VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

To drive the ambitious Make in India initiative and promote manufacturing in the country, the Government has issued a mandate to give preference to locally produce cyber security products in all public procurement. The intellectual property rights of these cyber security products have to be owned by companies or start-ups incorporated in India. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in the order said that Cyber Security being a strategic sector, all the procuring entities shall give preference to domestically manufactured/produced Cyber Security Products. The notification is based on Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017 which aims to enhance income and employment in the country..... Read More

Qlik has announced the acquisition of Podium Data to expand Qlik’s mission, moving beyond analytics to being provider of solutions that democratize data for every user to create a more data literate world. Enterprise data strategies have evolved to rely heavily on the creation of data lakes. However, customers are realizing that these and other data sources aren’t designed to easily and quickly deliver data to the business user. In many instances, data lakes have only increased customer data complexity and management headaches. According to Gartner, “Through 2018, 90% of deployed data lakes will be rendered useless, as they’re overwhelmed with information assets captured for uncertain use-cases.” (Gartner. Derive Value From Data Lakes Using Analytics Design Patterns. 26 September 2017) Qlik believes an organization’s analytics strategy is only optimized when paired with a strong data strategy, and yet most analytics vendors are falling short on delivering in this ar...

Hitachi Vantara has announced its intent to acquire REAN Cloud LLC. This acquisition will reinforce Hitachi Vantara’s ability to accelerate secure enterprise cloud adoption across multi-cloud environments and strengthen its ability to manage and operate traditional applications as well as emerging workloads in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Hitachi Vantara shares REAN Cloud’s passion for creating leading-edge solutions and will leverage REAN Cloud’s expertise to speed delivery of transformative digital solutions for its combined customers and partners. Bobby Soni, Chief Solutions and Services Officer of Hitachi Vantara, says, “Enterprises today want the ultimate flexibility in selecting the right environment for their varied workloads and development requirements. Moving and managing data and applications across environments requires careful orchestration through a unified cloud platform. Hitachi Vantara already offers trusted and reliable private cloud solut...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new features to HPE 3PAR, so that users can focus on unlocking the economic value of their data. HPE InfoSight is a cloud-based AI platform built on a unique approach to data collection and analysis, predicting and automating resolution to problems and continuously improving to make HPE storage smarter and more reliable. HPE InfoSight delivers HPE 3PAR customers a predictive analytics framework to anticipate and prevent issues across the infrastructure stack. This is in addition to the cross-stack analytics made available to HPE 3PAR customers, which provides IT the ability to resolve performance problems and pinpoint the root cause of issues between the storage and host virtual machines. Since releasing these capabilities, HPE InfoSight has already predicted and auto-resolved 85% of more than 1,500 complex, priority cases across the HPE 3PAR installed base. HPE InfoSight enables a new and better product experience that...

President Donald Trump, the Republican leader has said in an interview that he is willing to hit all Chinese goods imported to the US with tariffs if necessary. Trump administration will start imposing tariffs on Chinese imports worth $34 billion from Friday. On China's part, it will promptly strike back with tariffs on an equal amount of US exports. Trump has said in his speech that he is not doing this for politics but as a right thing for his country. He also added that they had been ripped off by China for a long time. US has imposed 25 per cent tariffs on approximately USD 34 billion of Chinese mechanical and technological products. Starting Friday, the US will tax 818 Chinese products, worth $34 billion a year. It won't target the 284 additions, worth $16 billion until it gathers further public comments. The move has sparked an immediate response from Beijing, which said would hit back dollar for dollar.... Read More