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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Xerox India Limited, the local operating company of Xerox Corporation has named Rajat Jain as Managing Director. He will assume his Xerox role effective from 20 February. Rajat will be responsible for leading Xerox India's strategy implementation and business operations, including sales of products and services, marketing, brand recognition, and customer service operations for Xerox India Ltd. He will focus on expanding Xerox's channel presence and further strengthening Xerox's partner relationships across India. He also will intensify the drive to bring Xerox's services offers, including document outsourcing, to more companies in all key sectors of the Indian market. To deliver against these growth objectives, Rajat will oversee the development of Xerox India's talent pool. Hervé Tessler, President, Developing Markets Operations including India, Xerox Corporation said, "India is a country of vital importance to Xero...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sanovi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has opened its subsidiary in U.A.E, Sanovi Technologies JLT. This new subsidiary with its office head-quartered in Dubai is believed to be responsible for active sales and marketing of Sanovi Disaster Recovery products in the Middle East and African regions. It also offers localized DR support to all its customers. The opening of Dubai office gives Sanovi Technologies a distinct advantage to tap on the potential market and advancing its business prospects in the region. Chandra Pulamarasetti, Founder & CEO, Sanovi Technologies said, "The opportunity for Sanovi DRM solution is very good in the Middle East region as medium to large enterprises have started deploying DR solutions. We are pretty confident to serve Middle East market with user friendly and cost effective DR solutions matching their Industry standards. We are going aggressive. We have also received good responses from Saudi Arabia, UAE ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Progress Software Corporation has announced that FFastFill has extended its existing partnership agreement with Progress Software to deliver Progress Apama FX Aggregation Solution Accelerator product to the capital markets industry as a fully-managed, cloud-based service. The Progress Apama FX Aggregation Solution Accelerator product combines FX integration adaptors with fully integrated trading dashboards providing a consolidated order book by price and available depth. The solution supports high-volume FX data streams from dealing banks and Electronic Crossing Networks (ECNs) without the increased latency associated with products typically available. With liquidity sources offering different strengths in terms of currency pairs (including crosses) and available liquidity, the Progress Apama FX Aggregation Solution Accelerator product captures prices and depth that span a range of liquidity pools and makes these pools accessible via a set of...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The cyber criminals broke into one of the government servers and hacked as many as 27 websites of various departments of Andhra Pradesh exposing the chinks in the state's cyber security. It is believed that the hackers did not deface the pages or steal the information but only added additional pages with their message. The websites which were hacked include those of departments of commercial taxes, general administration department, horticulture, factories, gazette notifications and government orders. Some Bangladeshi hacking groups are suspected to be behind the incident. Ponnala Lakshmaiah, State Information Technology Minister claimed, "There was no loss of data. One of the 50 government servers was hacked and 27 websites supported by the server were affected." The officials shared, "None of the websites had data relating to 2012-13 budget, which is to be presented in the state legislature Friday." Anam Ramnarayan ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE BT and Verizon Enterprise Solutions are extending the range of their telepresence immersive-video offerings to enable virtual face-to-face collaboration in more locations around the world to meet the growing demand of businesses for video communications. Under a new agreement, customers of Verizon and BT are now able to communicate with each other via Cisco TelePresence. This new capability expands the community, helps clients collaborate globally and improves productivity. Sandra O'Boyle, Service Director, Business Network and IT services, Current Analysis said, "This initiative between BT and Verizon opens up new opportunities for enterprises to collaborate across their premium video platforms and will help multinational customers make the most of their Cisco TelePresence System investments." Mike Palmer, VP of Product Strategy for Verizon Enterprise Solutions said, "This agreement makes video communications more widely ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Envent Worldwide Pvt. Ltd has selected Venktron Digital Systems Pvt. Ltd. as its distributor for Western India. The appointment of Venktron is said to help the company to further expand its reach in this part of the country. Sukhesh Madaan, CEO-Envent World Wide Pvt Ltd. said, "We are delighted to appoint Venktron as our distributor for western India for our IT, Telecom and lifestyle offerings. With offices across strategic cities of western India, this tie up would certainly help us to meet our objective. On the other hand, I am sure, Venktron would find enormous value in our innovative and technologically advanced products portfolio." Ajay Singhania, Chairman & Managing Director, Venktron Digital Systems Pvt Ltd. said, "We are looking forward to have a fruitful and long term relationship with Envent. I am sure; Envent's product line will add great value to our portfolio and to our channel partners as well." For...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE ComGuard, a part of Spectrum Group, Dubai has entered into the Indian market. The Company is said to focus on enterprises and education markets and introduce global brands for networking and security products to cater to this market. Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO, Spectrum Group said, "After having strong presence in Middle-East and African countries, we are focusing now on Indian IT security market. Indian IT security industry is moving strongly, and is expected to continue scoring solid growth in near future. With the robust growth of India's emerging SMB segment, the demand for IT security solutions will go a long way. We as a VAD will hand hold the partners to make a transition from their traditional business to the emerging business." George Jason, Vice President, ComGuard said, "India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and will be for the foreseeable future. Our objective for the Indian market would be to...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Iomega, an EMC company has launched new Iomega StorCenter PX Server Class Series of network storage products, a versatile line of high performance desktop and rackmount NAS devices utilizing server class drives and offering the highest levels of performance and advanced data protection for small- to medium-sized businesses, remote offices and distributed enterprises. Iomega's new StorCenter PX Server Class Series incorporates a new version of EMC LifeLine software with advanced computing features as well as 1TB, 2TB and 3TB server class SATA drives for higher reliability and continuous operation in critical business functions, such as "always on" video surveillance applications designed with EMC storage technology. The new high performance line of Iomega NAS products includes competitively priced four-bay and six-bay desktop models that range from diskless to 18TB of network storage, and four-bay and 12-bay rackmount models tha...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE IVK Mobile SICT has appointed Subrata Mukherjee as General Manager for handling its entire East India operations. He will be responsible for driving IVK Mobile business in regions like Assam, Bihar, Guwahati, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and other eastern areas. Anil Kaushik, CEO, IVK Mobile said, "We are getting excellent response for our quality products and unmatched prices. The company on its exponential growth path extended its presence in East by appointing more and more senior and middle level managers. We are delighted to announce the appointment of Mr.Subrata Mukherjee as General Manager for East India operations. His rich experience and market knowledge would certainly help us to establish SICT brand in above regions." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In a partnership with Convergent Media Systems, a Sony Company, SpinetiX is supplying dozens of its HMP200 Hyper Media Players for a huge digital-signage roll out in Sony consumer stores across the USA. Sony's new future-forward retail store design has been devised with the goal of providing customers with an interactive, entertaining shopping experience in which different Sony technologies are showcased on a harmonized, integrated platform. The products featured range from 3D displays to PlayStation video-game consoles, Internet TVs and even music from artists signed to Sony's record label. Kris Konrath, Director, Marketing, said, "Sony wanted a solution that would allow every display in the store to act as a digital-signage screen, with a choice of independent content zones or full-store synchronization. They also wanted to integrate digital messaging into the in-store audio, to give customers a harmonized audio and visual exp...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Vserv has named TS Ramakrishnan (TS) as its Technology Advisor. Dippak Khurana, Co-Founder & CEO, Vserv.mobi said, "We are excited to have TS Ramakrishnan be associated with us. His impactful contributions in building today's new media behemoths will help us accelerate our growth and learning curve required to achieve our goal of becoming the number #1 mobile advertising network in emerging markets. Vserv has a technologically robust proposition and TS will play a crucial role in sharpening our prowess in this area." TS Ramakrishnan, Technology Advisor, Vserv.mobi said, "Vserv's significant growth in the last two years is commendable and can be attributed to their unique and strong product proposition. I believe that this differentiating edge will help the company in being ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving mobile space. I am excited to be associated with Vserv team and to be able to guide and advise the compa...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Service Uncle has commenced its operations India. The Australian portal, which is a combination of B2B and B2C portal, provides information on a wide range of services and service providers in any city, across the globe. There are many different ways by which information can be obtained on various services and service providers. One can search it Service Category-wise, Service Provider-wise or Service Area-wise. Rajesh Nagpal, MD, Service Uncle, Australia said, "Over the years, India has emerged as a significant market, that too quite rapidly". With the availability of various products and changing life style, consumers are looking for a resource, from where they can avail service related information at click of a button or just by dialing one number. In view of extending our offering to the Indian consumers and to make their life easier, we have decided to venture into the Indian geography. Today, the availability of service relat...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE OCZ Technology Group Inc. has appointed Ankur Sarkar as Sales Manager for driving business operations in South Asia, including India. Ankur is responsible for developing an extensive channel and support network for OCZ in association with OCZ's consumer & enterprise product distributors across South Asia. He plays an instrumental role as Sales Manager for SSD Product Group & Enterprise Class Power Management Product Group, in carrying forward OCZ Technology's ongoing initiatives across markets be it the consumer, SME & enterprise customer. He is also responsible for educating the customer segments, providing effective pre-sales support to the channel, imparting marketing and technical training and offering seamless support services to the end-user as and when required. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The fourth quarter of 2011 saw Polycom leap ahead of Cisco to once again take pole position in the race for leadership of APAC's booming videoconferencing and telepresence equipment market - it accounted for 34% of APAC revenues during the quarter. Cisco was the market leader in the first quarter and the two were close in the second, but 4Q11 saw Cisco revenues decrease from 3Q11, while Polycom's revenues jumped by 22%. For the year as a whole Polycom achieved a 32% market share, with Cisco lagging by six percentage points. Huawei and Sony were the next largest equipment vendors in this market. Annual videoconferencing equipment revenues in the region jumped by no less than 33% from 2010 to 2011, while globally the market grew by 31% to reach almost USD3 billion for the year. While Polycom leads the APAC market, it is Cisco that is the clear number one in terms of worldwide market share. Jeremy Duke said, Synergy Research Group said,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Spring People Software has opened corporate learning centre. The learning centre will host Spring People's training classes on complex and upcoming topics like Spring Framework, Web, Mobile, Cloud etc. for IT Professionals. The Centre was inaugurated by T Srinivasan - Managing Director, India & SAARC, VMware. T. Srinivasan, MD, VMware, India & SAARC said, "I am delighted to announce the inauguration of Spring People Software Corporate Learning Centre, a first of its kind in India. Spring People, a key education partner of VMware, is playing a significant role in high - end IT Training. I am sure, that opening of this learning centre will set a benchmark for the training providers in the corporate training industry and will set a path for many to follow." Ravi Kaklasaria, Director, SpringPeople Software Pvt. Ltd said, "Having delivered 200+ corporate trainings to some of the most demanding organizations, and highly ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SAP AG has announced that its supervisory board has voted to extend the tenure of Dr. Vishal Sikka as Executive Board member of SAP AG through December 31, 2017. Sikka agreed to the extension of his tenure. Hasso Plattner, Chairman, SAP Supervisory Board said, "The SAP Supervisory Board expressed great appreciation for the innovation and technology leadership Vishal has provided. With SAP HANA, which has the fastest growing customer pipeline in SAP's history, Vishal is driving an intellectual renewal at SAP that will shape our future solution portfolio and redefine the IT industry." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Atos, EMC Corporation and VMware have announced a strategic alliance for open cloud computing. Additionally, Atos plans to create a new company, Canopy, providing a wide range of cloud solutions and services designed to speed the delivery and help customers quickly take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Based on best-of-breed technology from global cloud computing industry leaders EMC and VMware, the new offerings will include an open cloud platform that enables customers to easily and flexibly choose, access and deploy cloud-based services for their enterprise IT needs. Thierry Breton, Chairman & CEO, Atos said, "Today's enterprises and governments face in parallel massive pressures on IT costs, growing user expectations for agility, user-friendliness, and innovation. Cloud Computing is radically changing the world of IT by meeting these needs. The launch of Canopy and its unique set of enterprise-grade services ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Techno Minds, an inter-centre competition, organized by Aptech Computer Education - the flagship brand of Aptech Limited saw 325 participants at India International Centre, New Delhi. The participants included students doing ACCP, Java, Oracle and .net course from Aptech centre across north zone, i.e. Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttaranchal. Students in each centre were given course specific group projects. Out of the pool of projects made by these students, few were shortlisted for Techno Minds. The best five projects were declared winners in two categories, i.e. Web Application and Desktop Application. Ninad Karpe, MD & CEO, Aptech Ltd. said, "Techno Minds has evolved to encourage students to exhibit their technical skills in the IT space through project application. The zeal of the students and the teachers towards the competition was incredible." Venkat, Global Academic Head said, "Techno Minds offers stu...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE In order to strengthen its consumer lineup, EGATE has launched new model christened P316. This new projector is targeted and designed keeping in mind SOHO and home customer. "EGATE is very proud and delighted to announce the launch of this all new projector meant to break all price barriers. We are ambitious with this new launch and look forward to create all new consumer segments. P316 is a fusion between office and home, combining both the qualities of office effectiveness by having 800 x 600 SVGA native resolution and that of home by having HDMI, sound and speaker in-built. With the increasing demand from the home segment, it was but imperative for us to come up with a specific product for the segment. With a price band of sub-Rs.20k for consumers, it is bound to create a stir in this segment," said Amit Priyadarshi, Director, Egate Infotel India. "Pioneering consumer segment and bidding goodbye to expensive lamp replacemen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Board of Directors of Cap Gemini S.A., chaired by Serge Kampf, was convened in Paris on February 15, 2012 to review and authorize for issuing the accounts of Capgemini Group for the year ended December 31, 2011. The Group reports total 2011 revenues of €9,693 million, up 11.4% on published revenues (i.e. at current Group structure and exchange rates), representing growth of some two points above the objective set at the beginning of the year. On a like-for-like basis (i.e. at constant Group structure and exchange rates), revenues rose by 5.6%, with the difference between these two rates primarily due to the consolidation of CPM Braxis (Brazil) and Prosodie (France), acquired in October 2010 and July 2011, respectively. Bookings during the year totalled €9,903 million, down on the last year (-8.4% like-for-like) during which a large number of Outsourcing Services contracts were renewed. Conversely, Technology Services, Local Professional ...