My Brand Book - First Brand Book on ICT Industry

Extending its acclaimed Desire series in India,  HTC  has launched the  HTC Desire 500 . A powerful mid-range model featuring a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, HTC Blinkfeed and Video Highlights, which collates your images into a 30-second themed video reel, the HTC Desire 500 is designed for those who demand a superior mobile experience at an affordable price. “The Desire range has become renowned for bringing a premium mobile experience to the mass market. This particular model, the Desire 500, is no different. It is perfect for people who are always-on-the-go, it enables powerful multitasking and live-streaming of important and interesting information, and it boasts an excellent camera and that bring your important moments to life,” said  Faisal Siddiqui, Country Head, HTC India. The HTC Desire 500 brings HTC’s acclaimed BlinkFeed to the Desire range. Transforming the home screen into a customisable stream of live informa...

Ashok Kumar MD & CEO RAH Infotech Pvt. Ltd Though a new player into distribution, RAH Infotech has already carved a niche for itself amongst the value-added distributors in India in just a few years. The company is fast on its way to becoming a VAD of high repute in India. Over eight years of its operations, RAH has been providing world-class IT solutions to a large number of channel partners and corporates in India and SAARC countries. Unique Quotient Why RAH Infotech is a success story is not far to seek. Over the years, the company has been following a friendly and pragmatic culture with their employees. The distribution house emphasizes on team work which percolates down all the way to their partners benefiting customers. The company offers information management solutions like Information Security, Networking, Storage, Wireless/Wi-Fi solutions, Virtualization/Cloud Computing solutions...

Epson  has announced expansion of its 3D home theatre projectors lineup with the launch of EH-TW8200.  Featuring a contrast ratio of 600,000:1, EH-TW8200 comes equipped with a zoom range of 2.1X that allows for a sharp focus and with the native resolution of 1920 x 1080. The projector also features a 47-per cent horizontal shift, a category first, presenting users with an extensive range of projector placement possibilities. For the viewers to stay focussed on the screen without any air or noise distracting them, the projector is enhanced with front exhausts. The projector is packed with features including the "picture in picture" function that replaces the "split screen" function of its predecessor, the EH-TW8100. Using the picture-in-picture mode, users can project two images simultaneously wherein a subpicture can be displayed at any corner of the screen, at the top-right, the top-left, the bottom-left, or the bottom-right inside...

Ashok Kumar MD & CEO RAH Infotech Pvt. Ltd Though a new player into distribution, RAH Infotech has already carved a niche for itself amongst the value-added distributors in India in just a few years. The company is fast on its way to becoming a VAD of high repute in India. Over eight years of its operations, RAH has been providing world-class IT solutions to a large number of channel partners and corporates in India and SAARC countries. Unique Quotient Why RAH Infotech is a success story is not far to seek. Over the years, the company has been following a friendly and pragmatic culture with their employees. The distribution house emphasizes on team work which percolates down all the way to their partners benefiting customers. The company offers information management solutions like Information Security, Networking, Storage, Wireless/Wi-Fi solutions, Virtualization/Cloud Computing solutions...

Guna Sekaran R Country Manager, Quantum India & Sri Lanka  Building on new product lines has what remained the mantra for Quantum. It was as a hard disk drive manufacturer that Quantum first saw its inception over 30 years ago in Silicon Valley, but later grew to become the world leader in desktop hard disk drives. However, this business was later sold to what is now Seagate so that Quantum could focus on data protection and big data solutions.   For many years, they are also famed to have held the global top spot for tape automation libraries. In fact, they are one of the three companies that own and develop LTO tape technology. They are also a pioneer in disk-based backup appliances and own the key patent used in variable length deduplication. Their StorNext solutions are relied upon to help organizations share large amounts of data simultaneously while storing the data for the lon...

Sanjay Katkar Chief Technology Officer Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd In a milieu in which cyber threats are perhaps becoming more frequent than physical threats, Quick Heal Technologies rolls out unprecedented security weapons to combat these threats by setting high value on cyber protection. Quick Heal Technologies started its journey as CAT Computer Services (P) Ltd in 1993, primarily as a computer service centre. The company soon began offering antivirus solutions to the market that was still new to the term “Computer Viruses”. In the year 2007, the company was renamed as Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.  Having passed the passage of 20 successful years, today Quick Heal is hailed as a company which is one of the forerunners in establishing antivirus research and development in India; setting the benchmark for computer security industry standards; and having patented technologies effecti...

