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Ramco's partnership with IDBLUE
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Ramco Systems has entered into a global partnership with IDBLUE. Ramco Systems will provide end-to-end RFID solutions within the aerospace sector for the purpose of MRO, aircraft and component, data identification, tracking, enhanced line maintenance and performance-based utilization. The agreement was struck at the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA), the world's most iconic global aviation event.

“This partnership will allow us to provide next generation asset visibility solutions to the aerospace sector by coupling IDBLUE's RFID technology and deployment expertise with Ramco's suite of leading software products and their global reach,” said Jeff Brown, VP -Services, IDBLUE.

“Working with our Canadian branch in Ottawa, we identified IDBLUE as an innovative company in Atlantic Canada with RFID solutions that add significant value in business benefits to Ramco's global clients. Today, we are pleased to announce a partnership agreement between IDBLUE and Ramco Systems, providing existing and new customers of our M&E / MRO Aviation Software Solutions, extended asset management solutions,” said Jim Fitzgerald, President, Ramco's Global Aviation Solutions.

Array Networks surpasses 5,000 enterprise customers
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Array Networks has announced that it now serves over 5,000 enterprise customers worldwide including many of the largest enterprises and service providers. Celebrating 10 years in business, Array's secure application delivery and universal access solutions deliver hundreds of terabytes of secure data traffic daily to customers worldwide, across multiple industries.

The rapid customer growth underscores Array's outstanding value proposition based on the company's solid product lines and diversified business model. The solutions offer reliability, scalability and access for many enterprise applications and network infrastructure. Array's secure Application Delivery Controllers and Universal Access Controllers are deployed in a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, government, banking, healthcare, education and large enterprises. With an established client portfolio, Array has customers spanning the globe- in North America, Asia Pacific and EMEA.

“Our first 10 years of success have been highlighted by having some of the world's largest companies rely on our products to solve their security, application delivery and access challenges,” Michael Zhao, President and CEO of Array Networks. “From our initial next-generation traffic manager launch 10 years ago, to today's SpeedCore architecture and remote access iPad app, Array has consistently delivered top-notch technology solutions-—always evolving to exceed customer expectations. With our recent IPO in Taiwan, and an international customer base across multiple industries, the company is poised to accelerate its trajectory of growth.”

With the recently announced SpeedCore-based family of products, the SpeedStack architecture that the company pioneered is now designed for cloud level scalability. “We have been using a variety of Array Networks solutions for the last nine years. They have consistently delivered highly scalable and reliable products that meet the demanding needs of both our customers and wireless carrier partners,” said Sanjay Shirole, President and CEO of Xora. “Array has become an integral component of our SaaS infrastructure, which handles millions of transactions on a daily basis. Besides their superior products, a relentless focus on the customer has helped sustain their value leadership in the market.”

Other major innovations include the industry's highest performing SSL VPN and a very unique SSL based site-to-site networking with the ability to publish resources from one network to another without merging them together. A more recent example is DesktopDirect, a secure remote desktop control (RDC) solution for enterprises, which provides employees with secure access to their desktops from any device, including Apple iPads and iPhones. By enabling people to work in a familiar environment when they cannot be at their desks, DesktopDirect increases productivity and helps enterprises avoid significant losses from unplanned business disruptions.

Patni appoints Manish Mehta as EVP and Chief Delivery Officer
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Patni Computer Systems has announced the appointment of Manish Mehta as EVP and Chief Delivery Officer. Manish will be part of the executive leadership team and will be responsible for application development and maintenance, enterprise software, and system integration functions.

With a career spanning of over 29 years, Manish has held diverse leadership positions in various organizations. In his last assignment, Manish was associated with Mahindra Satyam as Chief Delivery Officer for India, EMEA and APAC regions. In this role, he was accountable for entire delivery across all verticals and technologies in the regions, with particular focus on increasing volumes from existing customers. Prior to this role, he held global responsibilities for horizontals like SAP and Testing at Mahindra Satyam. He earlier worked with TCS for around
15 years.

Commenting on the development, Jeya Kumar, CEO, Patni said, “Manish brings to Patni over three decades of strong exposure in the IT services business that will strengthen our focus on delivery excellence. We welcome Manish to the leadership team and wish him all the very best.”

ZyXEL India showcased the shine of technologies at 'TAITRA' 2010
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ZyXEL Communications has announced the company's participation in an integrated marketing communications campaign by the 'Taiwan Excellence' initiative, organized by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) held at Inorbit Mall, Mumbai. ZyXEL is one of the Top 20 information communications technology companies in Taiwan invited to participate in this campaign, to showcase Taiwan's leadership and excellence in information and communications technology.

On this occasion, Pinaki Chatterjee, Executive Director-Technical, ZyXEL Technologies said, “We are happy to be a part of 'Taiwan Excellence' campaign where we are showcasing our leading technologies. This is the good platform for the emerging companies to showcase the new technologies and innovation. We are thankful to the government of both the countries for providing us wonderful opportunity. Hope such initiative will be more in near future.”

He further added, “ZyXEL showcased four lines of product: ZyXEL P-660HW-T1v3, 802.11g 54MB Wireless ADSL2 broadband router gateway, NBG- 419NWireless N 300 MB Home Router, NBG-417N 150MB Router and NBG 4115 Wireless N lite 3G Routers with NetUSB features. We are known across the globe for our new innovative technologies which are increasingly getting connected through trade and commerce so that growth upside in the long-term would be strong. With the rapidly increasing demands for wireless connectivity, ZyXEL's experience of lean manufacturing, supply chain management, current asset management and its strong relationships in the market and the community would help in the new business as well.”

