VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced a new global partnership with FICO, an analytics software company, to enable clients to purchase and implement FICO solutions through TCS. This alliance will accelerate the development of innovative decision-centric applications, enable faster turnaround for implementation and increase user productivity for agile digital transformation programs. tcs logo e1424343043998 TCS inks global partnership with FICO“Businesses are experiencing tremendous evolution and are under pressure from an explosion of new technologies. Customer and process led digitization calls for maturity and agility in innovation for customer convenience and security. FICO’s focus on staying ahead of the industry on adoption of cloud services, analysis of predictive behaviour patterns and performance along with TCS’ transformational services leadership across the industry offers a unique value proposition by providing innovation and decision agility,” said Santha Subra

Reliance Communications (RCOM) and its subsidiary, Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), has appointed Braham Singh as Senior Vice-President, Global Product Management. He will have overall responsibility for the global product portfolio across RCOM India Enterprise and GCX. In addition, he will also manage the company’s National Long Distance (NLD) and Data Center businesses. Singh has over 30 years of telecom experience, most recently as Vice-President & Senior Advisor for International Business at Hutchison Global Communications (HGC).  He also served as head of the company’s OTT Services, where he was instrumental in the development of HGC’s global infrastructure sales, including that for data centers, content delivery network, cloud and cloud connectivity services. Over the years, Singh delivered a solid record in driving HGC’s growth across global markets... Read more

Seagate Technology has extended its alliance agreement with the computing leader HP to equip its high-performance computing (HPC) solutions with ClusterStor scale-out storage capabilities. Building on a proven partnership, HP will resell Seagate’s ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 appliances along with its HPC solutions. This partnership will support HP’s Apollo portfolio of products and services, which manage HPC workloads in complex computing environments. Ken Claffey Vice president General Manager Seagate HPC Systems Business 150x150 Seagate joins hands with HP over HPC Solutions“As a result of this partnership, customers can now purchase a complete end-to-end HPC storage solution born from two of the most-trusted technology companies in the business. Aligning our expertise is more valuable than ever before as HPC moves into a new era of data-centric computing, which is increasing the need for high-performance, scalable storage systems,” said Ken Claffey, Vice-President , See more

Qualcomm has appointed Sunil Lalvani as Vice-President & President of Qualcomm India. Lalvani will report directly to Cristiano Amon, Executive Vice-President and Co-President, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. With more than 20 years of experience in sales, business development, strategic planning and business operations across the IT and telecom sectors, Lalvani joins Qualcomm from BlackBerry, where he served most recently as Managing Director of India and SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). There, Lalvani was responsible for overseeing and driving BlackBerry’s overall business strategy and growth in India and was focussed on driving differentiated solutions for consumers and enterprise customers. Lalvani was also instrumental in leading a strong engagement with Carrier partners and ISV’s in India, to drive uptake of BlackBerry’s services portfolio in the Indian region. Prior to that, Lalvani held the position of Director of Enterprise Sales. Lalvani also h

VARINDIA for the 6th consecutive year has successfully concluded its EIITF (Eastern India Information Technology Fair) in the city of joy, Kolkata. The topic for this year’s event was ‘Capitalizing the Indian SMB Opportunity’. The event provided a common platform for the corporates to share ideas, discuss various issues and challenges to target the growth of SMBs in the country. The event brought together the leading spokespersons from the respective stakeholders from Eastern and the North eastern India that included WEBEL, STPI, VARs, SIs and Solution Partners who discussed issues critical to the development and growth in the Eastern India. The Chief Guest of the event was Shri Kaushik Haldar, Commissioner IT and Telecom, Govt. of West Bengal. The other guests who had attended the event and were present at the lamp lighting ceremony were Shri Upender Jit Singh, MD – WBEIDC; Dr. Govind, CEO, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI); Shri Ashwani Jain, COO, Telecom-PGCIL; Col. A