VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Cigniti has successfully passed the external compliance audit for ISO 27001:2005 certification. This certification compliance establishes that Cigniti’s infrastructure and practices meet ISO's stringent standards for information security management and business continuity capabilities. Cigniti’s evaluation was conducted by TÜV Rheinland Group. This certification helps Cigniti prove to its customers that they take the security of customers’ data very seriously and committed to provide seamless services.    “The ISO 27001 certification is part of our continued efforts to address our clients’ concerns for security of the application data and IP that Cigniti tests. This compliance demonstrates our commitment to implementing robust information security measures that preserve the integrity of our clients’ sensitive information. This certification also complements our compliance to HIPAA standards and our CMMi initiative,” said Raj...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   ZTE has introduced MF820S2 and MF91S, the world’s first multi-standard USB modem and uFi which supports LTE FDD/LTE TDD/TD-SCDMA / EDGE.  He Shiyou, EVP & Head, Terminal Division, ZTE, said, “This is a transformational year for ZTE’s terminal business. We are catalyzing LTE development on the global stage through heralding new innovations in the LTE terminal market. The new MF820S2 and MF91S are clear demonstrations of ZTE’s leadership in LTE. Through continued investment in R&D, we hope to deliver even more cutting-edge products for ZTE’s end-to-end terminal suite.” “ZTE continues to forge the development of the global telecommunications industry through pioneering technological breakthroughs. With the industry’s most comprehensive product range and solutions, covering virtually every telecommunications sector, ZTE is focussed on winning through innovation and continued investment in R&D,” he further remarked....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100-per cent equity of Computational Research Laboratories (CRL),a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, for a cash consideration of Rs.188 crore (US$34 million). The acquisition of CRL will enable TCS to extend its suite of solutions and offer integrated HPC application and Cloud services to its large base of customers. “CRL’s core capabilities in designing and building high-performance environments coupled with our strong focus on Cloud-based, domain-rich industry platforms makes TCS very relevant to address the customers’ growing requirement of HPC applications,” said N. Chandrasekaran, Managing Director & CEO, TCS. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Mindlance India has announced restructuring and right-sizing plans in order to simplify the operations and focus on its core competencies and growing market areas. This will result in the reduction of approximately 6% of its total full-time employee workforce. The company will also be taking a major restructuring initiative to focus on multiple operational improvements to simplify the operations and focus on its core competencies. Kamal Sharma, Group CIO & ITIM SBU Head, Mindlance India, said, "Our strategy and initiative is not about cost-reduction; it is about positioning Mindlance India to grow in the ever-changing dynamic market. We want to be well prepared to face future challenges and be better aligned to our customers' needs. This restructuring and right sizing exercise has no impact on other division of Mindlance's worldwide business in the USA, the UK and Canada." Mindlance India has also planned ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Symantec's Security Response team has found a privacy-infringing application called Call Cheater Lite that may also result in unwanted SMS charges. The purpose of this app is to block unwanted phone calls from certain individuals by giving the owner of the phone the ability to play any sound or pre-recorded message to an offensive or unwanted caller. According to the application description, the user can configure the app to play a pre-recorded message or sound to make the caller believe that the phone is disconnected or out of service. Additionally, there is code present that asks the user if they liked the app. If the user selects “yes”, the app asks the user if they would be interested in purchasing the full version, but if they dislike the app and select “no”, the app asks why the user does not like the app. Unfortunately, regardless of what the user does at this point, an international rate SMS message which is not fre...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   It has been recently announced that EMC is enabling EMC Velocity distributors worldwide with the skills and resources required to assemble multi-vendor solutions that feature EMC’s unified storage systems and backup solutions.  Distributors worldwide will be provided with the technical training, proven methodologies and the backing of EMC’s Global Services organization so they may assemble EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure and other solutions for their reseller Partners.   This announcement follows a string of other new EMC initiatives developed to help channel partners worldwide accelerate their customers’ journey to the cloud. These include VSPEX Proven Infrastructure, as well as Velocity Cloud Practices Cloud Builder and Cloud Provider and EMC Cooperative Services, which were announced at the first annual Global Partner Summit held at EMC World. Daniel Coetsier, Vice-President, Global Services, Channel and Partne...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   HP has announced new virtualization software solutions that simplify, automate and secure the movement of virtual machines (VMs) and data in cloud environments. “Clients are seeking a more flexible virtualized environment that enables mobility of virtual machines and data services across the enterprise. HP’s unique virtualization technologies meet that need, helping clients to significantly increase their agility and innovate at a pace their organizations demand,” said Prakash Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, HP Networking, India. HP EVI Interconnect overlay technology that enables “single touch” connection of up to eight data centers around the world from one location. With HP MDC software, clients can create multiple, secure and isolated functions for organizational departments, while reducing the number of networking devices in the data center by 75 per cent. Combining HP EVI with HP MDC simplifies data-center interconne...