CGI India puts its best shoe forward! - CGI conducts Walk Around the World, an Annual Global Health and Wellness initiative

CGI Group Inc. (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, today organized its fourth edition of the Annual Walk Around the World (www.cgiwalkaroundtheworld.com) initiative focused on global health and well-being of its members (employees).


Walk Around the World is a part of Global Health and Wellness initiative that brings thousands of members from around the world participating in a short walk before or after working hours, or during their lunch break. Members all across CGI locations in the world walk for a distance of 4 kilometers at their respective locations with the total distance adding up to symbolize ‘Walking Around the World’.


“Our members are the heart and soul of our company and they drive our CSR efforts. In turn, we at CGI care about our members and invest in them with workplace programs to support their wellness, promote healthy lifestyles and create positive work environments where each member can perform to his or her full potential,” says Chandramouli S, Senior Vice President and BU Head for CGI India. “Walk Around the World initiative gives us an opportunity to spend some time with your colleagues and recharge together”, Chandramouli further adds.


“Nothing is more important to the success of our company than the health and well-being of each one of our members,” says Pradipta Banerjee, Vice President, Human Resources. “CGI with 31,000 members across 100+ offices has conducted several health events. Few of the India based recent events include Eye Screening and Eye Pledge, Blood Donation Camp, Dental Check-ups, Low-Calorie Recipe Competition, Ergonomics etc to name a few – led and executed by our members. Investing in our members and our communities has always been a core CGI value. We know from experience that serving locally, benefits all of us globally,” adds Pradipta.


This year, CGI India saw a whopping 2,750 members participate in the walk across its Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore offices. With the idea to promote wellness as the cornerstone of a healthy workplace for employees, this event aims at a wellness mission. CGI puts an effort to establish a work environment that promotes healthy lifestyles and decrease the risk of disease. Extending the thought of corporate social responsibility, Walk Around the World also had a handicraft stall through an NGO, selling their merchandise and all proceeds to charity. The event was an effort to engage people to take on their own health challenge with the participation in the event as a beginning.


About CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies employ approximately 31,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide from offices and centres of excellence in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. As at June 30, 2011, CGI's annualized revenue was approximately C$4.2 billion and its order backlog was approximately C$12.7 billion. CGI shares are listed on the NYSE (GIB) and the TSX (GIB.A) and are included in both the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Website: http://www.cgi.com/.

Terry Fox Run for cancer in Bangalore on September 18

The Terry Fox Run, a charity event aimed at fighting cancer, will be held in Bangalore on Sunday, September 18, 2011. The 4 km run will begin at 9 am from Shree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium on Cubbon Road. Flagging off the event will be Kannada Cine Star, Ramesh Aravind and Canadian Consul General, Shaun Wedick. Padmashree awardee Pankaj Advani and Tennis Champion Rohan Boppana will also be present at the venue. Spot registration will commence at 8 am. The Terry Fox Run is held in over 3000 locations around the world.


Participants in the fun run can use any non-motorized form of mobility - walking, running, cycling, skating, etc. The event aims to get people from all walks of life to rally around the twin causes of cancer prevention and awareness. The funds from this year’s run will be donated to TATA MEMORIAL CENTRE to be utilized for cancer research. Through a number of local fundraisers, the Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than USD 500 million over the years.


According to Anu Monga, Committee Chairperson, “All funds collected during the previous runs were utilized to fund local projects in Bangalore. The last few Terry Fox runs have seen huge participation of over 5000 participants and have raised over 25 lakhs. We would like to see more participants out this year, helping to raise more money for the cause. All participants will get a certificate irrespective of the distance they cover.”



Nitin Tolani, the youngster who has been instrumental in bringing the run back to Bangalore after six years, is equally inspiring. Nitin was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma at the end of 2008 when he was just 19. Description: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/images/pixel.gifWith his die-hard spirit, he fought to push the cancer into remission. His experience enabled him to connect with Terry Fox’s own ordeal on a very personal level and he was determined to carry the latter’s legacy forward.



“My aim behind organising this run is to spread awareness about rare cancers as there is a lack of knowledge regarding them” said Nitin Tolani. “I would like to thank all the committee members and partners who have volunteered for this event and request all Bangaloreans to come and participate in this run” he added.



The annual event is named after Terry Fox, a young Canadian who was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 18 and had to have his right leg amputated above the knee. While in the hospital, Terry was so moved by the suffering of cancer patients that he decided to run across Canada to help raise funds for cancer research.



