The 10 best performing CISCO solution providers in dec 2017

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Cloud Computing Trends Forthcoming developments in Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Networking Industry

IoT Protection Security: A Quintessential Aspect of the Internet of Things

Upcoming Developments Imminent Technologies Reforming Enterprise Networking Environment Sairaman Mudaliar Co-founder Director

Pentagon Systems and Services Delivering Revolutionary IT Solutions that Supports Business Change

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verything is going “digital”, be it in production, services, processes or applications. Mobility and Internet of Everything are dominating the current developments of the leading industry players around the world. Digitization offers an enormous advantage and will drive growth across the whole technology and IT industry for years to come. And at its heart is the need for communication between these devices. But this need is more than just the fastest wireless access and the latest Wi-Fi standards. The way networks are designed i.e. their architecture, and the way they are planed and set up are also changing dramatically. And for a simple reason, that the classical approaches have reaches their limits when it comes to handling the ever-increasing number of devices and their unstoppable demand for bandwidth as well as the mounting complexity and security threats in today’s world.

Introducing a New Era in Networking Solutions

Cisco has constantly maintained its dominant leadership in the arena of numerous enterprise and service providers for over a decade now. It has helped several customers build networks and automate, arrange, integrate, and digitize IT-based products and services. With an immense potential to reform human lives, digital information and innovative communication technologies are proclaiming new possibilities. Cisco is at the forefront of this digital transition, working with clients and partners, to build a secured and connected world. It is recognized worldwide for its impeccable networking solutions and making businesses well-equipped with advanced networking solutions that ensure faster deployment, operational efficiency, and security.

As new technologies develop, they effectively create a drastic transformation in all aspects of our lives and force businesses to respond in a proactive manner. However, we should not overlook that the main driver has always been the ever-demanding customers, who simply aspire to access advanced features and expect service excellence.

Many companies have forged partnership with Cisco and gained through its technical and industrial knowledge. These organizations have taken the lead to accelerate the tech industry growth by investing in cloud, big data analytics, IoT Technologies etc. Moreover as technology shifts rapidly, it becomes necessary to fully understand the best combination of innovative processes and tools that organizations can implement to maximize customer benefits. Networking is built into who we are and what we do so deeply that end-to-end solutions are becoming a second nature.

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Cloud Computing Trends

Forthcoming developments in Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Networking Industry

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IoT Protection

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Upcoming Developments

Security: A Quintessential Aspect of theInternet of Things

Imminent Technologies Reforming Enterprise Networking Environment

Expert’s Outlook Path Towards Indian Digital Economy: The Journey

Specialist’s Viewpoint Augmented Reality: A Comprehensive Overview

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Agawane Technologies: Offering Comprehensive IT, Surveillance & Telecom Solutions

24 Cosmos IT Infra Pvt. Ltd: Rendering End-to-End IT Infrastructure Solutions and Services

34 TimeNet Solutions: A Prominent Network Solution Provider

20 Athena IT & Telecom Solutions:

Providing Comprehensive Tailor-made Solutions with Excellence

30 ROX Trading & Systems: Delivering Quality Technology Solutions and Professional Outsourcing Services

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echnological development is a driving force behind the economic growth and citizen engagement, and job creation. Information and communication technologies are rapidly reshaping numerous aspects of the world’s economies, governments, and societies. Nowadays, the Internet has played a vital development tool. Fourth Industrial Revolution is a digital revolution that requires universal and reliable Internet access; without it, many developing countries will not be able to fully participate in an increasingly mobile and digitalbased economy. With this digital innovation, some renewed organizations are proffering innovative and customized cutting-edge unified communications and networking solutions for their clients.

Keeping in mind the importance of Networking Solution we are introducing some of the most prominent organizations in the industry who are capable of leading their clients towards excellence by supporting them beyond the advisory level. “The 10 Best Performing Cisco Solution Providers 2017” issue aspires to assist organizations to find the right technology partner who has the resources and skill to deliver smart solutions and scalability with industry-leading operating models.

Our magazine’s journey starts with a Cover story, Pentagon Systems and Services, one of the fastest growing IT solutions and services that enhance business growth by system integration which allows them to align IT organizations with their core business objectives.

Apart from our cover story, we have Athena IT and Telecom Solutions, a leading IT Services and Solutions provider that delivers excellence in the form of world class tailor-made IT solutions to meet specific business needs of its clients. Cosmos IT Infra Pvt. Ltd. that provides one stop end-to-end product services in IT Infrastructure domain by offering project planning, designing, estimation and commissioning using all resources under one roof. Agawane Technologies, a dynamic and fast growing organization providing comprehensive solutions in the areas of IT, Surveillance, and Telecom industry. TimeNet Solutions delivers a portfolio of IT solutions that support the complex scale as one of the leading network solution providers in South India. A leading system integrator, ROX provides consistent processes and tools combined with the right skills at the right time and place. Technosprout Systems is capable of managing datacenter infrastructure as a single point to work towards your IT goals. Ascent Intellimation Pvt. Ltd. is dedicated to provide innovative IT solutions to its customers. DigitalTrack Solutions is a decade young organization which accelerates the ambitions of its customers by delivering phenomenal value through its great team. Amaara Technologies is a solutions and service provider with strong expertise in enterprise offering.

We have also included some interesting articles titled “Security: A Quintessential Aspect of the Internet of Things”, “Forthcoming Developments in Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Networking Industry” and “Imminent Technologies Reforming Enterprise Networking Environment” scripted by our in-house editors.

Also, expand your knowledge base about the industry from our erudite CXOs, “Path towards Indian Digital Economy: The Journey” and “Augmented Reality: A Comprehensive Overview”.

So keep on reading!

Cover Story

Sairaman Mudaliar Co-founder Director

PENTAGON SYSTEMS & SERVICES Delivering Revolutionary IT Solutions that Supports Business Change

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n today’s increasingly complex IT world, organizations rely heavily on a multitude of innovative technologies to manage their operations by incorporating solutions along with business strategies.

Moreover, today’s blitz of information and the subsequent growth in storage has emphasized the need to safeguard data and alleviate risks. All of this burdens the resources and budgets of the organizations and thus pulls them away from their business goals and strategies.

Apprehending this predicament, Sairaman Mudaliar founded Pentagon Systems and Services, a one-stop solution for all IT needs.

Pentagon aims to bring in innovative practices and take the weight off the organizations, thus aiding them to focus on core competencies and business objectives.

Pentagon, since its inception in 1994, has believed in the philosophy of adding value to client’s business by leveraging technology to the fullest. At Pentagon, they partner with clients by offering them the most innovative IT solutions to make their business hasslefree and more sustainable in the current competitive market. Their portfolio extends through various industries ranging from Corporate to Publicsector organizations while having found a strong foothold in elite markets such as Manufacturing and Banking.

A Futuristic Leader Sairaman Mudaliar, Co-founder Director of Pentagon Systems and Services, is a visionary full of selfmotivation, resourcefulness and drive with a proven ability to develop and strengthen the complete organization in order to maximize company profitability and efficiency. He embarked his career in the field of IT industry with remarkable skills in Sales and Marketing services with almost three decades of experience in

delivering numerous solutions in IT. Sairaman’s continuous effort of commitment towards customer satisfaction has made Pentagon a leading Premier System Integrator and a preferred Business Partner in top Enterprises along with the large SME market. He brought a transformative change in the organization by incorporating Telecom and IT Infrastructure business to their System Integration profile by partnering with telecom giant Tata Communications Ltd. & Tata Teleservices as Life Cycle Management Partner managing more than 200 SME customer.

