Kaspersky Among Top Three Consumer IT Security Software: Gartner
The companys share of the global consumer IT security market reached nine percent in 2010, a two percent increase compared to the companys 2009 results
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Vasco Optimistic About RBI OTP Guidelines
The company believes that RBIs One Time Password generation mandate for IVR-based transactions would boost market for two-factor authentication solutions
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Cloud, SaaS Security Creating Big Boom For MSPs
Cloud- and SaaS-based security offerings are driving big bucks to MSPs, research firm Infonetics Research revealed in a recent report
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Nevales Gets Seedfund
The investment comes at a time when Nevales is looking at expanding its solution offering to provide SMEs with 24/7 services and applications for connectivity, security, communication, transactions by using the Software as a Service (SaaS) model
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EMC Enhances Velocity Program
The company has included new specialty options and introduced new partner tiers to drive the differentiation within the EMC portfolio
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Digisol Launches Network Cameras For Professional Surveillance
Available at a MRP of Rs 16,500 and Rs 17,900 the DG-SC3630 and DG-SC3610W cameras can be used without knowledge of their IP addresses
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Redington To Distribute Trend Micro
Will work as an extended arm of the company in tier-1 cities by providing complete channel support for its enterprise and SMB products
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RSA Releases Bundled SIEM, DLP Solutions For The Indian Enterprise
The security vendor has partnered with Grid Infocom- its implementation partner, which would bundle its services around the solutions aimed at the large enterprise and corporates in the telecom, BFSI and IT/ITeS segments
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McAfee Announces New Accreditation Program for Channel SEs
Individual sales engineers who have successfully achieved the ACE status will qualify to receive a one-time reward and multiplier reward points from McAfee
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Websense Seeking Buyers?
The San Diego-based Web security and content filtering company is looking to sell with aid from investment bank Qatalyst Partners
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iValue Is the Most Valuable For WatchGuard
The company has recognized iValue Infosoltions as its best VAD for 2010
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WatchGuard Felicitates Partners On Tenth Anniversary
The company launched its new OS XTM that uses more than 2,500 signatures and behavioral techniques for application control
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Astaro Plans To Achieve Eight Percent Market Share In India
Inspektonline and CoSoSys products will complement Astaros Remote Ethernet Device (RED), Wireless security and the Astaro Mail Archiving (AMA) products
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Trend Micro Announces Be The Invincible Partner Program
Enrolled partners can avail benefits like certification, rebate / loyalty points, online business tracking and support on collaterals
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Astaro Introduces Three New IT Security Products
The company has added next generation firewall, log management and data leakage prevention to consolidate IT security
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Cyberoam Plans Sub-$200 UTM Device
The product is under beta testing and the global launch is expected in the first half of FY2011-12
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eScan Connect To Reach 2000 Partners
eScan, one of the anti virus and content security solution developer announced eScan Connect to reach out to its channel partners and resellers across India
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Layer 8 Innovation Gets Elitecore A NASSCOM Award
Elitecore has been recognized as best innovator in the new technology advancement category for its Layer 8 innovation in Cyberoam UTM security appliances
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Symantec DLP 11 For IP Threats
It will automate implementation of IT policies and reduce risk of a data breach
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EMC Announces Enterprise GRC Strategy
Next-Generation RSA Archer eGRC provides solutions in business solutions, information governance, business continuity and disaster recovery and advanced security management
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Computerlinks to Distribute Blue Coat Products
Computerlinks brings to the equation its in-depth understanding and insights of the Indian enterprise market
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Cyberoam Plans Inorganic Growth
The acquisitions would help the company to make footprint in the US and other developed markets where Cyberoam is yet to make a dent
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Cisco Releases Security Specialist Certification In India
The Cisco Security certification portfolio now supports six key technologies with certifications for these Security Specialists including Cisco IPS Specialist, Cisco NAC Specialist, Cisco ASA Specialist, and the new Cisco IOS Security Specialist, Cisco Firewall Security Specialist and Cisco VPN Security Specialist
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Astaro Acquires CoSoSys And InspektOnline
The acqusitions would add endpoint protection and log management to Astaros existing capabilites
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Trend Micro Intros Reward for Sales Execs
Trend Micro has introduced the Trend Reward Program for the sales executives of its small business partners
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WatchGuards India Plans For 2011
The company will work with large SIs and telcos for government, education and BFSI segments, and tier two partners for manufacturing
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RSA Firms Security For SMB
The company has launched RSA Authentication Manager Express, a risk-based and on-demand authentication system designed for up to 2,500 end users
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MIEL Intros Managed Endpoint Security For Rs.35
The service, an agentless architecture, scans endpoints based on best practices and gives compliance reports
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ESET NOD 32 AV Gets ICSA Certification
This is the first anti-malware product to receive Mac certification from ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business
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Trend Micro to Pump up the Volume
Security vendor Trend Micro aims to triple its volume business and has recently signed Neoteric Infomatique as national distributor
