VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Security cameras are an essential component of any security plan, serving as an effective deterrent to incidents of crime and a source of evidence when they do occur. Panasonic technologies is going beyond providing safety and contributing to the efficiency and control of transportation networks by providing advanced, real-time information sharing systems and improving response times. Panasonic i-Pro SmartHD CCTV camera products are ushering in the next-generation of video surveillance requirements in the public transportation space with one-stop solutions to management software, controllers, recorders, in addition to cameras. The range of i-Pro SmartHD CCTV cameras provide high resolution and high visibility images regardless of environmental conditions, with 18 wide-angled, low-distortion models that are resistant to blind spots. The clear-sight coated cameras offer the real-time capacity of removing factors that hinder vision such as rain, mist, and snow, and the LED enabled de...

Ricoh India has opened its first Indian flagship Brand store at Lucknow. The Brand store is an effort to strengthen consumer experience and engagement. The diverse array of Ricoh India product line up comprises single function and multi-function printers for home & office use. Ricoh SP111 series is the first Jam free printers and SP 210 (“kanjoos”- much in use) has highest duty cycle (20000 pages) and RAM (120 MB) in the industry along with the Genuine Refill Program which gives customer a smooth and hassle free printing experience. At Ricoh store, the customer can also experience the recently launched, Ricoh THETA m15, which is a spherical camera that captures the space around you with just one touch. The camera range also includes Pentax K-500, which is an impressive entry-level DSLR, all weather and all-purpose underwater camera WG4 among many other products. Brand Store will also have range projectors which allow bright and rich visuals, enabling users to operate the dev...

Ameyo has been presented the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Contact Center Applications Customer Value Enhancement Award. Bishal Kumar, CEO of Ameyo said “The hard work, commitment and passion of the Ameyo team has paid-off. We are extremely thrilled and proud that the effort of Ameyo has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan. The award showcases how we have delighted our customers by making significant changes in our service environment and leveraging technology that enables proactive service delivery with rapid communication and effective collaboration to enable customer success”. In order to meet increasing customer expectations, businesses need to move to contact center architecture and away from telephone-only architecture to support myriad customer interaction channels. To support an omni-channel experience and better manage cost, enterprises seek a solution that knits together complementary functionality to broaden the experience ... Read more

Practo has announced its entry into the Indonesian market, the 4th most populous country in the world to bring its award-winning product Practo Search to the region. Practo Search will be available both in Indonesian bahasa and English. This will be the first time Indonesians will be able to find the right doctor and book appointments online. Practo Search enables consumers to search through this verified database of doctors and find the one that’s right for them. Consumers can search using doctor’s name, specialization, and even symptoms. Once they get results, consumers can click through the Practo Profile for each professional or establishment to read more details including years of experience, qualifications, affiliations and specializations as well as see clinic photos and get GPS co-ordinates of location for easy turn-by-turn navigation right from within the Practo App. With this, Practo will provide Indonesians with the largest database of doctors in the country. Consumers ...

Motorola has rolled out its Moto X Style smartphone. It is the perfect blend of premium performance and design – a phone that is truly beautiful inside and out. It will be available for pre-orders exclusively on Flipkart from 14th October midnight at INR29,999 for 16GB and INR31,999 for 32GB, with multiple exciting launch offers during the Flipkart Big Billion Day sale. It has a stunning 5.7-inch Quad HD display with 520 ppi, that’s enhanced by dual front stereo speakers with smart boost. It is backed with 3,000mAh battery and it is world’s fastest-charging smartphone that get 8 hours of power in just 15 minutes with the in-box turbocharger. User can take crystal-clear photos and 4K videos on the 21MP camera with zero shutter lag and rapid focus. It also possesses a 5MP front-facing camera featuring a wide angle lens and flash. The smartphone runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor with 1.8 GHz Hexa-core CPU and with a ... Read more

Aircel has announced that it selected Tech Mahindra to roll out a comprehensive set of Internet-of-Things (IoT) service offerings. Tech Mahindra is providing the IoT services in association with Aeris Communications. Aircel’s strong presence in enterprise market combined with the IoT solutions from Tech Mahindra will give an edge to position it as one of the leaders in machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT services in India. “M2M and IoT are enabling business transformation around the world and are expected to see an unprecedented growth in the Indian Market,” said Suren Amarasekera, Chief Enterprise Officer, Aircel. “The need of the hour for digital enterprises is innovative technologies that would transform the way organizations operate. With Tech Mahindra and Aeris, Aircel is well poised to deliver on this through a comprehensive suite of M2M and IoT services.” Read more

