VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To support digital payment system, Hon’ble Union Finance Minster Arun Jaitley formally inaugurated Paytm Payments Bank recently. Paytm Payments Bank is mobile-first bank with zero charges on all online transactions and no minimum balance requirement. The bank has been designed to help achieve financial inclusion in the country and is in line with Paytm’s mission of bringing half a billion Indians on to the mainstream economy. The company has planned an investment of $500 million in KYC (Know Your Customer) operations. It is also setting up KYC centres across India to complete KYC for customers and make them eligible for a Payments Bank account..... Read More

Microsoft Corp. and SAP SE have announced integrated offerings to provide enterprise customers with a clear road map to confidently drive more business innovation in the cloud. In a bold show of commitment, the two companies also announced they will be deploying each other’s cloud solutions internally. Through their unique partnership, the companies will co-engineer, go to market together with premier solutions and provide joint support services to ensure the best cloud experience for customers. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud – SAP’s private managed cloud service – on Microsoft Azure will allow customers to run SAP S/4HANA in a secure, managed cloud. Additionally, Microsoft will deploy SAP S/4HANA on Azure to help run its own internal finance processes, and SAP will move its key internal business critical systems to Azure. Finally, SAP Ariba is currently utilizing Azure and is exploring further use within its procurement applications....... Read More

Considering the TRAI’s recommendations on Net Neutrality, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has said that the recommendations are progressive in nature and are in line with the debates in the industry and user groups that have been raging for the last two years. For the industry, the recommendations are pragmatic in the sense that it recognizes the requirements of expansion of digital services in the country, when it makes reasonable exceptions for specialized services, reasonable traffic management practices or fulfilling international treaty agreements. Special provisions for IoT, specialized services and CDNs reflect forward-looking recommendations that take into account the needs of the foreseeable future. The TRAI recommendations ensure level-playing field in enabling emerging service providers to reach out to target audiences on the same terms with their peers. At the same time, recognition of special sectors like IoT, CDNs ensure that emerging sect...

ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have entered into a strategic global partnership that combines ABB’s digital offerings, ABB Ability, with HPE’s innovative hybrid information technology (IT) solutions. The partnership will provide customers with solutions that generate actionable insights from vast amounts of industrial data to increase efficiency and flexibility of their operations and create competitive advantage. “This alliance between two global leaders is unprecedented in terms of breadth and depth, and it will be groundbreaking for the progress of the Industrial Internet of Things,” said Meg Whitman, CEO, HPE. “Together with ABB, we will shape a digital industrial future where everything computes, equipping machines with intelligence to collaborate, allowing plants to flexibly adapt to changing demands, and enabling global supply chains to instantaneously react to incidents. This partnership will create exciting business opportunities for our joint customers.”.......

Speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited global entrepreneurs to come to India by saying that it provides an investment friendly environment where restrictions have been removed and archaic laws abolished. In his address, he said that over 1,200 outdated laws have been scrapped, 87 rules for foreign investment eased in 21 sectors and several government processes have been taken online. "To my entrepreneur friends from across the globe, I would like to say, 'Come, Make in India, Invest in India', for India and for the world," he said. "I invite each one of you to become a partner in India's growth story. And once again assure you of our wholehearted support." Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor to the White House attended the Summit. She was leading a US delegation to the summit and gave the keynote address.... Read More

Infosys has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer a joint end-to-end mainframe modernization solution, which will provide global enterprise customers robust hardware and advanced software architecture.   Ravi Kumar, President & Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Infosys, said, “Digital transformation is being embraced by enterprises across various industries. Infosys, through this partnership with HPE, aims at co-creating and enabling clients to simplify their IT landscape by redeploying existing mainframes on modern architecture. Customers will be able to re-host and re-engineer their business critical enterprise applications on modern hardware and software architecture to scale and accelerate the business impact in a secure manner. This will lead to enhanced productivity for customers across industry segments. This partnership with HPE will help clients modernize their mission-critical infrastructure with confidence.”   Infosys' Mainframe Moderniz...