He commenced his 'Marathon of Hope' and his fierce determination resulted in his running an average of 42 km a day for 143 days. In September 1980, Terry was forced to end his marathon as the cancer had now spread to his lungs. He died in June 1981 at the age of 22.



Online registration is available for the event. For more details log on to:



Website:http://www.terryfoxrunbangalore.com//

McAfee Positioned In The Leader's Quadrant In Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant For Network Intrusion Prevention

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), today announced that leading research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leaders quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances,” as published on December 6, 2010.[1] This is 5th time in a row that McAfee has been acknowledged as a leader in Gartner’s Network Intrusion Prevention magic quadrant.


According to Gartner, vendors listed in the leader’s quadrant “demonstrate balanced progress and effort in all execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry. To remain leaders, vendors must demonstrate a track record of delivering successfully in enterprise IPS deployments and in winning competitive assessments. Leaders produce products that provide high signature quality and low latency, are innovating with or ahead of customer challenges (such as using endpoint intelligence to make more-efficient detections) and have a range of models. Leaders continually win selections and are consistently visible on enterprise shortlists. However, a leading vendor is not a default choice for every buyer, and clients should not assume that they must buy only from vendors in the Leaders quadrant.”


Factors contributing to a company’s ability to execute include products and services, overall viability, sales and marketing execution, and customer experience. Gartner evaluates a company’s completeness of vision by considering its market understanding, sales and marketing strategy, offering or product strategy, business model, and innovation.


“Customers and partners turn to the McAfee® Network IPS solutions because of our comprehensive, integrated and proven approach to network security,” said Rees Johnson, senior vice president and general manager for network security at McAfee. “Our position in the leader’s quadrant of this highly-regarded network IPS assessment confirms our relentless commitment to Network IPS and Network Security. Our approach offers both superior protection and decreased maintenance costs.”


Since pioneering the IPS industry with the world’s first purpose-built intrusion detection and prevention appliance, the McAfee® Network Security Platform has continued to raise the bar for next-generation IPS technology. Earlier this quarter, McAfee was recognized in the NSS Labs IPS comparative vendor study, and had the highest accuracy and throughput of any product tested to date. “We believe the NSS comparative study, combined with Gartner’s independent evaluation of our Network IPS solutions, demonstrates our undisputed leadership in Network IPS and Network Security,” said Johnson

McAfee, Inc. Releases Report on Web2.0 Technology Adoption at Workplace

McAfee, Inc. world’s largest dedicated security company released a new report titled “Web 2.0: A Complex Balancing Act” in collaboration with Purdue University’s CERIAS research group. The report highlights the use, benefits and perceived risks of Web 2.0 technologies’ adoption at the Indian workplace and presents the corresponding security concerns that organizations face today. It also states that the most significant consequences from inappropriate social media usage are loss of reputation, brand, or client confidence.

Online Survey

The survey was conducted amongst more than 1,000 organizational decision-makers in 17 countries and shows high adoption of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. More than 75 percent of organizations reported using Web 2.0 solutions for many business functions. Web 2.0 adoption is lowest in the United States and the Commonwealth countries of the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. While adoption rates vary across countries, India along with Brazil and Spain, leads the adoption of Web 2.0 technology for business activities.


“Indian businesses are finding huge opportunities in the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, yet concerns about security and employee productivity hinder decisions to embrace it completely,” said Ambarish Deshpande, Director - Channel and Alliances & Mid-market, South Asia. “As Web 2.0 technologies gain popularity, organizations are faced with a choice of allowing them free access, blocking them, or embracing them while managing the tools in a secure way.”

Key Report Findings:

· Web 2.0 adoption rates are high, reaching 90 percent or above in Brazil, Spain and India. India is ranked second amongst seventeen counties polled in this report: Primary reason for adopting Web 2.0: to create new revenue streams, 78% of respondents from India attributed market drivers such as customers and partners as the primary reason for Web 2.0 adoption


· Indian firms ranked in the middle regarding use of social media policies despite ranking first amongst the countries that view Web 2.0 usage as threatening: 11% of organizations surveyed in India did not have a social media policy



· New revenue streams emerged as the highest driver of Web 2.0 adoption. Sixty-eight percent of organizations that use Web 2.0 report that expanded use of Web 2.0 technologies could create new revenue streams for their organizations.


· Security is the second leading concern for Web 2.0 technologies: One third of the respondents name security risks as their primary concern with Web 2.0 and the reason Web 2.0 technologies are not used more widely in business.


