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Digital India Way to Developed India

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It is a very good time for India as the top business men including Mukesh and Anil Ambani, Azim Premji and Sunil Mittal, shared dais with Prime Minister Modi when he launched ‘Digital Week’ and promised to connect 2,50,000 villages by 2019.

Digitalisation aims to bridge India’s digital divide, bringing in large investments in technology manufacturing. As per PM Modi Digital India as a roadmap to change India’s future. He gave an example that a child used to playfully with phones and that means he understands this change or the world will pass us by.

‘E-Governance is going to change into M-Governance. Chairman Mukesh Amabani of Reliance Industries Ltd. explained that his company plans to invest about 2.5 lakh crore ($39.3 billion) in digital initiatives. He said, “Normally, industry moves faster than government but with Digital India, I have no hesitation in saying the government has moved faster.”

But the push to connect India and drive a national fibre optic network, approved by the previous Congress-led government in 2011, has made slow progress in utilizing technology to bring services and deliverables to those outside large towns and cities.

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that during Digital India Week, the government expects “billions of dollars in investment”, critical for a government that needs to create more jobs quickly.

The government plan aims to stop net imports of technology and electronics by 2020, while creating over 100 million jobs.

A growing economy and falling handset prices make India one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world, and PM Modi wants to harness that to drive social development in fields like education and health.

The challenges are many. India’s average internet speed was ranked 115th globally earlier this year among countries studied by services provider Akamai Technologies. And India had just a little over 100 million broadband subscribers at the end of April.

At the event today, Cyrus Mistry said the Tata Group would hire 60,000 IT professionals this year, and Kumaramangalam Birla said his Aditya Birla Group will invest Rs.44, 500 crore ($7 billion) in the next five years in the infra and digital space. ë

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CONTENTS VOLUME 03 ISSUE 05 JUNE 2015 W W W. E N T E R P R I S E C H A N N E L S . C O M

2015 COVER STORY

STORAGE COMPLEXITY TO DRIVE NEWER

SOLUTIONS

As storage moves towards commoditization, partners need to focus on solving customer pain points through innovative storage management solutions. /16

ENTERPRISE STORAGE /19

HP Unveils Innovations for All Flash Storage Array BARUN LALA DIRECTOR, STORAGE, HP INDIA

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Most Businesses Will be Software-Driven in 36 Months

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EUROTECH TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES STANDALONE HD DVR SERIES – SURVEILLANCE

CASE STUDY Adani Adopts Matrix Access Control and Time-Attendance Solutions /29

Eurotech Technologies launches 4,8,16 & 32 Channel standalone HD – DVRs.

SUNIL MANGLORE, MD, CA TECHNOLOGIES, INDIA

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NASSCOM Sets-Up Cyber Security Task Force To Build India As The Cyber Security Hub R. CHANDRA SHEKHAR PRESIDENT, NASSCOM

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STREET TECH MAHINDRA RECOGNIZED AS ‘PREFERRED DESIGN HOUSE’

Tech Mahindra has been recognized as a Preferred Design House for automotive safety critical applications for the Asia Pacific region by Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific, a leading semiconductor company that offers semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central challenges to modern society: energy efficiency, mobility, and security for automotive, industrial, computing and digital security Market segments. The recognition followed by establishment of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) where automotive embedded engineering solutions in the area of active safety and passive safety will be developed based on Infineon innovative multicore microcontroller architecture.

GARTNER POSITIONS INFORMATICA AS A LEADER IN 2015 MAGIC QUADRANT Gartner has positioned Informatica as a leader in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement report (published June 16, 2015), based on ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to the Gartner report, structured data archiving addresses storage optimization, governance, cost optimization and data scalability. It (storage optimization) can reduce the volume of data in production and maintain seamless data access. The benefits of using this technology include reduced capital and operating expenditures, improved information governance, improved recoverability, lower risk of regulatory compliance violations, and access to secondary data for reporting and analysis.

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PM launches Smart Cities Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched three mega flagship schemes aimed at transforming urban India, including the much talked about Smart Cities proposal, with a whopping Rs 4 lakh crore kitty having been lined up for the projects.

Modi also unveiled logo of the housing mission, which has his personal touch in the finalisation of its design.

Speaking at the event, Modi said, “40% of our population stays in cities. How can they get better quality of life at a time when everyone is looking at India,” asked Modi at a gathering of mayors and heads of urban local bodies from around 500 Indian cities.

“We cannot leave our poor to their fate. It is our responsibility,” he said. “This is the first time that in India that we are planning to develop 60 cities simultaneously.” Stressing on the people’s plan he said, “The decision to make cities smart will be take not by governments but by the people of the city, the local administration.”

He maintined, “The decision to make cities smart

will be taken not by governments but by the people of the city, the local administration. Let there be competition between cities in development so that smart cities come up.”

“Private property developers should not decide how a city should grow; it should be decided by residents and city leadership,” said Modi Stating that this is the first time in India we are planning to develop 60 cities simultaneously, Modi added, “This is not just a paper based programme.

Stake holders of all kinds have been consulted, including financial world. This Government is committed to safeguarding the rights of the consumers at all times.”

The three projects -- 100 smart cities, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Housing for All - will ring in a new urban era, which will entail an investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore in the next five years.

The prime minister also unveiled logo of the housing mission, which has his personal touch in the finalisation of its design.

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Despite challenges Big Data Delivering Key Benefits to Organization The results of a Global Study ‘The State of Big Data Infrastructure: Benchmarking Global Big Data Users to Drive Future Performance’ commissioned by CA Technologies has revealed Enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to around 90 percent companies despite noted challenges in implementation.

Organizations are experiencing or anticipate seeing, more effective targeted marketing and selling campaigns. Additionally, 88 percent see or anticipate increased revenue, despite 92 percent of respondents citing obstacles to their Big Data projects.

The study revealed the top five major obstacles to overcome for successful big data project implementation, that include insufficient existing infrastructure (32 percent), organizational complexity (27 percent), security/compliance concerns (26 percent), lack of budget/resources (25 percent), and a lack of visibility into informa-

tion and processes (25 percent).

According to the survey, companies see Big Data as an important aspect of digital transformation in the application economy. Respondents report already seeing, or anticipating, benefits of increased revenue (88 percent), improved competitive positioning (92 percent), ability to provide new products or services (94 percent), and more effective targeted marketing campaigns (90 percent).

Additional key findings reveals that virtually all respondents acknowledge that major investments are required to allow their Big Data projects to work well. More than half of respondents see scaling existing projects to address more data sources as a major priority for their Big Data projects. The majority of Big Data projects are independent, with one in five organizations having a project limited to a single department or area.

‘DATA DEFICIT’ IS A CFO’S ENEMY Over 46 percent of CFOs rely on “gut-feel” and instinct to make business decisions in lieu of fast access to accurate internal data, a practice that can delay decision making, introduce errors, and erode profitability.

The research reveals that an inability to access the right financial information is having a direct impact on business performance and CFOs’ reputations. Of those polled, 45 percent say poor data hampers timely decision making, and inaccurate information is the main cause of organizational mistakes.

Survey results demonstrate that a lack of financial information was also shown to negatively affect corporate profitability. The more the CFO relies on empirical data for decision making, the greater the chances of higher profitability.

“Today’s business realities necessitate fast action and systems to support effective decision making. Mobile, social, analytics and many other technological innovations can assist organizations in this area,” said Malcolm Fox, vice president, product marketing financial management and services industry solutions, Epicor Software.

ADOBE UNVEILS CREATIVE CLOUD 2015 Adobe launched its flagship Adobe Creative Cloud tools and services.

The 2015 release of Creative Cloud includes major updates to Adobe’s industry-defining desktop tools, including Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC and InDesign CC; as well as new connected mobile apps for iOS and Android.

The company also shipped Adobe Stock, the industry’s first stock content service to be integrated directly into the creative process and the tools creative use every day8. In addition, Adobe announced an expanded Creative Cloud enterprise offering that includes enterprise-grade administration, security, collaboration and publishing services for design-driven brands and businesses.

Adobe has released Brush CC, Shape CC, Colour CC and Photoshop Mix on Android for the first time, bringing connected mobile workflows to millions of creative worldwide.

Adobe has also updated many of its popular Creative Cloud mobile apps for iPhone and iPad, including Adobe Comp CC, Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Sketch, Illustrator Draw, Brush CC, Shape CC and Colour CC. In addition to these updates Adobe debuted Adobe Hue CC. Hue CC provides an easy way to capture and share production-quality lighting and color schemes -- for video, film and broadcast -- by using an iPhone camera and then applying these light and color moods into a Premiere Pro CC or After Effects CC project.

BLUE COAT POSITIONED AS LEADER BY GARTNER FOR SECURE WEB GATEWAYS Blue Coat has been positioned in the “Leaders” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways (SWG), 2015 by research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. For the eighth consecutive year, Gartner has recognized Blue Coat as a leader in the Secure Web Gateway category.

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Gartner evaluated vendors on their ability to execute and completeness of vision of their products in the SWG market.

Blue Coat’s Secure Web Gateway is the foundation of architecture for best-in-class security, providing real-time intelligence and policy-driven security capabilities.

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Broad and flexible deployment options give customers the ability to consistently apply security policy

and techniques for users worldwide. The integration of Blue Coat’s on-premise technologies with its cloud infrastructure provides customers the flexibility to leverage their security technology investments and apply them consistently while preserving user experience and reducing cost.

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Dell Unveils Application T-SIP in India Dell Services has launched its Application Testing Startup Incubator Program (T-SIP) in India.