Experienced and leading the growth in all sectors of Pentagon, Sairaman aims to make it a dynamic and progressive organization. He holds excellent communication skills and has established sustainable and profitable relationships with customers, suppliers and stakeholders across the nation.

His progressive vision has made Pentagon a multi-cloud vendor by partnering with Amazon Web Services, IBM-Softlayer, IBM-GTS, Microsoft Azure, and Netmagic IT Solutions.

An Inspiring Journey ‘Demanding customers’ is one of the arduous challenges the market is currently facing. Given that Pentagon is partnered with CISCO; their customers have a high level of expectation from them in terms of solutions and services. However, this demanding nature of the customers has helped propel Pentagon towards providing best-in-class solutions, products and services.

Subsequent to recession, Pentagon faced a great deal of difficulty to survive in the market as businesses and opportunities did not improve because of commercials. To remedy this, they strategized and started playing with low-margin scenario which helped

them sustain in spite of the competition.

Pentagon attributes its success to building long-term relations with customers and promoting trust and loyalty. They strongly believe in consistently providing exceptional solutions to clients in adverse situations and driving them to adapt and learn the new technology trends.

The decade long journey has seen Pentagon excel at various levels, keeping up with their reputation of being customer-centric. Headquartered in Mumbai, Pentagon operates extensively in India providing innovative IT solutions, IT infrastructure management services, server and storage virtualization technologies, facility management services and AMCs. Pentagon’s team of professionals use their skills and expertise to resolve complicated IT issues faced by their customers making use of legacy, yet useful and new technologies in hardware, virtualization software and services as per the requirement.

“When we partner with our clients in addressing their problems, we take full ownership of the project right from the beginning up to the end,” says Sairaman. In addition to this, their professionals continue to assist the clients by providing upgrades and addons, so that they do not face any problems catching up with the latest technological advancements.

One-Stop Solution for all IT Needs Pentagon is the right choice when it comes to delivering the right solution.

They offer a variety of services in multiple diverse fields like facilities management, AMC, server warranty checks, server and storage virtualization, DR planning and implementation, along with customized professional and support services to ensure optimum infrastructure

utilization. Apart from these, they also provide various technologies for backup, migration, security, mobility, storage and virtualization. From consulting to support they provide all services under one roof.

Pentagon understands the importance of maintaining competency in business acumen and keeping employees happy.

Moreover, they provide their customers with latest networking technology, secure and reliable solutions, scalability and availability in simplified network management, and increased efficiency with reduced operational costs and least accelerated time to market new solutions. It works closely with the customers to improve their IT performance and increase results. They implement a stepby-step strategic process that guarantees smooth IT functioning within the organization, leading to increased efficiency.

Consulting: The strategic approach of Pentagon’s consulting aids in identifying where and what is needed in the business to help streamline it more towards a dynamic data center.

We understand what customers want, what solutions we can provide to them and what are the best ways to achieve their gratication

Analyzing: A thorough analysis of all the loopholes and strengths of the customer’s business helps Pentagon create a tailor-made solution.

Managing: Pentagon’s efficient management aids in boosting productivity and optimize system performance.

Architecture: By identifying the possible technology options, Pentagon can help bridge the gaps between what is missing and which technology needs to be deployed to fill those missing gaps.

Supporting: Pentagon provides realtime access to eligible engineers that can allow client’s team to maximize output within lesser time.

Implementing: Without disrupting the on-going setup, Pentagon integrates, install, deploy and test.

A Refreshing Approach towards Business At Pentagon, teams work with a mission to help organizations achieve improved business results by

designing, engineering and supporting solutions that cater to the customers’ exact needs. Their vision is to be the best IT solutions and service company for their customers, partners, and employees.

Pentagon has an in-depth understanding of the critical role IT systems play in ensuring continuity of business activities for their diverse range of customers. For them, the continued smooth running of their wider operations is crucial. Pentagon strives to achieve this through

Cover Story innovation, quality, and commitment towards providing exceptional services.

Pentagon’s capabilities are built on a solid foundation of services that span the entire IT lifecycle, including strategy, architecture, deployment, project management, support, and management services. The result is a stable yet flexible and agile technology environment that supports business change with confidence and delivers dynamic data center capabilities.

Pentagon as a Cisco Solution Provider Cisco, being a giant in the networking industry helps Pentagon to grow not only in business, but also helps them improves their services in terms of customer satisfaction. Cisco solutions aid their business to grow along with

Cisco’s SD-WAN is another interesting product which has made them very strong in the field of Cloud and Security. SD-WAN provide secure connectivity everywhere, deploy new services and applications faster and drastically simplify the complexity of WAN. Pentagon together with Cisco understand these marked trends and produces latest technologies to make sure that whatever networking solutions they are providing to customers are not only as per current standards but also are enough innovative to meet their requirements for upcoming years. Moreover, they educate the customers in terms of new trends and technology and help them to understand how it will benefit them to introduce the same into their network.

Advice for Upcoming Entrepreneurs “Focus on your business and on your employee,” advises Sairaman. He stresses the importance of being loyal with the customers and developing a strong technical team to overcome the challenges one can face in business transformation and thus supports all customers’ needs. Sairaman discourages over-commitment and fake promises to clinch a client against the competitor. Motivating employees, retaining good candidates and constant up gradation of skill-set are essential qualities of a leader according to him.

“Maintain healthy credit terms with distributors & stockiest,” Sairaman further adds.

Forthcoming Intends Pentagon aims to help organizations achieve better business results by designing, engineering and supporting

Pentagon is the right choice when it comes to delivering the right solutions the new technology and in sync with the new market trends. Cisco caters to a large number of services including Networking, Collaboration, Data Center, IP telephonic, IoT, Analytics etc. At Pentagon, they majorly deal with Cisco in Networking, Datacenter, IP telephonic, Security, and Collaboration services.

Security Solutions provided by Cisco not only just secure your network with more security but also keep an eye on your whole network to find out the gaps in your security. It also provides you solutions to avoid the security breaches and make your network more secure.

Meraki, the product from Cisco provides you a single platform to manage all your devices securely and make life’s hassle free. It’s the future of the upcoming demands in Networking.

Awards and Accolades Pentagon has set a very high standard of excellence. “Appreciation from our esteemed partners in the form of awards and recognitions encourages us to achieve more,” says Sairaman.

Recently Pentagon has been awarded the Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s “Smart Choice First Simplivity Win”.

Furthermore, they have been acclaimed as the “Emerging Technology Partner, 2017” and “Partner of the Year, West Region, 2017” by NetApp. For the year 2016, Pentagon was awarded the “Preferred Channels Partner for Cloud & Data center” by Netmagic Partners.

Pentagon has also been awarded by Cisco for the “Partner Plus Award” for achieving maximum revenue in commercial patch and mid-market.

Pentagon claims that these awards are testimonial to their expertise and act as an acknowledgement of their skills.

solutions that cater to their customers’ exact needs. Their capabilities are built on a solid foundation of services that span the entire IT lifecycle, including strategy, architecture, deployment, project management, support and management services. Pentagon aims to provide a stable yet flexible and agile technology environment that supports business change with confidence and delivers dynamic data center capabilities.

