VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

NetApp has released new Data Fabric solutions and services that deliver the data management capabilities organizations need to accelerate success in the hybrid cloud era. The new offerings extend NetApp’s leadership in enabling customers to seamlessly manage data across whatever IT resource they choose, speeding innovation and enabling better business decisions. “NetApp’s Data Fabric vision, solutions and services allow customers to realize the full potential of hybrid cloud, helping them drive speed and scale while balancing cost and risk,” said Lee Caswell, Vice President, Product, Solutions and Services Marketing, NetApp. “Today’s announcements further strengthen the core role NetApp technologies hold as the foundation for the hybrid cloud, particularly our clustered Data ONTAP environment, which provides a single platform spanning flash, cloud and disk resources.” Read more

VMware has announced new network functions virtualization (NFV) offerings to help communications services providers (CSPs) accelerate their implementation of NFV. The announcement includes the general availability of the VMware vCloud NFV platform, a new VMware Ready for NFV accreditation program and new carrier-grade services delivered by VMware and VMware partners. “A common platform approach supports a sustainable business model and is the only approach that breaks the linear connection between growth and cost, freeing operators to innovate at speed and scale,” said Michael Kennedy, Principal Analyst, ACG Research. “The low-cost NFV nodes of the common platform and ability to produce sustained labour productivity and asset efficiency gains are shown to achieve payback in under a year and produce more than .... Read more

SUSE and Huawei have collaborated to include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the operating environment in Huawei’s new SAP HANA Appliance Solution. The combination of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Huawei’s SAP HANA appliance will speed up real-time data analysis and processing for enterprise customers, thus improving their decision-making capabilities and making their businesses more responsive and agile. “Huawei is pleased to continue our relationship and collaboration with SUSE,” said Qiu Long, General Manager of Server Domain, Huawei IT product line. “The two companies will provide competitive hyper-converged solutions to help customers continuously improve business agility and make computing simpler, by consolidating resource advantages and deepening technical cooperation.” Read more

Accenture is helping global clients take advantage of new liquid, intelligent and connected application strategies to shape their futures by expanding the Accenture Innovation Centre for IBM Technologies in Bangalore. Building on a global business alliance relationship spanning two decades, the Innovation Centre now offers global clients access to new services and solutions using the latest IBM cloud technologies, including Bluemix and interaction with an onsite lab designed to help inspire innovative, scalable open-source solutions leveraging faster application development methodologies. “We have created a unique environment in Bangalore where clients are immersed in the very latest Accenture innovations made possible through the use of IBM cloud technologies,” said Adam Burden, Group Technology Officer, Accenture Technology Delivery. “We offer clients the opportunity to help accelerate their webscale systems development and assemble industry-specific and personalized application

Google India has launched its much-awaited Nexus phones in partnership with the leading smartphone makers LG and Huawei. Running on its latest version of Android “Marshmallow 6.0″, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P offer a pure Android experience, sweetened by amazing apps and sandwiched by some cutting-edge hardware, available across Nexus devices. Speaking at the launch, David Shapiro, Global Director of Chrome and Android Marketing, Google, said, “India is now the fastest-growing smartphone market in the world, and it is exciting to launch our newest Nexus phones here. We are looking forward to the Nexus 5X and 6P delivering premium experiences for Indian users, demonstrating what is possible when innovative hardware, thoughtful design, and the latest Android software all come together.” Read more