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HDS solutions help organizations deploy low risk cloud

In order to help customers tap storage resources in the cloud, Hitachi Data Systems has announced the Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering. The first in the cloud Services suite, the offering will enable enterprise customers to move legacy or lower value file data into a cloud storage environment and pay only for what they consume.

In partnership with Digi-Data Corporation, Hitachi is also offering a public online cloud storage solution that provides a complete services menu for telecommunications, service providers and system integrators to deliver public cloud storage-as-as-service offerings to consumers and SMBs.

The Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering will integrate HDS' hardware, software and services and will help organisations reduce costs, simplify management and improve the efficiency and utilization of their primary NAS environments by moving legacy or lower file data to a private cloud located within the customer’s firewall. This in turn would also help them to lower TCO of their NAS environment by at least 25 percent.

HCL Infosystems forays into the Gamers Zone

Aiming to reach out to the children of the age group of 4 to 15 years with special gaming content, HCL Infosystems has announced its entry into the gaming market, rich with unique brain-train features. This interactive gaming experience has been designed to enable affordable mass gaming, backed with interactive content to sharpen the analytical skills and intelligence quotient. George Paul, Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems, said, "Today with the rapidly transforming competitive environment, it is important that newer interactive ways through technology innovation is devised to reach out to the next generation early. We are committed to introduce innovative models for interactive content delivery and we believe gaming is one such way to bring the days of Crosswords & Sudoku back on a gadget that is appealing to especially children in the period of education foundation. With gaming gaining popularity amongst the children and teenagers, we think affordable gaming devices backed by rich educative content can be the answer to engage them with games that tests and challenges their analytical abilities." HCL ME Gaming will offer "an absolute value-for-money" gaming devices, even converged with multimedia options like imaging, recording along with various education and entertainment features. The gaming consoles will be available at various game retailers and HCL ME Exclusive stores. The Gaming devices will be built on green technology and the products will 100% recyclable, compliant to globally recognized ROHS and CE standard. With the best-assorted skill development games, the HCL ME gaming devices will be available at a highly affordable price in the contemporary Indian market.

Trend Micro reports Internet to be the most used infection vector in India

Data collected by TrendLabs from April to June shows the Internet is the number one channel in India through which malware arrived. This is followed by removable/physical devices and email. Similar to the past quarter, cybercriminals take advantage of software vulnerabilities, current events and the popularity of social media sites to proliferate their malicious deeds. FAKEAV and blackhat SEO has also made headlines this Q2.

The report also mentions that the much-awaited sports event, FIFA World Cup, was also a hot topic abused by cybercriminals. Spammed messages that promise a prize or informing users that they won a certain lottery were seen. FIFA and the Gaza attack were also employed in Twitter-related attacks that lead to the download of malware.

Old technique like phishing is still being used to steal personal information. As usual, cybercriminals also leveraged on software vulnerabilities: Adobe Reader (TIFF file), Skype component - EasyBits Extras Manager, Microsoft Windows Help Centre, and Adobe Flash Player to lead users to a series of malware infection.

"Since most of the cyber attacks come from the Net, a team working 24/7 for critical data is essential," explained Amit Nath, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Trend Micro. "Phishing is still active in the marketplace, which means old methods never die, they are just get updated."

ABACUS unveils New Graphics Cards

To provide the best performance and economical enthusiast level graphic card, Abacus Peripherals has launched SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 Series Graphics Cards. It brings a new level of DirectX 11 performance to mainstream PC enthusiasts and gamers around the world.

With this new Graphics Card, Abacus Peripherals wants to give consumers the keys to the new GF104 architecture. The GeForce GTX460 Series - SXX460768D5NM - would be priced at Rs.13,500/-. This card is available at all IT stores across India.

The Graphics Card comes with three free applications bundled. It adopts the Fermi architecture, which implements all DirectX 11 hardware features, including tessellation and Direct Compute. Fermi brings forward a vastly improved compute architecture designed specifically to support next-generation gaming effects such as ray tracing, order-independent transparency, and fluid simulations.

The GF104 supports recursion in hardware, enabling efficient ray tracing and a host of other graphics algorithms. GF104 excels not just at standard ray tracing, but also at advanced global illumination algorithms such as path tracing, which uses a much larger number of rays to collect ambient lighting information from the scene. It also supports gaming across three non-3D displays with resolutions up to 2560x1600,it's the best in Class 2D Surround Gaming.

Pitney Bowes showcases at Office Asia 2010

Pitney Bowes India will be demonstrating its innovative products and technological solutions at Office Asia 2010. The exhibition will showcase new and advanced products that supplement the office automation space and help companies get an increase RoI on investment. H. Sivaramakrishnan Director - Marketing, Pitney Bowes India, said, "We are delighted to participate in Office Asia 2010 and are focussing to tap the southern market. We believe Office Asia 2010 is one of the best trade venues for showcasing our office mailing products to SMEs and corporate and also interact with business realtors under one roof. The event provides us a great platform to reach out to our target audience and to educate them about Pitney Bowes products and solutions." Pitney Bowes will also be demonstrating a truly integrated end-to-end print and mail offering at the Office Asia. Its portfolio will cover every aspect of the office automation from maintaining data-quality and integrity, to printing, inserting, sorting, tax evidencing and providing security solutions.

Brother International unveils Colour LED Printers and MFDs

Brother International (India) has unveiled a new range of Colour LED Printers and Multi Function Devices in India. Brother extends the colour printers and MFCs range, with the launch of four new compact and high-speed LED products, comprising of two all-in-ones (DCP-9010CN, MFC-9120CN) and two printers (HL-3040CN, HL-3070CW). For the first time, Brother provides small to medium businesses with a range of specially developed LED colour printers and MFCs.

"The key features of our new compact colour range are made possible by LED technology. The launch of this series positions Brother as the first manufacturer to have developed in-house printers and Multi-Function Centres across all major printing technologies - Thermal, Laser, Inkjet and LED," said Toshiyuki Takamure, Managing Director, Brother International India.

The new colour compact LED series also offers 250-sheet paper tray for less frequent paper refilling, wireless network and LAN network capabilities for multiple user's usage as well as a range of connectivity options for enhanced time management.

The MFCs additionally offer print, fax, copy and scan functions in one machine with the unique scan to FTP and network features to reduce the amount of paper filing and easier document management for today’s offices. Alternatively, users can also scan to and even print directly from USB thumb drive.