BusIndia.com, an online bus ticketing system launched by. Oscar Fernandes

Union Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri. Oscar Fernandes today officially launched Busindia.com, the integrated bus ticket portal. Busindia.com portal brings together bus transport operators across the country under a single window, thus facilitating passengers to plan their bus travel across Indian cities with ease. BusIndia.com enables passengers to do trip booking and hotel booking, providing a full itinerary experience for the first time in Indian bus booking. Radiant Info Systems Ltd. (Radiant Info), the Bangalore based technology solutions company, has developed Busindia.com in partnership with the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT). Radiant Info, is also credited with the launch of India’s first online bus ticket reservation system in 2006 for Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).

Cyber Monday Attacks Cost Organizations up to $3.4 Million per Hour in Losses, RSA Finds

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announced the results of a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute <http://www.ponemon.org> looking at the cost of fraud and online disruption coincident with Cyber Monday. The study surveyed 1,100 IT staff inside of retail organizations in the U.S. and UK.

Rackspace Claims Asia’s First Hybrid Cloud Powered By OpenStack

Rackspace Hosting claims to have launched Asia’s first hybrid cloud powered by OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform. The new public cloud joins Rackspace’s existing portfolio of private cloud and dedicated solutions to complete the Open Cloud Company’s Hybrid Cloud offering to businesses throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Gartner: Worldwide Video Game Market to Total $93 Billion in 2013

The worldwide video game marketplace, which includes video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, will reach $93 billion in 2013, up from $79 billion in 2012, according to Gartner. Driven by strong mobile gaming and video game console and software sales, the market is forecast to reach $111 billion by 2015.

Sanovi will contribute code to open source Project Ladon

Sanovi Technologies is contributing code to the new open source project named Ladonto help enable Disaster Recovery forApache Hadoop software. The open source Disaster Recovery solution will be integrated and supported in the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop software.

CommScope expands global partner program

CommScope offers an extensive partner network of skilled professionals focused on solving customers’ most complex technological problems. Entering its second year, the extensive CommScope PartnerPRO Network--with more than 2,100 active partners in 87 countries—is expanding to include two new programs offering intelligent building-performance lighting solutions and data center infrastructure management (DCIM). CommScope partners who want to provide these solutions to their customers can now apply to receive designations as an iTRACS CPIM Accredited Integrator or a Redwood Installation Partner.

“CommScope partners can bring more to the table than ever before,” said Stephen Kowal, vice president, Global Partners, CommScope. “With quality solutions that now include DCIM and intelligent lighting, our partners can offer their customers new ways to take advantage of an array of benefits that help lower operating costs and gain crucial analytics to plan for the future.”

ASUS opens three Exclusive Stores in Delh

ASUS Technology announced the launch of three exclusive stores in New Delhi. The outlets will feature the entire range of Notebooks and Netbooks that have been launched in India till date.

The Retail Stores inaugurated are Comhard Systems is located at D-30-31, Main Vikas Marg, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi-92; Gadgey Gurus Pvt Ltd. is located at G-42, Graound Floor, Westend Mall, Janakpuri, New Delhi - 110058 and Shree Maruti Electronics is located at Karolbagh, New Delhi-110005.

SafeNet launches Complete Encryption Solution on AWS Marketplace

SafeNet announced key enhancements to SafeNet ProtectV that allow customers to encrypt Amazon EC2 workloads and maintain full ownership of encryption keys, with no need for on-premise hardware. SafeNet ProtectV with Virtual KeySecure is now available to run entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure and is compatible with AWS CloudHSM, allowing customers to retain full ownership of their encryption keys while deploying entirely in the cloud.  Through the AWS Marketplace, SafeNet ProtectV and Virtual KeySecure are available in a pay-as-you-go pricing model similar to AWS cloud services.  

Original or Counterfeit?

Every year, product plagiarism inflicts billions of dollars in damages to businesses. Such counterfeiting is not limited to luxury goods and lifestyle products; it also is prevalent in small electronic devices or even printer cartridges. Infineon Technologies has announced its new OPTIGAT Trust authentication chip, which helps manufacturers of electronic accessories and replacement parts protect their businesses against damages caused by counterfeiting. Consumers benefit as well, as authentication chips can help to reduce the risk of damaging the end-device by using poorly designed pirate products.

PC penetration a significant socio-economic growth driver for India: MAIT

The Indian IT hardware industry can look forward to making a substantial impact by taking some of the steps such as bringing down the hardware cost by 43% with the help of the Government subsidies, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a PC and broadband solution (currently estimated to be ~Rs 15,650 per annum), providing Income tax exemption to individuals against PC purchase, and promote purchase of PCs amongst specific segments like students and less than INR 5 lakh income households, among other steps, suggests MAIT- KPMG Reporttitled -“Indian Market Place- IT the unrealized potential”, unveiled by Dr. Sam Pitroda, Adviser to Prime Minister, Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, Government of India.

Tata Elxsi and Algotochip partner to provide rapid SoC solutions

Tata Elxsi and Algotochip announced their partnership to provide rapid SoC solutions and services targeted at OEMs and custom chip makers.

The companies' first collaboration is to develop digital chips and IP blocks that can support next-generation video services embedded with the latest 4K HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) technology. This leverages Tata Elxsi’s HEVC Ultra HD (4K) software that has been licensed to multiple customers. The IP blocks and services are targeted for an array of proliferating smart CE devices such as Smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, media players amongst others.

MongoDB Certification Now Available for Developers and DBAs

MongoDB announced a certification program for developers and DBAs. MongoDB will certify the knowledge of concepts and mechanics including practical skills required to build applications backed by the NoSQL database. MongoDB certification offers DBAs and developers a new means to prove expertise on MongoDB and helps organizations hire and develop qualified professionals.