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IDC Ranks Cyberoam as UTM Market Leader in Q3 2010
The company recorded a market share of 23.5 percent, with factory revenue of $2.71 million out of the total India UTM appliance market size of $11.52 million
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Trend Micro Boosts Encryption With Mobile Armor Acquisition
Trend Micro's acquisition of Mobile Armor will give the company a leg up in the mobile encryption space and niche government and health-care markets
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RSA To Protect Indiabulls Securities Trading Platform
RSA will provide Indiabulls Securities with about five lakh SecurID tokens, making Indiabulls Securities as the largest user of this product in the country
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Panda Introduces Global Protection 2011
It will available in more than 23 languages for the Indian users
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We Lead Worldwide Server Security Market Share: Trend Micro
Quoting a recently published report by IDC, the security software vendor announced that it is leading the worldwide market for corporate end-point server security with an estimated 22.9 percent market share
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HCL Infosystems Partners With Astaro
The collaboration will enable Astaro customers to access highly secured cloud framework of HCLs Ozone solution offering
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HID Global Acquires ActivIdentity
The solution provider will now offer identity assurance solutions for private and public sector, worldwide
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VMware: Securing vApps Major Step In Cloud Migration
VMware is building security into virtualized apps, in move to that it hopes will help facilitate a major transition to the public cloud
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Quick Heal Launches QH 2011 Series
With the new release, Quick Heal has introduced a user interface that complements the companys theme for 2011: Freedom to Connect, Surf, Chat, Tweet, Play, Download, Work, Communicate and Shop online
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Trend Micro Debuts Titanium 2011
The software comes with cloud-client technologies to block threats such as infected Websites, phishing attacks, viruses and spyware without slowing down the PC
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Juniper Acquires Virtualization Security Ace Altor
The all-cash deal for Altor marks Juniper's third major acquisition in as many weeks and gives the networking company a virtualization security offering
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Stellar Launches File Wipe v4.0
The software application can wipe unwanted data of varying nature from the Windows systems, leaving it unrecoverable by any means
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Intel Says Businesses Must Do More To Protect Their Mobile PCs
An Intel-sponsored survey shows that most companies surveyed in a recent study have not established basic precautions for data protection and anti-theft detection
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Symantec: Virtualization, Cloud Creating Disaster Recovery Challenges
As more companies move mission critical applications and data into cloud and virtualized environments, they're not paying enough attention to disaster recovery, according to a new Symantec report
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New CA ARCserve For Physical And Virtual Server Environments
The new releases will speed movement of data to failover servers, streamline day-to-day operations and extend application support
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Mobile Telecommunications Announces UGOCAM
Using only an IP camera, the customer can access the live and recorded video from anywhere and at anytime
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Honeywell Introduces End-To-End IP Surveillance Solution
Developed through rigorous testing and validation, the solution comprises a full line of front-end equipment including 3MP and 5MP cameras, 1080P and 720P HD series cameras, D1 SD series cameras, network speed dome and single, 4 and 16-channel encoder/decoder
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Symantec Appoints Ajay Goel As New MD
A month after Vishal Dhupar quit Symantec, the storage and security vendor has announced the name of Ajay Goel as India MD
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Symphony, Sybase To Develop Mobile Management And Security Solutions
Alliance enables Symphony to offer its customers more effective and secure manage mobile device deployments, with remote security and on-boarding and off-boarding capabilities
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Sophos Announces Free Anti-Virus Home Edition For Mac
The Mac anti-virus product provides automatic detection against existing and new threats for Mac OS X
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Intel Capital Invests $20 Million In Education Tablet Vendor Kno
Intel has said it will invest $20 million in Kno, a Silicon Valley-based education software and tablet hardware vendor, as part of its plan to develop Atom-based purpose-built tablets for various verticals markets
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Digilink Acquisition: More Positives Than Negatives
CRN Exclusive
Digilink partners have received assurance from Schneider that it will be business as usual and they believe that the acquisition will work positively for them
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Chambers Admits To Disappointing Investors, Confusing Employees
In an internal memo John Chambers told Cisco employees that aspects of Cisco's current "operational execution" are flawed, admitting that Cisco had disappointed its investors, confused its employees and lost some credibility in the market
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Netmagic Develops Next Generation Cloud Computing Platform
The IaaS platform leverages VMwares vSphere and Ciscos UCS solutions
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Dell Cloud Computing Spending Spree Nears $2 Billion
Dell is leveraging on its EqualLogic and Compellent buy which gave the company some of the industry's leading storage virtualization and cloud storage technologies
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South Resellers Raided For Reselling Laptops Stolen In North
CRN Exclusive
Two prominent resellers in Chennai, and one in Bengaluru were raided by the police for their alleged involvement in reselling stolen HP laptops
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Xerox Says Kem Cho To Ahmedabad Resellers
Gujarat with a GDP growth of 11.05 percent has been a strong market for Xerox, and contributes over 15 percent of Xerox volume equipment business.s
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Grewal Replaces Sharma At Gigabyte
Gigabyte India has appointed Sunil Grewal, as Sales Head for India
