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TP LINK has made EAP Series of ceiling mount access points available in India. These products are designed to meet the needs of Hospitality, Education, BFSIs sectors and to provide a flexible, cost-effective wireless solution. In offices, these access points can be installed on ceiling to provide high-speed network and uninterrupted coverage for employees. “ EAP Series ceiling mount is compatible with 802.11 b/g/n products and has a load balance ensures large numbers of user have a smooth network experience in large business networks. Along with compact form-factors, this is specially designed to prevent dust from dropping onto the PCB through bypass louver, which ensures long-term unhindered operation. These solutions are ideal for service providers, venue owner or SMBs which are looking to deploy reliable outdoor as well as indoor Wi-Fi network environments. TP-LINK has tie-ups with various service providers and offers complete holistic solution to the busines...

NETGEAR has extended its 12 10-GBase-T copper ports (12-10 GBASE-T) switching solutions with the introduction of the ProSAFE 10-Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switches (XS712T). It is a Smart Switch with 2 Combo SFP+ for 10G Fiber links. It has been purposely designed as a cost-effective way to provide 10G connections to 10G-capable servers and NAS (Network Attached Storage). It can be used as a 10G access switch, uplink to 10G-Managed switch (XSM7224) while expanding the 10G connections down to the edge. “Our ProSAFE XS712T offers our channel partners a chance to ride the next wield in networking as it provides budding networks a migration path to latest technologies without sacrificing current hardware investments,” said Subhodeep Bhattacharya, Regional Director, India & SAARC, NETGEAR . .. Read more

Supporting India’s digital mission, Oracle has unveiled its expansion plans with the intent to strengthen India’s growth. Three major investments have been announced by Oracle CEO Safra Catz which include the setting up of Oracle Campus in Bengaluru, India; 9 Regional Software and Technology Incubation Centres and initiative to train more than 500,000 local students each year in the country. Announcing the same, CEO Safra Catz stated, “Oracle has been in India for over 25 years and during that time we’ve grown our investments tremendously. In fact, India now represents our second-largest employee base outside of the United States, with nearly 40,000 current employees and an additional 2,000 current job openings.  We are investing over US$400 million in Bengaluru, opening 9 incubation centres, and training half a million students each year during this expansion phase to support India’s tremendous growth.  We ‘ Make in India ’ ...” Read more

Veritas Technologies has advanced its  Enterprise Vault 12 and Data Insight 5.1 to enable businesses to gain critical visibility into their unstructured data and take action. The new innovations include advanced classification, support for Box, and automated remediation workflows. Both Enterprise Vault 12 and Data Insight 5.1 will help provide businesses with critical visibility into their unstructured data and empower informed decisions about what critical information to retain and what to delete for compliance, business value and discovery. Also, Veritas Data Genomics Index has been released today and revealed that 41% of data has not been modified in a typical corporation and is three or more years old... Read more

VMware has introduced redefined advancements in VMware Horizon to deliver unparalleled speed in delivering personalized virtual applications and desktops, while offering cloud economics and a new cloud-optimized display protocol. A new hybrid-mode capability will be available in VMware Horizon Air to simplify application and desktop delivery by combining the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with a single, cloud-based plane to manage on-premises and cloud deployments. With these advancements, VMware Horizon will offer the industry’s most comprehensive application and desktop virtualization portfolio with options for on-premises, off-premises or hybrid deployments... Read more

Wipro Limited has acquired  Wipro HealthPlan Services , one of the leading technology and Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaas) provider in the U.S. health insurance market. As part of the deal, Wipro will acquire 100% of HealthPlan Services’ shares for US$460 million. “The partnership with HealthPlan Services positions Wipro to participate in the shift of the US health insurance industry towards a consumer-centric business model.  HealthPlan Services strengthens Wipro’s position in the health insurance exchange market while offering synergies with Wipro’s presence in the Managed Medicare and Commercial Group Insurance markets .  The addition of HealthPlan Services’ capabilities complements Wipro’s strengths in claims processing and backoffice services. This is a strategic move for us, as it advances Wipro’s vision of leveraging unique insights into customer buying behaviour and applying this across the healthcare value chain....

Moving further with innovation and to boost and play monopoly,  HP introduces ink tank printers to lower printing cost . To meet its objective, it launched new HP DeskJet GT series printers to serve small businesses that tend to lower cost of printing. The HP DeskJet GT series prints up to 8,000 pages with a set of three HP spill-free colour bottles and up to 5,000 pages with the HP spill-free black pigment ink bottle. HP has labelled the ink bottles to ground low which holds MRP of 498 INR... For More Details

With the new launch of VMware Virtual SAN , the company has redefined its enterprise-proven, hyper-converged software portfolio. VMware is one of the most important players in hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software with 3,000 customers in 21 months. The redefined software consists of VMware vSphere , Virtual SAN and vCenter Server transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into simple and robust HCI systems. It helps the organizations to reduce IT costs and management complexity while achieving breakthrough performance.  In conjunction with its expansive partner ecosystem, VMware offers its hyper-converged software on the broadest set of consumption options from turnkey HCI appliances developed jointly by VMware and EMC to certified platforms in the form of VMware Virtual SAN-Ready Nodes available from... For More Details

