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Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL) that provides telecom services under the MTS brand has appointed Bijender Yadav as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Ashok Singh as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Kolkata and West Bengal circles. According to Dmitry Shukov, CEO, MTS India, “I congratulate both Bijender and Ashok for assuming senior leadership roles within MTS India. These appointments come at a time when the company is at the cusp of driving greater momentum in pursuit of its Data-Centric Voice- Enabled strategy. I am sure both these appointments will bring renewed energy and focus to the company’s efforts in strengthening its telecom story in India.” See more

To help customers improve business performance by optimizing application performance across their hybrid IT environments, Riverbed Technology has introduced a new portfolio of professional consulting services. Three new offerings are designed to help customers leverage the Riverbed Application Performance Platform for superior visibility, optimization, and control within their increasingly complex IT environments. Joel Hofman, Vice-President of Professional Services, Riverbed Technology, said, “With services that focus on maximizing the return of strategic value from investments in the Riverbed Application Performance Platform solutions, our customers can be confident that their business objectives are achieved, no matter what challenges or changes the hybrid world imposes on their business.” The nature of today’s hybrid enterprise gives CIOs greater flexibility in terms of hosting applications on-premises or in the cloud and delivering them to employees and customers via privat...

Dell has announced the availability of Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition, and updates to the Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL appliance. Both of these workload-optimized technology solutions provide customers with faster time-to-value, elasticity and greater ease of use. “VMware and its Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners are bringing the simplicity of consumer appliances to the world of enterprise infrastructure. VMware EVO:RAIL is a new building block for software-defined data center environments that takes the guesswork out of building, deploying, scaling and managing software-defined infrastructure services. Dell’s VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition will deliver the benefits of the SDDC and hyper-converged infrastructure for desktop virtualization,” said Sundar Balasubramanian, Sr Director, General Business, VMware India. With Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition (HE), Dell is the first vendor to offer a hyper-converged ...

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Polaris Enterprise Solution (PESL) has announced the launch of its next-generation OmniWeb experience for its flagship product iRetail. The next-generation end to-end retail application aligns store technologies to address the changing needs of the customer by making the modern retail experience “more efficient”. iRetail is a comprehensive feature-rich, scalable and robust application, enabling fully integrated multi-channel retail. The solution also helps businesses to go global by supporting multi-country and multi-currency functions for mid and large format retailers. The OmniWeb functionality of the solution provides a complete omni-channel experience to customers my maintaining a single view of customer and inventory across brick and mortar, mobile and web. Having a single view of inventory brings economy of scale and reduces cost associated with stale location specific inventory. Further, a single view of customer ensures consistent shopping experience across different chann...

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),an autonomous Research & Development organization under Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Information & Communication Technology, Government of India, is a vibrant partner in the Government initiative in transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, through the “Digital India Programme”.  C-DAC Kolkata is celebrating the Digital India Week (DIW) at its campus to promote the cause of digital innovation for the benefit of citizens, starting from 1st July 2015. The 1st of July also marks a historical milestone not only for C-DAC, but for the nation as a whole. It was on this very day, in the year 1991 that saw the launch of India’s first indigenously developed supercomputer, the PARAM 8000, designed and developed by C-DAC. C-DAC has since then, given many useful products, innovations and solutions to the nation.  C-DAC has today emerged as a premier R...

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),an autonomous Research & Development organization under Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Information & Communication Technology, Government of India, is a vibrant partner in the Government initiative in transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, through the “Digital India Programme”.  C-DAC Kolkata is celebrating the Digital India Week (DIW) at its campus to promote the cause of digital innovation for the benefit of citizens, starting from 1st July 2015. The 1st of July also marks a historical milestone not only for C-DAC, but for the nation as a whole. It was on this very day, in the year 1991 that saw the launch of India’s first indigenously developed supercomputer, the PARAM 8000, designed and developed by C-DAC. C-DAC has since then, given many useful products, innovations and solutions to the nation.  C-DAC has today emerged as a premier R...

Radware has announced enhanced protection from threats posed by advanced bots through its Attack Mitigation System. This enhancement will enable Radware in helping its customers track end user devices without the need for Internet Protocol (IP) address. Fingerprinting technology is used to precisely identify application users or website visitors who have a history of malicious behaviour, and are often part of a botnet. RAH Infotech, the distributor of Radware products in India, adds value to its partners and resellers by distributing the entire product line of Radware which helps the customers through Load Balancing and ADoS (Advanced Denial of Service) & DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection. Ashok Kumar, MD and CEO, RAH Infotech said, “Bots generally plague businesses that conduct a high volume by exhausting application resources, scraping sensitive information from websites illegitimately and seeking vulnerabilities through application logic abuse. In order to p...

Canonical has announced that Lenovo will be shipping Ubuntu preloaded devices starting with Thinkpad L450 laptop series starting early July 2015. The laptops will be available to purchase from selected commercial resellers and distributors throughout the region at prices starting from INR 40,000. This marks another milestone in the global adoption of Ubuntu, and is the first joint launch between Lenovo and Canonical in India – another OEM coming into the fold in a region where Ubuntu already possesses a strong foothold. The Thinkpad L450 laptop series will come preloaded with Ubuntu 14.04 (the long term support version) which affords support and maintenance for five years from release date. In addition to long-term support, Ubuntu 14.04 comes with touch screen enhancements and works seamlessly on hiDPI monitors. Prakash Advani ubuntu 150x150 Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India‘’It is very exciting to be working with Lenovo on bringing the Ubuntu Edition of the Thinkpad L...

