Netrack Highlights iRack Innovation at BICSI India Technology Seminar 2025 in Chennai 

The event gained momentum with the presentation by Mr. Ramesh - Sales general manager, who delivered a comprehensive and engaging session on  Netrack’s iRack and Edge Data center solution. His presentation focused on critical technologies which became the game-changer for organizations that require security, monitoring, and cooling combined in one unit. It is, in fact, a cutting-edge solution designed to optimize cooling and energy efficiency in a high-density data center ecosystem. By addressing key industry challenges like thermal management, this solution gained interest from the participants, who recognized its potential to streamline operations while reducing costs.

Along with Mr. Ramesh on stage was Mr. Subramanya - Marketing manager and Mr. Satish Chandra - Senior solution architect. They are an integral member of the Netrack team. Together, they addressed audience questions and provided real-time insights into how Netrack's solutions are shaping the future of IT infrastructure management. They also highlighted the aspect of sustainability and efficiency that makes Netrack unique in its offering.

Netrack is not just about products, it is about building partnerships and staying aligned with market needs. Hence, as business grows, the need arises for intelligent and space-saving solutions – this is where iRack and iRack Block solution works the best. Netrack’s iRack and iRack Block is an intelligent, self-cooled, and integrated rack solution which drew significant attention for its ability to deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and scalability. This makes it ideal for edge computing environments and compact data centers. Such a demonstration in the BICSI event in Chennai further enhanced Netrack’s reputation for delivering cutting-edge solutions that meet global standards.

The event provided an excellent platform for Netrack to connect with key stakeholders in the IT and data center industry, as well as to showcase its commitment to innovation and customer-centric solutions.

Numeric India celebrates 40 years of innovation in power backup solutions, reaffirming its commitment to reliability and sustainability

Over the years, Numeric has played a pivotal role in enhancing power reliability for businesses, industries, and households. The company’s unwavering dedication to quality and innovation has positioned it as a trusted partner across multiple sectors, including critical infrastructure, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance). Today, Numeric proudly provides power continuity to over 70% of Indian airports, more than 150 metro stations, leading hospitals, and prominent commercial enterprises.

Marking this milestone, Ravindran SK, Chief Business Officer of Numeric UPS, expressed gratitude towards customers, partners, and employees. "Success for us extends beyond business growth; it is about making a meaningful impact. For 40 years, we have remained dedicated to sustainability and innovation. Our cutting-edge energy-efficient UPS solutions optimize power management while reducing carbon footprints. Coupled with a state-of-the-art Customer Excellence Centre, we have introduced Virtual Remote Assistance (VRA)—a first in the segment—enabling real-time troubleshooting, predictive maintenance, and expert guidance without the need for on-site visits. This not only enhances service efficiency but also minimizes downtime and operational costs for our customers.

He further added, "As we look ahead, our focus remains on responsible corporate growth. What we have achieved in the past 40 years, we now aim to accomplish in the next 10—because the possibilities before us are infinite."

Numeric’s legacy is built on its pioneering contributions to the power solutions industry Moving forward, the company is advancing power continuity with high-density, energy-efficient solutions in a compact footprint. With lithium-ion integration, strategic R&D investments, new manufacturing facilities, and compliance with Legrand Group’s Eco-Design guidelines, Numeric is poised to power critical applications like data centers with innovation and sustainability."

As Numeric enters its next phase of growth, it remains focused on promoting a culture of innovation, excellence, and customer-centricity.

About Numeric UPS

Numeric is the leading UPS manufacturer that offers sustainable power solutions to users all over the globe with 2 world-class manufacturing units. With an experience of more than 40 years, the brand has succeeded in building a credible clientele base spread across different domains. Numeric is a GLOCAL company, i.e., the combination of 'global' expertise with deep 'local' market knowledge. The clean energy solutions are certified by PEP Eco Passport, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and SA 8000:2008 OHSAS 18001:2007. Numeric also has the widest service network in the industry, with more than 250 direct service centres and over 900+ technically proficient engineers, supported by a 24x7 Customer Excellence Centre.

From India, For India: EVM Unveils Locally Storage Solutions Made in India Ram & SSD's
 

Owned by Hundia Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd., EVM has solidified its position as the No. 1 Indian brand in the IT storage solutions space, achieving the remarkable milestone of over 25 crore products. With this launch, EVM takes a giant leap toward strengthening India’s technological self-reliance while empowering local innovation. For locally made storage solutions, EVM to initial start with range of SATA and NVMe SSDs, along with DDR4 and DDR5 RAM modules, designed to cater to the needs of both everyday consumers and industry professionals & adding more products going forward.
 

“This is more than a product launch; it’s a declaration of India’s capability in the global tech arena. EVM plans to build on this momentum by expanding our product portfolio in the near future, introducing additional locally manufactured storage solutions,” said Kunal Hundia, Managing Director of EVM India. “EVM has always been about empowering Indian consumers. These Made-in-India storage solutions are a validation to what Indian innovation can achieve. As an Indian brand, we are proud to introduce high-quality storage solutions tailored to Indian needs with similar quality as of other international brands.”
 

Beyond innovation, EVM remains steadfast in its commitment to giving back to society. For every product sold, EVM donates Rs. 10 to children’s cancer initiatives. “Our business isn’t just about selling products; it’s about making a difference,” added Vishal Hundia, CEO EVM India. “Through our ‘Buy One Give Ten’ initiative, we are honored to contribute to the fight against childhood cancer while building a stronger, self-reliant India.”
 

EVM’s Made-in-India products are designed to deliver exceptional durability, reliability, and performance, meeting international standards at competitive prices. These solutions come with industry-leading warranties ranging from 5 to 10 years, ensuring long-term peace of mind for customers.
 

EVM has consistently led the charge in the Indian IT storage market. Recognized as the No. 1 Indian storage solutions brand, EVM offers unparalleled customer support through its extensive after-sales service network, which includes over 500 service centers across the country. The brand’s free pick-up and drop-off service ensures a seamless customer experience, reinforcing its promise of reliability and convenience.
 

With the launch of its Made-in-India storage solutions, EVM not only raises the bar for local manufacturing but also invites consumers to join its journey of innovation and empowerment.
 

About EVM (Hundia Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.)

EVM India - IT Storage | IT Peripherals | Mobile Accessories

Previously, EVM was crowned as the second-largest SSD brand in India for the calendar year 2022. According to CMR’s India Hard Drive Market Review for Q1 CY2022, EVM secured a significant position in the overall India Consumer Internal SSD market. Crucial led the market with an 11% share, followed by EVM at 10%, and Kingston in the third position with an 8% share.

According to the CMR research, the overall SSD market in India is expected to experience substantial growth of 35% year-on-year by the end of 2024. This growth is driven by the increasing demand for faster and more reliable storage options, fueled by a rapidly expanding digital economy and the widespread adoption of multimedia applications.

Vishal Hundia, CEO of EVM, shared his enthusiasm for the future of the SSD market, stating, "We at EVM, an Indian IT Storage brand, are honored to receive the Leading SSD Brand of 2023 Award. This recognition underscores our dedication to delivering cutting-edge solutions that redefine data storage standards. The Indian SSD market is poised for significant growth driven by the rising demand for high-performance computing solutions. We believe that effective marketing and educational initiatives will be crucial in raising consumer awareness and driving the adoption of Indian-brand SSDs among Indian users."

Demonstrating a commitment to the Indian market, EVM provides SSDs with an included five to ten-year lifetime warranty, offering users prolonged peace of mind. This warranty underscores the product's durability and reliability, assuring Indian professionals of a trusted high-speed storage solution for years to come.

In addition to high-quality products, EVM offers a free pick-up and drop-off service for its after-sales service, with over 500 service locations across the country. Moreover, for every product sold, EVM donates INR 10 to a child cancer fund, reflecting the company's commitment to social responsibility.

About EVM (Hundia Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.)

EVM, incorporated in 2008, is one of India’s leading privately held company with strong presence in Consumer Durables, IT and Mobile Accessories. Envisioned 15 years ago, the company was started with a vision to improve the lives of people by giving them easy access to latest technology and smart value products. EVM is a ‘Made In India’ consumer electronic brand which focuses on consumer’s needs and provides value for money products. EVM brand already exists in the India market (B2B) and has a strong distribution channel across the country. The company has more than 500+ centers.

Netrack Achieves CE Certification for racks, Upgrading the Product Quality and Safety Standards

CE certification and its growing need

CE certification is proof of Netrack's dedication to compliance with stringent European Union regulations, ensuring that its racks adhere to essential health, safety, and environmental protection standards. The CE mark signifies that Netrack's racks have undergone a rigorous assessment and have met all necessary criteria, assuring customers of their quality and reliability.

But the question is, what exactly is CE certification? CE certification is a required conformity marking for all products sold within the European Economic Area (EEA). This certification ensures that the manufacturer has complied with all the guidelines, environmental commitments, and safety measures imposed by EU legislation. Netrack's achievement of this certification assures its commitment to meeting these stringent criteria and justifies the fact that it makes Netrack a leader in the market.

Starting a new chapter with trust

Now, attaining CE certification for the racks has been challenging since Netrack had to meet specific criteria that enhanced each rack's quality and durability. Each CE-certified rack ensured compliance with relevant health, safety, and environmental protection legislation. Stringent manufacturing processes have been implemented to ensure product quality and safety.

Netrack ensured that each network rack or network cabinet was manufactured to meet the essential requirements outlined in the EU directives. To get this certification, Netrack had to thoroughly understand the relevance of EU directives and compliance requirements to implement a robust quality control and testing procedure during manufacturing. This is followed by consistent production, ensuring continuous adherence to standards through periodic audits and assessments.

Safety redefined with unmatched reliability

CE certification is essential for customers as it signifies an additional layer of assurance regarding product quality and adherence to safety standards. With this certification, customers can trust that Netrack's racks meet and exceed the necessary benchmarks for quality and safety. In fact, this achievement reflects the dedication with which Netrack operates to ensure the highest standards of quality and safety in all the products it offers.

The CE certification further solidifies Netrack's commitment to offering reliable and compliant solutions to the industry. Hence, Netrack further emphasizes the fact that all the racks designed and manufactured by Netrack will now be available with UL and CE certifications. So, depending on the requirement, customers can choose a rack solution with a compliance and safety guarantee.

About Netrack

Netrack has always catered to unique customer requirements. With CE-certified racks, the objective is to offer customers a guarantee that the products they are investing in meet the highest quality and safety standards. With this certification, Netrack reiterates its commitment to providing reliable, compliant, and top-notch solutions to its clientele. 

For more information, please visit www.netrackindia.com.

The Future of Data Centers: Embracing Innovation for Sustainable Industry Growth

Innovative cooling and power management solutions can significantly reduce energy consumption. Liquid cooling, advanced thermal management, and optimized power distribution are key areas for innovation.

Transforming data centers for a greener tomorrow

Netrack, a leading provider of data center solutions, is at the forefront of revolutionizing the data center industry, driving growth while minimizing environmental impact. As businesses across the globe increasingly rely on data centers to support their digital infrastructure, the industry faces unique challenges. Netrack recognizes that these challenges call for a transformative approach that aligns the pursuit of industry growth with sustainable practices. Hence, Netrack's vision is not only about the growth of the industry but also about doing so in a responsible and eco-friendly way.

At the core of this vision for the future of data centers is a commitment to sustainability and innovation, driven by green and clean energy, cutting-edge cooling technology, and a dedication to utilizing sustainable power sources.

In light of government initiatives aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, Netrack is proud to lead the charge by introducing a new era of data centers powered by solar and hydro energy. This significant shift to renewable energy sources reduces the environmental impact and provides a reliable and sustainable power supply. Hence, Netrack is taking proactive steps to meet and exceed these sustainability goals in its data center solutions with advanced cooling technologies, reduced energy consumption, and enhanced efficiency of data center operations. These innovations not only lower costs but also help in minimizing the industry's carbon footprint.

Dependence on innovation and sustainability

As a part of the cooling system, data centers use air cooling, free cooling, chilled water cooling, hot/cold aisle containment, evaporative cooling, hybrid cooling, and liquid cooling. Since liquid cooling is more efficient and helps to reduce energy consumption, data centers are adopting it to comply with the sustainable model.

Again, driven by the need for a sustainable future, Netrack embraces modular designs, cable management, making it easier to scale data centers up or down as needed. This not only reduces waste but also provides greater flexibility for businesses. By using eco-friendly materials and reducing waste through recycling and responsible sourcing practices, Netrack is positively contributing to the green initiative.

Pioneering the promise of an eco-friendly future

The future of data centers is promising, and Netrack is leading the way toward a brighter, greener, and more innovative industry where prospects are not just promising but environmentally responsible. Netrack's initiatives will set new benchmarks for accountable and eco-friendly data center solutions as the world looks toward a greener future.

About Netrack

Netrack is a dependable name as a data center solutions provider committed to innovation, sustainability, and superior customer service. With a mission to shape the future of data centers, Netrack is committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions while minimizing environmental impact.

For more information, please visit www.netrackindia.com. 

40 Lapcare dealers enjoying the majesty of Europe

This reward was part of Lapcare’s Diwali Dhamaka, a nationwide campaign for dealers initiated before Diwali last year. Upon return Lapcare’s Managing Director, Atul Gupta thanked all Dealers for their contribution to the company’s growth, by saying “Our greatest strength lies in our network of esteemed partners; we are delighted to show our appreciation by giving back true value.”

Harshit Gupta, from the Lapcare Marketing Team also stated, “Plans are in place to make a circuit of multiple tours to sought-after and exotic destinations starting this year; cementing Lapcare’s image and promise of being the quintessential Dealer’s brand; always championing the Dealer’s cause.”

Anil Jagnani, Owner of a Dealership in Ranchi, expressed his joy, “I have been to Thailand and the Gulf before, but there is nothing like Europe, no parallel”. Another Dealer, Shrinik Saha from Mumbai, enthusiastically proclaimed “this has been the most memorable holiday ever for me; kudos to the entire Lapcare team.”

Lapcare is among a very small group of elite Brands, offering such grandiose rewards to its prime partners. The company believes in the triple bottom line approach, maximising shared value among all important stakeholders – customers, organisations, employees, vendors and the wider community.

Lapcare Brand Store on Amazon

Lapcare website and Shopping Portal www.lapcare.com.

About the Company

Lapcare is an award-winning national Consumer Electronics brand, specializing in Computer Peripherals, Mobile & Laptop Accessories, Sound Systems, Networking Equipment and Antivirus. Established in Singapore in 1997, Lapcare is renowned for its quality, after sales service, wide-range, large network and its track record of many industry firsts. Lapcare follows the TQM (Total Quality Management) process and always stays on the cutting edge of technology. Through its wide and ever growing network of channel partners, Lapcare has now served over 25 Crore customers in India. Over 25,000 Dealers (retail stores) carry Lapcare products, and the number is set to grow exponentially this decade. Lapcare products are available in all major E-Marketplaces and also Large Format Retail Stores. The Lapcare Brand Store on Amazon is very popular.

Tribrid Work Culture will see massive adoption in 2023

In the modern business world, the lines between personal time and office hours are blurring. In addition to that the new phenomenon of business-on-the-go has increased the demand for travel-complainant PC solutions to enable people to stay connected and offer output on the go. For an office PC/laptops are suitable, for home laptops and notebooks serve the purpose. Whereas for tablets, detachable are convenient for travel. Users require lightweight yet high-performing devices that are easy to operate during travel hustles. Portable hard drives and USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) make computing easy on the go. Headsets with active noise cancellation are ideal for virtual meetings in chaotic places. This entire portfolio of Tribrid computing devices will drive the demand for PCs and related hardware. We expect Tribrid will aid PC penetration by 20-30 per cent in 2023. Tribrid will also boost the demand for PC accessories, TFTs, networking and Wi-Fi devices.

Going forward it will not be a surprise to see users switching between devices for different work needs. Desktops are best for critical and heavy workloads; laptops give the power of mobility. Whereas, tablets aid in quick response to an important email. Likewise, the devices for entertainment purposes like gaming and streaming will also change according to the user experience. Desktops and consoles are the preferred choices of professional gamers, while amateur gamers go for laptops and mobiles. It offers IT hardware brands and the entire IT channel ecosystem an opportunity to develop customised technology solutions for different work consumption needs of users.

This article is written by Mr. Rajesh Goenka, CEO - Rashi Peripherals Limited.

Rajesh Goenka is responsible for strategizing and executing innovative sales and marketing initiatives at Rashi Peripherals Limited. He is instrumental in a consistent 20+% CAGR at RP tech for the past 20 years. He is also credited for building strongest and diverse team of 400+ sales and marketing professionals. He is the recipient of many coveted awards for his exemplary contribution to the growth of the IT channel business including the Enterprise IT Global CMO Award 2020, VAR India CMO Award 2019 and Times Now Award of Marketing Excellence 2018.

Incorporated in 1989, Rashi Peripherals Limited is one of the leading value-added national distribution partners for global technology brands in India for ICT products. As of June 30, 2022, the Company had a network of 50 branches and 50 service centres that cater to over 8,000+ channel partners in 730 locations across India.

For more information about Rashi Peripherals, visit www.rptechindia.com. 

A gated township in New Gurugram

Santosh Agarwal, CFO, and Executive Director, Alpha Corp said, "Gurugram's real estate sector has witnessed massive changes over the past few years. Growing as a commercial- residential hub and a dream destination to invest in property, it has become the first choice of people to work and invest money in a property near to their workplace. The improvement in infrastructure like the broadening of NH-8, opening of Sohna elevated road, Golf Course Road, Dwarka Expressway, and operational rapid metro as well as plans of metro expansion, have proven to be beneficial for Gurugram."

Furthermore, due to phased lockdowns and restrictions in movement, sales of luxury homes in Gurgaon grew steadily after the pandemic, as people realized the importance of owning a home with all the luxuries and comforts.

Pankaj Bansal, Director - M3M India said, “Delhi is squeezing in terms of availability of residential as well as commercial space, and on the other side Gurugram has been progressively emerging as much sought-after destination because of its connectivity, amenities, luxury residential projects, and state-of-the-art retail space. A systematic highways and roads network plan in Haryana, particularly in Gurugram, is expected to further give way to congestion-free traffic, giving much-desired relief & confidence to investors and end-users. The momentum has already started with the recent opening of the 22 km six-lane Sohna Highway, which includes a 7 km elevated section. Once the 29 km Dwarka Expressway becomes operational, which is expected by 2023, it would reduce travel time to Delhi International Airport and other parts of Delhi NCR."

Boasted with strong infrastructural development and world-class amenities, Gurugram continues to enjoy increased interest from investors and end-users. The city has some magnificent premium and luxury properties across the residential and commercial segments.

