VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Facebook celebrates the possibilities of connections in the new 'More Together' campaign:  Facebook  today launched a new phase of its consumer marketing campaign in India - ‘ More Together ’. This phase marks the first anniversary of Facebook’s consumer marketing journey in the country, a key strategic focus area for the company, and continues to celebrate the power of connections and communities, and how people can do more together than alone.   Speaking about the campaign,  Avinash Pant, Director - Marketing, Facebook India,   said, “Facebook is deeply entrenched in the cultural fabric of India. Everyday we see different ways in which people across the country come together on our platform to create meaningful connections, fuel discovery, and help and support one another. This ability to connect and share with the world can lead to endless possibilities, and we feel humbled with the stories where our family of apps have provided this value to the people. Our ...

Seagate on its part is developing and offering innovative products which allow users to access and interpret information quickly and securely, to analyze data and understand patterns and behaviour, and harness stored information for growth and innovation. We are also helping consumers store content so they can store, share and re-live their precious experiences and memories. The more people and businesses embrace the digital age, the more they will need secure, robust and intelligent storage solutions.   See more 

Digitization is at the core of Schneider Electric’s business ethos. It is not merely a strategy but the very way of life at Schneider. “It is how we serve our customers, build bonds with our partners and nurture our employees. We firmly believe in digitizing the complete value chain of our business. Right from component and product level to the overarching software that integrates and digitizes the use of energy, we have been pioneers and we continue to innovate and deliver breakthrough technologies. We digitise the use of energy to make it safe, reliable, green,.   See more 

For companies like us in the IT sector, systematic implementation of smart cities brings forth a huge business opportunity, especially in the non-metro regions. An increasing number of cities across India are making the most of the government’s focus on and support for digitization. They are implementing the concept in various spheres, like land record digitization or setting up of smart transport management systems. At the fundamental level, the smart city and digitization concept is bound to improve the spread of better healthcare, and standardized education delivery systems involving schools and colleges in class C and D cities. Also, it will prove to be a boon for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).   see more

With a mission to digitally upgrade the underserved children, NASSCOM Foundation has launched the “Ignite the Spark” programme – a Tablet donation drive across the country – at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum. NGO Literacy India will present the tablets to underprivileged students. Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation, said, “The Tablet donation drive is a manifestation of NASSCOM Foundation’s commitment to digitally empowering the underserved sections of the society. With tablets becoming the primary vehicle for digital engagement, in villages where power is scarce, we hope to bridge the digital divide and empower the bright sparks in rural India.” Actor and social activist Nandita Das, R. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, NASSCOM; Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, NASSCOM Foundation; Neeraj Aggarwal, Director, Boston Consulting Group; K. K. Natarajan, CEO & MD, MindTree; Aruna Jayanti, CEO, Capgemini; Amit Agarwal, Senior VP, Genpact; and Prof. Amit Lahiri from Centennial Col...

McAfee Labs, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec, co-founders of the cyber threat alliance, have announced that Barracuda Networks, ReversingLabs, Telefónica and Zscaler have joined the Cyber Threat Alliance in their efforts to make united progress in the fight against sophisticated cyber adversaries. The mission of the Cyber Threat Alliance is to drive a coordinated industry effort against cyber adversaries through deep collaboration on threat intelligence and sharing indicators of compromise. “We appreciate the charter of the Cyber Threat Alliance and believe there should be closer collaboration across security researchers, industry, education, and government. We look forward to sharing critical data across threat vectors that can be leveraged not only for delivering Total Threat Protection for our customers but also toward benefiting the community as a whole,” said Stephen Pao, GM – Security, Barracuda, which provides cloud-connected security and storage solutions that simplify ...

India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) has disclosed details of their key role in enabling the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cricket Semiconductor and the Government of Madhya Pradesh for an analog fab proposed to be set up in the state. They provided a strategic roadmap to the company for locating the proposed unit in the country. The industry body is also helping Madhya Pradesh for their investment promotion initiatives. The proposed investment is expected to be Rs.6,000 crore (US$1 billion) to set up an analog wafer fab in the country. The creation of this fab ecosystem coupled with the products and systems value chain is expected to create close-to 450,000 new jobs, making a potential future economic impact of $40 billion, over its project life span and reduce electronics import burden for the nation. Madhya Pradesh recently approved the “Analog Semiconductor Fabrication [FAB] Investment Policy”  that provides for free government land, reim...

