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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Belkin India has launched a compact and highly durable Hi-Speed USB 2.0 4 and 7 ports powered desktop Hubs. These hubs add 4 & 7 easy access USB ports to a PC, Mac or netbook. These USB hubs are perfect for connecting external hard drive printer, smart phone, MP3 player, mouse, keyboard, thumb drive and any other powered USB device to a computer. The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Hubs offer easy plug-and-play connectivity for Home or Business users as they don't require any software or drivers to operate with the host computer simply plug in and add your devices. The Hi-Speed USB Hubs have a unique design that allows to connect devices without conflict/blocking any other USB ports. They come with a transfer speed of up to 480Mbps along with the USB 2.0 cable and a power adaptor. Mohit Anand, Managing Director, Indian Subcontinent said, "These attractively designed lightweight hubs add connectivity and high speed performance to any consumer...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Western Digital and Hitachi have entered into a definitive agreement, whereby WD will acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion. The proposed combination will result in a customer-focussed storage company, with significant operating scale, strong global talent and the industry’s broadest product lineup backed by a rich technology portfolio. "The acquisition of Hitachi GST is a unique opportunity for WD to create further value for our customers, stockholders, employees, suppliers and the communities in which we operate," said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer, WD. "We believe this step will result in several key benefits enhanced R&D capabilities, innovation and expansion of a rich product portfolio, comprehensive market coverage and scale that will enhance our cost structure an...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE DIGISOL has introduced its web-smart Gigabit Ethernet switch DG-GS1526, featuring 24-gigabit Ethernet ports with 2-gigabit SFP slots. The SFP ports add the flexibility of fiber uplink to the switch. DG-GS1526 enables networks of all sizes to introduce Gigabit Ethernet with management features targeted to meet the needs of the SMB sector. It provides a flexible web-based management interface that simplifies the configuration of switch features such as port settings, security, QoS, link aggregation and VLANs. These features can increase throughput and flexibility. DG-GS1526 comes with advanced security features to meet next-generation security requirements. DG-GS1526 is a great entry-level Web-managed switch with 52 Gbps switching capacity and wire-speed switching performance designed to take full advantage of existing high-performance PCs and laptops by significantly improving the responsiveness of applications and file transfer speed. It als...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced the HP Mobile Access Solution, which enables clients to optimize mobile communications through wireless access points that can support up to 50 per cent more mobile devices than existing technology. HP is offering access points that transmit three data streams per wireless radio as opposed to two, enabling the new HP Mobile Access Solution to increase user performance and range on wireless networks. The new technology delivers up to 15 concurrent high-definition video conferencing sessions on the network, while prior 802.11n offerings supported only 10, and 802.11g supported just one. "Clients are demanding increased capacity and performance from their wireless networks without increasing complexity, management requirements or costs," said Subhodeep Bhattacharya, Director, Networking, HP India. "HP is eliminating traditional barriers with innovation that gives clients a wire-like experience that speeds service...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung India has appointed Elkana Ezekiel as its Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Elkana will be heading the corporate marketing function for Samsung India as well as developing and executing corporate marketing strategies in order to support the Company to achieve its targeted sales. Prior to joining Samsung, he was with Johnson & Johnson for 16+ years. He was Regional Franchise Director (Baby Care). He was Vice-President - Marketing for the Consumer Division of the Company based in India. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, he has worked with the leading brands such as Colgate-Palmolive and Geoffrey Manners. Elkana is an Economics Graduate and Postgraduate in Marketing from XLRI, Jamshedpur, having 23+ years of experience in the FMCG sector. Following his appointment, Elkana Ezekiel stated, "My mandate will be to take the Samsung brand to the next level in terms of consumer connect by fully leveraging the Samsung brand and prod...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BIOSTAR has showcased its innovative technologies at Cebit 2011. 1. BIOSTAR TP67XE motherboard, Intel P67 chipset based, supporting Intel new LGA1155 socket "Sandy Bridge" processors. The TP67XE is equipped with luxurious 10-phase CPU power supply, and two 8-pin auxiliary power connectors for processor which provides extreme over-clocking capability. It also covers all the latest technologies and features including USB3.0, SATA 3, BIO-Remote 2, THX theatre sound effects, and Charger Booster, a quick charging utility for Apple devices. 2. BIOSTAR famous T-Series motherboard - TA890FXE, a high-powered computing platform designed to meet the demand of today's gaming enthusiasts. The TA890FXE supports up to four ATI Radeon HD graphics cards and ATI exclusive EyeFinity multiple-display technology. On board South Bridge SB850 provides native support for SATA 6.0 Gb/s, Gigabit Ethernet, HyperTransport 3.0 technology, and PC...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE To celebrate the completion of its 10th year in India, WatchGuard Technologies has felicitated its channel partners at a gala award night. The event was attended by more than 100 channel partners from across the country. "India has been an extremely important market for us. We have been helping our customers to stay ahead of the game with our state of the art offerings. Our channel partners have been an integral part of our endeavor to be a valuable resource and trusted advisor to secure the businesses of our customers," informed Terry Haas, Vice President, International Sales, WatchGuard. "Channel Partners have been playing a pivotal role in the growth and achievements of WatchGuard in India. This event is our sincere effort to recognize and reward the efforts of our channel community," commented Mohit Puri, Country Manager, India. There were a total of 11 different categories of awards and four nominations for each o...