With the theme of “A World with One Trillion Connected Devices”, Intel is hosting its second Intel India Academic Forum 2015 in New Delhi. The two-day conclave will feature talk tracks on Communications & Networking, Sensing & Security and Large-Scale Machine Learning, with the aim of accelerating technology innovation and academic research. Marking the occasion, Intel also announced the setting up of 100 Internet of Things (IoT) centres across Indian academia institutions and awarded the Intel India PhD Fellowships for 2015 to five students. As part of Intel’s continued efforts to promote innovation and research with higher education students, 100 Intel IoT centres at academic institutions across India are being supported with Intel Galileo boards, which are specifically designed for makers, students, educators, and DIY electronics enthusiasts to build product prototypes. Intel Galileo boards are equipped with the required platforms and technologies and are aimed at empow...

Extending the reach of its security intelligence sharing network, HP has allied with Hitachi, designed to capture and share Japan-specific threat information. Through this partnership, Hitachi will join the HP Global Threat Intelligence Alliance and contribute threat intelligence to HP’s existing security information sharing platform, HP Threat Central. The platform delivers automated and open sharing of information and contextual analysis that allows organizations to take action. This intelligence will also inform periodically published reports from HP Security Research. To arm enterprises against an ever-growing array of threats, HP Security Research created the HP Global Threat Intelligence Alliance to foster their collaboration. The alliance program provides members with access to private, value-added intelligence from leading industry researchers, analysis of underground forums, and threat actor profiles. In return, these participant enterprises contribute their own intelli...

The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has finalized 37 consultants for 88 smart city projects for preparation of city-wise Smart City Action Plans. As per MoUD, the remaining 10 cities in the North-Eastern states and Union Territories will finalize their consultants by this weekend, whereas Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir are still to nominate one city each for smart city project. CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions, in association with Pri Move Infrastructure Development Consultants and Probity Soft Private Ltd, have bagged contracts for six cities, followed by Jones Lang La Salle Property Consultants India, in association with Townland Consultants, and Tata Consulting Engineers, ICRA Management Consulting, in association with NJS Engineers India and All India Institute of Local Self-Government, have bagged five cities each... Read more

Google has launched the next two Nexus smartphones, manufactured by Chinese firm Huawei and Korean electronics major LG. The Nexus phone manufactured by Huawei is named as Nexus 6P and the LG made phone is called Nexus 5X. Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP Android, Chromecast and Chrome OS at Google, said in company’s official blog that the Nexus 6P is the first all-metal-body Nexus phone. Built in collaboration with Huawei, this 5.7″ phone is crafted from aeronautical-grade aluminium, with a USB Type-C port for fast charging, a powerful 64-bit processor, and a 12.3MP camera sensor with massive 1.55µm pixels (hello, better photos!). The 5.7-inch device comes with WQHD AMOLED display and framed upon an all-aluminium metallic body. The phone uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1 processor and 2GB RAM. The phone is supported by 3,450mAh battery... Read more

AT&T and IBM plan to deliver a scalable mobile cloud solution to help protect corporate data and apps. IBM and AT&T’s new approach enables a workforce to be productive without compromising security and the mobile user experience. Steve McGaw, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T Business Solutions, explained that more employees are using mobile devices to be more productive. At the same time, data and apps are moving to the cloud. The changes are exciting, but security needs to be top-of-mind. Trusted collaborators like IBM are helping them better address changing business models. Together, they are giving options to deliver highly secure mobile access to cloud apps... Read more

Array Networks has announced availability of its AWF Series web application firewall appliances. Three new hardware appliances and a software appliance for virtual environments protect web applications and cloud services from a variety of attacks that slip through general-purpose security solutions. Array’s AWF Series web application firewalls extend beyond traditional firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDSs) to provide comprehensive protection for business-critical web applications. The AWF Series not only detects the complex web application attacks of today, but also blocks the attack traffic in real time without affecting the normal flow of business data traffic. In addition, the AWF Series provides extremely fine-grained attack detection and analysis capabilities, while protecting against the most common web application threats including SQL injection attacks, web page tampering, website malicious code, and disclosure of sensitive information... Read more

Nokia has announced planned leadership and organizational structure that it intends to implement after and subject to the successful closing of the public exchange offer for Alcatel-Lucent securities announced on April 15, 2015. With this transaction, Nokia expects to create an innovation leader in next-generation technology and services for an IP-connected world, and to position the combined company to create the foundation of seamless connectivity for people and things wherever they are. “We are making very good progress on being ready to operate as a combined company when the proposed exchange offer closes,” said Rajeev Suri, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nokia. “After a thorough selection process, I am pleased to announce the company’s future organizational structure and exceptional leaders who will help chart the next steps... Read more