Vinay Wadhwa, General Manager - Sales, Vatika Limited said, “Fast-growing corporations and start-ups are boosting the development of Gurugram. Its excellent connectivity to other cities, growing corporations, IT companies, and industries make it attractive for investors. Also, with Dwarka Expressway soon becoming operational, commute time to Delhi and the airport will be reduced. Likewise, KMP, SPR, Golf Course Road, the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, and Rapid Metro will further make Gurugram an investment hotspot. Last but not least, infrastructural advancements in Gurugram and the increased demand for commercial properties have resulted in a thriving housing market in Gurugram, making it a popular choice for new home buyers in Delhi NCR."

The demand for the commercial segment in Gurugram is also witnessing a surge with a growing number of investors and global brands seeking premium office space. Businesses intending to move their workforces back into offices and their expansion plans are fueling Gurugram's office space segment. 

Kaustubh Chandra, Manager, Marketing and Leasing, Brahma Group said, "Owing to various favourable factors, Gurugram has been a preferred choice for real estate investors and end-users. Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the real estate sector quickly bounced back and regained its growth momentum. Gurugram's commercial realty market has been performing quite well for the last year; the growing mix of Grade A office and retail space has been successfully dragging the investors' and end-users' interest. Numerous domestic and international companies are headquartered in Gurugram. Additionally, it is home to several Fortune 500 companies and thousands of startups. The city is also India's second-largest technology hub. Furthermore, due to its business-friendly environment, enhanced infra-development, and availability of abundant office space, it has emerged as one of the top five Asian IT hubs. Besides, the city's connectivity to other parts of NCR augurs well in attracting investors and occupiers to the city." 

NetRack - IRack and IRack Block- a solution to achieve cooling efficiency

Enterprises dependent upon IT equipment always try to ensure proper and efficient cooling of the data center, hosting the business-critical equipment. Since the servers and associated equipment generate immense heat, there is always a possibility of equipment failure due to overheating. Hence, a controlled environment, proper cooling strategy, and effective airflow management play an important role in improving the overall efficiency of a data center. Especially, within small shop floors, cafeterias, or warehouses of small and medium-sized businesses, installing an air conditioning system or a complete ecosystem of network cooling might not be a feasible option. In such scenarios, providing the necessary cooling for networking equipment mounted within a small area lacking ventilation becomes difficult.

This difficulty can be addressed by a self-cooling rack. Hence, the iRack Series has been specifically designed to ensure optimal cooling of the mission-critical equipment. It comes with a unique feature of air-conditioning incorporated within the rack - a perfect solution with low installation cost and minimal maintenance. IRack ensures airflow management that is completely contained with IP 50 for dust protection.

IRack and IRack Block - a solution to achieve cooling efficiency

Sectors such as banking and finance, manufacturing, educational institutions, and hospitals currently opt for intelligent Infra Capsules or Modular Data Centers. This led to the manufacturing of the IRack and IRack Block. It is built with the objective of offering a miniature data center with built-in accessories with precession cooling. To achieve higher PUE, the in-rack cooling runs on R410 refrigerant to ensure reduction of the carbon footprint. Hence, this can be considered as a cost-saving option. Due to its flexibility and scalability features, additional rack options can be added as per the growth of the business.

These IRack and IRack Blocks are manufactured out of steel sheet - punched, formed, welded, and powder coated. Welded ultra-rigid, they meet the highest quality standards as per ISO 9001 | ISO 14001 | ISO 27001 | ISO 45001 Manufacturing & Quality management system.

Challenges faced in Smaller Setups

1. Achieving Cooling efficiency

2. Flexibility and scalability

3. Infrastructure built time

4. Physical Security issue

5. Power management

6. Energy management

7. Thermal management

8. Maintenance and support

The features comprise of

• Racks for Server and Network application

• Complete Cable management

• Integrated Air Flow and Thermal Management

• Precision In Rack Cooling from 3.5 KW to 55KW

• Rack Mount UPS

• Intelligent PDU and Climate Monitoring

• Air sampling-based Fire Suppression system

• Intelligent Rack Security

• DCIM Software to Manage the Infra @ Fingertips

Benefits of IRack

• Futuristic and environmental-friendly

• Self-contained and self-powered

• Self-cooling capacity

• Efficient airflow system

• Effective thermal performance

• Fire detection alarm with in-built suppression technique

• Intelligent locking and power monitoring capability

• Space-saving solution

Benefits of IRack Block

• Precession cooling with Temperature and Humidity Control

• Comes with associated accessories

• Helps to reduce the carbon footprint

• A scalable and modular solution

• Intelligent Rack access

• Complete server management

• Surveillance and physical security

About NetRack

NetRack Enclosures Pvt. Ltd. offers IRack and IRack Block with in-rack cooling that runs on R410 refrigerant. Innovation and technology together played a critical role in manufacturing these self-cooling, self-powered, and self-contained racks that can cater to the growing demand for intelligent equipment cooling solutions.

• Faster deployment

• Plug and play concept

• Minimum support

• Saves up to 30% energy

NetRack manufactured IRack series with a quality standard of ISO 9001 | ISO 14001 | ISO 27001 | ISO 45001 Manufacturing & Quality management system.

Choose a completely integrated solution to host the Servers, Networking, and other IT Equipment.

For more information, please visit: www.netrackindia.com. 

MediaTek Technology Diaries

“We at MediaTek are focused on making 2022 a year aimed at rapid growth, business success, and substantial expansion in our R&D capabilities. Our journey has been sustained, and we have grown consistently in size and revenue. 2021 is significant for us as we have, with the launch of the MediaTek Dimensity 9000, covered the entire spectrum from flagship to the mainstream. This year has also been a significant one in terms of our expansion and scaling efforts. We have been hiring extensively and are ramping up capabilities across our facilities in India,” said Mr. Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India. “For 2022, we are focused on further strengthening our presence in India, offering incredible experiences to customers, and supporting the country’s technology initiatives with our expertise and collaboration with leading OEMs.”

The event witnessed engaging interactions around current topics including:

• 5G – MediaTek’s plans to boost technology democratization and enable access to disruptive connectivity with its range of mainstream to flagship 5G chips. In the flagship segment, MediaTek recently announced the Dimensity 9000 chip, which is a milestone of innovation and a rise to the incredible, built-to-power flagship 5G smartphones in the world. Packing the best, most advanced technology and features on the planet, the Dimensity 9000 is super powerful yet super power-efficient in a 4nm package, ensuring superior 5G speeds and next-gen gaming technology, professional-grade imaging, videography, advanced AI and computing architecture.

• Incredible In. Incredible Out – MediaTek’s focus on customer interactions and experiences was also discussed along with the ongoing campaign “Incredible In. Incredible Out”, what we put into our Dimensity 5G chips, shapes the incredible experiences you get out of it, be it incredible 5G connectivity, photography, Video Streaming and industry leading gaming experiences

• Smart Devices – Keen on designing innovative solutions for new age requirements, MediaTek remains a market leader in digital TVs, voice assistant devices, Wi-Fi routers and other smart home products with a portfolio that caters to a wide range of customers across smartphones, smart homes, automotive, IoT and home/enterprise connectivity segment.

• R&D – Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture provides closer-to-metal access on the Dimensity 1200 chipset for brands to tailor smartphone features like AI, multimedia and camera, hybrid multiprocessing and connectivity, giving device makers access to customized consumer experiences.

• MediaTek presented the attendees with details on its host of new global launches this year, including the Filogic models for Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, the world’s first 7-nanometer 8K digital TV flagship system-on-chip (SoC), the MediaTek Pentonic 2000, and the MediaTek Dimensity 9000.

“This is for the first time in any tech transition in India that a strong device ecosystem will precede the commercial launch of services. By the time we have official 5G services kicking in, India might already have over 50 million active 5G devices,” said Tarun Pathak, Research Director, Counterpoint Research.

Sharing key highlights from the ‘The Connected Indian – 2021’ Report, Faisal Kawoosa, Founder & Chief Analyst Techarc said, “With a rapidly changing lifestyle powered by technology, consumers are reinforcing their focus on ‘smartisation’ by shifting towards smart devices ecosystem which includes personal use gadgets, devices for home and office automation. Processors continue to be key enablers in terms of main components which define the features and functions of these smart devices.”

The Technology Diaries series is an interactive, informative series aimed at demystifying the newest technologies that are transforming our daily lives. This is in tune with MediaTek’s philosophy of making great technology available to everyone so we can all connect more easily to the things that shape our everyday lives, enhance and enrich it, make us smarter and healthier. The event was also attended by Faisal Kawoosa, Founder & Partner at Techarc, Tarun Pathak, Research Director, Counterpoint Research, Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India, Kuldeep Malik, Director, Corporate Sales, MediaTek India, and Anuj Sidharth, Deputy Director, Marketing & Communications at MediaTek India.

For more information, please visit: i.mediatek.com/technology-diaries, i.mediatek.com/mediatek-5g

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Incorporated (TWSE: 2454) is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables nearly 2 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies, automotive solutions and a broad range of advanced multimedia products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, 5G, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD) and wearables. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smart technology, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We work with the brands you love to make great technology accessible to everyone, and it drives everything we do. Visit www.mediatek.com for more information.

Infortrend EonStor GS family

In today’s media editing workflow, it is essential that all media content, which often includes thousands of clips and hours of footage, is always accessible to the video editors. Therefore, the need for the highest transmission of performances is a must. Hence, they have developed the purpose-built storage technology for media workloads that automatically identify the video formats and adjusts the read-ahead cache to achieve high throughput, overcome latency, and efficiently boost overall productivity.

GS provides redundant controller configuration for both active/standby single work group solution as well as active/active dual work group solution. They also offer one of the most cost-effective solutions that support 4K video streams of up to 34 playbacks, maximizing performance to the highest level at the best price/performance ratio.

Speaking about the product Mr. Frank Lee, Senior Director of Product Planning said, “We at Infortrend strongly believe that the work of our customers/users should take place smoothly without any technical hindrance. Thus, our EonStor GS Family is a perfect answer for work which is dependent upon many data heavy files and contents to be edited upon.”

This design allows the video editors to have different media workloads on separate file systems running on each controller through a single chassis. The performance numbers for different work groups can be found in the tables below:

Work Group Performance

These figures correspond to the efficiency of EonStor GS family and speaks about the reliability of the products. Infortrend always works with an objective to ease and assist the work of its customers/users.

About Infortrend

Infortrend (TWSE: 2495) has been developing and manufacturing storage solutions since 1993. With a strong emphasis on in-house design, testing, and manufacturing, Infortrend storage delivers performance and scalability with the latest standards, user friendly data services, personal after-sales support along with unrivaled value.

For more information, please visit www.infortrend.com.

Infortrend® and EonStor® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infortrend Technology, Inc.; other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

MediaTek, the world’s 4^th largest global fabless semiconductor company, today reiterated its focus on R&D to enable ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, during the first Virtual Chapter of the MediaTek Technology Diaries Knowledge Forum. MediaTek also committed to enabling the Indian smart devices ecosystem and boosting 5G capabilities to make great technology available and accessible to everyone, at the interactive session.

MediaTek Virtual Tech Diaries - 9th September 2020

MediaTek announced its collaboration with VVDN Technologies, a leading product engineering, cloud, and manufacturing company in India, to offer a new range of MediaTek AIoT solutions for home and office use. As a part of the partnership, smart devices powered by MediaTek will be rolled out in India in the fourth quarter of 2020. MediaTek and VVDN will be working closely to design, develop, and manufacture innovative and new-age AIoT solutions, including camera solutions, home automation solutions, and Voice Assistant Devices / smart speakers. 

According to Mr. Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India, “MediaTek leads the market in chipset technology for Smart Phones, Smart TVs, Voice Assistant Devices (VADs), Android tablets, feature phones and more. A recent report by techARC also states that amongst chipset manufacturers, MediaTek leads in terms of adoption of its chipset solution by various OEMs across several devices including TVs, Smart Speakers, STBs, TWS among others. India remains a key growth market for us, both in terms of business value proposition and talent pool. We are keen to enable the ’Make in India’ narrative by collaborating with indigenous device makers like VVDN Technologies to create smart solutions in India, targeted at both Indian and global consumers.”

Committed to technology democratisation, MediaTek has a balanced portfolio across smartphones, smart homes, and other segments. While smartphones and tablets contribute about 43%-48% of the revenue, 28-33% revenue comprises of VADs, AIoT, Power Management, Connectivity Solutions like  Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The remaining 20-25% of the revenue is led by smart-home and other categories which includes Digital TVs, DVD Players, Optical Storage, Feature phones, etc. Focused on designing innovative solutions, MediaTek has two R&D centers in India located in Noida and Bangalore.

According to Mr. Vivek Bansal, President Engineering and Co-founder, VVDN Technologies, “We are excited to work with MediaTek as the association will contribute greatly towards our ‘Make in India’ initiatives. VVDN’s collaboration with MediaTek will enable us to work together on innovative and cost-effective smart devices at our Global Innovation Park (GIP) manufacturing hub in Manesar which houses an elaborate R&D,  design, engineering and electronic Manufacturing Facility. We look forward to a long and successful alliance with MediaTek.”

MediaTek Launches Indian Non-Mobile Microsite  

At the Virtual Tech Diaries, MediaTek launched its brand-new microsite for Indian Non-Mobile products (smart devices beyond the smartphones), depicting its commitment to the segment and to empower partners in creating solutions for the Indian demographic. The microsite offers detailed information on a variety of products powered by MediaTek chips, including smart home solutions (AIoT, set-top boxes, smart TVs, Voice Assistant Devices), retail broadband, education tablets, POS terminals, biometric devices, and automotive solutions. 

MediaTek powers more than 1.5 billion devices a year across some of the world’s leading brands like Motorola One Plus OPPO, realme, VIVO, Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft, Paytm, KENT, Broadlink, LG, Google,  Amazon and many more. The product range spans across categories including smartphones, automobile, surveillance cameras, voice-assisted devices, audio systems, tablets, Smart TVs among others.

The non-mobile business is taking a significant lead for MediaTek, with increased uptake in smart home devices. MediaTek has announced collaborations with smart TV makers like OnePlus, Motorola, realme among others. Earlier this year, MediaTek and Samsung introduced the world’s first 8K QLED TV equipped with MediaTek’s custom Wi-Fi 6 chipset, the Samsung 8K QLED Y20 model (Q950, Q900). The flagship TV was the only 8K TV worldwide supporting Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. The company is currently working with OEMs to launch MediaTek powered Smart TVs in the coming months.

The year 2020 has been significant for MediaTek with a strong focus on 5G, gaming, R&D, and new launches. Some of the key announcements included:

• Launch of MediaTek Helio G95, G85, G80, G70, G35, and G25 chips offering MediaTek HyperEngine Game technology for seamless smartphone gaming across categories.

• Launch of innovative MediaTek 5G chips – MediaTek Dimensity series - 1000+, 820, 800, 800U and 720 chips offering 5G connectivity to smartphone users across demographics.

• MediaTek pushing the boundaries of advanced IoT 5G satellite communications with a successful field trial that transfers data through Inmarsat’s Alphasat L-band satellite, in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) 35,000 kilometers above the equator.

• MediaTek’s collaboration with Intel to bring 5G Experience to next-generation PCs with the successful development and certification of its 5G modem data card.

• MediaTek enabling YouTube video streams using the cutting-edge AV1 video codec on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G SoC. The MediaTek Dimensity 1000 is the world’s first smartphone SoC to integrate an AV1 hardware video decoder, enabling it to playback AV1 video streams up to 4K resolution at 60 fps.

Also present on the occasion were Kuldeep Malik, Director Corporate Sales at MediaTek India, Daniel Lin, Deputy Director for Emerging Markets at MediaTek, Faisal Kawoosa, Founder & Partner at TechARC and Chief Analyst and Anuj Sidharth, Deputy Director, Marketing & Communications at MediaTek India.

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Incorporated (TWSE: 2454) is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables 1.5 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies, automotive solutions and a broad range of advanced multimedia products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, 5G, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD) and wearables. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smart technology, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We work with the brands you love to make great technology accessible to everyone, and it drives everything we do.

Visit www.mediatek.com for more information.

 Indian Bollywood Actor Mr. Rajat Kapoor

Speaking about this alliance, with Indian Bollywood Actor Mr. Rajat Kapoor stated that “happy to be associated with ProDot.” He also expressed his excitement to work with the entire team and subsequently looked forward to bringing the product of India to its people.

Ms. Aarushi Rajpal Kalra, Director, ProDot said, “ProDot required an enigmatic persona to embody our company and everything we stand for. And we could not think of anyone better suited than Rajat Kapoor. We’re happy to onboard such a magnetic and respectable face for ProDot. It’s been really nice interacting with him and he’s been very supportive throughout and we hope this association continues further.”

Mr. Rajat Kapoor would start appearing on ProDot’s product packaging and digital media platforms from the end of July 2020.

While the world is trying to cope up with a pandemic, ProDot, like others is trying its best to keep both its distributors/retailers and end consumers encouraged. ProDot recently launched its ‘Swadeshi Non-Contact Infrared Thermometer’ in May to help its consumers gauge accurately and correctly the surface temperature of both humans and objects without touching it. Apart from its widely appreciated accuracy and quality, ProDot’s Non-Contact Thermometer was also recognized for its unique name- ‘Aarogya’ meaning, ‘without ailment which is what its aim is’. The company is one step closer to its mission – to give access of world-class medical equipment to the common citizens of India. Moreover, as it is a Swadeshi product- made in India, it is easy on the pocket too.

About ProDot

Datalink Industrial Corporation with its brand name ‘ProDot’ is an ISO 9001:2015; CE and FCC certified company and has become a pioneer in the IT Industry today. With its own manufacturing house in Dehradun spread over 50,000 sq. ft. area, ProDot offers in-house production of Computer Accessories and Peripherals in an ever-increasing network of 10000+ dealers selling more than 10 million products per annum. It has a diversified product portfolio comprising of compatible laser cartridges, dot matrix ribbons, keyboard, mouse, surge protectors, refilling aids, laptop adapters,USB hubs, antivirus products, etc.

24x7 UPS Remote Monitoring Link-UPS

Moving to smart connected services

The increasing demand for high quality energy – supplying Data Centres and other critical infrastructure – makes the UPS one of the most vital elements of the electrical architecture. Although reliability is engineered-in, UPS equipment is not impervious to unforeseen eventualities with the potential to negatively impact performance and, ultimately, business continuity – but by monitoring the UPS 24/7, and anticipating problems before they arise, it is possible to carry out rapid repairs and maintain continuity of operation.

A New smart approach

Socomec has harnessed the power of the latest digital smart technologies to improve support services. New IoT resources now enable the UPS, end-user and Socomec experts to be connected with unprecedented speed and transparency. By integrating smart technology within an electrical infrastructure, our innovative services enable the continuous monitoring of UPS parameters. Faults can be prevented before they take hold, and, if an anomaly occurs, proactive actions can be initiated without waiting for the end-user’s call.