The company will initially offer Associate MongoDB Certified Developer exam beginning December 3, 2013, and roll out Professional and Master MongoDB Certified Developer exams in the coming year. The exams, which cost $150, will be administered online through the MongoDB University platform to ensure worldwide accessibility. Certificates include a unique license number that can be verified through MongoDB University’s website.

Opinion Based Platform Hammer is available on Android & iOS

Hammer, an online opinion generating platform that enables exchange of instant opinions from a global network, is now available as a mobile app on Android and iOS. Hammer is a social and fun app which assists people in getting and sharing instant opinions, exchanging ideas and news on one common platform, at a moment’s notice. Users can simply upload photos, ask questions and share opinions instantly.

SAP and Vendavo deepen partnership with Profit Optimization Solutions

 SAP and Vendavo announced a significant expansion of the development road map and partnership based on the SAP HANA platform aimed at providing customers with new real-time profit optimization solutions. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd, being held October 21-25 in Las Vegas.

Juniper boasts a new architecture for Next Gen cloud data centers

To help enterprise organizations and service providers address the challenges associated with managing multiple, geographically dispersed data centers, Juniper Networks has unveiled MetaFabric, a new architecture for next generation data centers. MetaFabric boasts to simplify and accelerate the deployment and delivery of applications within and across multiple data center locations. This new architecture also boasts of enabling customers to run data center networks securely and more efficiently through a combination of Juniper’s network innovations, professional services and strategic partnerships.

HP's United Defense Against Cyberattacks

HP announced HP Threat Central, a community-sourced security intelligence platform that will enable automated, real-time collaboration between organizations to combat advanced cyber threats.

The sophistication of cyberattacks has grown substantially in recent years, as adversaries both specialize and share intelligence, tools and plans in order to improperly obtain data and disrupt critical enterprise functions. In isolation, organizations struggle to stay ahead of this new breed of collaborative attacks, placing themselves in constant risk of financial, competitive and reputation losses.

Swipe expands its calling Tablet PC’s portfolio with “Halo Value +”

California based Swipe Telecom has unveiled yet another Tablet PC - Swipe Halo Value +. This Value for money device is expected to cater to the need of the hour by offering cutting edge technology at an astounding price of Rs. 6,699/-for 512 MB RAM variant & Rs 6,999/- for 1 GB RAM variant. Swipe Halo Value + is the brand new addition to the Swipe Telecom’s series of calling Tablet PC’s- “The Halo Series ”, consisting of the products: Halo Tab X 74S, Halo Edge, Halo Value and Halo 3G.

CyberArk appoints Netpoleon as Prime Value-added Distributor for Singapore

CyberArk announced the appointment of Netpoleon Solutions as its prime value-added distributor for Singapore. The partnership will allow both companies to address the growing demand for privileged account security in Southeast Asia, and enable CyberArk to continue to expand its foothold in Singapore and deepen market penetration in the enterprise landscape, through leveraging Netpoleon Solutions’ extended capabilities and extensive reseller network.

Open Data Center Alliance announces Infosys and SAP join Its steering committee

Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the organization where members work together to advance the deployment of enterprise cloud solutions and services that are interoperable, secure and free of vendor lock-in, has announced that representatives from global IT leaders Infosys and SAP are the newest members of the ODCA Steering Committee and have joined the ODCA Board of Directors. Senior executives from Infosys and SAP join ODCA board members from BMW, Capgemini, China Unicom, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Inc., NAB, NTT Data, T-Systems, UBS, Verizon Terremark and The Walt Disney Company in driving the strategic direction and output of ODCA on a global basis.

Integrated System Designs to Improve Operation, Save Power and Time

Never before have engineers been able to get their industrial designs to market so fast. Three new low-power reference designs from Maxim Integrated Products provide end-to-end integration of the signal chain, simplifying factory automation.

The Carmel, Monterey, and Fremont industrial reference designs are fully tested subsystems, complete with schematics, layout files and firmware, and are available for immediate use and customization. Each reference design integrates multiple functions to provide a highly accurate solution for an automated factory task. Available for purchase, each board ensures rapid prototyping, early software development, and speed of design.

Indian Businesses Turn to IT to Fuel Growth

VMware announced the findings of its 4^th annual VMware Cloud Index, a study that was conducted by Forrester Research across 12 Asia Pacific countries. The study reveals that nearly 9 of every 10 (89 percent) respondents in India believe that Cloud Computing, or ‘as-a-service’ approach, is relevant to their organization and nearly 8 of every 10 (79 percent) respondents in India say they currently have a cloud-related initiative in place within the organization, or are planning to implement cloud, or ‘as-a-service’ approach, in the next 12 months.

First ever Animation and Visual Effects Film Festival

ABAI, India's primary associations supporting the digital and creative arts sectors is organising ABAI FEST 2013 at the University Grounds in Mysore on the 6th and 7th December 2013. This is a 1st ever festival screening exclusive footage from all over the world in Animation and Visual Effects.

"Computer Graphics has become part and parcel of International and local content creation in Film and Television. It provides the digital intermediation needed by filmmakers, directors and studios to mount bigger and bolder stories, themes and projects. Too little of how this is done has been exposed to the Indian public" said Biren Ghose, President - ABAI & Country Head - Technicolor India Gravity, Superman Man of Steel, World War Z, The Croods, Epic, Skyfall, Life of Pi and many other recent releases are testimony to the fact that computer graphics (CG) in digital production is now the new norm in filmmaking.

Airports to leverage Wearable Computing in future

Smart watches, smart glasses and other wearable computing devices will be part of the airport of the future, according to the latest findings from SITA Lab. The technology research team of the air transport industry's IT provider SITA has conducted the earliest trials into the use of wearable computing at airlines and airports and issued its findings in a paper.

