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HID Global has announced the opening of its design center in Chennai, India that enables the company to deliver more comprehensive product development for customers. The design center features 10,000 square feet of R&D facility space in the Tamarai Technology Park. The state-of-the-art facility represents a significant investment in HID Global’s ongoing advancements in delivery performance and product quality. The center will accelerate the development of new features and capabilities for Genuine HID products and reduce time to market for new products. It also features validation and verification service for all electronic and software products and services. “The new center in Chennai is a critical part of HID Global’s long-term growth strategy in emerging markets. It will also play a vital role in developing key secure identity technologies across HID Global’s business portfolio,” said Darren Learmonth, Global Vice-President, Engineering, HID Global. hid logo HID Global l...

LG Electronics has rolled out Leather and DSLR feature-packed smartphone, the LG G4, in India. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan unveiled the LG G4. On the occasion, Soon Kwon, Managing Director, LG India, said, “We are really proud to bring the LG G4 to India. With this smartphone, we are living up to our promise of Innovation for a Better Life. This is a fashionable, premium smartphone that is more focussed on delivering a balanced user experience. With the G4, we are giving users a truly human-centric device that combines the analog sensibilities with technologies that deliver real-world performance. The G4 is by far the most ambitious phone from LG.” Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Mr Soon Kwon Managing Director LG Electronic 300x300 LG debuts G4 in Indian Market Mr-Amitabh-Bachchan-and-Mr-Soon-Kwon-Managing-Director-LG-Electronic With the G4, LG is focussing on delivering a great photography and visual experience, comfortable elegance and a human-centric user experience. Its...

Ricoh has announced the launch of its fully integrated cloud-enabled PACS solution “Picasso” in Hyderabad. The new solution from Ricoh will not only provide access of medical images to patients and clinicians, reduce cost of providing medical care but also help us in saving environment. A web-based multi-specialty cloud-enabled solution, Picasso offers a wide range of benefits to Patients, Radiologists, Consultants and hospitals. The solution will improve user efficiency, reduce turnaround time, minimize cost of clinical imaging, optimize image compression, providing remote access to doctors. In addition to the physician and the radiologist, Picasso provides anytime-anywhere access to medical images to the patient as well, enabling them to access images on any mobile device such as tablets, cell phone or laptops. Further, it seamlessly integrates with any existing Hospital Information System (HIS) or Radiology Information System (RIS), to ensure consolidated patient’s data. This s...

Sify Technologies Limited has announced the launch of the company’s Cloud services targeted at the Enterprise and SMB market in Kerala. Sify has tested the Kerala market and has received encouraging response. As a special offer, Sify’s Cloud services will be made available to customers in Kerala for a trial period 15-day. Sify has chosen a mix of internal promotions and Channel partners to maximize its go-to-market strategy. Under its Cloud services portfolio, Sify will offer Public, Private and Managed Cloud services to Kerala market which is fast emerging as an important SMB hub. With the second-largest digital service penetration in the country, Kerala is an attractive market for adoption of new-age IT technologies. Raju Vegesna Chairman Sify Technologies 300x300 Sify launches Cloud Solutions for SMBs from KeralaCommenting on the occasion, Raju Vegesna, Chairman, Sify Technologies, said, “We have received commendable response from Enterprises and SMBs here and are extremely e...

At Federal Forum 2015, Brocade has unveiled the results of a federal IT survey revealing that less than 15 percent of respondents feel their agency’s current network infrastructure will be able to fully support the solutions necessary to deliver world-class digital services for government. Commissioned by Brocade and conducted by Market Connections, the study polled 200 IT decision makers across 64 federal agencies.  Other key findings include:     Ninety percent of respondents believe open standards are important and although almost half (47 percent) are considering or planning to adopt them in the next few years, only 11 percent have made the transition.  Security concerns were the commonly cited reason for not considering open standards.     Seventy percent of respondents are considering, planning or have already moved to software-defined networking (SDN), citing performance and ease of management as major advantages.     Eighty-eight ...