Link-UPS – 24x7 remote monitoring

Keeping systems up and running means detecting issues before they arise - but if an unforeseen problem does occur, then the ability to react quickly, and reduce the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), can make a world of difference.

Thanks to the Link-UPS service, Socomec can identify and carry out a range of remote fixes - without being physically in front of the equipment. If, however, an on-site intervention is necessary, a Socomec engineer will be deployed immediately along with the pre-diagnostic brief and any spare parts that might be required. This approach will enable Socomec to reduce the risk of downtime significantly; saving time as well as human and financial resources – every step of the way.

Restoring UPS systems in record time

• In the event of any type of anomaly, the UPS system will instantly notify the nearest Socomec Service Centre, when the UPS operating parameters fall outside the permitted range - providing it’s customers with a permanent and direct connection to Socomec’s expert technical team.

• A specialist Socomec engineer will carry out a diagnostic check by remotely accessing the parameter dashboard and will be able to recommend the preventive action, to anticipate the occurrence of anomalies.

• To improve the performance in future, Socomec experts will provide a periodic UPS health-check report with recommendations to improve overall system availability. Data including event statistics, trend analysis, technical recommendations.

Minimizing overall cost and delays

By taking a more vigilant approach to monitoring and management, it is possible to prevent the problem occurrence, increase the system availability by reducing MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) and reduce the cost of downtime.

Link-UPS is one of the services included in a Socomec Maintenance Contract. When the application is critical, the customers can be assured of immediate and expert attention via Link-UPS, ensuring the best Service Level Agreement (SLA) tailored to their needs.

For more information about Link-UPS, please visit www.socomec.co.in/ups-monitoring_en.html

Speaking at the launch Mr. Sushil Virmani said, “Socomec has taken multiple initiatives and puts in place necessary measures to adapt the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to navigate the uncertain times and to continue the business activity, Socomec is quickly adapting to the evolution in demand, aiming for operation continuity and introducing remote monitoring of UPS 24/7 through Link-UPS. We are confident that our customers will be benefited out of this new initiative.”

Further to this, he also added, “In these trying times, our commitment to serving our customers remains intact. Our expert services team members are remain mobilized in the field to serve essential and critical customers power management needs, particularly in the battle against COVID-19. We respect our experts contributions, who are working tirelessly to ensure our customers operations uninterrupted.”

About Socomec

Founded in 1922, Socomec is an independent, industrial group with a workforce of 3600 experts spread over 28 subsidiaries in the world. Our core business – the availability, control and safety of low voltage electrical networks serving our customers’ power performance.

Masterys GP4 RK

Edge computing evolution

Whilst organisations are outsourcing to colocation and cloud service providers, they are also investing heavily in local Edge computing for new and evolving needs: data security, analytics, maintaining control of mission-critical applications, IoT development programs, virtual and augmented reality experience. 5G cellular networks will increasingly rely on Edge IT technologies to enable applications such as the IoT, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Edge solutions can provide faster data analysis, as close as possible to the data source.

Edge computing is rapidly emerging in India. To play a part in this movement and to achieve expected system availability, industry is already in the process of transition to a new distributed architecture and investing in technologies that are wholly reliable and designed to support future evolutions.

Certified performance

Accompanied by cooling capability and a server, Masterys GP4 RK UPS perfectly suits the edge computing application, thanks to the ultra-high reliability, considerable power density and a front access rack-mounted structural design. The UPS offers 96.5% highest efficiency on the market using a VFI double conversion mode and up to 99% efficiency in “ECO” mode. The UPS performance is tested and verified by TÜV SÜD.

Designed for availability

Reliability is the most critical factor in the design and manufacture of any UPS. The end result is a combination of know-how, design margin and material quality along with excellence throughout the production process. The Masterys GP4 RK range exceeds the market standard with a MTBF VFI officially certified over 5,00,000 hours.

Even though high reliability limits the likelihood of failure, it is essential to respond quickly to unforeseen events in order to guarantee continuity and minimise the risk of downtime. The proximity of a service technician is vital to ensure rapid repair. Furthermore, both UPS design and construction are critical success factors when it comes to serviceability and performance. That’s why Masterys GP4 RK has been specifically engineered for safe and fast maintenance by advanced brick replacement - with onsite repairs 5x faster than standard UPS and an enhanced First Time Fix Rate.

Flexible back-up time

Different extended back-up times are possible by using the standard 19” battery rack or an external common or distributed battery cabinet. Batteries are installed on acid-proof trays and connected by means of polarized connectors to facilitate their maintenance.

While speaking at the launch event, Mr. Sushil Virmani - Managing Director, Socomec Innovative Power Solutions said, “We are witnessing the emergence of edge computing, as the IT infrastructures are beginning to transition to the edge to support the critical applications where low latency and ease of use are considered to be prime. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Masterys GP4 rack mountable UPS that specifically designed for edge computing applications. The brick concept enables easy replacement of UPS without rack disconnection that can help in rapid repair and 5 times faster than a legacy UPS.”

He further added, “More and more the edge computing penetration increases, it would also bring along the untapped potential of markets from small cities and towns of India, generating opportunity for the economy to flourish. We are extremely proud to associate to be part of this urbanizing the rural mission through our innovative power solutions.”

For more information about Masterys GP4 RK, click_here

About Socomec

Founded in 1922, Socomec is an independent, industrial group with a workforce of 3600 experts spread over 28 subsidiaries in the world. Our core business - the availability, control and safety of low voltage electrical networks serving our customers’ power performance.

MediaTek Helio G70 Infographic

The Helio G70 and G80 are aimed at new premium smartphone users and gaming enthusiasts who want high-end features at mid-tier price points. The new chipsets will power major smartphone brands that will first hit the market in India, later this month.

MediaTek Helio G80 Infographic

Along with HyperEngine mobile gaming enhancements, the chipsets offer other unrivalled smartphone experiences like integrated Voice Wakeup (VoW), advanced multi-camera photography and faster overall performance.

“The smartphone gaming market is expanding, and MediaTek’s G series chipsets deliver powerful performance and game-play features that let device makers innovate and cater to consumer gaming demands,” said Dr. Yenchi Lee, Assistant General Manager of MediaTek’s wireless business unit. “The G series chips have an impressive combination of hardware and software to optimize performance, provide superb image quality, smooth game-play and ensure uninterrupted connectivity for dedicated gamers.”

Built on 12nm process, MediaTek’s Helio G70 and G80 incorporate a pair of powerful Arm Cortex-A75 CPUs operating up to 2GHz, plus six Cortex-A55 CPUs operating at up to 1.8GHz for improved single and multicore performance. For gaming, an efficient, high-performance Arm Mali-G52 class graphics processor operates at 820 MHz on the Helio G70 chipset and has a 15% enhancement of up to 950 MHz on the Helio G80, improving peak performance and ensuring a highly responsive user experience.

MediaTek HyperEngine Game Technology

Both chipsets support HyperEngine game technology, ensuring fast and smooth gaming action with intelligent networking and resource management.

• Intelligent Speed Uplift for Rapid Gameplay and Call & Data Concurrency - When the Wi-Fi signal is weak, the technology intelligently triggers Wi-Fi & LTE concurrency within just 13 milliseconds, ensuring smooth and lag-free connection during gaming. It also enables the option to defer calls while in-game without a drop in connection

• Resource Management Engine for Better, Longer Gameplay - The technology ensures intelligent and dynamic management of CPU, GPU and memory

Additional Features of Helio G70 and G80 chipsets include:

• Chipsets include a multitude of hardware accelerators - dedicated depth engine, Camera Control Unit (CCU), Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) and Rolling Shutter Compensation (RSC) technology that enhances video panning and ultra-fast recording (up to 240fps) 

• Chipsets are equipped with inertial navigation engines delivering highly accurate positioning and connectivity, simplifying product design and assuring reliable user experience

For more details, please visit MediaTek Helio G series

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Incorporated (TWSE: 2454) is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables 1.5 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies, automotive solutions and a broad range of advanced multimedia products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, 5G, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD) and wearables. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smart technology, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We work with the brands you love to make great technology accessible to everyone, and it drives everything we do.

For more information, please visit www.mediatek.com.

Prama Hikvision, the India’s leading provider of innovative video security products and solutions, exhibited its latest innovative technologies, products and solutions with a firm resolve for ‘Make in India’ at the IFSEC India 2019 from December 19 to 21, at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi-NCR. Prama Hikvision booth got an overwhelming response from the security professional community.

Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India showing the Hikvision’s newly launched product Interactive Screen to the delegates at IFSEC India 2019

Commenting on this momentous occasion Mr. Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd. said, “We are brimming with ‘Make in India’ spirit while participating in IFSEC India 2019, this year marks the 10^th anniversary of Prama Hikvision India and booth reflects the true spirit behind the grand vision and mission of ‘Make in India’ roadmap. The big wins at the latest IHS report (No.1 in India and World) and a&s Security 50 (Globally No. 1) has reaffirmed our market leadership. We have got a positive response to our ‘Make in India’ manufacturing facility and India specific products in the Indian security market. The overwhelming response from the security professional community has reaffirmed our initiative.”

He further added, “We had displayed the smart security innovations and diverse AI enabled applications to showcase our technology prowess and capabilities. We also showcased products and solutions in Machine Vision and Robotics categories. The Hikvision’s core technologies on display were Facial Recognition, ANPR, False Alarm Reduction, Color Imaging 24/7,Ultra Low Light Imaging,4K Resolution, Smooth Streaming, Thermal Imaging, Seamless Image Stitching, Power over Coax, Power over Ethernet,H.265+ Codec, Direct Streaming and Alarm Verification.”

The ornately designed Prama Hikvision booth displayed the features of latest video surveillance cameras including, ColorVu, AcuSense, Thermal, DarkFighter-X, Anti-corrosion and Underwater, while showcasing their core technologies and specifications. The live demos of Smart Home (EZVIZ Smart Home Products and Solutions), Video Surveillance (DeepinView Camera, DeepinMind NVR, Easy IP 4.0, ColorVu and AcuSense Cameras), Access control (Face Recognition Terminals), Perimeter Security (Security Radar), and Intrusion Alarm (AXHub Hybrid) product categories were displayed at the booth. In the special product category, Walk Through Metal Detector, Smart Pole, Interactive Screen and Transparent LED Screen were displayed at the IFSEC India expo.

Smart Vertical Solutions

With years of experience in surveillance market, we have solutions designed for all the business verticals, which provides them the right applications and security solutions to secure their business. At IFSEC Smart Vertical solutions were the biggest attraction for the system integrators and consultants. The Hikvision booth had also displayed the key innovative vertical solutions in Transportation (ANPR, RLVD, Helmet Detection, Forewarning Traffic Congestion, etc.), Smart Education (Session recording, Class Inspection, Interactive Session, Mobile Surveillance, Vehicle mounted Access control, Central Management System at school, Mobile Client for parents - (SMS notifications, Attendance reports) and Retail (Business Intelligence - People Counting, Queue detection, Heat Mapping), Banking (ATM solution), Healthcare and PPOG (Power, Petroleum, Oil & Gas).

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)

With AI-based video analysis technology, Hikvision’s Intelligent Transportation System identifies traffic violations in order to reduce the number of human injuries and fatalities. By merging video information with other systems and algorithms, traffic data can be visualized on city maps to further guide traffic and improve urban commuting. ITS segment showcased the latest Speed Limit Violation Detection Cameras, Radars, Intelligent Traffic Management Solutions (ITMS), Mobility Solutions, Automatic Number Plate Recognition Solution (ANPR), Smart Parking Solutions, Entry and Exit Boom Barriers and Under Vehicle Surveillance Solution (UVSS)-(Fixed and Portable).

The Intelligent Transportation Solutions segment displayed the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled transportation and traffic solutions that can help the traffic administrator in identification of vehicles, tracking traffic violations and forewarning various traffic scenarios.

Smart Retail

Prama Hikvision displayed smart retail solutions to address the challenges of retail business and provides cutting-edge technologies such as video analytics, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. These Smart Retail solutions meet the needs of offline retailers such as shopping malls, supermarkets, and brand stores. The other applications included, people-counting, merchandise popularity analysis, remote patrolling of stores, cashier supervision, shelf management, heat maps, logistics solutions, and more.

Prama Hikvision showcased Hikrobot solutions at the booth, which is generating a lot of inquiries from E-commerce companies in India. The smart warehouse robot system consists of the AGV (“Qianmo” robot), RCS (robot control system), and iWMS (intelligent warehouse management system). With "goods-to-person" mode as the core, the warehouse is divided into “unmanned area” and “working area”. The staff can operate the terminal at the workbench to achieve the accurate inbound/outbound delivery of materials.

IFSEC India Conference

Prama Hikvision was represented by Mr. A.L. Narasimhan, Vice President, Strategic Business Alliances, Prama Hikvision India, at the IFSEC India Conference with a presentation on ‘Empowering India with ‘Make in India’ Manufacturing Roadmap and Smart Security Technologies’. Mr. Narasimhan gave an overview of Prama Hikvision’s ‘Make in India’ manufacturing facility and next generation of smart technologies and systems.

Training Sessions & Promotions

The sprawling Hikvision booth had an elaborate arrangement for a live training session by experts on latest AI, ColorVu and AcuSense Technologies. There were sessions on the latest product offerings by Hikvision in Access Control, Perimeter Security and Intrusion Alarm categories. Hikvision booth hosted fringe programs like lucky draw (HikPartner App for Partners) and security technology quiz contest (ColorVu Camera Promotions). A large number of contestants had participated in these promotional contests and won prizes. 

About Prama Hikvision India

Prama Hikvision is the India’s leading security and surveillance solution provider. In addition to the security industry, Prama Hikvision extends its reach to smart home tech, industrial automation, and automotive electronics industries to achieve its long-term vision. The endeavor is to provide superior pre-sales and post-sales service through collaboration with local distributors and its allied partners.

Building on a growing global footprint, Prama Hikvision India is committed to provide high quality products with agile technical support serving a large network of dealers and system integrators across India, through its 51+ branches and a motivated workforce of 2000 + employees. It has a ‘Make in India’ manufacturing facility near Mumbai.  

For more information, please visit us at www.hikvisionindia.com.

Cashify, India’s leading recommerce marketplace to sell and buy old electronic gadgets, partnered with Vivo for the ‘Thank You India’ program to celebrate the latter’s 5th anniversary in the India market. Being Vivo’s official buyback partner, Cashify aims to increase its customer base by engaging with Vivo customers, and provide them with the best upgrades and buybacks in a streamlined, hassle-free manner.

Through this program that ran from 12th to 29th November, Vivo provided special offers in the form of coupons and subscriptions to its customers across different online channels. Consumers could avail attractive discounts, coupon deals, and cashback offers on a wide range of Vivo smartphones. These included the recently launched Vivo V17Pro, Z1Pro, Z1x, S1, and U10 handsets. These offers were available on the “Vivo Upgrade & Rewards” application which was powered by Cashify through various sales partners including Cashify, Paytm and Qwikcilver.

Talking about the partnership, Nakul Kumar, Co-founder & COO, Cashify said, “We were really excited to partner with Vivo for a grand celebration, and congratulate them for completing 5 years in the Indian market. Through our partnership with Vivo, we have always aimed to provide customers with the best value for their phones. We look forward to creating more successful campaigns such as the ones in the past, and continue our valued partnership with Vivo India in the future.”

Cashify has partnered with the brand several times in the past to ensure a seamless trade-in process. This also includes the recent ‘Vivo Xchange’ program - a trade-in offer for its users, to exchange their old phones and upgrade to a new Vivo smartphone on Vivo’s in-house e-store website.

About Cashify

Founded by Mandeep Manocha, Nakul Kumar, and Amit Sethi, Cashify is a re-commerce market-place, which offers an online platform to sell old, or used electronic gadgets - primarily smartphones, followed by laptops, tablets, desktops and Gaming Consoles. Standing by our motto - ‘Think Smartphone, Think Cashify’, we are also a one-stop destination for all your smartphone needs - sell, buy, repair or accessorize, we do it all. We started with a team of three people in 2013 and have expanded to more than 800 employees, 15 offices and 1000+ cities in a span of six years. With over 17 lakh customers and 1500+ serviceable locations, Cashify simplifies the process of managing your devices by helping you with price discovery, cash in hand and other such features in a streamlined and efficient manner. We are also an exclusive buyback partner for brands like Apple, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Vivo, Oppo, HP, Samsung and Dell in India. 

FINGERS, India’s most innovative & fast growing digital accessories brand, now launches ‘RGB-Bruno C5’ & ‘RGB- Flow C2’, its first two ARGB Fashion PC Cases, that distinctly feature ARGB LED Strips on a high-quality, sturdy and non-corrosive chassis structure that are designed to be both functional and fun.  

FINGERS RGB Cabinets

www.fingers.co.in/ComputerPeripherals/pc-cases/RGB-BrunoC5.

While both the RGB-Bruno C5 & RGB-Flow C2 sport the unmistakable ARGB-LED Strip on the front panel; they are designed to appease different user bases.

The FINGERS RGB-Bruno C5 is a full ATX size PC case and comes in a stylish matte black finish with an edge to edge ARGB LED strip. It has 14 selectable lighting options that transforms its entire 420 mm height front panel into a trendy shield that suits every mood. In addition to its built-in high performance SMPS, the Bruno C5 has 7 PCI Slots and 3 USB Ports that makes multi-tasking a breeze without any heating concerns thanks to the 8 cm fan bundled into the rear panel. Bruno provides longevity by virtue of its non-corrosive and durable chassis. Not only is it easy and quick to assemble, FINGERS has ensured that all ports and controls are conveniently placed on the edge of its top panel for class-leading ergonomics. The RGB Bruno-C5 is sure to set a new trend in PC Cases with its complete all-round focus on fashion, design and functionality.

The RGB-Flow C2 is a micro ATX size PC Case that embraces the emerging demand and latest international trend of digital miniaturisation with its compact dimensions still packing in all that you need for heavy duty work requirements. Just like the Bruno C5, the Flow C2 comes with a scintillating ARGB LED Strip that adorns its 355 mm height front panel that is fully programmable to offer 14 selectable lighting options that will ensure your desk-space will never look drab again. Despite its sleek and compact size, the Flow C2 does not compromise on functionality and has a high-performance SMPS with efficient ventilation incorporated into its chassis structure that provides sustained heavy-duty operation. Flow C2 makes perfect sense as a fun, fashionable and fascinating PC case that adds style and saves space while giving your workspace a glamorous makeover!

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Sandeep S Parasrampuria (Founder and CEO of FINGERS) stated, “FINGERS as a brand has a focus of setting trends in the segment it operates in. With that aim, FINGERS has introduced the RGB-Bruno C5 and RGB-Flow C2. Both these products will re-define what a Fashion PC Case can offer and sport a brilliant ARGB-LED Light strip on its front panels with 14 selectable lighting options to suit every mood!”