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VMware Intros New Competency In India
VMware has introduced the Virtualization of Business Critical Applications solution competency for its tier 2 partners in India
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IBM To Launch Cloud Data Center
New facility extends IBMs global cloud delivery capabilities to meet growth market cloud needs of businesses in Asia Pacific
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Smartlink Sells Digilink to Schneider
Smartlink Network Systems has sold its structured cabling business comprising manufacture, sales and marketing of structured cabling products, to Schneider Electric India for Rs 503 crore
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Sunil Dutt Quits HP PSG
CRN Exclusive
Speculations indicate that Dutt has been enrolled by Blackberry to head its India business, while other industry sources suggest that he is launching his own mobile handset business
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HCL Infosystems Launches Range Of ME Tablets
HCL Infosystems has unveiled its new range of ME Tablets with localized content. The company claims that this is the worlds first Tablet with HCL Touch enabling a 24x7 one touch service facility
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FS Recognises Avaya as Global Market Leader in Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions
The company has garnered 35.5 percent to the total advanced premise-based fixed mobile convergence clients shipped in 2010
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TN Channels Hit By Election Freebie Offers
The decision by DMK and AIADMK, Tamil Nadus leading political parties to distribute free laptops to students, if elected has raised concern among the local channel community
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Canon Gets Aggressive To Regain Leadership Position In Laser Printers
Sets target of Rs 678 crore for its Consumer System Products (CSP) division
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Bhaskar Pramanik Joins Microsoft India
The former Oracle MD has been appointed as Microsoft Chairman
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Fujitsu Product Portfolio Now Available Under DGSD RC
Select Fujitsu Lifebook notebooks, Celsius workstations and Eternus storage systems are now available under Directorate General of Supply Disposal, Rate Contract (DGSD RC)
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PBBI To Double Partner Presence In India
The company currently has 100 partners in India, and wants to penetrate the public sector segment
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Nirmal Datacomm Is Now ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company
In a clear urge to drive its business in emerging technologies, NDPL has achieved the ISO 9001:2008 certified and is also a Cisco ASA and a CLSP partner
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Ingram Bets Big On The Cloud
CRN Exclusive
The company has set up a 15-member dedicated team led by Ajit Joshi and inked partnerships with cloud service providers like Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Net Magic, Microsoft, HP and IBM
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Nvidia India Bets On Cloud Gaming
It expects gaming PC market to take off with the trend of cloud gaming catching on with 3G launch
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HP Makes Compliance Stringent For Partners
CRN Exclusive
The company has made changes to its User Verification process in order to stop bid leakage
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Dell Floats Global Commercial Channels
The new business unit will serve as a single-point contact for commercial partners and expedite decision making on key aspects like special pricing, product and price configuration and deal registration
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Acer Appoints Neoteric For Mobile PCs
Acer would leverage the strengths of Neoteric as it plans to introduce a wide range of notebooks and netbooks to its product portfolio under the new AMD Brazos Fusion platform over the next few months
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ViewSonic Launches Eco Friendly Widescreen Monitor
ViewSonic VA 2431 wm LCD monitor is available through all Rashi branches at an MRP of 11,500/- and comes with 3 years Onsite warranty
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HP Introduces Services For Simpler Software Integration
The HP Premier Services add support for custom and third-party software solutions
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Infortrend To Strengthen India Business
To enroll enterprise VARs and SIs in the top 10 cities, also contemplates setting up a local subsidiary
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APC Says Cricket Khelo
APC by Schneider Electric, the power solutions vendor has launched a new promotion for its partners called Cricket Khelo
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WD To Streamline Channel, Recruit More Channel Managers
Taking a leaf out of the CRN Channel Champions survey and also based on the feedback from its internal resources, the company wants to improve its pickup and drop facility in Class B and C cities
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IBM Builds Services, Offers Partner Certifications Around Software Acquisitions
The "Smarter Commerce" initiative is targeted toward what IBM said is a $70 billion market for IT hardware, software and services
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First Round of HP Workstation Business Partners Concludes
Aimed at giving more visibility to the wise range of HP products, Rashee the national distributor of HP conducted first ever ATi based HP workstation meets in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad and Delhi
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Ingram Micro Launches Cloud Forum 2011
Companies such as IBM, Google, Netmagic and Salesforce have discussed trends and technologies with the partners in Pune and Bengaluru so far
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Budget Hike May Affect PC Manufacturing
MAIT has started an intense lobbying exercise at the Center for duty roll- back
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Grid Infocom To Appoint T2 Partners
In a bid to expand its horizon pan India, Grid Infocom, an RSA implementation partner is exploring relationship with the tier two channel in the country
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iON Taps Karnataka SMBs
Besides Bengaluru, other SMB hubs in Karnataka include Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad, Mangalore, Bijapur, Belgaum and Hassan
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Om Nanotech Appoints LSI As National Distributor
LSI will distribute the Zipmem/Dolgix range of products in tier one and tier two cities across the country
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Infosys Standardizes IT Infrastructure At PNB
