National Instruments Announces Test Solution for 802.11ac WLAN

National Instruments today announced early access support for testing next-generation 802.11ac WLAN chipsets and devices. This announcement exemplifies how NI’s modular, software-defined wireless test platform continually expands to address the latest cellular and wireless connectivity standards including 802.11ac.

NI’s 802.11ac WLAN test solution provides flexibility in testing 802.11ac devices in addition to testing 802.11a/b/g/n devices. It works with a wide range of signal bandwidths including 20, 40, 80 and 80+80 160 MHz for both Tx and Rx for up to 4x4 MIMO configurations.

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“By supporting the latest WLAN standard, 802.11ac, we are demonstrating the power of NI’s software-defined, modular test systems,” said Dr. James Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of National Instruments. “Our modular test platform delivers faster test times and lower total cost of ownership, and by combining it with LabVIEW, we help engineers address the latest emerging wireless standards.

802.11ac Solution Features
· Modulation formats up to 256 QAM
· 4x4 MIMO for both Tx and Rx
· Signal bandwidths including 20, 40, 80 and advanced 80+80 160 MHz
· Optional MAC features such as LDPC, STBC and AMPDU
· Automated test system development using NI LabVIEW, C or Microsoft Visual Studio

NI is working with several early access partners, including silicon suppliers, OEMs and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers, to test the latest 802.11ac devices.

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To learn more about NI’s 802.11ac test solution, visit www.ni.com/80211ac.

About 802.11ac
The IEEE 802.11ac WLAN standard promises more than 3X faster transfer speeds, more reliable coverage and up to 6X more power efficiency than equivalent 802.11n solutions. These benefits have increased the demand on today’s wireless test systems to provide better software flexibility, wider Tx and Rx bandwidth and higher performance signal processing.

About National Instruments
Since 1976, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has equipped engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation and discovery. NI’s graphical system design approach to engineering provides an integrated software and hardware platform that speeds the development of any system needing measurement and control. The company’s long-term vision and focus on improving society through its technology supports the success of its customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders.

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Intel announces new Managing Director, South Asia Sales & Marketing

Intel today announced that R. Sivakumar will be moving to a new role within Intel and the appointment of Ms. Debjani Ghosh to the role of Managing Director for its Sales and Marketing organization in South Asia. The change is effective January 1.Ms. Ghosh will be based in New Delhi.



During Siva’s more than five years of leadership, Intel’s Sales and Marketing organization in South Asia oversaw a doubling of PC penetration in India1. Siva has been a tireless voice in making the case for expanding India’s broadband infrastructure. “I’ve twice had the privilege of working in this exciting region during my career at Intel,” said Mr. Sivakumar. “I am confident that under Debjani’s leadership Intel will continue to connect more South Asians to exciting opportunities through technology. We are fortunate to have a strong and stable leadership team with a tremendous vision for growing this market and an execution track record that’s the gold standard in the industry. I have great confidence in what the future holds for this team as Debjani takes over the rein.”


Ms. Ghosh, a native of Delhi, has been with Intel for 17 years. Her most recent role was Director of Sales and Marketing, South East Asia. “I am excited about this opportunity and look forward to coming home to India,” said Ms. Ghosh. “I also look forward to working with governments and industry to advance our shared objectives of increasing opportunities through technology.” she concluded.


About Intel



Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

HP Offers Services to Accelerate Application Development and Deployment on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform

HP Enterprise Services today announced new applications services designed to accelerate the building or migration of applications to the Microsoft Windows® Azure platform.




Traditional applications development and deployment approaches often take too long and cost too much. Cloud platform offerings, such as the industry-leading Windows Azure platform, can improve responsiveness to business needs while reducing costs.



With the new HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure, applications developers can quickly design, build, test and deploy applications for the Windows Azure platform. As a result, enterprises can more quickly capitalize on new opportunities. The services also enable clients to accelerate adoption of the Windows Azure platform as part of their hybrid service delivery environments.



Additionally, clients can manage risk and optimize IT resources with a methodical approach to assessing, migrating and developing applications on the Windows Azure platform. With usage-based pricing for the platform, clients also can align IT costs with changes in demand and volumes.



“As their needs shift, enterprises want to confidently and rapidly adopt cloud-based applications,” said Marshal Correia, Director, Enterprise Services, HP India.. “HP helps clients speed time to market by transforming or developing new applications, then efficiently and cost-effectively deploying them onto the Windows Azure platform.”



HP has deep and diverse expertise in transforming legacy applications to modern platforms like Windows Azure. HP uses the HP Cloud Applications Guidebook and HP Cloud Advisory tool to analyze applications for cloud suitability based on business and technical characteristics. HP also developed and uses Windows Azure delivery and migration guides, plus proven techniques, to modernize and migrate applications.



HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure is part of HP Hybrid Delivery, which helps clients build, manage and consume services using the right delivery model for them.



Available worldwide, HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure are delivered through a dedicated Windows Azure Center of Expertise that is supported in region by consulting services and seven global joint Microsoft and HP competency centers.



HP and Microsoft have delivered technical innovation together for more than 25 years. They offer joint solutions that help organizations around the world improve services through the use of innovative technologies. More information about the HP and Microsoft alliance is available at http://h10134.www1.hp.com/insights/alliances/microsoft/.



HP helps businesses and governments in their pursuit of an Instant-On Enterprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.



About HP



HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com

Symphony Services Receives a 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award

Symphony Services today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the Symphony Spend Management Solutions a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.


“We are delighted to be recognized by TMC for our TEM solutions,” said Alan Harlan, president of software management solutions, Symphony Services. “Our suite of Spend Management Solutions allows us to alleviate the pain for the IT departments of our clients and help them to improve their overall customer satisfaction while optimizing the spend on telecom expenses.”


Symphony Spend Management Solutions, a business unit of Symphony Services, monitors, manages and minimizes clients’ indirect costs through proprietary software and technology-enabled outsourcing services. The company’s full suite of flexible solutions provides clients with a global view of cost generated assets, work orders, usage and service provider invoices, as well as key business processes including vendor invoice management, provision and billing chargeback.


“We are pleased to present Symphony Services with a 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award. The Symphony Spend Management Solutions have proven their benefits and advancement of TEM, and delivered valuable solutions for customers,” stated Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.


The Third Annual INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award winners are published in the December 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine can be found online at www.itmag.com.



About Symphony Services



Symphony Services is a software innovation company. We help our clients ideate, develop, deploy and manage innovative software and software-enabled products. Our solutions address traditional and new software product engineering challenges created by faster release cadences, the need for mobile cross-platform user experiences and the shift to a cloud delivery model. Symphony’s unique Outcome Certainty engagement model enables clients to accelerate their product experiences while tackling a wide range of new development complexity and cost challenges with guaranteed results. The company’s global client base includes eight of the ten largest software manufacturers, along with leading healthcare, retail, financial, telecom and clean-tech companies. For more information, please visit http://www.symphonysv.com/


About TMC



TMC is a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility and Cloud Computing (formerly InfoTECH Spotlight) magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4G Wireless Evolution; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Expo; SIP Tutorial 2.0:Bringing SIP to the Web; Business Video Expo; Regulatory 2.0 Workshop; DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; CVx; AstriCon; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more. Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.



For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com/

Frost & Sullivan Awards NI India With 2011 Technology Innovation of the Year Award in Electronic Test & Measurement

National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced that Frost & Sullivan honored NI India with its 2011 Technology Innovation of the Year Award in Electronic Test & Measurement for the company’s PXI product line. Frost & Sullivan based its award on five criteria: uniqueness in technology, impact on new products and applications, impact on functionality, impact on customer value and relevance of innovation to industry.