Considering all outlined factors, the FINGERS ARGB range of Fashion PC Cases comprising of the Bruno C5 & Flow C2 comes across as an excellent option for those seeking to give their workspace a definitive and stylish makeover with a PC Case that is also equipped with features designed to extract the best performance from the PC peripherals.  

About FINGERS

FINGERS is India’s most innovative digital accessories brand with a range of 50+ avant-garde products with 6 being first in India and 3 of them being world’s first. With a product portfolio entailing a range of high-octane and stylish consumer electronics, it aims to acquaint masses with superior quality technology. It interestingly derives its name from the fact that fingers today are the main physical touchpoint between technology and the human mind. People consume digital technology with their fingers by clicking, touching, feeling, carrying and playing with their gadgets. People communicate with fingers and thus brand FINGERS is here to create a ‘A New Language of Technology’.

Founded by IT veterans, it is a subsidiary of Dynamic Conglomerate which is committed to providing a host of innovative IT, lifestyle and telecom accessories. Every FINGERS product is crafted with love and highest attention to detail by a Dynamic Team that believes in being MAD - Making A Difference. The team boasts of a trove of over 450 years of combined experience in Digital Accessories and Peripherals with a track record of creating transformational digital experiences.

Browse through the dynamic product portfolio across 14+ categories on www.fingers.co.in.

• Free e-guides offer proprietary research from Canalys and reveal new insights

• “How to Capitalize on the Edge Computing Opportunity” helps MSPs and VARs identify new revenue streams by supporting customers in their digital transformation strategy

• “Buyer’s Guide to Edge Infrastructure Management” explains key considerations to evaluate edge infrastructure management solutions

By 2024, companies will spend more than $650B per year in digital transformation. But, enabling digital transformation has created challenges as IT professionals plan highly distributed IT edge computing networks. Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has released two new e-guides to support the IT industry in addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by edge computing – available free to IT and data center professionals, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs).  

• Developed in partnership with the independent research firm Canalys, the new e-guide “How to Capitalize on the Edge Computing Opportunity” is designed to help MSPs and VARs identify new revenue streams by supporting customers in their edge computing strategy.

• “Buyer’s Guide to Edge Infrastructure Management” identifies the right questions to ask and key steps IT and data center professionals should take before selecting and deploying an edge infrastructure management solution.

The e-guides deliver proprietary research from Canalys, guidance from IT leaders, and insight garnered from years of R&D developing IT and data center solutions under the APC by Schneider Electric brand. They are available now on APC.com and SE.com.

Practical guidance to solve edge computing challenges

Edge computing is designed to put applications and data closer to devices - and their users. While cloud computing drove the creation of mega data centers, edge computing brings distributed IT with an exponential number of micro data centers. This new environment reduces latency and increases availability of data, ensuring IT systems can deliver the benefits of digital transformation. With a highly distributed network, IT professionals need to address new issues including lack of on-site IT staff, physical and cyber security, a lack of integrated or standardized systems and, as a result, poor resiliency. 

“Our reliance on digital experiences is ever-increasing, changing how we personally interact with each other and the companies with whom we do business. A digital customer experience is now a business imperative and IT professionals – from end users to VARs and MSPs - are navigating a complex new hybrid IT world,” said Jamie Bourassa, VP IT Channel Strategy, Schneider Electric. “We have developed these guides, along with tools and other resources, to remove some of the complexity from the process of developing a unique edge computing strategy.”

Edge Computing offers new service and solution revenue for channel partners

“How to Capitalize on the Edge Computing Opportunity” is an in-depth e-guide presenting the results of Canalys’ primary research of more than 350 IT channel respondents regarding edge computing opportunities and challenges. Key findings include:

• Priority vertical industries for Internet of Things solutions include healthcare (37%), manufacturing (33%) and industrial (23%)

• Channel partners report that an average of 75% of their end users cite downtime as detrimental to their business

• Nearly all IT providers cited remote site management, physical security and standardized deployment as important or very important

In addition to discussing how channel partners can grow edge computing expertise, the e-guide provides a detailed roadmap for successfully identifying and implementing physical infrastructure to enable edge computing projects including how to:

• Identify solutions that complement existing portfolios

• Understand the required capabilities and sales approach

• Access tools that enable edge design, deployment and management

• Leverage wide ecosystem of partners to address emerging opportunities in industrial environments

Buyers guide outlines pragmatic approach to evaluating edge infrastructure management

The distributed nature of edge computing means sites often lack IT support and are more vulnerable to physical and cyber risk. The “Buyer’s Guide to Edge Infrastructure Management” outlines the value of edge management and the important steps IT and data center professionals should take before buying and deploying a solution. By understanding the considerations and evaluating approaches in a pragmatic and methodical way, decision makers can identify solutions more effectively, ensuring better outcomes. The e-guide includes sections and tools designed to help small, medium and large enterprises to:

• Self-assess if there is a need for an edge infrastructure management solution

• Map the business requirement to the solution

• Assemble the right team of experts with appropriate skillsets

• Build a business case and action plan

The e-guides are available to download today on APC.com and SE.com.

About Schneider Electric
At Schneider, we believe access to energy and digital is a basic human right. We empower all to make the most of their energy and resources, ensuring Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, at every moment.

We provide energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. We combine world-leading energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services into integrated solutions for Homes, Buildings, Data Centers, Infrastructure and Industries.

We are committed to unleash the infinite possibilities of an open, global, innovative community that is passionate about our Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

On the sidelines of the second edition of the MediaTek Technology Diaries (Mumbai edition), MediaTek, the world's 4th largest global fabless semiconductor company powering more than 1.5 billion devices a year showcased the power and ultimate experience of their future ready solutions including the recently launched Helio G Series Chipsets – Helio G90 & G90T and HyperEngine Game Technology. MediaTek’s innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) is present across a portfolio of leading mobile and non-mobile brands like Xiaomi, OPPO, Realme, HTC, Paytm, KENT, Yi, Broadlink, Amazon and Mantra, across products categories such as smartphones, automobile and surveillance cameras, smart bulb sockets, tv sticks, voice assisted devices, audio systems, tablets and portable biometric tablets among others.

L-R: Anuj Sidharth, Deputy Director, Marketing and Communications, MediaTek India, Kent Davis, Sr. Director and GM Global Marketing & Communications, MediaTek, Anku Jain, MD, MediaTek India and Kevin Keating, Director, MediaTek at the Mumbai chapter of MediaTek G90 Series Launch

MediaTek leads the initiative to connect people to their devices by demystifying technologies and solutions, making it more understandable and user-friendly. This is in line with MediaTek’s ‘Everyday Genius commitment’, towards making great technology accessible to everyone, increasing consumer choice and quality of life.

According to Mr. Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India, “MediaTek is a market leader in developing innovative and power-efficient systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, smart-home solutions and entertainment, connectivity, Voice Assistant Devices (VADs) and IoT products. The market is reinventing itself at an incredibly high-speed and we are glad that we are among the brands leading this future ready revolution. Globally as well as in India there is a lot of focus on technologies that will come in to play like 5G, Rich IoT that enable consumers to get an incredible device experience and performance be it mobile or non-mobile.”

According to Mr. Kevin Keating- Global Director, Marketing, MediaTek, “MediaTek is committed to delivering the latest technologies across a range of products and solutions. The mobile gaming market is growing rapidly and device makers are looking at providing consumers, especially gaming fans with the best smartphone game-play experience. This has led us to design the G90 series in which our combination of hardware and software delivers high performance coupled with unrivaled image quality, uninterrupted connectivity and smooth responsive action even in the most demanding games.”

MediaTek leads the market in chipset technology and builds chips that are less about connecting people to their devices and more about connecting your devices to what matters. MediaTek recently unveiled its groundbreaking New Helio G Series Chipsets – Helio G90 & G90T, exclusively designed to be the core of an incredible smartphone gaming experience. The Helio G90 Series combines the latest CPU and GPU cores with ultra-fast memory and massive AI performance to deliver fast, fluid action. And for even more gaming power, it is paired with MediaTek’s HyperEngine game technology that tunes your entire smartphone for the greatest gaming experience possible.

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek is the world’s 4th largest global fabless semiconductor company and powers more than 1.5 billion devices a year. We are a market leader in power-efficient systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices, smart home solutions, and automotive. At MediaTek, our technology is built with humans in mind to connect us to the things that matter, shape our lives, make us smarter, healthier and improve everyday life. We believe technology has to be great – not expensive. And great technology should be accessible to everyone. That’s why MediaTek works with the brands you love and gives our partners and their customers feature rich, premium technology at affordable mass-market prices.

For more information, please visit www.mediatek.com.

• Huawei latest MediaPad T5 goes on sale, exclusively on Amazon

• Huawei announces amazing offer on MediaPad T5, customer will get Huawei Earphone AM 12 Worth INR 2,998 and free flip cover absolutely free

• The Huawei MediaPad T5 will be available in 2 variants- 2GB RAM/16GB ROM & 3GB RAM/32GB ROM priced at INR 14,990 and 16,990 respectively

Huawei Consumer Business Group India, announced that its most anticipated tablet MediaPad T5 goes on sale exclusively on Amazon. The new Huawei MediaPad T5 which makes its debut in India market comes bundled with exciting offers and freebies. Exclusively available on Amazon, customer will get Huawei Earphone AM 12 Worth INR 2,998 and flip cover absolutely free with the purchase of new tablet.

Tablet MediaPad T5

The premium device boasts of a 10.1 inch High-Definition Screen Display that enables a broader vision for wide-screen visual experience. What’s more, experience a powerful 8-core high speed processor that smoothly runs multiple apps simultaneously and the expandable microSD (storage up to 256GB) allows you to enjoy your favorite film anytime anywhere. Interested customers can start getting instant notifications about all the updates related to the launch, availability and more, by simply registering on the following link.

Tablet MediaPad T5

Armed with the companies’ consumer centric DNA, the tablet is touted to be one of the most versatile premium devices in the market, offering both - a superior entertainment experience with a large display & Dual speakers as well as double as a powerful professional assistant with a 0cta-core processor and eye comfort mode.

#Asversatileasyou

Immersive Audiovisual Experience

The tablet boasts a Full HD IPS screen supporting 1920 x 1200 pixels to treat your eyes with true-to-life and colorful images. The 76.4% screen-to-body ratio, 16:10 aspect ratio, and the landscape mode design make the tablet suitable for playing 1080p videos. In addition, the dual-speaker layout is located at the bottom of the Huawei logo side and equipped with virtual left and right channel sound output for a professional stereo sound effect. The high-quality power amplifier system brings louder and clearer sound with more flexible low-frequency, as well as reducing distortion.

Light and Thin Body Gives A Simple and Smooth Appearance

Our high curvature arc design is applied on the side of the device to enhance the users' holding experience. The detailed anti-fall design for the tempered glass on the front cover and the subtle corner curves make the whole device seems more sleek-looking as well as more delightful to hold. Moreover, the weight is only 460 g. And the 10.1-inch product is available in Black colour which is both stylish and pleasing to the eye.

Strong Performance

The Huawei MediaPad T5 is powered by a powerful 8-core processor for peak performance allowing you to run several apps at the same time, and the expandable microSD storage lets you enjoying the favourite film while traveling or on the road. Furthermore, this tablet is equipped with intelligent file management system, and you can get rid of system cache and debris. Last but not least, Huawei MediaPad T5 can connect with Huawei phone, Windows PC and Mac. Do enjoy the seamless sharing experience in a wireless way.

Children's Corner

We do care about how children use our tablet and reckon parents’ concern on how tablet screens may affect their children's eyesight. With Children’s Corner preinstalled on the Huawei MediaPad T5, you can set limits to your child’s usage and customize the content available.

Besides the parental control feature, Huawei MediaPad T5 offers enhanced eye-comfort modes for your kids’ eyesight health: Posture Guidance (provides reminder for your child don’t read the tablet when lying down), Blue Ray Filter and Usage Time Control.

The Huawei MediaPad T5 will be available starting July 10^th, 2019.

About Huawei Consumer BG

Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population. Fifteen R&D centers have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India and China. Huawei Consumer BG is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc. Huawei’s global network is built on almost 30 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.

For more information, please visit: consumer.huawei.com.

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• Huawei announces amazing offer on launched MediaPad T5, customer will get Huawei Earphone AM 12 Worth INR 2,998 and free flip cover absolutely free

• ‘Notify Me’ goes live on Amazon India Website: Interested customers can start getting instant notifications about all the updates related to the availability and more, by simply registering on the following link.

• The Huawei MediaPad T5 will be available in 2 variants - 2GB RAM/16GB ROM & 3GB RAM/32GB ROM priced at INR 14,990 and 16,990 respectively

Huawei Consumer Business Group India, today announced attractive offers and takeaways on its latest tablet Huawei MediaPad T5, exclusively on Amazon. The new Huawei MediaPad T5 is all set to makes its entry in India market and it will come bundled with exciting offers and freebies. Exclusively available on Amazon, customer will get Huawei Earphone AM 12 Worth INR 2,998 and flip cover absolutely free with the purchase of new tablet.

Huawei MediaPad T5

The premium device boasts of a 10.1 inch High-Definition Screen Display that enables a broader vision for wide-screen visual experience. What’s more, experience a powerful 8-core high speed processor that smoothly runs multiple apps simultaneously and the expandable microSD (storage up to 256 GB) allows you to enjoy your favorite film anytime anywhere. Interested customers can start getting instant notifications about all the updates related to the launch, availability and more, by simply registering on the following link.

Armed with the companies’ consumer centric DNA, the tablet is touted to be one of the most versatile premium devices in the market, offering both - a superior entertainment experience with a large display & Dual speakers as well as double as a powerful professional assistant with a 0cta-core processor and eye comfort mode.

Huawei MediaPad T5

#Asversatileasyou

Immersive Audiovisual Experience

The tablet boasts a Full HD IPS screen supporting 1920 x 1200 pixels to treat your eyes with true-to-life and colorful images. The 76.4% screen-to-body ratio, 16:10 aspect ratio, and the landscape mode design make the tablet suitable for playing 1080p videos. In addition, the dual-speaker layout is located at the bottom of the Huawei logo side and equipped with virtual left and right channel sound output for a professional stereo sound effect. The high-quality power amplifier system brings louder and clearer sound with more flexible low-frequency, as well as reducing distortion.

Light and Thin Body Gives A Simple and Smooth Appearance

Our high curvature arc design is applied on the side of the device to enhance the users' holding experience. The detailed anti-fall design for the tempered glass on the front cover and the subtle corner curves make the whole device seems more sleek-looking as well as more delightful to hold. Moreover, the weight is only 460 g. And the 10.1-inch product is available in Black colour which is both stylish and pleasing to the eye.

Strong Performance

The Huawei MediaPad T5 is powered by a powerful 8-core processor for peak performance allowing you to run several apps at the same time, and the expandable microSD storage lets you enjoying the favourite film while traveling or on the road. Furthermore, this tablet is equipped with intelligent file management system, and you can get rid of system cache and debris. Last but not least, Huawei MediaPad T5 can connect with Huawei phone, Windows PC and Mac. Do enjoy the seamless sharing experience in a wireless way.

Children's Corner

We do care about how children use our tablet and reckon parents’ concern on how tablet screens may affect their children's eyesight. With Children’s Corner preinstalled on the Huawei MediaPad T5, you can set limits to your child’s usage and customize the content available.

Besides the parental control feature, Huawei MediaPad T5 offers enhanced eye-comfort modes for your kids’ eyesight health: Posture Guidance (provides reminder for your child don’t read the tablet when lying down), Blue Ray Filter and Usage Time Control.

The Huawei MediaPad T5 will be available starting July 10^th, 2019 exclusively on Amazon.in

About Huawei Consumer BG

Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population. Fifteen R&D centers have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India and China. Huawei Consumer BG is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc. Huawei’s global network is built on almost 30 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.

For more information, please visit: consumer.huawei.com.

For regular updates on Huawei Consumer BG, follow us on:

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/HuaweimobileIN/

• Twitter: twitter.com/HuaweiIndia

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFVmGe--ynG_Fhdg3z2KRMQ

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/huaweimobilein/

Medical Technology Association of India, which represents leading research-based medical technology companies with significant investments in India, welcomed the budget announcements on healthcare sector made by the Finance Minister.

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented the Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2019, where he highlighted the steps taken by the Central government to provide affordable health care to the poor. The government has been providing cheaper drugs through Jan Aushadhi stores, he added.

Piyush Goyal stated that the government plans to launch a national programme on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will set up a national AI portal for the purpose.

Mr. Pavan Choudary, Chairman & Director General, MTaI

Commenting on the budget initiatives in the healthcare sector, Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI) Chairman and Director General Pavan Choudary said, “By bringing health and AI together on the agenda, the government has set a very progressive human resource tone. The national programme on AI should be unfolded by Co-opting knowledgeable stakeholders from the nine domains that are being targeted.”

“Goyal also announced that a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) will be set up in Haryana shortly. Out of the 21 AIIMS that have been established or operating in country, 14 have been sanctioned since 2014,” added Goyal.

MTaI cheered the government’s overall effort to boost the medical devices sector. “The AIIMS announced in Haryana is welcome. All the AIIMS in the making, including this one, should be monitored for speedy commissioning. The commitment to pursue progress in medical devices as almost a mission is heartening and is reflective of this government’s understanding that this sector is of keystone importance,” Choudary  added.

About Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI)

Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI – pronounced as Em-tai) is a not-for-profit organization duly registered under sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Rule 8 of the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014.

MTaI is an association of research-based medical technology companies who have made remarkable investments in Manufacturing, R&D and Health Care Workers Training in India. MTaI represents a wide spectrum of the medical device industry with global experience in innovation and manufacturing. All the time stressing on the three hallmarks of healthcare - Quality, Consistency and Patient Safety, MTaI wants to be a responsible voice of the industry. The association is committed to improving access to affordable and quality healthcare for patients.

MTaI looks to partner with the Government of India in setting a roadmap for the growth of medical devices sector by bringing in even bigger investments in this sector, through 'Make in India’ and through technology upgradation and dissemination in the provider space.

MediaTek today announced the launch of the Helio P70 system-on-chip (SoC), with an enhanced AI engine combined with CPU and GPU upgrades for more powerful AI processing. Helio P70 also comes with upgraded imaging and camera support, a gaming performance boost and advanced connectivity features. The Helio P70 packs all these upgrades into an ultra power-efficient chipset to meet the most demanding user needs.

MediaTek Helio P70

The introduction of the Helio P70 follows the global launch of the Helio P60 earlier this year, and builds on its hallmark features to power the “New Premium” market of full-featured smartphones at affordable price points.