The band standardized its IT infrastructure on Finacle, and Oracle real application clusters on Oracles Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
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PaaS Will Dominate 2011: Gartner
But as new vendors enter the market, it will be difficult to trace a consistent message, standard or a clear winning vendor
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Dell Signs On Supertron For Server Business
Former national distributors Neoteric and Cyberstar will continue to support Dell and partners on back to back orders
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QA: New Juniper VP Says Partner Marketing Enablement On The Way
Suanne Tierney, the 14-year Cisco veteran who took over as new vice president of global partner marketing for Juniper Networks speaks about her plans to bring marketing muscle to Juniper partners and her first impressions of the Juniper culture
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Juniper Networks Introduces Industrys First Converged Packet Transport Switch
Powered by New Junos Express Chipset, the PTX Series blends optical transport with packet switching to create converged Supercore Switch that can scale upto 3800 terabits
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Logitech Aims 40 Percent Growth In 2011
One of its Web camera model Pro 9000 has been chosen as the only imaging device for the UID project
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Buffalo Unveils Drive Station Duo
Backed with three year replacement warranty, the range features a power saving tool called the Eco Manager that reduces power consumption up to 80 percent
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Jabra Plans To Increase Partners To 100 In 2011
With strong presence in class A cities Jabra plans to spread wings to smaller cities this year
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NComputing Launches All-In-One Desktop Virtualization For SMBs
NComputing on Thursday launched Office in a Box, a desktop virtualization bundle that includes software, licenses, hardware and peripherals for SMBs
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Fujistu Launches Cloud Ready Scanner
The scanner has a marker index function that detects words marked with a highlighter and embeds them as keywords in PDF files
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HCL Launches New PC Range
The new products are amongst the first dual-core PCs in India powered by the new latest 2nd Generation Intel Core family of processors
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LG Introduces Gujarati/Hindi On Screen Display
Introduces Worlds first LED backlit LCD Network Monitor with Gujarati and Hindi on screen Display. Also launches commercial grade LCD Large Format monitors
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IHS iSuppli: Integrated Graphics Chips Will Take Off In 2011
In 2011 integrated graphics processors such as Nvidias Tegra, AMDs Fusion and Intel's Sandy Bridge chips will run inside 50 percent of notebook PCs and 45 percent of desktops worldwide
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Lenovo Debuts Classmate+ Education PC Based On Intel Learning Series Reference Design
Lenovo and Intel on Thursday unveiled their planned collaboration in the global education PC market
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Epson Launches Stylus Pro 4900
The new printer includes Micro Piezo TFP and UltraChrome HDR inkset, features that were available only in Stylus Pro 7900 (24) and 9900 (44) versions
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Digisol Launches Gigabit Ethernet Web-Managed Switch
The DG-GS1526 comes with 52 Gbps switching capacity and wire-speed switching performance designed for high-performance PCs and laptops
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India Printer Copier And MFPs Market Grew 10 Percent In Q42010: Gartner
HP remains the market leader in the India printer, copier and MFP segment with a market share of 55.7 percent, while Canon follows with 24.6 percent market share
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Su-Kam Launches Home UPS System
Priced at Rs 5700, Su-kam Shiny home UPS is compatible with all batteries
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WDs Acquisition Of HGS Gets Mixed Reactions
Says WD needs to be more aggressive on marketing and improve upon its post sales service
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WD Acquires Hitachi Global Storage
Combination of storage companies to create industrys new product portfolio and a significant pool of resources for innovation
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Gartner Forecast Lower PC Shipment In 2011, 2012
Enthusiasm for media tablets is a key factor in Gartner's forecast that the consumer mobile PC market will remain weak in mature markets
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Cisco Announces New Initiatives To Help Cloud, Collaboration Partners
Cisco has announced a series of customer and technology innovations across the Unified Fabric, Unified Computing System and Unified Network Services technology portfolios
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Adata Announces New Scheme
Resellers can win Sodexo vouchers worth Rs 7000 on buying Adata products from the distributors
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Lenovo Bets Big On Relational Business
Lenovo India says that the restructuring of the commercial partner business in first quarter of 2010 has paid rich dividends, and has resulted in Lenovo nearly doubling its commercial PC numbers
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Viewsonic Appoints Rashi As ND
Viewsonic is known for its quality and value pricing, which will be a key part of the branding and marketing strategy for the Indian market
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Gigabyte Launches Student Seminars
Over 2,000 students are expected to attend these seminars to be held at 30 engineering colleges in the next three months
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Kingston India To Restructure Distribution In New Fiscal
Will focus on enhancing presence in the B2B and corporate segments; also wants to reach out to smaller cities
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Strontium Appoints Redington As National Distributor
Redington will help enable and drive business through its partners across the tier-1, tier-2 and tier-3 cities in India
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HP Worlds To Get A Makeover
The company has strengthened its marketing team and is looking at revamping and rebuilding its HP World stores to improve customer experience
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Ricoh Targets Rs 1000 Crore Turnover by 2013
To start its Live Experience Centre in Delhi and Bengaluru by February and March 2011; to invest Rs 20 crore for a media testing lab for customer service
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How Did HP Become Numero Uno?