NI pioneered the PXI platform in 1997 and today offers more than 450 PXI products to help engineers meet complex test challenges at a fraction of the size, cost and time of traditional solutions. NI has expanded its PXI line with the introduction of products such as the NI PXIe-5665 RF vector signal analyzer, the NI PXIe-4141 source measure unit with SourceAdapt technology and the NI PXIe-5186 high-bandwidth digitizer with Tektronix, Enabling Technology. Compared to traditional instruments, NI PXI products help engineers create better solutions to meet increasingly complex testing needs, reduce time to market and lower the cost of testing.


In 2011, NI introduced more than 40 other PXI products to further extend the possibilities of PXI across diverse industries. With these new product introductions, NI continues its leading innovation in the ever-growing global PXI market. Engineers and scientists can mix and match a variety of NI PXI products and control their entire systems with NI LabVIEW software to address virtually any challenge.


National Instruments India was established in 1998 to further graphical system design technology in the country. Consistent double-digit growth and increased investments in India are a testament to the success of graphical system design technology in the country. Frost & Sullivan Partner and Global V.P. of Research, Shekar Gopalan said “NI India has played a critical role in establishing the concept of graphical system design and software defined modular instrumentation in India and has enabled affordable and efficient testing with their PXI platform.” NI India caters to the challenges and issues facing Indian engineers and scientists and introduces various India-specific initiatives to enrich the lives of Indian engineers.



About National Instruments



National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with its largest customer representing approximately 4 percent of revenue in 2010 and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has approximately 6,100 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 12 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company’s investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, emailing nati@ni.com or visiting www.ni.com/nati.



LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI and ni.com are trademarks of National Instruments. Tektronix, Enabling Technology is a trademark of Tektronix, Inc. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.


About Frost & Sullivan


Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation, and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages over 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses, and the investment community from 40 offices across six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com

HP Powers Move to Cloud for Enterprises and Service Providers

HP today announced new Cloud Solutions that advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds, enabling enterprises, service providers and governments to capitalize on emerging market opportunities.




With thousands of successful cloud deployments, HP has helped clients get the best of a hybrid delivery approach without the complexity. By incorporating both in-house and externally sourced IT services, clients can pick the right method of delivery to effectively meet time-to-market, availability and cost requirements. Yet, security concerns and a lack of internal skills continue to challenge organizations’ evolution to the cloud.



Service providers also recognize that a hybrid delivery approach requires new cloud business models that provide consumption and brokerage of technology for their customers in multiple ways. As a result, they need a technology partner that can help them capture this market opportunity.



HP Cloud Solutions, based on HP Converged Infrastructure, provide the hardware, software, services and programs that enable service providers, enterprises and governments to rapidly and securely deliver IT as a service.



“Clients want to understand, plan, build and source for cloud computing in a way that allows them to gain agility, reduce risk, maintain control and ensure security,” said Santanu Ghose, country head, Converged Infrastructure solutions, HP India. “The new offerings are the culmination of HP’s experience in delivering innovative technology solutions, as well as providing the services and skills needed to drive this evolution.”



HP’s new offerings address the key areas of client needs – building differentiated cloud offerings, consuming cloud services from the public domain, and managing, governing and securing the entire environment.



Building a hybrid environment



As organizations work to achieve an agile service-delivery approach, they must develop, deploy, manage and secure IT services across public and private clouds as well as traditional IT delivery models.



HP continues to expand its cloud ecosystem with new partners, offerings and programs:



— New HP CloudSystem integrations with Alcatel-Lucent enable communications services providers to deliver high-value cloud services using carrier-class network and IT. The combination of IT infrastructure, software and telecommunications-grade network lets communications services providers automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources through a highly reliable network.



— HP CloudAgile Service Provider Program offers service providers expanded sales reach, an enhanced services portfolio and an accelerated sales cycle through direct access to HP’s global sales force. HP has expanded the program with its first European partners and with new certified hosting options that enable service providers to deliver reliable, secure private hosted clouds based on HP CloudSystem.



— HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0, the core operating environment that powers HP CloudSystem, enables clients to build hybrid clouds with push-button access to externally sourced cloud-based IT resources with the industry’s first out-of-the-box “bursting capability.” This solution also includes automatic, on-demand provisioning of HP 3PAR storage to reduce errors and speed deployment of new services to just minutes.



— The comprehensive HP Cloud Protection Program spans people, process, policies and technologies to deliver the same level of security for a hybrid cloud as a private IT environment would receive. Addressing one of the biggest hindrances to organizations moving to a cloud environment, the new program includes comprehensive strategy, roadmap, design and implementation services built on a common reference architecture. The program is supported by a Cloud Protection Center of Excellence that enables clients to test HP solutions as well as partner and third-party products that support cloud and virtualization protection.



Consuming enterprise-class cloud services



Organizations need rapid and secure sourcing of compute services that quickly flex to peak demands without excess capital expenditures. New and enhanced HP services that provide a cloud infrastructure as a service to address this need include:



— HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Compute now automates distribution of application workloads across multiple servers to improve application performance. Clients also can improve data protection through new backup and restore options while also provisioning and managing additional virtual local area networks within their cloud environment. A new HP proof-of-concept program allows clients to evaluate the service for existing workloads prior to purchase.



— HP Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP Development and Sandbox Solution enable clients to evaluate and prototype functionality of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning software via a virtual private cloud, using a flexible, consumption-based model.



Transforming for the cloud era – closing the cloud skills gap



Clients can use HP guidance and training to transform legacy data centers for cloud computing by improving the skills in their organizations. New HP services that address this need include:



— Three HP ExpertONE certifications – HP ASE Cloud Architect, HP ASE Cloud Integrator and HP ASE Master Cloud Integrator – which are the first cloud certifications that encompass business and technical content.



— Expanded HP ExpertONE program includes five of the industry’s largest independent commercial training organizations that deliver HP learning solutions anywhere in the world. The HP Institute delivers an academic program for developing HP certified experts through traditional two- and four-year institutions, while HP Press has expanded self-directed learning options for clients.



— HP Cloud Curriculum from HP Education Services offers course materials in multiple languages covering cloud strategies that have successfully increased enterprise agility and reduced costs. Learning is flexible, with online virtual labs, self study, classroom, virtual classroom and onsite training options offered through more than 90 HP education centers worldwide.



— Driven by HP Financial Services, HP Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Cloud Roundtables help CFOs understand the benefits and risks associated with the cloud, while aligning their organizations’ technology and financial roadmaps.



— HP Storage Consulting Services for Cloud, encompassing modernization and design, enable clients to understand their storage requirements for private cloud computing as well as develop an architecture that meets their needs.



— HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure accelerate the development or migration of applications to the Microsoft Windows® Azure platform-as-a-service offering.



In a world of continuous connectivity, HP Converged Infrastructure is a key element to delivering the Instant-On Enterprise. The Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.



A recording of the HP DISCOVER Vienna press conference and additional information about HP’s announcements at its premier client event, HP DISCOVER Vienna, is available at www.hp.com/go/optimization2011.



About HP



HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

HealthPrize Selects Symphony Services to Help Drive Product Innovation and Transform Market for Medication Adherence Solutions

Committed to developing engaging solutions that inspire, encourage and reward patients for properly adhering to prescription medications, HealthPrize Technologies, an innovative Internet-based software company, has selected Symphony Services, a leader in software and product engineering services, to build next-generation medication adherence solutions under a multi-year, multi-project engagement.


The market for connected healthcare is expected to grow dramatically in the next few years. In its Global Mobile Health Market Report 2010-2015, mobile research firm, research2guidance, estimates that smartphone apps will enable the connected healthcare industry to successfully reach out to 500 million of a total of 1.4 billion smartphone users in 2015. Symphony’s partnership with HealthPrize supports the explosion of mobile technology in healthcare, providing HealthPrize with expertise building software and industry-specific applications, while allowing HealthPrize to focus exclusively on new generations of technology healthcare innovation.