Attackers evade point solution security

Cybercriminals prey on organizations through reconnaissance, luring victims, redirecting web traffic, executing exploit kits, deploying dropper files, calling home and ultimately stealing critical data. But, because each of these actions could occur on a different part of a network, or over a different communication channel, cybercriminals can break in and steal data at will.

TCS and WCIRB launch STAR Operating System

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB), using TCS’ technology expertise to  develop and rollout  WCIRB’s STAR operating system. This new system will modernize and fundamentally transform the WCIRB’s interactions with insurers and serve as an enabling platform to deliver on its new business strategy.

Hinduja Global Solutions completes 40-Year Milestone in USA

At a time when global downturns are throwing up challenges for Indian companies to face, Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), a provider of outsourcing solutions and a Hinduja Group Company claims to have completed 40 years of service in the US. Started as a 50-man team, HGS US operations boasts of 2300 strong workforce and a clientele that includes best corporates and brands in the world across the fields of telecom, consumer products, electronics, banking, health care, retail, life sciences, automotive, transportation and logistics. 

NETGEAR to Strengthen Its Presence in India

Global Networking Company NETGEAR is planning to expand its all India presence by getting into five state capitals and five major cities. 

World leader in products for home segments, NETGEAR has been continuously expanding its business in India. As a part of their expansion plan, they propose to reach out to 10 new locations in India including state capitals like Lucknow, Chandigarh, Bhopal, Raipur, Patna, and important cities like Guwahati, Vijayawada, Cochin, Pune , Nagpur.

Samsung launches GALAXY Golden phone

Samsung Electronics launched the GALAXY Golden - a premium flip phone with a golden coloured accent. GALAXY Golden is specially designed for discerning consumers seeking innovation, stylish design and convenience.

SmartOn sets shop in India with Learning Solutions

SmartOn Learning, a education start-up, has set its foot in the Indian market. With offices in New York and Hyderabad, the company boasts to specialize in providing new-age career courses, developed in collaboration with leading industry partners and Universities. The programs are offered in blended format (combination of online & class-room based). SmartOn Learning offers world-class technology platform to facilitate blended/online learning along with career diagnostics and continuing education solutions.

Megaport partners with Brocade Innovation to deliver Australia's first 100 Gbps Network Services

 Megaport is aiming to become a leading provider of network interconnection services across the Asia-Pacific region by leveraging the power of Brocade® MLXe Core Routers. The platform, implemented for Megaport by Brocade partner ASI Solutions, features the first delivery of 100 Gbps network services in the region from Brocade. The solution is based on Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) cards, which provide the massive routing capacity along with cost-effective support. As a result, Megaport believes it has an opportunity to make waves in the interconnect marketplace and meet the needs of organizations that are generating and consuming ever-increasing amounts of data.

Jaspersoft Appoints Helical IT Solutions As Their System Integration Partner

Helical, a Business Intelligent (BI) organisation, offering Open source BI solutions across verticals has been appointed by Jaspersoft as a System Integrator Partner. Helical IT Solutions will be a System Integration Partner for Jaspersoft in the India/South Asia region.

Over 80% Indians want to watch movies on Mobile

Vuclip has released its third quarter 2013 Global Video Insights with stunning revelations around consumers’ mobile video viewing habits and preferences. With responses from more than 50,000 people globally, including approximately 8,000 from India, the survey reveals a high consumer appetite for watching full-length movies and television shows on their mobile phones even in areas lacking fast network speeds.

HP Big Data Analytics boasts to turn IT complexity into Insight

HP has announced a Big Data analytics solution for IT operations teams to analyze the volume and variety of IT data to predict, prevent and respond to application and infrastructure issues, preventing costly downtime.

Cloud, virtualization and mobile technologies create enormous complexities that impact an IT group’s ability to control its environment. To effectively troubleshoot, diagnose and triage IT operations problems, IT must collect, store and analyze massive amounts of machine data.

Vebbler launches chat, private messaging & custom stickers

Within two months since its launch, Vebbler, an Indian personal social network, introduced its most significant feature, ‘Chat’ & ‘Private Messaging’ along with a whole range of Customized Stickers. Adding to this key feature, Vebbler is also unveiling other add-ons like shortcuts for tagging people, sharing your location, syncing accounts with other social networks, new icons & designs, ability to add photos directly from webcam amongst others.

EMC India COE teams with Rotary Bangalore IT Corridor for a Charitable Golf Tournament

EMC India Center of Excellence (CoE) fully sponsored the 2nd edition of the International Golf Tournament organized by Rotary Bangalore IT-Corridor (RBITC), a network of inspired individuals with a mission to make a transformational and sustainable change in the quality of life in Whitefield. The tournament titled ‘EMC International Golf Tournament’ was held at the Champion Reef, Kolar on 20th October, 2013 and saw 50 C-level executives from Bangalore participating in it.

CITIC Telecom CPC announces Strong Revenue Growth

CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited, has reported significant year-on-year business success, mainly attributable to increasing Asia Pacific demand for the company's enterprise-class VPN and cloud services. In response, CITIC Telecom CPC has launched an expanded Singapore office and new service operating presence in Malaysia to support continued ASEAN growth, and further bolster its global footprint. The company also announced its recent recognition as the top Cloud Services Provider in NetworkWorld Asia's "Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards 2013," as well as its winning of research analyst Frost & Sullivan's "2013 Greater China Growth Excellence Award" for the IP-VPN Market.

Foxconn utilizes more factories for the Content Provider, LeTV to produce LCD TV

Foxconn, a manufacturer of computer components and systems, has recently started using its plants to produce LCD TVs for China-based content provider LeTV and with the addition; the LCD TVs' shipment waiting period has been reduced from three weeks to only one week.

Pegasystems Reports Record Attendance for 2013 Developers Conference

Pegasystems initiated its Pega Developers Conference 2013 at the Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC). The conference is designed to meet the significant demand for knowledge sharing from the growing community of Pega designers and developers in India, and has brought together delegates from some of the world’s largest organizations.