Khwaja Saifuddin WD’s Sr. Sales director for South Asia, Middle East and Africa  In the cluttered and competitive world of today, the positioning of a brand and its value plays a major role in creating an image or identity in a consumer’s mind. The brand is the emotional connect of the community with the product or service. Successful businesses recognize consumer behavior and expectation, and most importantly understand how to effectively engage with consumers with different buyer psyches. Blockbuster products might evolve into different forms or even be replaced with other superior technology but the brand will persist. A popular brand can unlock immense potential to monetize a brand-premium from its product line. 

Narayanan Subramaniam Principal Engineer, Voice, Video & Collaboration Technologies Cisco Systems. Passionate about technology and holding a perspective beyond the realm of traditional marketing and sales, Narayanan uses his depth and breadth of technical expertise in order to build critical consensus to create and/or discover/leverage key technology trends. As is expected of a true technology evangelist, he gives honest opinion on products and trends pertaining to technology and is fully dedicated to technology. He keeps himself abreast of the latest trends in technology.  As a Principal Engineer for the Collaboration Technologies portfolio of products at Cisco, Narayanan’s role is to facilitate the ‘transformation’, given that the technology and experience landscape is being disrupted by the technology tenets of Cloud Computing, Mobility, Social and Network Collaboration, as well as the effects of Globalization and a Carbon-Controlled Economy. Naraya...

Sundar Ram, Vice-President, Technology Sales, Consulting Oracle Corporation, Asia-Pacific India has the world’s fifth-largest electricity generation capacity. However, the country faces acute power shortage due to inability of an inefficient and outdated power infrastructure to meet the growingdemand from public as well as industries.  Putting more light on the need for the power sector in India to modernize its infrastructure with the adoption of technologies like Big Data, Sundar Ram, Vice-President, Technology Sales, Consulting Oracle Corporation, Asia-Pacific,hasrecently interacted with VARINDIA. Excerpts -    How significant is the adoption of new technologies for modernizing the infrastructure of power sector in India? Renovation and modernization of India’s power plants is imperative to meet the energy crisis in the country. Steps are already being taken in this direction with the adoption of smart grid technologies and smart meters, esp...

HP(NYSE:HPQ)  has announced expansion of its Designjet Z-series portfolio with the launch of new  HP Designjet Z5400 PostScript ePrinter  with the first multi-roll, large-format ePrinter for copy shops. The new printer is designed to allow customers to increase their print offerings to address a wider range of requests without a large capital investment. It is the best fit solution not just for copy shops, but also for graphics service providers (PSPs) and repro houses with graphics and technical (line print) applications. With the addition of the HP Designjet Z5400 PostScript ePrinter, HP continues to provide affordable and easy-to-use large-format printing solutions. Designed to deliver durable prints with speed, productivity and efficiency, the HP Designjet Z-series printers also include Designjet Z6200 Photo Printer, Z5200 PostScript Printer and Z3200 and Z2100 Photo Printers.  Mahesh Soni, Country Manager, Designjet HP GSB India http://my...

Niraj Kaushik Vice-President, Alliance & Channels Oracle India For over three and a half decades, Oracle has been the centre of innovation for business computing. It came into being when a group of engineers joined hands to create the world’s first commercial relational database management system (RDBMS). Since then, Oracle has been the other name for database technology and business applications in leading enterprises across the world. By 1987, Oracle had established itself as the world’s largest database company.  After that, Oracle expanded its portfolio and launched business applications that take full advantage of the powerful Oracle database. Today, with engineering across servers, storage, networks, operating systems, middleware, database and applications, Oracle is synonymous with the next level of innovation in systems technology. Unique Quotient Oracle delivers comprehensive...

Vishal Dhupar, MD – Asia South, NVIDIA Today, NVIDIA is a powerful brand in visual computing. The company’s passionate work has resulted in thousands of patented inventions, breakthrough technologies and deep industry relationships. As the inventor of the graphics processing unit (GPU), NVIDIA awakened the world to the powerful computer graphics. Now, with a deep focus on visual computing, the company has expanded into supercomputing, mobile computing and cloud computing.   Unique Quotient An incredibly dynamic and fast-moving company, NVIDIA has been successful in creating a strong brand through its consistent technology innovation and leadership. Driven by the needs of consumers and professionals alike, the company continues to offer new and delightful visual computing experiences to them. Whether it is a gaming enthusiast craving for the most immersive entertainment, a gadget aficionado who is looking for the hotte...

