VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

HID Global has announced the opening of its design center in Chennai, India that enables the company to deliver more comprehensive product development for customers. The design center features 10,000 square feet of R&D facility space in the Tamarai Technology Park. The state-of-the-art facility represents a significant investment in HID Global’s ongoing advancements in delivery performance and product quality. The center will accelerate the development of new features and capabilities for Genuine HID products and reduce time to market for new products. It also features validation and verification service for all electronic and software products and services. “The new center in Chennai is a critical part of HID Global’s long-term growth strategy in emerging markets. It will also play a vital role in developing key secure identity technologies across HID Global’s business portfolio,” said Darren Learmonth, Global Vice-President, Engineering, HID Global. hid logo HID Global l

LG Electronics has rolled out Leather and DSLR feature-packed smartphone, the LG G4, in India. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan unveiled the LG G4. On the occasion, Soon Kwon, Managing Director, LG India, said, “We are really proud to bring the LG G4 to India. With this smartphone, we are living up to our promise of Innovation for a Better Life. This is a fashionable, premium smartphone that is more focussed on delivering a balanced user experience. With the G4, we are giving users a truly human-centric device that combines the analog sensibilities with technologies that deliver real-world performance. The G4 is by far the most ambitious phone from LG.” Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Mr Soon Kwon Managing Director LG Electronic 300x300 LG debuts G4 in Indian Market Mr-Amitabh-Bachchan-and-Mr-Soon-Kwon-Managing-Director-LG-Electronic With the G4, LG is focussing on delivering a great photography and visual experience, comfortable elegance and a human-centric user experience. Its

Ricoh has announced the launch of its fully integrated cloud-enabled PACS solution “Picasso” in Hyderabad. The new solution from Ricoh will not only provide access of medical images to patients and clinicians, reduce cost of providing medical care but also help us in saving environment. A web-based multi-specialty cloud-enabled solution, Picasso offers a wide range of benefits to Patients, Radiologists, Consultants and hospitals. The solution will improve user efficiency, reduce turnaround time, minimize cost of clinical imaging, optimize image compression, providing remote access to doctors. In addition to the physician and the radiologist, Picasso provides anytime-anywhere access to medical images to the patient as well, enabling them to access images on any mobile device such as tablets, cell phone or laptops. Further, it seamlessly integrates with any existing Hospital Information System (HIS) or Radiology Information System (RIS), to ensure consolidated patient’s data. This s

Sify Technologies Limited has announced the launch of the company’s Cloud services targeted at the Enterprise and SMB market in Kerala. Sify has tested the Kerala market and has received encouraging response. As a special offer, Sify’s Cloud services will be made available to customers in Kerala for a trial period 15-day. Sify has chosen a mix of internal promotions and Channel partners to maximize its go-to-market strategy. Under its Cloud services portfolio, Sify will offer Public, Private and Managed Cloud services to Kerala market which is fast emerging as an important SMB hub. With the second-largest digital service penetration in the country, Kerala is an attractive market for adoption of new-age IT technologies. Raju Vegesna Chairman Sify Technologies 300x300 Sify launches Cloud Solutions for SMBs from KeralaCommenting on the occasion, Raju Vegesna, Chairman, Sify Technologies, said, “We have received commendable response from Enterprises and SMBs here and are extremely e

At Federal Forum 2015, Brocade has unveiled the results of a federal IT survey revealing that less than 15 percent of respondents feel their agency’s current network infrastructure will be able to fully support the solutions necessary to deliver world-class digital services for government. Commissioned by Brocade and conducted by Market Connections, the study polled 200 IT decision makers across 64 federal agencies.  Other key findings include:     Ninety percent of respondents believe open standards are important and although almost half (47 percent) are considering or planning to adopt them in the next few years, only 11 percent have made the transition.  Security concerns were the commonly cited reason for not considering open standards.     Seventy percent of respondents are considering, planning or have already moved to software-defined networking (SDN), citing performance and ease of management as major advantages.     Eighty-eight percent of respondents have deployed vi

SAP SE has started the CloudView survey and business value practice study developed by IDC, which shows how companies may be falling short in their cloud transformation journey. The study identifies key strategic issues and business processes to address the gaps. Robert Mahowald, Program Vice-President, SaaS and Cloud Services, IDC, said, “Customers have found that they have managed the first phase of moving into the cloud – they have educated themselves and sourced new capabilities necessary to begin the journey. The stumbling blocks are now at the managed and optimized level, with skill sets required that will allow the organization to focus on strategy versus day-to-day operations in faster time to provision new services, in reduced IT costs and perhaps, most importantly, in the ability to make more revenue.” sap logo e1432887282103 SAP launches study to mature cloud strategyThe IDC study finds that many companies are naïve about how mature their cloud strategy really is. Imp

Innefu Labs has introduced a multi-layered Partner Programme in India. The programme is designed to expand the market for its multi-factor authentication solutions and helped partners to get benefit from this growing opportunity, while aiming at security SIs/VARs/MSPs/Security Resellers. A two factor authentication solution from Innefu, Authshield 2FA secures access to SAP ERP, Corporate Email, VPN, Remote Server Logins, Cloud Infrastructure and Web Applications with a second layer of protection and can be integrated in less than 30 minutes. AuthShield 2FA comprises dual mode of identification where along with the user ID and password of the user, verification is also done through a secure randomly generated one-time password (OTP) or a challenge response mechanism using PUSH Notification protocol. The OTP is generated automatically and provided to the user through multiple form-factors, including Hard Token, Mobile Push, Mobile Token, Soft Token, SMS Token and Voice Token. Auth

Elitecore Technologies has declared that CAT Telecom has chosen Elitecore’s end-to-end pre-integrated BSS stack to accredit their Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) strategy in Thailand. Under this Public-Private Partnership, Suvitech has been appointed as the single MVNE for CAT Telecom. A mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) is an organization that provides network infrastructure and services, such as Network Sub systems, Business Support Systems and Operations Support Systems to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). Elitecore’s BSS platform allows building MVNE infrastructure to enable multi-brand strategy, including the launch of new partner brands and multiple mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) on the same stack. The platform offers an integrated real-time billing, policy control and customer management which allows MVNOs to create product catalogue and enable basic services like Voice and Data bundled with next-generation digital services like sponsored data, O

UrbanClap, the mobile service marketplace, has arrived in Mumbai with their mobile app. In Bengaluru, currently the company is offering services in 23 categories, but it is planning to expand and provide services in more than a hundred categories by the end of the year. The mission of the company is to help consumers find the best services easily and provide the large base of individuals/small businesses with a platform to manage and grow their client network. From a plumber to a wedding photographer or a yoga teacher, user just need to put the requirements and the platform will bring the right professionals. urbanclap logo UrbanClap steps in MumbaVarun Khaitan, Co-Founder & Director, UrbanClap.com, said, “We started UrbanClap inspired by the immense potential that the highly unorganized services market in India holds. After our success in the Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru, Mumbai is our next city of choice for launch. Being the economic capital of the country, the residents of Mu

At Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards, Netmagic has won two awards in the categories of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Cloud) Provider of the Year and Third Party Data Center Service Provider of the Year. The company was felicitated with the awards in recognition of its outstanding performance, market leadership and new technologies application in cloud services and Data Center domain. Frost & Sullivan ICT Awards recognizes outstanding industry achievements by companies across the world in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The award recipients were judged on a variety of parameters that included revenue growth, market share growth, product portfolio density, key achievements, go-to-market strategy and involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. netmagic logo Netmagic bags two awards at Frost & Sullivan India ICT AwardsThis recognition reaffirms Netmagic