VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced that the company's object store, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), has been honored with a Visionary Product Award at the 2012 Storage Visions Conference, a leading event focusing on digital storage and the entertainment content value chain, held January 8-9 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hitachi Data Systems was recognized in the Enabling Professional Storage Technology category for the benefits HCP brings to organizations, including simplified IT, reduced costs and reduced risks. Miki Sandorfi, Chief Strategist, File, Content and Cloud, Hitachi Data Systems said, "As the amount of unstructured data continues to grow, HDS is dedicated to providing solutions that will help customers store, access and view that data more efficiently. Hitachi Content Platform enables organizations to achieve the benefits of IT consolidation, cloud, archiving, backup reduction and more without compromising security o...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Lenovo has announced that its "Do Network" is believed to be on its mission to helping Doers to bring life to their ideas for a better community, as it sees over 1,269 entries submitted across Indonesia, India and Russia for its Do Network competition. In India, passionate Indians have submitted 609 entries. Based on the theme of "technology invention", the challenges proposed by the Do Network in this cycle of the campaign seek to address the problems that exist in local communities. This includes portable education, traffic jams, or products. The fourth, a wildcard challenge, is also provided to allow Doers to pursue their individual ideas that may not fall under the specific challenge categories, but still fit with the technology invention theme. "We are thrilled at the tremendous interest in the Do Network here and the quality of the projects that have been submitted so far. Voting for the projects has begun and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Polycom has announced several key initiatives that further its social business strategy, including strong customer momentum with IBM and strategic product updates, such as native integration of Polycom Real Presence video solutions with the recent version of IBM Sametime. The integration of Polycom's video solutions with IBM social business platforms IBM Sametime and IBM Connections helps companies tap into the transformational power of social and web platforms, empowering video calls from within the email and social business interfaces users. "Video collaboration is mission-critical in organizations today, and the ways companies are using video is rapidly evolving. Everyday more people gravitate to social networks as their primary way to share and stay connected. Polycom is committed to developing integrated solutions with companies like IBM to power a social video experience that helps our customers realize and maximize the inhere...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Mahindra Satyam has announced that it will participate at the Annual Meeting 2012 in Davos: 25th - 29th January, 2012. Vineet Nayyar, Chairman, and C. P. Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam, will participate at the World Economic Forum to discuss and deliberate on the impact of transformation and the "Mahindra Rise" initiative; a call to world businesses to innovate new business models that will meet the challenges of the current century, including population growth, sustainability and economic development. "We, as companies, have to cultivate and breed innovation so that it becomes part of every organization's culture. That is why the Mahindra Group has developed the Rise initiative. The challenge is to shape new business models for a brighter future. This requires close cooperation from both external and internal stakeholders," said C. P. Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Samsung has announced that it is expanding the transparent display market with production of a 46-inch transparent LCD panel, beginning this month. Younghwan Park, Sr. Vice-President, LCD marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics, said, "Transparent panels, an exciting application of next-generation display technology, have unlimited potential to change our viewing habits over the next several years. As a strong supporter of the transparent display market, Samsung plans to develop this technology into a new growth engine for our LCD business." Samsung's 46-inch transparent LCD panel features a contrast ratio of 4,500:1 with HD (1,366x768) resolution and 70-per cent colour gamut. A 2012 CES Innovations Award honoree, Samsung's transparent LCD panel is being produced for a wide variety of retail display applications such as product showcases, commercial freezer doors and platform doors of subway stations in North Ameri...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE AirLive has released its newest wireless router for electric socket AirLive N.Plug. It is wireless b/g/n network device with built-in power adapter, so users can just plug it into the electric socket and share internet and 3G internet connections immediately. The AirLive N.Plug contains hardware switch that allows user to manually switch between AP, Router and Repeater mode. The device can be secured by WPS button by simply pushing it on the router and repeater. Also the IPTV, game console, media player or personal tablet can be wirelessly linked to the internet with AirLive N.Plug in repeater mode. The software part of AirLive N.Plug is built upon the new AirLogic software architecture that offers superior performance and rich set of functions. It also features firmware recovery system, multi operation wireless mode, Virtual AP function, bandwidth control and many other great functions. The coverage of AirLive N.Plug is wide with the 802.11...