P70 Chip White

Built with TSMC’s 12nm FinFET technology, the Helio P70 features a multi-core APU operating at up to 525 MHz for fast and efficient edge-AI processing. To maximize the performance of demanding AI applications, the chipset packs four Arm Cortex-A73 2.1 GHz processors and four Arm Cortex-A53 2.0 GHz processors in an octa-core big. LITTLE configuration. For an additional power boost, the chipset has an improved Arm Mali-G72 MP3 GPU operating at up to 900 MHz, which provides a 13 percent performance improvement compared to the Helio P60.

“With an enhanced AI engine that works seamlessly across the CPU and GPU, Helio P70 delivers much faster performance for AI applications and is still highly power efficient,” said TL Lee, General Manager of MediaTek’s Wireless Communication business unit. “The introduction of Helio P70 continues MediaTek’s commitment to deliver high-end smartphone features and advanced technology for the mass market.”

Enhanced AI Engine

Helio P70’s enhanced AI engine delivers a 10 to 30 percent AI processing boost compared to the Helio P60. That means Helio P70 can support more complex AI applications such as real-time human pose recognition and AI based video encoding.

MediaTek’s AI video encoder enhances video call quality even when connection bandwidth is limited. It can be used for video calls including Skype calls, Facebook video calls and Youtube live video streaming.

Helio P70 is built on MediaTek’s NeuroPilot platform, the company’s comprehensive hardware and software ecosystem to support edge AI. NeuroPilot supports common AI frameworks, including TensorFlow, TF Lite, Caffe, Caffe2 and custom third party offerings.

Fluid Gaming  Experience

Helio P70 GPU enhancements also deliver a better overall gaming experience. It’s optimized to reduce frame-rate jitter and improve latency for touch controls and display visuals for a smooth, fluid gaming experience.

High Performance Camera Features

Helio P70 supports a variety of AI-infused photo and video experiences including real-time beautification, scene detection and artificial reality (AR) capabilities. The chipset features improved deep-learning facial detection with up to 90 percent accuracy. With support for a super-sized 32MP single camera, or 24+16MP dual cameras, the chipset gives device makers more design flexibility. Its three ISPs are tuned to provide significant power savings, reducing consumption by 18 percent compared to previous Helio generation dual-camera setups.

Seamless Connectivity

Helio P70 comes with a 4G LTE modem and 300MBit/s of download performance. Dual 4G VoLTE support provides a seamless user experience across two different SIMs for higher quality calls and faster connection times. Helio P70 also features MediaTek’s smart antenna technology, which automatically uses the best antenna combination to sustain signal quality.

The Helio P70 is in volume production now, and is expected to be available in consumer devices by November of this year.

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Incorporated (TWSE: 2454) is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables 1.5 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies and advanced multimedia solutions across a broad range of products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, OTT boxes, wearables and automotive solutions. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and more easily achieve their goals through smart technology. We call this idea Everyday Genius and it drives everything we do.

Please visit www.mediatek.com for more information.

SDN & NFV India Congress 2017

Held for the first time in India, ‘SDN & NFV India Congress 2017’ will create the principal market focus for network innovation, and which will lead to largest meeting place for carrier Network Transformation industry leaders in India. More than 220 executives, decision makers, leaders and activists meet, learn and exchange knowledge face-to-face in this conference in the presence of telecom industry audience at the venue. The Congress is going to be the industry leading debating forum and showcase for the rapidly growing and massively influential, Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization industries in the context of Indian telecommunications industry.

With sponsors and supporting partners like Huawei, Ericsson, Juniper Networks, IBM, Nokia, ADVA Optical Networking, Lavelle Networks, UT Starcom, and COAI the agenda of the Congress has been crafted in a judicious manner to embrace areas of Network Innovation with the most relevance and urgency for carriers today, including- SDN &NFV in India- understanding the opportunity, defining the business case for network virtualization, and the evolving role of SDN & NFV on 5G Networks.

Recent report from IDC says, ‘The worldwide SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments will grow from $960 million in 2014 to over $8 billion by 2018, representing a robust CAGR of 89.4%. This forecast for the SDN ecosystem includes in-use physical network infrastructure, controller and network-virtualization software, SDN network and security services and related applications, and SDN-related professional services.’ NFV virtualizes network services through technologies and cloud computing software to enable operators to reduce CAPEX & OPEX and deliver agility and flexibility.  India is one of the largest markets for telecommunications industry at present and with the emergence of 5G technology, SDN & NFV will play a very important role.

‘Indian Telecommunication sector is in a transformation phase and growing demand for bandwidth are pushing Indian telcos to explore technologies like SDN and NFV, which have the potential to help them to maximize resource utilization. SDN & NFV India Congress 2017 is designed in a way which attracts the leaders in the SDN & NFV movement from India’s telecommunications industry to participate at the Congress.’ says Anjani Kumar Singh, CEO, Nexgen Conferences Pvt. Ltd.

About Nexgen Conferences

Nexgen Conferences provides businesses and professionals an opportunity to engage with a focused audience through live CXO events, B2B conferences, tradeshows, seminars, exhibitions, press conferences and corporate briefings. We believe that there is a huge opportunity to transform country’s information and communications technology (ICT) environment. However, this can be achieved only if we have a meaningful platform for collaboration and idea sharing.

We understand that the industry need focused and specialized events and exhibitions to meet the next generation challenges of the sector. By concentrating on creating knowledge based forums, we work with the industry to achieve desired deliberations.

For further information, please visit www.nexgenconferences.com.

• Acer Nitro 5 delivers an astounding, affordable and portable gaming experience that lets users go from browsing to beast mode on a budget!

• Razor-sharp design is offset by a contemporary red hinge along the lid, providing a refined aggression.

• Packs in NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050/1050Ti graphics card, 7^th Generation Intel Core i7 processor and advanced cooling system.

Acer, one of the world’s leading gaming PC makers brings in another terrific performer to its gaming series by introducing the powerful Nitro 5 in India. Packed with features you truly need in a gaming laptop, Nitro 5 delivers an astounding, affordable and portable gaming experience that deliver everyday usability with ultimate performance to play demanding games on  a budget.

Acer Nitro 5

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Consumer Business Head said, “We are extremely excited to launch Acer Nitro 5 in India, the device is an unmatched combination of price and features. We thoroughly believe that every aspiring gamer deserves a great gaming device which lets them play advanced games while still be a great choice to do day-to-day tasks, hence, that’s where we thought to introduce Nitro 5 which is incredibly powerful with an unbeatable price.”

The Acer Nitro 5 will be available on FlipKart and Acer Stores for customer to buy starting from Rs.75,990/-.

Aggressive Design 

The Nitro 5’s design features a matte black chassis with a hairline finish, while its smooth sleek red hinge runs along the back of the notebook, above the bold air grill vent. The keyboard features red backlighting, and the WASD keys and touchpad are also outlined in red to raise the gaming excitement and ease of use.

Incredible Performance

Powered by 7^th Intel Core i7 or i5 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/1050Ti graphics card with 4GB DDR5 RAM along with fast SSD and 16GB RAM, the laptop has oodles of power to breeze through demanding applications and games while handling day-to-day tasks without breaking a sweat.

Immersing in Games

Acer Nitro 5offers a vibrant 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS display, while Dolby Audio™ Premium and Acer TrueHarmony™ technology provides incredible sound depth, wider bass, surround sound and crystal clear clarity to provide immersive experiences for gaming or watching movies.  

Absolute Cooling

Of course, no gaming system is complete without a thermal solution to manage heat and keep the system running optimally. The Nitro 5 is equipped with dual fans and Acer Coolboost™ technology, which cools the CPU and GPU by more than 11% and also allows users to manually control the cooling process when heavy use requires an added boost.

Seamless Connectivity

Ideal for accelerating boot-up time and shortening in-game loading times, the selected device models come equipped with fast 128GB SSD paired with 1TB HDD for storage. A Gigabit Ethernet port delivers fast and reliable wired connections, while the 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO wireless technology provides blazing-fast wireless connectivity. A comprehensive selection of ports includes one USB 3.1 Type-C (Gen 1) port, one USB 3.0 port with power-off charging, two USB 2.0 ports, and an HDMI 2.0 port1, which can support up to 90 Hz refresh rates.

About Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is a hardware + software + services company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of innovative products that enhance people's lives. Acer's product offerings include PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets, smartphones and wearables. The company is also developing cloud solutions to bring together the Internet of Things. Acer employs 7,000 people and ranks No. 4 for total PCs globally (IDC 2014). Revenues for 2014 reached US$10.39 billion.

For more information, Please visit www.acer.co.in.

© 2017 Acer Inc. All rights reserved. Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Inc. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.

With the development of new services, such as HD videos, over the top (OTT), bring your own device (BYOD), cloud services and Internet of things (IoT), network traffic has increased sharply. Operators need to increase their bandwidth to Gigaband service, but face long network construction duration and low return on investment (ROI). To solve this problem, these operators have to explore new services as well as business models and redefine their business blueprints. Huawei noted that building agile, intelligent, efficient and open cloud-based networks is the key for operators to transform their businesses.

Huawei released the CloundFAN prototype for MSOs, so as to implement its All-Cloud Network solution. Based on the distributed converged cable access platform (D-CCAP) solution, the CloudFAN prototype enables smooth evolution to the cloud. By supporting agile services, converged architectures and intelligent O&M, this CloudFAN prototype helps MSOs achieve commercial transformation.

• For home users, the cloud platform of CloudFAN along with intelligent terminals can deliver various innovative services, such as one-touch bandwidth acceleration, intelligent Wi-Fi, home safeguard, security surveillance and parental control. Users are able to define their services flexibly and have better experience. For enterprises, the CloudFAN prototype provides cloud management, which enables the automatic E2E configuration of business services over DOCSIS (BSoD) and Layer 2 virtual private network (L2VPN) leased lines. By using this platform, enterprises can deploy new services by themselves, adjust bandwidths flexibly, improve new service provisioning efficiency and enhance network security.

• The cloud platform of CloudFAN supports product integration and interoperability by using the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) interfaces. That is, this platform shields the differences between the CMTS, I-CCAP, R-MACPHY, R-PHY and DPoE architectures to realize fast network integration. Next-generation optical line terminals (OLTs) support both fiber to the home (FTTH) and D-CCAP solutions. They also support the interconnection with the CloudFAN cloud platform and network controllers, meeting cloud architecture requirements of all-optical access evolution in the future.

• The cloud platform of CloudFAN supports intelligent O&M for HFC networks. This O&M includes proactive detection of network-wide faults, automatic identification and demarcation of typical faults, lightweight and visualized web pages and smartphone Apps, eliminating the use of handhold testers and improving network reliability and O&M efficiency.

Huawei's HFC network–based D-CCAP solution has been large-scale commercially deployed by mainstream MSOs in 30 countries, including Denmark, New Zealand, Spain, Mexico, France, Japan and Brazil, covering over 50 million home broadband users. Huawei's HFC network–based CloudFAN prototype will further help MSOs realize smooth evolution to the cloud and achieve business success.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei’s 180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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"Upgrading to the latest version of Epicor ERP not only ensures we are running the absolute best version of the software, but it also allows our business to take advantage of the latest features that enables us to grow our business by giving users the freedom to focus on core business responsibilities,” Daniel Sirow - Vice President Independent Components Corporation

Building on the strengths of its cloud-first architecture, the latest release provides powerful new capabilities to support operational excellence, improved visibility and revenue expansion - critical to achieve sustained growth in the increasingly competitive and fast-paced global business arena, with new functionality to support top-line revenue growth while controlling bottom-line costs.

“With margins for products eroding, customer demands increasing, and an uncertain and somewhat unstable global economy, manufacturers need to use technology to increase their business agility and enable strategic decision-making,” said Scott Hays, Senior Vice President, Product Marketing, Epicor. “Designed to support how people work, today and in the future, Epicor ERP helps businesses make the most of technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data and analytics, social collaboration, mobility and additive manufacturing.”

Epicor ERP now provides greater cloud deployment flexibility and new and enhanced business functionality out-of-the-box, including new capabilities to support global growth and expansion, business transformation and efficiencies in mission-critical operations such as quality and compliance. The new release alsofeatures fully integrated enterprise content management capabilities from the company’s January 2017 acquisition of DocStar. These new competencies support business transformation initiatives focused on improved customer-centricity, collaboration, efficiency and expansion to address new market opportunities.

Available now in 36 languages for upgrades and new cloud deployments worldwide, businesses using the latest version of Epicor ERP will benefit from the following features:

• New dedicated tenancy cloud option: In addition to multi-tenancy and single-tenancy deployment options, the new dedicated cloud option offers greater flexibility and control.

• International financial and compliance capabilities: Expanded international financial applications and a new electronic compliance engine to ease the reporting, tax and payment processing complexities of operating in multiple geographies.

• New data analytics packages: Epicor Data Analytics (EDA) offers flexible and easy-to-use analytics tightly integrated with Epicor ERP. Via configurable dashboards, EDA drives data visibility, for improved decision making.

• New tools for greater productivity in front and back-end processes: A new 2D Design Visualization Tool enhances the Epicor ERP configure-to-order design function. New functions have also been added to Epicor Manifest–the automated shipping software.

• New resources streamline upgrades and support training: New tools, including the Epicor Site Analyzer and a new rapid data migration option accelerate the upgrade process for customers transitioning from on premise to cloud deployment models. Epicor University also offers education and training on the new ERP functionality.

According to Epicor customers, upgrading to the latest version of Epicor ERP helps to ensure their companies are running the absolute best version of the software. “It allows our business to take advantage of the latest features that enable us to grow our business - giving users the freedom to focus on core business responsibilities,” said Daniel Sirow, Vice President, Independent Components Corporation, a wholesale distributor of OEM quality aftermarket air compressor parts and accessories.

About Epicor ERP
Ideal to support make-to-order, configure-to-order and configure-to-stock manufacturing and guided by the needs of today’s users, Epicor ERP is a global enterprise resource planning solution that delivers the choice, flexibility and agility to drive growth and opportunity throughout your business without the complexity of legacy platforms. A single, end-to-end software solution for business, Epicor ERP is available in the cloud or on-premises. Epicor ERP offers a modular approach with robust capabilities focused on reducing costs, streamlining processes and improving customer responsiveness across the enterprise - all top priorities toward achieving continued growth and profitability. Visit the Epicor ERP solution hub to learn more.

About Epicor Software Corporation

Epicor Software Corporation drives business growth. We provide flexible, industry-specific software designed around the needs of our manufacturing, distribution, retail and service industry customers. More than 40 years of experience with our customers’ unique business processes and operational requirements are built into every solution - in the cloud or on premises. With this deep understanding of your industry, Epicor solutions manage complexity, increase efficiency and free up resources so you can focus on growth.

For more information, connect with Epicor or visit www.epicor.com.

Epicor and the Epicor logoare trademarks or registered trademarks of Epicor Software Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. The product and service offerings depicted in this document are produced by Epicor Software Corporation.

Mr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, The National Business Manager for Display Products

Sanjoy comes with a rich work experience of 24 years in the IT industry having worked with many IT companies since 1993. He has vast experience in hardcore IT peripherals & Display business and was associated with organizations like TVSE, Redington & LG Electronics. During his tenure with LG, he was able to position LG as the No. 1 in market share in the non-bundle market.

Commenting on the appointment, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Consumer Business Head, Acer India said, “It gives me immense pleasure to welcome Sanjoy to the team as our National Business Manager for Display Products. I am sure with his skills he is going to position Acer amongst the top players in this display segment and also prove to be a very dynamic leader in the organization”.

Mr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, excited to be part of the team said, “I am delighted to be a part of the Acer family and take this opportunity to accomplish Acer’s vision of being industry leaders across all product verticals. Acer has won many prestigious awards and launched path breaking products including 4K projectors in the display segment and it is my pleasure to lead this business line and take the organization to greater heights”

Sanjoy has seen great success at his previous organization and has contributed immensely to their growth. He aims to make Acer as the No. 1 brand in the display segment with the help of product leadership, alignment with trade partners and customer trust. Acer is excited that he has decided to join them to drive the next growth story in their display product category.

About Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is a hardware + software + services company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale and support of innovative products that enhance people's lives. Acer's product offerings include PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets, smartphones and wearables. The company is also developing cloud solutions to bring together the Internet of Things. Acer employs 7,000 people and ranks No. 4 for total PCs globally (IDC 2014). Revenues for 2014 reached US$10.39 billion.

Please visit www.acer.co.in and our social media channels for more information:

www.facebook.com/acerindia; www.twitter.com/Acer_India; www.youtube.com/user/AcerIsEasy

© 2015 Acer Inc. All rights reserved. Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Inc. Other trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.

Reliance Corporate IT Park Limited (“RCITPL”) – a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) to launch ‘SARAL GST’ solution for taxpayers in the GST regime. The offering will enable taxpayers to be GST compliant and smoothly access the Government’s GST System, once GST is rolled out from July 1, 2017. SARAL GST will leverage the expertise of RCITPL as GST Suvidha Provider (GSP) and SAP as Application Service Provider (ASP).

SARAL GST presents a value proposition for taxpayers focused around simplified operations, unified support and high quality of service, enhanced with scalability and security. As a GSP, RCITPL will connect ASPs to the Government’s GST system through Jio MPLS network. SAP, in its role as ASP, will enable taxpayers to effectively create, manage and file GST Returns in a simple, safe and seamless environment.This collaboration of the two industry leaders thus offers the full potential of GST and boosts the success of Digital India initiative.

“GST is not just a tax reform but is an unprecedented opportunity for companies to improve functional efficiencies and realize increased profitability,” said Neeraj Athalye, Head, S/4HANA & GST Adoption Drive, SAP India. “Besides helping businesses get compliant with the new law seamlessly, SARAL GST will also enable them to benefit from the GST vision.”

“We see GST as the next avenue to enrich and enhance the nation’s Digital Life experience,” said Rajkumar N. Pugalia, Head, Reliance GST Initiatives. “SARAL GST represents the extension of the two-decade partnership between SAP and Reliance to help tax payers transform into a secure digital enterprise with end-to-end support.”

About Reliance Corporate IT Park Limited

Reliance Corporate IT Park Limited (“RCITPL”) is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited and caters to the in-house IT needs of the Group. RCITPL’s IT and technological capabilities have been further enhanced by Jio with “Jio Digital Life”. In light of its own capabilities and further leveraged by Jio’s infrastructure and capabilities, RCITPL has been licensed as‘ GST Suvidha Provider (GSP)’ by the Government to serve the Tax Payers for their GST Needs.

RCITPL is developing a state-of-the-art GSP service environment and further enrichment is being done by Jio. Jio has built a world-class all-IP data strong future proof network with latest 4G LTE technology. It is future ready and can be easily upgraded to support even more data, as technologies advance on to 5G, 6G and beyond.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 345,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously and grow sustainably.

For more information, visit www.sap.com.

