VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

In line with the commitment made by Dr Paul E. Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Incorporated, when he called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Digital Economy event which was held in September 2015 in San Jose, USA. Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the launch of the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge. Dr Jacobs has also announced Qualcomm’s support for the Government of India’s Digital India and Make in India vision and is committed to introduce a Design in India Initiative to encourage the creation of a local product design ecosystem. In association with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the Qualcomm Design in India challenge aims to catalyze the creation of a product and hardware design ecosystem in India in the domains of smartphones, tablets and Internet of Everything (IoT) products for healthcare, education, banking, agriculture, automotive, wearables and smartcities... Read more

Wipro has announced that it has signed an agreement with Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) to acquire cellent AG for Euros73.5 million. cellent AG is a leading IT consulting and software services company and has been offering holistic innovative IT solutions and services to its customers in the DACH region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the past 14 years. cellent AG serves the DACH market region with a team of more than 800 consultants who will now become part of Wipro. The DACH market is a strategic growth and investment region for Wipro. This acquisition will provide Wipro with significant scale and prime customer relationships, especially in the manufacturing and automotive domains, which are the key industry sectors in the DACH region... Read more

Trend Micro Incorporated has announced the integration of Trend Micro Deep Security into the Microsoft Azure Security Center. Customers will now have access to a single view of all Azure subscriptions, live workload monitoring capabilities, and suggested remedial steps to address security issues. Trend Micro Deep Security has been recommended by Microsoft Corp. to help address vulnerabilities, enabling customers to deploy directly from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. “As customers embrace Azure, they need easy-to-manage security solutions to protect workloads from malware and network attacks, as well as achieve compliance,” said Bill McGee, Senior Vice-President, Cloud & Data Center Security, Trend Micro. “With the Azure Security Center, it has never been easier to benefit from Deep Security, the industry’s No. 1 server security solution that scales in virtual and cloud environments without compromising performance and efficiency. It also automates provisioning of workload-aw...

AMD has unveiled the AMD FirePro W4300 for the best Computer-Aided Design (CAD) performance that fits both small form-factor (SFF) and tower workstations at Autodesk University 2015.  The AMD FirePro W4300 card expertly integrates a powerful GPU and 4GB of GDDR5 memory within a low-profile design for installation in SFF as well as full-sized systems. Organizations can now confidently simplify their IT management by standardizing on a single, capable professional graphics solution throughout their workstation deployment. “We designed the AMD FirePro W4300 specifically for CAD. CAD users rely on AMD FirePro graphics cards to enable their application features to best visualize their designs, and now can continue to do so without having to compromise by using the latest energy-efficient, small form-factor workstations,” said Sean Burke, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD... Read more

With India becoming growing start-up ecosystem country, the numbers are telling – from 3,100 start-ups in 2014 to a projection of more than 11,500 by 2020. This is certainly not a passing trend. Venture capital investments in India reached INR15,600 crore (US$2,363) till June 2015, surpassing the total INR14,850 crore (US$2,250) invested in the entire 2014, setting the stage for another record year as interest in local technology start-ups peak. In order to highlight the specific areas of growth opportunities and challenges being faced in and by the incubation ecosystem, Incubation India 2015, a Conference on Business Labs comprising the Investor, Incubator startups ecosystem was organized in Delhi today... Read more

Flipkart has acquired a strategic minority stake in MapmyIndia (CE Info Systems Pvt. Ltd), the two companies announced. Flipkart’s strategy to transform supply chain through technology is bolstered by this business partnership to license map data and location technologies from MapmyIndia. This will extend a new layer of capability to Flipkart’s existing supply chain and logistics operations, making customer experience timely and hassle free. Speaking on the occasion, Binny Bansal, COO & Co-Founder, Flipkart, said, “With this strategic investment, we are taking another concrete step toward transforming the supply chain ecosystem in India, making technology and information the driver of our supply chain and logistics solutions. The integration of comprehensive and accurate location data will allow us to deliver an even more personalized and delightful experience to our customers. This partnership is a strategic fit that gives us a sustainable competitive advantage. We maintain...

Blue Coat Systems has announced it has signed a worldwide agreement with Dimension Data   to deliver its global managed cloud web security service. Dimension Data plans to roll out this new offering worldwide beginning in the first quarter of 2016. Combining Blue Coat’s award-winning Cloud Generation Web Gateway with Dimension Data’s global managed security services portfolio provides customers with real-time threat protection – all without the need for on-site equipment. This new offering also helps organizations deploy new secure, cost-effective cloud service and web applications. In addition, customers are able to enforce consistent global security policies across wired, roaming, and mobile environments... Read more

The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI), an apex organization of industry, trade and service sectors in Karnataka, and Microsoft have come together to help more than 2,00,000 SMBs across Karnataka to adopt technology with Cloud Computing. This will not only open more avenues for SMBs but also help them connect better with their existing customers and reach out to the potential customers across India. India’s SMB segment is playing a significant role in India’s economy.  According to the NASSCOM and Frost & Sullivan report – India SMB Market – Monetizing Emerging Opportunities (2014), it employs approximately 40 per cent of India’s workforce, contributes more than 17% to the national GDP, has close-to 45-per cent share in manufacturing output and accounts for about 40 per cent of India’s total exports... Read more