CA appoints Arun Balasubramanian as Sales Director for South India & Sri Lanka

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the appointment of Arun Balasubramanian as Director Sales of CA Technologies, South India & Sri Lanka.

Based out of the CA sales office in Bangalore , Arun will be responsible to drive CA’s business in South India and Sri Lanka .

CA’s Managing Director for India & SAARC, Amit Chatterjee said: “We are excited to have Arun on board. We look forward to Arun leading our South business to accelerated growth, given his solid track record in this market.”



Prior to this role, Arun was regional head of sales for HP Software. He was responsible for driving exponential sales growth during his tenure as software lead for five years. During his twelve year career with HP, he has very successful track record in various sales roles starting from managing large global customers to driving and formulating strategy for SMB business.

Arun said: “I am excited by the opportunity to work towards strengthening CA’s sales growth in a market as exciting and dynamic as India .”

Arun is a university rank holder during his graduation as BE (Computes) and holds executive management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur .

Compuware Launches New Initiative to Increase Profitability of Mobile Data Service Providers

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today launched a new initiative to increase the profitability of mobile data service providers by empowering them to improve and manage the customer data experience. The exponential increase in data-rich applications on mobile devices makes the optimization of the subscriber experience more difficult to achieve and more important to revenue, customer satisfaction and service provider loyalty.

Compuware Vantage for Mobile is the first integrated solution to provide a real-time view of a customer’s mobile data services experience by starting with an individual subscriber’s experience and linking back to key business functions. Customer benefits include increased subscriber retention, higher data average revenue per unit (ARPU), optimization of network investments, reduction in customer support costs and improved customer experience.

“Data-centric mobile devices continue to pave the way for a massive growth in network traffic,” said Elisabeth Rainge, Program Director for Network Software at IDC. “Network performance metrics are indeed important to validate the huge investments currently being made in mobile broadband networks to ensure data services are fast and reliable. But unless the network performance is combined with an understanding of the customer experience, the provider risks discouraging the now-nascent usage of mobile data services as well as undermining the profitability and trust that come with a long term customer relationship.”

Unlike existing network-centric management tools that only provide metrics on network performance and the aggregate view of subscribers, Vantage for Mobile effectively addresses the new challenges that require operators to understand individual subscriber experiences on mobile data services. The solution enables network operations teams to identify areas for network expansion; customer support teams to quickly resolve issues; sales and marketing teams to make informed business decisions; and customer retention teams to better understand customer renewal decisions.

“Mobile operators have traditionally been focused on the network; as the demand for mobile broadband data services grows they need to extend their focus to include quality of experience. The quality of the customer data experience will differentiate one operator from another,” said Ian Clarke, Global Director of Telecoms Strategy at Compuware. “In this new world, the price of having no real-time visibility into a subscriber’s experience of mobile data services is an unsustainable combination of decreasing profit and escalating subscriber churn. With the popularity of mobile applications on devices such as Apple’s iPhone, the customer data experience has to be flawless. This business-wide issue impacts a broad range of departments and must be addressed if operators are to reduce retention risks and increase profitability.”

Compuware also announced the availability of a market research study of 22 operators worldwide. This study confirmed that the root cause of reduced customer satisfaction, increased churn and increased management costs is a lack of visibility into the subscriber experience of mobile data services. Moreover, the study identified how the growing demand for mobile data has brought operators a new dimension of management challenges that include: higher than expected network traffic, reduced profitability of IP data revenue, rising support costs, rising complexity of new devices and services and increased pressure on call center staff. These challenges combined with intensified competition and price wars are eroding operator profitability.

“As mobile network operators (MNOs) search for elusive growth in tough economic times, mobile broadband data services represent a bright spot for accelerating demand and revenue generation,” said Sheryl Kingstone, Director Enterprise Research, Yankee Group. “Success will only happen when MNOs capitalize on their strengths in service distribution and personalization and implement solutions to address the fundamental challenges in economically delivering profitable services. Yet MNO’s do not have visibility into the critical network data as it relates to their subscriber base to capitalize on the opportunity. Only then can they proactively identify new revenue opportunities and improve customer experience.”

