VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Chandrahas Panigrahi has joined Acer as a Senior Director – Consumer Business from 04 May, 2015. As part of his primary responsibilities, Panigrahi will be heading the Consumer Business Group which includes the consumer product management team, retail management team, e-Commerce, modern trade and distribution teams. Chandrahas would be reporting directly to Mr. Harish Kohli, Managing Director, Acer India. Commenting on the appointment, Harish Kohli, Managing Director, Acer India said, “We welcome Chandrahas aboard the dynamic Acer team. Chandrahas’ leadership style and core competencies match Acer’s synergies and we are excited to have someone like him amongst us. India is a very dynamic market with and we are looking forward to leveraging Chandrahas’ rich experiences and deep learning in the consumer domain. Chandrahas would help to bring intensive focus to our consumer business and strengthen our retail roadmap in India as well.” See more

Symantec Corp. has appointed Shrikant Shitole as Managing Director for its enterprise security business in India. Based in Mumbai, Shitole will be responsible for driving growth for the company by developing and delivering on business strategy. Shitole takes over from Sanjay Rohatgi who has been promoted to Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan sales for Symantec. A seasoned industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, Shitole has held senior management roles across several enterprises in the IT and telecom segment. Prior to joining Symantec, he was the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Nelco Ltd. (Tata Enterprise), responsible for sales, marketing and product management. Before joining Nelco Ltd. he was the Managing Director for India and SAARC at Avaya Services, responsible for sales and service delivery. Shitole has also held various senior roles at Cisco and worked extensively across the Asia, Pacific and Japan region... See more  

SAP SE and HP have tied up and announced a new joint offering to help customers speed their transition to SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) utilizing HP Helion. This offering brings together both companies’ global consulting and software expertise to rapidly provision SAP S/4HANA on HP Helion Managed Cloud, accelerating customer time to value, without disrupting mission-critical processes. In addition, HP will serve as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services for business-critical SAP applications in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. The offering combines SAP S/4HANA, designed to help customers Run Simple in the digital economy, with HP Helion, HP’s enterprise cloud platform for deploying, managing and utilizing workloads in hybrid IT environments. Expertise in advisory, application migration and implementation services from both companies will help customers determine their ideal roadmap to SAP S/4HANA. “By combining SAP S/4HANA with HP migration and clo

Dell has expanded its thirteenth-generation PowerEdge servers that include PowerEdge R930, specifically designed for the most demanding enterprise applications such as in-memory databases, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Once the domain of UNIX systems, these enterprise applications are increasingly shifting to x86 platforms for increased innovation, additional capabilities and lower total cost of ownership. Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, General Manager & Vice President, Dell Server Solutions, said, “The PowerEdge R930, our powerhouse server, and our entire four-socket server portfolio are the latest examples of how we are providing our customers with the technology they need to address the business needs of today and tomorrow.” The PowerEdge R930 rack server can flexibly scale to optimize transactions and operations while reducing latency. It enables customers to:     Maximize application performance with 22-per cent better performa

NASSCOM’s 10,000 Start-Up Programme has signed an MoU with the Government of Maharashtra to open start-up warehouses in Navi Mumbai and Pune. The MoU signing ceremony was held in the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis and Hon. Subhash Desai, Minister of Industries, along with Bhushan Gagrani, CEO of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), and R. Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, NASSCOM delegates, along with other industry leaders and entrepreneur community. The key objectives behind the strategic partnership is to build entrepreneurial capabilities in the state, create a vibrant online community to link investors, mentors and start-up entrepreneurs, and create massive awareness about tech-entrepreneurship a preferred career option. The programme will also organize common application process in consultation with the Department of Industries and MIDC to generate massive volumes of start-up applications and make relevant connections

EMC has announced the release of Project CoprHD (“Copperhead”), an open-source version of EMC ViPR Controller embracing open development and a free “no restrictions” download for non-production use of ScaleIO software. EMC has also previewed future enhancements for ScaleIO. Open-source software is increasingly becoming a focal strategy for enterprise organizations to retain control of their business and innovate quickly to respond to changing demands in the market. Open-source software and open development practices enable organizations to avoid platform lock-ins, participate in projects and modify software to suit their needs while enjoying the benefits and access to a community of like-minded developers. Commercial software developers can benefit through leveraging an ecosystem of developer partners to help stimulate community-driven innovation around their existing platforms. ViPR Controller is storage automation software that centralizes and transforms EMC and third-party st

HP at Print China 2015 has announced new HP Latex and Scitex wide format graphics printers, presses and inks to help print service providers (PSPs) specializing in the sign and visual communications industry deliver results faster and at a lower total cost.  “PSPs and converters are challenged to do more applications and keep productivity high, while reducing costs and working with limited space,” said Jeff de Kleijn, director and general manager, Graphics Solutions Business – Sign & Display, HP Asia Pacific and Japan. “Backed by HP Latex and Scitex technologies, the new printers address demanding PSP needs for lowering operational costs, increasing workflow efficiencies and broadening application versatility to drive profitable growth.” Designed for confident, unattended printing in high production PSP environments, the 64-inch HP Latex 370 Printer with the new 3-liter cartridges helps keep running costs low. It prints from traditional signage substrates like vinyl and bann

