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Dear Friends The country is about to go for another phase of lockdown though there is news from various pharmaceutical companies about brining Covid-19 Vaccines. There is definitely an increased concern among the people about the growing number of positive county. This is not in India alone that the authorities are mulling to impose lockdown but in other countries also the same kind of action is taking place. In this situation the businesses are going to suffer and also the citizens. In our 4-5 webinars for the partners we realized that people are ready for hybrid work but when the lockdown happens even hybrid work may not be the future. Therefore, remote work is the best choice. The other thing which attracts the attention is the cyber security, where the organizations are going to invest heavily. There are many players in the industry who are after offering solutions, but what matters a lot is that one has to be very personal in his/ her approach to the market. Secondly, there are a lot of generic software as far as security is concerned but now the place is generic software is wiping out and growth of specialized software is happening in the market. Data classification, incident response, penetration testing, etc. are becoming more acceptable in the market. Similarly, SOC and MSP are of growing demand these days. So watch out for the trend and get ready for that. Digital transformation is rapidly catching up in the market, customers are embracing digital transformation much faster these days and there are studies that are corroborating this also. So along with cyber security the partners should focus on the virtual work place, cloud computing, collaboration, enterprise applications, etc. We at Accent Info Media are trying to collaborate with the stake holders in the industry to bring content and predictions. In this series, we are doing a security symposium on 19th of December. Watch out for that too.
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NTT Ltd. Announces Business Integration NTT Ltd. is bringing together three key business entities as a single organization, effective on 1 January 2021. The new operating company will be built on the foundations of NTT India Pvt. Ltd., NTT Com India and Netmagic. Through this integrated entity, NTT Ltd. will bring innovative technology services and solutions to the extended client base in India. The integration will enhance the organization’s end-to-end ability to better serve and delight its clients with both transformational services elements including managed hybrid infrastructure, and cloud services, as well as with its foundational technology solutions and services. Its employees will also have more opportunities to thrive and grow on an even bigger stage and can serve and engage more meaningfully with
the communities. Sharad Sanghi will be appointed Leader of NTT Ltd. India business on 1 January 2021. Sanghi is the CEO – Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure (India) of NTT Ltd. (also known as NTTNetmagic) and brings over 20 years of experience in developing internet backbone infrastructure and providing internet services. Sanghi is a dynamic and respected business leader and builder. Amongst other achievements, Sanghi successfully established and grew Netmagic as an India market leader in data center and cloud services. His strong leadership, coupled with his understanding of the India market and the NTT businesses, will be invaluable as the three companies come together as one organization.
73% of India’s IT leaders plan to make significant increases in 2021 cloud budgets A new research from Amdocs has revealed that 73% of India’s IT leaders plan to make significant increases in their 2021 cloud budgets to make remote working easier, and potentially, permanent. Upskilling and reskilling are going to be crucial to shifting work patterns, with 59% of India enterprises aiming to upskill staff in cloud security practices. And 60% of
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IT enterprises consider security and compliance as the biggest threat to future cloud adoption. Around 20 % of the Indian IT leaders consider data integration (69%) and data management (64%) were among their biggest challenges when running systems and monitoring workloads in the cloud. India enterprises will also be hiring new staff to help with their
new cloud and remote working initiatives: 40% of India enterprises say they will be hiring new data engineers 40 % of India enterprises say they will be hiring data scientists The survey revealed that India enterprises have already taken major steps to adopt the cloud, with: 69% of India enterprises are train-
ing employees on cloud-based data and analytics skills 77% of India-based IT leaders said their organizations were doing enough to constantly re-skill employees on cloud services. That is 21% higher than US and 35% higher than UK.
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Palo Alto Launches Industry’s First 5G-Native Security Offering Palo Alto Networks today introduced the industry’s first 5G-native security offering, bringing its expertise in securing networks, clouds and devices to the 5G world. This new offering enables service providers and enterprises to turn 5G networks into highly secure networks. The promise of 5G is much more than faster browsing on mobile phones. Done right, 5G can bring massive business transformation. The design of 5G networks — with its ability to allow millions of devices in high-density settings — can enable smart supply chains, autonomous transportation, smart manufacturing, mass adoption of the internet of things (IoT) and much more. “For 5G to live up to its promise of transforming industries, companies need the confidence that 5G networks and services have enterprise-grade security,” said Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager, Firewall as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks. “We created 5G-native security in order to give enterprises the confidence they need to harness 5G for business transformation and to help service providers secure the new enterprise services they are creating.” Palo Alto Networks has taken its expertise in securing enterprises and mobile networks and added understanding of the 5G protocols and 5G network interfaces to introduce a number of industry firsts: • Containerized 5G security: • Real-time visibility, prevention and correlation of 5G user/device threats:
Exclusive Interview: Anil Sethi, VP and GM Channel, Dell Technologies -DQChannels In yet another example of our commitment to being Simple, Predictable and Profitable for partners, Dell Technologies is providing partners with a 20 percent upfront discount on its improved PowerStore deals, via Channel. A new ‘Deal Desk’ partner support service will also be provided to help drive more PowerStore wins. Dell Technologies has already shipped over 300 PowerStore units to over 40 countries, since its launch in May. To boost the sales via channel partners, changes have been in implemented to the internal direct sales force to drive more partner engagement. A compensation-neutral plan has been created to let Dell’s direct sales teams make the same compensation on PowerStore deals if they leverage a partner who is using a discounted price. Effective this week, Dell partners can now achieve 20 percent up-front discount on an entire PowerStore deal through a combination of back-end and front-end rebates with approved deal registration.
Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Grow 18% in 2021 Worldwide Public Cloud Services End-User Spending Forecast (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
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DigitalOcean Appoints Hilary Schneider and Warren Adelman to its Board of Directors. Vehere onboards Avinash Garg as Director GSI, Channels and Alliances.
Gokul Rajaram joins Pine Labs as an Advisor.
JK Technosoft to amp up SAP practice, appoints Upendra Prakash Pateriya as the new SAP-Practice Head. UiPath Appoints PagerDuty Chairperson and CEO Jennifer Tejada to its Board of Directors
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Safe DNS partners with BD Soft for the Indian Markets Strengthening its Cyber portfolio, BD Software, one of the largest IT Security Distributors in India, introduces US based Safe DNS, CloudBased Web Filtering Solutions into the Indian Markets. Taking into account the rising threats in the cyber space, amid and post Covid-19, the solutions by Safe DNS shall help to safeguard the Indian consumers/businesses against cyber threats and attacks and objectionable content on the internet. The Safe DNS, Cloud-Based Filtering Solutions caters to a wide spectrum of consumers, covering all businesses, education, nonprofits, partners and telecoms, hardware/software vendors, as well as families. It is designed to protect the corporate or private network against malware and phishing and provide a safe browsing environment.The customizable solutions shall help consumers to improve the bottom line results. Zakir Hussain, Director, BD Software Pvt. Ltd. said, “The increased interconnectivity due to the growing popularity of cloud network puts all consumers’ data at stake. These threats on the internet need to be filtered out even before the can enter your device. By bringing the Cloud-Based Web Filtering solutions of Safe DNS into the Indian market, we shall be addressing these critical needs of the online audience.”
Asigra Forecasts Five Ransomware Challenges Expected to Increase Business Risk in 2021 Asigra forecasted five ransomware challenges expected to impact businesses in 2021, driven in part by an escalation of increasingly sophisticated ransomware attacks globally. Tasked with ensuring operational continuity, Asigra is responding to these challenges and providing guidance on maintaining productive business operations. According to the US Government’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), “The organization has observed continuing ransomware attacks across the country and around the world. Malicious actors have adjusted their ransomware tactics over time to include pressuring victims for payment by threatening to release stolen data if they refuse to pay. Malicious actors increasingly use tactics such as deleting system backups, which make restoration and recovery more difficult or infeasible for impacted organizations.” Organizations today have a false sense of security that their backup will be there for them when a ransomware attack occurs. Sadly, a large number of these attacks now target backup data, preventing business recoveries after such attacks.
BPE Increases Production Capacity at their Noida Facility Best Power Equipment’s India (BPE) that provides end-to-end strategic power solutions for most critical applications and having more than 2 decades of manufacturing experience announced that the company has increased the production capacity at their Noida factory. The company has recently commenced the production of UPS from 600 VA to 1.2 MVA, Smart rack solution & Solar inverters due to robust sales from varied industries such as Healthcare, Data Centers, Banking etc. BPE also plans to achieve sustainable development goals and aims to promote innovation, creativity, and sustainable work to boost the country’s economy and stand in the global markets, reaching revenue growth target from 200 Crores to 500 Crores in the coming years. Recently BPE acquire new manufacturing facility of 15,000 Sq.Ft area in Noida, with its automated production lines & high end processes which is equipped with advanced production facilities with the product range of 300 kVA three phase large UPS . Commenting on this, Amitansu Satpathy, MD, Best Power Equipments said, “This year, we have focused on increasing our production capabilities to various governments of India initiatives in PM Modis vision on Atmanirbhar Bharat.”
