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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston Digital has announced a series of portable data security solutions, the DataTraveler 4000 (DT4000) and DataTraveler Vault-Privacy Managed (DTVPM), offering enterprises the most flexible, cost-effective USB options that also deliver unmatched security control. Kingston delivers these new products as part of the industry's only secure USB family ranging from general purpose business use to flexible, managed enterprise offerings, and to platforms for the most secure and rigid government standards. "Managed secure USB drives are a necessity within many professional organizations," said Anders Kjellander, Chief Security Officer at BlockMaster. "The financial, legal and truly practical benefits of getting in control of USB drive usage are driving this movement. BlockMaster's strong relationship with a global leader as Kingston will make managed secure USB drives highly available to customers." Currently, enterp...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE D-Link Easy Smart switch series of 16 and 24 10/100 Mbps port switches provide a full set of configurable functions that provide both performance and scalability at ease. With an easy-to-use management interface accessible via a PC utility or web browser, the Easy Smart Series helps customers to quickly and easily deploy their network. D-Link DES-1100 Series provides a complete and affordable solution for Small and Medium Business, and for communities without IT staff. They are suitable for Enterprise deployment, such as in branch offices and meeting rooms that require simple management. With D-Link DES-1100 switch management can be performed through a web management interface or through the SmartConsole utility. The DES-1100 Series also supports Layer 2 features such as port mirroring, statistics, and IGMP snooping to optimize performance for multicast applications. Both D-Link DES-1100-16 & DES-1100-24 Easy Smart switches come with an ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia India has unveiled two stylish and affordable devices - Nokia C1-01 and Nokia C1-02 - in Bangalore. Setting a new standard all over again, Nokia blends affordability with style and introduces power-packed devices with features that are relevant for the entry consumers. Enabling consumers to store up to 32GB of music, photographs and videos, the Nokia C1-01 and Nokia C1-02 are available at exciting price points of Rs.2,789/- and Rs.2,394/-, respectively. Nokia C1-01 specifically, has been launched with an exclusive offer from India's largest mobile services provider, Bharti airtel. As part of Airtel's "all-in-one" offer for Nokia C1-01, customers will get 250 night minutes of Airtel-to-Airtel talktime, 50MB data usage and 500 SMSes (local & national), as well as local and STD call rate of 40p/min. Night minutes/data usage/SMS and call rate is valid for thirty days. In addition, Nokia C1-01 and Nokia C1-02 provi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP India has organized its much-acclaimed 10th HP AchievePlus Award night in Delhi - 10 Ka Dum. This award programme is an endeavour by HP India to recognize achievers with only the best premium gifts and make their journey to success, the most pleasant and rewarding experience. This event awarded top performing channel partners for their outstanding performance, along with the longest legacy of association with this programme. Being one of the most successful initiatives in India, HP AchievePlus Nights have been hosted this year in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai. HP AchievePlus Award Night in Delhi concluded with a formal award ceremony to honour quality business performers for their unmatched support in achieving company's goals. Sales representatives/partners were awarded under various categories: Raghunandan Deo of Zest Systems Pvt. Ltd. redeemed highest value worth of points for Q1, FY - 11. "We are extremely gl...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cisco continues to invest in addressing the rapidly-changing security needs of businesses today with the announcement of new context-aware security enforcement across its security portfolio. The new borderless organizations have dramatically changed the definition of how, when and where people work, causing a need to redefine the way security solutions are built and deployed. Driving this change is a new wave of mobility, virtualization and cloud technologies that have forced IT security administrators to deal with a multidimensional problem and to rethink how security must be implemented and enforced. Tom Gillis, Vice-President & General Manager, Security Technology Business Unit, Cisco, said, "Today's business environment requires proactive, context-aware security that provides deep insight, control and operational efficiency. Cisco SecureX Architecture and the Cisco ASA with context-aware firewalling represent a significant l...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE RSA has announced the RSA Solution for Security Incident Management, the industry's first automated solution that helps CISOs visualize and prioritize the growing number of security threats while minimizing the time-consuming manual investigation processes. The new solution is designed to enable security analysts to focus on the security risks most likely to impact business objectives with more complete information to manage the resolution of those incidents. "When you are responding to a security incident, it is vitally important that you have as much information at your fingertips as possible -information about where the attack is coming from, the systems it is aimed at the systems at which it is aimed, and most importantly, its potential impact on the business," said Jim Raub, Senior Director, Information Security and Compliance, PAETEC. "That way, you concentrate on responding to the right things, and spin as few whe...