Cyrus Mistry, Chairman of Tata Group, addressing the session, expressed his views, “I congratulate PM for setting up Digital India to provide governance in real time and digitally- empowering citizens.” Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) planned to hire 60,000 IT professionals this year, and has partnered with the Government for various projects like Passport Seva and income tax e-filing, as well ... See more

Anil Ambani of Reliance Group said in his visionary speech, “The company will invest Rs.10, 000 crore in tech projects as part of Digital India. The company’s investment in data centers will continue and upcoming five fully operational Cloud Xchange points that will help government departments access 240 times the amount of compute power currently available in government data centers, and over six times the high-speed storage currently available in India.”   See more  

Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumarmangalam Birla said, “During the launch of Digital India, the company has invested over US$15 billion in the telecom industry, wherein we have laid 1 lakh kms of fibre,to further improve this digital infrastructure. We plan to invest an additional US$7 billion over the next five years in areas such as network rollout, broadband and Wi-Fi deployment. Idea plans to invest US$2 billion in the next five years in projects falling within the ambit of Digital India initiative such as electronics manufacturing, energy, Internet of Things .” See more

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman & Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises, said, “Digital India has power to transform the country in the shortest time, also digitally friendly. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the right man to lead the drive and he understands the power of technology and how it can transform the nation, connect the nation in the shortest time frame and Airtel will invest $16 billion to build deeper IT infrastructure to offer telecom services to Indian citizens in rural and urban parts of the country and will bring 4G for the masses.” See more  

Azim Premji, Wipro Chairman, said, “Digital India initiative will democratize the nation and “break down the digital divide in India and it is the first step towards empowering citizens with technology.” He added that the level of skills of India’s people will have to be significantly improved in order to make full use of the new initiative. Premji said India Today + Information Technology = India Tomorrowhas become a staple mantra of IT firms... See more

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries, said, “With Digital India, the Government has moved faster than the industry. He added that Reliance Jio Infocomm will invest Rs.2, 50,000 crore as part of Digital India programme. The company will also roll out a best-in-class internet network.”   See more

XOLO has announced the launch of XOLO Cube 5.0, which offers rich viewing experience, crafted in a stunning ID to make a style statement right out of the box. The display on Cube 5.0 is a pure delight that comes alive with 85% NTSC display technology. The high NTSC colour support ensures that the image colour on-screen is accurate and closer to the infinite colour gamut that human eyes can capture. This device, therefore, displays even those shades of Red, Green and Blue that are beyond the capabilities of a normal display. XOLO launches Cube 5.0 XOLO launches Cube 5.0 for pure viewing experienceCube 5.0 is defined with straight lines and sharp edges, offering a breath of fresh air from the curve and rounded designs available in this segment. The device stands for purity of design and offers the most comfortable and convenient grip for a single-handed operation. Stylish and compact, Cube 5.0 is only 6.9 mm thin and is teamed with a 5-inch HD IPS display with One Glass solution tec...

Tata DoCoMo, the unified telecom brand of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTL), has launched National Mobile Number Portability (MNP).  This will now allow customers to retain their mobile number while shifting from one circle to another anywhere across India. This can be done by simply initiating a UPC code from their home circle or new circle. . How to port your mobile number Step 1 – SMS PORT to 1900 and will get the UPC code. One can generate UPC code in the home circle or while roaming in the new circle. Step 2 – Get a new Tata DoCoMo SIM and fill an application form. Enter the UPC code in this application form. Submit a passport size photograph, a copy of a valid address and identity proof. Step 3 – Tata DoCoMo will send an SMS with date and time of MNP activation. Just insert the new Tata DoCoMo SIM on the mentioned day and call 59059 to get started. Gurinder Singh Sandhu Head Marketing Tata Teleservices 300x300 Tata DoCoMo starts National Mobile Number Portability ...

Western Digital has introduced the new, redesigned My Passport Ultra portable hard drives in India. The My Passport Ultra-portable hard drives are now available in four stylish colours –Classic Black, Brilliant White, Wild Berry and Noble Blue. Khalid Wani Director WD 300x300 WD comes up with redesigned My Passport Ultra portable hard drives in India Khalid Wani, Director, Content Solutions Business for Western Digital “With more data being stored than ever before, it is critical to have a reliable external storage solution that you can carry everywhere. The latest generation My Passport Ultra drives deliver an easier automatic back-up experience and hardware-based encryption for security,” said Khalid Wani, Director, Content Solutions Business for WD in India, Middle East, and Africa. My Passport Ultra-portable drives come in 2 TB and 1 TB capacities and feature 256-bit AES hardware encryption [1] – delivering a high level of security with no impact to write-speed or CPU ac...

The trade body representing the Indian Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry, IESA (India Electronics and Semiconductor Association) has extended full support to the Government of India towards the launch of “Digital India” campaign. The trade and industry body has applauded Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad’s agenda to promote electronics manufacturing in a big way and invitation to entrepreneurs to “Make in India”. “We appreciate the Government of India’s Digital India programme and its huge thrust on the Electronics Development Fund which will give impetus towards inclusive growth in the areas of electronic services, products, manufacturing and job opportunities and call to reduce dependence on imports. The defined focus on ‘Design in India’ is well aligned to IESA’s ‘Innovation Led Design and Design Led Manufacturing’ vision to achieve India’s manufacturing reality. The three-point agenda around Electronics...

Infibeam Incorporation Limited has filed a Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with SEBI for an initial public offering (IPO) of Equity Shares of Rs.10 each for cash, including a share premium on per Equity basis aggregating up to Rs.4,500 million. The Equity Shares offered through the issue are proposed to be listed on the BSE and the NSE. infibeam logo Infibeam files Draft Red Herring Prospectus with SEBIThe Global Coordinators to the issue are SBI Capital Markets Limited, ICICI Securities Limited and Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited and the Book Running Lead Manager to the issue is Elara Capital (India) Private Limited... See more