· Indian employers are more likely to trust their employees with Web 2.0 than countries such as UK, Australia , France and Spain


· Six out of 10 organizations have had at least one type of security incident and countries such as India, with the highest adoption rates were more likely to have multiple incidents and report larger losses: 5% of mid-sized organizations reported that they had suffered a data loss that had cost them more than $25,000. Of these 25% were from China, 14% from France and 11% from India

· Organizations in India and Brazil, which have seen high losses from security incidents, are most likely to budget for Web 2.0-specific security solutions: Three quarters of Indian organizations and more than half of Brazilian organizations do so


Executives and industry experts, who contributed to the research, agreed that successful organizational use of Web 2.0 is a complex balancing act. Enterprises must analyze business challenges and opportunities while mitigating the risks, and ensure that staff training and robust technologies are in place to avoid cyber attacks.

For a full copy of the McAfee Web 2.0 report, please visit:

http://newsroom.mcafee.com/images/10039/Web2report.pdf

MCAFEE, INC. UNVEILS VISION FOR NEXT GENERATION SECURITY SOLUTIONS

Neo e-Watch Media

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), today unveiled its “Security Connected” initiative, enabling partners, developers and customers to apply a more intelligent, effective and sustainable approach to securing digital information. As part of its Security Connected initiative, McAfee is announcing the first two of four new connected security platforms, McAfee Endpoint Security 9 and McAfee Security Management 5



With threats sharply on the rise in both quantity and complexity, an uncertain economic environment, and an insatiable desire to deploy new, more competitive computing models, IT organizations can no longer sustain the traditional model of tacking on new security products for every new threat. By connecting mobile with endpoint security, network security, content security, and the cloud, McAfee is coordinating security defenses to enable businesses to be more agile. McAfee offers organizations correlated and comprehensive intelligence which in turn dramatically reduces risk, enhances their security posture, helps meet compliance regulations, and drives up operational efficiencies.

Security too often is being driven from different silos within businesses. From mobile devices, PCs, and tablets, to mission-critical networks, servers, hosted applications, cloud services, virtual machines, and databases - bring dozens or hundreds of different security technologies and disparate management paradigms with them. More often than not, there is no correlation or integration making security very expensive, inflexible and ineffective to manage and maintain. Today, businesses require more than just security technologies, they need integrated intelligent security that provides a global view of threats, vulnerabilities, and the countermeasures to address them. Businesses are moving from securing components to understanding and measuring the security of a business as a whole.



“The IT landscape is rapidly changing,” said Chris Christiansen, vice president, security products and services at IDC. “Virtualization of servers and endpoints, shifting of data and services to the cloud, and the consumerization of IT is creating new holes in previously protected systems and networks. This is a fundamental shift from even just a few years ago when the bifurcation points between business and personal, outside and inside, and us and them was more visible.”







Enabling Businesses Through Security



By taking a connected approach, McAfee is moving security from a perceived business inhibitor to a true business enabler. Applying “Security Connected” principles and vision, IT professionals can more confidently say “yes” to new applications and approaches.







· McAfee Security Connected components include:



· Proactive security through built-in integration and intelligence



· Global Threat Intelligence: Unmatched threat research and content capability to deliver predictive threat analysis, reputational scoring, cloud delivery and intelligence in depth to power connected security technologies.



· Broad portfolio of countermeasures: Integrated security for PCs, Mac, Smartphone’s, tablets, storage, embedded, silicon, network perimeter, datacenter, web gateways, mail security, content, and so on with a choice of on premise, SaaS, or hybrid delivery models.



· Intelligent Security Management Platform: Integrating disparate solutions and extending beyond a simple reporting dashboard to a rational, informed, scalable and situationally aware security management interface



· Predictive security solutions that can proactively find and protect against vulnerabilities, target and predict threats based on policies and events



· Partner Ecosystem: Delivering services through an open ecosystem of partners to ensure customers can take full advantage of the latest technology from both McAfee and our extensive list of ecosystem partners.



· McAfee Connected: program is aimed at helping partners worldwide ensure product and service compatibility with McAfee solutions. The program’s testing process ensures that the third-party hardware, software and services that customers choose perform well, and are compatible with, McAfee technology.


“Disjointed point products simply don’t work for today’s businesses,” said George Kurtz, chief technology officer, McAfee, Inc. “Security is now mission-critical and strategic to the business. It needs to be connected and correlated, with shared intelligence, and centrally managed. Products still need to be best-of-breed, without trading off quality, and IT needs to be empowered to say ‘yes’ to data and applications, at any time, on any device, from any location.”