A USB Ethernet Adapter with no compatibility barriers

Cadyce has launched Ethernet Adapter CA-U2E which allows computers to instantly connect to a network by simply using a USB port. The unique feature about USB network adapter is that it delivers fast data transfer speeds of up to 100Mbps.

Hunt for New Delhi’s ‘Smart Tech Wizards’ begins

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that New Delhi’s edition of TCS IT Wiz 2013 will be held on Saturday, November 16, at Dogra Hall, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi.

The event is open to all school students studying in class 8-12 (including Pre University of Junior college students). There is no entry fee. Each institution is allowed to send multiple teams of two-members each to participate.

Wipro Launches Mobility Center of Excellence with Kony in Hyderabad

Wipro announced the launch of the Wipro Mobility Center of Excellence with Kony, Inc. in Hyderabad.

The focus of this Center of Excellence (CoE) is to drive multi-channel app experiences based on the Kony Experience Platform. It will enable Wipro and Kony to develop best-in-class solutions based on Kony’s leading mobile application development platform as well as next-generation technologies including mobility, cloud and analytics.

Indian Broadcast Equipment Market to grow at 9 Percent by 2017: A report

On the occasion, Vidya Nath, Research Director, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan, presented findings from Frost & Sullivan’s soon to be released report on the Indian Broadcast Equipment Industry Outlook. The market is likely to grow from nearly US $100 million in 2013 to US $168 million in 2017 at a CAGR of 9 percent, with a significant interest in HD cameras and video servers. She said, “India is highly fragmented by content type, region, and size of broadcasters. About 25 percent have a broadcast equipment budget of over US $160, 000 (INR 1 Crore), while nearly 40 percent plan to spend less than US $41, 000 (INR 25 lakh) this year. It is true that sometimes equipment purchase outlays are cyclical and typically, significant purchasing cycles are repeated every three to four years. Yet, Frost & Sullivan believes there will be little change in this trend in the short term.”

Konica Minolta to capture the Rajasthan market

Konica Minolta Business Solutions is on an expansion spree. In line with their plans to expand their product offerings in Rajasthan, they have launched their entire range of A4 Laser Printers and MFPs here in Jaipur (Rajasthan).

This new range of printers has been launched under Pagepro, Magicolor & Bizhub series. Konica Minolta Pagepro covers the mono SFP & MFP series, while Magicolor series offers the path breaking colour range. Bizhub series of A4 devices is targeted at corporate workgroup users.

Autodesk offers tech support to preserving cultural heritage

Today at the INK Conference, Autodesk showcased novel applications of its latest technology for reality capture. Autodesk ReCap is a family of software and services to create intelligent 3D data from captured photos and laser scans.  ReCap makes it easy to clean, organize and visualize massive datasets captured from reality. 

Tech Mahindra empowers its New Zealand leadership Team

Tech Mahindra announced that Rohit Anand has been appointed as Country Manager - New Zealand for the Enterprise business. Rohit will be responsible for growing Enterprise Business in verticals such as Public Sector, Banking/Financial Services, Insurance, Energy/Utilities, Manufacturing, Retail, F&B, Travel & Transportation, amongst others.

Tech Mahindra would also like to thank Darin McKay for his significant contributions in the region during his career as Country Manager for New Zealand and wish him the very best for his future endeavors.

Capgemini and Cloudera partner to extend Big Data Value

Capgemini and Cloudera have today announced a global partnership. The partnership brings to market the combination of Cloudera’s comprehensive platform for big data management and analytics with Capgemini’s global capabilities and expertise in Business Information Management, to ensure enterprises worldwide can unlock the value of big data.

Brocade to offer Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity Support for EMC VMAX

Brocade announced that end-to-end Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) solutions are now supported with the EMC® VMAX® product family.

The combined EMC and Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel solution enables best-in-class networking and storage to support highly virtualized cloud infrastructures. This solution allows enterprises to deploy a storage infrastructure featuring EMC®Connectrix® 16 Gbps Fibre Channel modular and fixed-port switches and 16 Gbps Fibre Channel-capable VMAX storage arrays. Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN switches are sold by EMC under the Connectrix brand.

Cloud Telephony turns out to be an effective tool for NGOs

NGOs and other institutions working for the welfare of society are run just as professionally as any corporate giant. And these increased levels of professionalism extend to seeking out and implementing communications tools that can help the NGO carry out its mission better.

Anyone acquainted with modern-day NGOs won’t be surprised by the above statement. In fact, NGOs’ need for higher efficiency and their reliance on community partnerships makes them even more dependent upon comprehensive communications solutions. A few of the factors contributing to this trend include:

Indians most impacted by Ransomware, Identity Theft and Phishing Incidences: Survey

Symantec has released India findings from the 2013 Norton Report, which reveals that India is among the world’s top five countries for the highest number of incidences of cybercrime such as ransomware (11 percent), identity theft (11 percent) and phishing (9 percent). With cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated and targeted the average cost per cybercrime victim is in India is up at USD207 from USD192 last year.

CAMWorks claims to be first CAM solution to offer end-to-end seamless integration

Geometric launches the 2014 version of its leading intuitive solids-based CNC programming solution, CAMWorks. With the addition of true G-code simulation, CAMWorks  is the most complete CAD/CAM solution fully integrated end-to-end solution from the initial part design, to creating a CNC program, to full machine simulation; thus, reducing data redundancy and saving valuable shopfloor time. Along with support for SolidWorks® 2014, CAMWorks® 2014 significantly accelerates design-to-part time improving productivity of CNC programmers with the addition of a number of enhancements including:

Anand Sankaran to lead Dell Services’ Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Business

Dell has announced that Anand Sankaran will join the company as president and global head of Dell Services’ Infrastructure and Cloud Computing line of business. According to the company statement, he will report to Suresh Vaswani, president of Dell Services.