IBM has launched a consulting organization dedicated to helping clients realize the transformative value of cognitive business. IBM Cognitive Business Solutions extends the exclusive cognitive leadership of IBM Watson and the company’s established market leadership in business analytics. The new practice draws on the expertise of more than 2,000 consulting professionals spanning machine learning, advanced analytics, data science and development, supported by industry and change management specialists to accelerate client journeys to cognitive business. “Our work with clients across many industries shows that cognitive computing is the path to the next great set of possibilities for business,” said Bridget van Kralingen, Sr Vice-President, IBM Global Business Services. “Clients know they are collecting and analyzing more data than ever before, but 80 per cent of all the available data – images, voice, literature, chemical formulas, social expressions – remains out of reach for trad...

Brocade has introduced its Open Mobility Solutions Program designed to assure customers that their current, and future, wireless networks will perform well when running on a Brocade wired network infrastructure. This program addresses the need for advanced future-proof capabilities to support growth and new technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), while offering customers a unified wired and wireless experience through strategic partnerships with leading wireless network vendors. To address advances in wireless technology that have pushed wired networks to their limit-such as increased speeds and the increased number of devices supported by each access point – Brocade campus networking solutions provide a best-in-class foundation for wireless networks. Based on open standards technology, Brocade wired networking solutions are designed to interoperate smoothly with whatever wireless network technology customers decide to purchase in the future. To help ensure com...

Deepak Kumar Sahu Publisher VARINDIA at SIITF 2015,Bangaluru

Videocon Mobile Phones has introduced a range of new ultra-affordable smartphones –Videocon Z51 Punch and Videocon Z51Q Star. Attuned to new-age consumer needs, the smartphones come packed with features like Quad-Core Processor, 3G network, Android KitKat OS and extended battery life for fast multitasking and faster on-the-go connectivity. Z51 Punch suits well the consumers who want an affordable yet reliable smart device. Packed with the latest Android 4.4.2 KitKat OS, the device is backed by 1.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor and 1GB RAM, powering the device with fast speed and smooth functioning. Suitable for consumers who demand cutting-edge smartphone experience, Z51 Punch features 8MP auto-focus rear camera to snap brilliant quality pictures, clicks high-quality selfies and capture clear Video Calling via Skype with its 5MP Front Camera... Read more

HP has enhanced its Propel and HP Service Anywhere. These two products are designed to transform how businesses enable, deliver and manage IT services and applications. The products dramatically simplify the delivery of applications and services to employees, customers and partners, and enable central IT to better manage costs, complexity, and security for their organization. Together, HP Propel and HP Service Anywhere enable IT departments to transition from a reactive and tactical role to act as a strategic “Service Broker” that allows employees to onboard new apps and services whenever and however they need them to compete in the Idea Economy. “When IT operates as a Service Broker, they serve the needs of the business, strengthen its strategic leadership position, and enable the adoption of new, high productivity technologies throughout the workplace. HP Propel and HP Service Anywhere enable businesses to accelerate their pace of innovation in a responsible way, and as a resu...

Juniper Networks has announced advanced anti-malware with zero-day threat protection from the cloud, redesigned security management and the latest firewalls for enterprise campus and branch networks, as part of its new Juniper Networks Unite architecture. The latest security solutions include Juniper Networks Sky Advanced Threat Prevention, Junos Space Security Director and Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways to provide customers with the sophisticated threat protection, security management, automation and scale needed to defend against threats at any point in the network without hindering network performance. These advancements will deliver better visibility to the network through a simplified, intuitive management platform, as well as ensure pervasive, dynamic threat protection with intelligence from the cloud that is automatically distributed across SRX firewalls within the enterprise... Read more

This time, FAIITA IV Conclave has been hosted by COMPASS. The theme of the conclave was “Growth with Unity”.  It was attended by over fifty leaders from countrywide State associations and federations. The event started with a welcome address by Pawan Jajodia, President, Host association COMPASS; Saket Kapur, General Secretary, FAIITA; and visionary address by Champak Raj Gurjar, President, FAIITA. This was followed by a lamp lighting ceremony by all the office-bearers of FAIITA. Well-curated agenda included in the opening session for State Presidents to express parochial iffy issues, followed by a review of progress of Committees formed during III conclave in Mumbai. The predatory pricing and warranty issues of brand owners will henceforth be dealt with proactively by the OLS Committee. Grievances and business disputes amongst members and members with ND/RD/Customer will be settled fairly through ADR.. Read more