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LogMeIn has announced the intent to establish LastPass as a standalone company. One of the category leaders in zero-knowledge password management, LastPass is used by more than 30 million users and 85,000 businesses worldwide and is set for strong and sustained growth as consumers and businesses continue prioritizing password security. By establishing LastPass as a standalone business, the company plans …

Vertiv has announced that the Clean Hydrogen Partnership will provide EUR 2.5 million to help fund a project to develop low-carbon fuel cells to power data centers. It is expected this could reduce carbon emissions from operations by up to 100 percent. The EcoEdgePrimePower (E2P2) project is a revolutionary proof-of-concept initiative aimed at developing and demonstrating minimal environmental impact fuel …

PC shipments in India increased by 34 percent year on year to a record 5.3 million units, in the third quarter of 2021. This included 0.6 million desktops, 3.5 million notebooks, and 1.2 million tablets, with all categories experiencing rapid growth. Notebook shipments increased by a record 31 percent year on year, while tablet shipments increased by a massive 41 …

Dell Technologies has introduced new Dell EMC PowerEdge building block rack servers and small footprint tower servers for customers in India. The new servers can support business-critical and advanced workloads to help organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. Designed with office-friendly acoustics and thermals, these servers are ideal for use inside datacenters, and edge environments. Manish Gupta, Senior Director, General Manager, …

Acer has launched the Aspire Vero, a green and sustainable PC with an 11th Generation Intel Core Processor, in India. It includes a 30 percent PCR plastic chassis, which reduces CO2 emissions by 21 percent. The Aspire Vero is a green-pioneer laptop with a thoughtful sustainable design solution that addresses electronic industry issues such as high energy consumption of virgin …

Kyndryl and Google Cloud has announced a global, strategic partnership aimed at accelerating customers’ digital transformations and assisting them in becoming more advanced, data-driven, and sustainable businesses. Kyndryl and Google Cloud will enhance their expertise in data and analytics, applied artificial intelligence (AI), and infrastructure modernization to assist customers in gaining new insights and driving business outcomes. Kyndryl and Google …

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) has expanded its Lenovo ThinkEdge portfolio with the launch of the new ThinkEdge SE450 server, delivering an artificial intelligence (AI) platform directly at the edge to accelerate business insights. The ThinkEdge SE450 advances intelligent edge capabilities with best-in-class, AI-ready technology that provides faster insights and leading computing performance to more environments, accelerating real-time decision making …

Digital lending and customer acquisition platform Decimal Technologies has developed a video banking solution for AU Small Finance Bank. The video banking solution enables customers to complete the entire banking process in a matter of few minutes from the comfort of their homes without the need to visit a bank branch. It’s a completely paperless process that is as secure …

India software market is estimated to surpass $8.2 billion by the end of the calendar year 2021, according to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker 1H21 (January-June). India software market was pegged at $4.0 billion in 1H21, registering a growth of 15.9 percent year-over-year (YoY) compared to 1H20. India accounted for a share of 18.3 percent of the overall Asia-Pacific excluding Japan …

Led by the aftereffects of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the ongoing transformation of global procurement and supply chain functions will accelerate in 2022 with a rise in the market share of small retailers worldwide and a growing adoption of shared procurement resources, according to BuyHive’s latest whitepaper, titled ‘Top Supply Chain Trends to Watch in 2022’. For large buying houses, …