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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE WatchGuard Technologies has launched a new small business security appliance, the WatchGuard XTM 330. Believed to be ideal for businesses with 30 to 50 users, the WatchGuard XTM 330 appliance is said to provide an advanced network protection in an all-in-one rack-mount gateway security appliance. The WatchGuard XTM 330 security appliance is said to provide a complete network security protection against today's threats. The XTM 330 is supposed to sport the latest security services from WatchGuard to meet any number of business needs. In addition to next-generation firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities, customers can choose to add Application Control, Gateway Anti-virus, WebBlocker, spamBlocker and WatchGuard's context-aware, cloud-based security service, Reputation Enabled Defense. Also, the WatchGuard XTM 330 takes advantage of cutting-edge innovations from WatchGuard, including the ability to create highly secure virtual pri...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Huang Jen-hsun, President and CEO, Nvidia has signed up with Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) to establish the R&D center of automotive information/entertainment electronic modules based on Tegra processors through partnership with Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), according to industry sources in Taiwan. According to sources, Foxconn's factories in TEDA is said to undertake OEM production of such electronic modules. This is Nvidia's fourth R&D center in Asia following one in Shanghai, one in Shenzhen and one in Taipei, the sources pointed out. Nvidia has won adoption of Tegra-based automotive modules from Audi and Tesla Motors, the sources shared. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sophos has announced that it is cautioning computer users to be careful while typing the URLs, following the results of a Sophos study into the scale of 'Typosquatting'. Typosquatters register misspellings of popular websites in the hope that they will be able to make money out of traffic from unintentional typing mistakes made by internet surfers. Sophos looked at typosquatting targeting its own website and those of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Apple. The study looked for registered websites for every single one letter typo of the company name: one letter omitted (eg. Sopos), one letter mistyped (eg. Sphos), or one letter added (Ssophos). The study revealed that there is a significant typosquatting ecosystem around high-profile, often-typed domain names. A huge 86% of the possible one letter misspellings of the Apple homepage led to typosquatting sites. Graham Cluley, Sr. Technology Consultant, Sophos said, "It'...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE India Semiconductor Association (ISA) has announced the winners of Technovation Awards December 2011. The Awards ceremony, sponsored by Global Foundries, was held in Bangalore. The Awards were given away by Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds. This initiative is believed to be aimed at recognizing organizations and individuals for exemplary contributions in ESDM industry. The jury for the Technovation Awards December 2011 comprised of renowned personalities from industry & academia across the globe. The beneficiaries of the Awards were selected after a rigorous and long process of evaluation. Ganapathy Subramaniam, Member. ISA Executive Council and Convener-Technovation Awards December 2011& CEO, Cosmic Circuits said, "Innovations for local market, designed and made in India for the world are needed to address the $400 billion Indian electronics market by 2020. Technovation Awards showcase "Brand India" in t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Futuremark has announced the Operation Overclock competition sponsored by MSI. This worldwide competition challenges contestants to submit the highest 3DMark 11 Physics Test score by overclocking their CPU. The contest starts December 19, runs until January 16, and is open to overclockers with MSI brand motherboards and Intel Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. Prizes include MSI motherboards and graphics cards, Kingston memory, Enermax power supplies and COUGAR cases and fans. Zona Lin, Manager, MSI Component Marketing Department, MSI said, "Intel's new X79 chipset and Sandy Bridge-E series CPU's take consumer level performance to a new level. The flagship Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor is the fastest CPU available today. MSI are proud to highlight these recent advances in CPU technology by sponsoring this first-of-its-kind overclocking competition." Ann Bai, DRAM Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingsto...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia has unveiled Nokia Lumia smartphones into the country with surprise bash for consumers with a performance by the music director duo of Vishal and Shekhar in Delhi. In continuation with this, the concert also took place in Bangalore and Mumbai simultaneously, these smartphones are launched with a surprise bash for consumers with a performance by Raghu Dixit and Indian Ocean at UB City in Bangalore and KK and the band Parikrama in Mumbai. The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710 hit the store shelves on December 15, 2011. The first sets of devices were handed over at an event at the Nokia Evo Store in Gurgaon. Lucky consumers also got units of the X-Box 360 Kinect complementary with the Nokia Flash Mob: Simultaneous flash mobs organized across Lumia 800. "The Nokia Lumia Taxi - Nokia Lumia branded taxis in Bangalore and Lumia devices are not your everyday smartphones. The Amazing Everyday campaign is focused on creating small joy...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ADATA Technology has introduced the S396 Solid State Drive (SSD), providing a needed cost-effective entry solution to what is often seen by consumers as a high-priced component market. After extended periods of use, many computers see a marked decrease in system speed. A common method seen to eliminate this problem is to upgrade the hard drive to a SSD. Because the method by which SSDs transfer data is entirely different from that of conventional hard drives, SSDs provide markedly higher speeds. In addition, SSDs have further advantages of low heat-discharge, low power-consumption, lightweight structure, and high impact resistance. The S396 utilizes optimized firmware. In normal situations, 90% of computing tasks involve transfers of data packets 4KB in size. This means that the performance of 4KB file transmission plays a critical role in users' experience. The S396 runs 44K IOPS of 4KB random write and 280/250 MB/s of sequential read a...