VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Supporting its global expansion in the Enterprise market segment and goal to surpass $1-billion revenue mark in the next three years, Veeam Software has appointed Peter C. McKay as its President & Chief Operating Officer and promoted William H. Largent, currently Executive Vice- President as its new Chief Executive Officer. Veeam Co-Founders and Directors, Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, will remain strategic to the company, playing active roles focussing on market strategy and new product development.  The appointments will add further depth to an already accomplished executive lineup, and Veeam continues to enable enterprises to deliver 24.7.365 availability, expand into Enterprise market segments and continue double-digit revenue growth... Read More

With three datacenters located at Mumbai, Pune and Chennai, Microsoft is the first hyper-scale public cloud provider to offer services from local datacenters in India. The company announced the availability of its three datacenters in September 2015. Since then, Microsoft continues to witness a high rate of adoption of its cloud services across sectors like BFSI, healthcare, media & entertainment, telecom and government customers. With a complete portfolio of cloud services – Microsoft Azure , Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online , Microsoft continues to lead the market by offering “cloud-on-your-terms”. The company has invested heavily in four key areas to strengthen its cloud services through the local datacenters – Security, Privacy, Compliance and Transparency... Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has come up with OneView 3.0 to provide software-defined intelligence across HPE’s family of infrastructure solutions, including HPE ProLiant, HPE BladeSystem, HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE Hyper Converged solutions, and HPE Synergy. “Organizations need tools that enable them to simplify IT operations, respond to business demands at cloud speed and increase productivity, ultimately freeing up IT resources required to deliver new and innovative services to their customers. Our mission is to make IT simple for customers. Whether they are managing and maintaining infrastructure, running traditional applications or developing new revenue-generating services on cloud native applications, HPE OneView is the infrastructure automation engine built to make that all possible,” said Vikram K, Director – Servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India . .. Read More

In its flash sale campaign on LeMall.com India and Flipkart, LeEco garnered Rs.78.6 crore by achieving sales orders of over 61,000 units of its next-generation Superphones – Le 2 and Le Max2. The total registration has reached over 6 lakh within eight days. Atul Jain, COO – Smart Electronics, LeEco India, said, “This time, we have introduced world’s first Digital Lossless audio standard (CDLA). This will bring an unparalleled audio experience to our superfans, thereby ushering in an era of lossless music in India and the globe. This is going to become the new industry standard. We promise to live up to our Superfans’ expectation by bringing more breakthrough technologies, stronger comprehensive ecosystem, and disruptive pricing.” Read More

BlackBerry has joined hands with PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk. (Emtek, IDX:EMTK) that will provide cross-platform BBM users with access to enriched content and services. This landmark partnership accelerates BlackBerry’s vision to advance BBM for the consumer market through a licensing agreement with the Emtek Group that enables the company to develop new BBM applications and services for Android, iOS and Windows Phones. “Emtek’s impressive background and pedigree in entertainment, content and technology makes them the perfect partner to maximize the potential of BlackBerry’s messaging platform while meeting our financial and operational goals. Our BBM users are passionate people that truly value BBM as the best way to share and connect with each other. We wanted to continue to offer our users even more with the most content-rich media and new services such as e-commerce, video, music and games,” said John Chen , Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry... Read