VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

The Silicon Valley of India, Bengaluru witnessed a host of CEOs from various Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), including IT & ITeS, BFSI and manufacturing companies, IT associations and VARs from the ICT sector coming together to witness the Tech Summit, 6th edition of Southern India Information Technology Fair (SIITF) – 2015. Organized by VARINDIA, the event was themed around “Digitization opening up opportunities for SMBs”. The event was designed to discuss and showcase excellence in technology innovations and entrepreneurship, while being a unique platform for SMEs and VARs to understand the scope of digitization that will open up big opportunities for them in due course.... Read more  

RailYatri.in has launched country’s first GPS train tracking platform, “RailRadar GPS”, to track and display the real-time movement of nationwide trains on a Google map. With this release, the award-winning train travel app has taken the first concrete step towards the longstanding train tracking challenge using smart location technology implementation like never before. RailYatri’s “RailRadar GPS” enables users to track running trains on a Google map along with its on-time/delay status. This is the first-ever deployment of a true crowd-sourced location tracking. The previous attempts by the government to install GPS on trains as part of the SIMRAN project failed due to the high project costs. Real-time train tracking continued to be a challenge despite crores spent on the pilot project which was scrapped after being launched on about 40 premium trains... Read more

Canon has launched its sixth edition of Photomarathon in India. Organized at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, New Delhi, the event attracted a large number of photo enthusiasts, primarily DSLR users, hobbyist photographers as well as professionals. One-of-its-kind, the theme-based photo contest witnessed amateur and professional photographers playing their tricks and techniques with cameras to present exemplary imagery. The Canon Photomarathon 2015 was flagged off by Kazutada Kobayashi, President & CEO, Canon India. The event has attracted over 500 entries. The judges included the Fashion and Wildlife Photographer, Akash Das; Travel Photographer, Ajay Sood; and Lifestyle Photographer, Ravi Dhingra... Read more

Konica Minolta Business Solutions has organized a one-day colour management Workshop, which was held at Konica Minolta’s Ahmedabad office. It was organized by a group of professional from Konica Minolta and Colour Mechanics (colour management consultant). The workshop was conducted to enhance the knowledge on the Colour Management on the Digital Devices. The program covered all the aspects from the designing, pre-press, printing and post printing process in terms of colour management. The aim of the program is to share how the customers can achieve the effective standardised colours on the Digital Printing Device, How the customers can achieve the consistency in their device etc... Read more

Virtusa Corporation has announced availability of its ADOPT (Accelerated Domain solutions for Pega Testing) framework. The comprehensive testing platform for Pega-based applications will help deliver cost optimization without compromising on overall quality. As burgeoning new technology is putting power into customers’ devices, it is also placing a tremendous amount of pressure on organizations to innovate and introduce new products and services at an unprecedented pace. As a result, enterprises are making huge investments in business process management (BPM). While companies digitize and transform their business with Pega, they are challenged to reduce cost of quality and deliver in an agile environment with defect-free, right-first-time applications... Read more

With the demand for 7-inch Tablet PCs growing steadily, iBall has launched its latest entrant in the lineup of its Performance Series Tablets – “iBall Slide Brillante” in association with Intel. With IPS HD screen providing stunningly beautiful display and with super responsive and smooth 7-inch full capacitive multi-touch display, iBall Brillante is powered by The Intel Atom x3-C3130 processor featuring a 64-bit dual-core Intel Atom CPU and an integrated 3G modem. This innovative device is slated to give an experience on the edge of excellence. The Intel Atom x3 processor series is Intel’s first integrated communication platform. Formerly code named “SoFIA”, Intel Atom x3 Processor Series is a cost competitive SoC with 64-bit Intel Atom processor cores and integrated cellular baseband modem. The new tablet delivers robust Android experiences with responsive wireless connectivity and fast, reliable global ... Read more

HP has announced general availability of its integrated enterprise cloud solution, HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0, and a new HP ConvergedSystem 700 platform, a workload optimized infrastructure purpose-built for HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0. HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 incorporates HP Helion OpenStack and the HP Helion Development Platform, delivering an enterprise-ready integrated open-source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. It provides a modern development environment that can be integrated with customers’ existing IT investments to move their traditional applications to the cloud, as well as to develop and deploy cloud-native applications using multiple development languages... Read more

Array Networks is offering a customized solution to Cosmos Bank for enhancing their data replication process and safeguarding valuable customer data. Cosmos Bank required their database to be replicated whenever there was a database breakdown. During such breakdowns, Cosmos Bank could lose customer data and was unable to provide banking services. To overcome this problem, the bank deployed Array Networks’ WAN Optimization, which ensured zero data loss during data replication to the disaster site and helped the bank in recovering their customers’ data. Array Network’s aCelera turned out to be a solution which optimized storage data replication by 70% and crunched the data loss up to 65%... Read more