In accordance with the market trends, Pentagon is currently focusing on HCI, Software-defined storage, Network, HD WAN, Back-up, and Cloud services. Furthermore, creating Pentagon System brand name for specialized services and latest technologies where customers can benefit on cost and service and focus on their business profitability is high on their agenda.

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Company Name Agawane Technologies Private Limited agawane.com

Management Harish Agawane

Founder & CEO

Brief Agawane Technologies, a dynamic and fast growing organization providing comprehensive solutions in the areas of IT, Surveillance, and Telecom industry.

Amaara Technologies Private Ltd amaaratech.com

Vikas (Victor) Ahuja Founder & CEO

Amaara Technologies is a solutions and service provider with Strong Expertise in Enterprise offering.

Ascent Intellimation Pvt Ltd aiplindia.com

Arvind Tilak CEO

Ascent Intellimation Pvt. Ltd. is dedicated to provide innovative IT solutions to its customers.

Athena IT & Telecom Solutions athenaitsol.com

Harikrishnan Srinivasan Founder Director

Athena IT and Telecom Solutions is a leading IT Services and Solutions provider that delivers excellence in the form of world class tailor-made IT solutions to meet speciďŹ c business needs of its clients.

Cosmos It Infra Pvt ltd cosmositinfra.com

Nilesh Thakare Co-founder & Chairman, Anup Bhosle Co-founder & CEO

Cosmos IT Infra Pvt. Ltd. provides one stop end-to-end product services in IT Infrastructure domain by offering project planning, designing, estimation and commissioning using all resources under one roof.

Digital Track Solutions Pvt Ltd digitaltrack.in

Srikkantan Venkatesh Director

DigitalTrack Solutions is a decade young organisation which accelerates the ambitions of its customers by delivering phenomenal value through its great team.

Pentagon System & Services Pvt.Ltd pentagon.co.in

Sairaman Mudaliar Co-founder & Director

Pentagon System and Services is one of the fastest growing IT solutions and services that enhance business growth by system integration which allows them to align IT organizations with their core business objectives.

Rox Trading & Systems Pvt Ltd rox.co.in

Mr. Jim Rakesh Founder & Managing Director

A leading system integrator, ROX provides consistent processes and tools combined with the right skills at the right time and place.

Technosprout Systems Pvt Ltd technosprout.in

Rajeev Mamidanna Founder

Technosprout Systems is capable of managing datacenter infrastructure as a single point to work towards your IT goals.

Time Net Solutions Pvt Ltd timenetindia.com

John T Alexender CFO, Pramod Oommen COO

TimeNet Solutions delivers a portfolio of IT solutions that support the complex scale as one of the leading network solution providers in South India.

Expert’s Outlook

Path Towards Indian Digital Economy:

THE JOURNEY “In this digital age, we have an opportunity to transform lives of people in ways that was hard to imagine a couple of decades ago”- Narendra Modi

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ndia has shown promise and proved leadership in the digital technologies over the past decade.

It is time India’s new leadership supports and fuels the digital economy to turn it into a major growth enabler.

Digital India initiative, an aspiring initiative with a clear vision, the present government is pushing ahead the Digital India program to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and a knowledgeable economy.

With the launch of this initiative, the government aims to reach out to the citizens in the remotest of locations and make them a part of India’s growth story. The Internet Economy or Internet of Everything (IoE) is expected to generate new market growth opportunities, jobs and become the biggest business prospect of mankind in the upcoming years. Since technology is a key driver in causing disruptive change, digital tools will empower citizens and prove to be a game-changer.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji’s vision for a Digital India is a strategic call to encirclement of the opportunity for India as one of the leaders in the third industrial revolution and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that has never been greater.

Nearly 40 percent of the global value at stake will have new winners and vendors in the next decade. This major opportunity of the digital economy has the power to change the lives of millions of people in India. It could be an important vehicle for change and could provide an opportunity for India

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to dramatically expand its role and influence in the global economy and become a powerhouse of digital innovation.

government has outlined its vision in this regard and highlighted three core areas - increased thrust on setting up the required infrastructure as a utility to each and every citizen, provision of services on demand and governance The digital economy is the new and lastly, digital empowerment of the productivity platform that experts citizens. The new incentives from the regard as the third industrial government for people adopting digital revolution. Devised in 1995, digital economy is a term that merely refers to payments, the dream of the digital economy in India is not very far. a country’s economy that’s based on digital payment technologies.

Alongside, India is also leading the At present, after almost a year of world in payment system evolution government of India’s demonetization with enablers like Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, drive towards cleansing the system, the and mobile penetration to name a few. country has started to adopt an Demonetization has created favorable alternative solution – digital payments. conditions for large scale adoption of While demonetization came as a digital payment systems in India. With shockwave, the bright side is that it mass adoption of digital and biometric shifted our focus on innovation and has systems by 2020, the country is created a new conversation around expected to leapfrog plastic payment digital payments – with not just fintech systems and have the most advanced startups and the banking sector, but financial systems in the world. also the government itself is taking steps to onboard the unbanked.

Digital economy has completely Platforms like UPI-integration and changed the way people have been products like the BHIM app is a doing business for years now. India commendable step in this direction. encompasses 15 per cent of the world Though many people have been using population, with its 462 million the digital payment methods even internet users, India is representing a before demonetization, the count has digital economy which has possibly the significantly increased in the past year, greatest market potential for global alongside it has impacted the banking players and can very well become the industry with substantial long-term second largest economy by 2030. opportunities to scale up operations and strengthen customer services.

However, India’s current digital economy is still in its early days and With increased internet usage and needs regulatory approach that helps penetration, the Digital India initiative, innovation thrive and allows facilitating a proper payment competition to play out freely, rather infrastructure, will pave the way for a than ill-conceived protectionist seamless digital economy. The measures.

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Amit Rambhia Managing Director

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amit Rambhia is the Managing Director of Panache DigiLife Limited, a one stop IT hardware hub, specialized in manufacturing, distribution and servicing of high quality products.

Amit has over 20 years of experience and is an innovative and self-driven man. His dedication and hard work is an inspiration to many new entrepreneurs and has instrumented his success in the field of business. He is an accomplished MBA – IIM Indore with Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from University of Mumbai. He is passionate about to make Panache DigiLife a world class, competitive and internationally recognized Company.

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Agawane Technologies: Offering Comprehensive IT, Surveillance & Telecom Solutions

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We believe in innovation and providing solutions that are coste-ffective and quick As the “always-on” Information and Communications Technology world evolves and converges, network vendors, service providers, manufacturers, and software developers need to gain a greater competitive advantage by partnering with leading testing and certification laboratory which has the expertise, efficiency, and global network of specialists to help them meet their needs.

Understanding this requisite, Harish Agawane, founded Agawane Technologies, a dynamic and fast growing organization which is a onepoint contact providing end-to-end

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solutions in the areas of IT, Surveillance and Telecom industry for various offerings. Based in Mumbai, India, Agawane Technologies is a global IT and Telecom Solutions and Services provider. It develops tailored solutions for global IT & telecom service providers, carriers, and software product vendors. Their fundamental IT systems, capabilities, and architecture play a central role in enabling IT & Telecom players to achieve operational excellence.

Today, Agawane Technologies provide full-range of services that address all the needs for integrated information, regardless of the platform or complexity of the technology.

Agawane Technologies has in-house capabilities and expertise to offer turnkey Telecom and IT Integration Solutions and Power Distribution Solutions to its clients.