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Logitech India has showcased its lineup of HD webcams and Logitech Vid HD, in Bangalore. With features like HD 720p video calling, Full HD 1080p video recording, Logitech Fluid Crystal technology and one-click HD-uploading to Facebook and YouTube, the new range of webcams will make high-definition video calling, recording and sharing a reality. Logitech also announced the Logitech Vid HD, a free video-calling service, the easiest way to make a HD video call. To meet market demand, Logitech plans to further strengthen its partner ecosystem in India by transforming partner businesses into higher value-added services than just making them transaction led players. "Broadband adoption is a primary driver of video calling in India. HD video calling is a critical step toward our vision of a world in which video communication is as mainstream and seamless as a telephone call - for anyone, anywhere. With Logitech HD webcams and Vid HD, you have...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has launched Chat 322 and Chat 335, the company's Smart messaging phones that put the users in the middle of a digitally-connected universe. These phones come with convenient messaging features like QWERTY keypad, mail, instant messenger and native SNS clients in a chic and slim form factor. Differentiated messaging features like an Optical Track pad, Active Sync (Push Mail App) and Smart Homescreen where the user can create shortcuts, buddy lists and live ticker feeds from Facebook and twitter, all add to the convenience of quick messaging from the Samsung Chat 322 and Chat 335. Announcing the launch, Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Mobile & IT, Samsung India Electronics, stated, "Consumers increasingly want to stay connected with friends and family through SNS, IM and messaging while being on the move. These new QWERTY phones from Samsung meet their needs through convenient messaging features and at the same time offer di...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Simmtronics Semiconductors has launched its new product 4Gb DDR3 1333MHz memory modules globally using high-density chip. Simmtronics have been manufacturing memory modules for over 20 years. We use Memory PCB of the highest quality. These newly launched Simmtronics DDR3 memory modules are manufactured with 256*8 high-quality DDR3 Samsung and Hynix Chips .4Gb DDR3 memory consumes less power than 2Gb DDR3 because of its high density and it uses only half the DRAM. Memory modules are fully compatible and tested on all motherboards. These memory modules are manufactured and shipped from Simmtronics, Singapore factory globally. Simmtronics has received Best Memory Customer award for the last five years. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Riverbed Technology has appointed Anil Batra as Riverbed's managing director of India. Batra brings over thirty years of operations and sales experience in the technology industry in both start-ups and Fortune 100 companies in the US and India. In his new role, Batra will be responsible for leading Riverbed's sales efforts within the region. More than 9,200 organizations worldwide, across a wide range of markets, depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Riverbed delivers hardware, software and virtualized solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever-increasing amounts of data. "I am delighted to be working with Anil again," said John Higgs, Vice-President of Sales for Riverbed in Asia Pacific. "He is an industry veteran with significant experience, and we look forward to his leading our sales efforts throughout India." Bat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CMS Info Systems has announced an order bagged from BSNL for Rs. 300 crore to centralize its billing efforts. According to the agreement, CMS Info Systems will implement a centralized billing system for BSNL across three locations, namely north east, east and south for a period of seven years. This involves CMS Info Systems deploying several industrial scale, full color inkjet printers capable of printing up to 1100 pages per minute, at the BSNL sites in the said regions and managing the operations to add scale and efficiency to BSNL's current printing model. Commenting on the win, Sudev Muthya, President - IT Business, CMS Info Systems said, "Currently CMS Info Systems has 20 centers across India which offer services to most of our BFSI clientele and prints a billion documents a year. With the BSNL order, we now expect to double our print output which is a huge achievement for us. This project will revolutionize the printing ecosy...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sybase has announced its expanded partnership with Samsung to deliver its Sybase Afaria Advanced Enterprise Security (AES) for Android, providing breakthrough security and application management for Samsung's popular Galaxy S and Galaxy S II devices. Sybase Afaria is the industry's most powerful and flexible mobile device management and security solution for the enterprise. "The partnership with Sybase enables our enterprise customers to confidently embrace Samsung Android devices," said Jongshin Kim, vice president of Enterprise Solution Group, Samsung Electronics. "Sybase provides a comprehensive solution that helps Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II set a new security standard within the Android ecosystem. With the widespread adoption of both personally-owned and corporate-owned Samsung devices, our enterprise customers can now enjoy the benefits of Samsung's compelling Galaxy S devices in the most secure and c...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BIOSTAR had announced a promotion scheme for its channel partners across India. More than 200 partners are participating in the scheme between January and March 2011. Under the scheme the participants will be eligible for pure silver on display, promotion and sale of any BIOSTAR Motherboard. This program is launched through Abacus Peripherals. Coupled with its strong RMA policy, where BIOSTAR provides the fastest TAT along with Rust & Burnt Warranty across all its Mother Board models, this Silver Shinning Programme will further strengthen the bond between the Channel Partners and BIOSTAR through Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Limited. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Array Networks has announced the immediate availability of its next-generation, 60Gbps application delivery controller (ADC) appliance. The APV9650 delivers more L4 throughput, more Layer 7 throughput and unbeatable price-performance as compared to the closest competing ADC appliance. The APV9650 also introduces key enhancements for optimizing service delivery and lowering costs in the enterprise and service provider data center. Powered by Array's SpeedCore application delivery platform, the APV9650 leverages a parallelized, multi-core architecture to pack maximum scalability and performance into a compact, energy-efficient form factor. An agile and powerful traffic management solution, the APV9650 gives enterprises and service providers the ability to non-intrusively support over 20 million concurrent connections at locations where space is at a premium. Consuming 30% less power than the competition and occupying only 2RU, the APV9650 ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Reliance, which confidently announced the launch of 3G services just a few months back, seems to have forgotten its early days. Their existing customers are facing too much of problem. A senior citizen residing in Delhi was wrongly charged for some activation of VAS, which she never opted for. "On calling to the customer service numbers from my mobile, I couldn't get through. Then I tried calling from MTNL landline and thankfully could connect," she informs on the condition of anonymity. Though she requested for deactivation of the services (myFeelings) she has never opted for, her balance used to get auto debited every month. "This continued for three months and finally I visited a nearby mobile phone shop and requested the shopwaala to please call up the center and deactivate it. I had to spend some 40 minutes at the shop. The customer care team is so unconcerned for senior citizens problems as well, which is hurting to ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Quest Software has appointed Barrie Sheers as vice president and general manager of its Asia-Pacific Japan (APAC-J) region. Sheers will be based in Quest's Singapore office. Sheers comes to Quest with more than 25 years of sales and general management experience. His career highlights include leadership of Asia-Pacific operations for Sybase, in addition to executive-level sales and marketing positions at EMC, where he spent seven years leading multiple successful launches of many technology solutions to APAC-J customers. "The Pan-Asian region continues to be among the most rapidly developing markets for IT infrastructure and systems management solutions. We expect Barrie's wealth of go-to-market strategy expertise will help expand our reach in this part of the world," said Alan Fudge, senior vice president, worldwide sales, Quest Software. "We look forward to working with Barrie as he introduces Quest products to ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has appointed Redington India as its Value Added Distributor (VAD). Redington's expertise in Valued Added Distribution will help Hitachi Data Systems build a strong VAR (Value Added Reseller) community in India. This will attract new partners to offer storage technologies, services and solutions to enterprise and mid-market customers across the country thereby increasing the company's footprint. Vivekanand Venugopal, Vice President and General Manager, Hitachi Data Systems, India said, "We are very excited to partner with Redington, one of the largest distributors in the country. With Redington's market leadership in the Value Added Distribution and its complementing relationships we see a strong synergy that will help tap the Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. This association will build a committed channel eco-system, encouraging our Tier 2 partners to move up the value chain and become storage con...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE To protect customers proactively from viruses, spyware, and Trojans, Juniper Networks has integrated Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware into its Networks SRX Series Services Gateways for the Branch. The integration will be available with the Junos operating system 11.1 release, Q1 2011. Sophos Live Protection Anti-Malware draws from up-to-date intelligence from SophosLabs, a global network of threat analysis centers, through cloud look-ups of URLs and checksums that deliver effective protection against real world threats, including traditional viruses and infected Websites, with minimal impact on unified threat management (UTM) performance such as CPU, memory, and storage. Michael Rogers, Vice President, Global Alliances and OEM, Sophos said, "security landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, which makes it more challenging than ever before for businesses to protect against these increasingly sophisticated threats. With the inte...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Agilent Technologies has expanded its mixed-signal and digital-storage oscilloscope portfolio with 26 new models that comprise its next-generation InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series. The new scopes incorporate breakthrough technology that allows advanced capabilities to be included in affordable instruments. The Agilent InfiniiVision 2000 X- Series offers bandwidths from 70 MHz to 200 MHz and boasts the fastest waveform update rate in its class for superior viewing of signal detail and capture of infrequent events. First-in-class optional 8-channel mixed-signal oscilloscope (MSO) capability, and the industry's only optional integrated function generator, offer more capabilities to engineers and educators with highly constrained equipment budgets. The Agilent InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series scopes step up performance while aggressively holding prices in line, offering bandwidths from 100 MHz to 500 MHz and industry-leading waveform update r...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SanDisk Corporation is offering encryption and online backup features across its entire retail USB portfolio. SanDisk SecureAccess software protects files against unauthorized access by creating an encrypted, password-protected folder or "vault" on the USB drive. The software also includes up to 2 gigabytes (GB) of secure online backup storage offered by Dmailer. "Business travellers lose more than 12,000 laptops each week in the U.S. airports, and more than half of those laptops contain confidential or sensitive information," said Kent Perry, Director, Product Marketing, SanDisk. "Data security has become an absolute necessity, and SanDisk USB drives with SecureAccess software offer an easy-to-use vault protected by AES encryption." SanDisk is also expanding its USB product portfolio with two new drives to meet the needs of a broad set of customers. The SanDisk Ultra USB flash drive features faster transfer rat...