VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

With a promise to be the best in basic services including voice and Internet for mass-market customers, Telenor India has introduced its new brand identity. The company has retained its prominent position as Sabse Sasta (most affordable) operator and has extended its commitment to deliver excellence through fair and easy services. With a brand new philosophy of delivering more value for money through a well-crafted campaign tag line “Ab life full paisa vasool”, Telenor builds on the promise to offer more for less in each transaction. The company has taken a strong customer-centric approach through industry-first initiatives like compensation for call... Read more

To transform their IT, enhance organizational collaboration, and provide better services to customers, several small and medium businesses (SMBs) across India have adopted IBM Cloud. SEL Group, Polytech Instruments and Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) will use IBM Connections Cloud, enabling them to significantly reduce operational costs and improve productivity. “Enterprises, small or large, are harnessing the benefits of cloud computing. They face challenges around reliability, standards, security, and control in truly extending the use of cloud beyond IT. IBM Connections Cloud provides easy-to-access integrated email, social business capabilities and third-party applications along with its enterprise-grade security and control. This will help these SMBs to overcome the challenge of optimizing workforce with minimal IT spend, with client delight in mind,” said Gaurav Sharma, Director,  Social Solutions, Smarter Workforce & Internet of Things, IBM India /SA... Read more

Dimension Data has signed a global partnership with fellow NTT Group company, Arkadin, to deliver Cisco’s WebEx Cloud Connected Audio (CCA-SP) platform. Dimension Data is the first global non-telco or conferencing service provider to offer this solution worldwide, further positioning Dimension Data as the global market leader in the conferencing space. “Cisco’s WebEx Cloud Connected Audio (CCA-SP) platform enables an optimal WebEx experience via quality of service connections to Cisco’s global WebEx Cloud. Many service providers protect their underlying investment bases, which stifles the organisation’s ability to unify the user experience, reduce cost and risk of delivery, and accelerate innovation. The partnership with Arkadin delivers another tool that the NTT group can deliver to enable our clients to embark on a transformation journey on their terms by bringing together their communications tower silos into a unified user strategy – and quickly,” explains Ian Heard, Dimension...

BT has announced global availability of three new cloud-based solutions that enable customers to easily integrate collaboration tools and services from disparate technology platforms and different vendors. Freedom of choice, security and great user experience deliver the promise of “Cloud of Clouds” to multi-vendor unified communications and collaboration environments. With One Cloud video, BT addresses the shift of video collaboration from the conference room to multi-vendor environments using office desktops, home laptops and mobile devices. To help customers prevent the traps of video islands that are unable to interconnect between them and to the wider world, BT is now making it easy to schedule and join a video conference across different platforms and different devices. One Cloud video is launched globally and allows user-friendly video conferencing either through MeetMe video for existing BT MeetMe, Microsoft and mixed video estate customers, or through Cisco Collaboration ...

NETIS SYSTEMS has expanded their business by appointing Rx Infotech P Ltd as their Authorized Distributor in India. Rx Infotech will distribute the complete range of NETIS SYSTEMS Security and Surveillance range of products. Rx will distribute the NETIS product all over India except eastern market, Gujarat and MP. Recently they organized dealer meet with product launch session in Ludhiana and New Delhi... Read more  

Maintaining his image of a People’s leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) has used Twitter’s platform for live, public conversations to effectively reach out to his audience in India and worldwide, including world leaders, corporate honchos, political colleagues and Indian citizens. He zoomed by the 15-million follower milestone on Twitter just days after his 65th birthday celebrations, a testimony to his strong engagement on the platform. PM Modi is known as India’s first and most digital-savvy leader, using Twitter to enhance digital diplomacy and digital governance in his administration. PM Modi has lit up Twitter with engaging milestones and moments. Since he was sworn in as Prime Minister last May 26, 2014, Modi has added 10.8 million followers, more than doubling his follower base before he won the Lok Sabha election... Read more

VeriSign has announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the second quarter of 2015, reaching a combined total of approximately 133.5 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base. This represents a 3.1 percent increase... Read more

