Telcos to get more value from storage infrastructure

What is Hitachi Data Systems' Unified Compute Platform all about?

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform is a part of Hitachi Data Systems' commitment to deliver reliable, robust data center solutions for enterprise data centers which includes private and public cloud deployments. The platform will include storage, server and network with automated management across all components as well as applications.

What are the technology advancements in virtualization?

Virtualization and tiered storage solutions together enable enterprises to strategically align their business applications with storage infrastructure. Storage virtualization, as implemented by Hitachi, allows non-disruptive data migrations, storage partitioning to isolate various workloads, and the attachment of other storage arrays (including non-Hitachi) to participate in this virtualized environment.

What is Hitachi Data Systems' competitive edge?

The core strength of Hitachi Data Systems lies in virtualization, thin provisioning, and cloud ready solutions. Our strategy is to provide a common virtualized platform for all data, structured and unstructured, with the ability to manage heterogenous environments. We are the only company that offers this for all open systems platforms and all data types.

What are the new business opportunities in the Indian telecom market?

Telecom service providers are witnessing data capacity demand growth as high as 50%. Telcos are looking at strategy to get more value from their storage infrastructure. Low cost, cloud based solutions will help telcos provide storage services with a utility based, 'pay as you grow' model, driving revenue growth, improving customer loyalty, and generating a higher RoI by leveraging the same infrastructure to build and sell other cloud based services.

What are some of the latest innovations happening at Hitachi Data Systems?

Hitachi has introduced a unique platform of both hardware and software, that delivers unprecedented levels of scalability and performance for data centers. CIOs require a data center designed for flexibility and efficiency, which can be addressed by the competitive management software like new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and the new Hitachi Command Suite (HCS). We are taking an application and server centric view instead of being storage centric. Hitachi Data Systems' new platform integrates server and storage virtualization resources to enable data center transformation without any major disruption to IT resources.

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Nivio Appoints Barry Bhangoo as VP Engineering

Nivio has inducted Barry Bhangoo as VP, engineering. Bhangoo will provide technical leadership across all major components of Nivio's services, and drive product development across the company's global operations. He has more than 24 years of experience delivering complex systems and software. Bhangoo is said to have designed, developed, and implemented several enterprise software solutions targeted at the startups. Prior to joining Nivio, he was the founder CEO at Oyster Software based in the US.

Time Names Zuckerberg 'Person of the Year'

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the social networking site Facebook has been named Time magazine's 'Person of the Year 2010'. Time defines the 'Person of the Year' as the person who, for better or worse, influences the events of the year the most. According to Time, Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at the Harvard University in 2004 when he started a web service called facebook.com from his dorm. Now he is one of the world's youngest billionaires, and his privately held company is projected to have revenues of $2 bn in 2010.

IBM's BPO Unit Gets New Delivery Head

IBM has appointed Pari Sadasivan as the new delivery leader of the rebranded IBM Global Process Services for India. Sadasivan will replace Pavan Vaish, one of the co-founders and the chief executive officer of IBM Daksh. Vaish will leave IBM by the end of February 2011. IBM is also planning to open a new facility in Noida.

Micro Focus Appoints Akshay Aggarwal as Country GM

Micro Focus has appointed Akshay Aggarwal as the country general manager for its India business. Based in Delhi, and reporting directly to David Taylor, president Asia Pacific and Japan, Aggarwal will be responsible to drive business growth for the entire Micro Focus business portfolio across India and the Saarc region. He comes with an industry experience of over 14 years in the IT industry, working in various geographies including India and the US. Prior to Micro Focus, Akshay spent 2 years at Oracle India where he was the director for sales consulting/presales for the Fusion Middleware line of business.

ITA Allows Blocking of Information on Internet: Pilot

Recently during the winter session of the parliament, Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology, issued a written reply to a question. He stated that section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 provides power to issue directions for blocking public access of information through any computer resource. Any blocking of information carried out by the Internet service providers may not be completely effective.

MTN Appoints Sifiso Dabengwa as CEO

Africa's largest mobile operator MTN has appointed Sifiso Dabengwa as its chief executive officer and president. He will replace Phuthuma Nhleko. Prior to joining MTN, Dabengwa was an executive director at the state power utility Eskom. He has held senior management positions at MTN, and managed the company's 2 biggest units, Nigeria, and South Africa.

Security Brigade CEO Wins Top 5 Award

India's student entrepreneur Vineet Kumar, founder and CEO of Security Brigade and chairman of National Anti-Hacking Group stands one among the Top 5 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), 2010 held at Kansas City, USA. Twenty-one-year-old Kumar currently is a student at Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok. He was chosen from a batch of 2,000 student entrepreneurs of 44 countries. Earlier this year, he was picked as the Indian Champion by GSEA.

Kapil Sibal to Address Concerns Over 3G Video Calls Soon

The government has promised to address security concerns stemming around 3G video calls. Kapil Sibal has hinted at releasing more 2G airwaves to enhance the quality of telephone services. The government has already asked companies like Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices to stop 3G services, if they are not able to convince the government on issues related to security. If a ban is imposed, it will severely hit their business.

TheGreenEcostore.com Launches Online Store

TheGreenEcostore.com has launched an online store for eco-friendly products. The store boasts to offer a range of eco-friendly products including green gadgets and appliances, solar lights, recycled stationery items, reusable gift bags and shopping bags, recycled paper and stationery, eco-friendly shower heads, eco-friendly toys, BPA free water bottles and lunch boxes, soy candles, eco-friendly wallpaper and eco-stickers, solar powered backpacks, bamboo kitchen ware, eco-friendly household cleaners and organic pet products. TheGreenEcostore.com accepts online payments through PayPal and 2CheckOut.