The program is designed to connect budding entrepreneurs to Dell’s strong application testing services organization to help build new and potentially disruptive testing solutions. The program will cover testing for security, mobile, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, along with Testing-as-a-Service and crowd testing.

Under T-SIP, startups chosen through the selection process can connect with Dell’s technology evangelists for advice and consulting, and get help in creating their Intellectual Property (IP), to enhance their business. Three startups will be selected for incubation in the first phase.

“Application testing services have today emerged as an exciting and fast growing technology space. This industry is at an inflection point where developers and testers are no longer working in isolation; they are collaborating more to benefit end users,” said Dhiraj Sinha, Executive Director, Application Testing, Dell Services, “We believe that this program will offer multiple benefits to both startups and Dell’s customers. Innovative startups can scale quickly and significantly by teaming up with Dell. For Dell, this program will help us explore ways to strengthen our service offering to improve cycle time and quality, and pass on cost reductions to our customers.”

HCL INFOTECH WINS SKOCH AWARDS FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION HCL Infotech has won two Skoch Order-of-Merit Awards for its formidable contribution in the field of Financial Inclusion at the 40th Skoch Summit - ‘Making India $20 Trillion Economy’, held in Mumbai.

The awards were in the ‘Access to Banking & Financial Services’ and ‘Solution Development’ categories and was presented by Hemant Contractor, Chairman, PFRDA (Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority) to Sandeep Kanwar, Chief Executive, HCL Infotech and Avinash Bector, Head Financial - Inclusion.

HCL Infotech won the Access to Banking & Financial Services award for its outstanding contribution as a technology infrastructure and service partner to nationalized and regional banks, enabling them to offer financial services at an affordable cost to the vast sections of unbanked and under-banked population in remote, rural and urban areas.

The Skoch Awards celebrate human excellence and agents of change in Indian society. The Awards recognize exemplary contribution to salutary transformations in the society and governance.

Sandeep Kanwar, Chief Executive, HCL Infotech Ltd., said, “We are honored to receive this prestigious award in recognition for our contribution to integrate un-banked and under-banked population into the mainstream banking system. Our efforts to universalize banking access and financial inclusion are aligned to the spirit of Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojna.”

IBM ACCELERATE OPEN HYBRID CLOUDS BY ACQUIRING BLUE BOX IBM has acquired Blue Box Group, Inc., a managed private cloud provider built on OpenStack.

Blue Box is a privately held company based in Seattle that provides businesses with a simple, private cloud as a service platform, based on OpenStack. Customers benefit from the ability to more easily deploy workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Financial details were not disclosed.

Through Blue Box, IBM will help businesses rapidly integrate their cloud-based applications and on-premises systems into OpenStackbased managed cloud. Blue Box also strengthens IBM Cloud’s existing OpenStack portfolio, with the introduction of a remotely managed OpenStack offering to provide clients with a local cloud and increased visibility, control and security.

“IBM is dedicated to helping our clients migrate to the cloud in an open, secure, data rich environment that meet their current and future business needs,” said IBM General Manager of Cloud Services Jim Comfort. “The acquisition of Blue Box accelerates IBM’s open cloud strategy making it easier for our clients to move to data and applications across clouds and adopt hybrid cloud environments.”

MICROSOFT VENTURES TO ENGAGE WITH STARTUPS Microsoft Ventures launches new corporate engagement initiative Innovation for Corporates (ICI).

The program aims to work with enterprise businesses to develop and implement different models to attain innovation driven growth by engaging with startups. By acting as a catalyst between the corporates and startups, Microsoft Ventures aims to accomplish

game-changing transformations in the innovation space and take the Indian technology industry to next level.

ICI will initially offer three programs, Namely Market Access Program (MAP), Partner in Acceleration (PIA) and High Performance (Hi-Po) program. Speaking on the occasion, Ravi Narayan – Director at Microsoft Ventures in India said, “We have been

working with various corporates for years to help them with their business problems with innovation from startups. More and more enterprise businesses are looking at us for guidance, and we are positive that institutionalizing our efforts under Innovation for Corporates Initiative (ICI) will help us scale up and help even more businesses.”

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Dell Software Partners with Datawatch for Analytics Dell Software has entered into a new partnership with Datawatch Corporation, continuing the growing momentum of its analytics business by integrating highly interactive visualization and dashboarding capabilities directly into its Statistica advanced analytics platform.

Already known for its robust offering of more than 16,000 analytical options, Statistica now will empower line of business users to stream data into compelling and interactive visual representations to better facilitate the sharing of information and discovery of hidden patterns.

“With our collaboration with Datawatch, in tandem with its aggressive cross-portfolio

integration efforts, Statistica has now become one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use advanced analytics platforms,” said Murli Mohan, Director & General Manager, Dell Software Group.

Statistica delivers a full range of advanced and predictive analytics tools that help organizations predict future trends to identify new customers and sales opportunities, forecast industry shifts, explore “what-if ” scenarios, and reduce the occurrence of fraud and other business risks. The new Statistica visualization and dashboarding functionality is available to users in version 12.7, now generally available.

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EMC RECOGNIZES TOP PARTNERS OF THE YEAR At the 2015 EMC World Global Partner Summit EMC felicitated its top partners. Among the global recognitions, some of India’s leading IT companies, EMC’s customers and partners, bagged prestigious awards for their outstanding contribution to EMC’s business.

Wipro India won the APJ Alliance Partner of the Year and the Global Growth System Integrator of the Year. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was named Global System Integrator Partner of the Year. Dimension Data won the APJ Data Protection Solutions Alliance Partner of the Year. KPIT won the award for Outstanding Transformation Powered by Flash for being an early technology adopter and choosing EMC as its partner for transformation journey the deployment of EMC VCE Vblock and ExtremIO reduced its back up window by 60 per cent and run 1500 virtual desktops on a single rack.

F-SECURE BOOSTS ENTERPRISE SECURITY CAPABILITY WITH NSENSE F-Secure acquired nSense - a privately held

XEROX UNFURLS COLOR PRESS 1000I AT PRINT EXPO 2015

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Xerox has launched digital press – Color Press 1000i at the seventh edition of Print Expo held in Chennai from 12th – 14th June, 2015.

Apart from launching Color Press 1000i, Xerox also launched the Xerox C60 with FFPS DFE based on Microsoft Windows platform and showcased a fleet of state of the art digital printing equipment’s like Xerox Versant 80, Xerox C70 with the latest Fiery FS150 and Xerox Phaser 7800.

With increased automation, the device keeps print environments at peak performance levels.

The 1000i device includes an optional Specialty Dry Ink Station that enhances documents with metallic gold or silver dry inks or applies spot or flood creative effects with clear dry ink.

Commenting on the launch, Balaji Rajagopalan, Executive Director, Technology, Channels & International Distributor Operations, Xerox India, said, “Xerox is the first in the industry to offer Metallic Gold or silver dry ink at rated speed. With this new device and our existing portfolio of digital presses we will storm the digital printing market and further consolidate our market share.”

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vulnerability assessment services and related products to large enterprises. nSense provides service providers and other large enterprises, and F-Secure’s acquisition of the company will add these services to its own leading security solutions.

The acquisition unites two companies recognized as innovators and trusted advisors in cybersecurity. F-Secure is the only vendor in the world that has won the Best Protection Award from the independent AV-TEST Institute four years in a row.

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VMWARE UNVEILS NEW SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS MOBILITY

STRENGTHEN With Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) totaling $2.27bn since Jan 2011, technology majors as well as large Indian ‘Unicorns’ are likely to continue

VMware has outlined its vision for the future of business mobility with new solutions, services and partnerships to enable organizations to transform business processes. The company’s strategy aims to free businesses from more than a decade of client-server focused IT – which enabled mobile access to a limited number of productivity applications – and now deliver a more user- and application-centric experience for the enterprise. VMware Identity Manager will also be used by other VMware solutions and services – from VMware vCloud Air to VMware vRealize Air – to provide seamless single sign-on for administrators to easily work across various management interfaces. VMware also announced that it is furthering its commitment to Apple and the iOS platform with the development of application configuration templates and vertical solutions, in industries like healthcare, airlines, education and others.

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acquiring Indian Technology product startups to fill technology gaps as well as talent requirements. This was among the key trends to emerge from the Think Next Roundtable Report - 2015 India technology Product M&A Industry Monitor Report released by iSPIRT, India’s software products think tank, technology focused M&A advisory boutique Signal Hill and Microsoft Ventures.

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NTT DATA to acquire Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group (CG).

Combining the two firms will strengthen their ability to provide a full set of lifecycle consulting and IT services that can address complex business issues and deliver strong business outcomes specifically for financial institutions in North America and around the world.

CG is a leading financial services consultancy with a unique blend of industry expertise in consumer and commercial banking, wealth management and capital markets as well as proven consulting experience that delivers results. This expertise, coupled with NTT DATA’s broad technology depth, innovation and global reach, provides clients with a business partner that can help them adapt to changing market dynamics and implement business-based technology solutions that can drive growth and cost efficiencies. “Today’s financial services companies are looking to grow revenue in a market with

increasing regulatory demands and technology savvy customers. They need a partner that not only understands their industry and but can also deliver technology-enabled business outcomes,” said Bob Gallagher, president and CEO of CG. “NTT DATA’s broad IT services portfolio and expertise, along with its innovation and global reach, will enable CG to fully support our client needs.”

“NTT DATA has more than $4 billion in financial services industry revenue from clients around the world and it’s the largest segment of our global business,” said John McCain, CEO of NTT DATA, Inc. “CG supplements our portfolio with deep financial services industry expertise and consulting services and adds blue-chip clients that include 7 of the 10 largest banks in North America. This strategic move positions NTT DATA as a full-service business partner with the scope and scale to help our clients achieve expected business results.”