NASSCOM BROADENS ITS VISION TO INCLUDE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY

While the previous summits have addressed issues around the business imperative of gender inclusivity, NASSCOM has widened its horizon to include factors such as age, culture, gender and differently-abled. The NASSCOM Diversity and Inclusivity Summit being held at Bangalore’s Leela Palace from December 8-9, is the first such summit event that examines diversity and inclusivity in the context of India and its socio-cultural and economic pluralities. This year’s conclave is themed around “Diversity and Inclusivity Actions - Winning in a Transforming Economy”.
NASSCOM also announced the winners of Gender Inclusivity Awards for this year. These awards, in the third year now, honour companies in the IT-BPO industry which have implemented outstanding practices that promote gender empowerment and women leadership development.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM said “The Indian IT-BPO industry has set high standards in inclusivity and is among the first to recognize the business imperative for Diversity and Inclusion. Recognizing the global leverage of our “demographic dividend” and that women are a vital part of our workforce, the industry is working towards developing a diverse and inclusive workforce for the world. These awards recognize companies who are doing outstanding work enabling inclusivity and NASSCOM congratulates the winners on behalf of the industry and thanks them for their admirable effort towards promoting gender empowerment.”
NASSCOM on the sidelines of the summit also launched WEConnect India, an affiliate of WEConnect International which is an organization that reaches out to women owned businesses, certifies them according to established international norms and connects them to Fortune 500 companies, a global partner network and other women owned businesses. The goal of WEConnect India is to create competitive advantages and foster sustainable economic growth for women owned businesses. WEConnect India will certify businesses that are at least 51% owned, managed and controlled by one or more women.

CATEGORY WINNERS
NASSCOM Award For Excellence In Gender Inclusivity 2009:
BPO Companies
IBM Daksh Business Process Services Pvt.Ltd

NASSCOM Award For Excellence In Gender Inclusivity 2009:
Best Emerging Company < 5 years in existence
HyTech Professionals India Ltd

NASSCOM Award For Excellence In Gender Inclusivity 2009:
Best Company with < 1000 employees
Integra Software Services (P) Ltd

NASSCOM Award For Excellence In Gender Inclusivity 2009:
Best Childcare Services
IBM India Pvt Ltd


About the Award Methodology

The awards criteria includes five parameters - business rationale, senior leadership support, communication, accountability and measurable results. The winning companies have been adjudged by a jury of representatives from the industry.

Religare to use HP Blade servers to Run Mission Critical Applications

HP today announced that Religare, a diversified financial services group, has selected HP blade server technology to support business growth and mitigate risk.

Over the last 4 years, Religare has grown both organically and through acquisitions. It has increased its client base from 20,000 to 700,000 in over 1,800 locations. The firm also boosted its global reach from a pan-Indian company to operations in the UK , USA , Brazil , South Africa , Dubai and Singapore . At the same time Religare expanded its portfolio in new areas like life insurance, asset management and technology sectors. A consequence of this growth has been server sprawl and increased the risk of downtime with critical applications residing on multiple server platforms.

To improve server utilization and minimize risk, Religare chose to migrate its mission critical applications and database to HP ProLiant BL460c servers housed within HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures. This implementation consolidated multiple servers, improving efficiency and providing scalability to support further business growth. Reliability and ease of installation were also key factors in Religare’s decision.

“With our expanding portfolio and customer base, it is a business imperative to be able to scale our technology infrastructure to meet growing demands,” said G. Nagaraj, Director & Chief Technology Officer, Religare Enterprises Limited. “All of Religare's mission critical applications and database now reside on HP Blade servers providing for our future growth. These servers are scalable, reliable and more manageable.”

“Organizations who are looking to expand their operations commonly face challenges such as server sprawl and its associated risk,” said Rajesh Dhar, Director, Industry Standard Servers, HP India. “For Religare, HP Blade servers are delivering reliability, ease of management and the ability to expand with the business. With superior energy efficiency Religare is also lowering lifecycle costs.”