NVIDIA Announces Mellanox InfiniBand for Exascale AI Supercomputing NVIDIA introduced the next generation of NVIDIA Mellanox 400G InfiniBand, giving AI developers and scientific researchers the fastest networking performance available to take on the world’s most challenging problems. As computing requirements continue to grow exponentially in areas such as drug discovery, climate research and genomics, NVIDIA Mellanox 400G InfiniBand is accelerating this work through a dramatic leap in performance offered on the world’s only fully offloadable, in-network computing platform. The seventh generation of Mellanox InfiniBand provides ultra-low latency and doubles data throughput with NDR 400Gb/s and adds new NVIDIA In-Network Computing engines to provide additional acceleration.
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IceWarp Deploys Email Collaboration Suite for Unichem Unichem Laboratories, a pioneer in the Indian pharmaceuticals business has migrated from Network email solution to IceWarp’s email and business collaboration suite. The all in one solution of IceWarp promises to offer a value-added proposition to the esteemed organisation with a full proof emailing solution that is cost-efficient and bundled with a whole new family of apps right at the user’s fingertips. Being a global pharmaceutical drug Company Unichem has a large database of customers. Before migrating to IceWarp, Unichem was facing many problems; high-end security and control was the key issue. Attempting to manage and streamline the processing of their products without altering their business activities was a major concern. The integration of all its operations from one platform was another goal. Pramod Sharda, CEO, IceWarp India & MEA said, “The cumulative growth of the list of our clientele has been acting as a constant reminder of us moving closer to our vision. We are elated to expand our partnership with Unichem Laboratories, one of India’s leading Pharmaceuticals Company. As a channel-driven company, our customers constantly remind us to invent and reinvent our technologies, our solutions to further thrive across the globe.”
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Concentric Resolves Unaddressed Data Security Threats with Industry’s First AI-based Data Access Governance Solution Concentric announced the latest advancements available in its Semantic Intelligence data access governance solution that address the industry’s continued challenges with unstructured data security threats by autonomously identifying risk created by inappropriate access, sharing and management of unstructured data. Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution now offers patentpending Risk Distance analysis for autonomous assessment of file and activity-based risk. Risk Distance uniquely uses advanced deep learning technology – a type of artificial intelligence (AI) – to find at-risk data by comparing each file to its peers. These peer file comparisons give security professionals for the first time the highly targeted and actionable guidance they need to finally secure their business-critical unstructured data without hard-to-maintain rules or complex configurations.
Netgear Signs Distribution Pact With Ingram Micro For Gulf And Egypt
Barracuda Acquires Fyde, a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Innovator Barracuda has acquired Fyde, a ZTNA provider based in Palo Alto, Calif., and Porto, Portugal to expand the Barracuda CloudGen SASE platform with ZTNA capabilities. The Fyde solution is available immediately as Barracuda CloudGen Access to businesses of all sizes. It will be available in the coming weeks for Managed Service Providers. Fyde’s innovative Zero Trust solution enables secure, reliable, and fast access to cloud or on-premises applications and workloads from any device and location. Fyde’s ZTNA solution addresses the security risks associated with traditional remote access by continuously verifying that only the right person, with the right device, and the right permissions can access company resources. The solution is ideal to connect users directly to cloud-native and legacy corporate applications deployed in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
NETGEAR announced the signing of a value-added distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, the global technology, and supply chain services provider. With this agreement, Ingram Micro will be authorized to sell and promote NETGEAR’s portfolio of networking and security solutions through its vast channel network in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Egypt. NETGEAR selected Ingram Micro, as a top distributor for the Region, because of its strong base of system integration channel partners and reseller network to sell its full range of networking products. “We are excited to partner with Ingram in the Middle East; this will certainly help us to reach out to more Channel Partners & System Integrators. We will be working closely with Ingram to enable NETGEAR’s cutting edge Pro-AV switching solutions, Award-winning Home WIFI systems, Business-class Access points & Storage Solutions to become more reachable to all allies and customers across the Region,” said Marthesh Nagendra, Country Head, India, ME, and SAARC regions.
R&M Introduce Custom Design Service
Edtech Develops Video Solution with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
R&M has just launched its InteliPhy Brownfield Service customization program for patch panels from any vendor. This offers IT infrastructure managers a unique opportunity to upgrade already deployed non-R&M physical network infrastructure with a Smart Networks IoT layer. R&M’s Smart Networks architecture brings intelligence and automation to physical network infrastructures. Regardless of the structured cabling vendor used for an existing installation, the InteliPhy Brownfield Service delivers a real time holistic view of the network and its connectivity. Users don’t only benefit from an IoT-layer custom-designed to their infrastructure as well as DCIM software that makes it possible to locate and identify all equipment on the network and track all network changes. An ideal solution for large-scale multi-vendor networks in the areas of pharma, airport, government, banking and colocation. All connectivity documentation data and essential workflows, such as patching activity, are presented in a single DCIM platform. This reporting also helps facilitate audits.
uLektz, an education technology Software-as-a-Service start-up, today announced the launch of uLektzMeet.com, a live online lecturing platform in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, networking and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries. The platform addresses the growing need for an engaging virtual classroom as India advances its digital economy. uLektz Meet is being launched as one of the products of uLektz Suite of software applications that are seamlessly integrated and provide one-stop solution for all the needs of higher education. uLektz Meet is exclusively designed to provide an interactive and engaging online education experience. The platform offers easy integration with learning management systems (LMSs), and provides several education-centric features and functionalities such as single-click invites to an entire class, automated students attendance marking, lectures recording, storage and access via an eLibrary, group chat, file and screen sharing, Hand Raise function, etc.
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AutonomIQ and Happiest Minds Partner to Offer Autonomous Testing Solutions Happiest Minds Technologies and AutonomIQ announced a partnership to accelerate the enterprise digital transformation journey using autonomous testing capabilities. T“Integration of AutonomIQ’s Autonomous Testing platform with Happiest Minds platform helps accelerate the value realization of the digital transformation projects of our customers. Happiest Minds works with niche partners like AutonomIQ to create a connected partner ecosystem and deliver a sustainable digital transformation to its customers. We believe in helping customers meet their business goals by ‘delivering digital capital’ at each step of their digital journey through outcomes and insights.” said Rajiv Shah, CEO, Digital Business Services, Happiest Minds.
Adweb Technologies partners with IRONSCALES & SRC Cyber Solutions Adweb Technologies partners with SRC Cyber Solutions LLP & IRONSCALES, as a value-added distributor for India. Adwebtech has serviced the cyber security needs of over 2500 Indian enterprises, with a range of preventive and proactive solutions addressing both baseline and critical enterprise needs. SRC Cyber Solutions LLP, a pioneer in introducing niche and next-gen cybersecurity solutions into the Indian market, is responsible for IRONSCALES sales and partnership engagements in India. IRONSCALES is the leader in email security and anti-phishing technologies. Using a multi-layered and automated approach starting at the mailbox-level to prevent, detect and respond to today’s sophisticated email phishing attacks, IRONSCALES expedites the time from phishing attack discovery to enterprise wide remediation, reducing the time from detection to response from hours or days to just seconds or minutes, by significantly reducing the workload on incident responders.
Illegal Mobile Signal Boosters lead to increased incidence of call drops and lower data speeds Wireless Monitoring Organisation, Department of Telecom (DoT), with the support of relevant authorities and mobile operators conducted inspection ride on several locations across Delhi to take down illegal mobile signal repeaters installed by individuals. These locations included both residential and commercial establishments in Ashok Vihar, Sant Nagar, East of Kailash, South Extension With this exercise in Delhi, 33 illegal repeaters were removed and 40 notices were given to remove the identified ones with immediate effect. Speaking on the inspection Mr. GK Reddy, Engineer in Chief, Wireless Monitoring Organisation, DoT said “Our drive against illegal mobile signal boosters is an ongoing campaign, in this year only we have removed more than 400 such devices from different parts of Delhi and our drive will continue in coming days as well. We advise people not to use any illegal repeaters as it is causing huge interference in the mobile network” According to Wireless Monitoring Organisation (WMO) of DoT, installation, possession or selling of illegal repeater is punishable offence as per Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 and Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. Heavy fines may be imposed on owners of several premises who have installed these illegal repeaters.
Enhanced HPE Partner Ready Program to Drive as a Service and SMB Growth Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced enhancements to the HPE Partner Ready Program to help partners advance on their as a service journey, capture growing market opportunities, and drive increased sales growth in the small and medium sized business (SMB) segment. The fiscal year 20211 HPE Partner Ready Program is designed to provide partners with a profitable compensation model, access to financial resources and robust enablement opportunities. The program offers a unique, personalized approach to learning that helps partners differentiate themselves in increasingly competitive markets, grow their business and drive joint success with HPE.