BARRACUDA LAUNCHES SAAS CLOUD-TOCLOUD BACKUP Expanding on its existing flexible options for businesses to manage their data protection and disaster recovery needs Barracuda has launched Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. Barracuda’s new SaaS backup option, provides customers with the ability to replicate data from supported cloud environments into Barracuda’s Cloud Storage.

Barracuda’s new Cloud-to-Cloud Backup currently supports Microsoft Office 365 including Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business. IT administrators concerned about protecting Microsoft Office 365 environments will be able to replicate data over a secure connection to be stored in Cloud Storage. Lost data can be more easily searched for and retrieved. “As IDC’s worldwide unit leader in Integrated Purpose Built Backup Appliances, extending the value we provide to our customers is always our top priority, which includes giving them flexible options for protecting their data and restoring services quickly in the event of a disaster,” said Rod Mathews, GM Storage, Barracuda.

WIPRO UNVEILS ENTERPRISE-KYC FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Wipro has rolled-out ‘enterpriseKnow Your Customer (e-KYC)’, an automation solution for global financial institutions, built on the company’s Artificial Intelligence platform ‘Wipro HOLMES’. KYC is a business process to verify the identity of customers.

The solution, being offered as Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS), will address the requirements of banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms and non-banking financial institutions, in a ‘services and outcome based’ business model announced the press release.

Wipro HOLMES, addresses key domains in cognitive computing. Software bots built on Wipro HOLMES platform can be used to automate industry specific business processes. Wipro’s e-KYC solution uses a library of Wipro HOLMES bots to automate the manual processes of KYC, such as information aggregation, extraction and verification.

Nagendra P Bandaru, SVP and Global head (Business Process Services), Wipro Ltd, said, “Post the last global financial downturn, regulators have raised the bar on KYC obligations, because a sound KYC process is integral to a robust financial services ecosystem. We are confident that our enterprise-KYC solution will help our customers in the financial services industry fulfill their regulatory obligations in a significantly more effective and efficient manner.”

PERPETUUITI’S NEW R&D CENTER OPENS IN CHENNAI Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft unveiled its new R&D center in Chennai, giving a major boost to its research and development activities.

The new lab will help Perpetuuiti in its innovation efforts, launching products in the emerging area of Artificial Intelligence.

The new facility will play a critical role in developing

competitive products for the global marketplace, creating innovative technology solutions that are well aligned with the various advancements happening in the area of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing.

The expanded R&D centre will not just facilitate the development of Perpetuuiti’s new products,

but will also provide value-added solutions to existing and potential customers. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Rohil Sharma, CEO, Perpetuuiti, said, “In the fast-moving technology space, it is imperative to keep innovating and remain nimble to adapt to new business and technological changes across the world. We believe R&D will help

us in innovating new products and solutions for the BCM/ IT industry so that we continue to be Innovation Leaders and have competitive edge. The expanded R&D lab in Pune will give a major boost to our innovation and product development capabilities, which will in turn help us Being Preferred Partner of Choice.”

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Cisco’s New Offerings Embeds Security Everywhere Cisco has released new offerings to embed security throughout the extended network – from the data centre out to endpoints, branch offices, and the cloud – for pervasive threat visibility and control.

Cisco is launching the following set of solutions across the entire networking portfolio that include AnyConnect Featuring Cisco AMP for Endpoints, FirePOWER Services solutions for Campus and Branch and multiple security technologies into the Network as a Sensor and Enforcer. In addition, Cisco also is announcing Hosted Identity Services provide a secure and pxGrid Ecosystem.

To address service provider needs for an open,

flexible and programmable infrastructure, Cisco is expanding advanced threat-centric protection for its Evolved Programmable Network (EPN).

“By integrating ‘Security Everywhere’ throughout the extended network and through cloud-delivered services, Cisco is protecting a wider array of attack vectors. This also provides enterprises and service providers with the confidence that they have the continuous and retrospective visibility and control to support new technologies and business opportunities in the Internet of Everything and the Digital Economy,” said David Goeckeler, SVP and GM, Security Business Group.

WEB CLIPS ZEBRA LAUNCHES ONECARE SERVICE PORTFOLIO Zebra Technologies has launched Zebra OneCare, a portfolio of support services that maximize the uptime and availability of Zebra mobile computers, printers, bar code scanners, RFID devices and wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure. The new flexible offering enables partners to grow revenue and expand relevance with end customers announced the press release. Zebra also introduced the Operational Visibility Service (OVS), a new managed service that provides a platform and dashboard for at-a-glance visibility into Zebra mobile device asset performance and operational business performance.

OBJECTROCKET BY RACKSPACE ANNOUNCES FULLY MANAGED

SCHNEIDER SELECTS OPENTEXT CLOUD TO DELIVER B2B WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT

DEDICATED MONGODB SOLUTION

OpenText has been selected by Schneider Electric to enable its global supply chain platform.

Building on the success of its initial implementation, Schneider Electric has expanded its relationship with OpenText, using the OpenText Managed Services as the basis of the company’s global supply chain platform.

Schneider Electric’s common supply chain platform across the group allows for the critical exchange of information between B2B logistics providers worldwide, along with the introduction of new types of processes such as interbank cash transfers.

tion that combines the speed and scalability of

Rackspace has released a dedicated option of ObjectRocket for MongoDB databases, a soluthe ObjectRocket purpose-built platform with fully dedicated hardware and networking for compliance-dependent use cases. This solution can help customers with the performance, security and compliance requirements of highrisk industries such as healthcare, financial services and insurance

MOVEMENTS Openbravo strengthens its team with the hiring of FRANCESCO LETO, who brings over 25 years of international experience in companies like SAP and Oracle.

Kodak Alaris appoints CÁSSIO VAQUERO as the new Regional Director, Information Management division, for Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

SAP gets its new MD in DEB DEEP SENGUPTA for SAP Indian Subcontinent to drive its growth strategy and operations in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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CLOUD EMAIL AND STORAGE Symantec has released new Data Loss Prevention 14 which it claims will give CIOs greater confidence that employees can take advantage of storing information in the cloud without worrying about data loss or theft.

Protection for Personal Cloud File Sync &

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of organisations are still at the first or second level of maturity: Dimension Data studies reveals.

Share: Symantec DLP 14’s endpoint agent also enables the protection of sensitive information for users of personal Cloud File Sync & Share.

Symantec DLP can monitor and prevent users from syncing sensitive work files from their desktop to their personal accounts from cloud services like Box, Microsoft OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox and even email services such as Gmail.

CHANNEL STREET

Matrix Interoperability with Panasonic Matrix Comsec has announced interoperability of SATATYA, its IP video surveillance solution with select models of Panasonic IP cameras.

This interoperability, will offer customers the flexibility to have a wide range of IP cameras to choose from. Enterprise customers need flexibility in implementing video surveillance security due to their complex functioning and geographically scattered operations.

Matrix SATATYA IPVS supports camera configuration in three modes - ONVIF, Brand Model and Generic. This interoperability is a part of Matrix R&D teams’ overall objective of supporting cameras of established brands.

Matrix tested the Panasonic IP Cameras to ensure the highest performance of the camera.

This testing ensures all the features which were

not working on ONVIF will now function smoothly.

The tested list of Panasonic Cameras with Matrix video surveillance solution include K-EWL114L, K-EF134L, BLVP101, WVSF138, BLC-111, BLC-101, WVSW316L, BLVT164W, WVSF135E, WV SP102, WVSF132E, WVST162, BBHCM511 and WVST172 Speaking on the subject, KaushalKadakia, Manager Video Surveillance, Matrix Comsec said “This interoperability is a win-win situation for both the system integrators and customers.

The system integrators now have an opportunity to use the reliable Panasonic cameras with feature-rich Matrix video recorders and software to give a complete solution to the customers.”

GARTNER RECOGNIZER BLUE COAT FOR CONSECUTIVE EIGHT YEARS - SECURITY Gartner recognized Blue Coat System in the ‘Leaders’ Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways (SWG), 2015, for the consecutive eight years. Blue Coat has been evaluated on their ability to execute and their vision on their products in the SWG market.

Blue Coat’s Secure Web Gateway is the foundation of architecture for best-in-class security, providing real-time intelligence and policy-driven security capabilities. Broad and flexible deployment options give customers the ability to consistently apply security policy and techniques for users worldwide. The integration of Blue Coat’s on-premise technologies with its cloud infrastructure provides customers the flexibility to leverage their security technology investments and apply them consistently while preserving user experience and reducing cost.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

POLYCOM ANNOUNCES THREE NEW SOLUTIONS - CLOUD Demonstrating its commitment to driving highly productive collaboration experiences, Polycom has announced three new solutions to its industry-leading Polycom® RealPresence®.

The solutions include: l Polycom® RealPresence® Web Suite, an innovative collaboration software solution that has the power to bring the 1.3 billion Web users together by connecting them to a visual collaboration network with key features of Rich Multi-Content Collaboration, Plug-In Free Experience Virtual Whiteboard/Blackboard and Superior Meeting Experiences. l Polycom® RealPresence® Media Suite, turns any workspace into a media studio. It is a breakthrough easy-to-use recording and webcasting portal that allows users to record, share, stream and playback fullmotion videos during meetings with the simplicity and convenience of a Web browser. l Polycom® RealPresence® Cloud, provides global access to a simple, flexible, mobile-friendly cloud video collaboration service, giving users universal access to video collaboration through easy-to-use, click-to-connect functionality. It will boast the power and interoperability of the Polycom RealPresence Platform through a globally distributed, highly scalable cloud platform.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RELEASES GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY STANDARDS A lot of issues regarding safety and security have recently been talked about; many companies are making wearable and application about such issues. With the technological advancement in every field, Smart24x7 would be focussing around the idea of Internet of Things. According to Gartner, there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the IoT by 2020.

