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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Manthan Systems has announced its selection by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), a Singapore Statutory Board, to participate in its innovative data and analytics program for the retail and wholesale sector. Manthan beat numerous global solution-providers in a highly competitive call-for-collaboration to emerge as one of the selected vendors that will offer comprehensive customer analytics assistance via a shared services platform to help retailers streamline performance and improve bottom-line.            Atul Jalan, CEO, Manthan Systems said, “Manthan already has a notable presence in Singapore with our solution in use at one of the country’s leading electronics retailers - Courts. But the IDA project opens up the market and provides a tremendous boost to our growth plans in the region. Manthan’s proposed COE will comprise of senior professionals/experts from across the world in the fiel...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Sharda University has gone live on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Solutions to transform its academic, finance and administrative functions. This new technology will power admissions commencing with the 2012-13 academic year. Mudit Consul, Executive Vice President, Sharda Group, Promoter of Sharda University said, “Our investment of USD 2 million in IT solutions is testimony of our seriousness in pursuing this objective. We believe that PeopleSoft’s industry leading practices will boost our service delivery by providing a unique experience to our students and enhance the productivity of our faculty and staff.” Sunil Jose, Vice President, Applications, Oracle India said, “We are pleased to support Sharda University in their efforts to build a robust and scalable IT infrastructure comparable with top global universities. Oracle’s PeopleSoft Applications are designed to address a wide range of complex requirements and are the perfect solution ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Luminous Power Technologies (P) Limited has bagged the ISO 50001:2011 certification by BSI Management Systems, a first for any production facility in the battery industry. Awarded to its production facility located in Gagret, Himachal Pradesh, Luminous is commended for its unmatched expertise in the power electronics field combined with world class battery manufacturing technology. The ISO 50001:2011 certification is in recognition of its world-class efficient Energy Management Systems, given for complying with the requirements on the fronts of manufacturing of Batteries comprising flat and tubular plates for domestic and industrial requirements. Manish Pant, Managing Director, Luminous Power Technologies, said on the commendation, “It gives us great honour to be awarded the ISO 50001:2011 certification from BSI Management Systems which goes on to show our continual commitment towards efficient energy management. We are committed to ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cypress Semiconductor has released an extension to its PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. The update is believed to include new functions for power monitoring and fan control. Customers can drag and drop these functions into the existing PSoC devices to realise new capabilities within their designs. These new components enable hardware-based solutions for the telecommunications, server and storage markets where reliability is critical. Jim Davis, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cypress said, “With the graphical interface in PSoC Creator, customers can customise a power monitoring and thermal management design that meets their system requirements all in one integrated device.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Citrix has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2012 “Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure” report by Thomas Bittman, Vice-President & distinguished analyst. The report evaluates Citrix XenServer, a key component of the company’s virtualization and cloud computing strategy. For its evaluation of the server virtualization market, Gartner highlighted that “vendor understanding and articulation of the strategic path for virtualization (expanding into the foundation for the future of infrastructure architecture and operations, and extending toward cloud computing) is particularly important and differentiating.” Sameer Dholakia, Group Vice-President & General Manager, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix, said, “Citrix XenServer continues to demonstrate robust customer adoption, fuelled by a strong leadership position in the world’s largest public clouds as well as the leading posit...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Reliance Globalcom has announced the service launch of the Al-Faw Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Iraq, built in alliance with the Iraqi Telecommunications and Post Company (ITPC).  Rory Cole, COO, Reliance Globalcom, said, "We are delighted at achieving this historic milestone and being the first private service provider to activate submarine capacity in Iraq. Falcon offers seamless connectivity globally and will help connect Iraq to the rest of the world through the reach of our global network. This opens a new opportunity for MNCs around the world to have a better communication with Iraq and operate from this country.”  Mohammed Allawi, Minister of Communications, said, “This is an extremely important strategic initiative undertaken by ITPC and Reliance Globalcom. This will facilitate the connectivity of all the countries in the Middle East region to Iraq and will also significantly improve the quality and speed as ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is believed to set up a call centre in West Bengal for registration of complaints by its landline and broadband users. Somnath Maity, CGM BSNL (Calcutta Telephones) said, “BSNL has geared up to streamline and resolve complaints issues with a new call centre specifically for landline and broadband subscribers. By end of July, we will have one call centre for entire West Bengal for landline and broadband subscribers. Similarly, call centres for other states will also come up. The centralised call centre can sort out problems of any subscriber irrespective of circle he belongs to in Bengal.” For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Trend Micro has commenced its 30-city road show across tier-I and tier-II cities. The purpose of these road shows is to educate channel partners about the Titanium range of Antivirus products and train the channel partner’s engineers with Titanium product range. Titanium Internet Security is powered by Trend Micro Smart Protection Network and Trend Micro’s cloud-based security infrastructure. In addition, Trend Micro will also announce various schemes and promotional activities to help its partners earn higher rewards.  About 50 partners are expected to attend the show in each city. “We have some really great offers lined up for our channel partners. Our key purpose in undertaking these road shows is not just to ensure that we reach our target of 5,000 channel partners but also to also make sure that they are well aware of all that Trend Micro has to offer,” said Amit Nath, Country Manager, India and SAARC, Trend Micro. ...