McAfee believes that the changes in business today will require the move from simply securing components, to understanding and measuring security more holistically. Security needs have morphed and now require a more connected approach. To address this requirement, McAfee has introduced two new platform offerings to advance its “Security Connected” vision and initiative: McAfee Endpoint Security 9 and McAfee Security Management 5.







McAfee Endpoint Security 9



Provides protection anywhere, anytime on any device including desktops, servers, virtual machines, mobile devices and embedded systems. With its new integrated Endpoint Security platform, McAfee now delivers “Security Connected” for the full range of traditional and emerging endpoints to help organizations keep up with the increasingly complex IT environment







McAfee Security Management 5



A new comprehensive centralized management platform that delivers proactive risk management, integration with business operations, and coordinated security defenses. It provides a full risk profile across multiple security layers, vendors, products and solutions resulting in a dramatically enhanced security posture, lower operational costs and a “Security Connected” approach to understanding the threat landscape and managing business risk.



To learn more about McAfee Security Connected, visit www.mcafee.com/securityconnected.

McAfee and Riverbed Expand Partnership To Provide Integrated Security And WAN Optimization In One Appliance

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) and Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced an expansion of their partnership to now deliver Web 2.0 security capabilities on the Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP). This partnership underscores the two companies’ commitment to delivering best-of-breed, comprehensive security coupled with wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions for distributed enterprises. The McAfee® Web Gateway solution delivers comprehensive security for all Web 2.0 traffic, and coupled with the award-winning Riverbed Steelhead® appliance, enables a superior level of proactive Web 2.0 protection from headquarters to branch offices.


Advt. Turnkey solutions for Web 2.0 applications visit us www.neoewatchmedia.com


The RSP is a virtualized, extensible data services platform integrated with the Steelhead appliance hardware that allows customers to deploy multiple best-of-breed edge services that formerly required dedicated servers. Customers can deploy virtualized applications, such as McAfee Web Gateway Security, directly on the RSP to further minimize the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office, thereby reducing operational overhead. The new joint solution complements the existing McAfee® Firewall Enterprise software, which is currently available on the RSP. By leveraging the best-of-breed solutions from McAfee and Riverbed in a single appliance, enterprises are able to deliver accelerated data and application access to users while protecting critical information and infrastructure from security threats.


The consumerization of IT has leveraged the popularity of Web 2.0 applications in the enterprise, and social networking applications have increasingly become a primary component of mainstream marketing and sales initiatives. Social media applications, such as Facebook and Twitter, provide a great service to marketing efforts, but are also a new source of targeted attacks by cybercriminals looking to infiltrate corporate systems. Preventing intellectual property leaks via social media is also a major concern among organizations, especially with the lack of visibility and control over multiple remote offices. The joining of forces between the leading WAN optimization provider and the world’s largest dedicated security company addresses the need for advanced Web 2.0 security, by providing customers with intent analysis, URL filtering, McAfee anti-virus, anti-malware protection and WAN optimization to protect Web 2.0 experiences throughout the organization, regardless of location.


“Organizations realize that Web 2.0 is important, but often security measures do not match the growth rate at which employees are using these applications,” said David Scholtz, senior vice president of worldwide strategic alliances at McAfee. “To prevent malicious Web attacks and data leakage, organizations need a new level of control and by adding McAfee Web Gateway to the Riverbed and McAfee Enterprise Firewall solution, customers now have the most comprehensive security solution in a WAN optimization platform available.”


“Riverbed enables its customers to consolidate edge services at the branch office, helping organizations to reduce the IT footprint in the branch, simplify IT management and reduce costs while still delivering LAN-like application performance to distributed employees,” said Venugopal Pai, vice president of global alliances at Riverbed. “By running McAfee Web Gateway security on the RSP, enterprises experience these benefits along with the ability to proactively protect themselves against the threats that attack systems via social media and other Web 2.0 applications.”



By scanning a Web page’s active content, McAfee Web Gateway security emulates and understands the behavior and uses predictive modeling to proactively protect against zero-day and targeted attacks as they occur. The McAfee and Riverbed partnership enables Web experiences throughout the organization to be more:

• Productive-- The solution provides granular control over how and where Web applications are used



• Secure-- Scans outbound requests and posts along with all inbound traffic



• Efficient-- Improves application performance and reduces bandwidth congestion

Availability

The solution is globally available today.

Planning holiday in US, beware of cybercrooks

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of a relatively new U.S. requirement for travelers from these countries, who register online for travel authorization, and are spreading confusion about the process. Cybercrooks know that the only way to register for travel authorization is online, through Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), and they have been busy building phony websites designed to take your information and money.



