VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

WD has announced an exciting limited-period ‘DilwaleSavedOnWD’ offer for its consumers. This offer takes forward WD’s agreement with Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt. Ltd. for their upcoming film, ‘Dilwale’. The offer will give twelve (12) lucky winners an opportunity to meet the star cast of the upcoming movie. Additionally, consumers will also stand a chance to win four (04) My Cloud 3TB, four (04) My Passport Wireless 1TB, four (04)  iPhone 6s 16GB, four (04) travel vouchers worth INR 25000, four (04) Kindle Paperwhite 3G among other prizes. The contest will end on 28th December 2015. “Our products give people the freedom to create everlasting memories without having to consider the option of deleting or limiting them,” said Khalid Wani, Director, Content Solutions Business, India, Middle East and Africa, WD. “Dilwale saved on WD offer will encourage consumers to create and save new exciting moments on the WD products and at the same time gives them a chance to meet their favori

Idea Cellular has commercially launched its 3G network in Delhi NCR today, claims that its super highway 3G network is build on the most efficient 900 MHz spectrum band which has high calibre transmission and propagation capabilities. It will provide a jam free network, high speed internet and indoor internet coverage. Ambrish Jain, Deputy managing director, Idea Cellular said “Mobile users in Delhi NCR are the most evolved consumers in the country with high usage of both data and voice services.The high traffic on jammed networks has left consumers unhappy and looking for a new network which offers superior connectivity both the roads as well as indoors. Due to this problem Idea has invested heavily in acquiring spectrum in the most efficient 900 MHz band and setting a modernized network to cater to the growing demand of mobile users in the region... Read more

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft have come up with a new innovation in Hybrid Cloud Computing through Microsoft Azure, HPE infrastructure and services, and new program offerings. The extended partnership appoints Microsoft Azure as a preferred public cloud partner for HPE customers, while HPE will serve as a preferred partner in providing infrastructure and services for Microsoft’s hybrid cloud offerings. “Hewlett Packard Enterprise is committed to helping businesses transform to hybrid cloud environments in order to drive growth and value. Public cloud services, like Azure provides, are an important aspect of a hybrid cloud strategy and Microsoft Azure blends perfectly with HPE solutions to deliver what our customers need most,” said Meg Whitman, President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise... Read more

Aiming to acquire a market share of 15% in India, Toshiba has unveiled two new models of the innovative and Toshiba’s smallest A3 monochrome Multi-Function Printers (MFPs). The e-STUDIO2802A and e-STUDIO2802AM (e-STUDIO2802AM series) are set to bring greater convenience and cost-efficiency to smaller businesses and workgroups. Isao Sugehara, Chief Marketing Executive, Toshiba TEC Corporation, said, “We have deeply studied the potential and hidden needs for customers in India and designed together with our R&D center, Toshiba Software India Pvt. Ltd. We are very confident that these products will be well accepted by the Indian market. By launching such innovative products, we want to obtain 15% market share in the India market by 2017.”.. Read more

Ingram Micro has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets from Parallels Holdings (“Parallels”), a provider of commercial cloud management platform technologies, connectors, billing systems and professional services. Under the terms of the transaction, Ingram Micro will acquire the Parallels Odin Service Automation platform along with associated cloud management technologies, intellectual property and the Odin brand. In addition, approximately 500 Odin employees, many of whom are software engineers with cloud expertise, are expected to join Ingram Micro. As a part of the Ingram Micro Cloud division led by Executive Vice-President Nimesh Dave, “These employees will continue to drive further innovation and development of the Odin automation platform and Ingram’s cloud service offerings as members of the Ingram Micro Cloud division.” This transaction solidifies Ingram Micro’s position as a leading masterCloud Services Provider (mCSP), with a comprehensive offering designed

Cisco has announced a new software release for its Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to enhance its comprehensive SDN portfolio built on open APIs, open standards and a broad ecosystem for customer choice and flexibility. New software capabilities enhance ACI with micro segmentation for both physical (bare metal) applications and multivendor virtualized applications (VMware VDS, Microsoft Hyper-V) and extend ACI across multi-site environments to deliver policy-driven automation across multiple data centers. “Customers tell me that only five to ten per cent of their networks are automated today. They are eager to adopt comprehensive automation for their networks and network services through a single pane of management, while improving security for east-west traffic, multi-cloud traffic and bare metal applications in a consistent manner. Policy-based automation, consistent network security and central compliance support are critical for IT efficiency, business agility, and co