Government of India under the initiative of DoT and TEC, in order to ensure that everyone is following the same standards have created the guidelines of M2M Communications, technologies that allow wired / wireless system to communicate with the devices of same ability.

M2M uses a device (sensor, meter etc.) to capture an ‘event’ (motion, video, meter reading, temperature

etc.), which is relayed through a network (wireless, wired or hybrid) to an application (software program), that translates the captured event into meaningful information According to CP Singh, the Founder of Smart Group, “Safety and security is paramount, and the government has taken various initiatives to safeguard its citizens.

Safety & surveillance ensures a

safe and secure environment, not just limited to video surveillance, emergency response, and technology enabled smart premise. Safety and security M2M applications are relevant to all of the domains such as home, medical and industrial.

M2M has dramatically expanded the scope of available home security and safety products”.

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Knowlarity launces ‘Super Receptionist App’ Knowlarity, announced its new ‘Super Receptionist app’ that allows businesses to view call records on their mobile and track their leads with the touch of a button.

One of the biggest challenges for India’s small business owners is to keep track of calls on their business phone and the opportunity those calls bring. This problem is now being addressed with this Android application, which is available for free download on the Google Play Store.

Power packed with features like business health indicator, call analytics, customer location tracking, click–to-call and a lot more. This app comes with a lifetime subscription and business phone number at no cost along with a few minutes of full service. Further, subscribers don’t have

to worry about the safety of their sensitive business data because this application is connected to servers hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is the most secure and reliable platform in the world for cloud-based services.

“The Super Receptionist app will be your personal call manager. It can help handle your calls when you are busy, and filter out the unwanted calls that you do not want to answer.

Business Health Indicator in this app performs complicated data analysis on your call records to let business owners know their efficiency and responsiveness to customer requests. Our solution increases productivity and reduces downtime with rapid access to customer information”, said Ambarish Gupta, CEO of Knowlarity.

MAPR ANNOUNCES ITS COLLABORATION WITH MICROSOFT AZURE MapR Technologies announced at Hadoop Summit that it is working closely with Microsoft to offer the MapR Distribution including Apache Hadoop on Azure. Integration between MapR and Microsoft technologies enables organizations to optimally and efficiently use Hadoop on-demand, in the cloud.

MapR Distribution will allow the customers to deploy MapR directly from the Microsoft Azure Market place, transfer data between MapR and Microsoft SQL Server services within Azure and deploy MapR-DB, the MapR in-Hadoop NoSQL database, to support a wide variety of real-time use cases and deployment scenarios.

As part of the agreement, MapR will fully support deployment of its top-ranked NoSQL database, MapR-DB on Azure. “Azure simplifies the on-ramp to the cloud and is the perfect match with our production-ready Hadoop Distribution,” said Steve Wooledge, vice president, product marketing, MapR Technologies. “Organizations use MapR to impact businessesas-it-happens’ through automated processes that shorten data-to-action cycles – and we are now extending that value to Azure’s customers.” “Microsoft is committed to continuous innovation to make Azure the best cloud platform for running hyper-scale big data projects,” said T.K. “Ranga” Rengarajan, Corporate VP, Data Platform at Microsoft.

CA TECHNOLOGIES API MANAGEMENT HELPS DRIVE BUSINESS GROWTH A study titled ‘The Total Economic Impact Of CA Technologies CA API Management’ conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissions by CA Technologies reveals that CA API Management helps drive business growth with 97 percent time improvement to deploy apps that require integration with multiple data sets—going from 90 days to three days using CA’s API solutions.

The study shows 94 percent of business executives agree they faced increase pressure to release apps more quickly. API is used to help speed app development and delivery. It delivers cross-functional benefit across a variety of users including the developer building the apps, the business executive who owns the new business service and enterprise architect responsible for managing and securing the API. It helps companies meet the surge in demand to deploy apps quickly while also reducing the time and effort required managing APIs and deliver tangible return on investment (ROI) for customers. “APIs are a cornerstone for innovation and business growth in the application economy. Given the current business dynamics, organizations need to constantly look for new ways to engage with their key stakeholders including customers, partners & employees to generate revenue opportunities using connected devices, big data & analytics.” said Vic Mankotia, vice president, Security and API Management, Asia Pacific & Japan.

FUJITSU DEVELOPS DATA TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY TO SPEED UP REMOTE FILE ACCESS Fujitsu Laboratories has produces a data-transfer technology that increases the speed for accessing files on remote enterprise filesharing servers. In file sharing, files are stored on server connected to a network and multiple clients can share the same files which are used by enterprises to share informa-

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on both the client and server that accelerates data transfers.The server-side module identifies when a folder containing multiple files starts to download and read-ahead on the client proxy the batch of all the files downloaded. These readahead files are bundled together and transmitted to the client-side

module and the client-side module then replies to a request to get data with its server proxy. l In this way, the amount of communications generated by obtaining file attributes, such as multiple file names and file sizes, is greatly reduced, as are the delays influenced by network latency.

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etting big on India Cisco said it is committed towards India becoming a world leader in manufacturing to support ‘Digital India’ vision and will invest USD 60 million.

Every year Cisco pumps in USD 1.7 billion in India, and with its annual India revenue standing at USD 1.1 billion Cisco expects it to grow in double-digits over the next four-five years.

We are betting on India in a big way,” announced John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco, at a press gathering held in Delhi. “India plays a pivotal role in the company’s overall growth, innovation and talent strategy, and we plan to make direct and indirect investment of up to USD 20 million to train an additional 120,000 students in India by 2020. We are also making an investment of an additional USD 40 million for the next phase of expansion in India.”

“We are committed to manufacturing in India,” said Chuck Robbins, incoming CEO, Cisco, “When we met Prime Minister Narendra Modi he said why not make India your home. He understands Technology... We are excited at the vision India has. The Indian government’s vision for a Digital India is truly transformative and will create huge opportunities for the country and its citizens.”

To help accelerate the development of India’s electronics manufacturing ecosystem, Cisco will organize the Cisco Design and Innovation Conference in Bengaluru in February 2016, to bring together over 75 of Cisco’s key suppliers and partners to drive collaboration on product development and IoE enabled supply chain technology.

As part of Cisco’s commitment to accelerating India’s digital transformation, the company will

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“India plays a pivotal role in the company’s overall growth, innovation and talent strategy, and we plan to make direct and indirect investment of up to USD 20 million to train an additional 120,000 students in India by 2020.” expand the Cisco Networking Academy program to help India increase its pool of highly skilled technology professionals.

Cisco’s USD 40 million investment will go

towards the expansion of its India facility which is spread over 4 million square feet, and designed as a campus-as-a-city for thousands of Cisco employees to work, play and learn. ë

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STORAGE COMPLEXITY TO DRIVE NEWER

SOLUTIONS As storage moves towards commoditization, partners need to focus on solving customer pain points through innovative storage management solutions. n W O R D S : S A N J AY M O H A PAT R A < S A N J AY @ A C C E N T I N F O M E D I A . C O M > â&#x20AC;&#x192; n P H O T O : S H U T T E R S T O C K . C O M

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he digital universe is doubling every two years. But that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a reason for worry for enterprises. They are buying more storage than ever but the problem lies in the management of this data. So while, there has been massive spikes in storage demand, the focus and the opportunity really lies in building solutions that make managing digital data less painful.

According to IDC, Enterprise Storage Solutions would grow at 17 percent in next three years with Flash or SSD Storage individually.

One can feel the promising nature of the market when one considers forecasts from IDC, which stated that we will witness a doubling of the digital universe every two years (about 70 percent per year) up to the year 2020. Enterprise Storage Market is bound to grow with growing arms of IT, Mobile Industry and growing needs of Internet of Things.

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largely focusing on areas such as cloud storage, disaster management as a service, software-defined storage and convergence, hyper-convergence, clustered and hybrid storage service.

Software defined storage revolves around reducing the cost of storage and increase flexibility of the system. As the usage of organization and their users increases, SDS provides matured, real-world models catering to different needs. On the other hand, the ever evolving technologies such as Internet of Things (IOT) and real time conversation applications are resulting in a need for complex clustered storage solutions in order to meet the customized needs.

Converged storage solutions aims at creating a storage architecture which integrates storage and computing hardware providing speedy delivery time, optimize performance, minimize power and cooling requirements, explained Jignesh Upadhyay, Director, Presales â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Service Assurance Solutions, CA Technologies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intention of Converge Storage is to blur the

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BARUN LALA,

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“Enabling choice without compromise requires “polymorphic” storage architectures that can exist in many forms, shapes, and sizes.”

“We always try to provide innovative and customized solutions catering to the plethora of needs of an enterprise.”

DIRECTOR, STORAGE, HP INDIA.

lines between physical, logical and management barriers with storage and retrieval of data.”

Similarly, catastrophic Disasters like hurricane, cyclone, and tsunami are inevitable hence organizations and channel partners prefer to set up their own disaster recovery system in place to reduce the CAPEX Investment.

Explaining their focus on storage management solution, Upadhyay said, “At CA Technologies, we not only aim at providing Enterprise Storage Solutions but also managing tools for Enterprises and Individuals, provide mobile cloud solutions and much more. We always try to provide innovative and customized solutions catering to the plethora of needs of an enterprise.”

The need to access the tremendous volumes of data that’s being generated, with minimal turnaround time has augmented the adoption of flash and hybrid arrays, and more private, public and hybrid cloud storage options, according to Barun Lala, Director, Storage, HP India. “Customers have a mix of applications with differing needs.