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has appointed Alex Pinchev, as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining he was the President, Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing at Red Hat. "Acronis has built its reputation on providing easy-to-use, cost effective solutions for data protection, backup and disaster recovery for government organizations, businesses and home users worldwide. As we enter the next phase of the company's growth, we have a very strong customer base, a great partner ecosystem, talented team and a portfolio of intellectual property that will be leveraged to take advantage of the growing opportunity within the virtualization and cloud markets," said Alex Pinchev, President & CEO, Acronis. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Open Group and the Interactive Technology Software and Media Association (ITSMA) have announced that they have partnered with a consortium of leading European and Indian research and technology developers to identify future areas for coordination of government funded IT research. Supported by the European Commission, the Fostering Cooperation in Computing Systems for EU and India (EU-INCOOP) project is investing over 460,000 EURO (US$630,000) to bring together leading researchers from India and Europe to identify priorities and develop a joint research roadmap that is said to increase cooperation and address future technology needs in each region. The roadmap and recommendations is claimed to be used to identify areas of common interests and foster closer links between Governments’ funded research projects in Europe and India. A Rajashree Iyer, Director, ITSMA said, "With computing technologies being an important driver behind India...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SafeNet has announced the availability of a new identity and transaction protection solution that addresses multiple levels of risk associated with online banking and trading transactions. SafeNet's new eToken 3500 is believed to be an innovative electronic signing and strong authentication token-based device that will enable financial services organizations to successfully achieve the right balance of risk mitigation, cost-effectiveness, and usability when securing Banking applications. The SafeNet eToken 3500 uses an optical sensor to read financial transaction data from a Web browser, generating a unique electronic signature that validates each transaction, reducing threats such as Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) and Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), in which hackers hijack legitimate user identities during a transaction and redirect funds. Additionally, the optical features of the device claim to scan the transaction data automatically, eliminati...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE MSI has announced the world's first graphics cards equipped with the brand new AMD28nm Radeon HD 7900 GPU, R7970-2PMD3G5, which is built on the latest PCI Express Gen 3 standard. MSI's R7900 series graphics cards are equipped with 3GB of high-speed GDDR5 graphics memory, and also come with MSI's Afterburner overclocking utility that allows users to adjust the core voltage to increase overclocking potential. MSI'sR7900 series features AMD's Eyefinity multi-display technology, and combined with support for Display Port 1.2 and HDMI 1.4a interfaces, stereoscopic 3Dcapability, and 7.1 channel lossless True HD and DTS-HD audio formats. MSI's R7900 series graphics cards have also implemented an all-solid capacitor design to guarantee stability even when working under full loads over extended periods of time. The R7900 series graphics cards have also adopted the brand new AMD 28nm graphics chip to provide higher performa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has introduced three new members to its FortiWeb Web application firewall product family - FortiWeb-4000C, FortiWeb-3000C FSX and FortiWeb-400C. The new product line is designed to address the diverse needs of large enterprises, service providers and mid-sized organizations that must protect strategic Web applications from security breaches and data leakage. Fortinet is also introducing enhancements to the FortiWeb 4.0 MR3 operating system that provide new logging and reporting, ease-of-use and security and configuration capabilities. The FortiWeb-4000C targeting large data centers, is an enterprise-grade Web application firewall appliance that supports 70,000 transactions-per-second and 2 Gbps throughput. A key attribute of the FortiWeb-4000C is hardware-based acceleration for enforcing data loss prevention (DLP) policies. FortiWeb-3000CFSX offers highly flexible deployment options with intelligent layer-seven load balancing and ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has announced that Burris Logistics has standardized its information infrastructure on EMC selecting EMC Symmetrix VMAX and EMC unified storage over NetApp and IBM, for its exceptional reliability, performance and value. Its EMC infrastructure has enabled Burris to easily virtualize 80% of its IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies as it moves to the cloud achieving more than $1 million in cost savings by virtualizing and consolidating its server footprint. Bill Poore, Director of Infrastructure, Burris Logistics, said, "Burris prides itself on something we call 'wow service' - going above and beyond our customers' expectations. VMAX fits perfectly into that strategic focus. It has met oursix-9's uptime goal while delivering outstanding performance and reducing our costs. These attributes make a significant difference in our business." "Since i...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Wipro Technologies has launched "FLoW" an Oracle-based Pricing, Supply Chain and Finance Management Solution for the retail sector. The solution will provide retail franchises and wholesalers greater data visibility needed for faster and more accurate trading transactions. The technology is a composite solution to the Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS), developed in line with result of customer feedback. "FLoW" will enable users get a comprehensive view of their wholesale operations in sync with other functionalities of Oracle's Retail Suite. This significantly increases visibility and operational efficiency, as users can now see and manage their Retail, Franchise and Wholesale operations on one integrated dashboard. The flexibility of the solution means that retail franchises and wholesalers have more control overpricing, fulfilment and billing. Additionally, the solution which is fully aligned with Oracle Re...