VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

AWS to scale cloud skilling, and accelerate innovation with education technology startups in India:  In line to complement the growth and diversification in the country,   AWS   has find the way to collaborate with Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new initiatives to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in India, by empowering school students with cloud computing skills, and enabling entrepreneurs to build innovative education technology (EdTech) solutions on the cloud.   A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed between  NITI Aayog  and Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL), which undertakes the resale and marketing of  AWS Cloud services in India .   As per the SoI, AIM will leverage AWS Educate, Amazon’s global program that provides resources for students and educators to accelerate cloud-related learning. This program will introduce the fundamentals of cloud computing...

Wikipedia to charge Big Tech companies for leeching off its content:  Wikipedia   will begin charging the mega corporations for leeching off its user-generated content. The endeavor paves the way for Wikimedia Enterprises, which will tackle these business dealings.   The many instances of Big Tech tapping into Wikipedia's services include Google Search relying on excerpts from Wikipedia articles and linking to the same for user search queries. All AI-based assistants such as Google Assistant, Apple's Siri, and Amazon's Alexa heavily rely on the Wikipedia database for answering user queries for information. Wikimedia Enterprises will charge Big Tech for these services in the future.   At the outset,  Wikimedia Enterprises  will handle the sale/delivery of Wikipedia content to software giants such as Google, Apple, and Amazon. But people familiar with the matter have revealed that eventually smaller businesses might also come under its purview.   It is a...

With market competition intensifying and business becoming more challenging for new customer acquisitions and engagement, classic partner programs are seen to be evolving. The exponential pace of change has created anxiety across the IT industry. Any information system upgrades for improved partner experiences should deliver accurate information, address the right issues, and demonstrate an understanding of partner experiences. The changes vendors seek in partner programs ought to be realistic, scalable , and ensure that a system infrastructure is in place to incentivize partners wherever they operate globally. For instance, Nutanix has opted to completely revamp its channel program with a new Velocity program (mid-market-focused) and launched its Power to Partner program channel charter shortly after, with an emphasis on enabling partners’ sales and marketing, but with no revenue requirements for partners.  Dell EMC, on the other hand, has made services revenue compuls...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE India’s e-commerce industry is transforming to the next era of transformation. It is like who can take maximum attention of the prospective buyer by using various technology tools. The war is between two super powers – USA and China and among Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart. To make the shopping experience more convenient, brick and mortar developers are focusing on enhancing the convenience of shopping centre automate mode. Experts say that India is poised to become one of the largest and fastest e-commerce growth markets in the next decade. The Government of India is also supporting this growth wave by permitting foreign retailers to own stakes of as much as 51% in multi-brand retail ventures, after securing government approval. The online retail sector is expected to grow at 30% a year to reach a gross merchandise value of $200bn by 2026. With 1.3 billion population, India sees a rapid growth of internet users, with 430 million peop...

As a part of it reorganization of its business model to focus on selling cloud computing infrastructure and services under the Azure brand, Microsoft is cutting around ten percent of its global sales force.  In an official statement last week the company said, "Microsoft is implementing changes to better serve our customers and partners. Today, we are taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated.”  "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time-to-time, re-deployment in others." Read More

Manthan has won the Innovation Partner Award for the second consecutive year, at Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Partner Summit. By combining AWS technologies with its expertise spanning descriptive and advanced analytics including forecasting, recommendations and causality, Manthan has created Maya, the world’s first AI-powered conversational platform for business analytics. “We are delighted to receive this award two years in a row. It’s a testament to the body of work we have established in our AI initiatives. We believe AI is the future of decision making and have invested heavily in R&D focused AI labs that bring together the best technologies and some of the best minds in the industry,” said Atul Batra, CTO, Manthan.... Read More

The government has finalised provisional empanelment of Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service providers (CSPs) coined as MeghRaj today but Amazon Web Services (AWS) name is missing from the list. With reference to the RFP dated 30th December 2015, MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) has successfully concluded the evaluation process of provisionally empaneling the Cloud Service Offerings of Cloud Service Providers. The letter of empanelment has been awarded to the following cloud service providers for two years, subject to the written acceptance of terms and conditions within 15 days.... Read More

Wipro(NYSE:WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) has announced that it has successfully implemented its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform- Managed File Transfer-as-a-Service (MFTaaS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for organizations, thereby helping them integrate digitally with their clients, partners and employees. Wipro’s MFTaaS Platform handles millions of file transfers across a portfolio of global clients and is one of Wipro’s most successful enterprise SaaS platforms. Wipro anticipates that the MFTaaS Platform can potentially reduce up to 30 per cent in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for its clients vis-a-vis traditional .... Read more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies  has announced that it offers enhanced management and governance capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enterprise customers rely on CA Technologies solutions - including CA Automation Suite for Clouds, CA Application Performance Management, CA Nimsoft Cloud Monitor and CA ARCserve - to manage, monitor and protect applications and services running on AWS.  “While enterprises are moving computing resources to third-party cloud service providers to give them increased flexibility, scalability and responsiveness in meeting rapidly-changing business demands, CIOs have been slower to consider cloud environments for their business-critical applications because of perceived concerns about the ability to manage or govern those resources,” said Roger Pilc, General Manager, Industries, Solutions & Alliances, CA Technologies.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   NetApp has unveiled NetApp Private Storage for AWS  - an enterprise storage solution that utilizes AWS Direct Connect to provide customers the ability to establish a dedicated network connection from their existing infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Organizations can now replicate data from on-premise NetApp storage environments to NetApp Private Storage in an AWS Direct Connect facility to leverage on-demand cloud services. NetApp Private Storage for AWS allows enterprises to build an agile cloud infrastructure that balances internal datacenter resources along with AWS cloud resources to best meet their business needs.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fortinet  has announced the virtual machine version of its FortiWeb Web application firewall is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). “FortiWeb-VM provides AWS customers the best of both worlds,” said Chris Rodriguez, senior network security industry analyst with Frost and Sullivan. “The tremendous flexibility and stability of AWS, combined with Fortinet’s advanced security capabilities, is a winning combination for customers migrating strategic Web applications to the cloud.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company has unveiled that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier - a program claimed to be designed to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud. Developers and businesses with Windows Server applications are expected to take advantage of 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Micro Instance usage per month, at no charge for a one year period. With the expansion of the AWS Free Usage Tier, Windows developers are now supposed to have access to the same free resources on AWS as Linux developers - providing the ability to launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or gain hands-on experience with AWS. The AWS Free Usage Tier addition is said to join a number of recent AWS service extensions to support Windows customers, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the high power Cluster Compute inst...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS) has launched its new South America (Sao Paulo) Region, the eighth geographic Region worldwide in which the company has deployed its global cloud computing platform. South American-based businesses and global companies with customers in South America can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. The newly launched South America (Sao Paulo) Region is believed to be the first Region in South America for AWS, and is now available for any business or software developer to sign up. Over the past years, AWS has changed the way that businesses think about technology infrastructure--incur no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, turn capital expense into variable operating expense, scale seamlessly by adding or shedding resources as quickly as you wish, free up scarce engineering resources from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of ru...