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DIGEST REDUCE ROAD ACCIDENTS AND MINIMIZE CONGESTION WITH HIKVISION’S TRAFFIC VIOLATION DETECTION SOLUTION TO HELP MAKE ROADS SAFER, AND TO KEEP TRAFFIC FLOWING, HIKVISION HAS CREATED A TRAFFIC VIOLATION DETECTION SOLUTION. THIS FOCUSES ON THREE KEY AREAS TO ENSURE THAT MOTORISTS DRIVE AS SAFELY AS POSSIBLE, AND THAT ANY INFRACTIONS ARE RECORDED AND NOTIFIED. AS AN ADDITIONAL BENEFIT, THE HIKVISION SOLUTION USES SMART VIDEO TO AUTOMATE TRAFFIC AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT. THIS NOT ONLY SPEEDS UP RESPONSE TIMES COMPARED TO MANUAL MONITORING, BUT IT ALSO HELPS TO SAVE POLICE TIME AND FREE UP FORCES TO FOCUS ON MAJOR INCIDENTS.
BLUE DART LAUNCHES THE ‘MY BLUE DART APP’ INDIA’S LEADING EXPRESS LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDER, BLUE DART HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN INNOVATOR WITH A SHARP FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY. LEVERAGING ITS EXPERTISE AS A MARKET LEADER IN INNOVATION AND CUSTOMER CENTRICITY, BLUE DART PART OF THE DEUTSCHE POST DHL GROUP (DPDHL), HAS LAUNCHED ITS FIRST EVER CONSUMER APP, THE ‘MY BLUE DART APP’. THE APP HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO PROVIDE TAILORED SOLUTIONS AND ACT AS A ONE STOP SHOP FOR CUSTOMERS ‘ON-THE-GO’. THE ‘MY BLUE DART APP’ IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE PLAY AND APPLE STORE.
RECORD, REPLAY AND SHARE: VIDEOMEET INTRODUCES ‘PLAYBACK’ FEATURE MADE IN INDIA VIDEOCONFERENCING APPLICATION, VIDEOMEET INTRODUCES AN EXTREMELY USEFUL ‘PLAYBACK FEATURE’ FOR ALL ITS USERS IN ITS FREE OF COST MODEL. THE PLAYBACK MODE WILL BE A REVOLUTIONARY CONTENT DELIVERY MECHANISM ALLOWING USERS TO WATCH THE PRE-RECORDED MEETINGS. IT ENABLES THE HOST TO MANAGE AND SCHEDULE THE ENTIRE PLAYBACK FOR SMOOTH COMMUNICATION. PARTICIPANTS ARE MADE AWARE THAT THEY ARE BEING RECORDED VIA AUDIO AND VISUAL BOTH.
DFI AND AWS INTRODUCE THE ADOPT DRONES PROGRAM THE DRONE FEDERATION OF INDIA (DFI) HAS ANNOUNCED THE ADOPT DRONES PROGRAM TO ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF AI-DRIVEN DRONE SOLUTIONS, WITH SUPPORT FROM AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)* CLOUD SERVICES. THE ADOPT DRONES PROGRAM WILL RECOGNIZE SOLUTIONS BY DRONE APPLICATION DEVELOPERS WHICH LEVERAGE MACHINE LEARNING TO GENERATE DEEP INSIGHTS FROM THE DATA COLLECTED USING DRONES. DRONES COLLECT AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF DATA, USUALLY IN THE FORM OF IMAGES AND VIDEOS. THIS DATA IS THEN PROCESSED USING SOFTWARE TO DERIVE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE BUSINESS INSIGHTS.
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Birla-Furukawa Prepares the Data Centers for the Evolution to 400G Birla Furukawa Fibre Optics Private announced its 400G ready data center program for the evolution of data centers to 400G. The rapid rise in demand for Online business transactions, Work from Home by Employees, and other cloud-hosted services, as well as the growth of IoT (Internet of Things) applications, has accelerated the need for data centers to evolve into the next wave of technology – 400 Gb/s optical networks, known as 400G. Birla-Furukawa has focused its strategy and investments on offering solutions to prepare Data Centers for this new level of evolution. Nitin Nayak, Business Head at Birla Furukawa said “This concept implies offering a set of products, solutions and services designed to support 400G applications in a data center, both current and future and this applies both to the internal environment of the data center and to the interconnection and between data centers, or any mission critical environment.”
ACI Worldwide Launches Fraud Management in the Cloud ACI Fraud Management in the cloud enables Indian banks to protect the rapidly growing number of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions across the region. ACI Fraud Management, delivered via the cloud, offers greater scalability at significantly lowered costs. It can be deployed without changes to a bank’s existing UPI solution, and can approve or decline transactions based on consumer behavior, counteract SMS spoofing and blacklist fraudulent accounts. Banks benefit from custom-defined workflows and scoring methods, centralized auditing and automated case updates, helping make fraud management simpler, more flexible and cost-effective. The solution alerts account holders to potential fraud events, enabling them to easily confirm or deny transactions. “A supportive regulatory environment, coupled with ever-increasing smartphone usage, internet access and customer acceptance, has powered rapid UPI transaction growth. However, surging transaction volumes pose a complex challenge to banks and financial institutions when it comes to upgrading and maintaining their back-end risk management systems,” said Kaushik Roy, vice president and country leader – South Asia, ACI Worldwide.
Krushna Garkhede, Head of Marketing, Digisol Systems Won Award DIGISOL Systems’ Head of Marketing Krushna Garkhede, Head of Marketing, was honored with “COVID-19 Super Hero CMO Award for the Year 2020” at the Global CMO Summit and Awards 2020. The summit and awards which was organized through a virtual platform witnessed the convergence of the best marketing minds including CMOs and senior marketing leaders of global IT & ITES industryalongside the professors of marketing from premium B-Schools and authors from India and other countries. The Global CMO Leadership Award by Enterprise IT World is pegged as the World’s most prestigious Award for Marketers, recognized the contribution of CMOs and Marketing Leaders who played a key role in aligning marketing strategies with business goals, and succeeded in contributing to the growth of the organization through sustainable competitive advantage. The 500 Marketing Leaders who walked away with the awards will inspire the next generation of leaders through their vision, leadership, passion, commitment, and excellence in achievement.
Ingram Micro Named a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider in India Ingram Micro have joined the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider program in India, offering customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) greater confidence when building their next-generation IT projects using Red Hat solutions. As a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider, Ingram Micro will work with Red Hat to qualify, recruit and onboard partners as Certified Cloud and Service Providers. With a dedicated team of cloud specialists, Ingram Micro offers partners pre-sales and technical support as well as tailored sales enablement and marketing programs designed to help them go to market with the right set of solutions to address end-user requirements around hybrid cloud, DevOps, software-defined management and automation. Cloud provider models have expanded beyond multi-tenant public clouds to include private cloud build-outs,
MicroWorld joins hands with CERT-In MicroWorld Technologies Private Limited has signed an MoU with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India for collaboration in the area of cyber security. Through this MoU CERT-In and MicroWorld Tech Private Limited propose to work together to enhance the overall security of the computing environment in India and to address the increasingly complex problems associated with cyber security threats. The MoU would facilitate cooperation for detection of latest cyber security threats such as malware/botnets that can adversely affect the information assets and privacy of the general users in the country and devise appropriate security measures while providing security tools to enable such users to secure their systems. Under this MoU, CERT-In will provide a platform on its Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) website through which users from across the country will be able to access and download MicroWorld’s eScan Antivirus Bot Removal Toolkit for free of cost. The “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is a part of the Government of India’s Digital India initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and enable cleaning and securing systems of end users.
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Avaya OneCloud Expands Platform Choice for UCaaS and CCaaS Offerings Avaya will offer cloud-based communications and collaborations solutions and services for new and existing customers in India, powered by Avaya OneCloud™ and Microsoft Azure. Designed to enable customers on their journey to the cloud with a scalable, flexible and robust platform, the set of offerings helps build team engagement and drive enhanced customer experiences. The Avaya OneCloud portfolio meets the digital transformation needs of Indian organizations with a multi-cloud application ecosystem designed to help create unforgettable customer and employee experiences. Launched at the first ever virtual edition of Experience Avaya India & SAARC, the offering combines Avaya OneCloud CCaaS and Avaya OneCloud UCaaS solutions with Azure, creating a series of compelling offerings designed to help Indian organizations supercharge their customer experiences while contending with the need for employees to work from anywhere. Avaya OneCloud is a multi-cloud application ecosystem that provides for two key futures.