• 87 percent of enterprises are facing a gap between user demand and what IT can deliver, or an ‘Availability Gap’

• Unplanned downtime cost enterprises an average of Rs. 145 crores million each per year, up 36 percent YoY

• 96 percent of enterprises admit that Digital Transformation initiatives are being held back by unplanned downtime

96 percent of organizations have Digital Transformation initiatives on their roadmap and more than half of those initiatives are in process now. There is obviously a huge appetite across enterprises to utilize innovation for competitive advantage and this places a huge burden on businesses to deliver access to services, data and apps, at any time and from anywhere 24.7.365. However, according to the latest industry data released today from Veeam^® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, there is a major disconnect between user expectations and what IT can deliver and it is hindering innovation. In fact,(87 percent of enterprises admit to suffering an ‘Availability Gap’ (the gap between users demand for uninterrupted access to services and what businesses and IT can deliver), which is impacting the bottom line to the tune of Rs. 150 crores per year and almost two thirds of respondents admit that this is holding back innovation.

Now in its sixth year, the 2017 Veeam Availability Report surveyed more than 1,000 senior IT leaders from 24 countries and shows that 65 percent of global enterprises feel that Availability (continuous access to services) is a requirement for Digital Transformation; however, the majority of senior IT leaders (66 percent) feel these initiatives are being held back by unplanned downtime of services caused by cyber-attacks, infrastructure failures, network outages and natural disasters (with server outages lasting an average of 85 minutes per incident).  While many organizations are still “planning” or “just beginning” their transformational journeys, more than two thirds agree that these initiatives are critical or very important to their C-suite and lines of business.

The Business Cost of an Outage: More Than Lost Revenue

The 2017 Veeam Availability Report reveals once more the true impact of downtime on businesses. While downtime costs vary, the data shows that the average annual cost of downtime for each organization in this study amounts to $21.8 million, up from $16 million from last year’s report. 

Downtime and data loss are also causing enterprises to face public scrutiny, in ways that cannot be measured by a balance sheet. This year’s study shows that over half of enterprises see a loss of customer confidence and 66 percent experienced damage to brand integrity, which affect both brand reputation and customer retention. Looking at internal implications, over a third of respondents see diminished employee confidence and 38 percent have experienced a diversion of project resources to ‘clean up’ the mess.

The Multi-Cloud Future

Unsurprisingly, cloud and its various consumption models are changing the way businesses approach data protection. The report shows that more and more companies are considering cloud as a viable springboard to their digital agenda, with software as a service investment expected to increase by over 50 (50) percent in the next 12 months. Indeed, almost half of business leaders (80 percent) believe cloud providers can deliver better service levels for mission-critical data that their internal IT process. Investments in Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) are expected to rise similarly as organizations combine them with cloud.

Protection Gap Creates a Challenges

In addition, 97 percent of enterprises are seeing what Veeam has identified as a ‘Protection Gap’ (an organization's tolerance for lost data being exceeded by IT’s inability to protect that data frequently enough), with their expectations for uptime consistently being unmet due to insufficient protection mechanisms and policies. Although companies state that they can only tolerate 72 minutes per year of data loss within ‘high priority’ applications, Veeam’s findings show that respondents actually experience 127 minutes of data loss, a discrepancy of nearly one hour.  This poses a major risk for all companies and impacts business success in many ways.

Supporting Quotes

“Today, immediacy is King and consumers have zero tolerance for downtime, be it of a business application or in their personal lives. Companies are laser-focused on delivering the best user experience and whether they realize it or not, at the heart of this is Availability. Anything less than 24.7.365 access to data and applications is unacceptable. However, our report states such ubiquitous access is merely a pipedream for many organizations, suggesting new questions need to be asked of transformation plans and a different conversation started about existing infrastructure. Enterprises are facing a major crisis from competitors that are able to offer this uptime and combine that with user experience.”

• Peter McKay, President and COO of Veeam Software

“The results of this survey show that most companies, even large, international enterprises, continue to struggle with fundamental backup/recovery capabilities, which along with affecting productivity and profitability are also hindering strategic initiatives like Digital Transformation. In considering the startling Availability and Protection gaps that are prevalent today, IT is failing to meet the needs of their business units, which should gravely concern IT leaders and those who answer to the Board.”

• Jason Buffington, Principal Analyst for data protection at the Enterprise Strategy Group

About the Report

Veeam commissioned Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a leading IT analyst, research, and strategy company, to develop and execute the survey for this report. ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of 1,060 ITDMs from private  and public sector organizations with a minimum of 1,000 employees, in 24 different countries, in late 2016. The countries surveyed include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the UAE, UK and the US. For a full copy of the 2017 Veeam Availability Report.

About Veeam Software

Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 45,000 ProPartners and more than 230,000 customers worldwide. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.

To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com.

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled the India Digital Experience Report, which revealed how India’s best known brands can jeopardize customer loyalty over an unsatisfied digital experience. The report states that only 8 per cent of customers unsatisfied with their digital experience would continue to remain loyal to the brand.

SAP’s India Digital Experience Report highlights how some of the country’s largest brands perform in delivering digital experiences to their customers.

Key findings from the report

• Only 8% Customers Unsatisfied with Digital Experience would continue to remain loyal to a brand

• On average, consumers delighted with the digital experience are 5 times more likely to disclose information with organizations across industry

• A significant digital gap exists between the best and worst performing brands across all markets in Asia Pacific Japan

• The gap between the highest and lowest scoring brands was 60 per cent points

• 59 per cent of consumers were delighted and 15 per cent unsatisfied with their digital experience

• India achieved a digital experience score of 44 per cent

• Automotive was the top performing sector followed by Banking

• Lagging in digital experience are Telcos, Utilities and Government 

Digital experiences can make or break a brand in today’s era and a strong digital infrastructure is imperative for any brand to remain relevant for its audience. The report further finds how a significant digital gap exists between the best and worst performing brands across all markets in Asia Pacific Japan.

Industry reports state that India’s economy is expected to grow from USD 2 Trillion to USD 10 Trillion by the year 2030. “Digital transformation will be crucial for accelerating the growth of India’s economy,” said Deb Deep Sengupta, President and Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “The report corroborates the need for the industry to identify ‘Digital Business Leaders’ who can address the digital experience that businesses provide to their customers. SAP feels proud to be associated with these ‘Digital Winners’ who have embraced a digital mindset and a will to succeed in this digital economy.”

About theSAP India Digital Experience Report

To better understand the digital experiences being delivered by India’s leading brands and how these compare to consumer expectations, SAP commissioned AMR to poll 3,000 consumers. Respondents rated nearly 8,000 digital interactions to create an index of 48 largest and best-known brands across eight industries (namely retail – consumer; retail – grocery; telecommunications/ISPs; insurance; banking; utilities; media & entertainment; government). SAP conducted follow-up interviews with brands recording the best digital experiences to identify the reasons for these outcomes.

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 345,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously and grow sustainably.

For more information, please visit www.sap.com.

For view, India Digital Experience Report click here

Enabling Digital Transformation via the Hybrid Cloud

It is increasingly understood that digital transformation is a critical imperative for enterprises worldwide, irrespective of size or vertical market. Organizations that fail to create value, growth and competitive advantage through new digital offerings and business models risk major consequences including long-term business irrelevance. At the heart of this transformation is the hybrid cloud.

IDC forecasts that public IT cloud services revenue will exceed $203.4 billion by 2020, recording a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.5 percent - almost seven times the rate of overall IT market growth.^[i] In 2019, public IT cloud services will drive a fifth of the $716 billion aggregate revenue generated by the need for applications, development and deployment tools, infrastructure software, storage and servers. By 2018, more than half of enterprises' IT infrastructure and software investments will be cloud based (private and public), reaching 60 to 70 percent of IT spend by 2020.

Organizations are now reassessing their data centers and embracing a hybrid cloud strategy to meet the challenge of digital transformation. However, maintaining Availability across a hybrid cloud environment is not easy. Which is why today’s news, seeing Veeam operate deeper on the Cisco HyperFlex platform, means businesses can realize not only the increased efficiency and adaptability benefits of Cisco HyperFlex and the computing power of Cisco UCS, but with the integration of Veeam, ensure data remains available 24.7.365 across a multi-cloud environment.

Achieve Advanced Availability with Veeam and Cisco HyperFlex

“Reducing recovery time for data and applications is paramount for businesses, that’s why today’s announcement is so important for the market,” said Peter McKay, President and Chief Operating Officer, Veeam. "By combining Veeam’s proven Availability solutions with Cisco’s next-generation HyperFlex platform, we can offer customers unmatched data and application availability. This means a business can realize its investment in IT, without the production downtime that stifles its ability to execute and deliver innovative products and services to customers.”

Today’s news builds on a successful collaboration between Veeam and Cisco, which began in 2013 with joint solutions based on Cisco UCS server technology and Veeam Availability Suite. Now, as businesses place more critical data and systems online to reap the benefits of digital transformation and utilize data to make better, more informed business decisions, management of that data has become more critical.

“Digital transformation is driving explosive growth for Cisco HyperFlex,” said Kaustubh Das, Cisco VP, Product Management, Storage. “Veeam’s data protection solution is now deeply integrated with HyperFlex. This integration helps our customers realize the full potential of a next-gen, hyperconverged infrastructure while allowing for rapid business adaptability, minimizing risk, and decreasing downtime for today’s 24.7.365 operations.”

Key benefits of Veeam direct integration with Cisco HyperFlex include

• Improved Recovery Point Objectives – Using Backups from Storage Snapshots enables the user to run a backup at any time and any frequency, reducing a business’ exposure to data loss.

• Minimized Impact on Production – Not using VMware VM snapshots means the high impact of snapshot create and delete operations are eliminated. This dramatically reduces the performance impact on production VMs during the copy process.

• Accelerated Backups – Potentially improves copy speed up to twice as much compared to the standard VMware vSphere APIs, through the unique ability to backup data directly from the file system with asynchronous reads when using Veeam Availability Suite 9.5.

• Agentless Application Aware Backup – Across multiple applications, such as Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and Oracle.

• Storage Replication – Customers can now replicate Cisco HyperFlex workloads to another HyperFlex System or to any other VMware vSphere environment including Veeam Cloud & Service Providers by using Veeam’s VM Replication functionality.

Veeam’s direct integration with Cisco HyperFlex will be available globally in Q2 CY2017.

Supporting Quotes

“Enterprises leveraging Cisco Hyperflex got a nice win today with the announcement that Veeam can now do direct snapshots of their infrastructure,” said Dan Thompson, Senior Analyst, 451 Research. “With this new, tighter integration, backups take place lower in stack, freeing up resources and saving precious time in those ever-shrinking windows. This improvement brings with it the possibility of a shorter RPO (recovery point objective), which gives organizations more options within their backup and disaster recovery plans.”

“Veeam has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Cisco and I am delighted that we are further deepening this relationship with native snapshot integration for Cisco HyperFlex”, said Andy Vandeveld, VP of Alliances at Veeam. “This is another example of Veeam working tightly with best of breed storage and server vendors to deliver greater performance to ensure data availability. Customers have made it clear they want us to partner with the major storage and server vendors to deliver flexible solutions that work and meet their growing demands for Availability. That’s what we’ve done here. Cisco’s HyperFlex offers a significant differentiation for customers looking to scale storage and compute capacity. Now those same customers can benefit from our new direct integration, which delivers market-leading Availability.”

“Akris is an International fashion brand with store locations worldwide,” said Thomas Kaeser, CIO, Akris, a leading fashion retailer based in Switzerland. “When we needed a flexible, scalable and secure infrastructure to support our operations we chose, together with our partner Ceruno AG, Cisco HyperFlex and Veeam Availability Suite. Now with deep snapshot integration with HyperFlex, our backups and recoveries will be even faster helping us deliver 24x7 operations.”

“Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. is undergoing dramatic growth and the variety of applications used is rapidly increasing. Traditional backup solutions are not scalable and hence are not able to meet the growing needs of the business,” said Chao WANG, IT Manager at Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., a high-tech pharmaceutical firm in China. “Veeam’s integration with Cisco HyperFlex solution is highly flexible, scalable and easy to implement. The Veeam snapshot integration makes backups much faster so there is less impact to the production workloads (VMs) when the backups are taken. It only requires the addition of nodes to increase performance and capacity, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) which meets the demands of our growing business, and showcases the development trend of industries.”

“Our goal is to help customers take full advantage of technology and our customers are looking to us to provide them guidance as they navigate the digital transformation”, said Costa Diamandis, Uplinx Advanced Services, a business partner based in Perth, Australia. “Cisco HyperFlex based on UCS servers and Veeam combine to help us fulfil that promise by offering best in class hyperconverged and availability solutions.”

For more information, please visit www.veeam.com.

About Veeam Software

Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. to address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 45,000 ProPartners and more than 230,000 customers worldwide. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland and the company has offices throughout the world.

To learn more, please visit https://www.veeam.com.

About Cisco

Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks.

[i] Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide, International Data Corporation (IDC); February 20, 2017.

Editor’s Summary

• Acer India has been awarded as the “Best Customer Service Initiative” award

• The award highlights Acer’s continuous journey to provide unmatched services to its customers through various innovative initiatives and programs

Acer India, one of the largest PC vendors in the country, has been awarded as “The Best Customer Service Initiative” brand, at The Customer Fest show, 2017. The award highlights Acer’s seamless determination to provide unmatched services to its customers through various innovative initiatives and programs.

Acer India - The Customer Fest show, 2017

The10th Customer Loyalty & Customer Engagemet Summit gathered the leading B2C brands across all verticals durables, non-durables, retail, travel, financial services, healthcare, telecom, entertainment to discuss best practices for building cohesive, all-encompassing customer loyalty strategies. Acer was chosen as the winner, amongst some very prominent brands, during a ceremony held at Taj Land’s End in Mumbai recently. It was an industry wide award and the final winner was chosen after much deliberation and jury rounds.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, Sr. Director and Consumer Business Head, Acer India said, “We feel honored to be awarded with the prestigious “Best Customer Service Initiative” award. At Acer, we have always valued our customers and therefore, have strived to provide them with an exceptional after sales experience through various initiatives. This recognition demonstrates our determination towards our customers and going further, we look forward to delight them by working in this momentum.”

Acer has always stayed ahead of the curve and has moved beyond just being a computing-only brand to a technology-driven brand. The company had recently launched path breaking products like world’s thinnest laptop Acer Aspire Swift 7; the, the ultra slim convertible notebook Acer Spin 7 in India amongst others. With over 1500 service centres Acer also assures the best brand experience and service post purchase of the product as well. 

Acer’s passion for innovation and customer-centricity has taken the company to unprecedented levels, and the company is well poised to change growth orbits and venture into new horizons.

About Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is a hardware + software + services company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale and support of innovative products that enhance people's lives. Acer's product offerings include PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets, smartphones and wearables. The company is also developing cloud solutions to bring together the Internet of Things. Acer employs 7,000 people and ranks No. 4 for total PCs globally (IDC 2014). Revenues for 2014 reached US$10.39 billion.

For more information, Please visit www.acer.co.in 

© 2017 Acer Inc. All rights reserved. Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Inc. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.

Acer India, one of the largest PC Company in the country is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms. Chandana Gupta as the Associate Director for Consumer Sales. Ms. Chandana will lead a talented and experienced team to drive deeper engagement with the partners and help grow the consumer business to even greater heights.

Ms. Chandana Gupta

Ms. Chandana comes with a rich work experience of 23 years in the IT industry. Her experience span covers Regional sales to National sales in both consumer and commercial (enterprise and SMB) for T1 & T2 Channels. Her last assignment was with Lenovo India as Head - Consumer Distribution Sales, where she was heading T1 and T2 distribution channel for Lenovo PC products in India.

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Commenting on the appointment, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Consumer Business Head, Acer India said, “It gives me immense pleasure to welcome her to the team as our Associate Director for Sales. I am sure she is going to take Acer to new heights and prove to be a very dynamic leader in the organization”.

Ms. Chandana Gupta, excited to be part of the team said “I am delighted to join Acer and start an exciting chapter in my career, it is only been few days and I could already see the vision, energy and determination of the team at Acer. I am looking forward to the challenge ahead and lead the team to drive the consumer business to even greater success”

Mr. R. Jeganath, Chief Sales Officer, Acer India, also commented on the appointment said, “I believe Chandana has brought along a great deal of experience and learning for Acer, which is going to benefit the organization in the long run. I welcome Chandana to the Acer family and hope that her tenure with us is going to be a long and successful one”.

Chandana has seen great success at her previous organization and has contributed immensely to their growth. And Acer is excited that she has decided to join them to drive the next growth story in the consumer business

About Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is a hardware + software + services company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of innovative products that enhance people's lives. Acer's product offerings include PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets, smartphones, and wearables. The company is also developing cloud solutions to bring together the Internet of Things. Acer employs 7,000 people and ranks No. 4 for total PCs globally (IDC 2014). Revenues for 2014 reached US$10.39 billion. Please visit www.acer.co.in and our social media channels for more information:

www.facebook.com/acerindia; www.twitter.com/Acer_India; www.youtube.com/user/AcerIsEasy

© 2015 Acer Inc. All rights reserved. Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Inc. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.

Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services today announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned Infosys as a ‘Leader’ in its EMEA and North America 2016 Magic Quadrant reports for SAP® Application Services.

Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant for SAP® Application Services, EMEA’ report evaluates 19 service providers across multiple SAP® applications and technologies and Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant for SAP® Application Services, North America’ report evaluates 20 service providers. These reports assess their ability to deliver a comprehensive set of implementation and management services across the SAP® portfolio of products for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and North America respectively.

Quote:

Ravi Kumar, President and Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Infosys said, “Being named a Leader for SAP® Application Management Services by Gartner is recognition of the investments we have made in our services capabilities. Infosys is focused on building innovative solutions to help clients reshape their digital landscape. Over time, these investments in new technologies and pre-configured industry solutions have streamlined and accelerated SAP®-enabled transformation programs for our clients.”

Links:

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SAP® Application Services, EMEA

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SAP® Application Services, North America

About Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

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Magic Quadrant for SAP® Application Services, EMEA, 31 January 2017, Gilbert van der Heiden, Neil Barton, Fabio Di Capua.

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About Infosys Ltd.

Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to create and execute strategies for their digital transformation. From engineering to application development, knowledge management and business process management, we help our clients find the right problems to solve, and to solve these effectively. Our team of 199,000+ innovators, across the globe, is differentiated by the imagination, knowledge and experience, across industries and technologies that we bring to every project we undertake.

Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise thrive in the digital age.

Safe Harbor

Certain statements in this press release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. In addition, please note that any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this press release. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company unless it is required by law.