HP has announced innovations for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage to support the transformation to hybrid IT and all-flash data centers. It includes a new 8000 family featuring the industry’s most affordable all-flash array (AFA), twice the workload performance of previous generations and automated performance assurance with flash-optimized quality of service (QoS) controls. HP is accelerating customer transition to all-flash data centers with the new quad-controller HP 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Storage family as well as a new eight-controller HP 3PAR StoreServ 20800 AFA Starter Kit and software updates for the full HP 3PAR StoreServ family. Only HP 3PAR StoreServ is able to span from a $19K entry price to multi-petabyte systems reaching 3.2 million IOPs, with scale-out capabilities from 2 to 8 controllers, and proven tier-1 resiliency giving businesses a simple approach to meet virtually any workload requirement... Read more

Ingram Micro has participated in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program in India. The program is designed to strengthen customer relationships and expand cloud sales by allowing channel partners to provision, bundle, invoice, manage and support Microsoft cloud offerings, including Microsoft Office 365, Windows Intune, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Azure, and CRM online subscriptions with greater ease and efficiency. “We are committed to providing our partners with top-tier cloud solutions that will transform their business and help them increase profitability in the cloud. Ingram Micro’s Microsoft CSP offering paired with our Cloud Marketplace platform delivers a seamless end-to-end customer experience, while providing flexible monthly billing options that stimulate and enhance partner profitability,” said Harish Laddha, Director – Cloud Sales, Ingram Micro India Pvt. Ltd... Read more

For the implementation of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project, IIT Roorkee (IITR) has announced a “kick-off meeting”. The project will be implemented in multiple phases and would cover the end-to-end life cycle management of the operations. The launch function was held on 21st  September, 2015 at the Multi Activity Centre Auditorium in the IITR Campus. The function was graced by the top managements of IITR and ... Read more

To collaborate on the development of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, Ericsson and LG Uplus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The agreement will initially run until 2020. Ulf Ewaldsson, Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson, said, “By enabling essentially unlimited access to information anywhere and anytime, 5G can deliver enormous benefits to people, business and society. Realizing this transformative vision requires a strong industry ecosystem, and we are delighted to partner with LG Uplus to lead the development .” Read more

Exotel has announced its plans to triple their headcount by the end of year 2016. Currently with 70 employees, the company is looking forward to increase their headcount to over 200 people in the next 15 months, hiring across technology roles and sales positions. Shivakumar Ganesan, CEO, Exotel, said, “We see a huge growth potential across sectors, especially in the e-commerce and logistics start-ups in India. Over the past few months, we have seen good adoption, and demand, driving our growth and hiring plans.” “We, at Exotel, believe that we are an essential service for every start-up to scale up. Businesses are utilizing features of Exotel like IVR, Call Recordings and our powerful APIs to build telephony applications that power their businesses,” said Ishwar Sridharan, COO, .. Read more

Micromax, in partnership with Snapdeal, has launched the Canvas Spark 2. The launch is Micromax’s yet another attempt to break price barriers for driving smartphone adoption in India and empowering the average Indian consumer with smartphone and mobile Internet access. The Canvas Spark 2 will be available exclusively on Snapdeal at a disruptive price of Rs.3,999. Users can register on the Snapdeal website starting on 23rd September, 2015 to book their Canvas Spark 2. Commenting on the launch, Vineet Taneja, CEO, Micromax, said, “The Canvas Spark proved to be a huge success for Micromax, selling over half a million units in less than two months of its launch. With the Canvas Spark 2, we are yet again reaffirming our commitment to massify the smartphone and Internet usage in the country. With this launch, we are looking at adding a further impetus to this and drive the overall entry into ...” Read more

Bharti Airtel has declared that it will move all its prepaid mobile customers to the more affordable per second bill plan nationally. “Pay For What You Use” initiative as part of the company’s “Customer First” commitment, this will help ensure that customers pay only for the time they use the Airtel network. Ajai Puri, director – Market Operations, Bharti Airtel (India & South Asia) said “Our customers are the reason for us to be in business, we therefore constantly introduce innovative initiatives with a commitment to deliver a world class experience to them. While we continue to invest aggressively in our network quality and deploy new sites to further enhance our robust and wide network presence, as yet another token measure of our commitment we are today taking the lead to move our customers to the affordable per second plans ensuring that they pay only for what they use.” Read more