A Dynamic Leader Harish Agawane, Founder and CEO of Agawane Technologies, is a Telecom/ISP and IT professional with over 15 years of diverse experience.

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APEX Management, Team Management, and Network Integration. Harish considers that pursuing new creative ideas that have potential to change the world and acknowledging and assuming responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies is vital for a company’s success.

“Bottom-line, no company or Board is perfect today but, if we start with a list of core values and passion for outstanding customer experience, learn from our clients and staff – we’ll gain a competitive advantage to win the battle of competing in a Digital Age,” says Harish. He strongly believes in the values of Honesty and Integrity.

Taking a proactive stand to create and maintain a healthy work-life balance for workers and committing to a great customer experience is essential.

Advising the upcoming entrepreneurs, Harish says, “I will suggest all of them to stay firm and confident, problems will always be there. You should not get distracted by them and continue building your network along with making trustworthy relationship.”

Exceptional Services and Innovative Solutions “It is never so easy to get success in any field, whether its business or life, you have to struggle. As a startup it was never easy for us but past experience and positive people around you make it possible,” says Harish.

At Agawane Technologies, they strongly believe in building long term relationships which can benefit them in the future. They have built strong relationships with their customers by providing end-to-end solutions within a quick span of time as well as support.

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whether it is Cisco Solution, CCTV Solutions or FTTH (GPON) Solutions.

Agawane Technologies provides infrastructure technology and applications outsourcing services, as well as architecture guidance, application development & integration, and application management services.

They deliver a wide range of services from global safety testing to certification that enables accelerating the speed to market, gain new efficiencies, and reduce risk, while protecting the brand and reputation.

Furthermore, they also meet local and global regulation standards, and help transform the client’s product into a business success.

“When moving to a new solution provider, it is important to ensure they provide a good balance between service and savings,” says Harish. Pure solution independence allows them to search the market for the most costeffective and efficient solutions. They undertake thorough audits of all aspects of their clients IT & Telecom costs, whilst retaining the highest levels of customer service.

An Inspiring Strategy It is the philosophy of Agawane Technologies to give its clients a complete unified communications solution under one roof and have dedicated products expert on-hand playing an instrumental part in IT, Surveillance & Telecom’s development and growth. Their primary objective is to design, manufacture, and distribute quality telecommunications and information technology products, to provide services that satisfy customer requirements, and to fulfill employee and shareholder aspirations. Agawane Technologies is committed to the continuous improvement of the Integrated Management System

Harish Agawane Founder and CEO

performance through periodic reviews and by setting and reviewing its objectives and targets, ensuring the relevance to the organizations’ activities and in keeping with company policy.

The Way Ahead Agawane Technologies is currently concentrating on FTTH (GPON) & Home Automation which is the wide requirement and are working towards growing themselves into the same as well. They bring in the best-in-class practices to ensure that the telecom equipment or service, device, content or application is ready for the market and exceeds the customers’ expectations.

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SECURITY: INTERNET OF THINGS A Quintessential Aspect of the

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ver the years, there have been multiple predictions that there will be at least tens of billions of connected devices by 2020. And everyday objects like tires and baby monitors could all become a part of this interconnected world. The Internet of Things (IoT) makes life a lot more convenient, easy and fun. You can check locks through mobile devices and never have to rush home dreading that someone has broken inside while you were away.

While all these things are very convenient, currently, IoT is facing major security challenges that are posing new problems for individuals, businesses, and security professionals alike. Whenever you connect a new device to your existing network, you add a new endpoint behind your

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network's ďŹ rewall. If the software is even slightly buggy and not very secure, you could have possible just created a backdoor into your network for hackers.

Similarly, a recent research has found that many IoT based baby monitors can be easily hacked and used to remotely view live feeds and control the monitor. Also, motion sensors embedded in smart watches can be used to steal information. For enterprises, these security gaps are an enormous risk.

Although, you should not be punished for a device that isn’t secure. You should be able to secure your network with any number of smart devices connected to it. So far, the key seems to be stronger inbound and outbound

ďŹ rewall and better detection and blocking of attacks.

While IoT's progress will not be stopped anytime soon, here are some of the biggest security issues and how to overcome them: Updates, Updates and Updates!

The reason computers have automatic updates is because most users are too lazy to perform even the most basic steps needed to keep their computers safe. And when you consider protecting the many IoT devices, this problem gets even worse.

When the developers and manufactures of the devices do not include the ability to automatically update the device, or updates might not be available for the device or the devices are no longer

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IoT Protection supported by their manufacturer, it creates a big security challenge. This is one of the IoT security challenges that the information security industry is well aware of. In such circumstance, an external, multilayer network security device can be of service so that you can continue to block attacks and keep the device functional.

Even when updates are available, the user may opt out of applying an update. As part of your device management, you need to keep a track of the versions and which devices should be withdrawn after updates are no longer available.

IoT Hardware As the IoT market grows and as hardware matures, we will see more investment and improved security.

Several IoT devices have restricted amounts of storage, memory, and processing capabilities and are often operated on lower power. Security approaches that rely heavily on encryption are not a good fit for these constrained devices as they are not capable of performing complex encryption and decryption quickly to be able to transmit data securely in real-time. IoT systems should make use of multiple layers of defense, separating devices onto distinct networks and using firewalls, to compensate for the device limitations.

Safe and Secure Communication In the initial days of internet, you probably worried about protecting your computers against viruses or malwares.

If you were concerned about information you were sending online, you would use encryption on your emails. For most people, that was the extent of information security. Today, you have to not only be concerned about the data stored in the cloud, but also the physical devices and their communications.

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Several IoT devices do not encrypt messages before sending them over the network. However, the best practice to use is transport encryption, and to adopt standards like Transport Layer Security. Using distinct networks to separate devices also help in establishing secure and private communications, so that transmitted data remains confidential.

Detecting Vulnerabilities In spite of utilizing the best efforts, security vulnerabilities and breaches are unavoidable. Determining whether the IoT system has been compromised is not an easy feat. On a large scale IoT system, the complexity in terms of the number of devices connected and the variety of devices, apps, services, and communication protocols involved, can make it difficult to identify when a breach has occurred.

Tactics for detecting susceptibilities and breaches include monitoring network communications and activity logs for irregularities, engaging in penetration testing and ethical hacking to expose vulnerabilities. Moreover, applying security intelligence and analytics can aid in identifying and notifying when incidents occur.

signatures to ensure data has not been modified. Blockchain, as a decentralized distributed ledger for IoT data, offers an accessible and robust approach for ensuring the integrity of IoT data.

Authorize and Authenticate Devices Addition of multiple devices to the network offers potential points of failure with an IoT system thus, making authentication and authorization a vital criterion for securing IoT systems. Devices should be able to establish their identity before they can access gateways and upstream services. However there are many devices that fail in device authentication. Implementing an IoT platform that provides security by default will help in resolving these issues by enabling two factor authentications and enforcing the use of stronger passwords and certificates.

IoT promises opportunity, but the security risks cannot be ignored whether it is from hackers or corporations. The best remedy is to consider the potential risks of installing connected devices and doing your research.

Data Privacy and Integrity It is important to securely store and process data after it has been transmitted across the network.

Implementing data privacy includes classification and disguising sensitive data before it is stored and using data separation to decouple identifiable information from IoT data payloads.