“HealthPrize is a pioneering leader in the development of on-demand and mobile solutions that address an enormous need in the healthcare and pharmaceutical markets,” said Sanjay Dhawan, president and CEO of Symphony. “Working with HealthPrize to design and deploy important solutions that will help reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of life of chronically ill patients is rewarding work for our team. The collaboration between Symphony and HealthPrize is a perfect example of how innovative independent software vendors (ISVs) can partner with technology and solutions specialists, such as Symphony, to bring their vision of next-generation applications to life.”


Commenting on the partnership, Tom Kottler, HealthPrize CEO said, “Thanks to Symphony Services, we don’t need to expend our own time and energy on customizing solutions and applications for various technology platforms and device formats, but instead can focus our internal resources on innovative product design, development and sales. Experts like Symphony enable us to leverage their expertise and experience to make our innovative solutions available to many patients quickly and more efficiently than ever before.”


The most recent result of this collaboration is the launch of HealthPrize’s mobile app for iPhone and Android smart phones, making it the first app of its kind to provide an integrated platform of creative rewards, games, education, and competitions designed to improve medication adherence. This first HealthPrize app is available for use by registered HealthPrize participants, and is currently being used by participants in an asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pilot study in collaboration with RealAge, a leading online wellness company.



About HealthPrize Technologies



HealthPrize Technologies, founded in September 2009, provides an innovative approach to addressing the problem of medication non-adherence with a program that is fun, engaging and educational. For more information, visit http://www.healthprize.com/, or call 203-604-6820.



About Symphony Services



Symphony Services is a software innovation company. We help our clients ideate, develop, deploy and manage innovative software and software-enabled products. Our solutions address traditional and new software product engineering challenges created by faster release cadences, the need for mobile cross-platform user experiences and the shift to a cloud delivery model. Symphony’s unique Outcome Certainty engagement model enables our clients to accelerate their product experiences while tackling a wide range of new development complexity and cost challenges with guaranteed results. Our global client base includes eight of the 10 largest software manufacturers, along with leading healthcare, retail, financial, telecom and clean-tech companies. For more information, please visit www.symphonysv.com.

HP Delivers Scalability, Availability, Expertise for SAP HANA

HP today announced a new scale-out converged application solution and associated services for the SAP HANA™ platform.




The offerings speed and simplify application transactions and analysis, while enabling organizations to use their data faster for informed decision making.



The newest addition to the portfolio of HP AppSystem for SAP HANA is a highly scalable solution. It is built on an HP Converged Infrastructure that includes industry-leading HP ProLiant BladeSystem servers and the HP X9300 IBRIX Network Storage System with HP P6500 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). It delivers high availability and storage capacity for mission-critical workloads running on SAP® application software, enabling clients to run business-critical applications.



The solution can be easily integrated with an existing implementation of SAP Business Suite software or the SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (BW) component to accelerate time to decision. Other client benefits include:



— Investment protection by rapidly scaling to handle at least 640 cores and 8 terabytes (TB) of memory.



— Scalable performance and storage capacity of up to 16 petabytes with the HP X9300 IBRIX Network Storage System. It also provides scalable snapshots, 24/7 background data integrity validation and write-once, read-many (WORM) storage to meet data protection and tiered storage requirements for SAP HANA.



— High performance and availability with HP P6500 EVA, a fifth-generation enterprise storage system that is 20 to 30 percent easier to manage than competitive offerings(1) and includes built-in thin provisioning with dynamic storage tiering.



— Increased resiliency, scalability and efficiency of HP ProLiant BL680 G7 blade servers offer support for up to eight times the capacity of a single-node solution.(2) The blade servers feature industry-leading density; maximized input-output, memory and CPU capacity while utilizing DRAM Double Device Data Correction (DDDC); and HP Memory Quarantine to minimize the impact of unplanned downtime.



Speeding the path to SAP HANA



To assist clients in transitioning from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) Accelerator software environments to SAP HANA, HP is offering the following services:



— HP Advanced Information Services for SAP HANA provide detailed business and financial benefit analysis to support rapid decision making. Fast Start Services get clients up and running quickly; Design Services help clients build a comprehensive, in-memory analytical solution; and Implementation Services facilitate deployment.



— HP Technology Services offer deep expertise in SAP applications, including SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and SAP HANA, providing clients with a single point of contact for upgrading or migrating to SAP HANA.



— Asset Recovery Services and Migration Assistance Services from HP Financial Services – the company’s leasing and life cycle asset management subsidiary – to safely, easily and cost-effectively retire old, unneeded IT equipment.



“Clients need faster insight from their vast amounts of information,” said Ramanujam Komanduri, director, Business Critical Systems, HP India. “The HP AppSystem for SAP HANA, together with HP consulting experts, delivers simplicity, performance and faster time-to-value in a turnkey solution.”



HP Advanced Information Services for SAP HANA and HP Technology Services are available now worldwide. Availability of the new scale-out converged application solution is expected worldwide early next year.



Changing the way clients access and use data



For more than 20 years, HP and SAP have collaborated on solutions that enable clients to use technology to capitalize on their customers’ changing needs. HP has completed more than 77,000 installations worldwide of SAP applications, and HP Converged Infrastructure runs nearly half of all SAP installations in the world. HP is a global leader in providing services for SAP environments, supporting 1.7 million users in more than 50 countries.



HP enables organizations to become Instant-On Enterprises by helping them rethink how information is gathered, stored and used – harnessing its power and ensuring its integrity and protection, while also delivering it in the context of the enterprise.



More information is available at www.hp.com/go/sap/hana.



About HP



HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.



(1) “Comparing Management Costs for Midrange Storage Arrays from EMC, HP, and NetApp,” Edison Group, May 2011.



(2) Comparing HP’s DL980 single node 1 TB memory solution to the new BL680 scale-out solution supporting up to 8 TB of memory.

HP First to Deliver Comprehensive Cloud Certification Portfolio

HP today introduced the first comprehensive certification portfolio for IT professionals, encompassing the design and deployment of HP Cloud Solutions including business alignment, infrastructure, software and provisioning skills.




IT professionals need to extend their skills on both a technical and business level. Other industry certification programs that focus solely on specific IT segments, such as networking or storage, fall short of meeting IT’s current requirements to implement broad, multifaceted cloud or virtualization projects.



The expanded HP ExpertONE Converged Infrastructure certification portfolio enables IT professionals to gain hands-on experience and knowledge across the cloud technology spectrum. Further, the certifications develop business skills to align cloud projects with organizational goals, reducing operational risks that can result from oversights in architecture design and project execution.



With the unique combination of business and technical training, HP certifications ensure that organizations can tap the right experts for their IT projects, removing a critical barrier to enterprise innovation, and enabling better return on IT investments.



In addition, HP ExpertONE has extended its global delivery options to include an expanded learning partner channel, a new academic program with certification curriculum, and an HP-branded line of self-study guides. Customers, partners and IT professionals worldwide can now maximize investments to develop cloud and Converged Infrastructure skills through standard or customized training, delivered where they need it, in the format they choose.



“Customers need IT resources with the skills and experience to implement cloud computing for enterprise innovation,” said Michael Bazely, director, Channel Services, Technology Services, Asia Pacific and Japan, HP . “ExpertONE closes the IT skills gap with the first certifications to span the enterprise as well as technical issues, developing professionals with deep, broad expertise for designing and deploying cloud solutions.”