Fujitsu Consulting Awarded CMMI Level 3 Certification

Fujitsu Consulting India claims to have consolidated its position as one of the most efficient IT consulting service providers in the country after having certified within Capability Maturity Model Integration Services Level 3. Fujitsu Consulting India is the third company in India to achieve this appraisal. The CMMI model is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes and measures their maturity on a scale of 1 to 5. CMMI SVC Level 3 means that an organization possesses a set of defined and standardized processes established, and is subject to a degree of improvement over time.

Wipro Joins the Greenpeace Cool IT Leaderboard

Wipro has said to become the first Indian company to join Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard rankings, that assesses companies on their commitments and actions on energy and climate solutions. It was featured in the top 10 list that includes many global IT majors. Greenpeace released version 4 of the Cool IT Leaderboard rankings at Cancun.

KLG Brags an Innovative Energy Management Platform

KLG Systel has launched the CG3.10 series energy management system platform under its brand Connectgaia. Powered by the Intel Atom processor, the Connectgaia platform boasts to herald a new era of energy management solutions that allow efficient management of complex power consuming devices, thereby providing financial and environmental benefits. The Connectgaia platform is an energy management system that allows the power consumers to measure, visualize, analyze, and control remote systems such as water pumps in the field.

Stellar Launches Stellar Speed-Up Mac Version1.0

Stellar Information Systems has announced the launch of Stellar Speed-Up Mac version1.0 software for Mac OS. Speed-Up Mac is a tool that boasts to efficiently get rid of all the unwanted files and applications that eat up space on Mac drive, and thereby optimizing the Macintosh hard drive performance. The software works not only as a cleanser, but as an uninstaller too. The application is said to wipe out all unnecessary files from the main hard drive and the volumes of secondary drives. The application price starts at just `1,700.

Google India Recruiting 70 Plus Staff

Google has started hiring for over 70 vacant positions in India to meet its growing business needs. The search giant has posted about 72 job openings in various departments. The company plans to hire people for advertising, sales, engineering operations, finance, HR, and software engineering. It will also add workforce to the departments that deal in legal and public policy, marketing and communications, product management, administrative and enterprise sections in India. It will hire people for Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurgaon, and Mumbai offices.

Intex to Launch `5,500 Android Phone

Intex is all set to launch an Android phone for `5,500. According to the company, it would be an Android 2.2 phone to be launched in the first week of February. The phone is expected to have a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen, Wi-Fi and GPS, and will compete with the Micromax A60.

Cellular Tower Study Debunks Radiation Myth

The first of its kind study, specific to the Indian environment, carried out by the premier engineering institutes revealed that 'levels of radiation' from cellular base stations in Delhi fall hundreds of times below international safety standards. The experts while carrying out measurements on the electromagnetic radiation at over 180 locations in New Delhi claims to have found that in all circumstances, the 'Cumulative Measurements' were well below the compliance limit set by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), adopted by the government for the telecom sector in India.

Buytheprice.com Raises First Round of Funding

Hyderabad based portal for deals on consumer electronics and appliances, Buytheprice.com, has raised its first round of funding from Rajan Anandan, Rehan Yar Khan, Sunil Kalra, and several other investors. The company says that the funds will be utilized in creating technology differentiators, marketing, human capital, and setting up new offices. Launched in March 2010, Buytheprice.com is the first portal to introduce e-commerce 2.0, where product price comes down with multiple buyers buying the same merchandise.

Now a Uninor's Express Store Comes Next Door

Uninor has launched 9 Uninor franchise express outlets across small towns and district headquarters of Andhra Pradesh. These branded stores will serve as a one-stop-service point for existing and prospective Uninor customers across towns with population of 50,000 to 1.5 lakh. The 9 stores have been launched in Kamareddy, Armor, Kazipet, Guntakal, Yemiganur, Hindupur, Sircilla, Sidhipet, and Jagtiyal districts of the state.

Airtel Launches Direct Terrestrial Link Between India, China

Private telecom major Bharti Airtel, in association with China Telecom, has launched a new direct underground terrestrial link between India and China, which promises phone users in both countries seamless network connectivity. It's a 40 Gbps underground terrestrial network that boasts to address the challenges of growing international traffic between the 2 countries. The terrestrial network will offer the shortest alternate route between India and China, alongside the existing sub-sea routes.

IDC Rates Trend Micro #1 in Worldwide Server Security

Trend Micro is leading the worldwide market for corporate endpoint server security with an estimated 22.9% market share, according to a recently published report by IDC. The 'Worldwide Endpoint Security 2010-2014 Forecast' November 2010, market analysis report identifies server security as a new sub-segment of the endpoint security market. Revenue was up 13.2% in the third quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research firm.

Pesky Calls May Disturb Till February

Mobile subscribers may not get rid of the unsolicited marketing calls and SMSes. According to the reports circulating in the industry, telecom regulator Trai is likely to postpone the January deadline to bring an end to unsolicited calls to February 1. Trai had released guidelines on December 1, 2010 on unsolicited telemarketing calls and SMSes. The delay is said to be due to security concerns. The telecom operators need more time to implement the guidelines.