SAP SE has started the CloudView survey and business value practice study developed by IDC, which shows how companies may be falling short in their cloud transformation journey. The study identifies key strategic issues and business processes to address the gaps. Robert Mahowald, Program Vice-President, SaaS and Cloud Services, IDC, said, “Customers have found that they have managed the first phase of moving into the cloud – they have educated themselves and sourced new capabilities necessary to begin the journey. The stumbling blocks are now at the managed and optimized level, with skill sets required that will allow the organization to focus on strategy versus day-to-day operations in faster time to provision new services, in reduced IT costs and perhaps, most importantly, in the ability to make more revenue.” sap logo e1432887282103 SAP launches study to mature cloud strategyThe IDC study finds that many companies are naïve about how mature their cloud strategy really is. Imp...

Innefu Labs has introduced a multi-layered Partner Programme in India. The programme is designed to expand the market for its multi-factor authentication solutions and helped partners to get benefit from this growing opportunity, while aiming at security SIs/VARs/MSPs/Security Resellers. A two factor authentication solution from Innefu, Authshield 2FA secures access to SAP ERP, Corporate Email, VPN, Remote Server Logins, Cloud Infrastructure and Web Applications with a second layer of protection and can be integrated in less than 30 minutes. AuthShield 2FA comprises dual mode of identification where along with the user ID and password of the user, verification is also done through a secure randomly generated one-time password (OTP) or a challenge response mechanism using PUSH Notification protocol. The OTP is generated automatically and provided to the user through multiple form-factors, including Hard Token, Mobile Push, Mobile Token, Soft Token, SMS Token and Voice Token. Auth...

Elitecore Technologies has declared that CAT Telecom has chosen Elitecore’s end-to-end pre-integrated BSS stack to accredit their Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) strategy in Thailand. Under this Public-Private Partnership, Suvitech has been appointed as the single MVNE for CAT Telecom. A mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) is an organization that provides network infrastructure and services, such as Network Sub systems, Business Support Systems and Operations Support Systems to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). Elitecore’s BSS platform allows building MVNE infrastructure to enable multi-brand strategy, including the launch of new partner brands and multiple mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) on the same stack. The platform offers an integrated real-time billing, policy control and customer management which allows MVNOs to create product catalogue and enable basic services like Voice and Data bundled with next-generation digital services like sponsored data, O...

UrbanClap, the mobile service marketplace, has arrived in Mumbai with their mobile app. In Bengaluru, currently the company is offering services in 23 categories, but it is planning to expand and provide services in more than a hundred categories by the end of the year. The mission of the company is to help consumers find the best services easily and provide the large base of individuals/small businesses with a platform to manage and grow their client network. From a plumber to a wedding photographer or a yoga teacher, user just need to put the requirements and the platform will bring the right professionals. urbanclap logo UrbanClap steps in MumbaVarun Khaitan, Co-Founder & Director, UrbanClap.com, said, “We started UrbanClap inspired by the immense potential that the highly unorganized services market in India holds. After our success in the Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru, Mumbai is our next city of choice for launch. Being the economic capital of the country, the residents of Mu...

At Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards, Netmagic has won two awards in the categories of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Cloud) Provider of the Year and Third Party Data Center Service Provider of the Year. The company was felicitated with the awards in recognition of its outstanding performance, market leadership and new technologies application in cloud services and Data Center domain. Frost & Sullivan ICT Awards recognizes outstanding industry achievements by companies across the world in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The award recipients were judged on a variety of parameters that included revenue growth, market share growth, product portfolio density, key achievements, go-to-market strategy and involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. netmagic logo Netmagic bags two awards at Frost & Sullivan India ICT AwardsThis recognition reaffirms Netmagic...