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Punjab and Maharashtra Coop. Bank Ltd. (PMC) have selected the IBM Smarter Computing approach to IT to accelerate its growth and reach in the fast-developing financial services landscape in India. PMC Bank chose to migrate its applications including core banking to an IBM infrastructure with Power Systems to support the growing needs of its more than 66 branches, two extension counters and ATM network, while strengthening its online presence through remote banking. "We want to offer our clients a banking experience which is easier, faster, more convenient and secure. We also want to enhance the role of our branches and let them focus on providing financial services advice and counsel, while leaving the transactions part to the IT infrastructure," said H. Krishna Karanth, General Manager, PMC Bank. “Banks and financial institutions have achieved reduced operating costs with high performance for many years with IBM Powe...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Arbor Networks has extended their distribution agreement with Ingram Micro to include China. Arbor’s PravailTM Availability Protection System (APS) enables Ingram Micro to offer enterprise customers a purpose-built solution that protects the network perimeter against threats to availability, specifically, application-layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.    Frank Zhang, Managing Director, Ingram Micro, China, said, “We are excited to work with Arbor Networks not only because their solutions address an acute problem for enterprises, but because of the strong synergy with our other enterprise-focussed vendor partners. Arbor Networks also offers a very comprehensive support and incentive programme for our Reseller Partners.”  “Arbor Networks DDoS mitigation solutions are pervasively deployed in global service provider networks. To reach the enterprise market, we required the reach and resources and relationsh...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   InfoComm has announced its future rotation plans for its annual InfoComm exposition and conference. InfoComm 2013 will be held at Orlando's Orange County Convention Centre's West Building, from June 12 to 14. InfoComm 2014 will be held at Las Vegas Convention Center's North and Central Halls, from June 18 to 20. The show will rotate between the two cities in the same halls in mid-June thereafter through 2019. InfoComm has signed lease agreements with both facilities. "InfoComm exhibitors and attendees have been well accommodated in both Orlando and Las Vegas, and we are pleased to continue our rotation between these great convention cities. Our show has experienced phenomenal growth over the past several years based in large part to the well-run convention centres, large hotel selection and premium entertainment options offered by both of these destinations," said Jason McGraw, CTS, CAE, Senior Vice-Presid...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   MindTree has recently announced that it will be making significant investments over the next twelve months in its SAP Practice to drive growth in its services business across major global markets. To capitalize on this opportunity, MindTree is sharpening its focus on its SAP Practice. To this effect, the company has recently appointed Arun Rangaraju as Senior Vice-President and ERP Practice Head. Arun joins MindTree with a mandate to grow the SAP Practice by over 70 per cent in the next twelve months. MindTree targets to double its SAP headcount to achieve this goal. “Our customers continue to make significant investments in enterprise applications to achieve operational efficiency. We have successfully executed several cutting-edge SAP engagements for large global customers across various industries. Under the able leadership of Arun, I am confident that MindTree will deliver the depth of expertise and services that will help ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced its inaugural goIT summer camp in Midland, Michigan - an expansion of the company’s annual goIT programme for students that began four years ago in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Midland camp is designed to foster high-school students’ interest in pursuing a career in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.  During the summer camp, students participate in a series of analytical and interactive challenges surrounding the IT industry and specific computer science problems. The highlight of the camp is a robotics competition in which student teams program robots under the guidance of TCS mentors and then compete in a series of challenges, such as obstacle courses and automation activities. At the end of the summer camp, students are recognized for their achievements at a Parent-Student award ceremony.  “At TCS, we know firsthand that to succeed in tomo...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   CA Technologies have announced a competitive upgrade program for North American users of data backup and recovery software. From now until December 31, 2012, eligible participants who displace any competitor’s backup or disaster recovery software with an eligible CA ARCserve competitive upgrade product through a qualified North America reseller/retailer will receive a rebate of up to $700 per licence or up to $5,000 per order.    "With data volume growing, budgets tight and tolerances for data loss approaching zero, companies of all shapes and sizes are ready to make a change when it comes to how they do backup and recovery. With our new competitive upgrade program, CA Technologies is reducing the cost of making this change – allowing customers to substantially improve the performance, scalability, reliability and cost-efficiency of their data protection processes," said Steve Fairbanks, Vice-President, Data Managemen...