VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Bharti Airtel has declared that it will move all its prepaid mobile customers to the more affordable per second bill plan nationally. “Pay For What You Use” initiative as part of the company’s “Customer First” commitment, this will help ensure that customers pay only for the time they use the Airtel network. Ajai Puri, director – Market Operations, Bharti Airtel (India & South Asia) said “Our customers are the reason for us to be in business, we therefore constantly introduce innovative initiatives with a commitment to deliver a world class experience to them. While we continue to invest aggressively in our network quality and deploy new sites to further enhance our robust and wide network presence, as yet another token measure of our commitment we are today taking the lead to move our customers to the affordable per second plans ensuring that they pay only for what they use.” Read more

ICT Academy of Kerala has tied up with EMC to train and certify 3,000 graduating students with skills on third Platform Technologies like Cloud and Big Data during the next two years. As per MoU, the students will be trained on Information Storage and Management, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, Data Science and Big data Analytics. Tomorrow’s IT organization, as an IT as a Service organization, will present many challenges and opportunities. IT professionals will be responsible for more data than ever, derived from new sources and in new formats. New and greater demands are being made as to the core qualifications of individuals, as well as to their understanding and knowledge of the consequences of the introduction of information technology for the work and organization of a company. They will need to not only build and maintain technology assets, but also orchestrate services to enable the business to consume them effectively in its operations, decisions, and innovations. This

HID Global has expanded its iCLASS SE platform with long-range ultra-high-frequency (UHF) solutions that provide new options for opening doors and parking gates from a distance. The addition of long-range  iCLASS SE readers and credentials enable organizations to combine parking gate and door access control on a single card. The convenient solution makes it possible to read credentials from inside a vehicle at distances of up to 16.4 feet (5 metres) from the reader. “HID Global now offers an easier way for our customers to add parking and gate control to their security infrastructure, with new long-range access options that enhance user convenience while improving the flow of people and vehicles to and from facilities,” said John Fenske, Vice- President of Product Marketing – Physical Access Control with HID Global. “Our new portfolio of readers and credentials significantly expands the capabilities of an organization’s access control systems across UHF and smart card technologies

Rakesh Garg, Chairman, Telecom Commission & Secretary (Dept of Telecom), Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India, while addressing the CII Telecom Convergence Summit organized by CII in the national capital has shared that the Government has finalized the spectrum sharing guidelines and will notify the same in a few days while the spectrum trading rules, which are also in the last phase of finalization will be shared by the end of this month. “Our Government’s objective is to enable mobile operators to utilize / sell the excess available airwaves in a better way and to check the call drop issue. The guidelines have been finalized in such a way as to promote India as one of the most favoured destinations to do business in the telecom industry,”... Read more

The higher education system in India is facing an unprecedented transformation, driven by economic and demographic change. There is a pressing need for accelerated reform in the higher education ecosystem to equip India’s youth with skill sets that enhance their employability in a digital economy. To support this endeavour, Oracle has introduced three Cloud Platform Services for higher education institutes. The offerings – Oracle Document Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and Oracle Java Cloud Service are designed to meet the industry’s demand for a cloud-ready workforce. They will address the need of an always plugged-in generation of millennial wanting to access these services anytime, anywhere and on any-device. The solution will help students and faculty to collaborate on projects, across disparate campuses and geographies... Read more

Ricoh has announced the launch of fully automated real-time shop-floor productivity tracking and monitoring solution “RAMP”. The new solution from Ricoh will transform the shop floor/factory transaction reporting and will enable manufacturing companies achieve higher productivity by connecting shop floor to the top floor through real-time monitoring and reporting of machine performance, productivity, downtimes, production output, etc. The solution will bring a lot of relief to the manufacturing sector in India, where the most crucial part, i.e. the shop floor is still isolated from the rest of the IT network in the organization. Due to this, the most crucial shop floor data on production quantity and man-machine utilization, etc is manually collected and compiled, that is made available the next day, and is often inaccurate or doctored, resulting in poor decision-making. Most of the CXOs are unable to monitor progress of productivity initiatives and processes. The complexity incre

WD, a Western Digital company, has introduced significant enhancements to WD’s family of My Cloud personal storage devices in India. These include a new, redesigned My Cloud OS 3 operating system, Software Developer Kit (SDK) to enable better app integration, and new My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 personal cloud storage device with faster processing capability than previous generations. WD’s My Cloud OS 3 features an intuitive user interface that delivers a rich content-sharing experience and backup and sync capabilities while retaining the privacy and control of personal cloud devices physically located in the home or office. “Availability of better infrastructure such as 4G and increased broadband speeds has made it compelling for our consumers to adopt personal cloud. They enjoy the peace of mind from backing up PCs, smart phones, and tablets to and centralizing personal content on their My Cloud systems. They tell us they are confident in the privacy, control and anywhere access we p

Uniphore Software Systems has announced opening of new office in Bengaluru. Uniphore will add more than 100 people in the next 15 months to their Bengaluru operations. The Bengaluru Office will accommodate teams dedicated to research & development, business development, consumer technology and professional services. Sanjeev Gadre, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP-HR, Uniphore Software Systems, will be leading the Bengaluru team. Commenting on the plans to expand footprint in India, Sanjeev Gadre, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP-HR, Uniphore Software Systemssaid, “Coming to Bengaluru is a natural progression for a company that works on core technology. The people, the eco-system are very conducive to startup growth and young companies thrive in this Silicon Valley of the East.” “Uniphore is aggressively responding to the needs of our customers. Our success in solving complex business challenges through speech recognition has enabled this expansion,” ... Read more

GE and Pitney Bowes have announced that Pitney Bowes location intelligence and data quality solutions will be embedded in GE Predix, the cloud-based platform for creating innovative Industrial Internet applications that turn real-time operational data into insight for better and faster decision-making. Collaborating on the GE Predix platform enables business leaders to address mission-critical challenges across large-scale industrial environments. This level of intelligence spans physical and digital networks to speed operational decisions that deliver cost efficiencies, improve performance and increase revenues. Location intelligence and data quality are the two of the most critical aspects of data analytics for industrial enterprises. Pitney Bowes’ location intelligence capabilities cover 122 countries at point and street level, 240 countries and territories at postal and place levels, and provide the accuracy and precision necessary for industrial data processing needs. Multitu

HyperX had announced the release of HyperX Savage DDR4 memory in India. It will be available in a range of capacity and frequency options, MRP for which would start at Rs. 3,850/-. With fast speeds and aggressive timings, the HyperX Savage DDR4 offers ultra-responsive multitasking and an overall faster system, making it perfect for advanced gamers, overclockers and power users. With speeds up to 3000MHz HyperX Savage DDR4 allows for faster video editing, 3D rendering and gaming. The built in XMP ready profiles are optimized for Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, as well Z170 on 100 Series and X99 chipsets enabling users to easily overclock just by selecting a memory profile without any adjustments in BIOS. Available in single modules and kits up to 64GB Savage DDR4 runs as low as 1.2V and at max 1.35V resulting in less power consumption than DDR3 and higher reliability.... Read more