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Blue Coat adds Optimization for Encrypted Flash Video

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Blue Coat Systems Inc. has announced that it has added the ability to scale and optimize encrypted Adobe Flash video in addition to the video delivery capabilities already integrated with Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances. The MACH5 solution includes a combination of stream-splitting, pre-population and advanced video caching technologies to scale the use of live or on-demand internal company video, as well as external Web video, with minimal network impact. This prevents video from saturating a company's Wide Area Network (WAN) or Internet gateway, or crippling the performance of other business critical applications while making video available to employees throughout the company. Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP, Blue Coat Systems Inc. said, "Most companies want to significantly increase their use of internal video for training and communication but are limited by the capacity constraints of their existi...

Symantec delivers Better Backup for all Sized Organizations

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Symantec Corp. has announced it will deliver a new approach for modernizing backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organizations' data stores grow exponentially. Compared to traditional backup, Symantec's approach enables 100 times faster backup, eases management and simplifies recovery if a disaster occurs, helping customers realize significant cost savings while better protecting their business information. Over the last 20 years data has exploded, virtualization has become widely adopted and service level agreements (SLA's) have become near impossible to meet. These challenges also affect the smaller businesses that struggle with backup complexity and are at risk of data loss due to a disaster. The current approach to modernization introduces an ever-growing collection of point solutions resulting in added complexity, increased costs and headaches for backup administrators, ...

IBM sets up Smarter CoE in Bangalore

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has announced the launch of a Smarter Commerce Center of Excellence (CoE) at the India Software Lab, Bangalore. The CoE will consist of a team of 25 technical experts selected from the B2B and Commerce Enterprise Marketing Management teams from India Software Lab. By bringing together a powerful combination of technical expertise, domain knowledge, and best practices from IBM's extensive global engagements, the CoE will offer innovative solutions to automate and accelerate the purchasing, marketing, sales and customer service functions to organizations across India, South Asia and Asia Pacific. Dr.Gopalakrishnan, VP, India Software Lab said, "The Center of Excellence for Smarter Commerce, the first of its kind in India, will work closely with the business teams on customizing Smarter Commerce solutions for Companies. These solutions, across different technology platforms, will integrate and more effectively manage the value cha...

Management revamps at S Mobility

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE S Mobility Limited is to have in place a highly experienced and professional leadership team comprising a well qualified CEO, CFO and other Business & Vertical Heads, appointed to individually manage specific operations within the company as part of its endeavor to aggressively explore and drive growth opportunities across all avenues of the dynamic and ever evolving Mobile Internet business. With respect to this transition, the founder of the Company, Dr. B. K. Modi and other members of the Modi family will cease to play an executive role in the Company's operations. A new holding Company, Si2imobility Private Limited will hold the promoter holding of 68.65% in S Mobility Ltd. With Dr B. K. Modi as CEO and Chairman of the Company, Si2imobility Private Limited has been formed to provide dedicated focus on the group's Mobile internet interests and will have its own Board of Directors that comprises an equal distribution of highly ...

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation selects PTC as Strategic Partner

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE PTC has announced that Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has selected PTC as its strategic partner for developing a reliability and maintainability management platform for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) next-generation aircraft program. Jim Heppelmann, President & CEO, PTC said, "Today, PTC is proud to have achieved preferred partner status with some of the biggest and most innovative brands in the aerospace and defense industry. With its next-generation MRJ, Mitsubishi Aircraft is challenging the status quo of the regional jet market. We are confident that together we can help the MRJ meet the company's high standards for quality, meet the industry's requirements for safety, and meet their future customers' need for reliability." For More Details See www.varindia.com

OnSSI to display its Next Innovation in VMS Technology

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE OnSSI has introduced a breakthrough video delivery technology that is poised to set a new standard in VMS functionality. The unveiling is set for ISC West 2012. Gadi Piran, President & Chief Technology Officer, OnSSI said, "OnSSI offers what we firmly believe is the most powerful management platform available for VMS users. We have now reached further into our processing technology to develop advanced and versatile video delivery capabilities." For More Details See www.varindia.com

Compuware 2012 issue of its Application Performance Almanac Published

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Compuware Corporation has announced the publication of the 2012 issue of its Application Performance Almanac. The Almanac is believed to provide 400 pages of in-depth guidance and actionable information on how best to leverage application performance management (APM) solutions to help organizations optimize performance across production, test and development environments. The 2012 Issue of the Compuware dynaTrace Application Performance Almanac is said to be available as a free resource and features articles on numerous APM topics written by four of the industry's experts over the past year. Alois Reitbauer, dynaTrace Technology Strategist said, "The Almanac is a source of knowledge, providing valuable information for all business and technical stakeholders across the lifecycle of their systems and services. We compiled this guide to be of interest to anyone concerned about performance in production, test or development. When combin...

