Cisco Launched new products

11th Dec 09 BANGALORE: Cisco introduced 61 new products in all categories of its collaboration portfolio, for customer related and inter-office communications. While retaining security, these products make optimum use of online social communities like Facebook for business information.

Company VP (Marketing) Kara Wilson told reporters here that “using the power of social interactive communities in a business environment is a planned strategy. India has the third largest Facebook users in the world. From the communications angle, we found 55 per cent of effective messages are visual.” By enabling business executives always having to work from an office environment or only through meetings in other cities, the Cisco products could further cut down the cost of travel while facilitating communications through its new products, she said. Explaining the capabilities of some of its new products, Minhal Zia, National Sales Manager, India and SAARC said, “The Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform is an enterprise social software portal that features a corporate directory with social network capabilities.”

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Global Standard for Programme Management Comes to India

10th December'09 New Delhi, The leading standard for Programme Management from the UK, Managing Successful Programmes (MSPTM), was recently launched in India. QAI Global Institute, (www.qaiglobalinstitute.com), the training and development division of the global consulting and workforce development firm QAI, became the leading organization in India to offer the certification program. This certification now provides an avenue for organizations/individuals to move from Project Management to Programme Management.

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Symantec and Wipro Infotech sign pact to provide new services

8th Dec'09 BANGALORE: Wipro Ltd on Tuesday signed a new partnership with Symantec Corporation to provide data back up and loss prevention, in addition to recovery infrastructure consultancyservices. Announcing the pact here Symantec India Channels and Alliances Director Ajay Verma told reporters, "information is the most valuable asset of any organisation and ensuring it does not fall into wrong hands is critical to its reputation and business. The partnership will offer customers a better insight into data risk".

Symantec's loss prevention solution spans data at the endpoint, in storage and network. It will provide customers the confidence that their information is secure, he said.

Wipro's expertise along with Symantec Veritas Backup Reporter's capability to identify and quantify exposures before they impact backup operations will help customers achieve greater efficiency, security and cost reduction, Wipro Infotech Vice President and Business Head Infrastructure Technology Solutions Division Vikas Srivastava said.

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Radware opens new R&D center in India

8th Dec'09 New Delhi, Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced the formal opening of a new research and development center at Bangalore in India, making it one of the Company's three major worldwide R & D Centers.

"India is one of our key high growth engines and the opening of our new R&D center marks a strategic milestone in our growth strategy," said Mr. Ilan Kinreich, COO Radware. "We have been hiring more professional staff who will be collaborating with our other R&D centers to better provide fast emerging and diverse solutions suited to customer needs. The move was based on India's greater synergy with the Asian region amid the economic reforms in India, as well as prompted by the presence of several major Indian customers that do business with Radware."

With more than 100 staff in India, Radware now has offices located in 5 cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. The Company has been present in India since 2002 and has become a leading provider of application delivery solutions to various industries such as government, banks, financial institutions, manufacturing companies and other large enterprise customers in the country.

"Even from a sales perspective, India is one of the great success stories in the entire Asia Pacific region," Nikhil Taneja, Country Manager Radware, India & SAARC said. "We are very pleased to be increasing the number of employees and investments in the local market. It is a very positive sign for Radware as well as the application delivery market in general. We are seeing increased demand for Radware solutions in India as carriers, private companies and individuals start to take advantage of the strength of application delivery."

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Palo Alto Networks appoints Virtual Netcomm as its Indian Distributor

1st Dec'09 Palo Alto Networks has appointed Virtual NetComm as its distributor for the Indian market. said PK Lim, Vice President, Sales, Asia Regions, Palo Alto Networks.

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