VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to the 2012 Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey, the majority of IT decision- makers cite a cloud-ready network as the biggest requirement to enable the migration of business applications to the cloud. To meet these challenges, Cisco has announced the Cisco Cloud Connected Solution, introducing cloud-enabled routing and wide area network (WAN) optimization platforms, along with Cloud Connectors. In addition, Cisco is also introducing enhancements to existing routing, security and WAN optimization solutions, including WAN innovations as well as new features and models on the ASR, ISR G2 and WAAS appliances. Praveen Akkiraju, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Cisco Services Routing Technology Group, said, "As businesses are driving the rapid adoption of cloud-based services, routing platforms and the WAN have become a strategic control point to provide an optimal user experience across the cloud. The Ci...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HP has launched its Network Infrastructure Optimization Services portfolio, designed to help customers evaluate and improve their network flow and infrastructure to ensure a quality user experience.   The HP Network Infrastructure Optimization Services portfolio spans network topology from within the data center and between data centers to wide area networks (WAN) and local area networks (LAN) to identify and eliminate inefficiencies, while optimizing infrastructure to make applications run faster.   "With a dispersed workforce and growing connectivity demands, enterprises can no longer revert to traditional singular quick fixes, such as adding bandwidth, to address network issues. HP's new services pinpoint inefficiencies that can be removed for a greater end-user experience," said Uday Birje, Country Manager, Network Consulting and Services, HP India. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Riverbed Technology has announced new Steelhead models, the Steelhead 150 appliance and Virtual Steelhead 150, as part of its comprehensive wide area network WAN) optimization product suite. With these additions to the Steelhead product family, businesses in emerging markets, retail customers, and governments and municipalities that have minimal bandwidth or few users at each location, as well as current customers who would like to extend the deployment to offices with fewer employees, can obtain a cost-effective solution that optimizes bandwidth and reduces remote infrastructure.     In addition, the new Steelhead appliance models provide robust WAN optimization solutions for locations in emerging markets that require low-cost flexible deployment models. “Our new Steelhead appliances, both physical and virtual, provide vertical markets, such as retail, healthcare and even SMB organizations with a cost-effective solut...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Riverbed Technology has continued partnership with VMware, which was developed to help enterprises accelerate their journey to the cloud, enabling businesses to increase efficiency and improve productivity while reducing costs. With the latest collaboration, Riverbed wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions accelerate virtual machines (VMs) moving between clouds private, public and hybrid with VMware vCloud Connector.  “Businesses all over the world are turning to virtualization and cloud computing to simplify their IT infrastructure, consolidating, and moving applications to the cloud. To support this trend, Riverbed and VMware continue to innovate to provide additional value and benefits for our customers’ existing investments,” said Parag Patel, Vice-President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. Venugopal Pai, Vice-President, Global Alliances, Riverbed, said, “Building on Riverbed’s partnership with VMware, this ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Orange Business Services has bagged a five-year contract from Rio Tinto to deliver global networking and security services to more than 280 Rio Tinto sites around the world. The services support users in both global offices as well as remote mining locations such as Canga East in Guinea, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and Almaty in Kazakhstan. This new contract is believed to consolidate IT infrastructure, enhance network performance and further integrate global resources cost effectively. Building on a 10-year working partnership between the two companies, this contract is expected to allow further consolidation of IT infrastructure and services while addressing developing business requirements and improving agility and flexibility. Orange Business Services claims to provide WAN services including satellite access and network management, as well as secure Internet gateways and traffic optimization. These services will be provided under a dedicated ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers by Gartner, Inc. Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances and virtual appliances is believed to provide traditional and WAN optimization to reduce network costs and accelerate performance of important enterprise applications, file access, backup and email in addition to, live and on-demand video, Web content and Web-based and cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP, Blue Coat Systems said, "The requirements for WAN optimization are changing dramatically. The increasing adoption of video, Web-based applications and cloud computing services require that a next generation of WAN optimization solutions support new performance needs. Blue Coat uniquely addresses WAN optimization requirements for both traditional data types and applications...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat has added Cloud-Connector to its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization appliances and virtual appliances. Cloud-Connector allows companies with Blue Coat WAN optimization solutions deployed in branch or remote offices to instantly apply Web security from the Blue Coat Cloud Service. Having secure "branch-to-cloud" direct Internet access, enables companies to stop the common practice of backhauling Internet traffic to and from the corporate data center and offers a chance to re-architect the Wide Area Network (WAN) to meet the new application realities. Branch-to-cloud topology lowers networking costs and speeds access to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. "With the rapid adoption of cloud-based services and applications, companies are re-thinking the typical enterprise standard of routing Internet traffic from branch offices through a central data center or headquarters. If an enterprise can easily get...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wipro Infotech, India, Middle East and Africa has announced that the United Bank of India has selected Wipro to deploy a wide area network optimization solution from Cisco for all of its 1,600-plus branches and offices. The deployment is amongst the largest globally for any Public Sector bank. The solution, enabled by the power of the network, facilitates the UBI's vision of providing the benefits of banking to rural and agricultural economies, and to India's burgeoning small and medium-sized enterprise sector. The deployment will include Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices, Cisco's comprehensive WAN optimization solution, in addition to application accelerators for the data centre and disaster recovery sites, making this one of the largest deployments by any public sector bank globally. Speaking on the occasion, Bhaskar Sen, Chairman & Managing Director, United Bank of India, said, "With this deployment ...