VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA, the leading National IT Publication house, has tried to bring different major IT companies together with a small effort of arranging a Cricket Tournament for last three years in Bhubaneswar with support from STPI, OCAC and other IT corporate. It has drawn an outstanding response from different major IT industries in Odisha. The Ultimate mission to start this match is bringing the Corporate in touch, where they can know each other and experience the real spirit of game.

With E-tailers betting on more Indians switching to shopping online with a projection of 200 million new consumers by 2017,  E-tailer giant Amazon  has set its priority already by aiming to sell goods worth $2 billion by the end of this year. By doing this, it will become the fastest e-tailer in the country to cross this mark and thereby move closer to Snapdeal. Snapdeal on its part has achieved this milestone a few weeks ago. Snapdeal achieved this mark only after waiting for more than four years where as Flipkart took seven years. If Amazon is able to achieve this feat then it will have taken half the time taken by Snapdeal. In October last year, during the discount sales push `Online Shopping Dhamaka’, Amazon India seller club that has over 1 crore monthly sales grew 50% during the festive season while those with over 10 crore monthly sales seller club grew five times.The company’s peers are also setting ambitious targets in India’s fiercely competitive market, whi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   WatchGuard Technologies has continued to empower its channel partners about the technology shift in the security space. As part of its overall partner strategy, WatchGuard has scheduled detailed hands-on training for its channels across 4 cities of India. The trainings will take place in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Delhi over the next couple of weeks. The 2-days training program in each city will focus on WatchGuard XTM range of network security solutions. Expert trainer Max Maizenberg based out of company's headquarter in US will be travelling to conduct this special training.  Elaborating on the importance on training for channels, Scott Robertson, Vice President-APAC at WatchGuard said, "WatchGuard is a 100% channel driven company. We invest heavily in channel focused activities every quarter and partner enablement through series of webinars, hands-on trainings is a continuous drive." The t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Facebook has announced the India Client Council to better serve our partners. Comprised of a diverse group of leading client and agency partners, the India Client Council is a forum where some of India’s leading marketers can listen, inspire and share ideas about the future of marketing. In India and around the world, the rate of people with access to digital services and devices is skyrocketing, and for many here the mobile phone has already become a true lifeline, providing information about market prices, healthcare, banking, employment and entertainment. “As a client that has advertised on Facebook for both direct response as well as brand campaigns, I’m delighted to work with some of finest marketing gurus in India to incubate ideas that will make this platform and the marketing ecosystem even better for brands,”  says Mohit Beotra, Head of Brand - Airtel.  This rapid acceleration of mobil...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   RSA, Security Division of EMC, has announced the promotion of Amit Yoran to President.  As RSA’s Senior Vice-President of Products, Yoran has been a driving force behind RSA's Intelligence Driven Security strategy and aligning RSA’s product portfolio to meet the new and emerging security challenges facing enterprises today.  In his new role, Yoran will take responsibility for delivering a unified customer experience across products, marketing, sales and services.  Art Coviello, who remains RSA’s Executive Chairman, and will work with Yoran to continue driving RSA's strategic direction. With more than 20 years of cybersecurity expertise, Yoran is one of the industry’s foremost authorities on the evolution of the security landscape and how enterprises can successfully defend themselves against advanced threats. Art Coviello, Executive Chairman, RSA, Executive Vice-President, EMC, said, "We are ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     The Tata Elxsi Board of Directors has announced appointment of N. Ganapathy Subramaniam as an Additional Director and Chairman of the Board, with effect from November 1, 2014. He takes over the role of Chairman from S. Ramadorai, who stepped down from the Board of Directors of the company, on attaining the age of 70 years, as per the company's policy. N. Ganapathy Subramaniam is the Executive Vice-President at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and head of TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit of TCS. Part of TCS and the Indian IT industry for over 30 years, he has served in a multitude of roles in delivering solutions to TCS customers globally. As a part of his current role, he is responsible for steering the financial products business, under the brand name, TCS BaNCS, globally. TCS BaNCS is a suite of products covering the banking, capital markets, and insurance domains. Subramaniam br...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     SAP SE has announced its plans to expand innovation capabilities in Singapore with an SAP Innovation Center by the end of 2014, focusing on delivering breakthrough innovations around Smart Cities, Industry 4.0, Healthcare and Digital Consumers. In an increasingly networked economy powered by smart devices, the SAP Innovation Center aims to foster local economic opportunities by identifying untapped market and customer needs and creating new innovative, user-centric products. This involves co-innovation with SAP customers and partners as well as research collaboration with local universities. Further fuelling the startup ecosystem, the center will provide local startups with the latest technologies and offer market access to expand their reach. "While our technology is very sophisticated, it actually delivers a dramatically simplified IT landscape that benefits our customers," said Rob Enslin, Ex...