HP Extends the Value of Converged Infrastructure Solutions through Alliance Partners

HP today announced an extension of its BladeSystem Solution Builder program to enable additional independent software vendors (ISVs) to build solutions that customers can quickly deploy and easily manage in a Converged Infrastructure.
HP is the first major technology vendor working with a broad set of application ISVs to directly link the Converged Infrastructure to the application workloads running on it. HP currently has a network of more than 5,000 industry-leading vertical and infrastructure ISV partners who are an integral part of providing solutions to customers.
The HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio now includes new solutions capabilities developed with leading software vendors. New application infrastructure templates for HP BladeSystem Matrix (Matrix) represent best practice implementation and enable fast provisioning of complex infrastructures in minutes instead of months.
“Customers today are grappling with silos of infrastructure and are looking to simplify their data centers, as well as maximize the value of their technology investments,” said Santanu Ghose, Country Head, Infrastructure Software and Blades, HP India. “With solutions such as HP BladeSystem Matrix, customers can align business initiatives with technology, creating a business-ready infrastructure that automatically adapts as market and business conditions change.”
“HP and VMware have an impressive record of developing solutions together to deliver converged infrastructure to customers – including combining physical and virtual management in VMware vCenter™ Server, certifying converged network solutions with HP Virtual Connect and VMware vSphere™, and building flexible scalability and automatic high availability into every joint offering. VMware is pleased to participate in the BladeSystem Solution Builder Program to simplify implementation of converged infrastructure for customers as they continue their journey to the private cloud.” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer and senior vice president, R&D, VMware
Simplifying application deployments with new Matrix templates
New Matrix ISV templates let customers provision complete and appropriately sized application infrastructures for specific business applications. The templates provide infrastructure pre-designs of servers, network and storage resources that represent best practice implementations. This allows for fast expansion of infrastructure resources to respond to business changes.
Matrix templates are available today on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as well as Oracle® Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, and SAP NetWeaver. More Matrix templates are planned to be available in early 2010 to cover applications from Citrix, F5, McAfee, MicroStrategy, Novell, Red Hat, SAS, Siemens PLM Software, Inc., SunGard, TIBCO Software Inc. and VMware.
HP is working with industry-leading virtualization vendors to integrate technologies such as Microsoft Windows® Server Hyper-V, VMware vSphere™ 4 and VMware vCenter™ Server and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, making it easier for customers to purchase and implement these solutions with Matrix.
HP is including Matrix in its Partner Technology Access Centers (PTAC) as well as developing new integration testing services to help HP ISV partners integrate, test and optimize their unique capabilities for a converged infrastructure.

GE Healthcare IT in India to Increase Quality, Reduce Cost, and Improve Access for All

GE Healthcare launched the Indian expansion of its $1.5B Global Healthcare IT business today, pledging to offer strong healthcare connectivity and resources to a country that has lagged behind in this key area of healthcare delivery.

India, with a population of 1.3 Billion, has fewer than 0.7 beds per 1000 people and an acute shortage of healthcare professionals. GE Healthcare IT solutions will help increase patient access and bridge the acute shortage of well-trained healthcare professionals.

"Healthcare IT is the spine of any good healthcare infrastructure. It delivers information to the heart of healthcare institutions and to the fingertips of providers and patients seamlessly, anywhere, anytime,” said Vishal Wanchoo, president & CEO of GE Healthcare IT. “We’re not strangers here. We understand the limitations Indian healthcare is facing between disparate clinics, little information sharing and the paperwork barrier. We are committed to begin changing this through the initiatives we are announcing today and believe we’re ushering in a new era in Indian healthcare delivery."

India is now beginning to discover how GE Centricity® solutions deliver information at the center of care, helping organizations achieve more effective and efficient decisions on behalf of patients and providers. GE offers solutions that span the clinical, service, financial and administrative sectors, financial & administrative solutions, clinical solutions and Service solutions that serve a broad range of organizations from small physician practices, to imaging centers and the largest hospital/integrated delivery networks (IDNs). Business software helps improve efficiency and enhance the patient experience. Clinical and imaging solutions help drive greater productivity and help enhance patient safety with workflows and managing protocols. Three key developments marked the official launch of the business, each addressing one of the key pillars of cost, quality and access.

Cost: Eliminating the need for Upfront Capital Investment.
Introducing healthcare IT solutions often requires significant up-front investment by healthcare providers, in addition to regular updates of software, hardware and maintenance. To help eliminate this barrier to growth, GE Healthcare is offering "Managed Solutions" to providers who need to integrate multiple locations or have plans to expand and reach masses through GE Healthcare IT solutions in India . While India is renowned for its use of IT in all other sectors, healthcare institutions will now be better connected with the investments GE Healthcare is making to create a centralized healthcare IT infrastructure.