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IFS has appointed Thiru Vengadam as Managing Director of IFS Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Vengadam brings more than 23 years of experience working with the Indian business arms of global corporations like Digital Equipments, SAP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PeopleSoft, TCS and Infor Global; he has worked in various roles encompassing business development, partner management, sales management, marketing, consulting, programme management and country management. Announcing the appointment, Ian Fleming, Managing Director of IFS - Middle East, Africa and South Asia, said, "IFS is poised for a phenomenal growth in India. We recognize the potential India presents as one of the fastest-growing economies of the world and expect to grow our customer base exponentially. We continue to invest in India in delivering better, agile solutions to our customers. We have chosen Thiru to lead the Indian operation at this crucial juncture." Commenting on his...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Juniper Networks has announced a new suite of products and services that delivers the industry's first Converged Supercore for service and content providers. Juniper's Converged Supercore is an integrated end-to-end packet transport solution optimized to deliver the switching and transport technology necessary to accommodate the core networking requirements of the new connected economy. Juniper's new architecture blends best-in-class optical transport with industry-leading packet switching in a Converged Supercore, making the best use of both technologies. In addition to leveraging a single, state-of-the-art network management system for the entire transport network, it also marks the first time that a single operating system, Junos, powers both the optical layer and the packet layer. "To avoid breaking the economics of core network provisioning, service providers must extract every bit of cost out of their networks while im...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation (KVTSDC), associated with the state's Department of Labour, has entered into partnership with IBM to develop a Smarter Employability Platform to increase effectiveness of employment and skill-enhancement programmes in the State. Through this first-of-a-kind (FOAK) project with IBM Research India, KVTSDC will address the challenges of reaching millions of potentially employable individuals and empowering them, especially in rural areas and in the unorganized sector. As part of this project, IBM will create a platform to effectively connect job-seekers and job-providers along with training and certification agencies in employability marketplaces accessible through mobile phones in local and vernacular languages. Job-seekers will thus be able to find available jobs and apply for the same, while understanding job-trends, and also refer opportunities to their friends: all thr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In order to meet the growing network services needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in a single box, D-Link has introduced two new service routers - DSR-500N & DSR-1000N. Both DSR-500N & DSR-1000N offer enhanced security, functionality and performance, thus transforming traditional router to "Service Routers". D-Link Unified Service router acts as a complete box solution, since it offers the functionality of a Router, Switch, Wireless device and also offers total network security. D-Link DSR-500N & DSR-1000N Unified Services Routers provide comprehensive security, seamless Internet traffic failover, outbound load balancing, and redundant connection with 3G network in a cost-effective device. It provides advance security features like VPN tunnels, which allow clientless connection by employees to office resources safely and seamlessly anywhere via a web browser. It also comes integrated with 4 gigabit ports for sh...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Ramesh D. Grover, the Founder & Chairman of the CMS Group of Companies, passed away late Saturday night in Mumbai. He was 66 years old. Highly respected in the Indian market, Grover started his career with IBM. After ten years with IBM, he started his own IT Services firm along with two other IBM executives, to support the machines that IBM left behind after their exit from India. In 1976, he founded this small set-up, "Computer Maintenance Services", commonly known as "CMS" Ever since, CMS Computers Ltd. has rapidly grown from a maintenance and outsourcing firm to a diversified conglomerate serving the IT and ITeS needs of the largest Indian and global enterprises in India. For the last 61 years, Kaycee Industries, an integral part of CMS Computers Ltd., has been one of India's leading providers of electrical and electronic components, such as Rotary Switches, Rotary Cam Switches, Micro and Toggle Switches, W...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Brocade has announced that Omega Healthcare has standardized on an enterprise-wide Ethernet switching infrastructure from Brocade at its facilities in India to improve application and network performance. These issues that Omega experienced with its legacy networking infrastructure had been causing frustration among the staff and adversely impacted employee satisfaction, leading to high attrition. After an exhaustive evaluation process, Omega selected the Brocade BigIron RX for their network core and the Brocade FastIron Series switches to extend Power over Ethernet (PoE) at their network edge. This resulted in significantly faster application response times and screen refresh rates on the thousands of networked devices that access Omega’s campus-wide LAN. "We were looking for a networking vendor whose core strength was in high-performance switching," said Kamalraj Chandrasekharan, Associate Vice-President - Technology, Omega Healt...