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced new Cloud Solutions that advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds, enabling enterprises, service providers and governments to capitalize on emerging market opportunities. By incorporating both in-house and externally sourced IT services, clients can pick the right method of delivery to effectively meet time-to-market, availability and cost requirements. Yet, security concerns and a lack of internal skills continue to challenge organizations' evolution to the cloud. HP Cloud Solutions, based on HP Converged Infrastructure, provide the hardware, software, services and programs that enable service providers, enterprises and governments to rapidly and securely deliver IT as a service. "Clients want to understand, plan, build and source for cloud computing in a way that allows them to gain agility, reduce risk, maintain control and ensure security. The new offerings are the culmination of HP's experien...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ITAO has announced a lively inauguration of IT EXPO 2011 on 17th Dec. evening. Hon'ble Chief Secretary, Govt of Odisha, Sj. Bijay Kumar Patnaik, IAS was the Chief Guest of the occasion. Sj. P.K.Jena, IAS, IT Secretary, Dept. of IT, Govt. of Odisha as Guest of Honour, Sj Amar Babu, MD Lenovo as Guest of Honour. Hari Balasubramanian, President of COMPASS & CIITA was Keynote Speaker. In his speech, the President ITAO has imparted his idea for a computer awareness programme for all panchayat level people to get the benefit of Govt. Programmes. Manoj Lalani, Coordinator gave ITAO's objects to take IT industry involvement in Odisha's IT development. ITAO's Secretary, Dayananda Ratho gave a picture of ITAO's plans to associate with Govt. of Odisha for setting up small scale hardware manufacturing units. He has also assured all cooperation from ITAO's side for a better IT development plans with Govt. Chief Secretary in h...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Lenovo has announced that it is all set to go aggressively on the tablet segment to provide a fillip to its mobile internet-digital house vertical strategy. The tablet range is set to be expanded with the introduction of the Ideapad K1 10-inch and Ideapad A1 7-inch soon. The tablet market is evolving at a very fast pace and "we see immense promise with inside the segment," said Amar babu, Managing Director, Lenovo, as he announced the launch of the android Honeycomb-based Lenovo Thinkpad tablet for the enterprise segment. The tablet market is only beginning to pick up in the country. The projected sales this year is around Rs 2-25 lakh, but within two or three years, the segment is expected to cross 1.5 million units and account for over 15 percent of the PC business in the country "We are also working on introducing the whole range of tablets across different platforms, operating systems and varied Windows-based tabs are bein...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Scribe has announced that former Salesforce.com Executive Roger Hodskins is driving Scribe's push to expand its leadership in partner-developed solutions for the cloud and on-premise (hybrid) integration market. Hodskins, New Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Scribe said, "I came to Scribe from Salesforce.com based on the strength of Scribe Online, our cloud-based integration platform for application vendors and other partners. We can use our partner-centric platform and our expertise in CRM integration to help our partners expedite cloud adoption among our customers. I'm looking forward to extending the partner programs currently in place to broaden our reach into the cloud integration marketplace." Scribe's partners use the Scribe Online Data Integration Platform to deliver integration solutions to customers operating in a hybrid (cloud and on-premise) environment. With the growing complexity of the enterprise appl...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SES has announced that it is further increasing its focus on emerging and growth markets and introduces four global sales regions with a management leading the SES teams in each region. The regions are: Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific/ India/ Middle East. They will be headed by Elias Zaccack (Americas), Ferenc Szelenyi (Europe), Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou (Africa), and Deepak Mathur (Asia Pacific/ India/ Middle East). All four executives report to the Chief Commercial Officer, Ferdinand Kayser. Scott Sprague, until now Senior Vice President Global Sales, has decided to leave SES. Romain Bausch, President & CEO, SES said, "This organisation and these nominations are another step on our way to consolidate our strong position in Europe and North America while focusing our attention on the emerging markets, where a lot of the future growth for SES is coming from. With our regional split and our new sales executives, we have a str...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sprint is believed to revamp its entire network and is replacing the existing equipment with the newest, most advanced equipment available in the industry through a program called Network Vision. Announced in December 2010, Network Vision is said to plan to consolidate multiple network technologies into one seamless network with the goal of increasing efficiency and enhancing network coverage, call quality and data speeds for customers. Jennifer Clark, Director of Business Sales, Sprint, Oregon said, “Oregonians love their wireless devices, and with these network improvements, they will be able to use them freely, without worrying about slow data speeds or dropped calls. That, coupled with Sprint's unlimited plans, makes it a win-win for Sprint customers in Oregon.