VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To foster the start-up ecosystem in India, Kstart and IBM have entered into collaboration. Kstart portfolio start-ups will have access to IBM mentors and training sessions and gain exposure to IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program. This program provides business mentoring, technical support, networking opportunities with enterprise clients and credits to help entrepreneurs build their applications on IBM Cloud. To support this boom in the Indian start up ecosystem, Kstart and IBM will work together to spur the next generation of innovation throughout the country and ensure that start-ups have access to the support they need to get their solutions into the marketplace. IBM business leaders and technology experts will help Kstart portfolio companies create go-to-market strategies, achieve market alignment and augment their technology roadmaps. IBM will also invite Kstart participants to training sessions on cognitive learning, analytics and product design... Read m

Delivered as a service on Microsoft Azure , HPE Haven OnDemand provides more than 60 APIs and services that deliver deep learning analytics on a wide range of data, including text, audio, image, social, web and video. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced commercial availability of this innovative cloud platform that provides advanced machine learning APIs and services that enable developers, start-ups and enterprises to build data-rich mobile and enterprise applications. HPE first pioneered this effort in December 2014 with the beta launch of HPE Haven OnDemand. Today, HPE Haven OnDemand has more than 12,750 registered developers who currently generate millions of API calls per week, and have provided feedback to improve and ... Read more

Informatica has announced a new end-to-end solution, Informatica Intelligent Data Lake  to turn big data into trusted data assets for faster and more sustainable business value. With this latest innovation in Big Data Management, data scientists and other business users can now find, prepare and protect data for analysis in a uniquely collaborative way that enables businesses to make decisions even faster, with managed self-service. By partnering with all the major big data ecosystem vendors and system integrators, Informatica is adding intelligence to data lakes by providing the unique insights into this data that only a leader in data management can do. Informatica’s unique metadata-driven approach now enables organizations to deliver successful data lakes, with agility, flexibility and trust... Read more

Wipro has announced a five-year partnership with Jubilant FoodWorks Limited to deliver energy management services and help reduce its energy and operational costs. The EcoEnergy business of Wipro rolled out its multi-year Managed Restaurant Energy Services (MRES) programme last year leveraging its unique Service Window framework. The MRES programme will ensure effective sustenance of energy cost reduction by a three-pronged restaurant energy control approach; Intelligent Site Automation, a ready-to-use intelligence to crew and technicians through its intuitive Wipro Energy Manager (WEM) Application Suite and a centralized Energy Operations Center (EOC) for big data analytics that further enables enhanced asset performance, improved customer delight and better food storage compliance... Read more

Sony has launched its lineup of professional memory card options with the launch of new ultra high-speed XQD and SD media card. It further strengthens its products portfolio with its new card reader for the XQD and SD formats along with an XQD USB adaptor. The new offerings from Sony are designed to support latest high-performance DSLR cameras. Sony’s newest card reader technology comes with tremendous ability to backup 64GB of data in approximately 3 minutes. The new XQD-M series available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities, delivers transfer speed of up to 440MB/s (read) and 150MB/s (write) for stable burst shooting. The XQD format’s unique robust structure, featuring card thickness and pin protection with a tough reinforced outer case is made for reliable use... Read more