When McAfee recently did a simple search for “ESTA,” “ESTA form,” or “ESTA online registration” a variety of dangerous websites showed up in search results. What’s more, incidents of these fake visa sites have escalated over the last two weeks following the government’s announcement that it is enacting a $14 fee for travel authorization, beginning September 8, 2010. Now scammers are asking for credit card numbers and financial information as well as personal details on these fake sites.



Due to this visitors to these fake sites face a series of dangers, including loss of money, identity theft, an infected computer, and even burglary since the scammers know what dates visitors will be away from home. Victims may also not be able to travel to the U.S. as planned since they did not get official travel authorization.


We would like to share more information with you on these threats and how consumers can protect themselves from becoming a victim. We would be glad to put you in touch with a McAfee expert on the same.

Advt. To build Travel portal with dynamic features visit www.neoewatchmedia.com

McAfee Comment on Patch Tuesday & XP SP2 End of Support

Microsoft on Tuesday released four Security Bulletins to address five security vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take full control over a vulnerable Windows computer.



Among the fixes is a patch for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center , a feature designed to provide assistance to users. This vulnerability was irresponsible disclosed to the public by Google employee Tavis Ormandy prior to Microsoft providing a fix. Cybercriminals have already taken advantage of the vulnerability and exploited it to attack Windows users. (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-042.mspx)


"McAfee Labs has seen malware in the wild that exploits this o-day vulnerability," said Dave Marcus, research and communications director for McAfee Labs. "Security researchers need to work closely with software vendors to ensure vulnerabilities are patched in the most expedient method and timeline possible, without putting users at risk."

In addition to the patches, Microsoft today officially ended support for Windows XP Service Pack 2. This means that computers running Windows XP with SP2 will no longer get security updates from Microsoft.

"Many enterprises and consumer users still deploy and depend heavily on applications that run on this Windows build. It is unclear how much risk and expense the end of support will cause users worldwide but we expect cybercriminals to capitalize on this opportunity," said Marcus. "Users of Windows XP SP2 should consider migration options and robust security solutions to mitigate risk."


McAfee recommends that users install Microsoft's patches as soon as possible. Home users should use Windows Automatic Updates. Business users need to have a risk management strategy in place to prioritize the patches.


McAfee provides enterprises with endpoint and network based security technology as well as risk and compliance tools to shield against cyber attacks and allow organizations to patch on their own time

McAfee Inc.Positioned as A Leader for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention

McAfee, Inc., today announced that research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leaders quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention,” as published on June 2, 2010.

According to Gartner, vendors who appear in the leader’s quadrant “have demonstrated good understanding of client needs and offer comprehensive capabilities in all three functional areas — network, discovery and endpoint — directly or through well-established partnerships and tight integration. They offer aggressive road maps, and they will need to execute on those road maps, fully incorporate enhanced features currently in development and address evolving market needs to remain in the Leaders quadrant.”

“Our customers and their business-sensitive data need monitoring and protection as the threat landscape continues to evolve. McAfee delivers cost-effective, intuitive data discovery and features that not only protect the business, but enable it,” said Marc Olesen, senior vice president & general manager of Content Security at McAfee. “Cost and complexity have always been, and will continue to be, a major concern for organizations. McAfee is uniquely positioned to continue driving data loss protection technology into and across corporate security infrastructure, including agents, web, mail, and cloud offerings to simultaneously drive simplicity while increasing capability and scale beyond the enterprise.”


McAfee® Data Loss Prevention delivers the highest levels of protection for all types of sensitive data, while greatly reducing the cost and complexity of safeguarding business critical information. McAfee data protection is delivered through our low-maintenance appliance and the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform, for streamlined deployment, management, updates and reports.

Download the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention here http://www.mcafee.com/us/campaigns/gartner_dlp/

MCAFEE, INC. PROVIDES INCREASED PROTECTION AGAINST MALWARE AND BOTNETS

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced the release of McAfee® Web Gateway version 7 in response to the overwhelming increase in Web-borne malware and botnets. As the reliance on Web 2.0 applications increases, so does the risk to organizations that need flexible access to “Web 2.0 ready” security. The new platform enables secure end-user access to today’s Web 2.0 applications. By extending its lead in proactive malware scanning and further integrating with McAfee Labs’ cloud-based global threat intelligence, McAfee provides unmatched protection for enterprises and service providers with its scalable platform and virtual appliance offerings.