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE National Instruments has announced two new products that extend the communication and measurement capabilities of the NI wireless sensor network (WSN) platform. The new NI 9792 is a programmable WSN gateway that can communicate with NI WSN measurement nodes as well as other hardware through a variety of open communication standards. The gateway combines an NI LabVIEW Real-Time controller and an integrated WSN radio so that LabVIEW Real-Time applications can run locally on the gateway to aggregate data from NI WSN devices, making the NI 9792 ideal for embedded, wireless data-logging applications. The NI 9792 gateway, which is programmable with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module for standalone operation, features a high-performance 533 MHz processor and 2 GB of onboard storage for embedded data-logging applications. The new gateway also features integrated Web (HTTP) and file (FTP) servers, which makes it possible for remote access to measurement dat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Infosys Technologies and Oracle have announced the completion of a highly successful business transformation programme incorporating the implementation of Oracle Utilities Network Management System at Seattle City Light, one of the nation's largest municipal owned utilities. Tasked by the Seattle-based utility to help leverage its investment in new technology for better customer service, Infosys utilized its industry-leading systems integration capabilities and consulting solutions to implement the Oracle solution within an expedited timeframe of 16 months. Kelly Enright, Director of Customer Service and Executive Sponsor, Seattle City Light, said, "Our investment in technology has helped us better inform our customers and equip our operations personnel to improve overall customer service, especially during storm season. The implementation of the Oracle system was smoothly expedited from a timeframe perspective while working with I...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP has inaugurated two computer labs in the city for the benefit of underprivileged children and local youth, as a part of its social responsibility programme. Through the initiative "Project Lakshya", SAP pledges to impart basic computer literacy to 100,000 underprivileged youth across India by the end of 2011. Both labs in Mumbai have been implemented along with NGO partner Shikhar. Peter Gartenberg, Managing Director, SAP India, inaugurated the computer lab in Navi Mumbai. The other lab is in Jogeshwari. Both labs are well equipped with 10 computers pre-loaded with simple, user-friendly software, and will act as a hub to provide basic computer literacy. Together, these labs will target to train over 2,000 underprivileged children from the vicinity. "At SAP, we understand that education has the power to impact lives and transform societies in a single generation," said Peter Gartenberg. "Computer literacy is becom...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fujitsu has the highest growth among the top five vendors in the worldwide server market for 4Q10, according to Gartner. With global year-on-year growth of 12.6 per cent in server unit shipments, Fujitsu increased both sales and market share. In the expanding x86 server market segment, Fujitsu also delivered the strongest growth among the top five server vendors, increasing global year-on-year sales of its PRIMERGY lines by 12.5 per cent in comparison to a market average growth of 6.3 per cent. In EMEA, PRIMERGY x86 industry standard servers enjoyed a huge 20.8-per cent year-on-year growth in shipments, more than a factor of four times the average market growth of 4.8 per cent. Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice-President, Datacenter Systems, says at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, "We believe the latest independent market figures underline that Fujitsu is on the right track by focussing on customer needs and delivering better long-term value....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE LAVA Mobiles has unveiled its all-new QWERTY phone LAVA B8. Lava B8 promises to be a complete business phone as it has all the features that a business phone should have - Push mail, Wi-Fi, Touch pad and long Battery. This device would help professionals and young entrepreneurs, who always want to access mails and remain connected, on the go. Commenting on the launch of LAVA B8, Sunil Raina, Chief Marketing Officer, LAVA International Ltd., said, "The launch of Lava B8 fulfils the need of a large segment of businessmen and professionals to remain connected at all times through its unique combination of features like Push mail, Wi-Fi and Track Pad. Through our customer insight-driven innovations, we constantly attempt to bridge the customer need gap in keeping with our core value of empowering people. The push mail and Wi-Fi ensure connectivity and smarter management of professional & personal tasks, up to 10 Email accounts can be ad...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE LAVA Mobiles has unveiled its all-new QWERTY phone LAVA B8. Lava B8 promises to be a complete business phone as it has all the features that a business phone should have - Push mail, Wi-Fi, Touch pad and long Battery. This device would help professionals and young entrepreneurs, who always want to access mails and remain connected, on the go. Commenting on the launch of LAVA B8, Sunil Raina, Chief Marketing Officer, LAVA International Ltd., said, "The launch of Lava B8 fulfils the need of a large segment of businessmen and professionals to remain connected at all times through its unique combination of features like Push mail, Wi-Fi and Track Pad. Through our customer insight-driven innovations, we constantly attempt to bridge the customer need gap in keeping with our core value of empowering people. The push mail and Wi-Fi ensure connectivity and smarter management of professional & personal tasks, up to 10 Email accounts can be ad...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Kingston Technology has released the HyperX T1 Black DDR3 triple-channel memory kit. The new memory kit is designed to meet the performance requirements for the new Intel Core i7-990X chipset and X58-based motherboards, and are available in kits of three or six modules and in capacities up to 24GB. "Our new HyperX T1 Black triple-channel kits give enthusiasts the opportunity to combine performance and to style into their PC build," said Ann Bai, DRAM Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston. "These high-capacity kits are ideal for the X58 products on the market, especially the new GIGABYTE G1-Killer gaming motherboards." "GIGABYTE is excited about the launch of Kingston's new Black T1 HyperX memory as it comes so soon after the GIGABYTE G1-Killer gaming motherboard announcement," commented Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing, GIGABYTE. "With their similar colour schemes and target ...