" India has the largest pool of IT professionals and IT-savvy communities and it has left its mark on virtually every sector this country has. Healthcare is the exception,” said V Raja, president & CEO of GE Healthcare South Asia. “We still lack the infrastructure to enable more unified access across our rural and urban communities. We believe the unique "managed" business model will help transform the way healthcare is delivered in India ."

Quality: Clinical rich content & applications for India .
Designed to meet specifically cited needs in India , GE’s top-rated internet-based PACS-IW offering provides remote accessibility for radiologists to review images when they are away from the hospital, plus instantaneous reporting on true DICOM datasets, significantly reducing overall costs.
PACS-IW, a multi-site link in itself, provides state-of-the-art features, including 3D reconstruction “on the fly,” advanced image formatting and integrated reporting. This solution works on most standard PCs with internet access and has an extremely simplified end user workflow. This combines to create a low maintenance teleradiology solution with absolutely no additional software installs or configuration needs.

Access: Alignment with DCA Imaging Centre
GE Healthcare also announced its first “managed” Indian partnership with DCA Imaging Centre, New Delhi . Under this alignment, GE Healthcare has installed Centricity PACS-IW solution at DCA Imaging headquarters in Delhi . With this brand new solution, DCA Imaging has already connected five imaging centres in India and will create a wider network in the near future. With GE’s solution, DCA Imaging Centre can now offer diagnostic reports without delay, and without any upfront investment.

“The benefits are enormous,” said Dr. Ajay Aggarwal, director and radiologist at Diwan Chand Integral Health Services in New Dehli, the first institution to install PACS-IW in India . “Using this connectivity model ensured we could leave our IT to the specialists at GE Healthcare and better allocate our funds for life saving technologies and facilities for improving patient care. That means we don't have to worry about taking care of hardware or software upgrades, repair budget allocation or downtime.” Dr. Ajay Aggarwal noted his staff’s instant recognition of the system’s performance and “screaming speed.”

We needed a solution that could grow as the organization grows and GE provided that,” said Dr. Aggarwal. “This is just a small step in taking Indian healthcare into the future. Imagine the entire Indian healthcare system using this intuitive tool to create networks for wider healthcare services. Indian healthcare will then take giant leaps!”

GE Healthcare's new "MAC i" brings cost of quality cardiac early detection down to less than the price of a Bottle of Mineral Water in India

Heart disease is the number one killer in the world and India carries nearly 60% of this burden. It is rising alarmingly and affects every one - rich & poor, urban or rural. As part of GE's healthymagination commitment, GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today launched MAC i, an In India, For India ECG innovation that has the potential to reduce ECG price to as low as Rs.9/-.

Earlier, GE Healthcare re-defined affordability of quality ECG system prices through introduction of MAC 400. MAC 400 reduced cost of ECG systems to 1/3rd of similar quality imported ECG systems. Today, MAC 400 is successfully used in many countries, thanks to its high quality, low cost, easy operation and portability. The new MAC i will make quality cardiac early detection doubly affordable as it is available to physicians at half the cost of MAC 400 - only Rs.25000/-.

"We are seeing a tipping point in healthcare today. We believe technical innovations can drive solutions and value for our customers. We are developing at least 100 innovations that will reduce the cost of procedure, increase access and improve quality. Tomorrow, they will be used everywhere in the world - just like our In India, For India products - MAC 400, Lullaby baby warmer... said V Raja, President & CEO, GE Healthcare South Asia. “ Today, we are launching new solutions as part of this commitment which are low cost, simple and easy to use. They can potentially bridge the acute shortage of healthcare experts, healthcare insurance and electricity in rural India " he added.

73% of India 's population lives in rural areas today but nearly 80% of the healthcare providers, especially specialists are clustered in urban centers, making the situation even worse. Patients have to travel long distances to meet experts and many times this happens only when there is a fatal attack; many of them do not reach a hospital in time. "Early detection" is key to tackling heart disease. Measuring the electrical activity of the heart through an ECG is the very first step in early detection of cardiac disease. Acute shortage of experts, unavailability of appropriate technology and high costs have been a big barrier to making this a reality.

Empowering the available physicians and para-health staff locally will facilitate early detection of potentially fatal cardiac disease and help reduce mortality. Simple to use, low cost devices and tele-medicine technologies are what are needed in the absence of insurance coverage and non-availability of experts and consistent electricity supply.