Data that is no longer required should be disposed of securely and if stored, should be maintained with legal and regulatory compliance, which is also an important challenge.

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Athena IT & Telecom Solutions: Providing Comprehensive Tailor-made Solutions with Excellence

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Our Commitment to deliver what’s been promised, no matter what, has been the backbone of our business heterogeneous networks. With more than a billion mobile phone users, of which, approximately 40 percent are accessing the Internet via their phones, the demand for sophistication and customized services is on a high.

The sector handles a huge amount of data that requires high storage capacity and is in dire need of converged infrastructure solutions as the market focuses increasingly on IP and wireless services. Attempting to achieve this, most infrastructure solution providers face challenges related to knowledge transfer, shortage of skilled and certified technical consultants, and inability of large project execution.

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To thrive in this highly competitive environment, staying up-to-date with the current market trends and the changing customer needs, along with cost-effective delivery of products and services is of paramount importance.

Athena IT & Telecom Solutions leverages its rich experience and dual expertise in IT and telecommunications domain to provide comprehensive solutions with a practical support.

Athena is a leading IT Services and Solutions Company instigated with a vision to deliver excellence in the form of world-class tailor-made IT solutions designed to meet the specific business needs of its clients. A strong believer in aligning technology with business, Athena is seamlessly delivering great business value since its inception in 2009.

Perseverance, Integrity, Customer Service, Vendor Loyalty, and Team spirit are the core ethics that have been interwoven together to create the soul of Athena. They have celebrated a long term relationship with their clients based on the strong pillars of transparency and trust. Athena has been a premium certified partner with Cisco since 2009. It offers a wide range of Cisco solutions which include Routing, Switching, Wireless and Mobility, Access points, Voice, December|2017

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Telepresence, and Collaboration services.

A Dedicated Visionary Harikrishnan Srinivasan, the Founder Director of Athena IT & Telecom Solutions is a veteran who holds more than a decade of experience in the IT and Telecom domain. He has served many leading companies, including HCL Info Systems and Tata Communications Ltd. before initiating Athena.

An MBA degree holder with B.E. in Production Engineering, Harikrishnan also delivers his experience as a partner in Iris Communications, the telecom wing. During his professional voyage, he has handled top positions, including Regional Channel Sales Head, Manager-Channel Sales, Associate Manager-Business Solutions and many more.

“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts,” believes Harikrishnan.

Focus, Innovation and Integrity have been the pillars of success for Athena.

Brand loyalty and a thoughtful product mix have helped Athena grow organically. His Commitment to deliver what has been promised, no matter the circumstances, has been the backbone of the business.

Unique Espousals In a world that believes in ‘more the merrier’, Athena is a strong exception.

They did not believe in collaborating with too many principals and preferred to focus on a small product mix. This helped Athena to retain the focus of the team and work towards small goals, which in turn contributed to a profitable and successful road map.

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travelled, and today has been successful in taking care of its large customer base with excellent service and support. To be a market focused company that constantly delivers innovative solutions is a challenging experience. “Setting up a Quality process that enhances this customer experience is equally challenging though rewarding,” explains Harikrishnan.

Distinctive Services and Solutions Athena offers a full range of consulting and business services that include computing and network strategy, storage and business continuance, project management, network and security, planning and design, implementation, optimization and outsourcing services.

Athena remotely monitors all the devices under contract and if required, it undertakes onsite support too. For medium size clients, the company takes care of manpower deployment to handle the complete infrastructure instead of providing infrastructure support. It has successfully implemented a USD 500,000 project which involved migration of existing voice infrastructure from the current platform to Cisco call manager platform. The company is also focusing on various Cisco collaboration services, like Hyperconvergence and Cloud-based solutions, which will add value to their customers’ business.

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business needs is highly valued. “Our extensive domain knowledge in both IT and Telecom, along with a strong business and quality process is much appreciated by most of our client base,” adds Harikrishnan.

Forthcoming Prospects Athena aims to be the preferred IT partner for their customers for providing enterprising solutions backed by a strong quality process and extensive domain experience. It is currently focusing on enhancing Hyper-converged server and storage along with cloud-based solutions.

Athena is working closely with the principles to enhance training and skill opportunities for their team.

Customer Service and Retention have been the key focus areas of Athena right from its inception. Their clients appreciate the highly skilled technical and design team, which caters to their specific requirements. Athena’s wide range of services and innovative solutions, customized for the client’s

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he current advancement in social media, mobile devices and cloud computing have pushed traditional networks to their limits.

Computing and storage have beneďŹ ted immensely from the innovations in virtualization and automation. Business and IT executives are no longer looking at Cloud solely as a tool, as cloud computing is playing a major role in reshaping how companies conduct business.

Cloud computing has facilitated Big Data with a way to store and retrieve an enormous amount of information. The scenario has evolved from personal cloud storage to entire organizations shifting all of their data to the cloud. Even though several organizations are in the process of migrating to the cloud to achieve scalability, cost-efďŹ ciency and enhanced application performance, some large organizations are still hesitant to transfer

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their information to the cloud mainly due to security concerns.

Even with such concerns, the adoption of cloud services continues to escalate due to the improved usage of cloud-based services, including mobility, increased efďŹ ciency, cost-effectiveness, streamlined collaboration, and speed of connectivity.

Following are some of the ways in which Cloud Computing is reshaping the Networking Industry:

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Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud IoT is expected to remain strong in the coming years, but the continued development of cloud computing and real-time data analytics will also witness the rise of Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE relies on machine-to-machine communications, data processes, and huaman interaction with everything in their environment.

Cloud computing plays a significant role as the IoE develops into a complex system aiming to simplify all the interactions.

Furthermore, IoE will also provide businesses with more meaningful insights into how consumers relate to their products, services, and customer care units.

Increasing Demand of Containers Cloud containers as a service are becoming popular as it can deliver a better infrastructure security. Currently, there is a great upsurge in the use of containers in the cloud computing sector. A cloud-based container system acts as an alternative to virtual machines and allows apps to be deployed in a quick, reliable, consistent and straightforward manner.

This increase in the demand for containers would make it possible for more real-world problems to be solved efficiently and more securely.

Businesses that use big data can use this expanded storage space to store data, conduct analytics and derive valuable insights into areas like financial investments, human systems, and customer behavior. Meanwhile, small business can benefit from the fact that increased storage could mean

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deeply customized and cheaper storage options.

Edge Computing on the Rise Due to the increasing use of internetconnected devices, data processing at the edge of the network, to optimize cloud computing, will be on rise. Edge computing is necessary because it will be required to run the real-time services as it streamlines the flow of traffic from IoT devices and provides real-time data analysis.

Security Advancement in Cloud The cloud security concerns that make many enterprises reluctant to adopt the technology are being currently addressed. Cloud providers are offering more security services to detect flaws before they turn into the next major breach. The key to implement such security is to facilitate it in layers, so that even if one is breached, there is another layer to reinforce it. This approach delivers a key benefit to utilizing public cloud providers.

Hybrid Architecture The hybrid cloud model takes the form of any combination of public, private and on-premise deployments. They either extend the existing physical infrastructure or the infrastructure of a public cloud with a private one. The increase of hybrid models in the coming years puts an even greater emphasis on the data involved and the architecture required for accessing data.

already started working on addressing the challenges associated with hybrid cloud and will likely meet the demands in the coming years.

