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BookMyShow migrates to New
IP Networking from Brocade
Brocade has announced
that BookMyShow has
successfully
completed
its migration to a New
IP network optimized for
application performance.
The Brocade solution
deployment has further
enhanced the booking
experience
offered
by BookMyShow by
enabling it to better
handle increasing peak
demands and roll out new
services on the fly. The
solution also provides it
with a flexible foundation
to continue its rapid
market penetration in
India.
BookMyShow
also offers non-movie
ticketing for plays, sports
and live events, leading
to a tremendous increase
in its user base and the
amount of data traffic
across its platforms.
To meet the growing
scale of its operations,
BookMyShow has been
constantly
upgrading
its
technologies
and
infrastructure at the backend to continue offering
a
seamless
booking
experience,
especially
during the release of
blockbuster films and
bookings for key nonmovie events.
Former HCL Technologies CEO
announces Rs.100-Crore Fund
F
ormer
HCL
Technologies
CEO
Anant
Gupta
has announced Rs.100crore fund along with
two partners to support
ventures
developing
cutting-edge technology
products and services.
Anant Gupta has
formed
TECHCELX,
an integrated business
acceleration
and
technology investment
firm
focussed
on
developing
digital
technology products and
platforms for enterprises.
“With TECHCELX, I
am pursuing my long-term
goals and passion towards
promoting our country’s
entrepreneurship
and
innovation potential in
the technology space,”
said
Anant
Gupta,
Founder Chairman &
CEO, TECHCELX.
American Megatrends
partners with Technobind
A
m e r i c a n
Megatrends India
(AMIPL) has announced
new
distribution
partnership
with
Tehnobind Solutions Pvt.
Ltd., for StorTrends range
of data storage solutions
across India.
With the distribution
partnership, AMI and
Technobind intend to
take StorTrends to newer
heights in the Indian
market especially with the
StorTrends’ new product
line up, which includes
20
November 2016
All Flash and Hybrid
storage arrays.
StorTrends is the
data storage division of
American
Megatrends,
Inc. (AMI) - a company
with over 30 years of
technological
innovation
and
a
product in
over half the
computers in
the
world.
With thousands of SAN
and NAS appliances
installed
worldwide,
StorTrends has experience
in Education, Finance,
Government, Healthcare,
Manufacturing,
Marketing, Retail, Legal,
and Research industries,
among others.
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ESDS Software
teams up with
Red Hat
E
SDS
Software
Solution
has
joined hands with Red
Hat to bring together the
benefits of cloud solutions
to legacy applications and
enterprise databases.
Piyush
Somani,
Founder, MD & CEO,
ESDS,
said,
“Our
patented eNlight cloud
solution combined with
Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux platform is our
unique differentiator. All
our products are based on
open-source
standards.
We believe the Red Hat
Certified Cloud and
Service Provider partner
program will help us
strengthen our position
to serve the Indian
market better. eNlight
cloud virtual machines
combined with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux can
help enterprises cut down
disaster recovery hosting
cost, thus giving them an
added advantage."
Savera Digital
Becomes
Premium
Partner for
Quick Heal
S
avera Digital India
has been appointed
as Premium Partner by
Quick Heal in Rajasthan,
MP, Jharkhand, Vidarbha.
This partnership will
bring together Savera's
great distribution network
to deliver Quick Heal's
innovative and advanced
IT security solutions.
Stating
this
partnership,
Gopal
Pansari,
Managing
Director, Savera Digital
India Pvt Ltd said, "We
are glad to be associated
with Quick Heal, the
leading
IT
security
solutions provider in the
country. The company
designs focused strategy
for each distributor and
equip them well enough
to implement it."
CAIT partners with Tally Solutions
I
n its bid to train
and educate the
trading community on
GST compliance and its
seamless adoption, the
Confederation of All
India Traders (CAIT),
in association with
Tally Solutions will
launch a nationwide
campaign to help
traders across the
country understand
the impact of GST on
their business.
CAIT
National
President B. C. Bhartia
and Secretary General
Praveen Khandelwal said
that the GST taxation
system is entirely different
from the current taxation
system. It will lead to
merger of Excise, Service
Tax, VAT and other
taxes under GST, coupled
with its e-compliance
in totality. CAIT will
also impart technology
knowledge in this joint
initiative and intends to
empower and equip the
trading community.
TSSC signs MoU with TiE and IESA
T
elecom
Sector
Skill
Council
(TSSC) has signed an
MoU with the Indus
Entrepreneurs
(TiE)
and India Electronics
&
Semiconductor
Association
(IESA)to
set up IoT Skill Centre
(COE) in Bangalore.
The IoT centre will
provide IoT related
vocational
training
courses.
The
MoU
was signed between
Lt Gen (Retd) Dr SP
Kochhar, CEO, TSSC,
Krishnamoorthy
Krishnan,
chairman,
IESA and Naganand
Doraswamy, president,
TiE.
This MoU would
help
compliment
each other’s technical
capabilities and industry
reach, to achieve a
common goal of skilling
India in the IoT domain.
TiE, IESA and TSSC
training partners will
synergize their efforts
and conduct approved
courses, resulting in
improved proliferation
of IoT courses in India.
Avaya’s new Partner Program
Empowers Resellers
A
vaya
has
announced
a
new streamlined channel
program
that
gives
partners the flexibility
to meet their customers’
needs in today’s fast-paced
digital marketplace, while
providing greater
rewards
for
those partners
that
deliver
exceptional
value. This new
program—Avaya
EdgeSM— will help drive
mutual profitability and
better equip partners with
the skills needed to help
customers achieve their
Digital Transformation
objectives.
Key
elements
of
the program include
a simplified structure,
greater
benefits
and
flexibility.
The new program is
in effect as of October
1, 2016. To support
the transition, existing
authorized partners are
evaluated under both
the previous and new
programs and awarded at
the higher level for the
first six months.