The use of targeted attacks leveraging Web-borne malware are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent. Most of these attacks are “zero day” and are used to capture resources for ever-expanding botnets or to steal business information including personal or customer information, records, financial transactions and intellectual property. McAfee Web Gateway platform enables employee access to authorized Web 2.0 applications, while greatly reducing risk by combining local and cloud-based protection, powered by McAfee Labs.


“Today’s most prevalent threat to enterprises is from zero-day, Web-borne malware,” said Dan Ryan, executive vice president and general manager of the Network Security business unit at McAfee. “McAfee provides protection at every stage of an attack, as demonstrated during Operation Aurora, which targeted Google and dozens of other companies. Reputation management is an essential part of that protection.”


McAfee Web Gateway takes a bi-directional hybrid security approach that includes a new intent-based anti-malware scanning engine, along with several cloud-based technologies. Integration with real-time McAfee® Artemis™ technology protects organizations against viruses, provides mobile filtering for remote users and expands Web reputation capabilities. Through Web reputation and Global Threat Intelligence, the platform blocks access to infected websites, stops malicious content from downloading and prevents back-channel communication of infected machines.


“Our experience with McAfee Web Gateway version 7 is extremely positive. It allows for additional flexibility and granular control over the polices that we create,” said Tristan Hoar, Technical Analyst for Service Birmingham, a provider of internet service for more than 185,000 users. “This will ultimately allow us to achieve enhanced performance from the existing infrastructure as we can tune our polices to ensure the filtering decision is made in fewer steps.”


With this release, McAfee offers the following enhancements:

· Advanced Security: New, patent-pending approach to behavior analysis performs real-time content inspection to unveil any embedded code, buffer overflows or exploits. Cloud-based technologies offer mobile filtering for remote users, and expanded Web reputation capabilities including geo-location and URL categorization.



· Enhanced Performance and Scalability: McAfee Web Gateway version 7 is highly scalable with robust performance on existing appliances. Additional deployment capabilities include support for VMware and transparent proxy options for added flexibility and control.

· Full content security: Companies can realize increased security and cost savings from integration of McAfee® Web and Email Gateways with McAfee® Network Data Loss Prevention and the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform. These integrations help organizations achieve a significant return on their investments while leveraging the benefits of Web 2.0 enabled applications.

Availability: McAfee Web Gateway version 7 is available today and licensed per user. Exact pricing depends on customer requirements and selected deployment method which include appliances or VMware

Corel® launches the new edition of award-winning graphics suite for graphics professionals in India

C or el C or p or ation today introduced C or elDRAW® Graphics Suite X5, the newest edition of the company’s award-winning package of professional graphics applications in the Indian market. With m or e than fifty new and enhanced features, C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 includes maj or enhancements to asset management, col or management, web graphics, a wide variety of learning resources and m or e content than ever bef or e. The trial and electronic download versions are available today and the product will start shipping bef or e the end of March in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian P or tuguese and Dutch.
F or m or e than 20 years, C or elDRAW® has helped PC users w or ldwide create graphics with impact. Known f or its versatility and power, C or elDRAW Graphics Suite has won hundreds of international industry awards by consistently addressing the most pressing needs of its loyal community of users. The new version of the suite continues in this tradition by focusing on innovations that matter the most to users in a wide variety of industries including sign making, graphic design, fashion/apparel design, wide f or mat printing, marketing, print production and small business.


“Throughout the development cycle f or C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5, our team w or ked hand-in-hand with our user community to ensure we were delivering the new features and enhancements that would make a meaningful difference to them. We wanted to truly understand what they loved about the product and what they needed to make their experience that much better,” said Gérard Métrailler , Seni or Direct or of Product Management, Graphics, f or C or el at the India launch. “We believe we’ve delivered a product that enables our current users to discover new possibilities with the suite while allowing new users to get up and running quickly and create projects with confidence.”

C or el C or p or ation is not only focusing on product development, but is also taking initiatives to educate and prepare qualified professionals f or careers in industries such as like Printing, Publishing, Advertising, Desktop Publishing, Multimedia, Design, Animation and Web design. They have already launched this program in India and along with their distribut or s Aditya Infotech Ltd., have tied up with leading training institutes in the country to setup C or el Auth or ised Training Centers. “Our endeav or to develop trained professionals f or various industries has been successful in filling up skill gaps in the market. It has received a huge response in India and is expanding at a considerable rate.” added Gérard Métrailler .