HP ExpertONE cloud certifications



HP ExpertONE cloud certifications enable IT staff to deliver and execute solid strategies and comprehensive designs to maximize technology investments. With HP-certified cloud experts on their staff, IT organizations can easily transform their legacy data centers for cloud computing to speed alignment with business goals.



The new certifications added to the HP ExpertONE Converged Infrastructure program focus on HP CloudSystem. HP CloudSystem is an integrated and open platform for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.



— HP Accredited Solutions Expert (ASE) Cloud Architect certification allows professionals to identify, position and tailor customer solutions based on HP CloudSystem.



— HP ASE Cloud Integrator certification enables professionals to build, install and integrate IT-focused cloud solutions based on HP Cloud Service Automation for Matrix and provisioning software for cloud services.



— HP Master ASE – Cloud Integrator certification enables professionals to build, install and integrate hybrid enterprise and service provider cloud solutions based on HP CloudSystem and HP Converged Infrastructure.



Global delivery through partners



HP also is enabling IT professionals to access standard and customized learning solutions through a network of global partners. The first HP ExpertONE Learning Solutions Partners are CompetenC Solutions, Global Knowledge, INDC, Next Step Learning and Training Partners – five of the industry’s largest independent commercial training organizations.



In addition, Connect, HP’s global business technology user community, is offering member benefit rates for HP training available through HP ExpertONE partners CompetenC Solutions and Next Step Learning.



Global delivery through academic institutions and self-study guides



HP Institute offers two- and four-year academic programs an HP ExpertONE certification curriculum that combines business acumen with a solid understanding of HP and multivendor technology solutions delivered in a familiar semester format.



HP Press program enables individuals to pursue self-directed learning to gain knowledge and expertise for certifications. HP ExpertONE certification courses will be available through traditional and online bookstores as well as the HP Press Marketplace.



More information about HP ExpertONE is available at http://www.hp.com/go/expertone.



About HP



HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

National Instruments Releases Wireless I/O for NI CompactRIO

National Instruments today announced a new wireless gateway and three new measurement nodes that extend the capabilities of the NI wireless sensor network (WSN) platform and illustrate the company’s commitment to wireless measurement technology. Through the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, engineers can use the new WSN gateway to easily integrate wired and wireless measurement and control systems and program WSN nodes to perform local control, data analysis and event-based alarming or notification. The new devices offer increased performance and expanded connectivity to thousands of sensors and instruments.




Engineers can insert the NI 9795 C Series gateway into any available slot in a CompactRIO chassis to complement existing measurement and control systems with wireless I/O. With a similar software experience, combining wired CompactRIO monitoring and control systems with distributed WSN measurements is easier than ever. The new C Series gateway is a key addition to the existing programmable and non-programmable WSN gateways offering customers different choices in terms of cost and flexibility to communicate with deployed NI WSN measurement nodes.



The new NI WSN-3214 strain/bridge completion node brings waveform acquisition capabilities to the WSN product line and delivers the ideal product for wireless structural health monitoring of bridges, buildings and equipment. The node features four analog channels that support quarter-, half- and full-bridge completion, as well as two digital I/O channels for event detection and programmatic control. With the NI LabVIEW WSN Module Pioneer, engineers can process and analyze strain data on the node to determine or predict the presence of fault conditions. They can then choose to transmit the entire waveform or only meaningful, analyzed data, which reduces the amount of wirelessly transmitted data, thereby prolonging the battery-operated lifetime of the WSN measurement nodes.



“With NI wireless sensor networks, we can easily monitor critical structures without running excessive lengths of cables,” said Professor Sharon L. Wood, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. “We use the LabVIEW-programmable WSN nodes to perform onboard analysis of strain data to achieve an in-depth understanding of the structural response.”



The new programmable NI WSN-3230 (one-port RS232) and NI WSN-3231 (one-port RS485) serial nodes can wirelessly control and interface with serial-based instruments, sensors and control boards. Using the LabVIEW WSN Module Pioneer, engineers can embed query and parse algorithms directly on the WSN nodes to create an autonomous, programmable interface to a variety of serial devices. These nodes also feature two digital I/O channels for event detection and programmatic control.



Engineers have long used wired systems for monitoring and control applications. As the adoption of wireless measurement technology continues, the ability to augment existing wired systems with wireless measurements is increasingly important. With these new devices, engineers can use a single software environment to create complete wired and wireless measurement and control systems, which are ideal for applications such as environmental monitoring, industrial measurements and control, energy monitoring and structural health monitoring.



Readers can visit www.ni.com/wsn/whatsnew to learn more about the new products and the NI WSN platform.

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with its largest customer representing approximately 4 percent of revenue in 2010 and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has approximately 6,100 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 12 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

SAP HANA Opens Up to Wider Industry and Partner Adoption

Since introducing SAP HANA™, the game-changing in-memory platform, on December 1, 2010, customer and partner demand for this breakthrough technology from SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has surged. Today, Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology & Innovation, announced that leading independent software vendors are adopting the open SAP HANA platform for their existing products and building completely new applications. The company also unveiled that SAP HANA is at the core of its platform roadmap, powering both renewed applications without disruption as well as unprecedented new applications. The announcement was made at the SAP Influencer Summit 2011, being held in Boston from December 13-14.



SAP also showcased the latest customers to experience the power of SAP HANA across industries, giving them instant access to massive amounts of information and the ability to make real-time decisions, in the process achieving breakthrough performance improvement by factors of thousands, even ten of thousands, compared to existing systems in their landscapes.


Attracting a Growing Ecosystem to Power Their Solutions With the Open SAP HANA Platform



“SAP HANA is bringing unbelievable performance improvements to leading customers around the world and becoming a foundation of the SAP platform for both renewed and new products,” said Dr. Hasso Plattner, chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. “And now ISVs and leading enterprise software companies are adopting the open SAP HANA platform to power their solutions and bring many innovations to their customers.”


UFIDA to Power Real-Time Enterprise Applications With SAP HANA



In addition to the upcoming SAP® Business One application, powered by SAP HANA, SAP plans to work with UFIDA to bring next generation real-time applications to market.


“UFIDA, as Asia Pacific’s largest local management software vendor believes that business analytics is an important aspect of real-time enterprise applications,” said Li You, executive president, UFIDA. “We pay close attention to SAP HANA technology development, and have an interest in further cooperation with SAP.”


TIBCO to Power Real-Time Collaboration And Analytics



TIBCO and SAP bring unique and powerful credentials to real-time business processing in the enterprise. Recently, SAP has been working with TIBCO on real-time collaboration and analytics solutions, tibbr and TIBCOSpotfire on the open SAP HANA platform. The two companies are leveraging the speed of SAP HANA to reduce the latency to process, collaborate and act on the information as it happens, and access even more data in shorter periods of time.


Tableau Software to Power Real-Time Visualization



In addition to tools from the SAP® BusinessObjects™ portfolio, SAP is working with Tableau Software to bring real-time visualization to business information. SAP HANA powers exploratory and investigative analysis with no pre-built queries and materialized views at accelerated speed for businesses to have a conversation with their data.



“SAP HANA provides amazing analytic speed for an organization's most critical data”, said Chris Stolte, chief development officer and co-founder, Tableau Software. “Tableau's new connection to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, powered by SAP HANA, and our partnership with SAP will make available flexible, rapid-fire visual analytics on top of the high performance in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA. Customers will gain unprecedented analytic value. The Tableau connector to SAP HANA was built very quickly, demonstrating the openness of the SAP solutions.”


SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI OnDemand Solution, Powered by SAP HANA, Brings Real-Time Analytics to On-Demand Software Applications such as Salesforce.com



Simba provides connectivity between Salesforce.com and the SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI OnDemand solution, powered by SAP HANA. With data in SAP HANA from Salesforce.com, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand can run interactive analysis on any question a business user may have with no tuning, delivering unmatched simplification and powerful real-time analytics in the cloud.




SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand provides Cars.com the analytics they need to show its 16,000-strong dealer network the value of the Cars.com services – ultimately demonstrating how Cars.com can drive additional visitors and sales to dealers.Cars.com creates packaged offers for its dealers and SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand is able to help the company to determine which packages were most effective for each dealer and provide additional value and insight during the sales cycle to maximize the effectiveness of Cars.com offers.







“This solution eliminates traditional integration tasks, and provides lower cost of implementation and ownership as customers do not need to invest in designing workarounds to improve reporting performance,” said Amyn Rajan, president and CEO, Simba Technologies. “As their data grows, they can continue to add more reporting scenarios flexibly without significant investment in IT.”







Jive Software to Power Next Generation Enterprise Social Collaboration Analytics



Next-generation enterprise social collaboration requires real-time social analysis that SAP HANA is uniquely positioned to achieve.







“Jive is currently running on SAP HANA as a native database in a production environment.” said Christopher Morace, senior vice president, Business Development, Jive Software. “Jive is testing this with SAP and hopes to officially support the SAP HANA platform for its customers as a part of its strategic roadmap long term. Jive firmly believes in the importance of in-memory processing as a technique for analytics on enterprise social data at scale and has plans to take full advantage of these technologies.”







Delivering Real-Time Business for Customers in all Industries: SAP HANA Continues to Grow in its Application Across Various Industries



“We see CIOs partnering with their business counterparts to rethink their business with SAP HANA,” said Sikka. “From real-time customer segmentation in telecom, to profitability analysis in animal nutrition to faster genome analysis in life sciences, we see SAP HANA eliminating layers of complexity and converting batch processes into real-time business.This provides a platform to build real-time applications and renew existing ones to help transform businesses.”







SAP also announced a competition for customers to achieve 100,000 times performance improvement in their business processes.







Telecom: T-Mobile Uncovers Customer Insights in Minutes



Leading wireless provider T-Mobile turned to SAP HANA when the company set out to implement an aggressive marketing initiative. The goal was to deliver highly targeted offers to more than 21 million customers via channels such as retail stores, customer care centers and eventually SMS. Such a campaign would require rapid analytical capability so that offers could be fine-tuned on the fly for improved customer adoption, profitability and retention.







“We recognized that being able to respond to the needs of our customers in real time would give us an incredible competitive advantage and improve the quality of the customer experience,” said Jeff Wiggin, vice president, Enterprise Information Technology, T-Mobile USA, Inc. “In order to deliver that kind of experience, we needed an underlying platform behind our sales and marketing efforts, allowing us to uncover customer insights and then act on those insights in minutes, not weeks. SAP HANA delivered exactly that.”







In just three months, T-Mobile shifted 2 billion customer records to an automated system built on top of SAP HANA and integrated into an existing platform of SAP BusinessObjects technology. This allowed the company to run the necessary reports with an average response time of just five seconds. Additionally, the wireless provider is now able to scan 24 months of customer records up dramatically from only three months previously, providing a much larger sample and a more accurate picture of how customers respond to incentives.







Animal Nutrition Leader Provimi Accelerates Profitability Analysis With a Fast Implementation



Provimi, a world leader in animal nutrition solutions, implemented SAP® CO-PA Accelerator software, powered by SAP HANA and deployed it to its business in exactly 16 days. Leaders in finance and other business users access over 10 million records from controlling – profitabilityaAnalysis reports in real time with the freedom to interact with the data and analyze across any dimension and any level of granularity. Provimi is on the path to transform to a “Sense and Respond” organization making quick and insightful decisions. Now Provimi can run a report on its cost and performance in less than three seconds, a performance increase of more than 1,500 times.







“Within the first week, we found EUR 500,000 in open orders delivering immediate business value,” said Rogier Jacobs, CIO of Provimi. “The speed of implementation and the fact that no upgrades were necessary proved the point that SAP CO-PA Accelerator on SAP HANA is really a non-disruptive offering and a no-brainer.”







Healthcare and Life Sciences: MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY (MKI) Powers Genome Sequencing and Data Analysis in Drug Discovery



Fast and cost-effective analysis of genome sequences is essential for life sciences companies to win the fight against cancer. Next-generation genetic sequencers need to rapidly compare cancer cells to normal cells across a number of attributes to make the research more efficient and fundamentally improve the odds of finding a cure. MKI worked with SAP to test SAP HANA, delivering results in most cases for analysis that was not possible before or took more than a month to render a single report. With SAP HANA, researchers accelerated their complex query results. In addition, SAP HANA is also being utilized for improving the drug discovery process. By rapidly analyzing a very large library of compounds with specific disease models, researchers can better predict the compound’s potential as a drug.







For additional information regarding SAP HANA and in-memory computing technology, visit the Experience SAP HANA page. Participate in the conversation on Twitter by using the #HANA hashtag and follow @SAPInMemory. For more information, visit the Technology and Platform newsroom.







About SAP



As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 176,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of Sybase) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

HP Helps CFO's Navigate Cloud

HP today announced a series of educational customer roundtable sessions that specifically cater to Chief Financial Officers and are designed to help with the increasing challenges they face in their evolving roles.


Business realities and market trends such as cloud computing are redefining the traditional roles of today’s C-Suite. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the CFO whose role needs to understand the financial underpinnings of new technology delivery models.

Research jointly conducted by CFO Research Services1 and HP Financial Services shows that CFOs understand the potential business benefits cloud offers, but remain unclear as to how to turn the potential of cloud into a reality.

“Cloud can be complex without a clear defined path for adoption,” said Dominic Calandra, Financial Controller at Frontline Systems. “As I work with my CIO and other key business leaders, understanding the influence it has on strategic financial decisions is becoming imperative. The industry has successfully articulated the technical benefits and risk associated with cloud, but little attention has been given to it from a financial perspective.”

The first of the CFO roundtable series will be led by Cathie Lesjak, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for HP, in Singapore, March 8th 2012. Lesjack, listed as one of the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune in 2010, brings extensive experience and insight to a topic that is increasingly at the forefront today’s business conversations. Supported by HP Financial Services, the company’s leasing and lifecycle asset management subsidiary, the roundtable sessions provide CFOs an opportunity to learn about cloud and other transformative technologies in the financial language they are accustomed to.

“Today’s finance professionals are deciding when and where to invest in technology,” said Irv Rothman, president and chief executive officer, HP Financial Services. “For CFOs dealing with multifaceted issues such as cloud computing that have a widespread impact on the enterprise, determining the right strategy can be complex at best. HP is committed to helping CFOs on every step of their decision journey.”

The roundtable session will provide CFOs with an opportunity to better understand the implications of cloud and how it can be leveraged to turn their business into an Instant On Enterprise. The CFO Roundtables are another step to HP Financial Services commitment to helping clients on their journey to the cloud which also includes HP’s program to provide up to US$2 billion in financing for cloud projects.


About HP Financial Services


Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Company – the leasing and life cycle asset management services subsidiary of HP, is the second-largest captive IT leasing company in the world and offers a full range of life cycle asset management and financial solutions for businesses. HP Financial Services develops financial solutions that can enhance clients’ ability to implement IT infrastructures that meet their needs today – and into the future. More information about HP Financial Services is available at www.hp.com/hpfinancialservices.


About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.



(1) CFO Publishing LLC: “The Expanding Role of the CFO”, November 2011

NI Cofounders Honored With Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will honor National Instruments cofounders, Dr. James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky, with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship at a reception tonight at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. According to the Woodrow Wilson Award Center, this award recognizes executives who, in their business practices and personal actions, show a deep concern for the common good beyond the bottom line.




