VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Wipro Digital has announced the opening of its new London pod, furthering its commitment to offer enhanced digital transformation services at close proximity to its UK and European customers. Wipro Digital also intends to continue its hiring in the UK to support business growth and expand its range of offerings. Over the past twelve months, Wipro Ltd has hired over 600 employees and today employs over 4,000 people in the United Kingdom. T.K. Kurien, Chief Executive Officer & Member of the Board, Wipro Ltd, said, “Wipro has shared a longstanding and synergistic relationship with the leading UK businesses over the past two decades. Our intimate knowledge of the local market, combined with our global experience and operational excellence allow us to help our clients achieve their desired outcomes. Wipro is deeply committed to job creation in the UK and has an abiding interest in engaging closely with the local communities.” Read more

Micromax Informatics has expanded its product portfolio with Canvas Mega series to propel the growth of the phablet category. The two new smartphones under the Mega series – Canvas Mega E353 and Canvas Mega 4G Q417 – will address the productivity and entertainment needs of young and evolved consumers. The launch of the new smartphones is aimed at reinforcing the company’s leadership position in the phablet market with more than 20-per cent market share and will further act as a category driver by offering a perfect confluence of style and substance. In an attempt to rule out the inconvenience associated with carrying a big device on the go, Micromax brings the best-in-class innovations in the new smartphones by increasing the screen-to-body ratio and bringing slim bezel to the Canvas Mega series... Read more

BT has announced that as part of its Cloud of Clouds vision it will deploy virtual Riverbed SteelHead application acceleration technology in the core of its global network, providing superior application performance for customers accessing BT’s own cloud services as well as other leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Keith Langridge, Vice-President, Network Services, BT Global Services, said, “Our Cloud of Clouds vision is rapidly coming to fruition. By including Riverbed-as-a-Service in our offering, we address one of the key issues faced by our customers:  the performance and reliability of applications hosted in the cloud. The new service builds on the direct network connectivity we already provide to major cloud providers by bringing better speed, performance and control to applications hosted with these cloud providers. This joint offering with Riverbed is a milestone on the journey to software-defined networks, and creates an additional differentia

At Pamex 2015, HP has showcased its flagship HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press along with other printers and presses from its Indigo, Latex and DesignJet portfolio. The company has also planned a slew of activities to engage and educate the Print service providers (PSPs) involved in general commercial printing and labels and packaging helping them explore the immense possibilities with HP’s digital print technology and provide increased value to their end-customers through unique application and improved automation. The latest enhancements for the HP Indigo 10000 include additional ElectroInk inks, including white, light cyan, light magenta and spot colours, and HP Indigo Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM), which eliminates black via three-colour printing and enables an increase in colour printing output by 33 per cent. About 25 per cent of pages printed on HP Indigo 10000 presses are now said to be done by using EPM... Read more

Canon has expanded its professional printing portfolio with the launch of imagePRESS C10000VP and Oce PlotWave 500 at PAMEX 2015. With customers exploring new business avenues across visual communication, interior decoration, textile, industrial printing, packaging, the demand for the commercial printers market is growing rapidly. The Professional Printing Products business unit in Canon has crossed more than 100 crore in 2014, and the division has been growing at the rate of 25% for the last two years. Puneet Datta, Director of Professional Printing Products (PPP) Group, Canon India, said, “The professional printing  industry is evolving at a fast pace and technological innovations are the key driving factors to run parallel with the market demands and trends. Keeping pace with our customers’ evolving preferences, we continuously innovate and bring in versatility to our product offerings. The professional printing segment has seen a tremendous growth in India and to further tap