New Suite Provides Users with M or e Flexibility, M or e Versatility

In developing the newest version of C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5, the C or el team focused on five areas that were ranked as key pri or ities by our users:

C or el® CONNECT Simplifies W or kflow; Gives Quick Access to Even M or e Content



C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 makes it easy f or users to connect to their content. The new C or el CONNECT is a brand new application that synchronizes with both C or elDRAW and C or el® PHOTO-PAINT™ to provide quick access to content on a computer, netw or k, or disc. In addition, industry-leading supp or t f or m or e than 100 commonly used file f or mats ensures users can easily collab or ate and exchange files with clients and colleagues. C or elDRAW Graphics Suite also continues its tradition of providing one of the broadest selections of fonts, clip-art, and other collateral available, including:

· 10,000 clipart



· 1,000 high-resolution, royalty-free photos



· 1,000 fonts



· 2,000 vehicle templates



· 350 design templates

New & Enhanced Tools Enable Even M or e Precision and Experimentation

With C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5, the introduction of significant new and enhanced features help users create with confidence. These features include a B-Spline tool, updated artistic media, scalable arrowheads, enhanced Connect or and Dimension tools, and the new Segment Dimension tool. The Mesh Fill tool has also been significantly improved to help users design multi-col or ed filled objects with m or e fluid col or transitions. New web graphics tools enable users to w or k in bitmap mode directly within C or elDRAW viewing detailed pixels and the ability to preview their w or k bef or e publishing online.




Reinvented Col or Management System Ensures Accuracy and Accelerates Project Completion



C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 represents a complete change in approach to col or management, assuring users accurate col or representation. The new Document (C or elDRAW) and Image (C or el PHOTO-PAINT) dockers allow users to save project-specific col or s and to reuse col or s from a previous project. In addition, eyedroppers have been added to several col or dialog boxes, col or palettes, and col or pickers, providing m or e convenient col or sampling opp or tunities.



Easy Output to Multiple F or mats



With industry-leading file f or mat compatibility, C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 offers the flexibility today’s designers need f or outputting their w or k. The same design may be needed f or Web banners, printed ads or brochures, and t-shirts, billboards or digital signs. In addition, the inclusion of SwiSH miniMax helps users create Web animations f or Web production m or e easily than ever bef or e.



Full-Col or Guidebook and Video Tut or ials Provide Insights and Inspiration to Jump Start Projects It’s easier than ever to get started with C or elDRAW Graphics Suite, regardless of your experience level. The new full col or , hard-cover guidebook provides techniques and tips f or users of all skill levels and offers a unique opp or tunity to learn from professional designers who use the suite in industries including fashion and jewelry design, book illustration, vehicle wrapping, and product packaging. The suite also comes with m or e than two hours of video tut or ials.

“C or elDRAW Graphics Suite is a vital part of my day-to-day w or kflow. With the numerous enhancements introduced in C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5, I now have an even m or e powerful tool to help me complete projects accurately and efficiently,” said Michal Polák , owner of FRANCISDRAKE design studio. “It’s clear that the C or el development team really listened to its users and w or ked with them to create the best C or elDRAW Graphics Suite yet.”


What is Included in C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5



C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 includes C or elDRAW, an intuitive vect or -illustration and page-layout application; C or el PHOTO-PAINT, a professional image-editing application; C or el® PowerTRACE®, a utility to quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vect or graphics, and C or el® CAPTURE™, a one-click screen capture utility.



New to the suite is C or el CONNECT, a full-screen browser that lets users search the suite’s digital content and/ or their computer or local netw or k to quickly find the perfect complement f or a design. C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 also includes many supp or ting applications, a wide variety of content, and in-depth training resources.

F or m or e inf or mation about C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 and to see a detailed list of new and enhanced features, please visit www.corel.com/coreldraw. To learn m or e about how C or elDRAW Graphics Suite is used w or ldwide, please visit the product’s community site at http://coreldraw.com.

Pricing and Availability

C or elDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is immediately available as an electronic download through www.corel.com. The boxed version of the suite is available through C or el distribut or in India : Aditya Infotech (http://www.adityagroup.com/) at INR 25,800 (excluding taxes) f or the Indian market

MSI launches AMD 890GXM-G65 - Redefines full-functional mainboards

Apart from enhancing perf or mance and saving energy, releasing full CPU potential by unlocking additional c or es has become the hot topic of all power users nowadays. The 890GXM-G65 mainboard with integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics c or e, recently announced by internationally renowned mainboard and graphics card maker MSI, redefines the first-choice of full-functional mainboard. This feature rich board includes supp or t f or DirectX 10.1, ATI CrossFire X f or installing two high-perf or mance ATI Radeon HD graphics cards, USB3.0 and native SATA 6Gb/s and the MSI-exclusive OC Genie. Combining the MSI-exclusive OC Genie and MSI Unlock CPU C or e technologies, consumers can easily unlock the hidden CPU c or es from the BIOS option to enhance the overall CPU perf or mance and C/P value, as well as boost the CPU perf or mance by 148%.