DIGILITE launches DL-G41MXE

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE DIGILITE motherboard brand of Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. has launched its new motherboard model DL-G41MXE. DL-G41MXE will help channel & customers meet the soaring demand for G41 Express Chipset as there is increase in dual-core processor shipments in current quarter. DL-G41MXE along with Intel G41 Express Chipset brings out new technologies and innovative capabilities for home consumers. DL-G41MXE enhances the video quality, graphics, responsiveness, and scalability for daily computing making it hi-definition-cum-complete solution for home computing. DL-G41MXE comprise of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 which takes your video playing to the next level without the need of add-in video card or decoder.DL-G41MXE comes with Intel G41 Express Chipset and has IDE port in it which ensures compatibility with PATA HDD. DL-G41MXE supports Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual-Core processors, Socket T (LGA775) and have suited con...

Sony rolls out Swarovski Zirconia In-ear Headphones

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sony has introduced new in-ear headphones MDR-EX42 embedded with Swarovski Zirconi in cherry pink colour. This trendy new in-ear headphones are embedded with floral and butterfly motif. It has an angled earbud structure for stable and comfortable wearing. The earbuds, which are made of Hybrid silicon rubber, ensure secure fitting and long-term wearing comfo For More Details See www.varindia.com

D-Link witnesses 95% YoY Growth in Q3

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE D-Link has announced the unaudited financial results for third quarter ending 31st December, 2011 at its Board meeting held on 2nd February, 2012. Tushar Sighat, CEO, D-Link (India) Limited, said, "For the last two quarters, we have witnessed steady growth and our current go-to-market strategy has yielded positive outcome. We have successfully been able to realize our true market potential and deliver substantial sales with 95% growth in this quarter vis-a-vis the same period during last year. The increase in broadband penetration and surge in demand for mobility devices has resulted in good growth from the consumer segment. Further, we witnessed substantial investments being made by government and corporates in building a safe, secure and reliable networking infrastructure, which brought about positive demand for our product line. We also managed to bag some large projects that contributed to the overall revenue. D-Link structured cabl...

Nokia Belle Upgrade available for Existing Symbian Smartphone Users

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Nokia has announced the availability of Nokia Belle update for existing users of the latest Symbian Nokia smartphones (Symbian ^3 and Symbian Anna). Users can download it simply by connecting the device to a PC with the latest version of Nokia Suite (3.3 or later) installed or by visiting the nearest Nokia Priority Partners in their city. At present, the upgrade is available on the Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7, Nokia E6 and Nokia X7 devices. The new and improved Nokia Belle interface incorporates features like imaging applications with HD video recording at 30 frames per second, a visually improved browser enabling high-quality browsing and viewing of Web videos. The menus have been simplified and a notifications bar has been added to make accessing key settings and features, very fast and just a few tabs away. Additionally, also included are larger live widget displays right onto the homescreen. For More Details See www.varindi...

HP advances Networking with OpenFlow enabled Switches

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced an OpenFlow-enabled switch portfolio that extends across 16 models, including the HP 3500, 5400 and 8200 series switches, providing customers with the broadest choice in the industry for simplifying network management. Additionally, HP plans to expand support for OpenFlow across all switches in the HP FlexNetwork architecture this year. Today, customers and partners can access a free upgrade to HP's OpenFlow-enabled software for their HP switches here. Deploying the OpenFlow standard enables enterprises to significantly reduce the complexity of network devices and automate tasks using simplified network management. "To help enterprises uniformly manage network traffic flow across the data center, HP became an early innovator of the OpenFlow standard, supporting more than 60 universities and research centres in trials, development efforts and practical real-world applications. With over 10 million OpenFlow-capable sw...

STMicroelectronics expands Power-Supply Chips

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The latest miniature power chip from STMicroelectronics is produced using an advanced technology that could see it used in nearly every new smartphone or small electronic device that has an AMOLED display. ST already supplies over 80% of the world's ICs for powering AMOLED displays, which are ultra thin and promise even more vivid displays and wider viewing angles than today's LCDs. Increasing use in smartphones and other slim-line electronics such as digital cameras and appliance user interfaces will drive annual AMOLED shipments to $3.6 billion by 2015, from just over $600 million in 2008, according to analysts at IHS iSuppli; each AMOLED would require a driver/power-supply chip. AMOLEDs have more complex power requirements than LCDs and need both a positive and negative voltage. ST's dedicated AMOLED power ICs adds value to new designs by simplifying power-supply circuitry. The new chip, the STOD13AS, is produced using ST's...

Techmagnate, Topperlearning.com sign up for SEO Services

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Techmagnate has signed a deal with education portal TopperLearning.com, for its SEO services. This deal has believed to be cemented Techmagnate's position as one of India's foremost SEO services companies. Sarvesh Bagla, CEO, Techmagnate said, "We are naturally quite delighted to have bagged this deal from TopperLearning.com, for our SEO services. TopperLearning.com is one of India's most well known and comprehensive online destinations for educational resources. That such a premier website has decided to get SEO services from us is ample evidence of the fact that our SEO techniques and tools are one of the best options you have for getting optimal online exposure and increased web traffic." Bagla added, "Be it our SEO packages or our Social Media and PPC management packages, we offer excellent customer support with all of them. We also offer our clients the option of customized service packages, so that they can g...