Dr. James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky cofounded National Instruments in 1976, establishing themselves as visionary leaders and technology pioneers. Together, along with cofounder Bill Nowlin, they created NI out of a three-person garage office and have developed it into one of the world’s most progressive multinational companies.



Today, NI equips engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate innovation and discovery, helping its customers address the most pressing issues the world faces. The company’s corporate responsibility efforts advance this mission by providing access to technology for engineers who face extraordinary economic or other obstacles in achieving their goals and by partnering with education organizations to further the knowledge and love of engineering and science in the next generation.



Through its development of complete teaching solutions and collaboration with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), the LEGO® Group and universities worldwide, NI has engaged students with technology in a fun, hands-on learning environment, encouraging students to become future leaders in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Not only is NI hardware and software used as part of FIRST and LEGO robotics programs, hundreds of NI employees volunteer as mentors in classroom and after-school programs and competitions around the world.



National Instruments also is dedicated to delivering on sustainable business practices to ensure long-term company success and fostering a strong culture of innovation, discovery and fun for all employees. As NI president and CEO, Dr. Truchard has created a work environment that not only attracts top talent, but also creates quality jobs and a quality way of life for the members of the NI family. The company has recently been recognized as one of the top 25 multinational workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute and FORTUNE magazine. Truchard is internationally regarded for his entrepreneurial spirit, technological foresight and steadfast leadership of the company.



NI Business and Technology Fellow Jeff Kodosky has also been instrumental in the growth of NI, designing and implementing one of the company’s preeminent platforms, NI LabVIEW system design software. LabVIEW has been integral in creating smarter, life-altering technologies that improve human life and the health of the planet and is central to robotics programs designed to enhance engineering education. LabVIEW was recognized by Electronic Design magazine as one of the “Top 50 Milestones for the Industry.”



Readers can visit www.ni.com/citizenship for more information about NI Citizenship.

About the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the national, living memorial honoring President Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson Center provides a strictly nonpartisan space for the worlds of policymaking and scholarship to interact. By conducting relevant and timely research and promoting dialogue from all perspectives, it works to address the critical current and emerging challenges confronting the United States and the world. Created by an Act of Congress in 1968, The Wilson Center is a non-partisan institution headquartered in Washington, D.C. and supported by both public and private funds.

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with its largest customer representing approximately 4 percent of revenue in 2010 and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has approximately 6,100 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 12 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

Panasonic India spreads Eco Ideas with Eco Exhibition

Panasonic, a global leader in ideas for lifestyles that bring greater sustainability, today unveiled its first ever standalone power system, the Life Innovation Container in India which provides off-grid areas with electricity. Also, Panasonic kicked off its Eco Exhibition to showcase its wide range of eco products and ideas in four major cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. The initiative aims at spreading awareness about its commitment to becoming the No. 1 Green Innovation Company in the Electronics Industry by 2018 - the year of its 100th anniversary. The occasion was graced by Mr. Daizo Ito, President, Panasonic India along with Panasonic’s Eco Brand Ambassador Ms. Dia Mirza, and Mr. Manish Sharma, Director Sales & Marketing, Panasonic India.




The Life Innovation Container unveiled today is a demonstration of Panasonic’s innovative and comprehensive energy solutions to create, store and manage energy, packaged within a twenty foot container. Being easily transportable by sea, rail and land, the container is expected to provide electricity to power off-grid areas and support disaster-ridden areas as temporary infrastructure. Equipped with eighteen solar panels (including six panels on the roof), the container generates about 6.7 KWH of power a day, while 48 EV storage batteries and an inverter inside the container enables it to supply electricity for three to four days even in cloudy weather conditions. Panasonic shall donate the Life Innovation Container to an NGO in India.



Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Daizo Ito - President, Panasonic India said, “The Life Innovation Container is a demonstration of Panasonic’s innovative and comprehensive energy solutions in creating, storing and saving energy. These innovations reiterate our commitment towards becoming the No.1 Green Innovation Company in the electronics industry by 2018. We have also exhibited our range of eco products and solutions through an eco exhibition to showcase our various eco initiatives for people in India.”



In addition to this, Panasonic also kicked off its “Experience Panasonic” Eco Exhibition today in Ambience Mall, Gurgaon. This exhibition presents Panasonic’s advanced energy technologies to create, store and manage energy through showcasing its range of eco-friendly products and corporate eco commitments. Visitors are encouraged to consider various eco initiatives with hands-on events, quizzes and contests as well as participation in an online campaign to express their eco commitment to friends and family.



As part of company’s eco initiatives, Panasonic shall also sponsor Green Globe Awards 2011 which aim to encourage, acknowledge and award the Champions of the Earth for environmental leadership globally contributing towards protecting our environment.



Eco Brand Ambassador, Ms. Dia Mirza said, “It gives me immense pleasure to be a part of Panasonic’s eco initiatives focused towards building greener tomorrow through its various eco ideas and innovative technologies. Panasonic has always taken a lead in introducing technologies which provide people with eco-friendly products as well as solutions that make a contribution to environment. I am delighted to be associated with such brand and do my bit for energy conservation.”



Panasonic also recently concluded Eco Picture Diary Contest, where students from Indian schools participated by compiling creative pictures, illustrations and photographs in order to create awareness about the environment. The winner of this contest, Sakshi Satija from Father Agnel School- Noida was felicitated by Ms. Dia Mirza at the Eco Exhibition.



Mr. Manish Sharma – Director Sales & Marketing, Panasonic India stated, “Introducing the concept of Life Innovation Container is yet another step by Panasonic to initiate energy conservation ideas in India and support the sustainable development initiatives in the country. This power system container is an emission free eco-friendly comprehensive solution which can be utilized in non-electrified sectors for audio-visual education to improve access to information in rural areas or small businesses.” He further added, “We have always been extremely conscious about the environment and we have believed that being harmonious with nature builds trust and helps us to create greener ideas for people’s lives”



Panasonic Corporate Vision



Panasonic has a vision to become the No. 1 Green Innovation Company in the electronics industry by 2018 (fiscal 2019), when Panasonic will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Panasonic aspires for global excellence as a Green Innovation Company and encompasses two goals: Green Life Innovation to realize green lifestyles to enrich people’s lives and Green Business Innovation to bring forth innovation in our business styles.



Panasonic’s green commitment and the 100th anniversary vision have greatly contributed to the company to be listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), one of the highly-recognized global indexes for socially responsible investment (SRI), for six years in a row. Panasonic has also been named as 2011 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. The Panasonic ‘eco ideas’ annual report at (http://panasonic.net/eco/) shares data on the group’s initiatives in this direction.





About Panasonic Corporation



Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronic products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company has a consolidated turnover of USD 105 billion panning across nine countries. The company's shares are listed on the Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and New York (NYSE: PC) stock exchanges. For more information on the company and the Panasonic brand, visit the company's website at http://panasonic.net.



About Panasonic India



Panasonic makes available in India its wide range of consumer electronics and home appliances like LCD & Plasma TVs, DVD players, home theatre systems, cameras, camcorders, car audio systems, air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, automatic cookers, vacuum cleaners and the like. The Company has a workforce of about 11,000 in India and has registered sales of Rs 3,200 crore in FY 2010, and estimated to do a turnover of Rs 5,500 crore in FY 2011. For more information on the company and the Panasonic brand in India, please visit http://panasonic.co.in/.

Nueclear Healthcare Ltd (NHL) and GE Healthcare join hands in the fight against cancer

Nueclear Healthcare Ltd (NHL), a division of Thyrocare Group and GE Healthcare today announced a strategic partnership to establish a network of 120 molecular imaging centres to address the rapid growth of cancer incidence in India. These molecular imaging centres equipped with 120 advanced GE Discovery PET/CT imaging systems and 12 GE PET Trace Medical Cyclotrons that will produce glucose (FDG) to aid the early detection. GE Healthcare & NHL expects to establish the whole network of 120 centres by 2015 in 3 phases.