GE Healthcare today donated the first MAC i unit to HelpAge India to facilitate early cardiac detection for elderly patients in sub-urban and reaching he un-reached areas in India . "Innovations like these help us take advanced diagnosis to the bed side of the patient, wherever they are. HelpAge has a mobile clinic which serves elderly and under privileged. This MAC i from GE Healthcare will add cardiac early detection capabilities to our Mobile Clinic." said Rekha Murthy, Senior Manager, HelpAge India .

MAC i makes cardiac early detection very easy through its simple, one touch operation. It is a single channel ECG system capable of printing in 3 channels at the same time - which means ECG can be printed line by line per page or 3 lines on one page. It is very easy for any para-health staff or physician to use the system anywhere with just a few minutes of training. It is capable of completing 500 3-channel ECGs or 250 single channel ECGs for every 3 hour battery charge, which equals one month of operation in a village where availability of electricity is a major constraint. It is particularly suited for rural India where healthcare is delivered through Primary Health Clinics or individual physician clinics. The MAC i comes with the highly accurate and clinically proven Marquette 12SLTM analysis program. The same quality that resides in the premium ECG devices is made available in the compact MAC i to enable every physician to use the GE technology and perform reliable ECGs on every patient.

MAC i will be show-cased at the Cardiological Society of India congress from December 2 - 5, 2009 at Cochin , India .

Magma Announces BoardView: Extends Chip-Based Navigation to Circuit- and Board-Level Debug

Magma® Design Automation (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, has announced BoardView™ launch, a new software that extends CAD navigation and circuit debug from integrated circuits (ICs) to printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multi-chip modules (MCMs). BoardView is the only commercially available tool to integrate IC and PCB circuit debug with online signal trace and CAD navigation. With BoardView, fab teams can rapidly trace signals on the PCB from chips to board and back again and then quickly navigate failure analysis tools to X, Y locations to determine the cause of the fault.

“With the complexity of today’s highly compressed PCB and MCM modules that use many chips, tracing the fault to its origin is not an easy task,” said Ankush Oberai, vice president of Magma’s Fab Analysis Business Unit. “Failure analysis teams need to localize and trace faults to and from the chip to the PCB and that requires microscopic CAD support at both the chip and board level – BoardView is the first tool to offer this dual capability.”

BoardView: Extending Industry-Standard Camelot CAD Navigation to Board-Level Debug
BoardView leverages Magma’s Camelot™ technology, the industry standard for IC CAD navigation and circuit debug, to trace signals between the chip and the board. It reads industry-standard PCB and chip layout formats and displays them graphically. Formats supported include OASIS, Virtuoso, Gerber, GDSII and AutoCAD Drawing Exchange Format (DXF). Chip layouts are loaded from the Camelot database.

For every chip on the board, the user can invoke both BoardView and Camelot’s MaskView. This enables the user to seamlessly move from an intra-die chip view of the layout and netlists using MaskView to a macro view of a signal trace from die to board using BoardView, making fault tracing and diagnostics much easier.

BoardView is currently in limited release and will be generally available in the first quarter of 2010. Magma will demonstrate BoardView at the 35th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA) in Booth #221 Nov. 17-18 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

HP introduces first-ever web-connected printer in India

Leading the phenomenon of touch technology for consumers, Hewlett-Packard India today unveiled its new range of touch-enabled Photosmart printers. Better known as the HP Touchsmart series, these stylishly designed printers will allow users to indulge in and experience the magic of one touch printing. The bold looks and splendid designs of the new printer line-up have also inspired globally renowned fashion designer Ritu Beri to create a new ensemble, which resonated chic and elegance as models walked on the ramp at the launch the HP Touchsmart range in the city.
With Indian consumers integrating bold style statements into their day-to-day life, technology is molding itself into an extension of individual personalities, and styling up to the expectations of users. According to a report by Technopak, digital accessories form 13 percent of the luxury market, and by 2015, the Indian touchscreen market is expected to hit $9 billion, with a CAGR of 14 percent.

The new line-up of HP Photosmart touch-enabled printers have been designed exclusively for these urban trend-setters – including children, youth, and professionals working out of home – who are looking for easy user- interface, enviable looks, and the power to print life in all its colours.