Many industry leaders were surprised when Gartner India announced that HP snatched back the lost No 1 spot in PC market for Q4 2010 with a market share of 15.8 percent, beating market leader of the previous two quarters --Dell whose market share was just around 13 percent
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Gigabyte Launches No 1 Choice Program
Gigabyte India has announced a new channel program called The No. 1 Choice GVPP
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Netgear To Train Partners On Smart IT
Partners to get training on next-gen switches, storage and business wireless product solutions
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HP Reclaims Top Spot
With a 15.8 percent market share compared to Dells 13 percent, HP India regained its market leadership in the overall PC market in Q4
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Intel Chip Supplies Affected
There has been a shortage of all major Intel desktop processors in the country for the past two weeks, and prices of Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors have gone up by about 10%; OEMs are now buying first generation Core i3, i5 and i7 platforms
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Corsair Launches Rs 2.5 Lakh Dream PC
There is a huge market for Indian partners as a large number of gamers with hardcore 3D games would require mid to high-level gaming PC hardware
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ToshibaTargets Big Growth In 2011
Toshiba India which grew at above 100% in 2010, expects another bumper year in 2011
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Epson To Cross Rs 500 Crore By End FY2010-11
Would focus on segments like home and office, education, health, government, SME and retail to drive the numbers
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Novatium Ropes In Anurag Agrawal As CEO
PC as a Service vendor Novatium has announced the appointment of Anurag Agrawal as Chief Executive Officer of India operations
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AMD Launches Fusion In India
This will also allow AMD partners to offer new form factors on a robust computing platform
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Targus Launches Wanderer
Priced at Rs 4050, the Targus Wanderer backpack is available through Rashi Peripherals
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IBM Retains Top Title In Application Infrastructure
Gartner has named IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the application infrastructure and middleware software segment based on total worldwide revenue for 2010
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IBM Deploys SAP ERP For Caparo India
The solutions are expected to lower upfront investments upto Rs one crore
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Former HP Channel Chief Takes Senior Executive Post At Oracle
A few weeks after leaving HP, Adrian Jones reunites with his old boss and current Oracle president Mark Hurd
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SAP Introduces New Business Solutions
SAP AG has unveiled the 4.0 releases of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, to make the real-time enterprise a reality
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Quest Realigns Business Model
CRN Exclusive
Infrastructure management software (IMS) vendor, Quest Software has moved from the four SBU model to six solutions based SBU model
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SAP B1 For Poultry, Livestock
Poultry360 is a configurable solution that enables organizations to solve complex business challenges make informed decisions and provides a 360 degree view of their operations
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We Hope For Smooth Transition
Vipul Datta, CEO, Futuresoft Solutions and Vice President, ISODA, in an exclusive interview with Dhaval Valia, spoke about the partners' apprehensions about Microsofts new policy of exclusively selling Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Select licensing through Large Account Resellers (LARs)
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Microsoft Releases Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
The new release can scale upto 150,000 concurrent users in a single instance
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QlikTech, Logica Partner For BI
The two companies have planned initiatives to incorporate QlikTech into global solutions for enterprise customers
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VMware Unveils Zimbra 7
It features new data sharing capabilities, expanded calendaring and search functionality, and upgraded management features for both IT and end-users
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UPES And IBM Partner For B.Tech in IT
IBM and UPES will up-skill students on technologies which are in demand in the oil gas, retail, healthcare and insurance sectors; and also open source software and the open standards
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Microsoft, SAP Launch SAP-Microsoft Unite Partner Program
The program will help partners of both companies increase their business opportunities more effectively through a better understanding of Microsoft and SAP joint solutions and product road maps
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Red Hat Brings New Executives On Board
The company has appointed Anuj Kumar as Country General Manager and Jagjit Singh Arora as Director, Enterprise Sales
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SaaS Gaining Ground In The SMB Channel
While the partners are targeting customers in the manufacturing and accounting verticals, education and vertical will top their area of focus in 2011-12
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Systime Is Oracles Partner Of The Year
Systime has achieved Oracles Advanced Specialization for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial Management and is now being recognized by Oracle for its abilities and solutions in Oracle Fusion Middleware
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IBM's Big Focus On Software
Along with its distributors—Ingram, Redington and Avnet—the company has created a dedicated team of 40 to drive overall software sales in smaller cities and promote cross-sales among STG partners in 20 cities
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Microsoft Launches Cloud-based CRM Online
Available in Hindi, Microsoft is offering a 30-day trial to both customers and partners. The company has also launched an aggressive program to convert Salesforce.com and Oracle customers
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Microsoft Launches WebMatrix
Targeted toward the students, Wed agencies and professional developers, the free Web development tool makes it easy to create, customize and publish a Website
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SpectraSoft Is SAP Partner Center Expert
The certification validates SpectraSofts credentials in provisioning scalable and effective support management for SAP Business All in One and Business Objects customers
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Microsoft Partner Intros ERP For Leather Industry