For this reason, they need choices—so simplicity cannot mean loss of choice or other compromises. Enabling choice without compromise requires “polymorphic” storage architectures that can exist in many forms, shapes, and sizes,” he said.

Organizations are often willing to make larger

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investments in systems that reduce management complexity, save them time and money in the long term. For these reasons, storage vendors place greater focus on automation. Easier-tomanage storage environments not only reduce storage complexity, but reduce costs in the long run.

According to Lala, consolidation needs coupled with optimization of storage infrastructure due to a sudden increase in both structured and unstructured data is driving organizations to consider solutions and products beyond the traditional route. “High priority on back-up and disaster recovery solutions across organizations due to reasons like compliance and regulations is also expected to generate demand for disk storage solutions.”

According to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Enterprise Storage Tracker 2015, the need for high IOPS for workloads like OLTP, VDI and BI are driving the growth of flash storage across organizations in all verticals and segments.

FLASH BECOMES ALL-PERVASIVE The future is more in favor of all-flash rather than hybrid arrays integrating Solid State Disks and Hard Disk Drives. According to the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report for solid state arrays the

increase in Flash arrays makes 20% of traditional high-end storage arrays to be replaced by dedicated solid-state arrays by 2019.

Current analyst projections states that the flash industry reached approximately $30 billion in 2013. Adoption of flash storage is strong in India, driven by the increasing use of a broad spectrum of consumer electronics such as mobile phones, digital cameras, and personal computers.

“When we compare Flash storage solutions with other traditional storage solutions present in the market the pros cast bloom over cons.

With growing IT Industry supporting various needs of security, accessibility, flexibility, scalability, low latency, accuracy and efficiency flash storage proves itself fulfilling all expectations with utter commitment,” Upadhyay opined.

“With Technology improving and growing leaps and bounds every day remarkable innovations and improvements promise better, faster and reliable Flash Storage solutions,” he added.

SMBS DRIVING CLOUD STORAGE Another trend in Enterprise storage is driven through opportunities in SMB market. According to Parallels SMB Cloud Insights report, the Indian SMB market for cloud services is estimated at Rs. 17 billion ($339 million), and is expected to grow 35 percent year-over-year for the next three years. This segment requires specific data storage solutions that are robust and secure.

HP is accelerating the next era of storage for the New Style of Business with a single approach to storage that spans from entrylevel to high-end systems with common data services for block, object, and file workloads.

“HP delivers systems optimized for primary storage, backup, and archiving—including software-defined storage solutions. The HP Converged Storage portfolio is designed to eliminate fragmented complexity with a single approach to primary storage, backup and archival. HP Storage solutions eliminate the boundaries between storage and the rest of IT, delivering simplicity and improving efficiency and agility in the face of unpredictable datacenter requirements,” Lala said.

There is a paradigm shift happening in the customers purchasing behaviour. Across the board, customers (whether SMB or Enterprise) are expecting the same class of features on product-sets including service levels – so the bridge between cheaper and better is fast disappearing – and this is leading to explosive growth in mid-market storage segment. ë

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P unveiled a series of innovations for the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage family, including 25 percent lower cost flash capacity, a new class of massively scalable flash arrays, and flash-optimized data services to accelerate IT-as-a-Service consolidation and hybrid IT initiatives.

To accelerate transformation to the all-flash data center, HP is lowering the cost of all-flash storage to $1.50 per usable gigabyte and introducing ultra-dense and scalable flash systems. The new HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage 20000 enterprise flash family boosts performance with over 3.2 million IOPS at sub-millisecond latency and consumes 85% less space than traditional high-end arrays for massive footprint reduction. To support mission-critical workloads and enable greater agility, HP is unveiling flash-optimized software for end-to-end availability and non-disruptive workload balancing across the data center. These capabilities build on an already strong set of tier-1 data services unmatched by competitive all-flash arrays.

“Early flash adopters are seeing added benefits such as extreme savings and productivity enhancements that are leading to an all-flash strategy for more applications” said Barun Lala, Director, Storage, HP India. “HP 3PAR StoreServ is in a class of its own, with the affordability, scale and resiliency required for datacenter-wide flash adoption.”

Customers looking to deploy flash for more of

their applications can now do so more affordably thanks to the industry’s largest capacity solid state drive in a tier-1 all-flash array. Combined with HP flash optimization and hardware-accelerated data compaction that increases usable capacity by 75 percent, these new 3.84 terabyte drives bring down the cost of all-flash storage to $1.50 per usable gigabyte, approaching that of 10K RPM SAS hard disk drives. When customers apply space efficient snapshot features like those in 3PAR StoreServ to the multiple full data copies used for developers and data warehouses, they can reduce capacity needs by 6 times, in effect reducing cost per gigabyte to $0.25.

The new HP 3PAR StoreServ 20000 family scales-out to eight nodes and is ideal for customers consolidating multiple racks of legacy high-end storage while assuring application quality of service.

To simplify consolidation onto modern all-flash storage, HP 3PAR Online Import now supports simple migration from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) TagmaStore Network Storage Controller (NSC), Universal Storage Platforms (USP), and Virtual Storage Platforms (VSP) Storage systems in addition to EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, and EMC CLARiiON CX4 storage systems.

As per Barun, by virtue of 3.2 million IOPS, HP 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage Systems offer faster performance than EMC EMC VMAX 400K, which is a hybrid flash storage, XtremeIO and products from PureStorage. But there are

BARUN LALA,

DIRECTOR, STORAGE, HP INDIA

“Early flash adopters are seeing added benefits such as extreme savings and productivity enhancements that are leading to an allflash strategy for more applications” other players including IBM, Cisco, Huawei and Nimbus Data, etc., which did not get any mention in his comparison statement.

He maintains that there are new companies like Flipkart, Snapdeal and even banks who requires very high volume 3.2 million IOPS performance from the infrastructure because of the sudden surge of demand in the Market. At that point of time if the IT is not ready to support then the overall outcome becomes a bad experience for the customers. Therefore the launch of new innovation around HP 3PAR SoreServ is a better option for the customers and there are many takers in the market.

FINALLY… Further, HP 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage Systems are available worldwide, orderable immediately and shipping in August 2015 for a US street price starting at $75,000. ë

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Modi’s 10 Points Vision on Digital India India is certainly on a growth path. We have lost enough of time in the past but now the time has come that we should cash in the opportunity.

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rime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday July 1, 2015 launched the ‘Digital India Week’ witnessed by around 10,000 guests including top notch industry leader.The aim is to make citizens digitally literate and provide e-governance to the society.

HIS 10 POINTS VISION TALKS ABOUT: 01 myGov.in, allow citizen to participate in Government’s discussion through Mobile 02 Products should be created in different languages and age groups to address the Population of 125 crore internet users 03 Employment for around 18 lakh people 04 Digital Godowns to serve as bank lockers to protect important documents 05 Bharat Net, to connect to all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats of country would be world’s largest rural Broadband Connectivity project using optical fibre.

06 WI-FI hotspot throughout the country through BSNL 07 The Online Registration System (ORS) that will provide important services under eHospital 08 eSign Framework to help citizens digitally sign a document with Aadhaar authentication.

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09 Swatchh Bharat Mission Mobile app, to achieve the Swachh Bharat goals 10 DeitY under Digitize India Platform for large scale digitazation Commenting on digital India Sanjay Rohatgi, APJ Sales Leader, Enterprise Security, Symantec says “The ‘Digital India’ program can indeed empower inclusive and sustainable growth by harnessing the power of talent and technology to create the India of tomorrow. With initiatives such as countrywide broadband access and digital locker linked with Aadhaar and mobile, the possibilities are endless. However, people, their information and country’s critical information infrastructure needs to be properly and adequately secured. As the largest cybersecurity organization globally, Symantec is committed to the Digital India initiative. Recognizing the goals of the “Digital India” agenda and inspired by the vision of the Hon’ble Prime Minister Modi and Minister for Communication and Information Technology Mr. Prasad, Symantec recently announced a partnership with NASSCOM that intends to train 50,000 cyber security professionals.”

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft says “Microsoft is proud to be a part of Digital India launch and believe that technology can uniquely support the government’s initiatives in key areas including: rural internet connectivity, digital cloud services for all its citizens, and communica-

tions and productivity services for the Government. Our focus is on empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.Likewise, the Digital India initiative is focused on harnessing the power of technology to help India transform.In fact, to help drive this transformation we are bringing our marquee cloud services – Microsoft Azure, Dynamics and Office 365 – to local datacenters in India to accelerate cloud innovation, connect every Indian and every Indian business to the world through our global hyper-scale cloud.I would like to congratulate and extend my best wishes to the Honorable Prime Minister, and the Honorable IT Minister and every Indian citizen and business on this occasion.”

“IESA lauds Indian Government’s Digital India initiative. It is a colossal project even on a global scale, delivering services digitally to every one of 1.2 Billion citizens in the country. Inclusion is an integral part of the program - Inclusion of all citizens in availing digital services and equally important, inclusion of all cross sections of the Industry – Indian start-ups, small, medium and large and multinational enterprises in innovation, engineering and manufacturing of electronic devices & equipment. IESA is proud to be associated with the Digital India initiative and will leverage the collective value of its members to realize Digital India and Make in India. Says Vinay Shenoy, Chairman, India Electronics and Semiconductors Association “Today is a landmark day in the history of India. As the Prime Minister launches the Digital India Week, the dream of being an empowered technology-driven economy is one step closer to reality. Our conviction that India will be one of the foremost countries in the world became stronger last year when the initiative was announced and now our excitement has reached a crescendo. Oracle has been working tirelessly in the Indian public sector over the last two decades and on this momentous day, we are inspired and overwhelmed to see the exhilaration not just from the government but from the citizens of this nation as well. We congratulate the government on this milestone and want to assure the Prime Minister that Oracle is prepared to support his team to make India a force to reckon with.” marks VineetKshirsagar, Senior Director & Head – Government Business, Oracle India. ë

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SAP Study: Findings Show Key to Cloud Maturity Lies in Enterprise-Wide Strategy The IDC study finds that many companies are naïve about how mature their cloud strategy really is. A key reason is the significant shortage in necessary IT skills and strategic approach, and the business-process change required to get to the next level.