Growth in Cloud Services With cloud computing on the rise, it’s only natural that cloud services and solutions will also grow. Software-asa-service opened a flexible and financially attractive door for businesses and consumers to try early cloud services. The immense evolution of infrastructure and platform as a service has extended the number of cloud solutions available in the public and private sectors.

The coming years will witness an improvement in the adoption of enterprise cloud services, customer cloud services, cloud-based file sharing services, collaboration services and social media services.

As the use of cloud continues to mature and become more strategic, the market in cloud computing will change. This change will impact every aspect of cloud computing.

In the near future we will see an increased maturity and the expansion of cloud computing. The rise of cloudnative applications designed for multicloud environments also includes simple open integrations that will make workloads portable and begin to change the way organizations value IT within business.

Although a hybrid approach gives the best of both private and public clouds, it is not devoid of challenges especially in integration. Cloud providers have

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Cosmos IT Infra Pvt. Ltd: Rendering End-to-End IT Infrastructure Solutions and Services

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planning and adopting new technologies.

Organizations mainly rely on IT Infrastructure providers and their Distribution Systems to deliver solutions that inspire confidence when connecting their businesses with external employees, customers and partners around the world. Cosmos IT Infra Pvt. Ltd is one such leading distributor and solutions provider of Information Technology, Telecom, and Security Products. The team at Cosmos is well-versed with the latest and the most powerful technologies available today for locating, organizing, managing, protecting, and presenting

information. The business expertise of this organization are rendering of logistics and after sales support, training and technology solution designing.

Cosmos IT Infra as a group of companies and experts have more than 15 years of experience in IT Infrastructure distribution and solutions in India and overseas. They offer a complete end-to-end IT infrastructural project management, expertise product service solutions, system integration, technology project planning, designing, estimation and commissioning, and security solutions all under one roof.

Creating growth opportunities within the SMB market, Cosmos provides businesses with technology to add scale, enhance services, and improve productivity. As per the current market trends, IoT(Internet of Thing) platform is adopted by them; where they have tried to sum up different technologies in the products to give the best and the budgetary solutions to their clients.

They have proven expertise in wide array of application including voice, data and video communication. They also have international distribution and reach in Middle East and Africa.

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latest projects in smart building, smart parking, connected learning and smart work place in all the possible ways.

The Dynamic Duo Nilesh Thakare, a young and dynamic risk taker, is the Co-founder and the Chairman of Cosmos IT Infra. His positive thinking, optimism, motivating thought process and energy to do things and accomplish goals, manifest his positive attitude towards life. Complete satisfaction of the customers is his top priority. Nilesh along with Anup founded the Cosmos IT Infra domain in 2013. “The road to success is never easy. We have to try each and every day in order to reach our desired goals. Success is not a single time processes. Success lies in consistency, dedication, smart work and believing our dreams. This world is full of gloom-ridden people and situation. So it is very important to keep our selves motivated and charged to strive hard to achieve our dream,” says Nilesh.

Anup Bhosle is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Cosmos IT Infra. When it comes to work he knows exactly what he wants to do and how to get it done. He is a diligent, clear headed personality who understands business requirement very well. He is highly experienced, well organized, and extremely professional. His light hearted, grounded nature and jolly personality provides the best work life quality for their employees.

“Innovations are the real growth of the Organization,” says Nilesh.

Recently, Cosmos has successfully tested and commissioned a project of setting up Wi-Fi system in a bus for their client. Presently, people tend to travel minimum of one hour to three hours daily just to reach their work places. So, a Wi-Fi enabled bus is a boon for today’s generation. Once they enter the bus, employees can December|2017

immediately start their work by connecting to the office servers. The aim was to convert the non-productive hours of long travel into productive office hours. In another recent ongoing project, Cosmos is transforming a regular ‘Home’ in an intelligent and ‘Smart Home’. Home Automation with newly added innovations is all related to the recently blooming technology of IoT. Anup feels that business should be done with transparent communication.

He believes that when one opens the door to transparency and openness, a lot of people follow through. Cosmos’s primary and utmost motto is ‘customer comes first’. When one makes the world better for others, they make the world better for themselves too. Hence, at Cosmos, they don’t call their customers as ‘clients’, they call them as ‘Partners’. They believe in partnership with the customers; where they and their partners are in a win-win situation. They believe in customer’s complete satisfaction. As an entrepreneur, they must listen to the requirements or issues of any customers, in order to give them robust solution and satisfactory services.

Catering to a variety of customers, Cosmos has always delivered wellversed and customized solutions, pre & post sales services and quick delivery to all of them. “A comprehensive approach towards customer satisfaction is the only way to retain customers,” says Anup.

Advice to the Upcoming Entrepreneurs Nilesh advises, “Never ever in your life get disappointed by failure. Failure is not end of the story. Rather it’s a learning process.” Anup further adds, “Take control of your life, be disciplined to take some time out each week for yourself. Don’t be afraid to flout convention.”

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Both of them strongly believe in making the organization better by improving the way of work, bridging the gap in internal communication and capitalizing the unused information.

They always try to seize new opportunities. “A good entrepreneur will always influence employees to do their best and contribute to the betterment of the organization,” says Anup. This is the most important quality, an entrepreneur or a boss in the organization must have. “An entrepreneur’s life is full of challenges and problems, one should not be afraid of that. ‘Face it, embrace it and learn from it’. Make world a better place,” says Nilesh.

Future Objectives Cosmos IT Infra aims to improve the customer satisfaction further with better solution and services to their customers in order to retain them for a longer duration. In the coming years, with a very well experienced team, they are targeting to add a distinct department for Automation, wherein they will implement their innovative ideas and come up with brand new technologies.

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ROX Trading & Systems: Delivering Quality Technology Solutions and Professional Outsourcing Services

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robust processes and tools combined with the right skills at the right time and in the right place. They create IT solutions that fit unique requirements with a complete breadth of distributed solutions including IT Consulting, Data Centre Build & Manage, Enterprise Network & Security, Virtualization, Risk & Compliance Management, End-User Computing, and CrossFunctional Services. They design

collaborative solutions that meet the individual needs of clients and partners.

ROX, with over 16 Years of combined industry experience, has the mission to deliver high-quality Technology Solutions and Professional Outsourcing Services that provides true business value to their clients, enabling them to achieve their desired business goals. ROX crafts its solutions to meet the exact needs of clients, including leaders in Fortune 1000 companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate firms, legal firms, health institutions, universities, original equipment manufacturers, global system integrators and equipment resellers.

Illustrating on profound industry expertise and tailored solutions, ROX blends strategic designs, using proven technologies, and world-class support capability to create effective solutions that maximize returns on IT investment.

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service. From the ground up, they are driven by ROX team, so at every level, there is an incentive to succeed and deliver the very best solutions and services. They believe the only way to build lasting success for the extended family of team ROX is to help their clients succeed.

ROX, by choice, has resolute to be the best IT system integrator of the market, raising the bar of performance is intrinsic to their culture, that whether it is research and development of new solutions, sales or service. ROX believes the “Best way” is always to implement it. Because, they are driven to be the best in everything they do, their niche is to deliver reliable, optimized high-performance IT solutions to every client they serve by their team of experts.

Benefiting clients with Smart Services ROX has evolved over the last decade from their roots as a registered Business Partner of IBM to present position as a well-known IT system integrator and solutions provider, constantly distributes innovative solutions and technologies. Their ability to adapt to changes is another integral part of their continued success.