The ERP-Leather Export Samadhan will enable the leather industry achieve efficiency, low wastage, predictable deliveries and happier customers
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IDC, CyberMedia to End Long-standing Relationship
Effective February 28, 2011, the two companies will move forward on their individual paths after a long-lasting and mutually beneficial partnership
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Salesforce Acquisition Aims To Make Chatter More Like Facebook
Saleforce spends $31 million to buy Dimdim, a developer of real-time communications software
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Microsoft Issues Warning On Security Glitch In Older Windows Releases
Microsoft has said that the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP has a security vulnerability and that it is developing an update to address the problem
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Electrotherm Chooses Microsoft Tech To Accelerate Growth
The deployment of Microsofts IT solutions will integrate businesses and improve collaboration through relevant and cost effective solutions
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Mobile Virtualization Might Soothe IT's Smartphone Headaches
Mobile virtualization could help IT departments deal with one of their most persistent challenges: Allowing workers to use their personal mobile devices in business scenarios
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Salesforce Acquires Near-Shuttered Etacts
Salesforce adds e-mail contact management to its cloud CRM portfolio with the acquisition of Etacts
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IT Security Will Enable Cloud Adoption In 2011: CA
Security leaders see insider threats, nation state attacks and cloud security on tap in 2011
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Apple Partners Expect Mac App Store To Boom
Apple's reseller partners see the upcoming Mac App Store as a logical next step given the success Apple has had with the iOS App Store
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Virtualization, Cloud Add Complexity To DR: Symantec
Symantec research reveals gap in downtime expectations versus reality among Indian enterprises
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Oracle's New Office App Suites Target Microsoft, Google
The new Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 and Oracle Open Office 3.3 suites are based on the Open Document Format standard for compatibility with Microsoft Office
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Stellar Launches Speed-Up Mac 1.0
The software tool gets rid of all the unwanted files and applications that eat up space on Mac drive, and thereby optimizes the hard drive performance
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Oracle Reports Solid Quarterly Growth, With Big Boost From Sun Hardware
Oracle's revenue and earnings for the second fiscal quarter of 2011 showed strong growth over last year, while operating margins of its Sun hardware business did very well
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Oracle's Ellison Kicks Some More Sand In HP's Face
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took more shots at HP during his company's Q2 earnings call, touting the superiority of Oracle's Exadata line and calling out HP for its puny software business
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Gartner Warns Hosting Not Synonymous With Cloud, SaaS
As the cloud computing services and SaaS markets grow, some suppliers are saying their hosting, application management and application outsourcing solutions are cloud and SaaS, according to a Gartner report
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IDC: 15 Percent of IT Spending Will Be Tied to Cloud in 2011
Cloud computing will be the big story in the IT industry next year as VARs, end users and vendors move from the early adoption stage to mainstream, according to IDC
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Red Hats New Strategies For Enterprise And SMB
To target the large enterprise, the vendor is expanding partnerships with its advanced business partners
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5 Reasons HP Should Acquire SAP
Leo Apotheker, HP's new CEO and former CEO of SAP, publicly stated that HP needs to invest in its software business. That could make SAP a logical acquisition target for HP
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CA's Cloud Computing Acquisition Spree Will Continue Into 2011
CA will continue its streak of cloud computing acquisitions into 2011 as the company looks to become a cloud superpower and build an army of managed service providers
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Oracle To Discontinue Itanium based Integrity Servers. HP Comes To The Rescue
HP said that it is shocked that Oracle would put enterprises and governments at risk while costing them hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity in a shameless gambit to limit fair competition
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QNAP Launches NAS Server For SMB
Available for Rs 48,000 excluding taxes the TS-412U features energy-efficient Marvell 1.2GHz CPU and 256MB of DDRII memory
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HDS Ropes In Redington
Hitachi is expected to reach a wider set of value added resellers through this move
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IBM To Double Storage Champs
The company will leverage its triple play of hardware, software and services
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Rainmaker provides ITaaS, IaaS, PaaS and Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) to users
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The suite of data center infrastructure management solutions provide point-and-click access to asset information
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Available in two capacities 2TB and 4TB, the device offers instant storage expansion and file access on home network and over the Internet
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SSDs Gaining Ground In Storage, Servers, Notebooks
High-performance and mission-critical applications have customers increasing their use of SSD and Flash memory module technologies
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Teradata To Acquire Aprimo
The strategic move will combine data warehousing, and analytics and integrated marketing management to help corporations drive growth and profitable business engagements
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Data Center Networking Equipment Sales Will Be Up 67 Percent In 2010
Virtualization, video and storage needs all breathing life into the data center networking equipment market, according to Infonetics Research
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Dells planned Compellent buy will bring conflict to its partnership with EMC, but the upside makes it all worth it, said the company's top storage executive
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The channel partners have welcomed Dells move to acquire Compellent Technologies
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Dell and Compellent are negotiating a possible merger, one that would make Dell a strong storage vendor and beef up its solution provider business, but that could finally rupture its relationship with EMC