Facebook has recently introduced Facebook Digital Training and Facebook Start-up Training Hubs and personaliza million people in India by 2020, these online training hubs, which are being rolled out first in India and have been developed with local organizations, will provide digital skills and training for people in need of work, advise entrepreneurs how to get started and help existing businesses and nonprofits get the most out of the internet.   Facebook is working with local organizations, including Digital Vidya, EDd to the individual's needs and available in English and Hindi on mobile.   Facebook Digital Training Hub provides free social and content marketing training (not just Facebook) for anyone – from students to business owners – who are looking to develop their digital knowledge and skills. The curriculum includes social media basics, how to build and create an audience, how to create content, how to measure online activity, and stay ahead of the curve...

Companies all over the world are looking to move to the cloud to help their business move faster. Azure provides security, reliability, and scale to help them deliver and scale their applications. Keeping in line with this, Microsoft announces new migration offerings as additional solutions to help customers get to the cloud easily and securely for their VMware environment. Enclosed are the services that will be a part of this offering - Migrate applications with Azure Migrate -  Azure Migrate helps you through the journey of migrating an entire multi-server application Integrate VMware workloads with Azure services -  There are many Azure services that you can use together with VMware workloads without any migration or deployment, enabling you to keep your entire environment secure and well-managed across cloud and on-premises Host VMware infrastructure with VMware virtualization on Azure -  Most workloads can be migrated to Azure easily using the abo...

The Election Commission is partnering with Facebook to remind 18 year olds to register to vote. As part of this campaign, all users who turn 18 between 28th November and 31st December will receive a News Feed reminder with birthday wishes and also encouraging them to register with the Election Commission and on 30th November a reminder would be sent to all those who have already turned 18 this year. Achal Kumar Jyoti, Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India, "I am happy to announce that the Election Commission of India has launched a Special Drive to enrol  all prospective and eligible young citizens of India as voters who are turning 18 years or more than 18 years on 1st January, 2018. This partnership of Election Commission with Facebook for the dissemination of Information will help usreach out the young digital Community of India in fulfilling our mission “No Voter to be Left Behind’’ and “Every Vote Counts”." The reminder will be in 13 India...

Ex-Cisco CEO, Dinesh Malkani will lead Singapore-headquartered Smarten Spaces as its worldwide CEO. He also happens to be its founding partner and will bring a differentiated perspective on the future evolution of organizations and industries as they adapt to the opportunities the 4th Industrial Revolution will bring. He will lead the pioneer team responsible for shaping the blueprint to design, define, develop and deploy the company’s strategy worldwide. He will also be a member of the Smarten Spaces Board. Smarten Spaces is getting the solution conceptualized and designed in Singapore. The company also announced the establishment of its Experience Development Centre in Bengaluru, India. Smarten Spaces will enable transformation of the experience in environments used by communities of people. It is introducing globally its artificial intelligence powered platform, connecting users to things and services where they live, work and play.... Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has transformed into a smaller, nimbler company, and announced that the company will move its corporate headquarters to Santa Clara, California from its current Palo Alto location by the end of 2018. There are plans to sell its Palo Alto building and relocate employees to newer, nearby sites including San Jose, Milpitas and the company’s state-of-the-art HPE Aruba offices in Santa Clara, which will become the new global headquarters. The HPE Aruba Office was recently built as a showcase for Aruba’s intelligent workplace technologies. The building is a next-generation digital workplace that provides innovative tools to enable employees to quickly and efficiently locate each other find appropriate meeting spaces and use technology to collaborate seamlessly. Aruba designed a new 230,000 sq. ft. campus with an open floor plan. Housed in a new LEED Silver building, it includes multiple types of community spaces, quiet zones, collaboration areas, ...

India’s most popular event Star Nite Awards (SNA), popularly recognised as the DNA of the Channel was held last Friday, where 700 CXOs had gathered to discuss and deliberate on ‘Sustainability and Digital Transformation with Simplification’, with the aim of improving client experience for profitable growth. The day-long session was organised by Kalinga Digital Media, the information-communication-technology (ICT) publishing house that celebrated its 18th anniversary and hosted the 16th edition of Star Nite Awards ceremony. Digital India will lead the country into a digitally empowered society Mr Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher and Group editor, (VARINDIA & SPO INDIA), in his welcome address spoke on the need for increased access to internet, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and social media, and how they have completely changed our lives and the business landscape as a whole. "There is huge potential for ICT to drive sustainability forward, and both ...