VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Informatica Corporation has announced two executive appointments to further strengthen the leadership team. Ginna Raahauge has joined as Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), reporting to Mike Berry, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, Jeff Moses will serve as Senior Vice-President of Cloud Sales, reporting to Charles Race, Executive Vice-President of Worldwide Field Operations. “Informatica has always been a great place to work because of the talented individuals and leaders we have, their focus on our customers’ success and their commitment to changing the world through data,” said Jo Stoner, Chief Human Resources Officer, Informatica. “As we enter the next phase to grow Informatica into a multi-billion dollar company in all things data, Informatica continues to attract the best minds in the industry. Today’s appointments of Ginna as our CIO and Jeff as our head of Cloud Sales are exciting ones and both will play instrumental ro...

NETRACK has announced a strategic partnership with Silentium. Silentium’s noise reduction solutions will be embedded in the rackmount cabinet – AcoustiRACK ACTIVE (ARA) introduced by NETRACK. These can drastically reduce noise levels up to 30 dB(A) and provide 8KW of heat dissipation/cooling and dust protection for servers and networking equipment. The two companies will work together to eliminate noise pollution and deliver world-class products with increased efficiency and energy consumption. Ravi Raj, Brand Head, Director Sales & Support, NETRACK, said, “Energy consumption and noise pollution have been increasing over time and are among the top challenges faced by the IT industry. As we know, very high levels of noise can cause stress and stimulate unnecessary aggression at the workplace. To lower the noise of servers and other embedded equipment, we have incorporated Silentium’s noise reduction solutions. These will not only reduce the noise levels but will also help min...

LG Electronics has roped in Kim Ki-Wan as the Managing Director of its India operations with effect from August 1, 2015. Presently, Kim is the Executive Vice-President of LG’s Home Entertainment Overseas Sales & Marketing Group. LG India has strengthened its market leadership in consumer durables under Kwon’s tenure and continued to register double-digit growth in core consumer durable business in first half of 2015 as in 2014 as well. After a successful 5-year stint in India, Kwon will relocate to LG’s Korea HQ to play a key role in its stated goal of strengthening the B2B business, including commercial displays, globally. He will now take over as the head of its Information Display (ID) business globally... Read more

Tata Consultancy Services has been selected by Adobe as a Premier Partner, the highest level of partnership among Adobe’s global ecosystem. This new partnership enables TCS clients to fully leverage Adobe’s Marketing Platform and its core solutions, allowing them to design and execute customized strategies and integrated marketing campaigns to suit specific target audiences and customer profiles. As enterprises increasingly prioritize digital technologies into their core marketing strategies, they can be assured that TCS and Adobe’s Digital Marketing Solutions and Services will harness centralized and shared data to consistently deliver contextually relevant, real-time personalized experiences to consumers... Read more

Dell has announced the addition of PowerEdge C6320 in its thirteenth-generation Dell PowerEdge server portfolio. It delivers up to two times performance improvement on the leading HPC performance benchmark, and has the right mix of cost-efficient compute and storage in a compact, 2U chassis for HPC and hyper-converged solutions and appliances, allowing customers to meet demanding workload needs. Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India, said, “Our latest PowerEdge Server is designed to provide our customers with up to two times of performance improvement over the previous generation that will give them an edge in today’s competitive business environment. The solution is also ideal to work in hyper-converged systems supporting software-defined strategies and simplifying management.” Read more

An investigation conducted in London has shown the ease with which personal data can be hacked when the target is using public Wi-Fi. Security and privacy software company F-Secure teamed up with penetration testing expert Mandalorian Security Services and the Cyber Security Research Institute to conduct the test by hacking into the devices of three politicians. The exercise was carried out with the permission of the politicians, Rt. Hon. David Davis MP, Mary Honeyball MEP and Lord Strasburger. The politicians, despite holding important positions within the different parliaments, admitted that they had received no formal training or information about the relative ease with which computers can be breached while using public Wi-Fi – a service they all admitted to using regularly. Commenting on his email being accessed, Davis said, “Well, it’s pretty horrifying, to be honest. What you have extracted was a very tough password, tougher than most people use. It’s certainly not ‘Passwo...