A survey reveals older does not mean wiser

McAfee has released findings from the company’s first survey dedicated to uncovering the online habits and behaviors of individuals ages 50-75. The study, “Fifty Plus Booms Online” indicates that the 50+ demographic is spending a great deal of time online these days (an average of five hours a day), instilling confidence in their attitude toward technology. Some 88% of participants say they consider themselves equally or more tech-savvy compared to others their age. Despite this proclaimed comfort level—or maybe because of it— Baby Boomer adults are socially engaging online, exposing themselves to social media reproach and dangerous security risks, including sharing personal information with strangers.

Cellebrite launches its UFED mobile forensics range in India

Cellebrite has launched the UFED 4PC and UFED TK in India. With this, Cellebrite now offers software-based versions of its forensics solutions, which were previously only available with hardware.  Together with the UFED Touch, the new products constitute the first and only complete series of mobile forensic solutions suited for the broadest range of lab and field use cases, across both dedicated single purpose and general purpose PC-based hardware platforms. 

A Nexus of Forces is Transforming Information Security

The Nexus of Forces is transforming the approach towards information security as new requirements are brought about by social, mobile, cloud and information, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that traditional security models will be strained to the point that, by 2020, 60 percent of enterprise information security budgets will be allocated for rapid detection and response approaches, up from less than 10 percent in 2013.

Dell sets up Storage Design Center in India

Dell has opened its Dell Storage Design Center in India. This is the sixth of its kind across the globe. The Bangalore Center will strengthen the coordinated development of Dell's servers, storage and networking in alignment with the company's focus on IT convergence solutions and its broader enterprise business portfolio.

Komli Media Raises $30 Million

Komli Media, a digital media technology platform, announced that it has raised $30 million from new investor Peepul Capital. Existing investors, Norwest Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson also participated in the funding. The company has raised funds to further invest in its key technology platforms and to strengthen its presence through integrated go to market solutions across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

"As digital advertising grows in a fast and fragmented manner, it has become critical for the industry to focus on delivering integrated solutions across social, mobile, display and video," said Prashant Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, Komli Media. "We have already seen strong adoption of our integrated solution along with algorithmic trading. With the increased funding, we plan to deepen our focus on innovative technologies, such as real time bidding (RTB), to deliver significantly greater value to our customers." 

Cyber War waged by US is being tried in Germany

The US government is perhaps taking the world for granted by stealing the user data of citizens of other countries through its agency NSA. This has created a furore in the world and perhaps woken up the governments who were relying on the US blindly.  The reported NSA data breach has become a hot topic in German politics as the government there has summoned the US ambassador on the raking issue. Cyber threats have worried the German government more than anyone. 

Cloud Computing Will Become the Bulk of New IT Spend by 2016

The use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend, according to Gartner, Inc. 2016 will be a defining year for cloud as private cloud begins to give way to hybrid cloud, and nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017.

Gartner describes cloud computing as a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered “as a service” using Internet technologies. It heralds an evolution of business in positive and negative ways. It has also become a hot industry term that has been used in many contradictory ways.

India Enterprise Software Market to reach $3.96 billion in 2013: Gartner

Despite challenging economic conditions, the enterprise software market in India is projected to reach $3.96 billion (in constant currency) in 2013, a 14.5 per cent growth over 2012 revenue of $3.46 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.

Gartner analysts discussed key industry trends during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 24.

New SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Apps Available

SUSE has announced the availability of the newest SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP® Applications, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3. It offers the advantages of the newest SUSE Linux Enterprise, providing customers more scale-up and scale-out options to run workloads in mission-critical SAP software environments. As a result, customers can experience improved performance, increased reliability and enhanced security.

A new product to Bring Self-Service Data Access to the Big Data Worker

At the first-ever Pivotal Summit in Singapore, Pivotal, the company which is into big data, PaaS, and agile development, has rolled out in association with NYSE Technologies, Pivotal Data Dispatch (Pivotal DD).  Pivotal DD is a scalable and cost-effective solution offering a consolidated view of disparate data sources, self-service sandbox provisioning for reporting and data analytics. Companies can now rapidly and securely provision structured and unstructured Big Data from any source - whether that’s Hadoop, MPP, Flat File or a legacy database - to enable unprecedented levels of analytics output from data workers. With the use of Pivotal DD, businesses will now have a comprehensive system to view, manage and analyze data inside and outside the organization to make quicker decisions and develop key data insights for the organization.

Top 10 Technology Trends for Indian Companies In infrastructure And Operations

The top 10 technology trends include:

Software-defined Networks: Software-defined networks (SDN) provide a means to abstract the network just as server virtualization abstracts the server. Unlike traditional networks where distributed forwarding and routing protocols manage topology based upon port and route metrics, the SDN controller (pair) is optimized for control of a data center (single, or hybrid cloud) and is the authoritative source for topology and policy enforcement. This is important in that it allows simplification of how the network is designed and operated such that one is not boxed by configuring it to individual vendor platforms and even different distributed network protocols.

Pivotal brings In-Memory Data Processing to Hadoop

Pivotal, a company at the intersection of big data, PaaS, and agile development, is bringing an in-memory transactional store to Hadoop with Pivotal GemFire XD that is tightly integrated with Pivotal HD, a commercially supported distribution of the Apache Hadoop stack.

Mobile to contribute $400 billion to India’s GDP by 2020

The GSMA released an in-depth analysis of the socio-economic impact of the mobile industry in India. The report, “Mobile Economy India 2013”, developed by the GSMA in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, reveals that in 2012, the mobile ecosystem generated approximately 5.3 per cent of GDP for India, directly supported 730,000 jobs and an additional two million jobs when points of sale and distributors are included. The report further predicts that by 2020, mobile will contribute almost US $400 billion to India’s GDP, create 4.1 million additional jobs and invest US $9 billion in India’s infrastructure, with US $34 billion contributed to public funding.