Bharti Airtel has launched 4G trials exclusively for its customers in Delhi NCR. Airtel’s 4G services in the National Capital Region are the first in India to leverage an integrated FD and TD network which will deliver the fastest 4G experience and superior network coverage. It enables superfast internet speeds and allows customers to enjoy capabilities like high- definition video streaming with zero buffering, downloading 10 movies in less than 30 minutes, uploading entire photo albums in less than five minutes (i.e. uploading two high resolution photos per second), connecting multiple devices without compromising on the experience, etc. airtel 4g 300x300 Airtel launches its 4G trials in Delhi NCRAs part of the trial offer, Airtel customers across Delhi NCR can now avail a complimentary upgrade to Airtel 4G at 3G prices and experience blazing Airtel 4G speeds. The company will assimilate valuable customer feedback from these early adopters and leverage the initial market respon...

COAI and Centum Learning have announced the pilot launch of a massive Outreach Programme to mobilize under priviledged youth for skills training. The initiative would help implement “Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana” (PMKVY), a flagship outcome-based skill development scheme under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, which plans to skill over 2.4million people across the country. Today, one of the biggest hurdles facing skills training is reaching out, educating and motivating youth in the remote areas of the country. COAI and Centum Learning’s outreach programme, aim to address this challenge. Initially, the pilot project in Bihar would cover a subscriber base of over 1.5 crore people. Following this implementation, it will be rolled out nationwide by COAI member telcos to cover nearly 400 million subscribers after the formal launch of the scheme in July... See more  

Dell Software has partnered with Datawatch Corporation to continue the growing momentum of its analytics business by integrating highly interactive visualization and dashboarding capabilities directly into its Statistica advanced analytics platform. Already known for its robust offering of more than 16,000 analytical options, Statistica now will empower a line of business users to stream data into compelling and interactive visual representations to better facilitate the sharing of information and discovery of hidden patterns. “With our collaboration with Datawatch, in tandem with its aggressive cross-portfolio integration efforts, Statistica has now become one of the most Murli Mohan 300x300 Dell Software ties up with Datawatchcomprehensive and easy-to-use advanced analytics platforms,” said Murli Mohan, Director & General Manager, Dell Software Group. Michael Morrison, President & CEO, Datawatch, said, “Dell today leapfrogs their competition with a combined solution th...

As a part of its commitment to help India become a world leader in manufacturing and further fuelling the country’s digital transformation, Cisco has announced new investments in the country. Aligned with Cisco’s strategy to invest in emerging countries, Cisco has announced new local strategic initiatives, including the move to enable manufacturing in India to support the Digital India vision. As India plays a pivotal role in the company’s overall growth, innovation and talent strategy, the company has announced plans for direct and indirect investment of up to US$20 million over the next five years into the Cisco Networking Academy, with an additional US$40 million for the next phase of expansion in India. John Chambers, Chairman and CEO said, “We are investing big in India. We came to India for the quality of the workforce. We invested in innovation, which is now transforming industries. Cisco is committed to partnering with India’s government to translate the Digital India visi...

T-Mobile Poland has signed a contract with Wipro Ltd, to provide integrated Applications and Infrastructure services. Wipro is committed to improve T-Mobile’s legacy application consolidation and rationalization, transforming its operating model from application-focus to domain-focus leading to better customer service, significantly. For next five years, Wipro will help T-Mobile to systemize and standardize the IT architecture and operations of their Polish entity. A significant portion of the services will be provided from Wipro’s Delivery Centre in Warsaw as a part of their development strategy for Poland. wipro logo n Wipro earns T Mobile Poland contract to provide Integrated Applications and Infrastructure ServicesAnil Jain, Sr Vice-President & Business Head – Global Communications and Media, Wipro Limited, said, “We are delighted to have been chosen by T-Mobile in Poland. This is a large transformational deal and a significant win for us. We look forward to supporting T...

