VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

IBM has appointed Karan Bajwa as Managing Director of IBM India Pvt. Ltd, succeeding Vanitha Narayana who is appointed as Chairman of IBM India Pvt. Ltd.  These leadership announcements further demonstrate IBM’s commitment in the region. Karan joined IBM in 2016 as Executive for Strategy and Transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this he was the Managing Director, Microsoft India where, besides leading the India business for the company, he also the led the Cloud Transition and the Ecosystem engagement.  Prior to that, he has served in various roles in Microsoft and Cisco.  Karan is not new to IBM, having worked for five years leading IBM’s networking business and based in Singapore from 2001 - 2005... Read More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE For the next five years,  Bharti Airtel  and  IBM  have signed a new agreement to manage Airtel’s infrastructure and application services in India. This agreement builds on the 10-year-old relationship between the two organizations which has driven the co-creation of industry-leading telco solutions and customer-centric services. The agreement is based on Airtel’s new IT vision that defines the next generation of services for its ever-growing customer base and to offer best-in-class services to its customers through solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology. As part of the new vision, Airtel is also building in-house capabilities and a strong partner ecosystem, and has selected IBM to manage the IT infrastructure and applications for its operations in India. Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel (India & South Asia) , said, “As we embark on the next phase of Airtel’s growth journey, I am confident that the ag...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to the latest update,  IBM(NYSE)  has announced appointment of  Vanitha Narayanan as Managing Director of IBM India Pvt. Ltd.  She takes over from Shanker Annaswamy who will continue to remain in IBM as the Senior Adviser to the corporation on India Enterprise. Both Ms Narayanan and Annaswamy will report to Jim Bramante, Senior Vice-President,  IBM Growth Markets Unit . The appointments are effective immediately. Ms Narayanan will be responsible for all of IBM's Sales, Marketing, Services and Global Delivery Operations in the India/South Asia (ISA) region, including operations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Vanitha has over 25 years of experience working for IBM with multiple client sets and in several countries. Since 2009, she has been a part of the IBM ISA business.... See More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   IBM has announced that HMEL, a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd., Singapore, has adopted a new IBM analytics-based solution to transform how the company manages its financial and operations data to boost business performance.  The new IBM solution integrates information from the various components of the MES, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and control systems within the refinery and delivers a consolidated, single view of the data. The new technology will enable HMEL to analyze key corporate business processes, including planned versus actual investments, production, key performance indicators, among others. The system will generate near real-time information for HMEL business executives to use to make more intelligent decisions around optimizing productivity and margins. Moiz Tankiwala, COO, HMEL said, “As a green-field project, we wanted to lev...