They are constantly exploring innovative prospects to leverage their core values across new enterprises, that will provide added value to existing clients while, also opening new avenues. Their networking team consists of leading Network & Security certified engineers alongside their solution design team, who build, implement and manage the solutions that leverage the latest industry standard technology advancements to provide clients with reliable, manageable and protected network environments. Their Network Security

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experts have vast experience in deploying complex solutions that are minimally invasive to the existing setup of the clients thereby leading to a greater ROI and a far secure environment that helps their clients manage traffic and have complete control over their networks with security.

The Fascinating Leader of ROX The Founder and Managing Director, Mr. Jim Rakesh is a firstgeneration entrepreneur, who runs this successful 100 Crore company in the IT Integration space. Being one of the industry’s leading enterprise system integrator and solution provider with over 350 valuable customers, ROX is strategically located to handle the PanIndian and overseas requirement of their clients.

ROX is the solitaire partner with the highest number of certified engineers with hands-on experience in the network and security vertical. Clients are benefited by accessing their resources as they are available for any fallback, also enabling them the swiftness in the sales cycle. They are able to provide competitive & cost effective solutions along with the market players such as IBM, LENOVO Etc, making them the most preferred vendor for their clients.

Future Enrichments With a constant focus on the client’s mission and business objective, ability ROX is the solitaire partner with the highest number of certified engineers with hands-on experience in the

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network and security vertical. Clients are benefited by accessing their resources as they are available for any fallback, also enabling them the swiftness in the sales cycle. They are able to provide competitive & cost effective solutions along with the market players such as IBM, LENOVO etc., making them the most preferred vendor for their clients to adapt new innovations, flexibility in client serving and Real-world approach they have delivered projects precisely and has made them successful in the business.

ROX bridges the gap in upcoming technologies like cloud migrations, collaboration solutions & IoT which eases their client’s workload.

Recognized to be one of the topmost system integrators of the subcontinent, for days ahead in future, ROX architects rapid expansion in the field of IT security and IoT.

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he way organizations consume IT is evolving rapidly. The customers are demanding higher quality devices, faster test times, more reliable network, and instantaneous computing to keep their company moving forward. Thus, many of the recent technologies like Software-defined Networking (SDN), Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are now in the mainstream.

An independent survey found that organizations are focused on adding bandwidth, investigate ways to modernize their networks with software, and expand their wireless networking capabilities. After all, a secure and reliable network is essential for a digital business.

Here are few of the upcoming technologies revolutionizing the enterprise networking setting: Software-defined Networking The shift towards software-defined-everything will continue and some of the biggest disruptors in the networking market will be Software-defined Networking (SDN). SDN has gained significant influence in the service provider sector and has gathered more interest than adoption from the enterprises. It is at a tipping point where enterprise experimentation will turn into live production. It is expected to see a complete revolution in SDN infrastructure solutions that are commercially available. It has the added benefit of being non-proprietary, allowing users to integrate into any environment, thus offering more flexibility and affordability to vendor-specific hardware.

Network Convergence Transition into virtual compute and storage environment while simultaneously moving the network into a virtual setting can prove to be cost-effective. Hyper-converged Infrastructure Services (HCIS) conceptualizes infrastructure as a pool of resources for SDN controllers to allocate. It saves enterprises the trouble of navigating through the evolving situations of SDN by giving them a convenient option. The only drawback of choosing HCIS is that once the hardware is utilized, it cannot be decoupled from the attached software and reused.

Security A major promoter for investment in networking technology is to improve security. With the increased sophistication of cyber-criminals and as cloud and virtualization transform IT infrastructure, organizations are stepping up their network security strategies and are moving beyond firewalls and access controls.

Some organizations are attempting to establish security via corporate policy. The most successful IT teams will collaborate on simultaneously modernizing and securing their infrastructure with SDN, advanced encryption and identity management, integration of cloud services and computerization of local apps. Executives seem to have a clear picture of how SDN brings measurable value. Enterprises, especially those in heavily regulated industries will leverage SDN to respond to security threats in real time.

Boosting Bandwidth Including increased bandwidth to the network has become a necessity for future technologies.

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, the IP Network will reach 2.6 Exabyte per day by 2021. Networks are under pressure as they carry more and more traffic. Simultaneously, increased adoption of advanced video in the enterprise will cause traffic to grow further.

Increased Burdening of WAN Software-defined WAN technology has become a popular approach in dealing with WAN challenges.

WAN bandwidth is poised for stronger growth and is expected to increase significantly. According to

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an independent report, a number of factors are putting strain on WAN links, including bandwidth intensive applications such as big data, cloud, IoT and video.

Increasing WAN Bandwidth has become a critical issue. Many organizations are moving applications to the cloud and will be making signiďŹ cant changes to their WAN architecture. The traditional demilitarized zones at their own data centers will be augmented or in some cases replaced, by points-of presence.

Adaptable Financing Currently, businesses are less inclined to make large, upfront investments as seen in the past; this has been reected in the increasing popularity of cloud-based services and pay-as-you-grow subscription models. This applies to networking also, particularly with the increase of software-deďŹ ned data centers. Customers are starting to opt for open stack, non-proprietary, cloud-managed, softwarebased solutions that involve a shift from traditional perpetual licensing.

WLAN Modernization WLAN is becoming more and more vital to organizations. The worldwide enterprise WLAN market grew by 9.7% in the second quarter of the current year. It is a critical enabler of end-to-end digital transformation strategies as wireless applications and devices continue to unlock new digital and business outcomes. The wireless network has thus established itself as an essential element of the infrastructure fabric, and companies are committed to expanding their WLANs. The network has emerged as such that stakeholders and users probably take optimal performance for granted. The challenge now shifts to the successful integration of these systems. And that is why it is essential to stay on top of emerging technologies to enable employees in providing network support while saving dramatically on operation and hardware costs.

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TimeNet Solutions: A Prominent Network Solution Provider

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In a quest to achieve just that, TimeNet Solutions, a leading network solution provider in South India, delivers a portfolio of IT Solutions and also help support complex scalable operations, by providing Customized Solutions, Expert Consulting, and Strategic Integration. Their solutions helps customers gain a significant advantage over their competitors.

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with Industry leaders like Cisco and Microsoft. TimeNet Solutions is a premier partner of CISCO, the worldwide leader in IT & Networking.

They are also the recipient of Cisco’s “Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award” for 3 years which is TimeNet’s pride and showcases their consistency in effort.

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freely exhibit and enhance their skills, thereby leading to both ‘individual’ development and success for the company. The biggest asset of TimeNet is a team of experts aided by a solid technical background. They also have a training wing as a part of TimeNet Solutions.

Two among these experts are Pramod Oommen and John T Alexander.

COO, Pramod Oommen specializes in IT, Sales and Operations & John T Alexender, CFO is a Law graduate who handles “Finance & Accounts” at, TimeNet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Change is the only constant factor in technology sector. Entrepreneurs face many challenges in a rapidly changing business environment. To become a successful entrepreneur one has to face many slips and misses before finding the right path to successes.

TimeNet Solutions makes organizations aware of ways to enhance the performance of their IT assets and to meet and exceed their business objectives with the right solution. It also helps in simplifying and refining the process flow of an organization, to optimize and align IT infrastructure to generate the desired revenues. At TimeNet Solutions they hold up the responsibility to instruct and support their clients, throughout all phases of their projects, from the ‘beginning’ until the ‘end’.