Intex Technologies has launched the first Android Lollipop smartphone by an Indian brand, the Aqua Star L. The company has packed this handset with rich features and is priced it at Rs.6,990 only.  Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Mobile Business Head, Intex Technologies, said, “Our newest offering in the Aqua collection, the Aqua Star L proves Intex’s dedication to remain a technology supernal. It is absolutely imperative to run along with the technological advancements to stay in a competitive environment. Looking at the demand, the smartphone has been instilled with a 12.7cm (5-inch) fully laminated screen and an 8MP camera along with various features. We are excited to bring Intex’s latest phone to our customers.” Boasting its dual-Sim capabilities, the phone sports Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, ensuring full-time connectivity for the users who like to stay social. The phone has dedicated 1GB RAM and 8GB of inbuilt memory that is expandable up to 32GB for smooth processes. Along with the ...

ZTE Corporation has announced the launch of its new Unified Communication & Collaboration solution (UC&C), a transformative software-based video conferencing technology designed to help enterprises harness the power of mobility. ZTE’s UC&C is an end-to-end solution that delivers cloud-based video conferencing and collaboration services for end-users anywhere, anytime, supporting different devices and endpoints including software-based MCU (multipoint control units), ET series endpoints, mobile applications and desktop clients. The next-generation UC&C solution, designed for enterprises and operators, was debuted by ZTE at the Integrated Systems Europe 2015 (ISE) exposition in Amsterdam. The Cloud Conferencing Manager (CCM1000) is a software-based MCU that delivers high-definition and large capacity video conferencing capabilities, enabling fast and flexible distributed deployment and providing support for virtualized platforms. With the CCM1000, customers re...

Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan Corporation (TDMT) has announced slim, 7mm MQ01ABF solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD) series. Equipped with Toshiba’s NAND flash and available in 500GB1 and 320GB capacities, the MQ01ABFH series is the first Toshiba SSHD drive family in 7mm. The series continues Toshiba’s legacy of providing world-class storage products, and offers customers a complete lineup of 2.5-inch solid-state hybrid drives with the previously announced 1TB and 750GB MQ01ABDH series 9.5mm SSHDs for ultrathin and thin and light notebook PCs, multimedia and gaming applications, and traditional laptop PCs. “The MQ01ABFH series fulfils users’ desire for thin and light notebook PCs with fast response times that can keep up with their demanding gaming and multimedia applications,” said Kashiwabara, Senior Manager of Marketing Sec., Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan Corporation. “This addition to our SSHD lineup demonstrates Toshiba’s continued focus on delivering a wide range ...

Vodafone has announced that Naveen Chopra, Director –Vodafone Business Services (VBS) will succeed Sunil Sood as Chief Operating Officer for Vodafone India with effect from  April 1, 2015 . This follows the earlier announcement of Sunil Sood to succeed Marten Pieters as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with effect from  April 1, 2015 . Naveen has, over the last five years ably led VBS into significant growth and expansion into new customer & product segments, to contribute substantially to Vodafone India’s business success. He has built carefully a strong VBS team across corporate and circles, and leaves the portfolio in a strong shape, to build on further. Naveen joined Vodafone in 2004 as Vice President – Corporate Marketing, and over the last ten years, has done stints as CMO and subsequently led successfully Mumbai and Rajasthan Circles as Business Head, before joining the Executive Committee as the Director – VBS. Naveen’s successor as Directo...

NETGEAR has announced the launch of ProSAFE M6100 Chassis Series. The new ProSAFE M6100 Chassis Series is a high-density chassis alternative to stackable switches for businesses. It’s an affordable and uniquely flexible chassis platform that enables high performance, highly resilient, fully redundant and future-ready switched networks from the Core to the Edge — without hurting or exhausting IT budgets. The M6100 Chassis Series comprises Gigabit access layer and 10 Gigabit distribution layer switches in a 4U footprint. With more than 1.4 tbps switching and routing capacity, passive backplane, full management and fabric nonstop forwarding redundancy, the M6100 Series delivers world-class resiliency and scalability. Its operating software and system management features take the complexity out of delivering L2/L3/L4-rich services for enterprise edge and SMB core deployments. UPOE capability extends its potential and delivers true investment protection to leverage today’s and tomorro...