SAP SE announced the CloudView survey and business value practice study developed by industry analyst firm IDC and sponsored by SAP, which shows how companies may be falling short in their cloud transformation journey. The study identifies key strategic issues and business processes to address the gaps.

“Customers have found that they have managed the first phase of moving into the cloud – they have educated themselves and sourced new capabilities necessary to begin the journey,” said Robert Mahowald, program vice president, SaaS and Cloud Services, IDC. “The stumbling blocks are now at the managed and optimized level, with skill sets required that will allow the organization to focus on strategy versus day-to-day operations in faster time to provision new services, in reduced IT costs and perhaps, most importantly, in the ability to make more revenue.”

ROBERT MAHOWALD

PROGRAM VICE PRESIDENT, SAAS AND CLOUD SERVICES, IDC

The IDC study finds that many companies are naïve about how mature their cloud strategy really is. A key reason is the significant shortage in necessary IT skills and strategic approach, and the business-process change required to get to the next level. Implementing measures for collaborative business and IT governance, establishing consistent processes to identify which applications can best benefit from cloud and targeted education and training will help close these gaps.

The study further finds that a cloud strategy is considered mature not only when a consistent enterprise-wide approach to cloud is driving business innovation, but specifically when the lines of business are involved up front in the process.

Put simply, a collaborative approach between IT and the business, centered on the needs of the customer, is the single most important element of a mature cloud strategy.

ROB GLICKMAN

VICE PRESIDENT, SAP CLOUD AND LINE OF BUSINESS MARKETING, SAP

Cloud maturity is the point in an organization’s cloud transformation when it starts to reap real business benefits that go beyond IT efficiencies or TCO considerations. This includes developing net-new sources of revenue; engaging more deeply across employees, partners and customers; and using a more strategic and collaborative approach to IT that drives new value and greater competitive advantage.

Organizations that have a balanced use of cloud – the best mix of external sourcing and internal transformation – are those where business units have the freedom, flexibility and agility to respond quicker to customer needs to drive revenue. It includes having the IT organization right there with them as strategic enabler.

“Cloud is fast becoming a primary platform for business as organizations are freed from the constraints of building and maintaining their infrastructure and instead can focus on advancing their core business. IT runs a very real risk by not pulling in their business counterparts in their up-front cloud strategy,” said Rob Glickman, vice president, SAP Cloud and Line of Business Marketing, SAP. “And business units must partner with IT as their strategic arm to help them serve their customer and win – if not, business units typically go rogue and create unwieldy silos of chaos that destroy customer value over time.”

As businesses move up the maturity scale, they will increasingly look to vendors who can provide a more complete set of end-to-end workflows of missioncritical applications, coupled with deep knowledge and expertise across industries and lines of business. ë

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Most Businesses Will be SoftwareDriven in 36 Months

Speed, time-to-market and time-to-decision are among the most critical competitive differentiators to compete and win in the application economy n S A N J AY M O H A PAT R A < S A N J AY @ A C C E N T I N F O M E D I A . C O M >

SUNIL MANGLORE,

MD, CA TECHNOLOGIES, INDIA

“Indian organizations need to focus on improving customer experience as it will be a key differentiator in today’s application economy.”

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he results of a global study – The Battle for Competitive Advantage in the App Economy – commissioned by CA Technologies reveal the need for speed in the application economy. As companies transform into software-driven enterprises, bringing highquality applications to market faster becomes one of the most critical differentiators. Forty-three percent of those surveyed believe that becoming

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a software-driven enterprise is a critical driver of competitive advantage today, rising to 78 percent in three years.

Increased agility and faster time to market top the list of competitive strategies for companies in the application economy; and, according to respondents who have already begun adopting more advanced software strategies, this transformation is having significant impact on their time to decision: 45 percent claim this today, and 61

percent expect it to be the case in the next three years.

Conducted by Oxford Economics, the study surveyed senior business and technology executives around the globe about application strategy and its impact on business outcomes. The results clearly show that companies are adapting to the application economy at a rapid and accelerating pace, and are rethinking competitive advantage and differentiation in the process.

According to the study, becoming a more software-driven business also has a positive impact on market share (47 percent), the development of new products and services (42 percent), and financial performance (36 percent)—all trends that respondents see accelerating. Additional key findings include: l More than half of respondents (51 percent) say they have invested in newer forms of software (mobile apps, API-enabled software, etc.) over the past three years, and nearly as many

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say they will increase their level of investment over the next three years l 54 percent are developing new strategies for customer interactions l 49 percent of respondents are bringing more software development back in-house and 47 percent have or are planning to use M&A to increase app development capabilities, indicating software’s strategic role Earlier, demand outstripped supply and customer expectations were low. However, with digitalization, organizations delivering superior customer experience are experiencing better success, as compared to their competitors.

Indian organizations need to focus on improving customer experience as it will be a key differentiator in today’s application economy,” said Sunil Manglore, MD, CA Technologies, India.

Despite significant transformation of companies into software-driven enterprises, results from this survey indicate that the biggest changes are still ahead of us. Based on key insights from the data and interviews with respondents, the following seven points represent rules of engagement that companies should follow as they

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seek competitive advantage: 1. Be ready to break things. When organizational change is inevitable, rules may get bent. And change is happening—fast. Nearly half of respondents believe that becoming a more software-driven business has had an impact on time-to-decision, and another 37 percent say that internal operations have been deeply affected.

2. Squeeze the value out of data.

Respondents say they are proficient at marketing directly to consumers (59 percent say they are very or highly effective), but few (only 22 percent) have all the details—like tracking customer preferences—nailed down.

3. Learn to listen. Using social media well is critical to interacting with customers and business partners alike. More than 40 percent of respondents say it is a must-have skill in the new environment. One key thing to remember is that these tools are not just new ways to push information out—they are great ways to capture intelligence as well.

4. Guard data fiercely—and know what you are protecting. Protecting customer data is a fundamental rule of engagement, and compa-

nies are investing in bigger budgets and new tools to get the job done. Sixty percent of respondents say they are spending more to protect customer data, and even more are doing the same to safeguard internal information.

5. Bring innovation to collaboration.

Old barriers do not apply in the application economy. Nearly half of respondents say that bringing together security executives with the heads of business units is enabling new business opportunities.

6. Give the people what they want.

In the app economy, customers expect quick, intuitive interaction. They will not countenance outages, data loss, or downloads that take longer than a few seconds. With an enormous increase in revenue driven by customer interactions with apps expected in three years, getting this right is an existential necessity.

7. Remember that culture eats strategy for lunch. Organizational resistance is a given whenever change occurs. Nearly 40 percent of respondents say the biggest obstacle to becoming more adept at software and application development is a culture that won’t support it. ë

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NASSCOM

NASSCOM SetsUp Cyber Security Task Force To Build India As The Cyber Security Hub Task force in accordance with the Prime Minister’s vision for India to take leadership in this critical and emerging space. It will have focus on building key recommendations on the four pillars of Industry + Policy + Technology + Skills

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ational Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and Data Security Council of India today announced the launch of the NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force that aims to build India as a global hub for providing cyber security solutions, developing cyber security R&D plan and develop a skilled workforce of cyber security experts.

The taskforce members include industry leaders across IT, BPM and Internet, leaders from user organizations like banks and telcos as well as representatives from the government and academia. Mr. RajendraPawar, Chairman, NIIT was requested to chair this taskforce. The taskforce over a 12 week period will identify the key priorities and build the detailed action plan for the sector.

RajendraPawar, Chair, NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force and Chairman, NIIT, said, “Securing the cyberspace has become an important priority for governments, businesses and citizens across the world. In line with the Prime Minister’s vision of making India a cybersecurity expert nation and his recent exhortation

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to the industry, we have created the cyber security task force. This taskforce aims to make India a global hub for providing cyber security solutions including cyber security products and services.

The taskforce will focus on the four key pillars of Industry development, Policy enablement, Technology development and Skill development.”

Mohan Reddy, Chairman, NASSCOM said “Cyber Security is an important priority for NASSCOM. This Task Force will study the Indian cyber security ecosystem to identify issues and challenges and develop an action plan to address the priority issues. It will also identify possible intervention opportunities for the Indian IT industry in global cyber security space and bring together stakeholders from across the board to develop cutting-edge technologies and address the global market requirements. Learnings from global countries will be undertaken to understand how to catalyse the security product ecosystem in India”.

R. Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, said, “Cybersecurity is a multi-dimensional concept which includes many disciplines and fields. Nations have to take appropriate steps in

R. CHANDRA SHEKHAR,

PRESIDENT, NASSCOM.

“This Task Force will work towards enhancing cyber security and enabling India to emerge as a leader in this space.” their respective jurisdictions to create necessary laws, promote the implementation of requisite security practices, incident management, and information sharing mechanisms, and continuously educate both corporate and home users about cybersecurity. It is a global problem that has to be addressed by all stakeholders jointly.

This Task Force will work towards enhancing cyber security and enabling India to emerge as a leader in this space.”

Gopal Pillai, former Home Secretary and Chairman, DSCI said “Cyber Security has emerged as a key facet of national security.