With exciting new features, the exquisitely designed touch-enabled printers from HP including – HP Photosmart Premium C309G All-in-One, HP Photosmart Plus B209A All-in-One, HP Photosmart C4688 All-in-one and HP Photosmart C4788 All-in-One printers –make printing more intuitive and effortless. Each of these printers comes equipped with its own star features!

For Ritu Beri, a globally renowned designer, working with HP to create the experience of touch was an opportunity. “I am excited to be co-opting with the technology leader, HP, in this endeavour to blend lifestyle with technology. Drawing inspiration from the smooth finish of the new Touchsmart, my collection personifies sophistication and elegance. It defines the free-spirited modern woman, who enjoys independence and creates her own style! The collection is elegant yet comfortable. I believe in creating clothes that are wearable, just like the HP Photosmart printers, where technology adds to the consumer experience.”

According to Christoph Schell, Vice President, Consumer Go To Market and Inkjet and Web Solutions Imaging & Printing Group Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific & Japan, “Since HP introduced its first consumer touchscreen printer in 2006, our R&D teams have drawn from extensive consumer insights, and leading-edge touchscreen technologies to develop the new Touchsmart user interface that is simple and easy to use. It promises to make everyday printing intuitive and enjoyable. With this launch, we will be the first to make the touch technology available for printing through our Photosmart printers.”

Adding to this, Ravi Aggarwal, President, Imaging and Printing Group, HP India said “As the market leader in the Imaging and Printing industry in India , HP has constantly innovated to evolve and align the consumer needs with its unique products. Touch technology will play an important role in making printing truly an experience for consumers. With its revolutionary personal printing solutions, HP is the only company with the depth and breadth to create a seamless experience, imbibing technology, looks and user interface, which enrich the lives of home users and individuals.”

Unmatchable style and cutting-edge technology come together in the new HP Touchsmart printers. The new tech-style fusion is redefining the way a printer is used, making it more intuitive, easy, fast, friendly and fun. Take a look at how HP touch-styled its new printers:

HP Photosmart Premium C309G All-in-One:
Featuring an 8.6 cm touch-screen, this versatile all-in-one can easily print, copy and scan everyday documents and lab-quality photos. Right from accessing your photos from online albums at Snapfish and connecting to the Web via pre-loaded HP apps – with or without PC and direct printing from iPhone, the Photosmart gratifies your craving for individuality and creativeness. This ENERGY STAR® qualified all-in-one enables upto 50 paper-savings with automatic two-sided printing.
Price: INR 13350/-
HP Photosmart Plus B209A All-in-One:
The full-featured HP TouchSmart control panel and 6 cm touchscreen on the HP Photosmart Plus All-in-One allow consumers to wirelessly print photos, Web content and everyday documents with the touch of a finger. Consumers can use the TouchSmart control panel to rotate and crop photos, adjust brightness, or apply color effects before printing – no PC necessary.
Price: INR 8999/-
HP Photosmart C4788 Wireless All-in-One:
The HP Photosmart C4788 Wireless All-in-One offers the easiest wireless set-up – simply touch one button for the freedom to print from virtually anywhere in the home. The 3.6 cm color display and HP TouchSmart frame make it easy to produce lab quality photos, everyday documents, copies and photo reprints.
Price: INR 7570/-
HP Photosmart C4688 All-in-One:
The HP Photosmart C4688 All-in-One features a 3.6 cm color display and HP TouchSmart frame for simplicity and convenience. Built for efficiency, it also includes several features for “goof proof” printing such as the HP Photo Print Gadget – which allows users to simply drag and drop photos to a desktop icon from virtually anywhere on a PC – saving time and reducing errors.
Price: INR 6267/-

