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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   VMware Inc. has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure. According to Gartner, "Virtualization penetration has surpassed 50 percent of all server workloads, and it continues to grow." The report continues: "The x86 server virtualization infrastructure market is the foundation for two extremely important market trends that relate and overlap: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing. Virtualization is a fundamental enabler to IaaS, and will be used to establish private cloud services, public cloud services and interoperable hybrid cloud services." Rick Jackson, VMware CMO said, "VMware customers of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to build cloud operations that will allow them to achieve the peak in automation, flexibility and efficiency. We believe our placement in the Lea...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP has been named the overall market share leader in the worldwide business intelligence (BI) market, which spans BI platforms, corporate performance management (CPM) suites, analytic applications and performance management. According to the April 2012 report issued by Gartner Inc., "Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2011," SAP ranks No. 1 with 23.6 percent share of the worldwide market based on revenue for 2011, reflecting a 19.5 percent growth from 2010. John Schweitzer, senior VP and general manager, Analytics, SAP said, "We believe our performance, which is ahead of the market growth rate, demonstrates how customers look to SAP as a trusted business partner empowering them to better know their business, make confident, data- driven decisions and then take action. It is great to see recognition of our leadership in the BI, CPM, analytic applications and performance management markets from Gartner. Our portfoli...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP AG has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Suites" report. SAP is recognized as a market leader for both its "ability to execute" and its "completeness of vision". SAP has announced support for the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 application, version for SAP NetWeaver powered by the SAP HANA platform. The application enhances unified planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation processes. In line with its mobile-first strategy, SAP also delivered the SAP Strategy Management mobile app, available on iTunes. The app is a purpose-built mobile EPM solution that enables executives to collaborate on key initiatives while away from the office. "We believe our position in the leaders quadrant further recognizes the combined capabilities of our business analytics portfolio, our vision, execution agains...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos has been positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner, Inc's 2012 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company's ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to the report, "The Leaders quadrant contains vendors at the forefront of making and selling UTM products that are built for midsize business requirements. The requirements necessary for leadership include a wide range of models to cover midsize business use cases, support for multiple features, and a management and reporting capability that is designed for ease of use. Vendors in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, and in enabling customers to deploy them inexpensively without significantly affecting the end-user experience or increasing staffing burdens. These vendors also have a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products. Com...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has announced that Forrester Research Inc. has positioned EMC Greenplum as a Leader in its February 2012 report, "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions Q1 2012". Forrester regards Hadoop as the nucleus of the next-generation EDW in the cloud stating, "Hadoop implements the core features that are at the heart of most modern EDWs: cloud-facing architectures, MPP, in-database analytics, mixed workload management, and a hybrid storage layer." In recognizing EMC Greenplum as a Leader, Forrester notes that EMC Greenplum is the first mover in Hadoop appliances becoming "the first EDW vendor to provide a full-featured enterprise-grade Hadoop appliance and roll out an appliance family that integrates its Hadoop, EDW, and data integration in a single rack." The report also states that EMC Greenplum "provides its own open source Hadoop distribution software, integrates EMC's strong stora...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kaspersky Lab has announced that it has officially been named a "Leader" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is based on complex analysis of endpoint protection platforms of a wide range of IT security vendors. It is the most influential benchmark for companies seeking to evaluate vendors and products in the IT security industry, and plays a very important role in purchase decisions of enterprises on a global scale. This Magic Quadrant is based on the criteria in two categories: completeness of vision and ability to execute. Completeness of vision reflects the vendor's standing on innovation, and whether the vendor drives or follows the endpoint protection market. Ability to execute summarizes factors such as the vendor's financial viability, market responsiveness, product development, sales channels and customer base in the endpoint protection segment. Eugene Kaspersk...