VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

May 3, 2015 will be remembered as an important event in TAIT’s calendar. From the moment Sandeep Kulkarni of WD inaugurated the tournament, it was action all the way. The WD TAIT Premier League being held in a new avataar saw a huge turnout at the Central Railway Ground, Parel. The tournament saw a total of 15 games being played out by the 8 teams. There were two groups of 4 teams each. Group A had Creative United, Powersafe Heros, Sound Super Kings, Twinkle Royals, while Group B comprised of Aarvee Achievers, Live Tech Hitters, Pacific Warriors and Zion Champions. Each team played with the other 3 teams in a round robin format. The top two teams from each group qualified for the semi-finals. Each team had to have 3 TAIT members, 1 Vendor member and others as full-time staff in their teams. This uniquely designed format ensured a maximum networking. The organizing committee comprising of Rahul Javeri, Mukesh Mehta, Parag Shah, Sameer Mehta and Vinod Vanigota ensured that the mat

Rackspace has announced that it will offer Fanatical Support and premium managed services for Microsoft Office 365. With two new offerings, Fanatical Support for Office 365 and Rackspace Managed Services for Office 365, customers can purchase multiple Office 365 services from Rackspace, including migration assistance and tier-one support, as well as premium managed services for Office 365 licences not originally purchased from Rackspace. Rackspace has supported Microsoft Exchange for more than eight years. This new announcement extends the relationship with Microsoft to support customers across the Office 365 suite who are looking for an increased level of support. Rackspace support for Office 365 will include two solution offerings: Fanatical Support for Office 365 – Rackspace will sell and offer tier-one support for six Office 365 business and enterprise plans, including Office 365 Business Essentials, Business, Business Premium, ProPlus, Enterprise E1 and Enterprise E3. Cus

Red Hat has announced Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications, an accelerated way to develop, deploy, and manage applications at scale using open-source technologies. Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications integrates Red Hat’s PaaS, IaaS and hybrid cloud management offerings – OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat CloudForms, respectively. With seamless management of both OpenShift and OpenStack with Red Hat CloudForms, an enterprise management solution that enables open hybrid clouds by providing consistent visibility across virtual infrastructure and public cloud platforms, operators can more effectively manage both PaaS and IaaS from a single console. Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said, “Combining these powerful cloud offerings addresses a significant customer need to reduce silos and enable more efficient OpenStack cloud deployments. While other companies can provide one or two of the building blocks for a cl

Autodesk has announced the release of the new Autodesk 2016 Design Suites that offer more control than ever over all aspects of the design-to-make process through a connected desktop and cloud user experience. Autodesk design and creation suites provide customers with expanded toolsets, unique interoperability and a consistent user experience. “The 2016 Suites provide our customers with a full set of software solutions to help them design better products and succeed in a competitive market. Our 2016 range of software comes with deeper integration with cloud services, usability enhancements, flexible subscription options and enhanced collaborative processes that will considerably accelerate the future of how things are built or made. The tighter integration with Autodesk 360 will provide our customers faster rendering, visualization, simulation, and collaboration capabilities through design in the cloud,” said Pradeep Nair, Managing Director, Autodesk India & SAARC... See mor

Microsoft and ZNetLive have come together to empower SMBs in Rajasthan to take their business online, for as low as INR199. With this offering, they aim to help over 20,000 SMBs in Rajasthan to reach more customers globally, while making the business more discoverable, keeping the identity secure and enabling collaboration. This partnership will enable all small and big businesses to host and publish their website in less than 45 seconds, and enhance their sales output by connecting with more customers digitally. “Our association with Microsoft will help SMBs take their businesses online at an affordable price of INR199 per month. Our offer will not just provide them with website solutions, but also make them more collaborative and productive. We want businesses today, to recognize the power of web and cloud, and translate it to growth,” said Munesh Jadoun, CEO, ZNetLive. Manohar Hotchandani, Director, Business Development, Microsoft India, said, “Technology has made the worl

Wipro and ActiveState have joined hands to deliver cloud technologies and services to enterprises across the globe. ActiveState is the creator of Stackato Private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This partnership brings together the cloud implementation expertise of Wipro with the cutting-edge technology of Stackato, enabling agile enterprises to innovate faster than ever before. “We are excited about this partnership delivered as a part of our Open Cloud offering and believe that it delivers unmatched agility, control and security to our customers in their endeavour to transform their application lifecycle processes. This joint proposition also dovetails into application workload centric, software defined and open standard based Open Datacenter framework envisaged by Wipro,” said Anuj Bhalla, VP & Global BU Head, Product, System Integration and Maintenance Services... See more

Samsung has announced an initiative to set up 18th Samsung Technical School in the country at ITI, Kalamassery in Kerala. This was announced at an event in Thiruvananthapuram where Samsung signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Government Industrial Training Institute, Kalamassery, Kerala. The MoA was signed by Smt. A. Shainamol, IAS, Director, Industrial Training Department, Government of Kerala, and Rajiv Mishra, Vice-President, Samsung India Electronics, in the presence of Shri Shibu Baby John, Minister for Labour & Skills, Government of Kerala. The Samsung Technical School to be set up at ITI, Kalamassery will provide students trade-specific training on various aspects of repair and troubleshooting of consumer electronic products such as mobile phones, televisions, home theatres and home appliances. Through the specially-designed curriculum Advanced Repair and Industrial Skills Enhancement (A.R.I.S.E.) programme, the course will also offer students the opportuni

nubia has announced its debut in India with the launch of the much-anticipated nubia Z9 mini. Its boasts a DSLR quality camera and striking design made of aircraft grade alloy for absolute robustness and rigidity. The strong structure is encased in a stunningly beautiful metal body to ensure style and substance along with top of the line specs at a disruptive price point. The nubia Z9 mini will be exclusively available to consumers across India through Amazon.in. Felix Fu, Co-founder and Senior Vice President, nubia, “nubia has plans to make several significant investments and undertake initiatives to establish nubia as one of the most preferred among major global brands in India. Indian mobile phone users can expect us to surprise the Indian market with even more devices with high quality features at highly disruptive features to be launched further this year.” The nubia Z9 mini is powered by Android Lollipop 5.0 and nubia 2.8 UI out of the box. The dual SIM device features the