-go pricing in quarter-capacity increments, with the option to mix and match virtual appliance sizes, allows cloud providers and enterprises to affordably scale customers or applications on a single high-performance appliance that simultaneously improves management efficiency and reduces requirements for space, power and cooling. “Service providers and enterprises are moving towards cloud and virtualization technologies, but are faced with challenges in maintaining performance and cost-efficiency for networking functions. With the AVX7600, these customers get the best of both worlds – the agility and management efficiency of virtual appliances and the performance and scalability of dedicated appliances,” stated Paul

Riverbed Technology has announced Riverbed SteelFusion 4.0, the first and only hyper-converged infrastructure solution for the branch of the future. SteelFusion 4.0 enables zero IT at the branch by virtualizing and consolidating 100% of data and servers from remote sites into data centers, centralizing data security and IT management without losing the benefits of running branch services locally. “With SteelFusion 4.0, Riverbed delivers the branch of the future with a zero branch IT solution that eliminates the challenges of supporting remote sites. This means getting all of the infrastructure – servers, storage and backup – out of the branch and centralized into the data center. By doing so, companies gain the agility to instantly provision new services and apps and to recover data in minutes versus days. This also means data security and control with full visibility, ensuring business continuity, and those apps perform as if local. SteelFusion 4.0 delivers on all these promises

With an aim to empower SME businesses in Andhra Pradesh, SAP has driven Ambition Express to Hyderabad to enable enterprises to deliver greater value to the business by optimizing operations and freeing up more resources for innovation. Shri Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, visited SAP Ambition Express and flagged off the Andhra Pradesh leg of the tour. “Agility is the need of the hour, and with the adoption of this technology, enterprises, especially SMEs, have greater opportunities than before to support business growth and achieve operational excellence. With SAP Ambition Express tour, we are confident that enterprises within the state will find value to combat the damaging effects of complexity, generate new opportunities for innovation and growth,” said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.  In the second phase of this pan-India bus roadshow, SAP Ambition Express will assist Indian enterprises gain more insights into the power of SAP solutio

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Automation has always been fascinating. From the days of the wheel, mankind has been looking for ways for machines to take over mundane everyday tasks. Over the years, technology has been used for the not-so-mundane tasks as well. We’ve come such a long way that entrepreneurs like Elon Musk refer toArtificial Intelligence as “summoning of the demon. I wouldn’t go so far, but I strongly believe that with the depth and sophistication of automation in the IT industry we have some interesting times are ahead of us. A good example to draw parallels to is the auto industry. Manufacturing has evolved – from the days of assembly line production to breaking down of functions into simpler tasks that could be done in a repeated fashion. With evolving technology,these tasks were graduallyautomated and today, robots with laser eyes complete precision tasks like final stage assembly and mounting of windshields. In more advanced plants, there are over