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HP Indias IPG Business Bounces Back In Q3 2010
The top four vendors, HP, Canon, Epson and Samsung, accounted for 94 percent of total shipments in the market in Q3 FY2010-11
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An affordable blade server technology, BX400 provides high reliability and increased productivity. It also saves time and costs for mid-sized companies
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Stellar Builds Its Services Portfolio
The data recovery player has enhanced its technology to recover data from Solid State Disk (SSD)
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Adata To Offer Channel Scheme For India Subsidiary Opening
Resellers stand to win additional gifts on the purchase of certain quantities of Adata USB drives, on purchases made between November 17 to December 16, 2010
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EMC's Ambulos Adds Global Channel Ops To Duties
This month, Greg Ambulos, who has worked to build a large and growing channel base for EMC in the Americas, is adding global channel responsibilities to his job description
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Apple Killing Xserve Server Line, Asking Clients To Consider Mac Pro, Mac mini
Apple will no longer sell its Xserve server line after January 31, 2011, and in the meantime is transitioning customers to the less-business-oriented Mac Pro and Mac mini lines
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Kingston Appoints Ingram Micro As ND For DRAM
The vendor has chalked out an aggressive sales plan to leverage on Ingrams channel network, create a strong channel pull and have an end-user connect
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Intel To Bundle Symantec Backup Express With Servers, Motherboards
Intel next month plans to resell full versions of Symantec's Backup Express 2010 data protection software to system builders who purchase Intel servers and motherboards
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Dell Power Portfolio To Target Technology Refresh Among SMBs
It also announced the global availability of OEM Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 that helps customers consolidate servers, proactively monitor systems, and manage hardware, software and services through a unified console
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HDS Launches New Content Platform For Cloud Storage
Hitachi Data Systems unveiled a new version of its Hitachi Content Platform along with an appliance for storing and managing unstructured content in remote office and private and public cloud implementations
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Boston Unveils Server, Storage, Workstation And Hybrid GPUs
The products unveiled include Venom 1U 3D workstation; Igloo NXStor and BOXX Technologies Render Pro
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Belkins Magic Pot Of Sodexo Passes
Channel partners can get Sodexo gift passes worth up to `42,000, which can be redeemed for rewards of their choice
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Tata Communications Expands Its Cloud Portfolio
The company has launched InstaCompute and InstaOffice to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application and data center infrastructure services
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Cisco Upgrades And Virtualizes Its Borderless Network Architecture
A key element of the new architecture is Application Velocity, which will offer a boost in performance, virtualization and application-aware networking
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Net4s New Virtual Private Server
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DC operators need to measure building, electrical facilities, building facilities, racks, IT hardware and virtual machines to obtain a real time usage picture of the energy being consumed
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Interop 2010: New Approaches To Data Center In Enterprises
NetApp Indias Surajit Sen offered that with de-duplication, thin provisioning, thin replication, virtual clones and double party RAID, storage managers can boost efficiency of their existing setups and reduce storage spending
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Interop 2010: No Alternative To Setting Up Private Clouds
Unveiling nuances of a report on information growth in enterprises, EMCs Manoj Chugh said that though enterprises may not be aware, but they are already on the journey to the private cloud
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Raritan Power IQ 2.0 Helps Data Center Conserve Energy
New version of Power IQ introduces advanced energy saving technologies for data center managers, enabling them to safely meet new industry-recommended temperature settings and remotely shut down underutilized servers
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Knitlogix will market Dot Hill fibre channel and iSCSI RAID arrays to enterprises and government organizations
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Transcend Revamps SSDs
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Spectra Logic Introduces Enterprise Tape Library
It offers multiple, redundant robots, scaling to more than 45PB in a single library and to more than 180PB in a single, unified library complex
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3PAR Expands India Presence With Apara Partnership
This partnership authorizes Apara to sell the 3PAR InServ Storage Server and 3PAR InForm Software and to provide integration and training services designed around 3PAR Utility Storage across India
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Sun Executive Joins Brocade as New MD
Unnikrishnan will drive marketing, and bring the Brocade One unifying network architecture and strategy to the Asia-Pacific market
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HP Announces Flexible Data Center
The patent-pending HP Flexible DC offers a standardized, modular approach to designing and building data centers that allows clients to replace traditional data center designs with a flexible solution
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Redington India will sell both Imation and TDK Life on Record products
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Rashi Announces Gold Incentive Scheme On AData Products
Purchases made between September 18 and September 30 will entitle Rashis partners to win between 2 gm to 10gm of gold based on a fixed slab
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Brocade Appoints Rajesh Kaul As Regional Sales Director
Kaul will lead Brocades overall business and operations in India
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HP Unveils ProLiant MicroServer For Small Businesses
Designed for companies with less than 10 employees, MicroServer enables users to access, share and secure critical business information
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MSI Introduces F Series Notebooks
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Dell Announces Partner Storage Summit Initiative
