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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Zoho has partnered with Ingram Micro, to market its SaaS-based Business Solutions in India. Zoho Corp. has appointed Ingram Micro India Ltd. as their distributor partner to resell all Zoho products in India and other SAARC countries. In this partnership, Ingram Micro will sell all of Zoho's cloud-based products through its over 10,000 reseller partners in these countries.  Sudhakar S Marthi, Vice-President (Sales & Marketing) - APAC, Zoho Corp., said, "Customers use Zoho products to run their business processes, manage their information and be more productive while at the office or on the go, without having to worry about obsolete hardware or software. We are delighted to have partnered with Ingram Micro, which will help us further strengthen our position in the market." Jaishankar Krishnan, Managing Director, Ingram Micro India Ltd., said, "Ingram Micro continues to increase its association with vendors ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Ramco has announced the successful go-live of its ERP software for Equipment Rental Management industry at Al Faris Equipment Rentals (L.L.C). The entire process from blueprint to go-live was completed in a record time of 100 days. Ramco Equipment Rental Management has enabled Al Faris have effective control over costs and operational parameters.  "We have been growing exponentially and needed a robust and integrated IT backbone that is flexible and scalable to meet all our needs. We evaluated multiple global ERP solutions and chose Ramco Equipment Rental Management as it fits our requirements like a glove. A powerful solution coupled with competent implementation team enabled a smooth transition to ERP in record time. We look forward to a continued association with Ramco," said Kieve Pinto, Director - Operations, Al Faris. R. Shankar, Executive Vice-President - India, Middle East & Africa, Ramco Systems, said, ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The Adobe Foundation and Discovery Education have partnered to provide curriculum and resources to help educators weave digital media making into their teaching practice and actively engage students in gaining critical technology skills. Launched at Discovery Education'sInternational Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference kick-off event, the new Adobe Youth Voices Essentials curriculum will be shared with educators by leveraging Discovery Education's Discovery Educator Network (DEN). "Discovery Education is pleased to partner with the Adobe Foundation to share this unique and innovative programme with our network of educators nationwide. We believe that through this powerful curriculum, allowing students to impact and effect change in society through transforming media, we can give educators the confidence to help students explore their curiosity and learn important skills that transcend traditional lear...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ZTE Corporation has recently partnered with the operator of the largest optical transport infrastructure in Europe on a field trial for optical transmission with data rates of 100Gb/s, 400Gb/s and 1Tb/s. Experiments conducted during the trial were designed to address important issues that concern operators and vendors around network evolution towards and beyond 100Gb. Using ZTE's 100Gb OTN products, 400Gb prototype and 1Tb prototype, the team succeeded in simultaneous transmission on 100Gb/s, 400Gb/s and 1Tb/s WDM channels over 2150 km, passing 26 spans with gain flattening EDFAs.  "In terms of scale and novelty, this field trial is world leading, and it showcased the design capability of ZTE's 100Gb / 400Gb /1Tb optical transmission systems. The new technology can increase network capacity with backwards compatibility and prospects for scalable extension, while reducing the complexity and cost per bit. Being on the cu...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Polycom has announced that the Ministry of Public Administration and Security for the South Korean Government has selected Polycom RealPresence video solutions for its SmartWork Centre Building Project (3rd stage). The project is designed to promote flexible working practices in organizations across Korea.   As part of the project, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security worked closely with the National Information Society Agency to build and manage the SmartWork centres, selecting Polycom’s high-definition video collaboration solutions to be incorporated into key SmartWork centres in locations across Korea including Jamsil, Guro and Daejeon.  Dae-jun Shin, Country Manager, Polycom Korea, said, “Polycom is pleased to be supporting the Korean Government in their Smart Working Building Project, enabling government officers to meet and collaborate ‘face-to-face’ visually with quality that is as lifelike as bei...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Following the launch of the HTC One series, HTC has unveiled its, the HTC Desire C, featuring Beats Audio technology. "Listening to music is one of the most popular things people use their phones for. So, it is more important than ever that we deliver the power and emotion artists capture in the studio. The HTC Desire C offers customers excellent design, easy access to content and fast connectivity - making it the perfect all round devices," said Faisal Siddiqui, Country Manager, HTC India. Available in red, white and black, and coming with HTC Sense 4.0 integrated with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), HTC Desire C comes packed with a powerful battery and offering access to thousands of apps, games, music and movies available through Google Play. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HP has announced two new offerings with the aim to facilitate the rapid adoption of unified communications (UC) solutions. The new offerings include HP AppSystem for Microsoft Lync, a turnkey platform designed to expedite UC deployments, and a customizable HP and Polycom Rich Media Communications (RMC) solution for greater visual collaboration.  To help organizations quickly embrace UC, HP is enabling clients to quickly and cost-effectively deploy Polycom RealPresence video solutions and Microsoft Lync, a UC solution that offers audio, video, web and instant messaging capabilities.  Giovanni Mezgec, General Manager, Lync, Microsoft Corp, said, “Unified communications is an attractive option to help increase collaboration and productivity, but not all companies have the IT support to manage deployment and integration with their present IT environments. HP’s solution helps to support these organizations.” Fo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE JK Shin, Head of its Telecommunications Business has shared that Samsung Electronics Co. is expecting a cumulative sales of its Galaxy S III to top 10 million units during July. Samsung launched its Galaxy S III on May 29 in Europe and is now expanding global roll-outs. The phone is said to feature a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels. It has an 8 megapixel rear camera with flash and zero shutter lag and a 1.9 megapixel front camera. The Samsung Galaxy S III runs Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, operating system. Available in two colours - Pebble Blue and Marble White, its connectivity options include connectivity options include WiFi a/b/g/n, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0(LE). The phone is engineered with a 2100 mAh battery. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The organisation that oversees Internet domain names has appointed a new Chief Executive, who will have to take on some of the major challenges facing the non-profit body, including controversy over expansion of its services. Fadi Chehade will start his new job at ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in October. Chehade said, “I would pursue consensus-building among all the stakeholders involved in affairs affecting the internet. Multi-stakeholder models require patience but I believe this process is nearly sacred.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE A joint team of Railways and IIT-Kanpur has developed - the real-time train running information system - a technology which is said to enable a mobile user to access information about the exact location of a train.   Railway Ministry Official shared, "One has to type the train number and SMS it to 09415139139 or 09664139139 for knowing the exact location of a train on real-time basis. The service is currently available for 36 pairs of premier trains, including Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto. Not all premier trains are covered yet. Some of the trains covered under the project included Mumbai Rajdhani, Howrah Rajdhani, Dibrugarh Rajdhani, Sealdah Duronto and Shatabdi trains for Bhopal, Kanpur and Amritsar. The facility would be extended to all major trains in the next 18 months and the railways has allocated Rs 121 crore for the project." The Official said, "It will cost about Rs 50,000 to install a receiver on t...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Bharti Airtel has launched a reality show, Airtel Super Singer 7- the spicy series, aimed to entertain music lovers of Andhra Pradesh. The launch took place in the presence of Sharlin Thayil, CEO - Bharti Airtel, Andhra Pradesh along with the jury members of the show, the singers, Sunitha, and Kouslaya along with lyricist Chandra Bose. Sharlin Thayli, CEO - Bharti Airtel, Andhra Pradesh said, “Airtel has always taken the lead in associating with events, shows and initiatives that showcases the talent of today's youth. It gives us immense pleasure to be associated with this youthful and entertaining show that will unleash the talent of Andhra Pradesh. We would like to wish the participants all the very best for a fantastic show.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE R&M has provided the cabling solutions the Narodowy National Stadium in Warsaw at where data is being transferred securely helping all the football fans enjoy the game in the stadium and around the world. The modular R&Mfreenet cabling system was chosen as the solution. The backbone of the National Stadium is based on 72-fiber single mode optic cables, category OS2. The redundant cabling is led through separate routes to minimize the risk of failure. The FO rings link four data centers in which the entire IT infrastructure is also provided as a redundant replica. Cat. 6 Real10 cable was used below 100 meters. It supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Applications located further away such as cameras, screens, some access points and control systems are connected via FO duplex connections with SCRJ/APC connectors. These connectors are characterized not only by top performance but are also able to ensure environmental protection up to IP...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   MSI has announced today that their Intel 6/7 series mainboards have acquired Windows 8 certification from Microsoft. MSI has lead the Windows 8 market by displaying several mainboards that meet the Windows 8 certification requirements and showing off various new Windows 8 features live for the exhibition audience during the Computex exhibition this year. MSI mainboards are believed to be currently the only leading mainboard brand that runs 3DMark for Windows 8 successfully on their certified mainboards, which proves that MSI is fully ready for Windows 8 in terms of both software and hardware, safeguarding the Windows 8 system’s stability and compatibility for consumers and providing the best user experience. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ON Semiconductor has introduced NCN49597, a new power line carrier (PLC) modem system-on-chip (SoC) for use in applications such as e-metering, home automation, solar energy and lighting control. The first device in a new family of PLC modems, the NCN49597 combines a low- power 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 processor with a high-precision analogue front-end and is based on a dual 4800-baud S-FSK (Spread Frequency Shift Keying) channel technology.  The NCN49597 is fully compliant with the IEC61334-5-1 standard and supports customized implementation of the building automation standard. The new device features field re-programmability, smart synchronization and automatic half baud rate detection along with the Programmable carrier frequencies in the CENELEC A to D bands and the ability to operate on both AC voltage, at either 50 hertz (Hz) or 60 Hz, and DC voltage.  The NCS5650 is a 2 ampere (A) high efficiency class A/B power li...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Corsair has announced the Neutron Series solid-state drives (SSDs), to feature the LM87800 6Gb/s SSD controller from Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD). All Neutron Series models incorporate LAMD's on-the-fly error correction and NAND management technologies. The Neutron Series GTX drives also include adaptive DSP technology. Available in capacities of 120GB, 240GB and 480GB, Neutron Series GTX SSDs are designed with toggle NAND flash memory to deliver up to a super-high 90,000 random read and write IOPs (input/output operations per second), which speeds up data-intensive tasks like video and image editing. These drives provide superior sequential speeds of up to 555 MB/s read and 500 MB/s write. Thi La, Vice-President, Memory Products, Corsair, said, "The Neutron Series SSDs, a strategic collaboration between Corsair and LAMD, reflects the shared commitment to performance, quality, and reliability ingrained in our companies....

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SafeNet has announced enhancements to its Sentinel software monetization solution, Sentinel Cloud that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to easily license and monetize their on-premise, hybrid and cloud-based solutions. SafeNet’s Sentinel technology aims to provide a dynamic "live" licensing back-end entitlement management system that maintains and reports licensing states. Jake Fox, Vice-President, Product Management, SafeNet, commented, "This enhancement to the Sentinel portfolio was specifically designed for ISVs that are reaching for the cloud but not quite ready to make the full transition away from on-premise software. We know there are a lot of reasons why vendors can’t fully transition their software to the cloud - from legacy customers to legacy back-end systems and licensing models. We get that, and we have enhanced the Cross-Locking of our Sentinel portfolio specifically to help them seamlessly m...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   WatchGuard has announced that its Q1 billings have once again returned double-digit, year- over-year growth.  "The first quarter of 2012 was a record first quarter for WatchGuard, following up on a record year in 2011. Hackers continue to push the security envelope, which means businesses are constantly hardening their networks, applications and data. Additionally, regulatory pressures around the globe continue to push businesses to take stronger positions against data loss, all of which bodes well for WatchGuard and our channel partners," said Mohit Puri, Country Manager, India & SAARC, WatchGuard Technologies. In particular, the company notes five consecutive quarters of double-digit growth (averaging 15 per cent) from the company's core UTM business, high customer retention rates, and 39-per cent year-over-year billings growth for its enterprise class, multifunction firewalls, which includes the XTM 8 s...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Trend Micro has announced that Trend Micro Deep Security and OfficeScan Intrusion Defense Firewall provide the vulnerability shielding required to protect Windows environments from zero-day threat as. This is further to the announcement made by Microsoft about zero-day threat. Trend Micro Deep Security and OfficeScan Intrusion Defense Firewall effectively aims to protect Users against Active Exploits on Latest Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities. The new rule was provided by Trend Micro within two hours of the vulnerability announcement and can be pushed out automatically and without disruption to all vulnerable systems. "Vulnerabilities provide opportunities for Trend Micro to increase the security of our customers through virtual patching, especially in cases where there are active exploits. Microsoft's recent announcement offers a particularly rich conversation starter for a Deep Security or OfficeScan IDF discussion....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   NEC has partnered with SpiderCloud Wireless. As part of the partnership, NEC will provide SpiderCloud'sSmartCloud(TM) system to its existing and new customers as part of its end-to-end Small Cell solution offering, which also includes Small Cell products for the residential and small enterprise market segments.   "The scalability, reliability and ease of deployment of the SpiderCloudSmartCloud system are ideally suited for NEC's needs. With NEC's Small Cell footprint covering more than 20 carriers worldwide, we can accelerate the deployment of E-RANs to help our customers serve their client base with a premium mobile services platform that is free from the capacity, time to market and cost limitations of DAS," said Anil Kohli, General Manager, NEC Europe Ltd. Mike Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer, SpiderCloud, said, "NEC has an impressive track record with Small Cell technology developments and ...