NSN significantly increases uplink, downlink LTE data rates #1GBperday

Operators often increase mobile broadband network capacity by deploying FDD-LTE and TD-LTE technologies on multiple frequency bands. With NSN’s LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation they can create larger bandwidths for subscribers by aggregating spectrum resources. NSN carrier aggregation works on paired spectrum allocations (FDD-LTE) and on unpaired spectrum allocations (TD-LTE). For example, on a 40MHz allocation of paired spectrum, operators can offer downlink data rates of up to 300Mbps.

Utility Companies using SAP Multichannel Foundation Software

SAP released SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities software, enabling utility companies to provide real-time, unified customer engagement through customer-preferred channels. A multichannel, self-service approach helps drive increased customer satisfaction, higher profit margins and lower average response times to customer requests. The announcement was made at European Utilities Week, being held on October 15-17 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“SAP has worked with leaders in the utilities industry to change the dynamics of customer service,” said Henry Bailey, global vice president of Utilities Business Solutions, SAP. “With real-time, unified customer engagement programs, utilities now have the tools to vastly improve the customer experience as well as reduce the costs associated traditional service channels.”

Empowered customers are changing the way services are delivered as new generations of consumers expect a more consistent experience across multiple touch-points. Businesses today can leverage upwards of five channels to proactively engage their customers, making multi-channel efforts the new norm. SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and the recently released SAP Utilities Customer Engagement mobile app facilitate utilities to deploy self-service apps in an affordable and scalable way. Now, multiple departments —from sales and marketing to customer service — can use multi-channel and multi-touch interactions to address the most relevant customer needs. SAP aims to provide a rich experience through mobile and social interaction, consistent communication across all channels, real-time answers and personalized offers.

Infor appoints Atul Sareen as Managing Director for India

Infor has appointed Atul Sareen as Managing Director to head its India business. In this role Atul will foster the next phase of growth for Infor; cultivate client and partner engagements; drive innovation and further scale its growing business operations.  Overall Atul is responsible for all Infor business across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Websense advances defenses against targeted Attacks and APTs

Websense continued its cybersecurity drive by advancing Websense TRITON defenses to thwart every stage of the targeted threat kill chain. Cybercriminals prey on organizations through reconnaissance, luring victims, redirecting web traffic, executing exploit kits, deploying dropper files, calling home and ultimately stealing critical data. Websense is the only security company that continues to protect organizations from targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) across the entire advanced threat kill chain.

Brocade appoints Ari Bose as Chief Information Office

Brocade announced the appointment of Ari Bose to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO). Responsible for the strategic transformation of the global Brocade IT organization, Bose will report to Gale England, vice president of Customer Advocacy and Operational Effectiveness.

The data center networking industry is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. With increasing pressure being placed on corporate networks to manage rising data volumes and extract the most value out of existing assets in order to increase business efficiency, IT organizations are now a strategic business partner and no longer a back-office function. 

Innovation and Creativity Set to Increase in STEM Education, Says IEEE Experts

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields are traditionally known for their defined concepts. However based on insights from top educators and members of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, technology integration in STEM education is helping boost innovation and creativity in classrooms.

iPad Air: Apple launches thinner and lighter tablet at $499

Introducing a next generation of iPad, Apple rolled out the iPad Air, which is a 9.7 inch screen tablet. The new iPad boasts of a Retina display with a smaller bezel. Apple claimed that the new iPad is thinner, lighter and more powerful than any of the predecessors. The new iPad Air is 43 percent thinner than the version it replaces, weighs just one pound (450 grams), and does faster processing.

More Than 1,000 Full-Time Jobs Coming to Florida as Part of Amazon's Plans

Amazon.com has confirmed plans to set up two fulfillment centers in Hillsborough County and Lakeland, Fla., that will each be more than 1 million square feet. Amazon will create more than 1,000 full-time jobs in the state when these fulfillment centers open in the state of Florida.

In 4 Solution Conducts “Konnect” Partners Meet in Chennai

In 4 Solution, a provider of Professional Access Control, CCTV and Intrusion Security Solutions, for corporate, residential and institutional applications, organized their first partners meet “Konnect” at Chennai recently. This initiative of Channel and VAR engagement programme was aimed at updating channel partners on In 4 Solution’s latest product roadmap, channel support initiatives, demonstrating the product quality, its benefits to the partners and resellers in terms of profitability and healthy margins and also showcasing  the interoperability, ease of usage and multiple functionality at competitive price points. More than 90+ partners attended the meet.

Analog Devices’ Integrated Transceiver brag Next-Gen Software-Defined Radio Designs

Analog Devices, a player in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, has introduced a solution for software defined radio (SDR) applications. Designed to enable programmable radio applications that operate over a wide range of modulation schemes and network specifications such as defense electronics, instrumentation equipment and communications infrastructure, the new AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver achieves best-in-class performance, high integration, wideband operation and flexibility. The AD9361 is supported by a wide range of design resources to expedite time to market including a software design kit and FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) to rapidly develop software defined radio solutions. For more information, watch videos here at www.analog.com/ad9361rftransceiver.

Mainframe comes to iPads with Rumba+ Mobile

Micro Focus announced the availability of Rumba+ Mobile on iPad, the first terminal emulator and user interface (UI) modernization application for tablet devices. The new solution enables organizations to quickly modernize green-screen applications on mobile devices. The newly presented interfaces quickly improve the end user experience, boost productivity and bring a modern look and feel to legacy business applications, all without the need to change application code or use specialist development skills. 