HP Delivers Breakthrough Converged Infrastructure Architecture

HP today unveiled the HP Converged Infrastructure Architecture and associated services and partner offerings that provide a blueprint for chief information officers to create elasticity in their technology environments, supporting innovation in their businesses.
Today, only 34 percent of typical IT budgets are dedicated to business innovation. This is because the proliferation of IT sprawl has created technology silos in data centers that consume up to 66 percent of the technology budget for maintenance and operations.(1) Solving the issue of IT sprawl is expected to create a $35 billion market opportunity for converged infrastructure solutions by 2012.(2)
The HP Converged Infrastructure enables data center environments that allow organizations to focus on innovation and making technology a key differentiator for their businesses. It integrates existing silos of compute, storage, network and facility resources with unified management to deliver a virtualized, highly automated technology environment. With pools of shared services that can be leveraged on the fly, businesses increase the flexibility of their environments and speed time to application value.
In a related advance, HP has extended the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder program to enable additional independent software vendors to build solutions that customers can quickly deploy and easily manage in a converged infrastructure.
“Companies are asking HP to help them thrive in unpredictability by using technology to rapidly meets the needs of their business,” said Durgadutt Nedungadi, Director Sales, Enterprise Business, HP India. “HP Converged Infrastructure is the answer and only HP, with its market-leading technology, intellectual property, expertise and partner ecosystem, can deliver it today.”
The HP Converged Infrastructure eliminates technology silos and complexity in the data center while leveraging current technology investments. Through unified management, all assets become part of a resource pool that can be divided, assembled and changed to dynamically align to any business, workload or application need. The use of these resources is optimized across the infrastructure, allowing companies to improve utilization, lower energy use and reduce costs.
The new HP Converged Infrastructure Architecture delivers a number of technology innovations providing:
Increased business agility through on-the-fly delivery of shared services
The new HP Infrastructure Operating Environment reduces complexity by taking application-specific processes and tools and transforming them into a standardized, shared environment. Governance through policy-based management and automated, template-driven application deployment significantly speeds time to business value. Complementary products include the enhanced HP Insight Dynamics, HP Insight Control and HP Business Technology Optimization solutions.
Dramatically lower costs and complexity with a wire-once network fabric
HP FlexFabric integrates thousands of servers and storage resources into a single virtualized, high-performance and low-latency network fabric. Built on industry standards, FlexFabric is highly scalable and can consolidate multiple protocols. For the first time, network connections and capacity can be fully virtualized from the edge to the core.
Optimized resource utilization for any application or workload
HP Virtual Resource Pools virtualize shared server, storage and networking resources to provide an easy to manage, cost-effective, shared-service environment. As a result, administrators can easily call upon any technology service in the pool in real time to support changing business requirements. HP Virtual Resource Pools enable customers to maximize resources, while increasing scalability, flexibility and utilization of technology assets across their infrastructures.
Improved energy efficiency and management across the data center
HP Data Center Smart Grid delivers an intelligent, energy-aware environment across technology infrastructures and data center facilities. For the first time, businesses can accurately visualize, monitor and control energy use in real time. With HP Data Center Smart Grid, companies can set policies for energy use based on accurate data and monitor their ongoing performance to ensure compliance with internal, environmental or government regulations and goals.
Embodying all of the attributes of the HP Converged Infrastructure Architecture, the HP BladeSystem Matrix has allowed Dubai Airport , UAE, www.dubaiairports.ae, one of world’s fastest growing airports, to turn technology from a cost center to a profit generator.
Partners adopt HP Converged Infrastructure Architecture
The HP Converged Infrastructure Architecture consists of open, industry-standard solutions that allow integration and deployment with offerings from a broad partner community.
Channel partners also are able to capitalize on new demand-generation programs and sales tools to further extend their business in this space.
HP also unveiled worldwide services that enable customers to use existing technology investments in the planning, design and deployment of an HP Converged Infrastructure. HP Converged Infrastructure Consulting services include IT maturity model workshops, assessments and proof-of-concept demos for Converged Infrastructure solutions such as the HP BladeSystem Matrix.
Finally, customers can eliminate the capital and speed time to value of an HP Converged Infrastructure through IT outsourcing with HP Enterprise Services.

Fiat Diesel Drives India’ departs Bangalore, begins journey through scenic Kerala and temple state Tamil Nadu

Goodbye IT city and hello rural India. The ‘Fiat Diesel Drives India’ pan India odyssey today pulled out of Bangalore on its second leg, leaving India’s happening Silicon Valley behind for the peaceful Keralan backwaters and temple-dotted roads of Tamil Nadu. A team of journalists from Car India and New Indian Express are the drivers behind the wheels of the four Fiat MULTIJET diesel cars

The opportunity of pushing the four diesel Fiats through their paces along such a scenic route created a lot of excitement among the group of drivers. Their stint as drivers in the second leg of the ‘Fiat Diesel Drives India’ runs from October 31st to November 3rd and takes them from Bangalore to Coimbatore and then to Kochi and Chennai.