Venkatesh Swaminathan Heads of India operations The Attachmate Group (Previously Novell) Venkatesh Swaminathan currently heads the India operations for The Attachmate Group (Previously Novell). In this role, he is responsible for the overall growth and profitability of the business operations in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. With over 17 years of experience in the Industry and by working with diverse customers across various verticals and geographies, Venkatesh has accomplished a strong level of expertise in sales management. Prior to joining Novell, Venkatesh was working with Microsoft Corporation as a solution specialist. Other companies, he has worked with in the past include APARA Enterprise Solutions P Ltd, Ramco Systems Ltd, Satyam Infoway Ltd. and Business India Information Technology Ltd etc.  Mr. Swaminathan, holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Bangalore University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), with a major ...

Anil Valluri, President – India & SAARC Operations, Netapp India Pvt. Ltd. Founded in the year 1992 in Sunnyvale, NetApp with 12,650+ employees worldwide, creates-storage systems and software that help customers around the world store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious corporate assets which is data. A storage and data management giant the company’s solutions help the customers accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Customers around the world choose NetApp for its “further, faster” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup and others. NetApp partners with technology leaders like Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, IBM and Oracle so that the customers can choose the best software, server, networking, and storage technologies available. Unique Quotient Empowering its custo...

Telstra has announced that it now had the ability to provide end-to-end network solutions to Indian customers, bolstering its network coverage and investment in India. The two key new product lines available to customers in India are IPL Services and EPL Services. Telstra Global also offers customers a full suite of MPLS products such as Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL), IP Virtual Private Network (IPVPN) and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) in India, enabling global business.  Telstra Global's Marketing, Products and Pricing Director   Nathan Bell  said the new network would enable Telstra to offer what it believed was one of the most reliable services in the country, as well as providing businesses in India with broader access to Telstra’s suite of advanced telecommunications solutions. Following the  Department of Telecommunications - Government of India's  approval of Telstra's international gateways installed at Mumbai and...

In a new era of gaming defined by Ultra HD displays,  AMD(NYSE:AMD)  has unveiled the AMD Radeon R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X and R7 250 graphics cards. AMD also introduced Mantle and AMD TrueAudio technology which will redefine the GPU by enabling both gamers and game developers with unprecedented audio and performance enhancements for compatible games. These introductions are believed to strengthen AMD's approach for providing a consistent gaming experience on the PC, in the living room or over the Cloud. The award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture in the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics cards continues to serve as a driving force behind the Unified Gaming Strategy. The award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture in the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics cards continues to serve as a driving force behind the Unified Gaming Strategy. The four pillars of the Unified Gaming Strategy - console, Cloud, content an...

One of the most premium brands in the IT industry, Microsoft is a household name and a multinational corporation which is one of the largest providers of software and supports a plethora of important computing related products. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft has a long-term partnership with India which goes back to 1990 when the company set up its operations in the country. The company has contributed to the great Indian IT industry success story from the very start, and aims to keep helping businesses and individuals in India achieve their potential. Unique Quotient Since its inception, the saga of this software giant is always on the rise with every step it takes. Microsoft’s core philosophy is to provide an easy, safe and trusted computing platform. The company influences the life of each and every computer literate. The Microsoft brand, along with its product brands, such as Micro...

Sunil Kripalani, Senior VP – Global Sales & Marketing, eScan The vulnerability of Cyber threats has urged the need for Security that can combat any kind of cyber threats today and this need, in turn, has culminated in the formation of MicroWorld, part of Microworld Technologies that provide advanced security solutions.  Incorporated in the USA with offices worldwide, MicroWorld began operations in the year 1993. Over the years, eScan grew as a respectable and responsible source of security that is known for its light but powerful Antivirus software.The one belief that eScan always remained firm on is to be at the cutting edge of solutions in software security through constant innovations and creating and setting standards in the industry by pioneering new technologies. The latest versions of eScan, for instance, have been receiving a lot of applause from its customers as well as appreciation a...