Unlock CPU C or e & OC GenieUnlock CPU C or e & OC Genie




Unlock CPU C or e technology, exclusive from MSI, can unlock the hidden c or es in the CPU by making a few selections from the BIOS. By unlocking a dual c or e CPU into a quad c or e CPU, users can boost the CPU perf or mance over 104%. When w or king with the OC Genie automatic overclocking technology from MSI, the OC Genie can smartly adjust the CPU clock to boost the CPU perf or mance up to 148%. The combination of Unlock CPU C or e and OC Genie doubles its perf or mance. The 890GXM-G65 supp or ts the fastest 140W AMD CPUs allowing consumers to enjoy the perf or mance of multi-c or e CPUs with the budget of dual-c or e CPUs.
Hybrid CrossFire & SideP or t Mem or y

MSI’s 890GXM-G65 supp or ts ATI CrossFireX f or operating two ATI graphic cards in parallel at the same time f or ultimate, scalable perf or mance. Hybrid Crossfire supp or t means that users may also add an additional ATI Radeon HD2400/3400 graphics card to w or k with the integrated graphics c or e to handle the computing demand of m or e applications and games with this double graphics solution. The 890GXM-G65 is also equipped with 1 gigabit (128MB) DDR3 1333MHz SideP or t mem or y to accelerate the 3D display perf or mance of the integrated graphics c or e and reduce system mem or y consumption with this independent IGP mem or y f or handling other programs – meaning there is no need f or an extra budget to enjoy stunning perf or mance.


All AMD800 series mainboards from MSI supp or ts the Unlock CPU technology and the new-generation AMD Phenom II X6 CPUs through BIOS updates f or consumers to enjoy the ultimate computing perf or mance of AMD 6-c or e CPUs at their fingertips.

IIT Bombay and Applied Materials to Collaborate on Renewable Energy

IIT Bombay, India’s highest rated university and a leader in education and research, and Applied Materials, Inc., the world’s largest supplier of equipment to the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries, announced today they will broaden the scope of their ongoing research collaboration to develop new energy-related initiatives.




As part of this collaboration, Applied Materials will donate three process chambers to IIT Bombay for depositing thin films on solar cells using physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies. Applied Materials will also work with IIT Bombay research teams to set up a wet chemistry laboratory for developing new materials. These materials will be used for a variety of renewable energy-focused applications, including the fabrication of next-generation solar cells.



As a symbolic representation of its commitment to clean technology and a sustainable future, Applied Materials will also donate a solar panel system to IIT Bombay. The panels will be connected to energy-efficient LEDs that will light the University’s main avenue.



Professor Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay said, “Research in sustainable energy solutions represents the future. This initiative to develop state-of-the-art solar cells is a small, yet important, step forward towards the vision of building a solar India. Interactions with global Industry leaders like Applied Materials have been extremely fruitful for the students and faculty and it is heartening to see the collaboration between IIT Bombay and Applied Materials expanded even further. These new donations to the Institute will enhance our existing research to important and socially relevant high-technology areas.”



IIT Bombay was specifically mentioned in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission as a location for the National Centre for Photovoltaic Research & Education. This honor recognizes IIT Bombay’s contributions over the years in establishing collaborative relationships and initiatives with industry. This new alliance with Applied Materials extends the Institute’s mission of setting up this National Centre.



Elaborating on this occasion, Dr. Randhir Thakur, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Applied’s Silicon Systems Business Group, said, “Applied Materials is dedicated to working with leading universities and institutions such as IIT Bombay to develop the innovations that will improve people’s lives. We are excited to expand our work with IIT Bombay to the area of solar energy and to serve as a catalyst in advancing India’s renewable energy capabilities.”



The Applied Materials Nanomanufacturing Laboratory was created at IIT Bombay in 2007 with Applied’s donation of several semiconductor processing systems. The success of this research collaboration led Applied Materials to broaden the scope of its engagement with IIT Bombay with a new investment focusing on renewable energy.



Solar cells are used to convert sunlight directly into electricity. Arrays of these cells hold significant promise for a country like India, which is blessed with many sunny days. India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) launched by the Prime Minister in January 2010 emphasizes the need for renewable solar energy for India, and targets a 20,000MW of solar power generation by the year 2022.