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Epson has expanded its K-series monochrome inkjet printers with the New Epson K300 - an all in one monochrome printer with an auto document feeder (ADF). These new mono inkjet printers are believed to be specifically designed to outperform mono laser printers for customers who only need to print black and white documents at very low cost per page. Like other Epson's K-series printers, the Epson K300 is said to design to help customers lower the cost of printing with the lowest black page printing costs per page in the industry. The Epson K-series printers are supposed to offer users one of the lowest cost per page (cpp) of any monochrome cartridge-based printer at only 0.60 paise. This cost per page is up to 70% lower than original toner used by laser printers of similar price. The new printers both are expected to feature a built in duplexer that helps customers conveniently save money by printing on both sides of the paper. Duplexers ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SMART Technologies Inc. has announced a no-charge upgrade enabling four-touch interactivity on its education line of the SMART Board 800 series interactive whiteboard and the SMART Board 8070i interactive display. For use with SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, four-touch interactivity is claimed to be available on all shipping 800 series interactive whiteboards and 8070i interactive displays. Additionally, customers with existing interactive whiteboards and displays are expected to upgrade to this feature at no cost and with no additional hardware. The 800 series interactive whiteboard and the 8070i interactive display support multi-user writing and common multi-touch gestures currently recognized in Microsoft Windows 7 and Mac Snow Leopard operating systems. The four-touch functionality is said to increase opportunities for collaboration by giving students more hands-on time at the interactive whiteboard or display. SMART Techn...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HCL Technologies has announced itsQ2 FY 2012 results. It has estimated a 43.3-per cent jump in net profit to Rs.572.7 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2011. The company's net profitis claimed to stand at Rs.399.7 crore in the October-December quarter of 2010. HCL is believed to be focussed on both market share and EPS expansion. The company follows July–June fiscal year. Shiv Nadar, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, HCL Technologies, said, "As the uncertainty around economic environment continues, the world will demand companies to be deeply conscious of the accompanying social sensitivities. As economies contract and the job environment remains challenged, we at HCL are committed to creating local jobs, contributing to the welfare of local communities and pushing the pedal on enterprise philanthropy in continuing cognizance of our social responsibility." Vineet Nayar, Vice-Chairman & CEO, HCL Technologies, s...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE WinMagic has announced that after evaluating all major encryption vendors TUV Rheinland i-sec GmbH has added WinMagic's SecureDoc with PBConnex to its portfolio of products. TUV Rheinland selected WinMagic due to its consistent leadership position in mobile data security. Olaf Siemens, MD, TÜV Rheinland i-sec said, "As a vendor neutral provider of security solutions we are always searching for innovative and business relevant security solutions. In WinMagic we have found a partner who offers a solution which provides major benefits for our customers due to its high security standards and low administration complexity." Georg Gann, Director, DACH & Eastern Europe, WinMagic GmbH said, "TUV Rheinland i-sec is a very important strategic partner for WinMagic as it brings both an excellent reputation and global security expertise. With offices worldwide, TUV Rheinland is an ideal partner to further expand WinMagic's globa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company has unveiled that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier - a program claimed to be designed to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud. Developers and businesses with Windows Server applications are expected to take advantage of 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Micro Instance usage per month, at no charge for a one year period. With the expansion of the AWS Free Usage Tier, Windows developers are now supposed to have access to the same free resources on AWS as Linux developers - providing the ability to launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or gain hands-on experience with AWS. The AWS Free Usage Tier addition is said to join a number of recent AWS service extensions to support Windows customers, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the high power Cluster Compute inst...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Adobe Systems has announced its 2012 growth strategy for India. As part of this strategy, the company has further expanded its focus on Enterprise customers and announced the appointment of Kulmeet Bawa as Director - Enterprise Business, India& South Asia. To capitalize on the burgeoning opportunity in India for Digital Media and Digital Marketing solutions, the Enterprise team led by Kulmeet will focus on seven important vertical sectors which include BFSI, Media and Entertainment, Telecom, Manufacturing, IT/ITES, Retail and Government. Umang Bedi, MD, South Asia said, "We see two distinct phenomena driving our growth in 2012 and beyond. One is the rise of India's creative economy and two, the evolution of Indian enterprises to become true Digital Enterprises. And for both these phenomena, Adobe is uniquely positioned to help its clients not only create compelling digital content and experiences, but also manage and monetize tho...