VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

“The gender equality is an essential element of an inclusive workplace,” says Accenture Chairman & CEO Pierre Nanterme. “At Accenture, our commitment to inclusion and diversity starts at the top, and we empower all of our people – including our more than 130,000 women – to lead. We believe strongly that gender equality is essential for a high-performing, talent-led organization. This commitment extends to pay, and we strive to ensure that all our people – women and men – are compensated fairly and equitably from the moment we hire them through the milestones of their careers here,” said Nanterme. Accenture has pledged to grow the percentage of women it hires to at least 40 per cent worldwide by 2017 and has made steady progress toward this goal. In the fiscal year 2015 – the 12 months ended August 31, 2015, approximately 39 per cent of the company’s more than 100,000 new hires were women... Read more

Konica Minolta Business Solutions has participated in a three-day event in the Rajasthan Photofest – 2015 organized by the All Rajasthan Photographic Association. It was a mega event for professional photographers, lab owners, photography enthusiasts, imaging and solution industry, photography beginners, students, gadget lovers, photographic material suppliers, etc. A wonderful platform for all shutterbugs to come together and associate with the finest professionals who invest in the imaging industry that deserves the best kind of buyers. Points of attraction in the event were new product launches, latest technology, photographic equipments, portfolio, photographic lab equipments, high-end cameras, wedding photography and album. It was a high-class exhibition which offered one-to-one interaction with vendors, new business opportunities and association... Read more

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has introduced a comprehensive lineup of new solutions built for the Docker ecosystem. “Containers are changing the way applications are developed and managed, bridging the gap between IT and developers and helping organizations accelerate their pace of innovation. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is embracing and extending Docker capabilities by providing a comprehensive set of enterprise class tools and services to help customers develop, test and run Docker environments at enterprise scale,” said Narayanan Chellappan, Country Director, Cloud Division, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India... Read more

Obi Worldphone has been making waves since its global launch in San Francisco, USA and continues its global journey with the introduction of two-high quality, premium-designed smartphones in Vietnam and Dubai. Priced at an exceptional value and meant for discerning young population in the fastest-growing markets around the world, Obi Worldphone now plans to launch in India this month. Obi Worldphone SF1 and SJ1.5 – the current devices in the Obi portfolio, are set apart by iconic industrial design complimented with the Obi Lifespeed, a custom user interface for Android that unifies the software and hardware experience. Obi has endeavored to integrate elegant design with high-end technology from Qualcomm, Dolby, Sony, Corning Incorporated, Google, MediaTek, Japan Display, Inc. and Samsung to deliver a powerful performance... Read more

After the significant acquisition of cloud innovator Elastica by Blue Coat Systems, the company has introduced a new set of cloud generation products and features to its market-leading Blue Coat Security Platform, integrating essential components required for protecting enterprises in today’s rapidly-changing IT environment. These “Cloud Generation” capabilities represent a major evolution of the Secure Web Gateway, combining Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF), and encrypted traffic management (SSL), significantly advancing Blue Coat’s web and cloud security solution. Together with the CloudSOC capabilities from Elastica and the encryption and tokenization technology from the Perspecsys acquisition, Blue Coat’s Cloud Generation Gateway forms a foundation of the Blue Coat Security Platform, leveraging Blue Coat’s expertise in network, security and cloud to ensure protection of both existing ... Read more ...

Ricoh India has announced the launch of its RICOH THETA S, the newest model in the RICOH THETA series of spherical cameras that capture 360-degree scenes surrounding the user. The launched model features extra-high resolution, fully spherical photos and videos in one simple shot, a live preview function and even greater compatibility with social media platforms. RICOH THETA S, a lightweight portability camera, is able to capture high-resolution spherical images of up to nearly 14 megapixels. The model provides better quality images due to an enlarged image sensor and fast F2.0 lenses which allow more light through Ricoh’s proprietary ultra-small twin-lens folded-optical system The spherical images can be uploaded  to theta360.com and shared via various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, and posted to Google Maps, Google+ and YouTube360° Channel... Read more