Indiaitchannels Launches B2B Catalogue Creation for Distributors/ Sub distributors Indiaitchannels.com, a 360 degree business portal to digitally connect OEM, Distributors/Sub distributors, Retailers, Consumers and Corporate/SMB for all their IT, Mobile or Surveillance requirements. Since its launch it has marked a strong footprint in the industry. IndiaItChannels has achieved the set milestones with more than 5000 registrations of all India partners within three months only. Earlier, portal had announced the B2C catalogue creation for partners followed by OEM platform to showcase their offerings. Our latest offering is the launch of B2B catalogue creation for distributors/ sub distributors. With this launch distributors can showcase their offerings to 5000+ registered partners and extend their network. Registered partners under Distributor/ Sub distributor category have received their login-id and passwords at the email id submitted during registration to begin catalogue creation process. Partners already registered as B2C can shift similar offerings to B2B catalogue quickly to save time. The web link is generated automatically upon catalogue creation that can be shared with other partners.
McAfee Architecture To Secure Cloud Native Application Ecosystem McAfee announced MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), the industry’s truly integrated architecture to secure the cloud native application ecosystem. “Enterprises are adopting cloud architectures in their digital transformation journey to drive innovation. However, threats have evolved to exploit cloud-native misconfigurations, resulting in loss of data and reputational damage. Developers need to be empowered with the tools that can address the security needs of this new environment, to unleash their creative potential, and deploy applications that can augment the power of the cloud,” said Venkat Krishnapur, vice-president of engineering and managing director, McAfee India. “McAfee MVISION CNAPP extends MVISION Cloud’s data protection to provide comprehensive threat prevention, risk management and compliance through an automated and frictionless model to secure the cloud native application ecosystem.”
Wipro and IBM strengthen relationship Wipro announced its intention to expand its IBM Hybrid Cloud Practice. Supported by technical experts from both organizations, the practice is expected to help Wipro customers modernize their digital operations across hybrid cloud environments by leveraging IBM Cloud Paks, containerized software running on Red Hat OpenShift. Wipro’s IBM Hybrid Cloud Practice unit will help customers innovate at scale by leveraging industryready Wipro solutions such as BoundaryLess Enterprise (BLE) and ModernizR. Both of these solutions were built with IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat OpenShift and can run in any cloud environment, including the IBM public cloud. Bhanumurthy B.M, President and Chief Operating Officer, Wipro Limited said, “Wipro empowers customers across industries to re-imagine their cloud journey with its business-first strategy and industrialized solutions approach. We believe the future will be driven by hybrid cloud hence, the expansion of IBM Hybrid cloud practice is intrinsic to our strategy. It will strengthen our relationship with IBM and help accelerate our clients’ transformation journey across hybrid cloud environments.”
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Fujitsu Strengthens Cyber-Security with AI to Protect Against Deception Attacks Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a technology to make AI models more robust against deception attacks. The technology protects against attempts to use forged attack data to trick AI models into making a deliberate misjudgment when AI is used for sequential data consisting of multiple elements. With the use of AI technologies progressing in various fields in recent years, the risk of attacks that intentionally interfere with AI’s ability to make correct judgments represents a source of growing concern. Many suitable conventional security resistance enhancement technologies exist for media data like images and sound. Their application to sequential data such as communication logs and service usage history remains insufficient, however, because of the challenges posed by preparing simulated attack data and the loss of accuracy. To overcome these challenges, Fujitsu has developed a robustness enhancement technology for AI models applicable to sequential data.
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Limelight Networks Takes Live Streaming to the Next Level Online video can now feature truly live and interactive experiences on a global scale with Limelight Realtime Streaming’s new features and enhancements. Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW), today announced the next generation of Realtime Streaming, providing sub-second latency for time-sensitive video applications that enable live interaction with viewers. “As online video has quickly grown in popularity, performance expectations have increased and new technologies, such as Limelight Realtime Streaming, enable innovative new ways to engage audiences,” said Nigel Burmeister, Vice President at Limelight Networks. “Now live events are truly live with the lowest possible latency, and it’s possible to create interactive experiences that were never before possible.” The combination of sub-second latency and viewer interactivity allow live video applications in areas such as: • Live sports, • Live auctions • Online gaming
Tenable Assure Partner Program Expands Tenable unveiled updates to its partner program, Tenable Assure, including an all-new certification program, expanded service choices and a revamped partner portal. These updates further support and solidify Tenable’s steadfast commitment to the channel, while bringing risk-based vulnerability management to joint customers around the world. “The updates to our Tenable Assure program underpin our ongoing commitment to and trust in our partners,” said Mark Thurmond, chief operating officer, Tenable. “We are continuously investing in the channel to equip our partners with the training, certification and collaboration necessary to deliver Tenable’s industry-leading vulnerability management solutions and custom services to customers everywhere.” With the global shift to remote working, organizations of all sizes have accelerated their migration to the cloud and their adoption of new technologies, including IoT, mobile and DevOps. As their attack surface expands, these organizations are increasingly turning to Tenable and its partners to help them see, predict and act to address their cyber exposure.
New Scanners from Kodak Alaris Posted By: smechannelson: October 23, 2020In: Imaging Solutions, NEWS Print Email Kodak Alaris is expanding its document capture portfolio with the launch of a new line of low-volume production scanners and a refresh of its web-based capture software. Built for today and ready for tomorrow, the new scanners and software are scalable to meet rapidly changing business requirements as organizations increase their focus on digital transformation. Series are faster and more powerful while offering network connectivity and a better user experience. New models include the 85 page per minute (ppm) Kodak S2085f Scanner (A4 paper size) and the 100 ppm Kodak S3100f Scanner (A3 paper size). Both of these models are equipped with integrated flatbeds to easily capture information from business cards, to books, and more. Also new to the Kodak Alaris portfolio are the 60 ppm Kodak S3060 Scanner, the 100 ppm Kodak S3100 Scanner, and the 120 ppm Kodak S3120 Scanners, which are all A3 scanners.
CrowdStrike to Advance Threat Intelligence Offerings with Industry-Leading Situational Awareness CrowdStrike announced the new CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon module that will provide customers an increased level of situational awareness through the deep, broad collection of data from digital sources. Falcon X Recon will help uncover potential malicious activity so security teams can better protect their brand, employees and sensitive data. CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon is designed to go beyond the dark web to include forums with restricted access on the deep web, breach data, source code repositories, paste sites, mobile greyware stores, unsecured cloud storage, public social media posts and messaging apps. In today’s evolving threat landscape, malicious actors may use one or more of these resources to more effectively target their victims and monetize their efforts. These sites are virtual watering holes, where adversaries congregate and underground digital economies thrive.
G7CR Technologies’ expands operations in MEA With an aim to go global, home grown IT Consulting and Cloud services company ‘G7 CR Technologies India Pvt Ltd’, has announced its expansion plan in the global market by setting its footprints in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA). Capitalizing on the growing demand of cloud services across industries, G7 CR will help its Indian customers with their Go to Market support and help them expand in the MEA region, as well as partner with local companies to help them on their Cloud journeys and to tap into the company’s presence in India. Dr. Christopher Richard, MD & Chief Cloud Architect, G7CR Technologies India Pvt Ltd, said, “We are excited to start operations in the MEA region as it holds a lot of potential for the cloud market. Our specific focus in India has always been on the small and medium businesses, startups and especially the Independent Software Vendors and that will be the same even now. One of the primary reasons for us to take up this geography is not only the potential of this market but also the potential and the opportunities that we will be providing to our Indian customers who have already partnered with G7 CR.”
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MR. NAGARAJ NARAYAN BHAT, DIRECTOR AND CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER OF PIXUATE
PIXUATE COMMITS TO INNOVATION FOR POSTPANDEMIC SAFETY Can you tell us about Pixuate? Pixuate is an Intelligent Video Analytics company powered by our award-winning Artificial Intelligence(AI), Computer Vision, and Deep Learning(DL) technology and proprietary algorithm to provide actionable insights on image and video data in real-time. We are a fast-evolving venture and our key offerings at present are Facial Recognition, ANPR and Vehicle Analytics, and Thermal Analytics.