Silverado Selects Icertis to Power its Contract Lifecycle Management

Icertis, a provider of enterprise solutions in the Microsoft cloud, announced that Silverado Senior Living has selected Icertis Contract Management (ICM) to manage its contracting needs. The selection of ICM by Silverado is another example of the value customers see in the innovative and forward-looking solution, and further consolidates Icertis' leadership position in the North American market. ICM will help Silverado manage all its contracts at the headquarters in Irvine, CA and the 40+ locations across the United States.

Progress to re-energize Its brand

Progress has introduced a fresh new corporate brand identity, including an iconic new logo, emphasizing the spark of business ideas its software provides to customers and partners and its more than 30-year heritage of innovation. The new corporate brand coincides with Progress' launch of a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables powerful business applications to be easily created by anyone using a web browser.

Enhance Digital productizes Facebook for business

Facebook is perhaps the most ingenious creation of last millennium and this century. There is no aspect of our life—from banal to the ecstatic—that it doesn’t touch. Hence the businesses have warmed up to it with one simple question—how best to use it to their advantage? 

The answer is with Enhance digital, a subsidiary of Coral Soff’ware, and the first and only digital firm in India, with its headquarter in Kolkata to have successfully created a unique model by which they can Productize Facebook. Businesses constantly are on the radar of new customers. Facebook is now an essential part of their marketing strategy. Enhance is aware of the need for precise targeting and optimization of their marketing efforts. 

Zensar Technologies reports 120% YoY PAT growth

 Zensar Technologies has reported excellent growth in profits in quarter ended September 30, 2013. The company’s profits after tax grew significantly year on year, by 120% from Rs. 32.17 Crore to Rs. 70.63 Crore, and the revenues grew by 9.8% year on year, from Rs. 537.31 Crore to Rs. 589.77 Crore.

Hitachi Data Systems rolls out social collaboration platform

Hitachi Data Systems launched the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Community, an online social platform powered by Jive Software. The HDS Community enables customers, prospects, partners and employees to openly collaborate to innovate with HDS solutions. It is designed to offer businesses all around the world a new way of working, allowing them to learn, share and develop their information solutions with HDS executives in a secure and engaging environment.

Mobile Analytics Apps for the Retail Industry

Manthan Systems announced successful implementations of ARC Mobile, a retail analytics solution that provides retailers access to critical operations, merchandising, marketing and financial insights from any location. This mobile application is deployed at several US-based retail chains in the fashion, grocery and convenience store segments. With ARC Mobile, retailers get the insights they need on-demand, including real-time answers to all performance-based inquiries, at their fingertips.

ARC Mobile provides the full breadth of ARC Merchandise Analytics on a tablet device, from interactive data visualizations and exception alerts through collaborative markups and annotations. Role-based, customizable dashboards and analytical views are available on any tablet device, whether iOS or Android-based, in both online and offline modes, allowing users to access business insights anytime and anywhere. Away from his or her desk, an ARC Mobile user can identify, in real-time, key areas requiring attention, with dynamic dashboards supporting by visualization capabilities such as bar charts, line charts, Bubble Charts, Waterfall Charts and product images. More importantly, this user can insert comments and feedback on the mobile dashboard and share his or her notes with peers to facilitate collaborative decision-making.

Cloud Traffic to Dominate Data Centers: Study

In the third annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012 - 2017) issued today, Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold - a 35 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) - from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. Overall global data center traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017. 

Celebrating 75 Years of Xerography

Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world’s first xerographic copy.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first xerographic image, created by Chester Carlson in a rented second story room in Queens, N.Y. This humble invention would eventually lead to the formation of the Xerox Corporation and the birth of an industry. Even today, this xerographic process is still at the heart of most office printers and copiers around the world.

Noshin Kagalwalla joins SAS India as Managing Director

SAS, a business analytics software and services company, has named Noshin Kagalwalla as the Managing Director of SAS Institute (India). Noshin will be responsible for driving market, sales and customer strategies in India.

Noshin Kagalwalla has over 19 years of experience across business functions. Noshin has been associated with SAS for over nine years. Till recently, Noshin held the position of Executive Director - Professional Services for SAS India. Noshin is an MBA from UCLA, he also holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Wright State University and Bachelors in Engineering from V.J.T.I., Mumbai.

Tech Mahindra and Bosch enter Global System Integrator partnership

Tech Mahindra and Bosch Software Innovations announced a global strategic business partnership which will primarily focus on the global manufacturing and transportation industry.

The partnership aims to develop and deliver scalable digital enterprise solutions in the ‘Internet of Things and Services’ space. This space is expected to grow exponentially as more than 20 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020. This partnership will empower Tech Mahindra and Bosch to be the forerunners in enabling customers to be prepared for this transformation. Tech Mahindra and Bosch will jointly develop solutions for industrial equipment management, connected services, and intermodal transportation.

Will BBM arrive for Andriod phones?

While BlackBerry is set to be a history, rumors are rife that BlackBerry Messenger will arrive on Andriod phones allowing users to BBM from their Andriod phone or tablet. This will certainly help a number of enterprise customers who are diehard fans of BBM. However, it is yet not certain as to when this BBM will be available on the Google Play story for download.

10 India's Nonprofits Selected for Google's Impact Challenge

In August 2013, the first Google Impact Challenge was launched in India, inviting Indian nonprofits to propose how they would make India and the world a better place using technology. Today, the top 10 finalists were revealed, four of which will each be awarded a Rs 3 crore Global Impact Award and mentoring from Google to deliver on their project.

From now until October 30th 2013 at 11:59 p.m., the public is invited to cast their vote for a winner of a Rs 3 crore Global Impact Award at g.co/indiachallenge.

Brocade Claims Industry's Most Advanced SAN Management Solution

Brocade has announced the availability of new Brocade Fabric Vision technology capabilities, delivering the industry's most advanced storage area network (SAN) management solution. The new features, Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) and Flow Vision, provide breakthrough capabilities that dramatically simplify SAN administration and reduce operational costs, while further improving the availability and performance of Brocade Fibre Channel SANs.