“We strived hard in building technical competencies for customer satisfaction”, says Mr.Pramod Oommen.

Words of Wisdom “An entrepreneur is one who has a vision and a desire to create something.

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solutions, ideas and emerging trends.”

“An entrepreneur should constantly be updated with current trends and development. They should also focus on building a great team & keep them Motivated”, Says Mr. John T Alexander.

Enriching Clients with Creativity Having started operations thirteen years ago, and apart from being a leading CISCO solution provider in India, TimeNet Solutions has also executed major critical networks implementation missions across various customer bases. They have more than 300 satisfied customers like VSSC, ISRO , LPSC, IISU, CMSE, IIST, CDAC, KSREC,RGCBT, IT MISSION, KELTRON, REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION KERALA MISSION, BSNL, TCS, NAVIGANT, INDIAN NAVAL BASE,SOUTHERN AIR COMMAND, MSC CREW,COCHIN PORT,COCHIN SHIPYARD. Some of the services offered by TimeNet Solutions includes, WAN Solutions, Security Solutions, Wireless Solutions, Data Management Solutions, Video Delivery, Network Auditing, Security Auditing, Data Center Solutions and Cloud-Based Solutions.

They also undertake projects on structured Voice and Data centre Cabling, Optical Fiber Installation, Patch Panel Termination, Cable Testing & Certification, Structured Cabling Design & Implementation, Floor and Wall Mount Data Communications Rack Security, IP Camera & analog camera Installation, AMC’s on Passive side.

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Defined Networking’. They have a separate wing for dedicated support service - ‘TimeNet Services’. The company also has a range of certified professionals to provide assistance in all IT requirements, like ‘IT Infrastructure Support’ and ‘Remote Assistance’.

As the world moves towards ‘Cloud Computing’ and ‘Virtualization’, TimeNet Solutions has teamed up with Virtualization pioneer VMWare with an enterprise level certification and is assisting its customers in choosing the best solution in virtualizing their Data Centers. They also offer a wide variety of Video Conferencing Solutions - a cost-effective way of nullifying the need and hassles of ‘physical travel’.

With a revolutionary aim, TimeNet Solutions proudly believes, “our customers can expect ‘industry proven’ excellent services always, from our end.”

The Innovative Upcoming Projects TimeNet Solutions provides solutions for Data Center, Security, Collaboration, Cloud, Mobility, ‘Internet of Things’ and ‘Software

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Augmented Reality: A Comprehensive Overview

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he way Equipment is overtaking all our needs, and most of human life has be contingent on the technology, it looks like we are on the way to transforming each aspect of our life inspired by technology.

Most of the world’s inhabitants use smartphones and have started adopting all the crucial things through it, from gaming to videos, chatting to photograph, shopping to money transfer almost all the required tasks are now on your fingertips.

In the early in 2016, the world experienced a new game called ‘Pokémon Go’ and it was the most popularized game of 2016 based on augmented reality with millions of downloads.

Augmented reality is a new height of technology, providing users with boosted experience towards any object or subject with an additional layer of content.

What is Augmented Reality?

It is the amalgamation of digital or computer generated information in term of audio, video, animation, and GPS data with user’s environment in real time.

A Brief History Thomas Caudill, a Boeing scientist invented the term Augmented Reality somewhere in the 1990s. To define how electricians can use the head-mounted display while accumulating convoluted wiring yokes worked.

One of the first commercial application of AR technology was the yellow “first down” that begun appearing in televisual football game somewhere in 1998.

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About the Author Ankush Sharma is the CEO of Yeppar, an organization providing innovative solutions based on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality.

Ankush is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in various industries. As a strong business development professional, Ankush is skilled in Management, Customer Service, Strategic Planning, Augmented, Virtual, Mixed Reality, and Marketing Strategy. With Yeppar, Ankush aims to revolutionize all the perpendiculars of business in Print, Packaging, Retail, Manufacturing, Industrial Training, Advertising, Real Estate and so forth.

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Specialist’s Viewpoint

NASA used Augmented Reality in its aircraft X-38 to overlay map data for providing boosted visual navigation during flight tests in 1999.

started exploring the AR to grab the early benefits of this technology and to be in the upcoming competition.

AR companies like Augment, Blippar, AR toolkit took AR to the web browser and Yeppar are the AR inspired enterprises which are rigorously trying in 2009. to grab the AR market by offering different marketing elucidations to In 2013 automobile industry had organizations and trying to transform shown their interest in Augmented the existing processes.

Reality where Volkswagen car manufacturer developed an app called MARTA to provide step-by-step repair Industries using Augmented Reality Sports: hindrance to the technicians thus Have you know-how the match with a allowing foreseeing of how technical graphical staging such as Replay shots, process will look on the vehicle in animated balls with 3D potion front of them. graphics, virtual lines to validate the Google announces the consignment of ball line & length helps umpire to make correct decisions. Usually, Google glass devices for customers, broadcasters use augmented reality to whereas started the trend of wearable provide an immersive experience to AR. users.

In the meanwhile, Microsoft has Medicine: launched its AR wearable equipment Medical science has achieved a Hololens to show its presence in milestone with its powerful research upcoming AR market. and development. Augmented reality Today, Augmented Reality technology has shown it’s latent towards the betterment of medicine industry where is being used in many different its doing wonders by offering it easy industries like manufacturing, entertainment, automobile, real estate, for doctors, researcher, and pharmaceuticals to provide exceptional education, branding and many more. content to the industry.

And lots of enterprises are providing Entertainment: the Augmented Reality solutions Do you remember how Pokémon go worldwide like Augment, Blippar, game has drastically popularized and Yeppar. amongst the game lovers and gain the Augmented Reality solutions are really worldwide attention? Yes, it was an Augmented Reality infused gaming revolutionizing the business sectors. interface which created huge curiosity And industries have start adopt and addiction among the population augmented reality solutions towards towards this game resulted in millions the upgrading of their research and of downloads across the year 2016. development procedures.

We have noticed a solid knock of augmented reality in every business dimension towards the betterment of existing practices.

There are lots of global brands has

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Fashion: Have you ever experience any fashion app asking you to try fashion apparels in their virtual trial rooms? This is so amazing and magical experience for fashion followers where they can try

the outfit with the help of augmented reality based app.

Marketing: Augmented reality also becomes an intermediate of marketing for products and services where with the help of AR it becomes easy to engage the user and gain the energy in the market by building brand attraction.

Current Scenario of Augmented Reality Today the most common example of augmented reality is computer graphics, sounds, audios, videos etc.

That day is not so far away when augmented reality. Augmented reality provides us a great opportunity to understand the world in different manner. With help of this very technology we will roaming in that world which we never seen before.

Future Scenario of Augmented Reality Augmented reality is totally life changing and it can make positive impact on the human’s life. We are on that particular stage where we are learning new techniques and machines.

Computing is not about computers anymore it is now all about to living it.

There is a huge requirement of designers who can or will boost up the augmented reality. Techniques changing day by day and augmented reality would surely bring a diametrical change in human’s life Augmented Reality Market Ÿ 30% of smartphone users use augmented reality once in a week. Ÿ That’s over means 60 million of users is the US alone. Ÿ Augmented reality applications are used by 200 million users in 2018. Ÿ By 2020 the revenue for augmented reality is expected to reach $ 120 billion.

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