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Lenovo has launched affordable multimedia tablet A7-30 3G with voice calling. The A7-30 3G is Lenovo's first-ever 3G device in the Rs.10k price range - an amazing deal for a such a power-packed device. With its dual front-facing speakers and Dolby audio enhancement, the A7-30 3G delivers a dazzling, affordable and portable entertainment experience. Listening to your favourite songs will be twice as much fun, thanks to its speakers that offer louder, natural and distortion-free sound. The A7-30 3G equips you to stay connected with friends and family at all times with its voice calling as well as worldwide roaming features. And it offers uninterrupted usage time, owing to its longer battery life that provides 8 hours of Wi-Fi browsing on a single battery charge, making it the perfect travel device to stay connected and have fun. Rohit Midha, Director, Tablet Business Unit, Lenovo India, “With the A7-...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fujitsu safeguards small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the high risks of data-loss due to disaster without adding complexity to their ICT infrastructure. ETERNUS Storage Cluster enables transparent failover of ETERNUS DX storage systems to automatically keep businesses running in the event of planned or unplanned outages. When it comes to mission-critical data that must be available around the clock, a disaster-proof configuration is an absolute must to keeping web stores trading, transaction databases available, and virtual machines up-and-running. However, such configurations are usually only available in conjunction with upper midrange and enterprise systems, commonly out of the price range of SMEs, and so complex that many IT organizations don’t feel comfortable managing these intricate environments. So, wherever possible, they simply avoid them - putting their businesses and reputation at risk. T...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to a new global research from security experts at Symantec, India topped the global top 50 ranking of countries that have witnessed the highest volume of “originating DDoS traffic”, with 26 per cent of all DDoS traffic originating from the country, followed by the USA with 17 per cent. “The sources for DoS attacks are often countries that have a high number of bot-infected machines and a low adoption rate of filtering of spoofed packets. While this does not mean that the people behind the attack are located in India, as the attacks are often orchestrated remotely, it is a reflection of India emerging as a hotbed to launch these attacks, potentially because of the low cybersecurity awareness, lack of adequate security practices and infrastructure,” said Tarun Kaura, Director, Technology Sales, Symantec India. The research titled, “The Continued Rise of DDoS Attacks”, was conducted by Symantec’s Security Response team ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Dell has introduced its NFV solution offerings and companion starter kits, comprising Dell systems and software combined with software from open ecosystem partners and open-source distributions to help jumpstart carrier trials and adoption. Dell’s NFV solutions can help telecommunications service providers improve cost structures of existing service delivery and simply and quickly enable new service innovation and creation. This is achieved by virtualizing the telecommunications and mobile service infrastructure using industry-standard compute and open networking platforms, combined with commercially available software packages at the infrastructure, management, orchestration and service layers. Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India, said, “Due to the exponential growth of data and expectation from consumers for high-speed telecommunication services, telecom service players cannot...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Champion has announced availability of “My Phone 41 & 51” during the festive season of Diwali. Both the phones are available with a special festive MRP of Rs.3,999 and Rs.4,999 for the Indian market. Both the smartphones run on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system. My Phone 41 and 51 feature 10.16cm (4) WVGA and 12.7cm (5) FWVGA Capacitive Touch Screen and are powered by 1 GHz Dual-Core and 1.2 GHz Dual-Core processor. These smartphones are powered by 1,400mAh battery and 1,650mAh battery, respectively. With Dual-SIM configuration (GSM+GSM), these handsets have 5MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera and 2MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera, respectively and also have 2GB and 4GB internal memory, which can be expanded up to 32GB of storage unit. Kapil Wadhwa, Director, Champion Computers Pvt. Ltd, said, “My Phone 41 and 51 are two offerings from our range of smartphones for those who a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     neoteric infomatique ltd has joined hands with RIVACASE as the exclusive National Distributor for its range of "Protective Carrying Solutions". RIVACASE is a global brand in Universal Cases for Laptops, Tablets, Cameras and Hard Disks. This includes Tablets Sleeves and Cases, Laptop Bags, HDD Cases along with SLR Bags, Compact Camera Cases and Camcorder Cases, System and Bridge Camera Bags. Antoine Sangers, Sales Director, RIVACASE, said, "India’s growing economy makes it a promising market for us and we are very excited to penetrate into it through our strategic partnership with neoteric. neoteric’s end-to-end value-added support services, years of experience and robust distribution presence comprising a network of 10,000 partners spread across 500+ cities will definitely help us boost our market share and expand our worldwide presence as a leader in the ‘Protective Carrying Solutions’ space.” ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   eScan has announced “eScan Festival Dhamaka” offer for this Diwali on the eScan range of Products (SOHO Boxes). The scheme is valid on eScan Anti-Virus with Cloud Security, eScan Internet Security Suite with Cloud Security and eScan Total Security Suite with Cloud Security for its most valued Tier-III and Tier-IV partners in India. The scheme is valid for the new purchases within the dates of 1st October to 10th November, 2014. eScan's beneficial scheme is designed with an aim to maximize the business as well as help earn attractive rewards and escalate profitability for its channel partners. The scheme is valid for the purchases billed out from eScan authorized partners only. Partner needs to register online on or before 10th November, 2014 to become eligible for participating in the offer. Failing to register in the offer will result in disqualification. Anil Gupta, AVP – India Sales, eScan, said, "We...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE B2X Care Solutions has announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding and has acquired majority share in, The Service Solutions (TSS) in India. Through this acquisition, all TSS service stores will be rebranded as B2X Care Solutions with plans for huge growth in 2015, expanding B2X's global footprint in India rapidly. Moving forward, B2X will leverage TSS's deep expertise and capabilities to transfer its existing SMARTBAR model into multi-brand service and retail stores in India. "We couldn't be happier to announce our funding and acquisition of TSS at the same time. The financing will help us to aggressively grow our engineering and sales efforts in response to the expanding demand for our Smart Service Platform. For us to be successful in India, we know that it will require very strong local capabilities. TSS is a rising star in India and their cloud- based capabilities completes t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE    DIGISOL have identified the issue of price discrepancy between the price offered by its channel partners and the price available on E-commerce sites i.e. its online retailers. This is posing a major hurdle for DIGISOL's partners and distributors businesses. Company understands this sensitive issue very well and is looking at taking punitive measures to eradicate the pricing problems that has been an obstruction for the smooth functioning of its channel business. DIGISOL is taking strict steps, by issuing a mandate to all online retailers to take corrective action on selling DIGISOL brand products online at predatory prices and to ensure overall price parity, which will not interfere with the channel's pricing.DIGISOL will keep a close eye on offline partners also, who divert their project specific materials to online sale at lower price and will take serious steps including holding the supply back for a spe...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE     Telenor Group has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the 26-per cent ownership stake in Telewings, held by Lakshdeep Investment & Finance. As a result, Telenor now takes full ownership of the company that operates under the brand name Uninor. The process was finalized after Telenor received approval from the Indian Government's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to increase its stake from 74 per cent to 100 per cent. "Telenor Group has a long-term view on India, and we are encouraged by the strong growth of our Indian operation. The company continues to capture market share every month and is leading in new subscriber additions in many of its circles," said Sigve Brekke, EVP of Telenor Group and Chairman of the Board of Telewings. Telewings' revenues in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period last year have increased by more than 40 per cent. Earlier this ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Designed to offer advanced features for the youth, Panasonic India has introduced a new member to its “T” series smartphone, the Panasonic T40. This phone is made to fit your pocket in every way. Its dual tone front enhances its workable design of round edges and small form factor. Bestowed with a 4 inch IPS display at a resolution of 800x480, it weighs just 117g. The model is available in three colors which include the Bright Red, Dark Grey and White. Powered by a 1.3GHz Quad core processor with 1GB RAM, the T40 is well equipped to take performance to the next level. Its 8GB internal storage expandable to 32GB using a microSD card provides ample space for downloading plenty of apps and games. Panasonic T40 has a 5MP rear camera with Autofocus and is befriended with an LED flash to churn out stunning photographs so you don’t lose out on those important moments.  The phone runs the latest Android KitKat 4.4.2 and is ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE On a visit to South Korea, the Minister for Communications & IT and Law & Justice, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad , has attended the Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 of the International Telecom Union. He also held meetings with the top companies of South Korea working in the field of electronics to attract business into India. On the first day of his four-day visit, the Minister met Bon Joon Koo, Vice-Chairman & CEO of LG Electronics in Seoul. Bon Joon Koo expressed great faith in the changed investment climate in India. The Minister shared the Digital India vision and "Make In India" initiative of the present Government with the CEO of LG Electronics. Shri Ravi Prasad highlighted the great potential that India holds in the field of electronic manufacturing. Taking forward the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to develop India into a global manufacturing hub, the Mi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, has said the Digitization process was an integral component of the Digital India initiative of the Prime Minister. The Cable TV Digitization process aimed at providing the consumer with greater choices and affordable and qualitative options. The overall objective was to be sensitive to the needs and choice of the consumer. The choice of the consumer was paramount in defining the inputs, strategies and roadmap for the remaining phases of the digitization process. The Minister stated this while addressing the first meeting of the Task Force set up for Cable TV Digitization (Phase III and Phase IV) here today. Elaborating further, Shri Javadekar called upon the manufacturers to innovate and explore new technologies for addressing the different consumer tastes and needs. The Minister added that in the next phase of digitization, the price mechanism off...