ZyXEL solutions, with more than 20 years of proven performance and technology leadership, are evidently the right solutions to these new, emerging needs. ZyXEL's high-performance router provides stable and reliable wireless connections for high-speed data and multimedia deliveries. Its ecofriendly wireless scheduling saves energy and enables the configuration smoothly. The wireless routers are designed keeping in mind today's demanding applications and home networks. The wireless-N extends the possibilities of wireless home networking by providing a steady-stream approaching 300Mbps, and is compliant with draft 802.11n. It is ideal for deployment in environments where minimal downtime of network applications, superior performance, security and control is required.

Elina Networks signs up iValue InfoSolutions
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iValue InfoSolutions, signed up with Elina Networks for their networking and IT management solutions that deliver business continuity and visibility, through reliable connectivity, robust network security and effective remote IT management.
Addressing the fact that distributed enterprises have very different networking and IT needs from centralized enterprises; Elina has built a value stack, which addresses customer's technical challenges while keeping added complexity to a minimum. With one solution that provides visibility across business, network and services and secure and robust remote IT manageability and connectivity, Elina provides these solutions to enterprises at a great RoI.

Shekar Nair, CEO, Elina Networks, said, “Poised for rapid growth, this partnership with iValue will help us deliver our unique value proposition and significantly increase our customers base throughout India, by leveraging iValue's VAD GTM and strong 300+ channel partners.”

Sriram S, CEO, iValue said, “In Elina, we see a unique solution that addresses multiple key challenges of CIOs in distributed enterprises — application availability, business continuity, network visibility, control and management along with security.”

NelsonHall rates Sonata Software
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NelsonHall, a leading analyst and advisory firm, in its latest report, has highlighted several specificities, which differentiates Sonata Software, from other similar-sized IT services providers based out of India. Among these were Sonata's offerings for verticals such as Travel, Transportation and Logistics (TTL), Life Sciences and Manufacturing, and its strong presence in Europe. Sonata has also received high ratings from NelsonHall for its structured consulting-led approach in large testing engagements. According to the report, Sonata's ability to scale up resources, train and deploy them on projects and invest in IP-creation, strengthens its position in the testing services industry.
Sonata offers a comprehensive testing service portfolio covering functional testing areas such as system testing, system integration testing, compatibility testing and localization testing. The portfolio also includes consulting and specialized offerings such as agile testing, testing automation, performance testing and security testing and compliance.

Sonata has established itself as a prominent player in software testing services, helping organizations to achieve predictable and improved software quality levels to meet their business goals. Sonata's independent testing practice provides independent validation and verification services to enterprises globally, helping them reduce the cost of quality during the entire application life-cycle management process. Sonata's three pronged strategy comprising of (i) consulting led approach (aligned with TMMi) (ii) IP enabled solutions and (iii) innovative delivery models, enables delivery of high performing and reliable solutions.

Sonata also leverages its strategic partnerships and alliances with global technology leaders such as HP (Platinum Partner), Radview, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and TMMi to provide the best—of-breed testing tools, infrastructure and services to its customers. Sonata's customers have experienced 30 to 40 percent improvement in efficiency, both in terms of costs and quality, in addition to faster testing cycles and better control on RoI.

With Sonata's efficiently managed testing services, enterprises can achieve significant business benefits such as reduced costs, enhanced productivity and improved software quality. Sonata leverages its repository of best practices, techniques like Risk-based testing and SonnetTEST — its Regression Test Automation framework -- to reduce the automation effort and time.
Sonata has come up with a pay-per-use offering specific to performance testing, which includes hardware as well as software tools, license cost and execution services.

CV Narayanan, Head -Managed Testing and Web Technologies, Sonata Software, said, “We are delighted that our best practices, offerings and capabilities are being acknowledged by an industry expert like NelsonHall. The report reinforces Sonata's leadership position in the testing services industry and is testimony to our ability to provide innovative solutions that deliver real business results.”

Sybase adaptive server enterprise accelerates market share
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Sybase announced strong growth in adoption of Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), its high-performance relational database management system for
mission-critical and data-intensive environments. Sybase achieved double digit license growth in the enterprise database management market through 2009 and the first half of 2010.

Strong momentum is being driven by a very committed customer base with a 97 percent customer satisfaction rate, and with the continued addition of new customers. Through scalable database performance, effective management of rapidly growing data sets, and rock-solid reliability, Sybase ASE continues to propel the business growth of customers worldwide.

Customers leveraging Sybase ASE to meet their extreme transaction processing needs include Swiss Medical, the Argentinean health care group deploying ASE cluster edition to turbocharge processing capacity; technology travel company Revelex, utilizing ASE encrypted column option to meet secure database payment compliance requirements; and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, combining Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ to meet dual database requirements.

"The number of organizations adopting Sybase ASE 15 has grown significantly as enterprises face continually growing demand for increased efficiency and availability while dealing with the exploding requirements of transaction processing systems to support large volumes of concurrent users with high transaction rates,” said Brian Vink, VP-Data Management Products, Sybase. “Our continued leadership and momentum in the database management market is a direct result of ASE's ability to address these extreme requirements by delivering ultra-fast, non-stop performance on cost-effective, standards-based platforms,” added Vink.

Sybase continues to build a foundation for long term growth of Sybase ASE investing in technology innovations such as in-memory databases, and by certifying Sybase ASE 15 with key enterprise applications. The recent release of Sybase ASE 15.5 introduces new innovations with ASE in-memory databases option where early adopters are benefiting from large performance gains with very little implementation effort. Furthermore, Sybase continues to work with application vendors such as SunGard to certify Sybase ASE 15 with key applications in financial services.