These summits will be organized on a regular basis with the aim to develop a loyal network of storageled solution providing partners by delivering a differentiated value-add to these partners and facilitating expansion into the storage market
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HP, 3PAR Sign Merger Agreement
HP and 3PAR officially sign the merger agreement under which HP will acquire 3PAR for $2.35 billion
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Allied Telesis To Focus on Healthcare
Allied Telesis a provider of networking infrastructure, would focus on the healthcare segment in India in 2011
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Array Intros APV Series Of ADCs
The company claims that the new APV Series appliances provide 50-300% better performance than similarly configured and comparably priced alternatives
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Emerson Network Power Appoints New Channel Head
The company has announced the appointment of Ausim Khan as the country manager for the India channel business
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RM India To Appoint Resellers
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New Cisco Certifications To Drive GRC
Each exam would cost $150, but the certification would give them recognition as skilled people who can take the jobs as managed wireless or managed security service providers
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Netgear Expands Smart Business Solutions To SMBs
Launches ProSafe 24-port 10 GE managed L2+ switch, a 10 Gbps switch that enables businesses to accelerate their datacenters to enterprise class speed at lesser cost
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Customers and partners can marry application traffic intelligence with threat and risk management platforms, virtual management platforms and custom solutions for reporting, billing, and SLAs
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Tikona to Acquire HCL Infinet
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D-Link India Moves To Green HQ
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VNPL Partners Enterasys
Virtual NetComm will distribute the entire range of Enterasys in India and South East Asia
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Trendnet Pens Aggressive India Strategy
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Cisco Signs Neoteric For Consumer Range
Aims to further expand into tier-2 and tier-3 cities
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Targus Now Elite Partner For Juniper Networks
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D-Link Unveils New Green Switches
With its two new switching products, the vendor hopes to achieve compliance with a new international carbon footprint standard
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Cisco Rolls Its Eyes At HP Switch Trade-In Program
Cisco shrugs off HP's Catalyst for Change trade-in program, while HP solution providers applauded the vendor for its timing and aggressiveness
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Cisco Announces Borderless Profithon Program
The program is designed to reward partners and to drive awareness for Ciscos Borderless Networks Architecture across the SMB and mid-market segment
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Netgear Strengthens Market Position With A Slew Of Launches
The vendor introduced an array of products including router models like N600, WNDR3700, WNCE2001, MBRN3000 and N300, and a universal WiFi Internet adapter
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Siemens Releases OpenScape UC Suite 2011
The new suite can be installed on one server in as little as an hour, and offers one-click collaboration, allowing users to move seamlessly between Web, chat and multi-party desktop videoconferencing
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Cisco Merges Tandberg Partner Program
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Siemens Strengthens Collaboration, Video In UC Suite
OpenScape UC Suite 2011, Siemens' flagship enterprise UC offering, gets an across-the-board update
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Cisco Appoints Rege To Head Data Center Business
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Radware Launches Smart Choice Partner Program
The strategy is touted as a smart choice for partners offering simplified structure, competency and solutions-focus and personalized approach
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The new 2 and 4-drive desktop models incorporate new single-core 1.8GHz Intel Atom CPU
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The solution distributes high-quality audio and video content over Cat 5e cable to multiple displays from a single input source
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Microsoft Officially Unveils Latest UC Challenger
Lync is the updated version of Microsoft's former Office Communications Server, promising a new UC channel opportunity for developers, solution providers and integrator partners
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Ciscos Grand Slam For SMB Partners
The vendor will host highest selling partners in India and Saarc in Melbourne for Australian Open 2011
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D-Link Offers Unified Service Router For SMBs
The unified service router D-Link DSR-1000N offers comprehensive traffic management, wireless connectivity, and security with flexible deployment capabilities
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Cisco posts profit and sales gains, but misses its sales targets for Q1 by more than $500 million
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Intel joined the Wireless Broadband Alliance, which promotes the adoption of 3G Wi-Fi roaming worldwide and increased interoperability across networks and devices through common technical and commercial frameworks for wireless technology
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Study: Hosted VoIP Driving Gains For UC Market
Greater adoption of hosted VoIP is helping drive growth throughout the UC market, argues ABI Research
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The Wi-Fi Alliance ushers in the first wave of Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Direct devices
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ExpertONE, an umbrella program through which HP partners can gain certification, will drive how they deliver HP's converged infrastructure vision going forward
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Netgear Announces Diwali Bonanza
The scheme, on till October 31, 2010, is aimed at encouraging authorized partners to over-achieve their targets
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D-Link Announces DPL II
Channel partners can participate in this scheme—valid from October 1 to December 31, 2010—by purchasing directly through D-Link authorized distributors
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Cisco observers see plenty of pitfalls for Umi including not only the price point but also interoperability, broadband coverage and potential service contract headaches
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Kumar has been elevated to the role of Asia Pacific Managing Director for Vertical Enterprise Practice, Cisco Services
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