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Dimension Data announced a new assessment offering that helps organisations assess the maturity of their security architecture, the underlying security safeguards that protect their human assets from cyber-attacks, and their processes and technologies. Matthew Gyde, Dimension Data’s Group Executive – Security, said, “Even employees are not safe from variety of threats including drive-by and watering hole attacks which often occur over a weekend.When assessing …

Oracle India announced that itsSoftware as a Service (SaaS) business has seen the highest and fastest adoption rate till date, with Platform as a Service (Paas) close behind. Over the last few years, Oracle has acquired several hundred cloud customers in India, all using different Oracle Cloud solutions. Nearly 50 percent of its SaaS customers are net new. The Oracle …

Introduction TV18 is a television broadcasting group offering media services and operates various channels for Indian viewers.  The customer was looking for a reliable and robust communication backbone to seamlessly handle its high call traffic.  The broadcaster opted for Matrix ETERNITY ME IP-PBX, a specialized IP-PBX designed for enterprises. Customer’s major challenge was to have 24×7 uninterrupted communications even during …

Dimension Data today launched a new maturity tool that helps organisations assess their capabilities and prioritise initiatives for building a next-generation data centre.  The Data Centre Development Model – the first assessment that covers such a broad spectrum of the data centre  – was created off the back of strong demand from clients seeking guidance and actionable plans to make …

Avaya announced that it plans to create a new industry certification program to drive expertise in SDN-Fabric based networking. The Avaya Certified Expert-Fx program aims to bridge the current skills gap in the India and Middle East between traditional, hardware-intensive networking technologies and next-generation, software-defined fabric-based networking. The announcement was made at the annual Avaya Technology Forum in Dubai, with more …

According to IDC, a majority of organizations will stop managing their own infrastructure over the next five years. Instead, these organizations will make greater use of dedicated and shared cloud offerings in service provider data centers.1 To capitalize on these changes, service providers – software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, telco/communication service providers, managed hosters, and consumer service providers – need an efficient infrastructure that is …

Microsoft Ventures and iSPIRT hosted SaaSx, a platform for SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) entrepreneurs to share, learn and grow their business into million dollar Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) models. SaaSx brought together more than 100 promising SaaS startups for peer learning, expert talks, and launch of a guide on marketing SaaS. At the event, iSPIRT& Microsoft Ventures launched the ‘Jump Start Guide for …

Fortinet and Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT), leading provider of testing solutions for networks, devices and services, today announced theresults of performance tests conducted on the FortiGate®-3810D, the latest Fortinet firewallappliancedesigned for large enterprises, Communication Service Providers (CSPs)and data center environments. Testing with Spirent solutions showed that the FortiGate-3810D – whichcomes standard with six 100-Gigabit Ethernet ports, all in one …

Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of its latest release of its Virtualizer tool for creating Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs), software development kits that use virtual prototypes. The latest Virtualizer release implements new features including MultiSim, SimSight and FastBuildto increase VDK simulation performance by up to 5X and accelerate VDK availability for earlier software development. MultiSim optimizes the use of multi-core hosts …

Dell announced the Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse to support the growing use of graphics-intensive, workstation-class workloads in a variety of organizations – from media and entertainment to engineering firms to the exploration and energy industries. The Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse helps reap the benefits of workstation-class computing with greater IT efficiency, better data security and improved user workflows, …