An initiative by EVC & TCOE (Telecom Centers of Excellence), the I-MADE program has been inaugurated by Mr J. S. Deepak, Secretary, DoT, Government of India, and Mr N. Sivasailam, Additional Secretary, Telecom, DoT, Government of India. Innovation in Mobile App Development Ecosystem (I-MADE) framework is a 5-year program, under which 11 institutions were selected to be part of Phase I. One hundred (100) institutes will be selected to be a part in Phase II of the program and Phase III will include up to 35,000 institutions. The goal of the program is to help Indian entrepreneurs build 1 million mobile app start-ups which can eventually become Indian unicorns... For More Details

With the aim of serving the rural and semi-urban customers in the state, Aircel, along with Gramin Healthcare, has launched Primary Care Health Helpline “Gramin Healthcare Line” for its customers in Odisha. It will empower customers with professional healthcare service. The services will people to meet their medical needs over the mobile phones. It will connect people with wide network of service providers in the healthcare segment... For More Details

Lava International has launched a range of affordable 4G devices, beginning with the launch of A71. This will be followed by A88 and X11 in the coming weeks. The three new 4G smartphones are priced at Rs.5,000 onwards. Navin Chawla, Chief Operating Officer, Lava International , said, “Mobile internet penetration is rapidly increasing in India and with 4G services being rolled out the pace will increase further. Even in markets where 4G services have not yet been launched by the operators, consumers want to opt for 4G devices to stay future ready. With affordable 4G devices at multiple price points, we aim to fuel the aspirations of the ever-evolving mobile consumer. These devices have been designed to deliver an unmatched 4G hardware experience in terms of faster browsing, downloading, streaming and video .” Read more

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Motorola has announced that the Moto G (3rd-Gen) and Moto G Turbo edition will now also be available on Amazon.in . Motorola continues to give its customers the p ower to choose  and in line with this philosophy, apart from being on Flipkart , the Moto G range will also be available on Amazon.in. While the 8+1GB variant of the Moto G (3rd-Gen) will be available by the end of the week, you can go ahead and order the 16+2GB variant of the device in white and black.  All variants of the two models will be sold with the Moto G (3rd- Gen) starting at INR9,999 and Moto G Turbo edition starting at INR12,499. In addition to this, there are exciting EMI offers on both the products that customers can avail... Read more

With an aim to empower education, Konika Minolta has entered into software business with cloud-based education ERP – Educo ERP . It is an easy-to-use ERP solution platform for schools, colleges, institutes, universities and training centres. Educo ERP provides access to information anywhere anytime on any device to administrators, teachers, students and parents. It sports multiple languages so that it can be used by anyone. Educo ERP is affordable to cater to the requirements of any institution of any size any structure... Read more

To address the end-user and enterprise IT business mobility needs, VMware has launched a new platform – Workspace ONE – for delivering secure digital workspaces for flexible workstyles and bring your own device (BYOD). The new platform is based on the principles of consumer simple and enterprise security. “In the mobile cloud era, employees, devices, applications and data increasingly live beyond the physical walls of the workplace, the data center, or the network. Digital enterprises are struggling to deliver a unified digital workspace due to disjointed technology and teams. We are proud to be the first to bring together identity, device management and application delivery on a single integrated platform so business can be conducted by mobile end-users regardless of platform, location, device or application,” said Sanjay Poonen, Executive Vice President & General Manager, End-User Computing, VMware . .. Read more

AMD is witnessing a traction for its 6th-Generation AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors , based on the introduction of two new HP notebook design wins, new large-scale enterprise deployments, and the expansion of HP adoption of AMD FreeSync technology in its notebooks and displays. It integrate extensive AMD CPU, graphics, security, and video processing IP into a single SoC design, will now power two new HP 600 ... Read more

Eka Software Solutions has joined hands with GlobalView , a premier provider of enterprise-wide market data solutions for the commodity industries and the developer of MarketView. As part of this partnership, data from GlobalView will be made available in Commodity Analytics Cloud, Eka’s advanced analytics platform for the commodities markets. Manav Garg, CEO & Founder, Eka , said, “GlobalView is the leading provider of real-time and historical energy and commodity market information. A key component of Commodity Analytics Cloud is the data ecosystem that provides instant access to all the data required from internal and external sources so business users can perform real-time analysis. With the inclusion of data from GlobalView, Commodity Analytics Cloud enables users to focus on data analysis, not data collection and integration.” Read more

The Department of Electronics & IT has released an order concerning amendment of the “Electronics and IT Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Amendment Order, 2013”, wherein the Standard Mark has been mandated and the transition period defined. This Order will hereupon be called the “Electronics and Information Technology Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Amendment Order, 2016”. It shall come into effect immediately... Read more

Users in India can now find “ flood alerts ” along with “river level” information for more than 170 areas in which the Central Water Commission (CWC) has active observation stations. These alerts are now available on Google web search, Google Now cards in the Google app, Google Maps, and on the Google Public Alerts homepage, and can be accessed on desktop and mobile devices. The alerts will be created and shared using data provided by the CWC. “Timely information is the first step in disaster preparedness and has the potential to save thousands of lives lost to natural disasters each year. By making critical information more widely available to people, ‘Flood Alerts’ will enable citizens across the country to make quicker and more informed decisions,” said Payal Patel, Product Manager... Read more

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