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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Tata DOCOMO has announced new offers for its Tata Photon Plus Postpay and Prepay customers across India. The company is showering its customers with various offers of high internet speeds at affordable prices, thereby reducing its tariff plans up to 60%. Tata DOCOMO Photon Plus postpay customers can choose from unlimited 6GB usage for only Rs.950 rental or unlimited 11GB for only Rs.1,200/-. These two unlimited plans also offer cash back of Rs.100 per month for 12 months from the date of purchase.   Gurinder Singh Sandhu, Head - Marketing, Tata DOCOMO, said, “These exciting plans for our Tata DOCOMO Photon Plus post-pay and pre-pay customers are the latest addition in our ever-expanding portfolio of differentiated and affordable offerings. We continue to deliver on our promise to provide value-for-money plans that suit the various needs of our customers. Such offers are an extension of our maxim of providing a refreshing e...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Kobian has launched its all new mTab Rio. Mercury mTab Rio is powered with 1.2 GHz multi-core processor, 1GB DDR3 RAM, 8GB internal storage memory and supports 32GB extendable memory through MicroSD card. The tablet is Wi-Fi enabled and supports Adobe Flash 1 along with built-in 2.0-mega pixel camera and the 300k front camera. Mercury mTab Rio operates on Android 4.0 platform and features 9.7" wide IPS display screen. The main advantage of IPS panel is it offers a consistent and accurate colour from all viewing angles in contrast to the traditional LCD screens which display partial true colour. The IPS offers a quick and homogeneous response time and provides the optimal structure to process a large number of high-speed signals without data loss. Sushmita Das, Country Manager - India, Kobian Pte Ltd., said, "Today, the trend is driven by the successive devices that deliver higher-resolution display. IPS LCD display is...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   NEC Corporation is showcasing its public safety technologies and solutions at the World Cities Summit 2012 being held in Singapore from 1st - 4th July, 2012.  Through this thematic display “We Make Cities Safer”, governments and city planners can envision how NEC’s innovative technologies and solutions can be integrated to enhance the safety and security of cities in their countries.    Tan Boon Chin, Managing Director, NEC Asia-Pacific’s Regional Competency Centre for Public Safety, said, “As a global IT and networking solutions provider, we aim to make cities a safer place to live with our integrated identity and public safety solutions, combined with our networking technologies, to create greater mobility and connectivity for law-enforcement, government authorities and agencies. The challenge, thus, is for these state-of-the-art technologies to be better connected and integrated to serve a common purpose, as deter...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Cisco has announced the Linksys Developer Community, a program for developers to create apps for the new Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers. Cisco has also announced that six developers have endorsed the community and are publishing apps built for Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers. The new community is part of the Cisco Developer Network. Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers are powered by a cloud-based architecture that can be leveraged by developers as they create apps for any consumer electronic device. The community is designed to make the development of apps simple with an easy-to-use software developer kit (SDK), quick tutorials and sample code. “We are on the cusp of a major transformation in the home where the network can enable experiences that consumers never dreamed possible. The sky is the limit for developers with our new software platform and Linksys Developer Community. From simple experiences allowing consumers to manage their home r...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   eScan has announced the compatibility of its desktop products with Windows 8, the operating system from Microsoft. eScan range of products for home users that are compatible with Windows 8 OS are available in more than 18 languages. Govind Rammurthy CEO & MD, eScan, said, "As of May 2012, the market share of Windows OS is 84.83%. With its wide usage, Window OS has always been a prime focus of cyber criminals and the latest OS is no exception. Hence, security remains a major concern. To extend the eScan protection to Windows 8 users, we have ensured that eScan is compatible with the new technologies of Windows 8 and supports the enhancements in the new OS. Moreover, we are also in process of developing the compatibility enhancements for the Metro GUI of Windows 8." For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fujitsu Consulting India has been appraised at Level 5 of the SEI's Capability Maturity Model Integration for Services (Version 1.3). With this achievement, Fujitsu Consulting India is the first organization in India and second in the world, to be appraised at CMMI for Services (Version 1.3) Level 5 which underscores the maturity of the firm's fast growing Application Management Services and Infrastructure Management Services business. Rajeev Gupta, President, Fujitsu Consulting India said, "The CMMI Level 5 assessment for Services v1.3 is a significant milestone in driving our commitment towards the quality of experience of our clients. Fujitsu's philosophy of continuous improvement in process excellence translates into greater operational efficiency and superior delivery excellence for all our clients". "CMMI for Services establishes a stronger correlation between client's business goals and...