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Our Facial Recognition Solution accurately recognizes and detects people’s identity, age, gender, and demographics as well as monitors their location, movement, and gestures using our intelligent face detection and recognition algorithm. In vehicular analytics, we provide real-time & high-accuracy toll and traffic analytics solutions powered by AI-based ANPR. More recently, we have forayed into thermal scanning and thermal analytics innovation to help private
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and public authorities implement the new normal for the pandemic in crowded places for containing the virus spread. What makes Pixuate unique, innovative, and one-of-a-kind? I think that the key differentiator for Pixuate is our innovation mindset and developing wellresearched, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions meeting the Indian conditions. We are a core R&D company with our base in India and are always evolving our products and solutions to address the pressing problems of today and tomorrow. For example, our Facial Recognition Solution is well ahead of off-the-shelf products currently available in India as it can perform best-in-class facial recognition in a variety of indoor and outdoor scenarios and simultaneously recognize multiple faces in high-movement crowds. Being robust, modular, and highly suitable for the Indian conditions, it is the ideal choice for private and public establishments in the country. In the light of COVID19, we have innovated further by coupling it with Thermal Analytics capabilities to carry out seamless face mask detection, screening for elevated body temperature accurately, and social distance checking, using thermal cameras and deep learning. With innovations like these, we successfully embody the Make in India spirit. It is a necessity for India’s emerging technology market, and every day we strive to push the boundaries by working towards homegrown deep-tech solutions that make life easier for people, businesses, and the government. Another example is our traffic and toll analytics solution which uses camera-based technology & analytics. This, again, is an example of how we are several steps ahead of the Indian market since our solution can automatically calculate vehicle count, classify vehicles by the number of axles, make, model, color, and size, and automatically capture standard & non-standard license plate numbers. We believe that our innovation in this field is paving the way for free-flow tolling in India in the future. Can you tell us more about the recent deployment of Pixuate’s Thermal Scanning Solution in Church
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Street, Bengaluru? As you are aware, Church Street is a busy shopping hub in Bengaluru. Under the Clean Air Street (CAS) initiative by the Directorate of Urban Land and Transport (DULT), Government of Karnataka, it has now been made pedestrian-only on a pilot basis on weekends for the next 4 months. Pixuate was chosen by DULT to do temperature & mask checks at Churchstreet. We have signed an MoU with the Directorate of Urban Land Transport, Govt of Karnataka for the same and have been screening every weekend when Church Street is converted to pedestrian street. The event was inaugurated on 7th Nov by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa. Since the inauguration, we have screened over 1 lakh pedestrians till date and identified around 550 violations of COVID-19 norms like pedestrians not wearing masks or not maintaining social distance at all times. Along with this, we are also providing in-depth analytics of footfall count to the DULT team, which helps them to assess the response to the initiative and its reach. We understand that Pixuate has indigenously developed Black Body. Can you tell us more about it? We have integrated indigenously developed Black Body capability in our Thermal Cameras, which is an important tool to calibrate thermal devices and maintain reference temperatures throughout the day. Results generated by thermal cameras vary according to the outside temperatures and weather conditions. To solve this problem, we bring consistency in detection and readings with the Black Body feature that helps to hold the reference temperature at a stipulated level. This means that our clients can deploy thermal cameras even without air conditioning and still get highly accurate temperature readings. What, according to you, is the market opportunity for Video Analytics? The global video analytics market was estimated to be worth about USD 4 bn in 2019 and is projected to grow over 5 times by 2027. In India, video analytics is still a nascent market but is fast catching up owing to the rise of smart cities, traffic congestion, perimeter intrusions in public hotspots and private premises, terrorism, and more recently,
the COVID-19 pandemic which has completely shifted the market towards contactless video analytics technologies that are smart, reliable, and accurate. The video surveillance analytics software market size in India is well-placed for fast growth. It is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 30% on a year-on-year basis. The key market opportunity lies in innovation through greenfield technologies that are easy-to-use, hardware agnostic, and highly adaptive - which is exactly what we are doing at Pixuate. What are the various industrial applications that you foresee in Video Analytics? The use cases and applications of Video Analytics are manifold. Pixuate’s face recognition solution, for example, has received a very enthusiastic response from our channel partners because of the wide array of use cases that we have been able to solve. PostCOVID, contactless attendance is the need of the hour. We are helping organizations to implement a new and contactless biometric way of marking employee attendance in real-time without causing any exposure risk through our face recognition solution. We are the go-to solution for private and public checkpoints where only registered people are to be allowed in the premise of an organization while denying access to unregistered people or non-members. Other applications include tracking theft, shoplifting, robbery, and burglary in shops and malls, implementing Face Recognition in retail stores can provide customers with a better shopping experience through easier check-out, keeping a tab on blacklisted people such as habitual offenders on-the-run, ensuring safety for women, person re-identification, monitoring entry-exit barriers, etc. One of the key advantages of Pixuate’s Face Recognition solution is that we offer high-end security features to ensure that personal information of those enrolled in the database is only accessible by authorized personnel. Required measures are taken to ensure that integrity of the data is not compromised and that users are assured of data protection, privacy, and confidentiality. With ANPR, we are looking at better traffic management, vehicle detection and tracking,
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seamless toll analytics, free-flow tolling, and more. When it comes to thermal analytics, the ongoing pandemic is a great example of its industry applications. Mask checks, temperature checks, social distance checks, and motion tracking in a free-flow crowd are key to manage the current crisis. Whether it is in factories, business parks, residential complexes, airports, hospitals, hotels and restaurants, roads, malls, railways, metros, or toll booths - video analytics is a game-changer, and Pixuate is driving the change with focused innovation that serves our partners and customers better. What about SMEs? Does Pixuate’s video analytics open any opportunities for small and medium businesses as well? Absolutely. The biggest opportunity for SME’s lie in creating memorable and impressive customer experiences by extracting real-time alerts and insights using Pixuate’s core engine. For example, implementing Face Recognition in retail stores can provide customers with a better shopping experience through easier check-out. Further, it enables counter employees to greet their customers by name on every visit. Similarly, in hotels and recreation centers, Pixuate’s Facial Recognition Solution helps to create memorable guest experiences by enabling the employees to recognize the registered/VIP customers’ names and make sure that their stay is pleasant through easy check-in/ check-out. Currently, CCTV cameras are worth only for post mortem analysis - video analytics is the next wave for SMEs and large corporations alike. Pixuate can provide actionable insights in realtime which can help in deep-personalization and micro-targeting in Marketing. Plus, in the currently available solutions, if there are multiple CCTV, then either someone has to monitor continuously or else it will only be relevant after the event/action has already had its consequences. With Pixuate, SMEs can provide excellent customer service and impeccable experiences in real-time. How exactly does contactless biometric attendance work? At present, contactless biometric attendance using
Face Recognition and Thermal Analytics is the need of the hour, especially for large organizations. Fingerprint-based biometric attendance is now a thing of the past due to safety concerns. Punching cards and signing in registers are also major exposure risks. Our contact-less attendance solution captures facial data using high-resolution cameras and finds a match in existing facial scan data of a company using AI to check for attendance. Multiple employees entering and leaving the office premises can be captured simultaneously and all data are stamped with the current date and time. Employers can access the full log of employee check-ins and check-outs along with useful analytics like attendance percentage of employees and departments, frequency & duration of check-outs, etc. We also provide the option to generate custom reports & integrate with payroll and HRM Systems, as well as the option to integrate with smart gates that open when a person’s face is recognized Can you tell us a bit more about your recent thermal analytics innovation for COVID-19? Our product - ThermoScanAI can check temperatures of multiple people in high-density, free-flow crowds. It accurately detects the temperature in the facial area between the eyes on the forehead, and hence, is accurate to 0.2oC. It can also detect masks and generate real-time alerts if no masks are detected. It provides age group and gender classification of each person in the crowd and can store data of photo crop with relevant attributes for up to 6 months without eating up too much storage space. There is no queueing involved, which greatly reduces the waiting time. Since no manual checking happens (unlike handheld devices), our solution reduces the exposure risk of the public and staff like security officials and frontline healthcare workers to a large extent. We have received validation and support from Startup Karnataka and Technology Development Board (TDB), the nodal agency of Government of India, for our thermal analytics solution, and recently we implemented it in Church Street - a busy shopping hub in Bengaluru - under the Clean Air Street (CAS) initiative by the Directorate of Urban Land and Transport (DULT), Government of Karnataka on 7-8 Nov, which was inaugurated by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
How does thermal scanning fit into the larger narrative of government’s and businesses’ response to COVID-19? How do you think it will change once the pandemic is over? The thermal screening solution is the need of the hour and also of the future. Every public space and private establishment requires it to ensure public safety and secure, worry-free workplaces, commute, and gatherings so that people can work, engage, and contribute fearlessly. Organizations also need to plan for the future and equip themselves with smart technologies like facial recognition and thermal scanning against such sudden challenging conditions such as the one created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nagaraj Narayana Bhat is the Director and Chief Growth Officer of Pixuate. You can reach him at nagaraj@pixuate.com. To know more about Pixuate’s cutting edge technology solutions and industry use cases, please visit: https://pixuate.com/, or get in touch with Pixuate team at +91 96324 31818 or sales@pixuate. com.
“PIXUATE, PIONEER IN AL BASED THERMAL SCREENING AND TRACING SOLUTIONS, PARTNERS WITH INDIA’S LEADING TECHNOLOGY AGGREGATOR, IVALUE INFOSOLUTIONS, TO PROVIDE A UNIQUE RANGE OF INTELLIGENT VIDEO ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS TO KEEP EVERY ENTERPRISE SAFE AND SECURE.”