According to the American Cancer Society in a 2010 report, the total economic impact of premature death and disability from cancer worldwide was $895 billion in 2008. This figure represents 1.5 percent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) and does not include direct medical costs, which would further increase economic impact. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in India, with about 2.5 million cancer patients, 1 million added every year with a chance of rising five-fold by 2025 prompting Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) urging the Government of India to make cancer a notifiable disease. Cancer can be treated and controlled if detected early – in Stage I or Stage II. However, over 70% of cancer is detected late at a very late stage in India, when treatment is less effective and costly. While low awareness is one significant reason, unavailability of early cancer detection facilities and availability of experts is the other significant reason.



“We're taking the fight to cancer, and reverse the trend of late detection of this dreaded disease when treatment is not effective to stage II or stage I when the treatment is most effective. We pioneered advanced medical technology like molecular imaging that helps doctors diagnose early and treat cancer on a molecular level.” Said Terri Bresenham, President & CEO, GE Healthcare India.



“We are at work to create a healthier India. This strategic partnership with Thyrocare Technologies is a game changer and will help us increase the access to high quality cancer detection at smaller towns and villages by leaps and bounds” she added



When it comes to accurate cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring, patients in India would benefit from this advanced imaging technology called PET/CT. However, the high expenditure involved in setting up molecular imaging centres and availability of experts have slowed down the spread of this life saving technology drastically and is mostly limited to metropolitan areas. However, cancer is equally prevalent in small towns and rural areas. People ignore early diagnosis/detection and sometimes treatment because it’s too expensive for them to travel to metropolitan clinics that have the needed technology and capabilities. People often agree for diagnosis when the cancer is in stage III or IV when treatment is ineffective and the disease is irreversible.



Most people know about cancer, but don’t understand how preventable many cancers are — and how the choices they make in their day can impact their incidence rate or potential survival rate. The cost of diagnosis and treatment has prevented them from opting for early diagnosis using advanced molecular imaging technologies. The answer to cancer is in creating a network of affordable early detection and treatment centres”. Said Dr A Velumani, Founder & Managing Director of Nueclear Healthcare Ltd (NHL) Mumbai.



Our vision is to provide early cancer detection and treatment facilities in every small town in India, keeping in tradition with the innovative service facilities Thyrocare has been offering to households over the past 10 years. We are pleased to join hands with GE Healthcare provide this solid answer to cancer” he added.


A one-stop-facility for cancer detection & treatment:


Molecular imaging is a combination of fields such as biology, medicine, pharmaceutics, physics, chemistry and engineering that allows physicians to detect, treat and monitor disease at the body’s cellular levels. Molecular imaging and scanning capabilities make multi-medical therapy possible. The most exciting result is the ability to diagnose health problems, such as cancer/ tumors, coronary artery disease, and neurological diseases in patients with no clear symptoms. Physicians can treat different patients according to specific situations, slow the progression of the disease, and evaluate the effects of treatment.


The GE Discovery PET/CT systems will help doctors determine whether a suspicious growth is cancerous or benign in a single exam. Previously, doctors had to put patients through two separate scans to get similar information – with limited success. Medical research published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates integrated PET/CT exams provide extra information beyond that obtained with visually correlated PET and CT in 41% of cases because of its proven pinpoint accuracy in locating disease.


The proposed oncology centers will feature GE PET-Trace cyclotrons and cGMP laboratory that produces high yields of radioisotope biomarkers. These are essential for accurate PET diagnosis.


Cancer diagnosis and treatment is at a major tipping point, and we can no longer afford to act independently. We must think and act systemically and in concert with partners across the private sector, government, nonprofits and academia to knock down barriers and stretch our thinking,” said Balamurugan NR, General Manager – Molecular Imaging, GE Healthcare India.



Despite being a leading cause of death around the world, 30% of cancers can potentially be prevented by avoiding risk factors, such as tobacco use and obesity, and others can be successfully treated and possibly cured by earlier detection and improvement of disease management.



GE Healthcare has earmarked $ 1 Billion of its total R&D budget through 2020 to the development of oncology solutions. This funding will enable the company to expand its advanced cancer diagnostic & molecular imaging capabilities, as well as technolgoies used in cancer research and for the manufacture of bio-pharmaceuticals. In India, GE is developing a low cost PET/CT system that will bring down the cost of advanced PET/CT systems by 40% and will enable access of this accurate early detection technology affordable to more people.







ABOUT CANCER:



Cancer is the leading killer disease in the world with 7.1 Million deaths (13% of total deaths) reported in 2004 and is projected to continue rising with an estimated 12 million deaths in 2030. WHO also estimates that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. About 72% of all cancer deaths in 2007 occurred in low and middle income countries. 30% of cancers are treatable if detected early. WHO Cancer Fact Sheet : http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/index.html







Burden of Cancer in India



It is estimated that there are approximately 2.5 million cases of cancer in India at any given time. Nearly 1 million new cases are being diagnosed every the year leading to a five fold increase by 2025. The tobacco related cancers account for almost a third of cancers diagnosed in head and neck, lung and oesophagus in the Indian population. The two most common cancers of women viz. cancer of the cervix and breast further account for half the cancer burden in Indian women. The heavy cancer toll is due to the fact that 70% present in the clinically advanced stages T3-T4 with catastrophic economic impact. http://mohfw.nic.in/cancer.html







ABOUT NUECLEAR Healthcare Ltd (NHL):



Nueclear Healthcare Ltd (NHL) is the brainchild of Dr A Velumani, Founder of Thyrocare Group. Thyrocare group is the industry leader, trend setter and innovators in Indian Diagnostic industry. Thyrocare, is a single laboratory for a billion population. It is a network of more than 20,000 Service Centers across the country, with ISO 9001-2000 certification, NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories) and College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditations. Thyrocare’s network is vast enough to process 5,00,000 investigations per day in its current facilities in Mumbai.



Dr A Velumani having established economy of scales in laboratory testing believes a similar volume based approach in cancer diagnostics using nuclear medicine will help tackle the huge cancer incidence in India. NHL’s vision is to set up 20 Medical Cyclotron facilities across India to bring down the cost burden of isotope used for cancer diagnosis. The hub and spoke model with strategically installed medical cyclotrons will support 120 PET/CT imaging centres with each cyclotron capable of servicing 12 imaging centres.



www.thyrocare.com; www.nueclear.com



ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE:



GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.

Colgate launches ‘Oral Health Month’ with a focus on ‘ZERO CAVITIES’

Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited (“Colgate”), the market leader in oral care and the Indian Dental Association (IDA), rolled out its annual national awareness program - ‘Oral Health Month’ (OHM), earlier this week. Spread over two months - December 2011 and January 2012, during OHM, Colgate and IDA will focus on creating awareness to fight cavities and instill the importance of good oral hygiene through dental check-ups, across the country. This year, a unique ‘Adopt a School’ initiative has been kicked off, where school children as ‘Little Dentists’ will own and spread the message of good oral care habits in community schools. Raveena Tandon - a National Award winning actor from the Indian film industry, who visited one such program, at Sacred Heart High School, Andheri, to extend her support, urged mothers to come forward and play the all important role in the dental care of their children.




During the ‘Adopt a School’ program, 10 students from MKES High School, Malad, played ‘Little Dentists’ and visited over 250 children of Primary School (1st-4th standard) from Sacred Heart High School. The ‘Little Dentists’ spoke to these younger children about their own oral care regime and the importance of good oral habits to prevent cavities. They introduced five important care tips for dental care recommended by Colgate. The ‘Little Dentists’ encouraged the students of Sacred Heart High School to avail of the free cavity check-ups organized at their premise as part of Colgate’s national awareness program - ‘Oral Health Month’. Furthermore, all participating school children pledged to invite their friends and family members to sign up for a free cavity check-up and practice good oral hygiene.