Qlik has announced its Cloud offering that is comprised of multiple services.  As a result of its recent DataMarket acquisition, the Company is introducing Qlik DataMarket, a Data-as-a-Service offering via Qlik Cloud, along with Qlik Sense Cloud for free sharing and Qlik Sense Charts for sharing visualizations on public sites. Qlik DataMarket Offers External Data Sources in the Cloud for Comparison, Validation and Context As organizations move to a more data-driven culture, the importance of context becomes more significant.  The on-demand availability of normalized data sources that users can quickly pull in for added insights are key to more informed decisions to drive competitive advantage. With Qlik DataMarket users can access a comprehensive library of external data directly within Qlik Sense to allow users to augment and cross reference their internal data to gain context and drive deeper insights.  No other vendor in the business intelligence market delivers this type of

Ramco Systems has raised capital around USD 52mn (Rs 325 crs) through Qualified Institutional Placements (QIP). The company which recently published its unaudited financial results for FY 2015, had announced net profit after tax of USD 2.09m (Rs 12.7cr) for the year on a consolidated basis. The fresh infusion of funds is aimed at retiring a substantial portion of debts, supporting operational expenses to attract the right talent and enhancing marketing efforts in global markets. With Enterprise Cloud market touted to be among the fastest growing segments, Ramco has been investing in expanding and building capabilities to address global needs. Leading global and domestic institutional players have picked up stake in the company through this QIP. Ramco believes that raising funds at current valuation levels would be in the long term interests of the Company and would allow the Company to deleverage. Consequent to QIP, Public shareholding of Ramco shares has increased from 30.9% to 4

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has extended its contract with UTStarcom for three years. UTStarcom will support BSNL for a major network enhancement for the largest national wireline carrier in India. This reinforces the strength of UTStarcom’s advanced efficient and reliable broadband infrastructure solutions. This is an extension order for maintenance of BSNL broadband services with UTStarcom supplied products, including B1000 IPDSLAM, RPR, EMS, LAN switches, BNGs, and various applications like AAA, SSSC and SSSS. UTStarcom will supply and maintain BSNL Multiplay, the broadband triple play network for the next three years till 2018. “We are delighted to build on the success of our partnership with BSNL, and we are excited to play a key role in an effort to support the rollout of its ‘Multiplay’ broadband Internet service, by offering our robust portfolio of advanced yet affordable telecom infrastructure solutions. As a leading telecom infrastructure provider, we plan to exten

To enable enterprises to optimize and centrally manage their remote office infrastructure, Wipro has announced the launch of its Remote-Branch-Distribution Office solution (RoBoDo), based on Nutanix Web-Scale Infrastructure. Wipro’s RoBoDo offering registers significant operational gain and agility, all the while ensuring that an enterprise’s remote office management, transformation, upgrade, compliance guidelines and, above all, end-user experience, is assured. In collaboration with Nutanix and its partner ecosystem, Wipro has built a consistent, duplicable standard reference blueprint, comprised of designs based on hyper-converged web-scale IT. This IT architecture provides scalability and agility to the remote sites, which helps IT keep up with business demands at an optimal cost and improves remote data lifecycle manageability. “Remote Branch Distribution office is built on an emerging hyper-converged infrastructure, a complete cloud stack for enterprises to lower cost of

Ciena has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cyan. Under the terms of the agreement, Ciena will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Cyan in a cash and stock transaction currently valued at approximately $400 million (or $335 million, net of estimated cash acquired) and inclusive of Cyan’s outstanding convertible notes on an as-converted basis. Cyan offers SDN, NFV, and metro packet-optical solutions, which have built a strong customer base that is complementary to Ciena. Cyan also provides multi-vendor network and service orchestration and next-generation network management software with advanced visualization. When combined with Ciena’s Agility software portfolio, Cyan’s next-generation software and platforms enable greater monetization for network operators through more efficient utilization of network assets and faster time-to-market with differentiated and profitable services. “Ciena is transforming networks by applying web-scale technologies for delivering

AMD has unveiled new AMD 7000 Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), AMD Radeon 300 and M300 Series Graphics, and AMD A-Series desktop APU updates. “We are excited about the experiences our latest APU and GPU technologies will bring this year for tech enthusiasts, gamers and mainstream consumers alike. AMD’s commitment to graphics and compute performance is evident in the newly available 7000 Series APUs and the Radeon 300 Series graphics that deliver superior gaming experiences, premium entertainment streaming and innovative computing features,” said Matt Skynner, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager, Computing and Graphics Business Unit, AMD. New AMD 7000 Series APUs: Formerly codenamed “Carrizo-L” and part of the “Carrizo” platform in the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family roadmap, the mainstream system-on-a-chip (SoC) 7000 Series APUs delivers innovative computing to improve how one works plays and relax, all at an unbelievable value. These APUs combine a power-effici