Express Computer-23-4, 16-30 April 2012

On a Growth Spree Thanks to hardware commoditization and the technology’s socio-economic impact, High Performance Computing is seeing growing interest in the Indian subcontinent.  Editorial   • IT in Education Education isn’t the sector that comes first to mind when you think of IT adoption let alone cutting edge stuff but the Indian education sector has emerged as the biggest consumer of projectors and, going by the present trend, the same might be true of tablet computers as well.  News   • Cisco invests in Aavishkaar to drive rural entrepreneurship in India • Geojit BNP Paribas deploys Brocade's switching infrastructure • India printer copier and multifunctional product market declines in the fourth quarter of 2011 - Gartner • Simmtronics becomes the first tablet manufacturer in India to touch three lakh units per month • CA Technologies appoints Sunil Manglore as Vice President • HP offers home decor solution with HP Scitex LX 850 printer • Smartlink Network Systems appoints Bimal Raj as the CEO • India to be the world’s third fastest growing enterprise software market through 2016 - Gartner • HP announces ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) line of servers • India to become the world's second largest mobile broadband market in four years - GSMA study • Dell buys Clerity Solutions • SAP unveils strategy to gain predictive insights from Big Data • Bharti Airtel appoints ZTE to supply, manage 4G network in Kolkata • India PC shipments to grow 17 percent in 2012 - Gartner • Toshiyuki Kasai appointed as the new President of Epson India • Government of India, military research organisations and Indian shipping companies cyber attacker traced in China  Features   • The IT effect in animation or special effects All of us have been kept on the edge of our seats time and again by the special effects and animation that we see in movies. However, the entire IT gamut behind these goes almost unnoticed. Let us take a detailed look at how this sector is being shaped by IT and vice versa. • Casual gaming comes of age Mobile gaming is second to console gaming but it’s on a faster growth trajectory. • Locally Yours Indian language (Indic) computing has come a long way. Although it still has miles to go, the journey so far has been quite an impressive one. KTP Radhika logs in to check the scenario.  News Analysis   • Digital Education for the masses Indian vendors are trying to cash in on the opportunity in digital education with low-cost Android tablets for students. • Asus gears up to conquer Asus plans to crash the top five in the notebook & netbook segment assisted in its efforts by a company-owned local warehouse and a broader retail presence.  Case Study   • Max Healthcare pilots Telecardiology solution Max Healthcare has tested portable ECG devices with embedded SIMs for faster response to emergency cases with cardiovascular issues. • Approvals on the go A mobility solution from RIM helped Greatship India substantially shorten its approval cycles and, in the process, save some money.  Event   • An in-house business model is the need of the hour As the Global In-House Centers (GICs) in India shape up for the next phase of growth, they have to focus on becoming revenue centers that influence the direction taken by their parent organizations.  Interviews   • “Software is going to play a more comprehensive role in enterprise storage” - Helmut Beck, Vice President, Storage, Fujitsu Technology Solutions • “Smaller companies have realized that it’s better to recover rather than recreate data” - Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Data Recovery • “OpenFlow will future proof enterprise networks” - Sanjay Jotshi, Director, HP Networking, HP India • “We need security that follows the database rather than the network” - Michael Sentonas, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, McAfee • “To meet the standards set by MNCs, Indian providers will have to adopt technology to survive and excel” - Sudesh Jain, Senior Vice President (IT), Transport Corporation of India (TCI) Group • “Customers can deploy more computing per rupee with the M300” - Manish Sharma, Vice President Asia Pacific, NComputing, Inc.  Products   • Products - GIGABYTE dual UEFI 7 series motherboards - Edimax IC-3030iWn - Stellar Phoenix launches Windows Live Mail to PST convertor V1 - Axis P33 fixed dome network camera - Stellar Phoenix releases OLM Repair v1 - Mercury mTab Neo2 - HP Z1 - Vertex 4 SATA III SSD series