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BRINGING THE GLOBAL IT CHANNEL TOGETHER VIA THE INGRAM MICRO ONE EXPERIENCE The first-ever virtual ONE event was a showcase of innovation and inspiration, offering attendees, a glimpse into the evolving future of tech. BY SANJAY MOHAPATRA sanjay@smechannels.com
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xtraordinary times have compelled organizations to adapt key aspects of business, including in-person events. So, this year when Ingram Micro
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decided to combine four marquee regional conferences into a single mega virtual event, the team had to address some unique challenges. Creating an event with a truly inclusive agenda
that catered to a diverse global audience. Virtually engaging and entertaining 20,000+ attendees across two days. On the 4th & 5th of November, Ingram Micro held the first-ever Global ONE Experience, bringing together APAC ONE, EMEA ONE, LATAM ONE and North America ONE. Delegates from 60+ countries participated in an immersive online experience where they were treated to a distinctive blend of business, technology and entertainment that inspired them to ‘Imagine Next’.
Collective and collaborative Day 1 began with an address by Ingram Micro’s CEO Alain Monié where he thanked vendors and partners for their collective efforts in keeping the global economy operating during the Covid-19 pandemic. Alain stressed upon the importance of relationships and working collaboratively to meet customer needs. Paul Bay, Ingram Micro’s Global President of Technical Solutions encouraged partners to imagine what’s coming next for industry and sought their feedback on where they saw future demand for solutions and services that were not currently being addressed.
Being future-ready Following Paul’s session, Diego Utge, APAC President, delivered an inspiring keynote during which he delved into the rapidly changing future
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of technology. With the pandemic becoming a catalyst for change and accelerating digital transformation, he shared how Ingram Micro is helping partners gear up and be future-ready to address their customers’ needs. His key takeaway was to use technology effectively to deliver exceptional customer experiences. He also highlighted the immense opportunities available to channel partners in APAC as the region is the global leader in the growth of technology adoption.
Emerging Stronger Together Diego’s session was followed by the India keynote address where Navneet Singh Bindra, VP & Chief
Country Executive and Harish Laddha, Head of Sales discussed several ways by which channel partners could add value to their customers. They offered practical suggestions on new business opportunities that partners could leverage based on their existing target segment. Mr. Bindra also urged partners to commit to the process of digitally transforming their businesses so that they could be a true partner in the digital transformation journey of their customers. The session covered key initiatives that the company has taken in the region to help channel partners succeed including: The Ingram Micro Ecommerce portal to help
partners buy more efficiently A dedicated Professional Services division to help with technical consulting, deployments, support and maintenance. Long-term financing solutions under the Ingram Micro Financial Solutions umbrella to address customer demand without worrying about liquidity Ingram Micro’s Global Cloud Vision. On Day 2, Nimesh Dave EVP, Global Cloud talked about the investments Ingram Micro has made over the past few years to scale its cloud ecosystem. Earlier this year, the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace surpassed 10 million managed
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seats, representing a 100 percent increase over the previous year. Nimesh spoke about Digital 3.0 – a new forward-thinking worldview that has fundamentally transformed the way we work, learn, buy, play and socialize and highlighted the imperative of putting customer experience at the heart of everything we do Highlights of the event included fireside chats featuring Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and IBM President Jim Whitehurst, a joint keynote session by Uma Thana Balasingam, Vice President, Partner & Commercial Organization, APJ, VMWare
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and Santhosh Viswanathan, Managing Director, Sales & Marketing Group, APJ Territory, Intel as well as a number of technical and business Breakouts by Cisco, Intel, VMWare, IBM, HPE, HP, LogMeIn, Dell, Adobe, Red Hat and other technology vendors. Other distinguished speakers from the region included Ng Tian Beng, Senior Vice President & General Manager – Channel, Asia Pacific Japan, Dell Technologies, Mathew Philip, Senior Director, Alliances & Business Development, LogMeIn & Tapan Chaturvedi, Channel & SMB Leader –
India & South Asia, Adobe. In addition to some fantastic technical and business content, delegates had the opportunity to hear from world-renowned motivational speakers such as Former NASA Space Science Education Lead Hakeem Oluseyi and best-selling author, Simon Sinek. Attendees were also able to network with other delegates and interact with participating vendors through designated vendor cyberspaces. Live games and polls ensured that the audience stayed engaged. Ingram Micro gave away several surprise rewards including 8 Apple Watches Series 6. A musical extravaganza with performances by upand-coming artists and bands from around the world as well as an exclusive private performance by a Grammy award-winning musician made this a truly unforgettable event. The Global ONE Experience was a unique event that gave delegates a glimpse into Ingram Micro’s vast global ecosystem that underpins the company’s extensive local market reach and expertise. Reflecting on the event, Diego thanked delegates for attending and reiterated that relevant business teams would reach out locally to channel partners to help them identify new business opportunities and deliver greater value to customers. Existing delegates and new registrants can continue to access the sessions on-demand at their convenience through the event website: https:// ingrammicrooneexperience.com/.
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VENKAT KRISHNAPUR, VICE-PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, MCAFEE INDIA
MCAFEE LAUNCHES TRULY INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE TO SECURE CLOUD NATIVE APPLICATION ECOSYSTEM
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cAfee announced MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), the industry’s truly integrated architecture to secure the cloud native application ecosystem. MVISION CNAPP delivers consistent data protection, threat prevention, governance, and compliance throughout the cloud-native application lifecycle, including container and OS-based workloads. Accelerated by COVID-19, every enterprise is undergoing a digital transformation mandate. Most enterprises are leveraging the agility and innovation velocity of the public cloud, either solely or in conjunction with their private data centers. These enterprises need a simplified architecture; one that enables them to leapfrog the cost and complexity of the patchwork quilt of point products, and benefit from the cloud-native ecosystem, without major investments in tools or developer talent. “Enterprises are adopting cloud architectures in their digital transformation journey to drive innovation. However, threats have evolved to exploit cloud-native misconfigurations, resulting in loss of data and reputational damage. Developers need to be empowered with the tools that can address the security needs of this new environment, to unleash their creative potential, and deploy appli-
cations that can augment the power of the cloud,” said Venkat Krishnapur, vice-president of engineering and managing director, McAfee India. “What enterprises need is a simplified framework to help them wade through the complex patchwork of point products. McAfee MVISION CNAPP extends MVISION Cloud’s data protection to provide comprehensive threat prevention, risk management and compliance through an automated and frictionless model to secure the cloud native application ecosystem.” MVISION CNAPP is the industry’s first platform to bring application and data context to converge Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) for public cloud infrastructure, and Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) to protect hosts and workloads including VMs, containers, and serverless functions. MVISION CNAPP provides five key capabilities: 1.Deep Discovery: The ability to discover all cloud resources and prioritize them based on risk. MVISION CNAPP uniquely provides deep discovery of all workloads, data and infrastructure across endpoint, networks and cloud. 2. Shift Left: The ability to protect against configuration drift and provide vulnerability assessment across virtual machines, containers and serverless environments. This helps unleash
developer productivity through frictionless automation. 3. Zero Trust: The ability to build policy based on zero trust, behavioral observation to eliminate false positives and achieve scale with known good behavior enforcement. 4. MITRE ATT&CK Framework: The ability to empower the Security Operations Center (SOC) by mapping cloud native threats to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for expedient remediation. 5. Governance and Compliance: The ability to automate security controls for continuous compliance and governance of data and permissions. “EA’s business depends on public cloud IaaS and it’s my role to manage the security of that environment,” said Bob Fish, enterprise security architect, Electronic Arts. “Every application deployed across our public cloud infrastructure requires onboarding, vulnerability management, run time protection, threat prevention and SOC integration, while ensuring continuous availability. We are excited about MVISION CNAPP because we prefer a single unified security platform to implementing separate point products for each security capability required. The unified approach of MVISION CNAPP allows us to use fewer people to manage security risk across all our IaaS resources.”.