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Symantec Corp. and Red Hat, Inc. have announced an extended collaboration to deliver solutions that help customers deploy agile private and hybrid clouds and create highly resilient datacenters. The expanded relationship spans engineering, marketing, support, and sales groups in both companies. Based on proven real-world deployments, the new solutions will harness the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Symantec storage and availability solutions to deliver higher availability and increased agility while helping organizations deploy business-critical applications with confidence. Francis deSouza, Group President, Enterprise Products and Services, Symantec said, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the fastest-growing platform for our storage management and high availability software as an increasing number of customers deploy Linux to increase agility and stay competitive. We’re strengthening our partnership with Red Hat to ensure...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Rostelecom has signed a contract with Ericsson to launch a new mobile and content delivery network. As a result, Rostelecom's 43 million households will be able to enjoy converged mobile and fixed services as well as an enhanced video and media content user experience, thanks to the cutting-edge solutions that Ericsson will provide. The network will support the largest area coverage and customer reach in Russia, covering more than 60 percent of the population, and will be built with Ericsson's equipment and complete mobile solution, including Operations Support Systems (OSS), packet core and radio. Ericsson will install RBS 6000 base stations that support GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA and are LTE-ready across 4,000 locations, and the network will have a total capacity of 1Tbit per second. Ivan Zima, Vice president, CTO, Rostelecom, said, "The new network will enable us to offer our users a full range of converged information ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   VMware Inc. has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure. According to Gartner, "Virtualization penetration has surpassed 50 percent of all server workloads, and it continues to grow." The report continues: "The x86 server virtualization infrastructure market is the foundation for two extremely important market trends that relate and overlap: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing. Virtualization is a fundamental enabler to IaaS, and will be used to establish private cloud services, public cloud services and interoperable hybrid cloud services." Rick Jackson, VMware CMO said, "VMware customers of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to build cloud operations that will allow them to achieve the peak in automation, flexibility and efficiency. We believe our placement in the Lea...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   projectiondesign has supplied nine of its F32 DLP projectors to British artist Isaac Julien for his latest art installation 'Ten Thousand Waves'. Having been shown successfully in several cities across the world, 'Ten Thousand Waves' has landed most recently at the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. Julien said, "When you are putting on a piece of work like this, you rely on a fantastic image. You need a certain colour depth, you need colour saturation and you need depth of field. Contrast ratio is also very important. projectiondesign projectors give us all this and more besides." The AV system for 'Ten Thousand Waves' was designed by ArtAV Nick Joyce, the company's owner.   He said, "All nine of the F32s are running at 1080p resolution. The unique thing about this system is that we output uncompressed, high-definition video. We started with 35mm film as a source,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Intellicon is an integrated technology solutions company functioning in the Automatic Data Capture, Unified Communication, Security & Surveillance domains. It today is an ideal partner for organizations looking at Transformational IT solutions. The company has been for more than 2 decades in the market. Its Pan India presence includes sales & Support centers through their 15 branches.Sameer Parekh, Managing Director said, "After consolidating our presence in verticals like Government and corporates, now Intellicon is eyeing SME Market through Channel. This includes expanding reach by appointing more channel partners." Chetan Turakhia, Joint Managing Director further added that Intellicon has a wide range of products and solutions suitable for SME segments like small, medium and large sized IP based PBX, Unified Communications Systems, Digital Series (KTS) EPABX and also an analog range of EPABXs. Intellicon launch...