This initiative by NASSCOM and DSCI is an important effort aimed at optimizing the role of industry in this space, both at the national and international levels.”

The vision of the Taskforce aims to build the cyber security industry in India from the 1 percent market share to 10 percent by 2025; a trained base of 1 million certified and skilled cyber security professionals and build 100+ successful security product companies from India. ë

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THREAT LANDSCAPE (GLOBAL AND INDIA) CYBERCRIMES

CYBER ATTACKS

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

l Financial frauds, identity thefts, copyright and trademark violations l McAfee estimate loss of $ 3.7 - 6.9 trillion; banking industry loss upto $ 1.3 trillion

l Attacks on NASA, RSA, IMF, CIA, Sony, Lockheed, Pentagon, Citigroup, Indian Navy, Target l Use of technology & cyberspace by terrorists in 26/11 Mumbai attacks

l Attacks on e.g., T3 Delhi; Malwares such as Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame, Shamoon infections l Banks, Telecom network targeted; Cyber hijacking of aircrafts and drones

CYBER ESPIONAGE

CYBER WARFARE

Economic, military and state secrets theft, annual loss of IPRs in excess of $ 1 trillion l Complex malware such as Flame for espionage

Cyber attacks on Estonia, Georgia, South Korea and others - military use of cyberspace l Non-state actors used by nation-states for specific aims, Global crime syndicates etc l Nation-states getting into game in big way e.g., Ghostnet, Stuxnet

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SOCIAL MEDIA SPAWNING NEWER CRIMES l Used for vested interests to initiate movements against states, organize revolutions l Used for spreading terrorism and inducting recruits (ISIS) l Spreading of rumors to create fear in communities - London riots, Northeast exodus

EXISTING CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVES-INDIA REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

POLICY INITIATIVES & GUIDELINES n National Policies on IT, Telecom and Electronics - 2012 n National Cyber Security Policy -2013 n Guidelines for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection -2013 n National Information Security Policy & Guidelines - 2014 n Draft IoT (Internet of Things) policy - 2014 n M2M (machine-to-machine) Roadmap document - 2015

n Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 n Regulatory Guidelines issued by regulators such as n Reserve Bank of India (RBI), n Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), n Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), n Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA)

INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS n DSCI (Policy, Assurance, Capacity Building and Awareness) n JWG (PPP) n NASSCOM-SSC (Skills) n IB-CART (Information Sharing) n ISEA (Capacity Building and Awareness) n Cyber Forensic Lab (Capacity Building) n LITD 17 Committee of BIS (Standards)

NASSCOM - DSCI CYBER SECURITY ADVISORY GROUP (CSAG) RECOMMENDATIONS - 2012

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Create a National Structure for Cyber Security

Design & Implement a Competency Framework for building a competent & adequate Cyber Security Workforce

Create & maintain Inventory of Critical Information Infrastructure

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Indian Security Products revenue for 2015 to be around

Rs. 1500 Crore ($ 250 mn)

Establish a Centre of Excellence for Best Practices in Cyber Security Establish a National Threat Intelligence Centre (NTIC) for Early Watch & Warning

Build Capacity of LEAs in Cyber Crime Investigations & Forensics

50% in Last 3 years 70% in Next 3 years

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50 - 80% of the employee base is in core R&D

Build Lawful Interception Capabilities for balancing National Security & Economic Growth Establish a Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research Setup labs for Accreditation of ICT Products to Manage Supply Chain Risks Establish a Cyber Command to defend the Indian Cyberspace

More than 60% export; 80% in some cases

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CASE STUDY / TATA

Tata AIA Life Achieves Better Team Engagement with Avaya Solution Tata AIA Life has deployed a next-generation Avaya Scopia® video solution as part of a larger vision to integrate and improve business communication across its locations, networks, and devices. The company aims to drive better engagement among its teams, accelerate salesforce productivity and responsiveness while significantly driving down travel and training costs. n W O R D S : S A N J AY M A H A PAT R A < S A N J AY @ E N T E R P R I S E C H A N N E L S . C O M >

Challenges l Tata AIA Life aimed to be a bigger player in insurance l Better engagement among staff was key to the goal l A legacy video system limited communication within office premises l Travel cost was prohibitive.

Benefits l An expanded enterprise network across 200 offices and diverse devices l Easy video engagement even with partners outside the company network l 25-30% reduction in yearly travel costs, reduced TCO

The Scenario Tata AIA Life is a joint venture between Tata Sons – the holding company of the Tata Group – and AIA Group Limited (AIA), the largest, independent, listed pan-Asia life insurance group in the world. Tata AIA Life combines Tata’s preeminent position in India and AIA’s presence across 17 markets in Asia Pacific.

Tata Sons holds 74 percent (majority stake) in the venture and AIA, 26 percent. Tata AIA Life started operations on April 1, 2001.

As a leader in life insurance, Tata AIA Life makes every effort to enhance its customers’ financial wellbeing as well as be the most trusted life insurer by providing

best-in-class solutions. Aiming to ensure a smooth and hassle-free experience for all its customers, Tata AIA Life provides all relevant information that they might require at different stages of their association with the company. Tata AIA Life invests continually in the latest voice, video, and mobile technologies, so customers can stay connected with the company round the clock and enjoy a trouble-free insurance experience.

Business Challenge Life insurance is a fast-growing industry in India, but it is also a highly demanding one. An insurance company with long-term

interests in this competitive market needs a dynamic workforce and must ensure its teams are equipped with up-to-the-minute information about policies, regulations, client databases, and market scenarios.

Tata AIA is focused on making customer service an effortless experience for both customers and its own workforce. This necessitates the adoption of simplified yet worldclass team engagement solutions, so staff – as well as the company’s partners and distributors – can engage better, and deliver a holistic experience to the customer. This will also help bring products to market faster as Tata AIA aims to secure the number one spot in its field.

PRADIPTA PATRO

ASST. VICE PRESIDENT – IT, TATA AIA LIFE

“WE WERE LOOKING FOR AN ENGAGEMENT SOLUTION THAT WAS EASY TO DEPLOY AND USE AND COULD BE EXTENDED TO CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS OUTSIDE THE COMPANY NETWORK WHILE REDUCING OUR TRAVEL AND TRAINING COST. AFTER EVALUATING SEVERAL OEM PRODUCTS IN THE MARKET, WE CHOSE THE AVAYA MULTIPARTY VIDEO ENGAGEMENT SOLUTION BECAUSE IT FACILITATES SMOOTH AND CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION.”

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Life insurance products can be difficult to understand. Complaints about mis-selling can erode the public’s confidence in an insurer, making the situation even more difficult. Training agents effectively is key to the company’s ongoing success. Traditionally this has been a face-to-face activity, and while the results have been good, yearly travel cost in the range of INR 6-8 lac per person was proving prohibitive.

As well as the trainers themselves, sales and business teams travelled frequently between company locations. Lengthy travel time and travel fatigue meant staff were defocused from core training and selling.

In-person training at Tata AIA Life was complemented to a limited extent by a legacy room-based video conferencing system from a hosted service provider. The technology, however, was limited to no more than 20 locations, and was available only within the office premises. At a time when salesforces are increasingly mobile and using a range of personal smart phones and laptops, this aging communications infrastructure was failing to meet the needs of the workforce.

The Solution Tata AIA looked at a number of criteria – including ease of deployment, use and management, range of operations, flexibility, and bandwidth usage – before choosing to partner with Avaya to deliver a video solution that would support its business goals. The decision was based on Avaya’s know-how and people, and the company’s position as a trusted advisor for team and customer engagement solutions.

The deployment of Avaya’s Scopia video solution formed an integral part of a broader drive to integrate business communication across Tata AIA Life, regardless of the network, device, location or time of day.

Tata AIA Life wanted to create a collaborative customer-facing organization that was more productive, responsive and, importantly, always-on. The Avaya solution has helped deliver that, putting video into the hands of the people that need it most, and on the device of their choosing – eliminating the need to come into the office for video meetings, enabling all staff to participate, and ensuring the rich team engagement experience that video provides can be easily accessed by every member of the team.

According to Pradipta Patro, Assistant Vice President – IT, Tata AIA, “We were looking for an engagement solution that was easy to deploy and use and could be extended to customers and partners outside the company network while reducing our travel and training cost.

After evaluating several OEM products in the market, we chose the Avaya multi-party video engagement solution because it facilitates smooth and continuous communication anytime, anywhere, no matter what device or network our employees, customers and partners use. At the same time, the offering doesn’t require too much effort to install, enables connectivity across vendor devices, and is adaptable to change, now and in the future. It also scores high on the user experience front, a key indicator.”

Benefits “Taking products to market faster is crucial to the company. This is where the Avaya solution is proving to be an enabler by helping engage employees seamlessly, improving their product knowledge and driving productivity overall” says Pradipta.

Seamless employee engagement – anytime, anywhere, on any device: The Scopia Video solution from Avaya is accessible from anywhere (home, office, conference room, on the road), on any device (mobile phone, tablet, or laptop), any time. In a significant improvement over the past, the network has expanded its footprint to as many as 200 offices as well as diverse devices, using multiparty video conferencing. It can connect with external parties (customers), whether they are in the company network or outside it.

The Avaya solution further facilitates easy-touse video engagement with business partners and distributors. In addition, the leadership presents monthly webcasts even while traveling, eliminating the need for additional third-party solutions.

Employee meetings are now streamed live via video. The Avaya solution has freed users from the restraints of room-based video conferencing and brought into being an environment that supports seamless and feature-rich engagement with employees.