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BILL CONNER, SONICWALL PRESIDENT AND CEO
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onicWall CEO Bill Conner On Cybersecurity Trends CEOs Should KnowSonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers today unveiled third-quarter threat intelligence collected by the company’s more than 1 million global security sensors. Year-to-date findings through September 2020 highlight cyber criminals’ growing use of ransomware, encrypted threats and attacks leveraging non-standard ports, while overall malware volume declined for the third consecutive quarter. “For most of us, 2020 has been the year where we’ve seen economies almost stop, morning commutes end and traditional offices disappear,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. “However, the overnight emergence of remote workforces and virtual offices has given cybercriminals new and attractive vectors to exploit. These findings show their relentless pursuit to obtain what is not rightfully theirs for monetary gain, economic dominance and global recognition.” SonicWall Capture Labs key findings include: 39% decline in malware (4.4 billion YTD); volume down for third consecutive quarter 40% surge in global ransomware (199.7 million) 19% increase in intrusion attempts (3.5 trillion) 30% rise in IoT malware (32.4 million) 3% growth of encrypted threats (3.2 million) 2% increase in cryptojacking (57.9 million) Malware Volume Dipping as Attacks More Targeted, Diversified While malware authors and cybercriminals are still busy working to launch sophisticated cyberattacks, SonicWall research concludes that overall global malware volume continues steadily decline in 2020. In a year-over-year comparison through the third quarter, SonicWall researchers recorded 4.4 billion malware attacks — a 39% drop worldwide. Regional comparisons show India (-68%) and Germany (-64%) have once again seen a considerable drop-rate percentage, as well as the United States (-33%) and the United Kingdom (-44%). Lower numbers of malware do not mean it is
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going away entirely. Rather, this is part of a cyclical downturn that can very easily right itself in a short amount of time. Ransomware Erupts, Ryuk Responsible for Third of All Attacks Ransomware attacks are making daily headlines as they wreak havoc on enterprises, municipalities, healthcare organizations and educational institutions. SonicWall researchers tracked aggressive growth during each month of Q3, including a massive spike in September. While sensors in India (-29%), the U.K. (-32%) and Germany (-86%) recorded decreases, the U.S. saw a staggering 145.2 million ransomware hits — a 139% YoY
increase. Notably, SonicWall researchers observed a significant increase in Ryuk ransomware detections in 2020. Through Q3 2019, SonicWall detected just 5,123 Ryuk attacks. Through Q3 2020, SonicWall detected 67.3 million Ryuk attacks — a third (33.7%) of all ransomware attacks this year. “What’s interesting is that Ryuk is a relatively young ransomware family that was discovered in August 2018 and has made significant gains in popularity in 2020,” said SonicWall Vice President, Platform Architecture, Dmitriy Ayrapetov. “The increase of remote and mobile workforces appears to have increased its prevalence, resulting not only in financial losses, but also impacting healthcare
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NEW SONICWALL RESEARCH FINDS AGGRESSIVE GROWTH IN RANSOMWARE, RISE IN IOT ATTACKS services with attacks on hospitals. “Ryuk is especially dangerous because it is targeted, manual and often leveraged via a multistage attack preceded by Emotet and TrickBot malware. Therefore, if an organization has Ryuk, it’s a pretty good indication that its infested with several types of malware.” SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), with patent-pending Real-Time Deep Memory InspectionTM (RTDMI), protects against all Emotet, TrickBot and Ryuk ransomware variants — in real time. IoT Dependency Grows Along with Threats
COVID-19 led to an unexpected flood of devices on networks, resulting in an increase of potential threats to companies fighting to remain operational during the pandemic. SonicWall Capture Labs found a 30% increase in IoT malware attacks, a total of 32.4 million world-wide. Most IoT devices — including voice-activated smart devices, door chimes, TV cameras and appliances — were not designed with security as a top priority, making them susceptible to attack and supplying perpetrators with numerous entry points. “Employees used to rely upon the safety office networks provided, but the growth of remote and mobile workforces has extended distributed net-
works that serve both the house and home office,” said Conner. “Consumers need to stop and think if devices such as AC controls, home alarm systems or baby monitors are safely deployed. For optimum protection, professionals using virtual home offices, especially those operating in the C-suite, should consider segmenting home networks.” SonicWall threat intelligence data also concluded that while cryptojacking (57.9 million), intrusion attempts (3.5 trillion) and IoT malware threats (32.4 million) are trending with first-half volume reports, they continue to pose a threat and remain a source of opportunity for cybercriminals.
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CASE STUDY
ALMABANI OPTS MATRIX SOLUTIONS FOR CENTRALIZED ACCESS CONTROL AND ATTENDANCE TRACKING Industry: Construction Customer Name: Almabani Users: 1500+ Devices: 48 Time-Attendance and Access Control Devices Location: 12 Across Jeddah, Khobar, Riyadh & Lebanon
Company Profile Almabani General Contractors has a long robust history which began when the founders established the company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in October of 1972. They are a family-owned company that remains true to its founders’ spirit, covenants, innovation and perseverance. For four and a half decades, they have been building up their expertise to serve an ever more demanding and challenging construction need in the region. In a prosperous economy fuelled by the oil boom, the company was positioned to participate in the execution of some of the most prestigious landmark projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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They have the highest classification in all civil and electrical works with in-house capabilities to develop design and value engineer solutions to cater to the customers’ needs. They have proudly executed projects from complex infrastructure works to heavy civil engineering structures.
Today they are engaged in highly competitive turnkey projects worth several Billion Dollars. To this end, Almabani continues to invest in quality, value engineering, proactive and talented people, endeavoring at all times to satisfy their customer’s expectations and to best serve the welfare of our
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society. .
Challenges Almabani General Contractors was using traditional decentralized access control & timeattendance systems in which they were facing the issue of excessive manual work and inaccurate data. Because of the poor quality of the existing biometric sensors, user fingerprints weren’t recognized in the 1st attempt and the process was annoying and time-consuming. As the company is dealing with construction work, one of the major challenges for construction workers is accurate attendance marking despite dirty/ stained fingers. Moreover, due to existing software limitations, many policies of access control and time-attendance couldn’t be implemented. As the existing system was decentralized, on-field employees faced issues while marking their attendance. Only basic reports could be prepared for attendance and access whereas they needed more customized reports because of various shifts and different contract workers. Moreover, third party integration was not possible in the earlier system. And last but not the least, they were unsatisfied with support from the past supplier.
Solution Matrix solutions experts collaborated with the decision heads to understand the exact requirement and provide a cost-effective solution. After a comprehensive discussion, Matrix offered a
centralized solution for all the locations. With the Matrix Time-Attendance and Access Control solution, the customer has overcome all the challenges. Now, it’s possible for them to get control of all the locations from a single central location. To overcome the problem of inaccurate attendance marking due to dirty/stained fingers, Matrix provided the multispectral fingerprint sensor technology which contains information about both the surface and the subsurface features of the skin. This technology gives a high throughput. They also acquired Palm Vein Reader for contactless authentication verification for the higher authorities. The solution from Matrix is fully customized with multiple shifts and attendance policies that can be applied to individual users. Smart mobile application for attendance marking, and leave applications make the work easy for users. Now, the customer is able to get the report of each employee with 200 different options. With the auto-push technology, there is no need to transfer the data into the server. The data are automatically transferred to the server in real-time. The customer also got flexibility in terms of connectivity with 3G and WiFi options. The system from Matrix also provided the flexibility for easy integration with the third-party payroll system.
Results Accuracy in Attendance Management and Access Control Management l
l Centralized Time-Attendance
l High Possibility of Third-party Integration l User-friendly and Fast Process because of Good Quality Sensor l OEM Support l Contactless and Advanced Technology l Flexibility in Terms of Integration, Connectivity and Credentials .
Products Offered l COSEC DOOR PVR – Palm Vein based Door Controller lCOSEC PATH DCFE – Biometric Fingerprint + RFID based Door Controller lCOSEC PATH DCCE – RFID based Door Controller lCOSEC PANEL LITE – Site Controller for Advanced Access Control Features lCOSEC LE PLATFORM – For 1500 + Users lCOSEC LE TAM – Time-Attendance Application Module lCOSEC LE ACM – Access Control Module lCOSEC LE ESS – Employees Self Service Module (Mobile App) lCOSEC INTEGRATION - Integration with In-house Payroll Software
For further information, please contact: 394-GIDC, Makarpura, Vadodara-390010, India Toll Free -1800-258-7747 E-Mail: inquiry@matrixcomsec.com Website: https://www.matrixaccesscontrol. com/
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TURNING DATA INTO PROACTIVE SECURITY With cloud computing growing at a phenomenal rate across the world, shifts in consumer behavior towards digital services are resulting in evolutionary changes for the banking, financial services and insurance industry. Cloud-based banking, for example, is regarded as a catalyst for business transformation and a turning point in financial services. Cyber safety, however, has become a key concern holding back cloud adoption in many organizations. While bankers start to interface more of their processes to the cyberspace, how can they effectively protect their data assets from burgeoning cyberthreats to maintain 24/7 operation and uncompromising customer experiences? Despite the deployment of anti-virus software, firewalls, encryption and other security solutions, many organizations are still not totally successful
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in combatting cyberthreats. The reality is they are using a defensive posture, and only tackle hacks and data breaches after they arise. Although a reactive approach can address a portion of the issue, it creates opportunities for cyberattackers to take advantage of known vulnerabilities and search for not-yet-realized ones. Besides, many traditional methods are based on rules or signatures and only prevent against known threats. With attacks constantly evolving, these technologies are not always successful in keeping cybercriminals out of the network. What is missing? A Proactive Approach to Security A stitch in time saves nine. Stop looking for remedies to problems but the right path to avoid them. What we need is “behavioral analytics” – if we are
able to detect patterns of fraud and discover malicious behavior before they become full-blown crises, we will stand a better position to mitigate the risks of advanced cyberthreats as well as insider threats. Everything starts with it – data. A good data analytics solution enables us to see the big picture of operations, facilitating breach analysis and incident response, compliance, and reporting. Prevention is the best self-defense. By predicting failures or detecting anomalies in our infrastructures through data-driven analytics, we can proactively hunt for attackers hiding within our network, thus standing a better position to stop hard-to-find malicious activities compared to simply rely on a standard security tool. However, faced with an overwhelming volume of business data across different heterogeneous,
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JYOTI PRAKASH, REGIONAL SALES DIRECTOR OF INDIA AT SPLUNK
About Jyoti Prakash Jyoti Prakash is the Regional Sales Director of India at Splunk, responsible for the sales and business development for the market. Prior to this role, Mr. Prakash held several leadership positions in Micro Focus, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Symantec, with extensive experience in go-to-market strategy development, sales management, creating new business initiatives for new markets, as well as building high-performing sales, presales, inside sales and marketing teams. Mr. Prakash has a strong background in enterprise sales across verticals and channel partner management. He is also an active participant on many CXO platforms, public forums and thought leadership panels.