White Label ATMs come to India

Recently India witnessed the launch of white label ATMs (WLAs) ATMs in the country. WLAs are owned and operated by private non-banking companies.  Contrary to the prevalent ATM scenario wherein the ATMs serve as an extended delivery channel for a bank and display respective banks branding, white label ATMs (WLAs) do not display any bank’s branding, as they are owned, set and operated by Private non-banking entities, hence they are termed as White Label ATMs. However WLA ATMs are similar to Bank ATMs. Currently WLAs are seen in global markets like US, Canada and are widely used as an alternative to Bank ATMs.

India is by comparison an underpenetrated ATM market with a total count of over 1.18 lakh ATMs in the country compared to other markets like US with 1390 per 10 lakh of population, UK which has 530 ATMs per 10 lakh of population, and China with around 211 ATMs per 10 lakh of population, India has only 98 ATMs per 10 lakh of population. This clearly indicates that there is huge potential to drive ATM penetration and availability in the country. Moreover, although there has been nearly 25 per cent year-on-year growth in the number of ATMs (1,18,000+ presently), their deployment has been predominantly in  Metro and urban markets . The Reserve Bank of India saw a need to expand the reach of ATMs in semi urban and rural locations and to increase its penetration.

Industry’s First Smart-Meter System-on-Chip

STMicroelectronics has revealed the industry’s first complete smart-meter System-on-Chip (SoC) that combines precision metering with flexible, programmable processing and PLC (Power-Line Communication) subsystems along with advanced security in a single device.

The STCOMET10 SoC delivers unprecedented integration, leveraging ST’s expertise in PLC and smart-meter ICs gained over 20 years and via more than 90 million devices delivered. OEMs can use this unique future-proof platform to simplify smart-meter design, reduce time-to-market, and significantly reduce component count and bill-of-materials costs.

Huawei Unveils CloudEngine Series Switches

Huawei launched its latest CloudEngine 12700 series what it claims as high performance core switch at the Gartner Summit ITxpo in Goa.

The CloudEngine 12700 series switches (CE12700 for short) are high-performance core switches, and agile switch designed for data center networks and high-end campus networks. Using the Huawei VRP8 software platform, the CE12700 switches provide stable, reliable, secure, and high-performance L2/L3 switching capabilities, and are designed to build a scalable, virtualized, and converged network.

India to create a taskforce of 5,00,000 cyber security professionals

India ranks 3rd    in terms of the highest number of internet users in the world after USA and China, the number is projected to grow 6-fold between 2012-2017 with a compound annual growth rate of 44%. India also secures a spot  amongst the top 10 spam-sending countries in the world alongside USA

·India has a huge shortage of cyber security specialists, the number of trained manpower only accounts to 556 compared to 1.25 Lakh in China and 91,080 in USA

ACPL Exports uses IBM Power Linux

ACPL Exports, a jewelry exporter based in Agra, has selected 2 X IBM P7R1 IBM Power Linux systems over HP and Dell to sustain their business growth. The new systems integrate the company’s SAP ERP management software, boosting performance 32 percent and lowering costs as much as 15% percent without increasing the size of its IT footprint.

Established in 1948, ACPL Exports Pvt. Ltd has emerged as the largest Indian supplier of silver jewelry, findings and chains. ACPL EXPORTS have been formally awarded the title 'Highest Exporter in terms of Silver jewelry products' from Gems and Jewelry council of India for the last 17 years. Today ACPL employs around 2000 people and relies on a manufacturing facility covering over 250,000 sq.ft.

Disrupt, Collapse, and Transform

Social change is fast taking place in developing economies, as the business and technology are fusing together and becoming part of the lifestyle. Trends that are creating widespread disruption, collapsing industries, and transforming spaces are giving context to opportunities for growth.

GIL India: 2013 paved the way for an interface with delegates on 'Disrupt, Collapse, and Transform - Are You Ready?' As disruptive technologies replace current trends the presentation drew the delegates' focus to what they could do to cope with the rapidly changing business environment - from newer business models to integrating 'Smart' with everyday objects. With the virtual world becoming increasingly commonplace, the world around us is collapsing fast causing the rigid boundaries between industries to fade rapidly. Innovations in technology and materials are responsible for transforming the manner in which the human race interacts with the external environment, associated enablers, and internally within the society.

KPIT achieves the Verafirm-Certification

In a statement, KPIT has declared to have become the first publicly listed company to receive the Verafirm Certified from BSA | The Software Alliance.. The certification recognizes the best practices implemented by KPIT in Software Asset Management (SAM) through the entire life cycle from Procurement, Inventory Management, Deployment, License compliance and Usage monitoring.

Axtria opens second Delivery Center in Gurgaon

Citing the rapid growth of its business, Axtria, a New Jersey-headquartered advanced analytics solution provider, opened its second delivery center in Gurgaon, India. Located in DLF Cyber City SEZ, the center has the capability of housing 300 associates. This will expand the current capacity in Gurgaon to 400 associates.

Axtria business offerings are based on technological innovations, domain expertise, and world-class service. The new facility will house Axtria's new product innovation lab. The innovation lab will focus on research into upcoming trends including bid data, machine learning, and decision sciences.

Video Conferencing to be preferred biz communications tool in 2016: survey

Polycom has issued the findings of a survey which reveals that almost all (96 percent) business decision makers believe video conferencing removes distance barriers and improves productivity between teams in different cities and countries. According to the “Global View: Business Video Conferencing Usage and Trends”survey of more than 1,200 business decision makers, conducted by Redshift Research and commissioned by Polycom, video conferencing is an essential tool helping improve team collaboration and closing the physical and cultural gap between colleagues doing business across distances.