Reduced training and travel costs: Thanks to the availability of a reliable, high-definition video solution for all, a trainer at one of the main offices is able to directly mentor someone at the branch, accelerating and simplifying the training process. The same improvement has been seen in the delivery of train-the-trainer programs and product training, in turn, making new product sales more effective. Importantly, yearly travel costs are down by 25-30 percent, and the company is seeing a significant reduction in total cost of operations, including bandwidth cost.

“Controlling operational costs is very important for a prudent insurer. The direct cost reductions resulting from Avaya solution is estimated to be 25-30 percent and the change is

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most felt in aspects like training, HR, audits, and IT,” adds Pradipta.

Easy to use: Overall employees find Avaya video convenient and easy to use, so they are adapting well to it. It is building a shared sense of purpose in individual employees in ways that engage and inspire customers, partners and colleagues. The deployment has resulted in increased growth, especially in Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan.

Future-ready: The Avaya solution brings next-generation preparedness to the network, and is flexible enough to evolve as technology advances, integrating seamlessly with newer unified communication solutions. No company wants to rip and replace its existing infrastructure. Avaya delivers a flexible and extensible engagement solution that can accommodate changes and enable cross-vendor connectivity, bridging old with new and past with future. With this, the insurer can scale business flexibly and rapidly while protecting existing investments in infrastructure.

Tata AIA Life is now exploring how it can integrate video calls into its website – which will allow customers to initiate a video call with Tata AIA Life with a simple mouse click. This will help move the company into the new era of engagement and ensure staff can deliver a vastly superior customer experience. Much more than simply adding video collaboration for all, these world-class engagement solutions form a key building block as Tata AIA executes its strategy to emerge as a bigger player in insurance, capable of setting enviable quality standards and serving as a reference point for the industry as a whole.

Learn More For more information, contact your Avaya Account Manager or a member of the Avaya Connect channel partner program, or visit us online at www.avaya.com. ë

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REUTERS IP & SCIENCE

Thomson Reuters Analysis shows Concerning Trend for Global Innovation Company launches authoritative new web destination featuring industry insights and trends n S A N J AY M O H A PAT R A < S A N J AY @ A C C E N T I N F O M E D I A . C O M >

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he Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced the launch of its State of Innovation website: http://stateofinnovation.com. This is a global destination for authoritative innovation trend data and industry-specific insights focusing on the Lifecycle of Innovation and showcasing the iterative process of discovering, protecting and commercializing ideas.

“Innovation is at the heart of the global economy. It is the lifeblood of business, but it’s difficult to measure,” said Basil Moftah, president, Thomson Reuters IP & Science. “By dissecting innovation to its core components – the scientific research that informs initial discovery and the patents that protect and commercialize new ideas – we can begin to identify important trends that influence the future of the global economy.”

Stateofinnovation.com is the new, central destination for authoritative insights into the world of innovation, including the annual Top 100 Global Innovators and Citation Laureates.

The launch of this website features findings from the business’s latest research: The Future Is Open: 2015 State of Innovation, an analysis of global scientific literature and patent data across 12 technology areas. It shows that although overall patent activity has reached an all-time high, yearover-year growth in new inventions has slowed considerably and scientific literature production has declined in almost every industry.

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“The State of Innovation offers a unique view into the business of innovation building upon our leading position as a provider of intelligent information,” said Elise Finn, chief marketing officer, Thomson Reuters IP & Science. “We have created this new go-to destination and credible source of comment and insight for anyone with an interest in the world of innovation.”

The Future Is Open: 2015 State of Innovation examines fundamental research and patent activity worldwide across: Aerospace &Defense; Automotive; Biotechnology; Cosmetics & Well-Being; Food, Beverages & Tobacco; Home Appliances; Information Technology; Medical Devices; Oil & Gas; Pharmaceuticals; Semiconductors; and Telecommunications. Thomson Reuters analysts scrutinized five years of global patent and scientific literature data, outlining the top companies, research institutions and technology areas producing the highest volume of innovation.

Key findings from the 2015 State of Innovation include: l Year-Over-Year Innovation Growth Slows: Total, worldwide patent volume increased just 3 percent over the last year, the slowest rate of patent volume growth since the end of the global recession in 2009. l Overall Patent Volume Reaches New High: Despite the slowdown in year-over-year growth rate, total, worldwide patent volume has reached a record high, with over 2.1 million unique inventions published over the last year.

BASIL MOFTAH,

PRESIDENT, THOMSON REUTERS IP & SCIENCE

The industries showing the largest growth in patent volume were Food, Beverages & Tobacco (21 percent); Pharmaceuticals (12 percent); Cosmetics & Well-Being (8 percent); and Biotechnology (7 percent). l Businesses Embrace “Open Innovation”: Across virtually every industry studied, the trend toward “open innovation,” whereby companies partner with academic institutions, individual researchers and other companies (in some cases, even competitors) has been on visible display. l Traditional Industry Lines Blur: Driven largely by the rise of the Internet of Things, the traditional boundaries between industries and companies’ areas of specialization have continued to blur. Dozens of companies featured in the study, such as Apple, DuPont, General Electric, IBM, and Samsung, appear among the top patent assignees in multiple industries outside of their core areas of focus.

Samsung is the most extreme example, ranking among the top 25 patent assignees in nine of the 12 industries analyzed in the study.

“We are standing at a fascinating inflection point in the history of technological innovation,” added Moftah. “The organizations in this study clearly recognize the challenges inherent in continuing to break new ground at the pace they’ve maintained for the last several years.

They’re taking clear strides, with strategies such as open innovation and aggressive expansion into new industries, to try to achieve even faster, better results.” ë

CASE STUDY / MATRIX

Adani Adopts Matrix Access Control and Time-Attendance Solutions After understanding complete requirement, and access control solutions for their 25+ business units and 12,000+ employees spread across the India and Indonesia.

MATRIX COMSEC ESTABLISHED IN 1991, MATRIX IS A LEADER IN TELECOM AND SECURITY SOLUTIONS FOR MODERN BUSINESSES AND ENTERPRISES. COUNTRY: INDIA SYSTEMS INSTALLED: COSEC TIME-ATTENDANCE AND ACCESS CONTROL SOLUTIONS RESULTS: INCREASE SECURITY OF STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS BY 15% INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY OF ADMIN BY 20% REDUCE TIME OF SECURITY DEPARTMENT USING CENTRALIZED CONTROL AND MONITORING ERROR FREE TIME-ATTENDANCE AND OVERTIME DATA FOR FAST SALARY CALCULATION

l Error free attendance data of 12,000+ employees l Restrict unauthorized entry in all locations l Real-time integration with SAP l Connectivity using Ethernet, Wi-Fi and mobile broadband l Real-time SMS/Email notifications for exceptions

Introduction Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agri-business and energy sectors. Managing employee’s attendance and timing from a central place is critical for them. They wanted to have centralized timeattendance and access control solutions for better productivity and security.

Challenges l Centralized time-attendance solution for all ports and business units l Different time-attendance policies for

different locations l 3rd party integration with SAP software Solution Offered After understanding complete requirement, Matrix offered COSEC time-attendance and access control solutions for their 25+ business units and 12,000+ employees spread across the India and Indonesia. Centralized time-attendance and access control solutions has made their most of the attendance process accurate and faster.

With real time notification it becomes easy to solve any exceptional situations by HR or Admin. l Centralized access control and attendance of 25+ business units

Products l COSEC DOOR FOP - Fingerprint and RF Card based Premium Door Controller with LCD and Keypad l COSEC DOOR FOW - Fingerprint and RF Card based Door Controller with Wi-Fi Connectivity l COSEC PATH DCFE - Fingerprint and EM Proximity Card based Door Controller l COSEC PATH RDFE – Fingerprint and EM Prox Card based Reader l COSEC PATH RDCM – Mifare Card and NFC based Reader l COSEC PATH RDFM – Fingerprint, Mifare Card and NFC based Reader l COSEC LE PLATFORM - Application Software Platform for 1 Million Users l COSEC LE User1000 – 1000 Users License for COSEC CENTRA LE PLATFORM l COSEC LE User10000 - 10000 Users License for COSEC CENTRA LE PLATFORM l COSEC LE TAM- Time-Attendance Module for COSEC CENTRA LE PLATFORM l COSEC LE ACM- Access Control Module for COSEC LE PLATFOR ë

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“Eurotech Technologies continues to emphasize its commitment to developing high performance CCTV surveillance solution.

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KANTECH UNVEILS KT-1 SINGLE DOOR CONTROLLER Kantech, part of the Tyco Security Products business unit of Tyco, unveils the KT-1 single door controller, an intuitive and versatile controller equally suited for small or large buildings and applications with remote sites.

With its innovative single button enrolment, KT-1 is automatically detected and enrolled on the security system making it quick and simply to install. With its on-board Ethernet port, Power over Ethernet capabilities and flexible design — featuring interchangeable connections for easy installation or replacement — the KT-1 controller is up and running in minutes. It can act as a gateway for more than 30 additional controllers when communicating with the EntraPass software, thereby reducing the amount of IP connections needed and reducing set up time. This feature is built into every KT-1 controller and requires no additional hardware.

The KT-1 single door controller was designed with installers in mind. All that is needed is an IPconnection, and the push of a touch-sensitive button to be up and running. This elegantly designed hardware combined with user friendly EntraPass software provides the ultimate in the Kantech user experience — an intuitive user interface and the flexibility and ease of IP for single door installations.

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KEY CAPABILITIES n complement to the EntraPass security management software (v6.02 and higher) n EntraPass Web application n EntraPass Go mobile app n Creatshighly scalable solution that installs quickly and provides a superior user experience n Integrates with DSC Power Series n MAXSYS intrusion alarm panels n Can be integrated with American Dynamics n Exacq video management systems.

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