VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Telit has announced the introduction of Pan-European coverage with enhanced performance, one roaming price for all operators. Features include seamless roaming across Europe as well as Russia and Turkey; In addition, value-added services that allow customers to remotely manage and troubleshoot their deployment (e.g. roaming steering control by the end customer) are offered, thereby improving serviceability and transparency to their end customers. M2M/IoT deployment faces different challenges than consumer subscribers. Connectivity offering is often not suitable for the life cycle of a M2M/IoT solution. telit logo Telit Introduces Connectivity Solution for the Internet of Things“Many IoT projects have failed because operators could not provide the right business solution,” said Sammy Yahiaoui, Services Sales Manager EMEA at Telit. “Now connectivity comes out-of-the box for a fixed, comprehensive and affordable price. It’s tightly integrated with the hardware, the modules, and a p

Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft has launched its latest software product Av3ar, the next generation artificial intelligence (AI) system. The product can address the pain points of CIOs and IT managers across verticals like manufacturing, BFSI, retail, telecom and government institutions. Av3ar delivers end-to-end automated IT solutions that can dramatically improve productivity and enhance operational efficiencies to drastically reduce the cost of downtime. It is platform agnostic and compatible with multiple devices including PC, tablets and mobiles. Rohil Sharma, CEO at Perpetuuiti commented, “We are thrilled to announce the launch of Av3ar, the first software product developed at our Chennai R&D facility for AI. The product gets plugged into the IT infrastructure and absorbs data to learn the patterns of the IT environment. Av3ar automates the steps required to execute daily tasks and solve simple problems.” He further added, “Av3ar has been designed with a built-in analytics engine c

LINE has announced the release of LINE Lite, a lightweight version of the LINE app that utilizes less storage space and data. LINE is used by over 205 million users monthly in 230 countries and regions around the world (as of April 2015). At less than 1MB in size, LINE Lite is a lightweight version of the app that promises to make rich communication accessible even to users in areas where network infrastructure is less developed or lower-end smartphones are more widely used. line logo1 LINE Lite Officially Released in 11 CountriesLINE Lite installs in 1/20 the time of the standard version and retains LINE’s core features of text, sticker, and image-based communication. Users can sign up for new accounts on LINE Lite, or carry over their existing LINE accounts. While audio and video calls and features such as the Timeline are not included in this initial release, LINE plans to actively introduce new features in the future... See more 

Infor has announced it has hired Wall Street veteran Jeff Laborde as Chief Financial Officer. Laborde, who reports to Infor CEO Charles Phillips, joins as Infor is experiencing high growth, particularly in bookings of its cloud applications, up more than 300% year-over-year in its most recent fiscal year, which ended April 30, 2015. Jeff Laborde infor 150x150 Infor Hires Wall Street Veteran Jeff Laborde as CFO“After investing heavily in R&D to deliver the first set of industry suites delivered in the cloud, Infor is heading into a period of high growth,” said Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. “Jeff Laborde, with his extensive background in technology finance, is a perfect fit to help guide Infor through this next phase in the evolution .” See more

The report, Connected Small Business: Unlocking India’s Digital Potential, unveiled by Google and Deloitte states that SMBs in India that use cloud and mobile tools are reaping huge dividends.  The Report further reveals that moving from offline to an advanced digital engagement could mean revenue growth up to 27 per cent more than those who have not begun their digital adoption journey. Based on a national survey of 500 businesses, the report analyses the digital engagement of Indian SMBs to understand how digital technology could help them, and what that would mean for India as a whole. The report states that digitally advanced SMBs can help India achieve its national objectives of higher economic growth, creating jobs and more exports. Compared with offline SMBs, those with higher digital engagement are more likely to increase employment by up to 84 per cent, increase access to international markets by up to 65 per cent, and likely to offer new products up to 4.5 times. C Prab

Going one step ahead and integrating technological advance with its marketing strategy, D-Link (India) has announced the launch of ‘D-LINK – CONNECT Mobile APP’ for its channel partners/ re-sellers & retailers across the country. Tushar Sighat dlink 150x150 D Link Empowers its Partners & Retailers with a Mobile App Talking about the novel initiative, Tushar Sighat, Executive Director & CEO – D-Link (India) Ltd. said, “Channel community has evolved over the year, today they have an increased appetite for information. With partner/ reseller engagement being at the core of our strategy and as an organization promoting technology excellence, we are constantly looking at ways to stay connected & engage with our target audiences. D-LINK – CONNECT Mobile APP is a platform to connect with our partners/ re-sellers through social network in a faster & easier way.” Read more

Hitachi Data Systems has announced support and community validation of Kubernetes on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged infrastructure systems, providing a proven enterprise-class private cloud infrastructure for developers and customers to orchestrate and run container-based applications with full microservices architecture. Hitachi has introduced the first UCP solutions in 2010, with enterprise support and end-to-end integration with industry-leading software from VMware, SAP and Microsoft. Kubernetes now joins the list of solutions validated to run on our enterprise UCP platform. hitachi logo Hitachi Announces Availability of Kubernetes on Hitachi UCPWith this announcement Hitachi has validated Kubernetes and VMware running side-by-side on the UCP platform, providing an enterprise solution for container-based applications and traditional virtualized workloads. UCP provides the ideal platform to leverage the power of Kubernetes to orchestrate container-based work

Driven by creating high-quality, easy-to-use collaboration experiences for organisations of any size, Polycom has announced two new affordable, entry-level desktop phones as part of its market-leading voice solutions portfolio. The new Polycom VVX 101 business media phone is a low cost solution for small and home offices, lobby areas and shared workspaces—anywhere people need access to a simple phone with a single line. The Polycom VVX 201 business media phone is designed for organisations of all sizes looking for a cost effective telephony solution and features two line support and a wide-range of enterprise telephony features. Both offer life-like conversations with Polycom’s industry-leading HD voice, Polycom Acoustic Clarity and Polycom Acoustic Fence technology to deliver excellent sound quality and noise-free, echo-free conversations that are as natural as being there. Ashan Willy Senior Vice President 300x300 Polycom Makes Available Business Media Phones Ashan Willy, Sen