Microsoft Advertising expands presence to Tier II cities, appoints Ybrant Digital Limited as Sales House

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft has announced their expansion plans to Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, and Goa; and appointment of Ybrant Digital Limited as the Sales House for the cities outside Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore. The appointment of Ybrant Digital complements Microsoft Advertising's existing sales partner - AIDEM Ventures Pvt. Ltd. that will continue to drive sales in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Neville Taraporewalla, Country Director, Advertising & Online - Microsoft India said, "The exponential growth of the internet is enabling digital lifestyles at a pace never seen before and resultantly, we today live in an era of consumption on the go and increasing online conversations. We see an emergence of new growth drivers, and this presents an opportunity for us to enable businesses to engage with their audiences in an effective and interactive manner. Our tie up with Ybrant Digital Ltd. is well positioned to help us i...

IBM and Tulip Telecom build Data Center

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IBM has worked with Tulip Telecom to design and help build the largest data center facility in India to deliver new cloud and networking services. IBM's data center and SmartCloud infrastructure services is believed to support Tulip in extending its existing offerings to quickly meet customer demand. Covering more than 900,000 square feet, and 20 Enterprise Modular Data Centers in a four tower building, the facility is engineered to support up to 100 megawatts of power. Lt. Col. HS Bedi, Chairman & MD, Tulip Telecom Ltd. said, "Our goal is to be the largest data connectivity and managed services provider, and to succeed we needed a modernized data center that could support both business and operational requirements. With a project of such magnitude at hand, we chose to partner with IBM because the company has global expertise in designing and building innovative, energy efficient cloud data centers that should support our needs ...

Sandisk Extreme SDXC UHS-I card released

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SanDisk has announced the availability of its 128GBExtreme SDXC UHS-I card. One is believed to preserve their images for generations to come using the SanDisk Memory Vault. The SanDisk Memory Vault is claimed to be tested to preserve digital photos and videos for up to 100 years5, making it an ideal solution for passing down precious memories for generations to come. The SanDisk Memory Vault is expected to allow consumers to consolidate important photos and videos in one convenient and reliable location. The product features a sleek, ruggedized metallic casing that looks great on top of a desk and fits into any drawer. 128GB SanDisk Extreme SDXC UHS-I card is designed to capture Full HD2 videos and high-resolution photos. The card features up to 45MB/sec3 read/write speeds, enabling consumers to shoot sequences of high-resolution photos using their camera's burst mode and then quickly transfer the files to a computer. For More Details Se...

Fortinet appoints Datacipher as ATC

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Fortinet has appointed Datacipher Solutions, as an Authorised Training Center (ATC) to provide its channel and customers with easy access to Fortinet Training Programs across the country. The two courses currently offered by Datacipher cover administration and content inspection for the vendor's flagship FortiGate multi-threat security appliance. Code-named 201 and 301, the modules are designed to provide participants with the ability to fully configure and manage FortiGate devices. They can also help participants prepare for the Fortinet Certified Network Security Administrator (FCNSA) and Fortinet Certified Network Security Professional (FCNSP) certifications, which are widely recognised in the industry. Vishak Raman, Senior Regional Director, Fortinet India and SAARC, said, "Datacipher Solutions' appointment is strategically important, as their highly structured training programs will help partners and end-users in the countr...

SAP HANA Platform to empower SMEs

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP AG has announced two new offerings that will deliver the benefits of the SAP HANA platform to small businesses and midsize enterprises (SMEs). With analytics powered by SAP HANA for the SAP Business One application and SAP HANA, Edge edition, SMEs will be able to leverage powerful in-memory technology from SAP. By helping organizations act on information as it happens, SAP HANA revolutionizes decision-making, dramatically increasing the speed of existing processes and accessing large amounts of data in shorter periods of time. These new offerings from SAP aim to provide SMEs with real-time access to information tailored to their individual requirements. SAP HANA is in-memory data management software on SAP partner hardware. For a quick and predictable implementation of SAP HANA, customers and partners can use SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, including the SAP ERP rapid-deployment solution for operational reporting with SAP HANA. SAP Rapid...

EMC rolls out VFCache

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE EMC Corporation has introduced EMC VFCache, a new server Flash caching solution. Together, VFCache and EMC Flash-enabled storage systems dramatically improve application performance by leveraging intelligent software and PCIe Flash technology - testing resulted in up to 3X increased throughput while reducing latency by 60%. VFCache combined with VMAX, VMAXe, VNX and VNXe storage delivers turbocharged performance with protection. VFCache is the next evolutionary step of EMC's Flash strategy requiring no disruption to customers' existing storage architectures. Coming in the next year, EMC will add deduplication technology to VFCache, enabling customers to achieve even more efficiency from Flash technology. Additional Flash capacity and form factors will also be supported. VFCache will also more deeply integrate with EMC storage management technologies, and additional integration with FAST architecture. For more Details See www.varind...