VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Does AI Understand the EQ Over IQ? : The capability of expressing and understanding emotions is the only thing which separates us humans from machines. What if a machine becomes intelligent enough to match the level? Does it give you a frisson of terror? I am sure it does. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Piyush kumar, V. P Engineering, CRM Group, Capillary Technologies : Capillary running 400 brands, 300 million consumers and 35,000 stores running on AWS platform: Piyush kumar, V. P Engineering, CRM Group, Capillary Technologies VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Capillary is running 400 brands,300 million consumers and 35,000 stores running on AWS platform : Capillary Technologies is a software product company (ISV), provides cloud-based Omnichannel Customer Engagement, eCommerce platform and related services for retailers and brands. Since 2008, Capillary has been at the forefront of the constant evolution in consumer experiences. We have started as a product company where the first product was the loyalty product, which was built on cloud, Now Capillary has grown with an employee strength of 800 plus people, customers present in 30 plus countries, majorly in Asia. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

World Telecommunication Day  observes serious need for standardisation to accelerate the digital transformation journey of India.  Sumeet Walia, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Tata Communications  says, bridging the standardisation gap’, as the theme for World Telecommunication Day, creates an increased awareness on the importance of international standardisation. The priority for any business today is digitisation and we have certainly seen a transformation taking place in the country. However, the harsh reality is that the sector remains vulnerable in adopting new technologies and a quick response mechanism to address customer needs. A lack of standardisation and a clear road map of the digital journey continue to be the primary roadblocks for every enterprise. The investments in implementation to managing and upgrading key technologies like  Internet of Things (IoT) ,  Artificial Intelligence  and the roll out of 5G can dramatically come...

Amazon sells toilet seat covers with Hindu gods images : Once again Amazon has been caught in a controversy, this time over selling toilet seat covers and other items with images of Hindu gods on its marketplace platform. Seems the artificial intelligence (AI) is not performing in the portal. Expert says, as a technology company they should know what to sell and how to sell. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

CtrlS sees for doubling it's Data Center capacity in India : A recent report by Cushman and Wakefield has indicated that India will be a $4.5 billion data center market by 2018 and will reach $7 billion by 2020, The market growth is driven by a number of factors including a rise in digital data traffic, public cloud services, and a higher expected growth for IoT enabled devices. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

AWS India announces Winners of the 2019 : Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN) India Partner award winners were announced, who has played the key role in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS Cloud.Recognizes five India APN partners as leaders in helping AWS customers drive innovation.AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 65 Availability Zones (AZs) within 21 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies-trust AWS to pow...

Atos delivers world's highest-performing quantum simulator : Atos, leader in digital transformation, announced it has delivered its Atos Quantum Learning Machine, the world's highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, to French multinational energy company Total. As part of an ambitious cross-functional research project, the Total group intends to use the Atos QLM to support all of its businesses. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Avalara ropes in Manjula Muthukrishnan as MD, India : Avalara has announced the appointment of Manjula Muthukrishnan as managing director of Avalara Technologies’s Indian subsidiary. Based in Pune, Muthukrishnan will oversee strategic operations across India with a special focus on strengthening the company’s end-to-end tax automation offerings to enable customers to navigate the complexities of the local Goods and Services Tax. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Tenable introduces Nessus Essentials - a vulnerability assessment solution : Tenable has announced Nessus Essentials, an enhanced free version of its market-defining vulnerability assessment solution (formerly Nessus Home). Nessus Essentials is designed to be used by students, professors and people who are starting their cybersecurity careers, helping the next generation to quickly and easily master vulnerability assessment and hone their skills. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Big data  is changing the way businesses compete and operate. As the technology is getting into much deeper side, it’s possible to analyze your data and get answers from it almost immediately – an effort that’s slower and less efficient with more traditional business intelligence solutions. Business has always wanted to derive insights from information in order to make better, smarter, real time, factbased decisions: it is this demand for depth of knowledge that has fueled the growth of big data tools and platforms. Those leading the change are now including big data from both within and outside the enterprise, including structured and unstructured data, machine data, and online and mobile data to supplement their organizational data and provide the basis for historical and forward-looking (statistical and predictive) views. More digitization brings more risk. Now many company is trying on how to control for minimizing the data usage. Seems it is not possib...