FireEye, Inc. has announced about the joining of two industry veterans in the company to help extend its channel programmes in the Asia-Pacific region. Former Senior Director of Symantec’s Technical Sales Organization, Sean Kopelke joins as Director of Global Alliances for Asia-Pacific Japan. Kopelke is responsible for strengthening FireEye’s strategic partnerships across the region to expand FireEye’s reach in the marketplace. Sean has first-hand experience and deep knowledge of the Asia-Pacific and Japan markets and has worked in both Asia and Australia. FireEye.jpeg FireEye focusses on Regional Channel Ecosystem ExtensionAnother is Lani Edwards, former Head of Channels for Juniper Networks. He joins as Head of Channels, Australia and New Zealand. He is responsible for leading FireEye’s channel strategy and managing its network of distributors and value-added resellers. He brings more than 15 years of channel experience across vendor, distributor and reseller organizations spa...

Swipe Technologies has signed Bollywood’s style icon and international Popstar Priyanka Chopra as its brand ambassador. The company is set to launch a 360° marketing campaign featuring the Bollywood diva. Priyanka is one of the most pioneering and innovative actors of today’s generation and a game-changer in the truest sense of the word. Her versatility and brave nature to break the boundaries are always in talks. Swipe found these qualities more symbiotic with the company’s nature and its portfolio. And as a young company in the tablet and phablet segment, the company found the diva as the perfect match for ambassador. With Priyanka Chopra’s association, the brand Swipe aims to augment its style quotient while highlighting its utility quotient. The company also has plans to create products themed around Priyanka’s persona. priyanka chopra at swipe 300x199 Priyanka Chopra to promote Swipe TechnologiesPriyanka Chopra commented, “In today’s world… Change is the only constant! Driv...

Dell Services has announced the launch of its Application Testing Start-up Incubator Program (T-SIP) in India. The program has been designed to connect budding entrepreneurs to Dell’s strong application testing services organization to help build new and potentially disruptive testing solutions. The program will cover testing for security, mobile, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, along with Testing-as-a-Service and crowd testing. Under T-SIP, start-ups chosen through the selection process can connect with Dell’s technology evangelists for advice and consulting, and get help in creating their Intellectual Property (IP), to enhance their business. Three start-ups will be selected for incubation in the first phase. dell logo 150x150 Dell helps start ups with Application Testing Start up Incubator Program“We believe that this program will offer multiple benefits to both start-ups and Dell’s customers. Innovative start-ups can scale quickly and significantly by teaming up w...

For those customers who are looking for affordable and high-quality printing solutions, Canon has launched two new affordable models of printers along with mini cartridges. The models launched are PIXMA MG2570S and the single function PIXMA iP2870S. Both the models come bundled with new PG-745S black ink cartridge and CL-746S colour ink cartridges Gautam Paul, Assistant Director & Head, Consumer Systems Group (CSP), Canon India, said, “We always try to offer cost-effective products to our customers and the new affordable models of printers and cartridges will help address this requirement of customers. The new range is ideal for people who are looking for affordable yet high-quality printing solutions.” Canon will be closely working with channel partners to address the requirements across all markets in India. The new range will also be displayed at Canon Image ... See more

As per CA Technologies’ global study, Enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to organizations despite noted challenges in implementation. Most notably, nine out of 10 organizations are experiencing or anticipate seeing, more effective targeted marketing and selling campaigns. Additionally, 88 per cent see or anticipate increased revenue. These benefits are impressive despite 92 per cent of respondents citing obstacles to their Big Data projects. The study, titled The State of Big Data Infrastructure: Benchmarking Global Big Data Users to Drive Future Performance, revealed the top five major obstacles to overcome for successful big data project implementation. These include: insufficient existing infrastructure (32 per cent), organizational complexity (27 per cent), security/compliance concerns (26 per cent), lack of budget/resources (25 per cent), and a lack of visibility into information and processes (25 per cent). ca technologies logo e1425889028205 Big Da...