Speaking at the Bangalore event, Mr. Ravi Bhatia, Vice President Commercial Fiat India, said, “It’s a great thrill to flag-off the second leg of our ‘Fiat Diesel Drives India’ from Bangalore. This has been a great market for our company as the versatility, stylish looks and economical performance of our diesel hatches have been a great match with the young professional workforce of this city. Now our hatches continue on their journey through some of India’s most scenic roads as they continue to demonstrate the reliability and performance of our pioneering diesel engines. I am confident that our participating drivers will enjoy the trip.”

The ‘Fiat Diesel Drives India’ takes Fiat’s 4 MULTIJET diesel offerings- the Linea, Grande Punto, Palio and the Fiat 500 through a wide range of testing Indian terrains over a period of a month and a half. This one-of-a-kind journey will traverse through diverse terrains within 16 states of India, clocking over 10,000 kilometers in total. The drive has been aimed at generating awareness about Fiat’s rich history in connection with diesel technology as well as their longstanding success in rolling out endurance driven, yet stylish and classy automobiles.

The drive involves auto journalists from India’s top auto magazines, namely, Zigwheels, Car India, Overdrive, Auto India, BS Motoring, Autocar India, AutoBild, Top Gear, Auto Exchange, Automotive Product Finder and a special team of auto experts. In addition to this, the drive will also involve electronic channels like ET Now, NDTV 24X7, CNBC TV 18, NDTV India, Zee Business, UTVi, Aaj Tak, IBN7, Times Now, online portals such as Carwale.com, teambhp.com and publications such as New Indian Express. Through the course of the drive, these esteemed experts will take Fiat’s diesel engines to the extreme by taking the 4 cars through a stern test of power, performance and engine finesse. With this drive, Fiat, the inventor and pioneer of the high tech MULTIJET diesel engines, aims to stamp its authority on the diesel scenario in India as well as create further awareness about their engine’s presence in majority of the cars in India.

Through the extensive drive, Fiat will also look to reinforce the presence of their strong and ever growing network across India. Today, Tata-Fiat network comprises of 99 dealerships and 6 point of sales spanning across 77 cities in the country. All these dealerships have a separate identity for Fiat and offer an international experience for customers.

‘Fiat Diesel Drives India’ promises to be an exhilarating and novel drive that experiences India and all its cultural flavours.


ABOUT THE MULTIJET ENGINE

The words that best describe Fiat’s MULTIJET Diesel engines are ‘breakthrough technology’. With the introduction of the state-of-the-art MULTIJET engines, Fiat paved the way for refined, more efficient diesel cars across the world. Until the introduction of these engines, diesel automobiles were seen as non eco-friendly and low on power. The MULTIJET engines helped change customer perception and increase the penetration of diesel vehicles in automobile markets worldwide. Customers now see diesel cars as powerful yet low on consumption. In some cases they are even considered to be more powerful than some gasoline (petrol) automobiles.

The MULTIJET engine’s significance is further apparent in the fact that these engines have been fitted into world renowned and historically important cars of the world, the Lancia Ypsilon, Lancia Delta, Alfa Romeo 147 and Alfa Romeo 159 to name a few . Fiat’s MULTIJET engines have also been used by international automakers like Opel (in the Opel Agila Corsa, Meriva, and Astra amongst others) and Saab (9-5, 9-3X) to great effect. Similarly, the Multijet technology is used by car makers other than Fiat in India as well.

With the 1.3 MULTIJET diesel engine being the smallest common rail diesel engine being produced internationally, Fiat has been instrumental in giving the diesel auto segment a significant presence in markets worldwide. The engine is also the frontrunner in engine power/ displacement ratio, making the Multijet engine one of the best that diesel technology has to offer today.

In India, the MULTIJET engine is manufactured at Fiat’s Ranjangaon facility. The engines are assembled on state of the art assembly lines which have a high level of automation for all critical operations to guarantee world class quality. Testing of the engines and transmissions is carried out on Cold Test benches which, besides performing in depth checks are also environmentally friendly.

Machining of critical components like cylinder block, crankshaft, cylinder head, cam carrier, transmission shafts and gears is done on the latest CNC machines with a very high degree of accuracy and automation. Sophisticated inspection equipment ensures that the quality of the components is of the highest level.