siloed data sources, how can we put all data within the organization at our fingertips, and finish data analysis in real time? Sharpening Competitive Edge with a Data-to-Everything Platform If we can bring data to everything, anything is possible. What we need is not an ordinary analytics tool, but a versatile platform that integrates data from disparate sources into a single view, correlates and analyzes them in real time, and generates actionable insights for every question, decision and action. When we turn data into doing, data becomes the key to everything. This is exactly where the Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform does. Its “schema on read� design brings forth an innovative data analysis strategy in
which data is applied to a plan or schema as it is pulled out for a stored location, rather than as it goes in. This ground-breaking approach leads to faster data ingestion, resulting in faster realization of value through faster deployment. The Splunk core platform is also flexible and purpose-built, which scales with you as your data and organization evolve, and enables you to retrieve most relevant, meaningful and actionable data from massive data repository, anytime and anywhere. With Splunk, enterprises can hit two birds with one stone – streamlining data analytics on a data-to-everything platform while offering a proactive approach to security, from incident monitoring to responding to a breach or infection. By empowering users to bring data to every security challenge and optimize cyber defenses, Splunk gives enterprises the value for money they are looking for.
Lighting Up a Brighter Future Recent years have seen many organizations in the local financial services industry investing into a digitally transformed compliance program, so as to keep current with government regulations, business changes and innovations, while creating a robust new digital business model. Digitization is particularly important when conducting complex audits and investigations of financial records. However, the majority of compliance time is often spent buried in manual processes such as certifications that leave little room to improve efficiency, let alone think about how to participate in any business transformation activities. If we can simplify the whole data analysis process, the team can get back their precious time and think about value-added work. This is only one example of how the Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform plays a key role in the business transformation of any enterprise. Do you want to capture the significant opportunities of the data-driven future and turn them into lifelong value for people, business and society? Take action today to build the future you want tomorrow.
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HOW TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE DATA SECURITY GOVERNANCE STRATEGY
SONIT JAIN, CEO of GajShield Infotech
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An effective data security governance strategy should include features like custom cybersecurity policies, complete visibility over data, data encryption methodologies, among others. Context-based data leak prevention A context-based data leak prevention firewall creates context around data to enhance inspection and authentication. It helps to get granular details like sender/receiver address and email text patterns in an email to increase security. The contextual intelligence engine identifies the context to break and classify data into multiple data points. This helps to analyze all granular data points pertaining to these emails as well as other communications and prevent any policy violation. Context-based data leak prevention firewalls also help to build the foundation for an effective data security governance. Data security governance requires building custom cybersecurity policies, which is among the many things that a contextbased data leak prevention firewall allows you to do. A context-based data leak prevention firewall creates context around data and compares it with the custom security policies you created to prevent any data leakage. Hence, you can create policies according to your specific needs for enhanced data governance. Complete visibility over data Visibility over data is of utmost importance for monitoring and governance. Complete data visibility allows you to get complete knowledge of what is being downloaded, uploaded, or transmitted over your organization network. You will have complete control over your data. Contextual data leak prevention firewalls and complete visibility are often interconnected. A firewall backed up by a contextual intelligence engine generates deeper visibility by identifying context around data points. This combination of contextbased data leak prevention and complete visibility allows users to create custom cybersecurity policies based on their needs. For instance, you can restrict specific keywords in ‘from,’ ’to,’ ‘subject,’ and ‘email content’ of an email. Secure data transmission with VPN A VPN service is a must for effective data governance, especially in this remote working norm.
Organizations are moving their enterprise applications to the cloud because of the various benefits that cloud deployment provides. Firstly, applications on the cloud can be easily accessed from anywhere in the world. Secondly, cloud vendors offer seamless data and security management, along with frequent backups. But this increasing deployment on clouds is also increasing the potential areas of attacks. Monitoring all the data access requests from the cloud is challenging for cybersecurity teams as the requests can come from any type of network and device. For instance, remote workforce teams can request access to data from their personal devices and public network. Hence, organizations need to secure data transmission with a VPN. A VPN extends a private network over a public network for the secure transmission of data. Therefore, it eliminates the need for opening enterprise applications to the internet for just internal usage. It also implements strict privilege access securities for monitoring and managing privileged accounts. VPN also enhances data security by encrypting data before transmitting it over the network. Central management system for data monitoring A data governance process involves multiple individuals and teams such as Chief Data Officer (CDO), managers, data governance committees, cybersecurity teams, and data stewards. For an effective data governance strategy, it is important that all these individuals and teams can govern data from a single platform, instead of monitoring data from different tools and platforms. A central management system allows all authorized people to monitor and govern data from a single platform. The central management system also helps to monitor and manage all the requests for data access coming from different devices and networks. For instance, a remote workforce team member might request enterprise application and data requests through a personal device and a public WiFi network. The central management system allows you to route all such requests coming from personal devices and public networks to your head office firewall, where all the requests can be handled from a single system. This ensures that all the requests are abiding by the security policies developed for securing your data.
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Matrix Project Series 5MP Bullet Cameras are designed for serious outdoor deployments. The cameras are powered by Sony STARVIS sensor that makes them adept in producing strikingly clear images in low light conditions. Apart from this, the True WDR algorithm ensures that evenly balanced images are produced in varying lighting conditions. Besides this, H.265 compression technique is used in data compression which allows the user to accumulate more video footage in the same storage capacity. Finally, with in-built video analytics like Motion Detection, Intrusion Detection and Tripwire users can expect proactive responses against future alerts.
KEY FEATURES: l Sony Starvis Sensor: Colour Images @ 0.01lux l H.265 Compression l True WDR (120dB) l High Signal to Noise Ratio (73dB) l On Board Storage (512GB) l Adaptive and Smart Streaming l Region of Interest l Higher Field of View (Upto 113° FOV) l Multiple-Stream Support l Motion Detection, Intrusion Detection, Tripwire l Smart Alerts l Direct Notification l NAS Support
CONTACT: 394-GIDC, Makarpura, Vadodara-390010, India Toll Free -1800-258-7747 E-Mail: inquiry@matrixcomsec.com https://www.matrixvideosurveillance.com/
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BPE GRID TIE INVERTERS Catering to the demand from varied industry, Best Power Equipment has introduced grid tie inverters for roof top applications across India. These solar inverters would help the households to reduce the high cost of electricity bills and provides higher efficiency in the long run. Amitansu Satpathy – MD, Best Power Equipments said, “In 2020, India is moving towards AtmaNirbhar Bharat where Solar Power has been given prominence by PM Modi himself. In line with this, BPE is planning to focus on solar inverters & products in the next 3-4 years and aim to gain decent market share. The KSG-DM series of Solar Inverters from BPE with 1kW -60kW provides higher efficiency up to 98%. Efficient solar panel integrated with lithium battery for storage applications are the key business focus for BPE. It also is focusing on large joint venture for manufacturing Lithium Batteries.
ACER range of laptops with the latest 11th Gen Intel processors aimed at consumers looking power-packed performance in an ultra-thin stylish design. The 11th Gen Intel Core processors brings together ultra-thin chassis, stylish metal design, industry-leading CPU performance, immersive graphics, amazing AI acceleration, and best-in-class wired and wireless connectivity to help users focus, create, and connect at new levels. It also features like an instant wake, powerful graphics performance with Intel Iris Xe graphics, all-day battery life that can be fast charged, feature best-in-class wireless, and wired connectivity with Thunderbolt 4 and Intel Wi-Fi 6 and deliver an outstanding audio with DTS sound and display to make each experience superior. The Products include: • Swift 5: Price starts from Rs 79,999 onwards • Swift 3: Price starts from Rs 79,999 onwards • Swift 3: Price starts from Rs 67,999 onwards • Aspire 5: Price starts from Rs 54999 onwards
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SILICON POWER (SP) PC60 PORTABLE SSD AND THE STREAM S07 EXTERNAL HD Silicon Power (SP) has won the Taiwan Excellence Award for two of its storage solutions, the PC60 Portable SSD and the Stream S07 External HD. This marks the company’s 13th consecutive year win for this award. The PC60: Your Data, Squared Away At just 80mm square, the PC60 is one of our most portable-friendly portable SSDs. Its slim and lightweight 11mm profile, shock-resistant structure, and convenient keyhole design all complement its intent to be an on-the-go
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