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Fortinet has earned the NSS Labs “Recommended” rating in their most recent network intrusion prevention comparative test. NSS Labs tested Fortinet’s FortiGate-3240C with FortiOS 4.0 MR3 against its IPS test methodology, which is composed of 1,486 live exploits. The FortiGate-3240C blocked 95.0% of attacks against client applications and 96.0% overall and correctly identified 100% of NSS’ evasion attempts without error. “The Fortinet FortiGate-3240C demonstrated excellent protection capability as well as performance, maintaining consistent throughput and high protection rates throughout the testing process. For multi-gigabit environments looking to upgrade defenses from their current IPS, the FortinetFortiGate 3240C provides excellent protection,” said Vikram Phatak, CEO, NSS Labs.  “With a latency of sub-10 milliseconds, the FortiGate-3240C is among the fastest IPS solutions in its price class. Beyond ultra-low latency...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   GIGABYTE has announced the winners of the GIGABYTE Hidden Gems Competition. In celebration of our illustrious history, with 26 years at the heart of the DIY PC industry, GIGABYTE invited all their Facebook fans to share videos and photos of their old GIGABYTE-based DIY PC builds.  “The Hidden Gems competition proved to be an excellent showcase for GIGABYTE’s Ultra Durable philosophy, with 74% of submissions featuring boards that are older than 5 years, almost 25% of submissions with boards of more than 10 years old and 8% from the 1990s. Remarkably, the oldest motherboard submitted originates from 1991, and still runs after more than twenty years,” commented Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing, GIGABYTE.  For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SAP India has announced a new initiatives aimed at unlocking the potential for entrepreneurs and small and midsize businesses. SAP has joined with AshokaChangemakers to launch a competition focussed on “The Power of Small: Entrepreneurs Strengthening Local Economies” aimed at helping emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities. Through this competition, the company seeks innovative strategies from organizations and partnerships around the world and in India to help small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities. “SAP believes in the power of small business and entrepreneurs to drive the innovation and job creation that the world needs. We are committed to supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs to help the world run better and improve people’s lives,” said Eric Duffaut, President, Ecosystem & Channels, SAP AG. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Milagrow has announced that it will launched TabTop PC in the name of Olympic winner Sushil Kumar who won the Silver Medal in the 66 kg free style wrestling, within 6 months from now. It will be a first of its kind of product to be launched in India. Sushil Kumar would not just get this honor but Milagrow will also be giving five per cent of the net sales proceeds from this special edition product to him. Rajeev Karwal, Founder & CEO Milagrow Business & Knowledge Solutions said, “It’s yet again a happy moment for the entire nation as another wrestler wins us accolades at the ongoing Olympics.  As was announced by Milagrow we hope to soon launch this path breaking Product in the name of Sushil Kumar after consultation with him. He has done India immense proud and in the process has become the first Individual Indian athlete to win 2 medals in Olympics.” “We decided on launching the special edition products before ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   SP (Silicon Power) has introduced the USB 3.0 Diamond series external hard drives in a range of capacities. The series includes the luxurious Diamond D10 model which features checkered stereoscopic effect; the Diamond D05 has a scratch resistant surface well suited for business professionals on the run. Both models of the Diamond series combine unique design with USB 3.0 super speed interface. Besides the high transferring rate up to 5 Gb/sec, both Diamond D10 and Diamond D05 are backwards compatible with USB 2.0. The built-in LED status indicator allows users to instantly identify the activity status. It also comes with power-saving sleep mode. Diamond D10 comes bundled with a carrying case while the Diamond D05 is already scratch-proof thus carry case is not included. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Logitech has released its latest addition to its gaming series- the Optical Gaming Mouse G400 incorporating 3600 dpi optical sensor and on-the-fly sensitivity switching feature.  The mouse also communicates over USB at a blazing-fast 1000 reports per second. One gets consistent tracking at any hand speed, with a steady response ratio. As compared to 5+% cursor movement offered by many other sensors, the G400 boasts a cursor movement of Subrotah Biswas, Country Manager - Logitech India & South West Asia said, "Logitech believes in providing improved consumer experience, aimed towards enabling consumers to enjoy being absorbed in the digital world, while at the same time aiding our customers to work smarter and better. The G400 is yet another example of the seamless integration of our world-class product design and technology. It is specifically engineered for people who prefer to work smarter and play better as every f...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Vserv.mobi has named David Yin as General Manager - Developer Business. David's appointment is in line with Vserv.mobi's plans to accelerate expansion and lead the developer ecosystem, in the burgeoning mobile market of South East Asia, a key focus in the company's overall growth strategy. Dippak Khurana, CEO, Vserv.mobi said, "With an increasing uptake of mobile internet and app consumption, South East Asia is in the midst of a mobile revolution. However, the thriving app developer community in this region are unable to maximise this opportunity due to lack of viable app monetisation models. We believe that our AppWrapper solution is well-suited to address this challenge with its simple one click app monetisation approach across both micro transaction based paid models and premium advertising based monetization. With his tremendous experience in the space, David will be able to strengthen our developer strategy ...