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Intex boosts Made in India initiative
Intex to start with m a n u f a c t u r i n g in India has quickly scaled its domestic manufacturing operations of mobile devices since 2015 and is looking to expand the same, which is corroborated by the company’ s plans to open another bigger manufacturing unit in Greater Noida, spreading over eight hectares with a mobile handset manufacturing capacity of 35 million units per annum. Three out of five manufacturing facilities by Intex are located in Noida which commenced their operations in 2015, while the other two are located in Baddi( HP) and Jammu( J & K) with operations dating back to 2010 and 2004, respectively.
Narendra Bansal, CMD, Intex Technologies, said,“ The push given to domestic manufacturing through Make in India campaign will prove to be the growth engine for the Indian economy and will be the key to achieving the objective of unleashing India’ s manufacturing prowess. We support this and we are associated with manufacturing in India since 2001."
Dell EMC Announcements pave the way for Digital Transformation
Dell EMC has announced a wave of products, solutions and consumption models designed to help customers transform IT on their way to becoming a digital business.
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SonicWall becomes independent
Francisco Partners and Elliott Management have completed the acquisition of Dell Software Group and the spinout of SonicWall as an independent company.
“ SonicWall is a trusted partner to its customers and channel partners in 40 countries w o r l d w i d e and is laser focussed on innovating nextgeneration network security. This acquisition will better enable SonicWall to continue its journey in delivering world-class solutions and help defend against the explosive growth of new cybersecurity threats,”
In conjunction with the creation of an independent SonicWall, the company named cybersecurity and
networking veteran Bill Conner as its President and CEO. Conner previously served as CEO of Silent Circle and CEO of Entrust as well as President of Data Networks and then President of Enterprise Networks at Nortel Networks.
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Array Networks becomes Cisco Solution Partner
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Networks has joined the Cisco Solution Partner Program as a Solution Partner. As a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program, Array Networks will be able to quickly create and deploy solutions that enhance network capabilities, performance and management.
" We are focussed on helping businesses adopt Centric said Dipanjan“ DJ” Deb, Francisco Partners’ Co- Founder & CEO.
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Infrastructure( ACI) in their data centers and private cloud environments. Working with Cisco will help Array Networks provide customers with a dynamic and automated approach to implementing Layer 4-7 application services," says Paul Andersen, Sr Director – Marketing, Array Networks.
NTT DATA completes its acquisition of Dell Services
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DATA has closed its acquisition of Dell Services. The newlyacquired business, which on an interim basis will be called NTT DATA Services, expands NTT DATA’ s ability to deliver insights, solutions and outcomes.
The combined company represents one of the industry’ s most comprehensive services portfolios designed to modernize business and technology.
“ I am very glad to see this business, which has made great strides, find such a strong fit in NTT DATA where it will be able to continue its momentum,” said Suresh Vaswani, President of NTT DATA Services, formerly Dell Services.
Fujitsu extends its partnership with SUSE
Fujitsu and Suse have strengthened their strategic alliance to address the need for dynamic, flexible and secure cloud and missioncritical
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HPE allies with Intel over Centre of Excellence( CoE)
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Enterprise( HPE), along with Intel has announced the launch of a Centre of Excellence( CoE) in Bengaluru. It will help demonstrate High Performance Computing( HPC)-as-a-Service for customers. The CoE will also enable research institutions and academia to test their applications on the latest HPC platform innovations from HPE, enabled by Intel technologies, and accelerate HPC adoption of enterprise offerings and greater flexibility to migrate on-premise environments including SUSE to open sourcebased public and private clouds.
Customers will also be able take advantage of the comprehensive MetaArc portfolio of solutions, services and cutting-edge technologies, including cloud, mobility, IoT, Big Data analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.
Optiemus to distribute BlackBerry DTEK50 and DTEK60
BlackBerry has signed distribution a a g r e e m e n t with Optiemus I n f r a c o m, whereby DTEK50 and DTEK60 handsets will be distributed in the Indian market.
The partnership will see Optiemus distribute and promote BlackBerry handsets to the Indian market. This includes the new DTEK50 and DTEK60 by BlackBerry, the latest in the company’ s DTEK series of secure
in India.
“ There is a growing need amongst research and academic institutions for high levels of computational power to process large volumes of data, solve highly complex mathematical problems, and repeat calculations for multiplicative situations. The HPE-Intel CoE, with the HPE Apollo portfolio and Intel technologies demonstrates our commitment to deliver,” said Vikram K, Director, Servers, HPE India.
Android smartphones with BlackBerry security software inside.
Optiemus will also provide the secure Android BlackBerry PRIV for Rs. 34,990 and for enterprise customers the BB10 OS-powered BlackBerry Leap device as well.