VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Aiming to drive “Digital India” initiative to the next level, Micromax Informatics has come up with new Micromax Canvas Lapbook L1160 at an attractive price of Rs.10,499/-. Targeted at youth, students and first-time laptop users, the new launch will accelerate the PC adoption in the country. Shubhajit Sen, Chief Marketing Officer, Micromax Informatics Limited , said, “This is yet another step from Micromax towards making Digital India a reality by providing every Indian with an affordable, creative multimedia tool that will enable them to live, learn and work in an information-rich society. After successful launches of Canvas Laptab I, Laptab II and Canvas Lapbook, Micromax is ardently building its presence in the laptops category in India. With the new Lapbook L1160, Micromax aims to provide students, small-time business owners, on- the-move executives, an extremely convenient and efficient way to handle everyday computing tasks.” Read More

SanDisk(NASDAQ:SNDK)  has introduced the SanDisk Technology Partner programme , a collaborative platform for SanDisk and data center partners to work together to design, develop and deliver integrated flash-based storage solutions to joint customers. With 20 data center ecosystem partners already participating, the new programme offers certification, tools, resources, SanDisk flash storage expertise and complements SanDisk’s commitment to address the demand for extreme performance and massive capacity in the data center through flash storage and software-defined flash storage solutions. The programme aims to deliver SanDisk certified Independent Software Vendors ‘ (ISV) software and hardware integrated solutions across the compute, networking, and storage landscape. Through these flash-optimized, end-to-end solutions, data center customers can potentially realize tangible benefits such as high-performance, IT consolidation and lower overall total cost of owners...

Wipro and Qlik will work together to offer advanced enterprise analytics solutions to joint customers across industry sectors. Wipro’s competency in delivering end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) solutions combined with QlikView will widen the scope and scale of visualization solutions offered to customers. Pallab Deb, Vice-President & Global Head – Analytics, Wipro Limited , said, “Data Visualization enables faster and better decision-making for businesses and that is the reason why organizations across the globe are investing in newer and more sophisticated business intelligence solutions that incorporate visualization tools. QlikView is a great platform... Read more 

NowFloats , a Hyderabad-based technology company, has produced the second edition of its report, Digital Desh – “Inside the Internet of India”. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications & IT, Government of India, launched the book along with Jasminder Singh Gulati, Co-Founder, NowFloats; Chetan Krishnaswamy, Country Head – Public Policy, Google India; Sharad Sharma, Co-Founder, iSPIRT; Dr Subho Ray, President, Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI); Manav Sethi, Group CMO, AskMe, India & Malaysia; and Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder, Paytm. Digital Desh 2.0 takes readers “ Inside the Internet of India ” through a 4,000+ km journey across 18 cities, towns and villages and meet the real “superpower” of Digital India, and reveals fascinating human stories of how Indians are using smartphones to innovate, empower and create... Read more