Raveena Tandon graced the occasion and urged mothers to take charge of their children’s dental hygiene regime. She guided the children to the Colgate mobile dental van and along with the ‘Little Dentists’, facilitated the free cavity check-ups. Speaking on the occasion, Raveena Tandon said, “Colgate needs to be commended for an initiative of this scale. Given dramatic changes in lifestyle and food, cavities are a growing concern for today’s generation. It is important to address cavities and their formation in childhood itself to ensure that they do not increase. All mothers should insist on their children brushing twice a day to maintain a healthy mouth. It is important to start the practice yourself for your children to learn and follow. Mothers have a significant role to play in their children following the right oral care routine.”



The ‘Adopt a School’ program is a new initiative in Colgate’s 2011 Oral Health Month Program, to increase awareness about the importance of maintaining good oral habits. As part of this ongoing school program, Little Dentists will reach out to children in community primary schools, spreading the message of good oral care hygiene and pledge for ‘Zero Cavities’.



Announcing the eighth edition of Oral Health Month, Rekha Rao, Vice President Marketing, Colgate India said, “At, Colgate, it is our continuous effort to spread awareness around good oral care. Focused initiatives like the ‘Adopt a School’ during our national oral care awareness program - ‘Oral Health Month’, are an important way to reach children and mothers. With one in every two children in India, suffering from cavities, we are committed to making oral care available to all across the country with a special focus on ‘Zero Cavities’. This year, in association with IDA we will create oral care awareness in approximately 10,000 schools reaching out to 20 lakh school children across India.”



Dr. Ashok Dhoble, Hon. Secretary General, Indian Dental Association said, “We are delighted to partner with Colgate in this national awareness program that has grown phenomenally in the past seven years. In terms of its scale and outreach, ‘Oral Health Month’ is the biggest oral hygiene awareness program held every year in India. This year we are looking at over 25,000 dentists to support and spread basic oral health education and awareness among the masses, especially in the interior rural areas. OHM, this year, aims at ‘Zero Cavities.’”



About the Indian Dental Association: The Indian Dental Association (IDA), formed in 1946, is the largest recognized body of dental professionals in India. It has helped shape the National Oral Health Policy. Working towards the promotion, encouragement and advancement of dental and allied sciences the IDA has a national presence with 30 state branches, 1 defence branch and more that 250 local branches spread across India. It has a combined strength of over 50,000 dentists and student members registered with it.



All along, IDA has been in the forefront of oral health campaigns and, towards its goal of attaining optimum oral health in the country, it has initiated quite a few novel activities like SPOT (Spot and Prevent Oral Cancer Trauma) Centres for early detection and treatment of oral cancer, TII (Tobacco Intervention Initiative) Centres for tobacco cessation and behavioural counselling under the banner of its Oral Cancer Foundation, Child Dental Centre for caries treatment and Educational and Training Centres for continuing education for professional advancement of dentists. For details of IDA's projects and programmes, visit IDA Website: www.ida.org.in











About Colgate-Palmolive (India)



About Colgate-Palmolive (India): Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited is India’s leading provider of scientifically proven oral care products with multiple benefits at various price points. The range includes toothpastes, toothpowder, toothbrushes and mouthwashes under the “Colgate” brand, as well as a specialized range of dental therapies under the banner of Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals. These have become an essential part of daily oral hygiene and therapeutic oral care in India. The Company also provides a range of personal care products under the ‘Palmolive’ brand name. Colgate has been ranked as India’s #1 Most Trusted Brand across all categories for four consecutive years from 2003 to 2007 and in 2011 by Brand Equity’s Most Trusted Brand Survey. It is the only brand to be in the top three for the last 10 years from 2001-2010. Prior to this, Colgate was also rated as the #1 brand by the A&M – MODE Annual Survey for India’s Top Brands for eight out of nine years during the period 1992 to 2001.



For more information about Colgate’s business and products, visit the Company’s website on the internet at http://www.colgate.co.in/

Autonomy and HP Deliver Archiving, eDiscovery and Search Appliances

Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced the availability of three new HP Autonomy Appliances designed to provide organizations with simplified, reliable, and turn-key solutions for specific applications.


Powered by the Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), the new appliances provide organizations with powerful, flexible, and cost-effective solutions for archiving, eDiscovery, and enterprise search. These finely-tuned appliances are optimized architectures based on Autonomy IDOL and HP Converged Infrastructure, including HP ProLiant servers and HP Storage, giving customers industry-leading reliability, performance, and scalability.



The new HP Autonomy Appliances are ideal for today’s business environment. Organizations seek fast and flexible applications that can process growing volumes of human information and structured data. In the case of eDiscovery, businesses often need to respond very quickly to legal and regulatory challenges. The eDiscovery Appliance enables organizations to get up and running immediately, giving legal teams a significant advantage as they prepare their case. In enterprise search there is a growing demand at the low-end of the market for turn-key solutions that enable fast and easy implementations.



The HP Autonomy Appliances are purpose-built solutions that allow organizations to tap in to the power of Autonomy IDOL, Autonomy’s private cloud, and HP Converged Infrastructure. Autonomy IDOL automatically indexes all relevant information, forming an understanding of all conceptually related content and topics within both unstructured and structured information. This unique capability proves invaluable in high-stakes information management applications, such as eDiscovery, in which an organization must quickly identify all relevant content related to a particular topic.



Additionally, the appliances leverage Autonomy’s private cloud, Autonomy Digital Safe, which is the world’s largest at over 31 Petabytes. Autonomy Digital Safe is based on a unique split-cell architecture and grid-based design that is massively scalable, maintaining performance under any load.



“Today’s HP Autonomy Appliances announcement is a great example of the tremendous benefits we can deliver to customers as a result of the combination of HP and Autonomy,” said Sanjay Aurora, vice president, Enterprise Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan, Autonomy, an HP company. “Businesses of all sizes can benefit from Autonomy’s unique ability to understand and process 100 percent of an organization’s data, and by tightly integrating with HP hardware, we will deliver performance and cost-efficiencies that are second to none.”



Key capabilities in the Autonomy Appliances



— Archiving Appliance – automatically ingests, deduplicates, indexes and extracts metadata from all data types, including audio, video, social media, email, web content and SharePoint files.



— eDiscovery Appliance – provides end-to-end eDiscovery capabilities, including identification, preservation, collection, processing, analysis, review and production. The appliance also includes a dashboard that provides visibility into each phase of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, and analysis of critical data points, including case status, cost, data volume and litigation trends.



— Enterprise Search Appliance – provides visibility into the entire spectrum of enterprise data, from unstructured to structured data. The Enterprise Search Appliance includes automatic categorization, tagging, linking, retrieval and profiling of all forms of data regardless of repository, enabling the delivery of large volumes of pertinent information.



— HP Converged Infrastructure – enables organizations to accelerate time to business value by turning rigid technology silos into adaptive pools of assets that can be shared by many applications and managed as a service. By building this appliance on an integrated infrastructure of servers, storage, networking and security all managed through a common management platform, clients can speed application delivery in a predictable, repeatable manner for any workload.



HP Information Optimization is a core component of an Instant-On Enterprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.



Availability



The HP Autonomy Appliances optimized on HP Converged Infrastructure with the simplicity of a single SKU will be available in Q1 CY12.







About Autonomy



Autonomy Corporation, an HP Company, is a global leader in software that processes human information, or unstructured data, including social media, email, video, audio, text, web pages and more, enabling companies to leverage their data assets.



About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.