COMPUTEX, the leading global ICT show, today announced their plans for COMPUTEX 2017. With an impressive line-up of outstanding ICT innovations at their global ICT event, COMPUTEX 2017 will be held between May 30^th to June 3^rd, 2017 will focus on ‘Building Global Technology Ecosystems’ with new themes on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Innovations & Startups, Business Solutions, IoT Applications and Gaming & VR. In line with the global technology trends, the COMPUTEX d&i awards have expanded the categories, adding Robotics & AI, IoT, and AR/VR Devices + Content to the existing 6 categories. Close to 30 Taiwanese award winning products with innovative design will be displayed at the Convergence India 2017.

LEFT to RIGHT: Ms. Karen Yu, Operations Manager, TAITRA | Mr. Scott Yang, Deputy Executive Director, TAITRA | Mr. Nil Bhowmik, Country Business Head, Thermaltake | Mr. Mitesh Dave, President, Federation of Information Technology Associations of Gujarat (FITAG) | His Excellency Ambassador Chung Kwang Tien | Mr. Yang Hung, Director Taipei Economic and Cultural Central | Mr. Mr. Swapan Roy, Publisher and Editor, National Computrade News | Mr.  Alvin Wu, Manager, QNAP | Mr. Jefferey Lin, Sales Manager-Delhi, Asus | Mr. Michael Lin, Director, Taipei World Trade Center - Liaison office in Mumbai

This year, COMPUTEX, with the new themes will have InnoVEX, the global tech-startup ecosystem, reflected a hub of innovation and provided a vital International platform matching buyers and resources with global start-ups to achieve endless opportunities and cross border cooperation. SmarTEX that will stagethe latest IoT applications, iStyle, a special showcase for Apple MFi-certified peripherals and Gaming & VR for the ultimate gaming platform to display the coolest high-performance gaming products.

With the latest innovations at display from around the world, the event will see well-known brands such as Intel, Microsoft, Dell, Nvidia and Supermicro from the USA, Socionext from Japan, ARM from UK, Micronics from South Korea, Hisense from China and Acer, Asus, Adata, Asrock, BenQ, Clevo, Cooler Master, Gigabyte, G. Skill, ELITEGROUP, In Win, MSI, Thermaltake, MediaTek, Delta, Realtek Semiconductor Corp. and more. You can experience a glimpse of COMPUTEX 2017 at Convergence India 2017 being held between 8^th - 10^th February 2017 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

The Deputy Executive Director from TAITRA, Mr. Thomas Huang, speaking at the conference said, “For now, we’re expecting to have over 1,600 companies with 5,010 booths in COMPUTEX 2017”. He further added, “We saw a great turnout at COMPUTEX 2016 attracted more than 40,000 International visitors. Indian visitors who are the 12^th most number of International visitors, saw a substantial increase of 14% from the previous year. With our extensive campaign this year in India and the growing interested of start-ups and ICT brands in our event, we are hopeful to see an exponentially growth in number of visitors from here for COMPUTEX 2017.”

COMPUTEX is a one stop shop for every needs of all ICT professionals and more. It builds strategic alliances & ecosystem partners for ICT companies and bridges global startups with investors and manufacturers.

You can also visit the most significant ICT/IoT & startup trade show in Asia – COMPUTEX 2017 from May 30^th to June 3^rd, 2017. InnoVEX runs for 3 days, from May 30^th to June 1^st, 2017.

To know more about the event, visit here: www.ComputexTaipei.com.tw

About TAITRA

The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is globally recognized as Taiwan’s foremost non-profit trade promotion organization, with over 60 overseas offices around the world. For more than 40 years, TAITRA has been highly commended for its professional and outstanding services, offering a host of trade related services that cater to different business needs. Partially supported by the Taiwanese government and various commercial and industrial associations, TAITRA has been entrusted to spearhead numerous government projects, including the launch of the Taiwan Industry Image Enhancement Project (IEP) for the promotion of Taiwanese industries and to rasie awareness for brands Internationally.

About COMPUTEX TAIPEI (also called COMPUTEX)

Established in 1981, COMPUTEX is the leading global ICT show with a complete supply chain and IoT ecosystems. Co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), COMPUTEX, in the heart of Taiwan’s ICT cluster, covers the whole spectrum of ICT from upstream components-manufacturing all the way to system assembly and IoT applications. With over a third of the world’s computing devices made by Taiwanese companies, Taiwan is a strategic destination to look for partners in Internet computing ecosystems.

Huawei and Oracle officially signed a ‘Power IoT Ecosystem Partnership’ MOU recently, which will see continued cooperation around the marketing and sales of the Huawei AMI Solution with Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management (MDM), Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway (SGG) and related Oracle Utilities products.

Huawei and Oracle Officially Signed a ‘Power IoT Ecosystem Partnership’ MOU

Huawei and Oracle plan to continue cooperating around customer requirements, with the parties able to make use of Huawei’s leading-edge Information and Communication Technology products and solutions, in coordination with Oracle’s strong capability of R&D, implementation and outsourcing services in the utility industry. This collaboration will enable a robust end-to-end AMI solution helping power and grid companies to improve customer experience and operation efficiency, achieve energy saving and emission reduction.

Huawei, a Platinum member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, delivers a powerful service package, its AMI solution. This solution can manage smart meters, communications networks and head end systems using Oracle Utilities MDM, Oracle Utilities SGG and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) to support MDAS and customer systems. Previously, Huawei and Oracle successfully completed integration testing for the Huawei AMI Solution Head End System and Oracle Utilities MDM and Oracle Utilities SGG. Both parties used standard IT technology under open architecture to achieve interconnectivity.

Oracle Utilities MDM provides comprehensive management of meter commands for remote switch, data and event access and meter ping. With these functions Oracle Utilities MDM and Huawei HES work together to optimize AMI scenarios, such as smart meter implementation, remote control, power-theft analysis and power quality analysis. Based on the success of the integration test and technology seminar, Huawei and Oracle officially agreed to continue cooperation, which should help boost the global grid construction and leverage global knowledge around utilities’ maturity and direction.

Huawei Energy Solution Managing Director, Cong Peijin, said: “Huawei is very glad to establish a favorable cooperation relationship with Oracle in connected smart grid territory. We plan to increase strategic investment in solution construction, market expansion projects and joint marketing, conduct the cooperation deeply and consistently, and to finally achieve a win-win business situation.”

Oracle Greater China Regional Senior Director Sales, Stuart Shaw, said: “Oracle is looking forward to working together with Huawei in marketing, sales and technology to take the AMI Solution into the target sectors. Huawei along with Oracle’s utility and customer experience will jointly approach the customer opportunity and achieve a win-win business situation.”

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei’s 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com

• The exclusive store will open its doors to the public on 2^nd February, 2017 at Kasturibaipet - Vijayawada

• The store will be inaugurated by Mr. Bonda Uma Maheswara Rao, TDP,  Vijayawada Central MLA, one of the Key advisor and participant in IT development activities for Vijayawada and Andhra Pradesh Govt

• Designed to grab the attention of customers and meet the customer demands with the finest in-store dynamics

ACER, the leading laptop and PC player in India, announced the expansion of its retail presence in South India with the inauguration of its exclusive Mall in Vijayawada. The store will be inaugurated by Mr. Bonda Uma Maheswara Rao TDP, Vijayawada Central MLA, one of the Key advisor and participant in IT development activities for Vijayawada and Andhra Pradesh Govt.

The new store will open its doors to the public on 2^nd February, 2017 at SMART IT ZONE Kasturibaipet - Vijayawada. This centrally located store will help Acer to take the retail store experience to a wide base of customers where they can get expert consultation from trained professionals for their PC hardware purchase. Having achieved a strong hold in metros, Acer is penetrating the length and breadth of the country to address the diverse computing needs of its customers. The new store will feature the company’s entire gamut of Laptops, Desktops, Monitors and Tablets.

Elucidating the store launch, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, CMO and Business Head, Acer India said “Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is an important market for us and this is our 11^th exclusive outlet in this region. The store is a testimony to our commitment to our consumers andour endeavour is to offer a complete brand experience with the widest range of cutting-edge products to our customers in Vijayawada.”

The exclusive store launch is a part of the company’s relentless efforts to provide its customers with an immersive and informative buying experience by investing in the gamut highly trained sales personnel, wide range of products on display, sales enablement and attractive offers for our products.

Acer which has retail presence across India, aims to further strengthen its customer connect across the region. The company has recently launched path breaking products like world’s thinnest laptop Acer Aspire Swift 7; the, the ultra slim convertible notebook Acer Spin 7 in India amongst others. With over 1500 service centres Acer also assures the best brand experience and service post purchase of the product as well.

About Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is a hardware + software + services company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale and support of innovative products that enhance people's lives. Acer's product offerings include PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets, smartphones and wearables. It is also developing cloud solutions to bring together the Internet of Things. Acer is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016 and is one of the world’s top 5 PC companies. It employs 7,000 people worldwide and has a presence in over 160 countries.

For more information, please visit www.acer.com

COMPUTEX, one of world’s leading ICT trade shows will be showcasing the "Innovations in Taiwan ICT Industry" at the upcoming Convergence India 2017, the only platform in the region for technologies across Telecom, IT, Broadcast & Digital media. They will be showcasing outstanding ICT innovations and strengths including the 29 top innovative design products from COMPUTEX d&i awards winners at the event. The COMPUTEX d&i awards, organized by TAITRA, Organizer of COMPUTEX and iF, The International Forum Design, are awards to honor products with excellent design as well as technical innovation.

COMPTUEX 2017 will be held between May 30^th to June 3^rd, 2017 will focus on ‘Building Global Technology Ecosystems’ with new themes on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Innovation & Startups, Business Solutions, IoT Applications and Gaming & VR.

With their new themes, COMPUTEX will have InnoVEX, which is exclusively for innovative startups only, SmarTEX that will stagethe latest IoT applications, iStyle, a special showcase for Apple MFi-certified peripherals and Gaming & VR for the ultimate gaming platform to display the coolest high-performance gaming products. The event will see a showcase of latest innovations from world renowned brands such as ASUS, ABB, ACER, DELL, E-LEAD, INTEL, MICROSOFT, MSI, PQI, SUPERMICRO, THERMALTEK and many more International companies for COMPUTEX at Convergence India 2017.

The Executive Director from Exhibition Department, Mr. Kang Yih-Jyh, expressed his great expectation and said, “We are aiming at providing a platform that will help Indian companies especially start-ups, to display their innovations and to connect with big names from the global ICT arena at COMPUTEX 2017”. He further added, “Taiwan India bilateral trade has risen from year 2000 of 1.2 billion US dollars to 2015 of 4.8 billion US dollars. At the same time, India has become Taiwan's 18th largest trading partner and bilateral trades between the two countries are becoming more frequent. We are looking at growing this multi-fold in the years to come through our collaborations.”

COMPUTEX is a one stop shop for every needs of all ICT professionals and more. It builds strategic alliances & ecosystem partners for ICT companies and bridges global startups with investors and manufacturers. You can experience a glimpse of COMPUTEX 2017 at Convergence India 2017.

You can also visit the most significant ICT/IoT & startup trade show in Asia – COMPUTEX 2017 from May 30^th to June 3^rd, 2017. InnoVEX runs for 3 days, from May 30^th to June 1^st, 2017.

To know more about the event, visit here: www.ComputexTaipei.com.tw

About TAITRA

The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is globally recognized as Taiwan’s foremost non-profit trade promotion organization, with over 60 overseas offices around the world. For more than 40 years, TAITRA has been highly commended for its professional and outstanding services, offering a host of trade related services that cater to different business needs. Partially supported by the Taiwanese government and various commercial and industrial associations, TAITRA has been entrusted to spearhead numerous government projects, including the launch of the Taiwan Industry Image Enhancement Project (IEP) for the promotion of Taiwanese industries and to rasie awareness for brands internationally.

About COMPUTEX TAIPEI (also called COMPUTEX)

Established in 1981, COMPUTEX is the leading global ICT show with a complete supply chain and IoT ecosystems. Co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), COMPUTEX, in the heart of Taiwan’s ICT cluster, covers the whole spectrum of ICT from upstream components-manufacturing all the way to system assembly and IoT applications. With over a third of the world’s computing devices made by Taiwanese companies, Taiwan is a strategic destination to look for partners in Internet computing ecosystems.

Aligning to the Union Budget 2017, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the launch of SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud, the next generation business suite tailored for midsize companies, which will be available at a simple and affordable subscription pricing.

With increased impetus for digital, cashless transactions and a unified, transparent taxation regime, companies will need to gear up for rapid growth while balancing business control with the agility to capitalize on emerging opportunities. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, midsize companies will benefit from the innovation, flexibility and functionality of SAP S/4HANA enterprise management solution and derive the benefit of effortless scalability, ease of implementation and management.

The SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud will provide the perfect platform for businesses that are at the cusp of making strategic shift to digital. Available in a modular subscription pricing without any upfront capital investment, this solution offers enterprise-caliber data security and faster time to value allowing SMEs to go digital within weeks on predefined services.

“The recommendations in the Union Budget 2017 are tailored to accelerate growth for midsize companies,” said Deb Deep Sengupta, President and Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “Our commitment, through SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud, is to provide each and every Indian business the opportunity to tap into the power and potential of SAP HANA as they pave the way towards a pervasive digital business.”

From standard business processes to deep industry-specific functionality, companies of any size can now take advantage of SAP’s 40+ years of experience delivering solutions for businesses in every industry.

For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

NEXT, a leader and innovator in the electronic retail space, commemorates the country's transition toward becoming an independent republic and introduces amazing offers for its discerning consumers. Now 26th wouldn’t just honor the memorable date the Constitution of India came into force, but would also represent the iconic offer that would make this Republic day even more special for the NEXT consumers.

NEXT Master

On this occasion of national pride, rejoice as NEXT brings its customers a chance to buy the state-of-the-art large screen Hyundai TV with a down payment of just INR 26!  The brand is also extending the joy of Republic Day as the consumers will get to avail this golden opportunity till the 29^th of January.

The excitement doesn't end here, in addition to the option of easy EMIs, the consumers will get to enjoy the top-end Hyundai 50” TV with an extended warranty of 1+2 years along with a free D2H connection and an Americano bag worth INR 3,990, that too absolutely free.

Commenting on the offer, Mr. Sanjay Karwa, CEO, Technokart India Ltd. said, “Republic day marks a very special place in our hearts, it instills a feeling of patriotism and a sense of pride and we aim to bring the same pride in our consumers by offering them the best electronics at the best prices and offers. We always keep the affordability of the consumers in mind while planning various offering for the consumers. On this special occasion, we hope that consumers would turn up to the stores in huge numbers and make the most of this offer.”

With ease of location and exceptional services, the NEXT stores are an absolute delight and come with a strong sales team, good customer service, easy finance options, extended warranty options, exciting deals and a great shopping experience.

What will drive the customers to the state-of the-art store is the exceptional ways that they can save on their earnings this festive season and still take benefits from other exciting offers gifts. From a wide range of brands to select such as, Samsung, Videocon, Sansui, Philips, Godrej, Whirlpool, IFB and Hyundai, the stores offer each product at easy EMI’s.

Make this Republic Day even more special…Rush to your nearest NEXT store and upgrade to a big screen LED!

About Techno Kart India Ltd.          

Videocon Group promoted company Techno Kart India Ltd. is a joint retail entity and holds the key functions of all the three retail brands. Techno Kart India operates across its three formats – Digiworld, Next and Planet M. By merging the operations to form a common platform with the aim of bringing scale, improving profitability and encourage healthy competition.

Techno Kart India Ltd. is expected to have more than 1500 Cr revenue generated from the three brands, and this makes TKIL as the third largest consumer electronics, cell phones and entertainment retail chain of the country.

Incorporated in 2003, NEXT specializes in organized retailing of consumer electronics, small home appliances. NEXT is a multi-brand retail chain which retails world’s most popular brands such as Videocon, Samsung, Electrolux, Kelvinator, Whirlpool, Godrej, Philips, Kenstar and Sansui. NEXT has successfully changed the way an Indian consumer shops and plans to build a chain across the country.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced that it has been recognized as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® and one of the Best and Brightest in Wellness™ in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources.

These two awards honor organizations that display a commitment to excellence in operations and employee enrichment and recognize and celebrate quality and excellence in employee worksite health.

The 2016 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® was assessed by an independent research firm Inquisium, reviewing several key measures including: Compensation, Benefits and Employee Solutions; Employee Enrichment and Retention; Employee Education and Development; Recruitment, Selection and Orientation; Employee Achievement and Recognition; Communication and Shared Vision; Diversity andInclusion; Work-Life Balance; Community Initiatives; and Strategic Company Performance.

The Best and Brightest in Wellness™ 2016 were evaluated by SynBella, the nation’s leading wellness systems firm. Company entries were examined statistically for quantitative data and on a point based criteria to benchmark and improve wellness program effectiveness. They include outcomes, analysis and tracking, participation and incentives, benefits and programs, leadership, employee input, culture and environment.

“Companies that recognize that their employees are the key to their success achieve staying power. Our 2016 winners create their human resource standards to ensure employee satisfaction and they set standards for every business to aspire toward,” said Jennifer Kluge, President and CEO of NABR. “This year’s winning companies represent high standards and an exceptional commitment to healthy employees, healthy families and a healthy community.”

“TCS is honored to be recognized as one of the nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For and a leading organization that is heavily focused on the well being of its employees,” added Surya Kant, President, North America, UK and Europe, TCS. “These awards illustrate our deep commitment to our employees and our belief that fostering healthy minds and bodies is the best formula for success.”

About Best and BrightestCompanies to Work For®

Identifies and honors organizations that display a commitment to excellence in operations and employee enrichment that lead to increased productivity and financial performance. This competition scores potential winners based on regional data of company performance and a set standard across the nation. This national program celebrates those companies that are making better business, creating richer lives and building a stronger community as a whole. There are numerous regional celebrations throughout the country.

About The Best and Brightest in Wellness®

Celebrates those companies that are making their businesses more healthy, the lives of their employees better and the community a healthier to place to live. The Best and Brightest program provides year long education, benchmarking, assessment tools and interaction amongst the best employers.

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of  IT, BPS, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 378,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 45 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $16.5 billion for year ended March 31, 2016 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. 

For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com | @TCS_NA | @TCS_News.

