VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Digital disruption is transforming every industry – from healthcare to education, banking and financial institutions and more. According to Digital Vortex: How Digital Disruption is redefining Industries, a report by Cisco and the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, forty per cent of market leaders globally will be displaced or eliminated by digital disruptors in the next five years. To enable the success of companies in their digital transformation, Cisco has unveiled three products to celebrate its 20th anniversary in India.  These new products will enable service providers and large web companies to reinvent the way in which services are built and delivered... Read more

AMD has achieved a number-one market share position for thin clients based on its thin-client shipments. According to its unit sales to thin-client customers last year, AMD has more than half of that market, with 53-per cent market share. AMD thin-client solutions continue to gain market adoption because of the move to cloud-based computing. Increasingly, thin clients are also being used for more complex and high- performance tasks. This is especially true for devices incorporating x86 CPUs and sophisticated graphics. The surge of innovation in the desktop virtualization market has created new opportunities for powerful thin clients that are now capable of executing demanding tasks including computer-aided design and 3D modelling. Customers are also using AMD thin-client solutions in financial and government services, call centers, kiosks, and hospitals, “smart” monitors and other multi-user, virtualized installations... Read more

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has celebrated the success of its key channel partners at its annual Channel Partner Conference for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, held in tandem with the 2015 Honeywell Users Group EMEA Conference. De Gidts & Feldman, of the Netherlands, was named Channel Partner of the Year, while six other distributors and system integrators were given awards for customer service, innovation and excellence in supplying and integrating Honeywell products and solutions. “We’re proud of the exceptional standards of service and support provided by our distribution partners across the EMEA region. Our service bar has never been set higher. These awards recognize partners from across the region that go above and beyond to deliver a highly personal customer experience,” said Andrew D’Amelio, Vice-President, Global Channels, HPS... Read more

Fujifilm India has tied up with Flipkart for the exclusive retailing of its newly-launched Instax mini range products and the smartphone Printer. Introducing for the first time in India and the only innovation of its own kind, the product range includes Instax Mini 70, Instax mini HELLO KITTY along with the very first instant Smartphone printer – Instax SHARE. Creating a strategic trail, alliance with Flipkart is only the beginning towards the revenue target of Rs.120 crore for the next financial year. Yasunobu Nishiyama, Managing Director, Fujifilm India Pvt. Ltd, said, “We are highly enthusiastic about our partnership with Flipkart, and are expecting strategic benefits in terms of developing extensive reach and creating more value proposition to our patrons. Since the newly-launched Instax mini range products are unique to the Indian market and Fujifilm being the trendsetter, we are keen to capture the required eyes balls of our consumers through .” Read more

NTT Communications Corporation has announced that it has been licensed to launch domestic network services in India through NTT Communications India Network Services, a newly- established Indian subsidiary. The launch will include IP-VPNand other reliable, high-quality connectivity services, that are required by businesses in India today, viz. the growing demands of companies such as automobile dealers and retailers with distributed sites across India. Customers will be able to use multiple local carriers for carrier-redundant access, one of the many ways NTT Com aims to provide secure, cost-efficient networks backed by strong service-level agreements for the mission-critical systems of its enterprise customers... Read more