VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Bharti Airtel has launched an innovative  24x7 "Emergency Alert Service" for customers . During an emergency, Airtel mobile customers can now send an alert with their geographic location to their closest 10 loved ones simultaneously with just a call, facilitating an access to easy and quick help. Subscribers can even send a "SAFE" SMS indication to a pre-defined group of 10 family members and friends and keep them informed of their wellbeing, especially when out alone and during any natural calamity or disaster with just one click. The innovative emergency alert, the first by an operator in the country... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   PNY Technologies Inc. (PNY) has announced that a lot of fake HP pen drives are being sold in the market to unsuspecting customers, who notice the problem only after they have already bought the counterfeit products. PNY shares, “We would like to inform our customers... more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Go Daddy has announced that the company is seeing a significant surge in new Indian customers over the last year and in recent months. Comparing July (2011-2012), new Go Daddy India customers have nearly doubled, growing by 91 percent. Since January and through the first seven months of the year, data shows Go Daddy growing new Indian customers by a robust 52 percent. The news comes as Go Daddy India officially announces its customer care facility in Hyderabad, India, which has been in operation since June. Rajiv Sodhi, MD, India, Go Daddy, said, "What we are doing is helping people leverage the Internet to grow their businesses providing simple products at competitive prices and supporting them with industry-best customer service based here in India. It's a pretty straight-forward formula and it works. In this economy, everyone is looking for an edge. I think our timing has been exquisite and the results are playing o...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Recently, it was announced that Global customers are experiencing the results of a new sales-effectiveness approach with a cloud solution from SAP AG. Since the launch of the SAP Sales OnDemand, a growing number of companies have embraced the new rules of selling to today’s savvy and socially connected buyer by empowering their salespeople.  Furthermore, 3M, aSAP customer, recently went live on SAP Sales OnDemand with a pilot project involving 25 users. "We wanted a system that our salespeople would actually want to use, not something they are forced to use. SAP Sales OnDemand gives us a friendly interface that lets our sales teams collaborate easily, as they are used to doing on social media sites like Facebook. Ultimately, this collaboration and contextual insight, integrated with our on-premise CRM, will shorten our sales cycles, which will ultimately help 3M's bottom line," said John Kieffer, Director, Business Tr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Symantec has announced that more than 1,200 Symantec partners have joined the SMB Specialization Programme across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region, expanding Symantec’s commitment and support for small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers in this fast- growing region.  Together with Symantec, these partners will focus on reaching a greater number of SMBs. “Our SMB partners are critical in helping Symantec expand our reach to today’s information-savvy SMBs, providing them with the solutions they need to protect their information. We are fully committed to enabling and supporting our ecosystem of partners, and with more than 1,200 SMB Specialized partners in this region, we are confident that we can help SMBs address their security, data protection and information management needs,” said Anand Naik, Managing Director - India and SAARC, Symantec. “In today's connected world, small- and medium-sized businesses are especi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco has announced that in just over two years its new Cisco Unified Computing System, (Cisco UCS) which integrates compute, networking, management and virtualization, has captured the attention of data center managers and CIOs alike - over 10,000 customers worldwide, including 3,000 in Europe, have deployed UCS. It has also captured 53 industry benchmark performance world records, and garnered a dozen industry awards for innovation. According to a recent Servers and Virtualization Study by The Info Pro, Cisco took the lead among server vendors in vision, technical innovation, product performance, and sales force. Cisco was named by 33 per cent as "the most exciting server vendor", eight percentage points ahead of the second placed vendor". The 2011 Cisco Cloud Index forecasts that cloud computing is transforming business: over 50 per cent of computing workloads in data centers are predicted to be cloud-based by 2014, and glo...