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• Q3 revenues declined 0.2% sequentially in INR terms; declined 0.3% in constant currency

• Q3 year-on-year revenues grew 8.6% in INR terms; grew 7.3% in constant currency

• 9 months year-on-year revenues grew 11.9% in INR terms; 9.4% in constant currency

• LTM revenues crossed $ 10 bn

• Q3 Operating margins expanded 0.2%to 25.1% and net margins expanded 0.6% to 21.5% sequentially

• Q3 EPS grew 2.8% sequentially and 7.0% year-on-year

• Attrition declined sequentially by 0.8% on standalone basis and 1.6% on consolidated basis

• FY 17 revenue guidance revised to 8.4%-8.8% from 8.0% - 9.0% in constant currency

Financial Highlights

Consolidated results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the quarter ended December 31, 2016

• Revenues were Rs 17,273crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2016

• Net profit was Rs 3,708crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2016

                          QoQ growthwas 2.8%

                          YoY growth was 7.0%

Consolidated results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the nine months ended December 31, 2016

• Revenues were Rs 51,364crore; growth of 11.9%

• Net profit was Rs 10,749crore; growth of 8.6%

Liquid assets including cash and cash equivalents and investments were Rs 35,697crore as on December 31, 2016 as compared to Rs 35,640crore as on September 30, 2016 and Rs 31,526crore as on December 31, 2015. During the quarter, the company paid interim dividend including tax of Rs 3,029 crore

"Taking into account seasonal and other additional headwinds for the quarter, our Q3 revenue performance was broadly in line with our expectations," said Vishal Sikka, CEO and MD. "Beyond the quarterly numbers, we continue to focus sharply on the execution of our strategy, as reflected in the growing embrace of AI-based automation, growth in our new software-led business, delivering innovation, both incremental & breakthrough and fostering a learning-led culture. Our annual client survey results show highest customer satisfaction since we started the survey 12 years ago and increased adoption of Zero Distance and lowered attrition, especially amongst top performers – these are some of the key indicators of the growing creative confidence of Infoscions."

“In a seasonally soft quarter, our utilization has remained healthy.” said U B Pravin Rao, COO. “Our continued efforts to improve employee engagement and experience resulted in a reduction in attrition. During the quarter, we added 77 clients and also added 2 clients in the $ 75mn+ revenue category. I would like to congratulate all stakeholders on crossing the $ 10 bn revenue milestone on LTM basis.

“Our ongoing focus on operational efficiencies has enabled us to keep YTD operating margins at similar levels for the same period last year”, said M.D. Ranganath, CFO. “Our cash generation during the quarter was strong.”

Outlook*

The Company’s outlook (consolidated) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, under IFRS is as follows:

• Revenue guidance revised to 8.4%-8.8% from 8.0%-9.0% in constant currency;

• The above constant currency guidance translates to 9.6% - 10.0% in USD terms based on March 31^st rates, 11.6% - 12.0% based on June 30^th rates; 11.3% - 11.7% based on September 30^th rates and 10.0% - 10.4% based on December 31st rates

FY 16 constant currency rates - AUD/USD – 0.73; Euro/USD – 1.10; GBP/USD – 1.51

Currency rates as of March 31, 2016 - 1 US$ = Rs 66.26

Currency rates as of June 30, 2016 - 1 US$ = Rs 67.53

Currency rates as of September 30, 2016 - 1 US$ = Rs 66.62

Currency rates as of December 31, 2016 – 1US$ = Rs 67.93

Change of Auditors on account of mandatory rotation requirement in India

The Board of Directors of Infosys Limited (‘the Company’) at its meeting held on January 13, 2017, on the recommendation of the Audit Committee, has proposed the appointment of Deloitte Haskins & Sells, LLP, Chartered Accountants (Firm Registration No. 117366 W/W 100018) (Deloitte) as the statutory auditors of the Company, subject to the approval of the shareholders of the Company. This appointment is effective financial year ending March 31, 2018 which will include audit of the quarterly financial statements of the year. This appointment is necessitated by the requirement under Section 139 of the Indian Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules made thereunder, wherein it is mandatory for the company to rotate the current statutory auditors on completion of the maximum term permitted under the said Section. Deloitte will hold office for a period of 5 consecutive years from the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company scheduled to be held in the year 2017.

To align with the above, the Board of Directors of Company also approved the appointment of Deloitte as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the annual financial statements of the Company to be included in the Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for the year ending March 31, 2018. Please also refer to the regulatory filings published on the company’s website (under Highlights IND AS) for further details in this regard.

Management Changes 

The Company has appointed Ravikumar S. as Deputy Chief Operating Officer reporting to Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, with immediate effect. In addition to his current responsibility of heading the global delivery organization, RavikumarS. will oversee certain strategic Business Enabling Functions and will be based in India.

Business Highlights

We continue to drive new value for our clients through automation and innovation, improve our operational excellence, and invest in a culture of learning. 

RENEW

In Q3, we continued to make progress on our strategy to Renew our core services, introducing new offerings in the areas of Digital, Cloud, Data Sciences, Mainframe Modernization, Cyber security, API Microservices, Internet of Things and more to help our clients renew their core businesses. In addition, Zero Distance continued to be a key strategic differentiator to drive ongoing, grassroots innovation in every project.

Infosys leveraged the Zero Distance framework to build a custom application that provides maintenance and production support services for the Global Business Systems of LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets.

“Bringing forward innovative ideas to improve the customer experience while simultaneously reducing our operational costs is a capability where Infosys has exceeded my expectations. Infosys proposed replacing our third party system with a custom application, improving the user experience and reducing our operational costs. The implementation was completed by Infosys one month ahead of the deadline, maximizing our ability to reap financial benefits from the new custom application. This is a great example of Infosys doing more than just managing the status quo. I look forward to partnering with Infosys on future such innovations” - James W Wanke, Vice President of Technology, LexisNexis

Arizona Public Service (APS) was at the cusp of a major business transformation that required us to modernize our Customer Information System (CIS) environment without letting our customers be burdened by the complexities of the process. Infosys enabled us to accelerate the replacement of the existing system with the suitable COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product while ensuring a seamless transition and a steady state for large and complex CIS application. With its deep domain knowledge, the team leveraged its Zero Distance initiative to come up with an idea to run a parallel sustainability program that ensured the upgrade of the product with minimal disruptions. Infosys also came up with the brilliant idea to automate a large number of test cases that were previously manually tested, making certain that they were tailored to our specific scenarios. The solution provided by Infosys allows more timely delivery of products and services to our customers, saving costs for our end customers through a system that is flexible and nimble to meet their needs.” - Jasvinder Arora, Director, CIS Modernization Program, Arizona Public Service Company

The Kroger Co., the largest traditional supermarket chain by revenue and the third largest retailer in the world, has chosen Infosys to provide support for several corporate and retail systems and middleware services. “We are extremely excited about the experience and capabilities as well as the ability to scale that Infosys brings. We feel that Infosys is a good fit with our focus on customers, quality and innovation.”- Annette Franke, Vice President of Corporate Technology, The Kroger Co.

Servco, a leading Hawaii based Automotive Dealer and Distributor, has chosen Infosys as a partner to execute their ERP transformation program. “We are pleased to have selected Infosys as a partner for our key Oracle transformation program which involves the implementation of a hybrid Oracle cloud and on- premise solution across key business functions of the organization. The implementation will enable usto de-risk our business by moving away from legacy systems and establishing a strong, modern integrated platform that will benefit the critical functions at Servco. Infosys’ capabilities in Oracle ERP, Cloud technologies and Automotive Domain led us to select them for this Key Program.”- Thor Toma, Senior Vice President, Servco

“House of Fraser is on an accelerated journey to the customer centric, digital era of retailing. We are building a next generation integrated eCommerce and Customer Experience platform which combines with new backend order management and service integration capabilities online, in store and on mobile in a truly multi-channel proposition. Working collaboratively with Infosys, our partner for strategy through execution of this transformation; this game changing platform is delivered on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing infrastructure. At our business scale, we believe this is a pioneering use of cloud technology for a mission critical customer facing application and a clear demonstration of the maturity and capability of Microsoft’s cloud technology. Our positive experience of delivering this platform in partnership with Infosys and Microsoft has reinforced my confidence that the use of cloud technology will help us deliver our digital transformation at House of Fraser.” - Julian Burnett, Chief Information Officer, House of Fraser

We are seeing continued demand for Mainframe modernization across verticals, and are working on joint forays with Amazon Web Services and Azure in the market, partnering with our clients to move their Mainframe workloads to the cloud.

“We work with Infosys to create innovative technology solutions using Finacle and Amazon Web Services Cloud services. We recently conducted initial tests by offloading large components batch processing to the AWS cloud, and achieved processing speeds 100 times faster than traditional database technology, which could revolutionize the way we run core banking systems. We have also initiated our journey to modernize our legacy environments and accelerate digital transformation, with the support of Amazon Web Services and Infosys.” - David Gledhill, Group Chief Information Officer, DBS Bank

NEW

In Q3, we saw continued momentum for software and services coming together to drive new value for clients.Mana client adoption more than doubled compared to previous quarters. Skava had a strong Black Friday on retail ecommerce sites where volumes were up more than 30%. The EdgeVerve business delivered solid results with 18 wins and 21 go-lives from both the Finacle and Edge suite of solutions across various markets. AssistEdge, our Robotic Process Automation platform had its best quarter ever. Similarly in Q3, Panaya saw its best performance in terms of bookings and revenue.

Evonik, one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals has engaged Infosys in a multi-year strategic partnership. “We chose Infosys for their ability to deliver on the current IT needs for Evonik, and for their capabilities to support us on future technology modernization programs. Infosys is supporting us in the transformation of our Procurement landscape through an end-to-end Implementation of SAP Ariba, as part of Evonik’s Procurement 2020 vision. In addition, through the ideas generated by the company’s Zero Distance initiative, we have leveraged Infosys Artificial Intelligence Platform Manaand its cognitive automation capabilities, in our platform operations and have been able to analyze and reduce duplicate system monitoring alerts by 15%. We look forward to more such ideas from Infosys driving the shape of our partnership in the future.”- Thomas Meinel, Senior Vice President & Head of Application Management, Evonik Industries AG

Lifetouch, a global photography company, has partnered with Infosys to automate and monitor its incident tickets for system and infrastructure failures. As part of Lifetouch’s deployment of the Nagios tool, the Infosys Robotic Process Automation was integrated to monitor alerts. Based on the nature of the alerts, the bots are programmed to perform specific actions – such as a service desk ticket creation, the classification of an issue as well as creation of problem management tickets using built-in business logic. “Through our engagement with Infosys, not only have been able to automate manual and highly repetitive tasks like monitoring and ticket creation, but have also been able to improve the quality of our outcomes. With bots we now have 24/7 coverage with accurate monitoring and systematic alerts.” - Jay Drayton, Vice President, Lifetouch (LNSS- National Schools Studios)

Finacle continued to strengthen its position as a “Platform of Choice” for digital transformation, enabling new business models for banks.

“ICICI Bank has a rich legacy of leveraging the latest technology to bring in new paradigms in banking. Akin to pioneering new technologies in the country like software robotics, mobility and near-field communication among others, I am delighted that we are the first bank in India and among few globally to set up a blockchain application. We have also marked a milestone by piloting a blockchain network with Emirates NBD and Infosys Finacle as partners and have successfully executed cross-border open account trade finance and remittance transactions. I envision that the emerging technology of blockchain will play a significant role in banking in the coming years by making complex bilateral and multi-lateral banking transactions seamless, quick and more secure. Going forward, we also intend to work on expanding the blockchain ecosystem and create common working standards to contribute to the commercial adoption of this initiative.” - Ms. Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank

An important milestone in strengthening Finacle’s presence in the United States this quarter was the go-live of Marcus by Goldman Sachs. “With the successful deployment of the Finacle Core Banking Solution we gain both agility to respond to customer needs and scalability to adapt with market requirements while providing superior customer experience required in today’s competitive Digital Age.” - Boe Hartman, Chief Technology Officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs (Digital Finance Technology)

Cosmetics Company Shiseido, used Panaya Test Center to undergo a major IT transformation project, and helped tackle its IT Transformation project by successfully reducing the company’s global testing efforts by 30%.“To ensure we go live smoothly with our business-critical applications, we had to mobilize over 80 business users spread across 11 countries in Europe to perform user acceptance testing. Panaya helped us save 30% of our testing effort while improving the quality of our testing.” Panaya Test Center delivered test acceleration and offered Shiseido a more efficient way to manage the business process testing from an end-to-end perspective. “I could easily track the project in real time to increase our efficiency and avoid any bottlenecks. We will continue to partner with Panaya in our upcoming rollout and expect even greater value.” - Sébastien Hebert, Technical Director EMEA, Shiseido

Panaya partnered with Elton Technologies to resell licenses of Panaya’sCloudQuality™ Suite to deliver quality ERP changes with zero time-to-change, zero downtime and zero risk, providing major savings to large enterprises. “We see an excellent opportunity partnering with Panaya for many of our Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) clients planning to migrate to SAP S/4HANA in the coming years. These companies are looking at a complex ERP migration, and a widely used solution like Panaya’sCloudQuality™ Suite that offers faster testing and zero risk will certainly offer our clients significant savings.” - Prem Chander, Chief Executive Officer of Elton Technologies

In Design Thinking, we continued to work with clients in key strategic areas. “When we began the transformation of School of Management at Fudan University, we wanted to re-imagine and create a new learning experience for students and faculty, in our education programs. Our intent was to create a platform that enables a deeper engagement between students and faculty, and create a modern and smart campus, and more. For the alumni, we wanted to bring the notion of continuous learning to life, engaging with them in a much deeper way, to help them achieve their personal and professional goals long after they leave our campus and pursue their careers and lifetime objectives. Infosys was one of our key partners in imagining this future for business education at Fudan University. In our Design Thinking engagement with Infosys, we looked at the entire MBA student experience, from the students’ point of view – their motivations, expectations and aspirations. This has helped us to think very tangibly about how to transform the student experience, and has helped our teams to be much more confident in problem finding and in understanding and designing for our students’ needs. I am very pleased that we have built the momentum to experiment and prototype the 2026 student experience, with a bias towards action and a trust in the power of testing and rapid iteration.” - Xiongwen Lu, Dean of Fudan School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

CULTURE

Learnability, the ease and speed to acquire new skills, continues to be the foundation for the company’s growth. We have invested in enhancing our leadership training initiatives by offering a more global and experiential learning program at world-class institutions. We have also witnessed positive traction through partnerships with organizations such as Udacity.

This quarter we invested in advancing the learning quotient at Infosys. We rolled out new classes on Mana and machine learning topics on the Digital Tutor social learning platform and the Infosys Learning Platform. An immersive training capsule called “Automation - A Way of Life” is being rolled out for all new hires in Mysore along with an updated module on Design Thinking with concrete examples and Infosys success stories.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide

• Leader, Everest Group’s Capital Markets Outsourcing PEAK Matrix™ 2016

• Star Performer, Everest Group’s Mobility Services in Global Banking –Service Provider Landscape with PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2016

• Leader and Star Performer, Everest Group’s Big Data & Analytics Services in Global Banking – Service Provider Landscape with PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2016

• Leader, IT Outsourcing in Everest Group’s Global Insurance – Service Provider Landscape with PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2016

• Infosys was inducted into the Winner’s Circle in the HfS Product Lifecycle Management Services Blueprint Report 2016

• Leader, WW Engineering Services by Global Service Providers (based in India) by ARC Advisory

• Leader, Retail Digital Service Providers, Zinnov Zones by Zinnov

• High Performer,HfS Intelligent Automation Blueprint Report 2016

• Finacle is a Market Leader among digital platforms in “Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a Digital Banking Platform, 2017–18” report by Ovum Research

• Best Company in India, FinanceAsia’s 20th Anniversary Platinum Awards

• National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance, 16th Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

• Five marketing and innovation awards following the launch of a successful strategic technology partnership with ATP

• Infosys BPO won‘Best Employer Brand’ award by the Best Employer Institute

BEYOND BUSINESS

In India, the Infosys Foundation has invested in several impactful programs across a wide spectrum of areas including rehabilitation, arts & culture, education and rural development. Some of the key initiatives of the quarter include the curation of the Infosys Foundation Anupu Festival; sponsorship of a kitchen in Hyderabad in partnership with Akshaya Patra Foundation; an endowment to Sahapedia, a NGO, for the development of an online interactive web module on arts, culture and history of India; development of a sustainable village in Madhya Pradesh through Shivganga Samagra Gramvikas Parishad along with other investments that will benefit patients, children and the youth from underprivileged backgrounds.  

In Q3, the Infosys Foundation USA celebrated Computer Science Education Week, announcing multiple grants to enable under represented students across nine states to explore computer science (CS) and coding. The Foundation also renewed its partnership with Code.org, one of the most active CS education advocacy organizations globally. The Foundation honored 10 CS teachers with awards of excellence in partnership with ACM and CSTA and also launched the new 2016/17 cycle of the Infy Maker Awards in the U.S. which recognize dozens of Makers working on projects with a deep social impact. As of September 30, 2016, the Foundation has had a significant impact on CS education by enabling 134,529 students in 2,490 schools across all 50 states to gain access to computer science and maker education. This was made possible by supporting 2,539 teachers with critical resources such as computer science teacher training, new classroom technology and teaching aids, and makerspaces. An additional 179 coding workshops, hackathons, and coding clubs held during or after school were also supported by the Foundation.

About Infosys Ltd.

Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to create and execute strategies for their digital transformation. From engineering to application development, knowledge management and business process management, we help our clients find the right problems to solve, and to solve these effectively. Our team of 199,000+ innovators, across the globe, is differentiated by the imagination, knowledge and experience, across industries and technologies that we bring to every project we undertake.

Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise thrive in the digital age.

Safe Harbor

Certain statements in these results concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts and inability to accurately predict economic or industry trends, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. In addition, please note that the date of this release is January 13, 2017, and any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company unless it is required by law.

Infosys Limited and Subsidiaries

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of

(In Rs crore except share data)

	December31,2016		March 31,2016
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents		26,113	32,697
Current investments		4,367	75
Trade receivables		12,942	11,330
Unbilled revenue		3,413	3,029
Prepayments and other current assets		5,457	4,448
Derivative financial instruments		103	116
Total current assets		52,395	51,695
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment		11,410	10,530
Goodwill		3,760	3,764
Intangible assets		861	985
Investment in associate		100	103
Non-current investments		5,405	1,811
Deferred income tax assets		621	536
Income tax assets		5,333	5,230
Other non-current assets		755	735
Total non-current assets		28,245	23,694
Total assets		80,640	75,389
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities
Trade payables		335	386
Derivative financial instruments		6	5
Current income tax liabilities		3,879	3,410
Client deposits		27	28
Unearned revenue		1,819	1,332
Employee benefit obligations		1,428	1,341
Provisions		412	512
Other current liabilities		6,818	6,225
Total current liabilities		14,724	13,239
Non-current liabilities
Deferred income tax liabilities		225	256
Other non-current liabilities		175	115
Total liabilities		15,124	13,610
Equity
Share capital- `5 par value 240,00,00,000 (240,00,00,000) equity shares authorized, issued and outstanding 228,56,51,730(228,56,21,088), net of 1,12,92,934 (1,13,23,576) treasury shares, as of December 31, 2016 (March  31, 2016), respectively		1,144	1,144
Share premium		2,313	2,241
Retained earnings		61,452	57,655
Cash flow hedge reserve		28	-
Other reserves		-	-
Other components of equity		579	739
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