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Prithvi Info bags Mizoram SDC project Hyderabad based ICT firm —Prithvi Information Solutions— has bagged the Rs 12.5 crore Mizoram State Data Center (SDC) project. The state-of-art project is primarily for the design, site preparation, supply, installation, commissioning, maintenance and operations of the State Data Center at Aizawl.
The initial build phase of this SDC is expected to be completed in six months time, followed by 5 years of Facility Management Services for the Data Center. The proposed SDC will be connected to the State Wide Area Network (SWAN), which will help provide the access to the e-Governance applica-
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tions and services to government employees through Intranet and to the citizens through public Internet and CSC. Earlier Prithvi had bagged SDCs from state governments of Haryana, Nagaland and a Data Center project from MAHAGENCO (Maharastra Generation Company), Mumbai.
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Glodyne Technoserve Acquires Comat Technologies Glodyne Technoserve Limited announced the acquisition of Comat Technologies, another solution provider of e-Governance services in India. Comat has created a niche in the e-Governance sector in the country having worked with governments in using technology to provide services that ensure reach to millions of people and bring efficiency in the processes. Comat acquisition will help Glodyne expand its reach in new states and add several key partner-
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ships and relationships with governments for providing citizen-centric programs. Amongst others, Comat has a pipeline of current projects such as UID services. It has also implemented PDS program which encompasses complete computerisation of the Food and Civil Supplies department covering over 10 million families across Karnataka. Glodyne intends to fully leverage these opportunities to continue to expand its presence in the e-Governance space.
World’s First Green Firewalls With the adoption of Intellienergy Green Technology, one can get upto eighty percent reduction in power consumption. ZyXEL Communications, one of the providers of complete broadband access solutions has come up with the world’s first Green firewall productsUSG-20 and USG-50.The exclusive Intellienergy Green Technology reduces power consumption through the medium of traffic, link status and smart fan. ZyXEL is committed to developing products that protect the environment and also helps its users to reduce their energy costs
without compromising performance. ZyXEL is committed to responsible environmental practices throughout the business and technology, developmental process. With key benefits like secure connectivity, proactive protection, policy compliance, network resilience, manageability, cost-effectiveness, the Unified Gateway Series comprise of key applications like ZyWALL USG clean-traffic architecture and endpoint security which protects against network risks such as viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, spyware, phishing attacks.
Sanovi Tehnologies Bags UID Project Deal Sanovi Technologies Pvt Ltd, announced that it has bagged the disaster recovery management contract for India’s Unique Identification (UID) project, ‘Aadhaar’. As part of the agreement, Sanovi Technologies will provide Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) software that combines monitoring, reporting, testing and drill automation capabilities for this data-intensive UID project. This scalable, industry standards based will be used at the datacenters in Bangalore and New Delhi. “It is a great honor for us to be associated with such a prestigious project of the Government of India like Aadhaar (Unique Identification Project),” said Chandra Sekhar Pulamarasetti, Founder & CEO, Sanovi Technologies.
PNB Focuses on Dedicated IT Innovations Punjab National Bank has announced it would focus on expansion of technology driven services to meet its present requirements. PNB executive director Rakesh Sethi said it is today’s demand to serve customer’s better with technology driven services like internet
banking, mobile banking, SMS alerts, and the bank’s thrust will be on this to maintain its well established position in the market. He added that time and not money “is a major factor today and the bank which shortens the duration of dealing, will be ahead in
competition.” “Customer’s major concern while depositing money is its safety and SMS alert is best system to check the money has been deposited or withdrawn and also decreases likelihood of any fraud,” he said at a press conference here. Sethi said
that the bank’s ATMs will also be strengthened and all the ATMs will be outsourced to a central hub. Earlier, Sethi inaugurated a door step banking service, under which, cash will collected from customers from their doorsteps and deposited to their accounts.
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