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE DataWind has started the online booking and pre booking of the Android tablet- Aakash. Online booking is for students' version of the tablet and pre booking is for UbiSlate 7, the upgraded version of Aakash. The commercial version of Aakash tablet is believed to be powered by Android 2.3 and is said to have a resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor and graphics accelerator HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory. One standard USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7 inch display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, resistive touchscreen, GPRS and WiFi support are other specifications. Anyone can book the student version of Aakash tablet whether they are students or not. Students' version of Aakash will be available for Rs. 2,500 and will be delivered in seven days. The commercial version, UbiSlate 7 is priced at Rs. 2,999. The payment mode for both the tablets is cash on delivery. The tablet was to be made availa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE clk2c.com has unveiled its mobile wedding invitation service which is believed to deliver wedding invitation as video on the guest's mobile. Suresh Kabra, Founder & CEO, clk2c.com said, "clk2c.com is a unique and contemporary service that creates highly entertaining, innovative and personalized wedding invitations delivered as video on guest's mobile. The response so far has been tremendous. To further meet our customer expectations, we continue to add more innovations to our offering. I am sure this service will define a new paradigm in wedding and other personal invitations." clk2c's personal video messaging services is said to be a cost effective medium as it enables the user to send mobile video invitation to multiple recipients across the globe. It also said to have the functionality to incorporate a personalized video message from the host to the invited guest. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Dassault Systemes (3DS) has been chosen as a strategic partner by Godrej Interio. Dassault Systemes is believed to develop a 3D Home Configurator application that will be deployed at various Godrej Interio outlets and their new format store for customized furniture - U & US Design Studio. Godrej Interio is said to use Dassault Systemes' 3DVIA to deliver an interactive visualization and personalization experience that eliminates unwanted surprises in the process of interior design. Andy Kalambi, President, South Asia, Dassault Systemes said, "India is growing big on virtualization and 3D applications as the pressure for reducing investments on time, money and infrastructure is increasing. Emerging business verticals such as retail, fashion and lifestyle are facing important challenges for achieving balance in waste reduction and heighten customer experiences. Therefore, companies such as Godrej Interio whose business much depends...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Emerson Network Power has examined the growth and growing importance of the data center and released its 2011 State of the Data Center infographic reflecting those observations. Scott Barbour, Business Leader, Emerson Network Power said, “Over the last several years, advances in technology, an increased reliance on the internet and social media as well as an increased focus on energy management initiatives have had a significant impact on the data center world. Data centers are the unsung heroes. This infographic illustrates how our reliance on them has grown exponentially.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has introduced enhancements to Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) to help organizations simplify and accelerate cloud adoption. Featuring new content sharing, file restore and NAS migration capabilities, the new version of HDI gives backup-free storage solutions to distributed consumers of IT, such as remote offices and branch offices (ROBO) or cloud storage users. Working in conjunction with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), HDI is believed to be deployed as a minimal-footprint or virtual appliance that sends data from the edge to the core infrastructure to easily and cost-effectively help customers move data to the cloud at their own pace. Miki Sandorfi, Chief strategist, File, Content & Cloud, Hitachi Data Systems said, "For many organizations, the ability to store and protect company data at one location can be a daunting task. With multiple sites, the ability to securely and adequately manage that ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NetApp has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the Leaders quadrant for midrange and high-end modular disk arrays. In a recently released research note, "Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays," Gartner asserts, "Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have the highest scores for their ability to execute and completeness of vision. A midrange and high-end modular disk array storage vendor in the Leaders quadrant has the market share, credibility, and marketing and sales capabilities needed to drive the acceptance of new technologies. These vendors demonstrate a clear understanding of market needs; they are innovators and thought leaders; and they have well-articulated plans that customers and prospects can use when designing their storage infrastructures and strategies. In addition, they have a presence in the five major geographical regions, consistent financial performance and broad platform support. " Ch...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NVIDIA has announced that MSC Software Corporation has launched a GPU-accelerated version of the MSC Nastran 2012, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) application, which is used in a wide range of engineering simulation tasks. The new GPU-accelerated MSC Nastran 2012, available for both Windows and Linux systems, is said to deliver performance improvements of up to 5x compared with the previous version. MSC Nastran 2012 supports single and multi-GPU configurations and is available for MSC customers to download. Dr. Ted Wertheimer, Sr. Director, Product Management, MSC Software said, "GPU-enabled performance improvements have the potential to transform engineering analysis and design-optimization procedures. CUDA-based GPU acceleration in MSC Nastran 2012 will speed up performance by 1.5-5x for a range of models and industries, helping customers improve their workflow and deliver better products to market, faster." Andrew Cresci, GM, Stra...