ICT Academy of Kerala has tied up with EMC to train and certify 3,000 graduating students with skills on third Platform Technologies like Cloud and Big Data during the next two years. As per MoU, the students will be trained on Information Storage and Management, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, Data Science and Big data Analytics. Tomorrow’s IT organization, as an IT as a Service organization, will present many challenges and opportunities. IT professionals will be responsible for more data than ever, derived from new sources and in new formats. New and greater demands are being made as to the core qualifications of individuals, as well as to their understanding and knowledge of the consequences of the introduction of information technology for the work and organization of a company. They will need to not only build and maintain technology assets, but also orchestrate services to enable the business to consume them effectively in its operations, decisions, and innovations. This...

HID Global has expanded its iCLASS SE platform with long-range ultra-high-frequency (UHF) solutions that provide new options for opening doors and parking gates from a distance. The addition of long-range  iCLASS SE readers and credentials enable organizations to combine parking gate and door access control on a single card. The convenient solution makes it possible to read credentials from inside a vehicle at distances of up to 16.4 feet (5 metres) from the reader. “HID Global now offers an easier way for our customers to add parking and gate control to their security infrastructure, with new long-range access options that enhance user convenience while improving the flow of people and vehicles to and from facilities,” said John Fenske, Vice- President of Product Marketing – Physical Access Control with HID Global. “Our new portfolio of readers and credentials significantly expands the capabilities of an organization’s access control systems across UHF and smart card technolo...

Rakesh Garg, Chairman, Telecom Commission & Secretary (Dept of Telecom), Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India, while addressing the CII Telecom Convergence Summit organized by CII in the national capital has shared that the Government has finalized the spectrum sharing guidelines and will notify the same in a few days while the spectrum trading rules, which are also in the last phase of finalization will be shared by the end of this month. “Our Government’s objective is to enable mobile operators to utilize / sell the excess available airwaves in a better way and to check the call drop issue. The guidelines have been finalized in such a way as to promote India as one of the most favoured destinations to do business in the telecom industry,”... Read more

The higher education system in India is facing an unprecedented transformation, driven by economic and demographic change. There is a pressing need for accelerated reform in the higher education ecosystem to equip India’s youth with skill sets that enhance their employability in a digital economy. To support this endeavour, Oracle has introduced three Cloud Platform Services for higher education institutes. The offerings – Oracle Document Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and Oracle Java Cloud Service are designed to meet the industry’s demand for a cloud-ready workforce. They will address the need of an always plugged-in generation of millennial wanting to access these services anytime, anywhere and on any-device. The solution will help students and faculty to collaborate on projects, across disparate campuses and geographies... Read more

Ricoh has announced the launch of fully automated real-time shop-floor productivity tracking and monitoring solution “RAMP”. The new solution from Ricoh will transform the shop floor/factory transaction reporting and will enable manufacturing companies achieve higher productivity by connecting shop floor to the top floor through real-time monitoring and reporting of machine performance, productivity, downtimes, production output, etc. The solution will bring a lot of relief to the manufacturing sector in India, where the most crucial part, i.e. the shop floor is still isolated from the rest of the IT network in the organization. Due to this, the most crucial shop floor data on production quantity and man-machine utilization, etc is manually collected and compiled, that is made available the next day, and is often inaccurate or doctored, resulting in poor decision-making. Most of the CXOs are unable to monitor progress of productivity initiatives and processes. The complexity incre...

WD, a Western Digital company, has introduced significant enhancements to WD’s family of My Cloud personal storage devices in India. These include a new, redesigned My Cloud OS 3 operating system, Software Developer Kit (SDK) to enable better app integration, and new My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 personal cloud storage device with faster processing capability than previous generations. WD’s My Cloud OS 3 features an intuitive user interface that delivers a rich content-sharing experience and backup and sync capabilities while retaining the privacy and control of personal cloud devices physically located in the home or office. “Availability of better infrastructure such as 4G and increased broadband speeds has made it compelling for our consumers to adopt personal cloud. They enjoy the peace of mind from backing up PCs, smart phones, and tablets to and centralizing personal content on their My Cloud systems. They tell us they are confident in the privacy, control and anywhere access we p...