OnePlus brings in OnePlus 7 series, its latest premium flagship devices : OnePlus has announced its latest premium flagship devices - the OnePlus 7 series, redefining fast and smooth with the latest technology which pushes the boundaries of the smartphone experience. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Huawei faces hurdles as US declares national security risk : With the executive order signed by US President Donald Trump for barring U.S. companies from using telecom equipment made by firms posing a national security risk, paving the way for a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei. Huawei Technologies is facing two major U.S. hurdles - from two developments - that have the potential to block its business growth globally. The United States has been actively pushing other countries not to use Huawei’s equipment in next-generation 5G networks that it calls “untrustworthy.” VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Techniques : FRANCISCO — San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use of facial recognition software by the police and other agencies. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Lessons Learned from the latest WhatsApp hack : We were once again reminded that mobile devices, the one thing most of us never leave home without, are vulnerable to attacks. And once again, private individuals were attacked. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Keep Calm and Update Whatsapp : WHAT HAS HAPPENED, and WHY IS IT A BIG DEAL?   NSO group, a secretive Israeli company has been marketing a vulnerability called a ‘Zero Click Zero Day’ vulnerability in Whatsapp for about a year to surveillance agencies and governments. This type of vulnerability is one where the maker of the app itself, in this case, Whatsapp itself was not aware that a vulnerability existed, and so a Zero Day. ‘Zero Click’ because the targeted user does not need to click on anything, or open anything, it happens silently in the background. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Amazon Web Services Continues Expansion in India : Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), announces with the expansion of services with the third Availability Zone in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region to support the rapid growth of the AWS customer base in India. The new Availability Zone provides customers with more choice, flexibility, reduced latency, the ability to replicate workloads across more Availability Zones, and even higher reliability. This launch continues AWS’s expansion of Availability Zones in India to match increasing customer demand, and comes three months after AWS announced the launch of additional Amazon CloudFront and AWS Direct Connect locations in the country. Currently, AWS provides 65 Availability Zones across 21 geographic regions globally with another 12 Availability Zones across four regions coming online in Bahrain, Indonesia, Italy, and South Africa. For more information on AWS’s global infrastructure, go to aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure. ...

Vodafone Idea selects HPE Solutions to manage its OSS platform for SNOC : Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced of its selection by Vodafone Idea to partner for its next generation operations support systems (OSS) platform for Vodafone’s Service & Network Operations Center (SNOC). VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Vodafone Idea is down with Rs 4881.9 Crore In Q4 : Vodafone Idea, India’s largest telecom operator posted a consolidated loss of Rs 4,881.9 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, in a tuff price tariff war to survive in India’s mobility market, which is very competitive with the emergence of Jio. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

HP inks agreement with Siemens to boost their additive manufacturing alliance : HP and Siemens have announced an expansion of their strategic alliance to help customers transform their businesses with industrial additive manufacturing (AM). Siemens and HP will expand their integrated additive manufacturing solution, incorporating new systems and software innovations including overall product lifecycle management (PLM), AM factory optimization, industrial 3D printing and data intelligence, manufacturing execution, and performance analytics. The integration of HP’s new Jet Fusion 5200 Series 3D printing solution with Siemens’ Digital Enterprise offerings enables industrial companies to bring 3D printed parts to market faster, more cost-effectively, more sustainably, and at higher volumes than ever before.The companies announced the expanded alliance at an event to celebrate the addition of a new Polymer Competency Center to the Siemens Additive Manufacturing Experience Center (AMEC) in E...