Karnataka Marwari Samaj to Conduct 11th Year Free Jaipur Foot Camp on Dec 17 at Jayanagar

Karnataka Marwari Samaj in association with Bhagwan Mahaveer Vikalang Sahayata Samiti (Jaipur Foot) is organizing a ‘Free Foot camp for Footless”. In this camp KMS will provide jaipur foot, callipers (for polio affected patients) and crutches for handicapped. It is a clear social vision and commitment to help the disabled regain mobility and dignity by fitting high-quality, durable artificial limbs and other aids and appliances. The measurement camp will be conducted on Sunday  December 17, 2017   at  Maharaja Agrasen Bhavan, No.340/8, 2nd Cross, 1st Block, Near Ashoka Pillar, Jayanagar, Bengaluru -560011, Time 9:00  am to 3:00 pm.  The last date for registration will be closed on Saturday December 16, 2017.

As per the measurement, we will keep it ready and we will distribute it at the same place on 7^th January 2018

‘‘As we stood amongst the poorest of the poor in everywhere , some of them coming from thousands of miles away, we realised this was not just about fitting limbs but also about restoring dignity to other human beings, and in the process to ourselves, for it is in giving that we receive. There may be other places in the world where compassion is that tangible; it is just that we had not seen any’’. Says Bimal Kumar Saraogi, Project Director, and Karnataka Marwari Samaj.

Anil Kumar Alampuria, President, Karnataka Marwari Samaj says ‘We are very proud to continue our social services every year, so that more and more people can be benefited’.

The artificial limbs provided by Karnataka Marwari samaj uses Jaipur Limb Technology. This technology has been developed and further refined by the research and development team of the society. The Jaipur Limb is a one-stop facility and the patients who come are measured and their custom-made limb/caliper are fabricated and fitted, without making them visit again a second time. it is so efficient that after this limb is fitted, a person can walk like a normal person without a stick or support, and even run, ride a bicycle and climb a tree. After the fitment many of the patients can go back to work in the field, factories, shops and offices.

HealthCare atHOME Unveils Services for Patients Suffering from Stroke to Commemorate ‘World Stroke Day’

HealthCare atHOME (HCAH), has announced the launch of its state-of-the-art medical service to tackle the increasing cases of stroke in the country. While there are number of services available for stroke-related ailments, HCAH hopes to provide more comprehensive patient-centric stroke rehabilitation care at the comfort of patients' homes. HCAH's niche effort to address the growing need of personalised healthcare can be considered a revolutionary move given the nascent stage of home-based care in India.

It is estimated that there are 1.6 million stroke cases in the country, out of which 0.5 million of these suffer from stroke-related disability due to lack of good-quality rehabilitation services. Today, there is lack of holistic multidisciplinary patient-centric care plan for rehabilitation services at home. HCAH not only brings home a well-coordinated multidisciplinary team i.e. physiotherapists, speech therapists, nurses & healthcare attendants but also brings e-monitoring, clinical quality audits, stroke-related equipment and consumables under one roof.

Commenting on World Stroke Day, Vivek Srivastava, Co-Founder and CEO, HealthCare atHOME said, ''The current rehabilitation services are rife with inadequacies. Although there are many options that cater to different needs of patients, they are tied to limitations. As the nation is grappling with these alarming numbers, a timely solution is overdue. We, at HCAH, hope to change this environment of inefficiencies and bring forth a robust healthcare ecosystem to handle stroke cases. So far, we have successfully handled 500+ stroke cases in a span of five years. We have deployed multidisciplinary teams to deliver superior-quality, patient-centric care at the patients' residence. Our experience gives us the confidence to launch this specialized service as an exclusive offering for patients who need care the most.''

To mark this occasion HCAH is launching an awareness campaign on stroke, its consequences and its possible treatment through rehabilitation. The campaign 'Statue in Motion'' mirrors that fact that stroke can bring one’s life to a standstill just like a statue, it paralyses the whole or part of the body. A comprehensive stroke rehabilitation program can help break free from the clutches of paralysis.

The campaigns starts on Oct 28 and will have street artists painted as statues placed in  hospitals and malls in the Delhi NCR & Bangalore. This creatively and powerfully captures the life of a stroke victim. In carrying the momentum ahead, statues will suddenly move to communicate that a home based comprehensive stroke rehabilitation program can help restore body movement and there by bring life back to the patient.

Cisco and Google Partner on New Hybrid Cloud SolutionCisco and Google Partner on New Hybrid Cloud Solution

Cisco and Google Cloud has announced a partnership to deliver a hybrid cloud solution that helps customers maximize their investments across cloud and on-premises environments. The companies will provide a unique and open hybrid cloud offering that enables applications and services to be deployed, managed and secured across on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform. The solution delivers cloud speed and scale, with enterprise-class security.

The offering provides enterprises with a way to run, secure and monitor workloads, thus enabling them to optimize their existing investments, plan their cloud migration at their own pace and avoid vendor lock in. Companies can now develop new applications in the cloud or on premises, consistently using the same developer tools, run time, and production environment.

"Our partnership with Google gives our customers the very best cloud has to offer— agility and scale, coupled with enterprise-class security and support," said Chuck Robbins, chief executive officer, Cisco. "We share a common vision of a hybrid cloud world that delivers the speed of innovation in an open and secure environment to bring the right solutions to our customers."

"This joint solution from Google and Cisco facilitates an easy and incremental approach to tapping the benefits of the Cloud. This is what we hear customers asking for," said Diane Greene, CEO, Google Cloud.

The joint Cisco and Google Cloud hybrid solution helps developers leverage managed Kubernetes, GCP Service Catalog, Cisco networking and security, and Istio authentication and service mesh monitoring. Enterprise app developers can securely access cloud APIs, and cloud developers can securely access enterprise APIs and on-premises resources

Cisco and Google Cloud hybrid solution highlights:

·  Orchestration and Management – Policy-based Kubernetes orchestration and lifecycle management of resources, applications and services across hybrid environments

·  Networking – Extend network policy and configurations to multiple on-premises and cloud environments

·  Security – Extend Security policy and monitor applications behavior

·  Visibility and Control – Real-time network and application performance monitoring and automation

·  Cloud-ready Infrastructure – Hyperconverged platform supporting existing application and cloud-native Kubernetes environments

·  Service Management with Istio – Open-source solution provides a uniform way to connect, secure, manage and monitor microservices

·  API Management – Google's Apigee enterprise-class API management enables legacy workloads running on premises to connect to the cloud through APIs

·  Developer Ready – Cisco's DevNet Developer Center provides tools and resources for cloud and enterprise developers to code in hybrid environments

·  Support – Joint coordinated technical support for the solution

The solution will be available to a limited number of customers during the first part of 2018, with planned general availability later in the year.

Technology to Transform Lives of the Small and Marginal Farmers

Dalberg Advisors is partnering with the Government of Andhra Pradesh (AP), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to organize an AgTech Pitch Competition #SmartFarming4AP.

The Pitch Competition is to seek out innovators developing solutions, which could solve the challenges faced by the small and marginal farmers. The winners will get an opportunity to sign an MoU with the Government of AP to roll out their solution in the State.  Dalberg Advisors is helping curate this competition, and in addition has announced it will provide mentoring support to the winners, to help sharpen their business plans and go-to-market strategies that drive inclusive transformation.

The final round of the competition will be held during the AP AgTech Summit 2017:Progressive Farmer, Smart Farming in Visakhapatnam on November 15-17, 2017. More than 1500 delegates are expected to attend the event, including global leaders, business heads, start-up founders, policymakers, and technology experts. The Summit will be led by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandrababu Naidu. The co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, will also be present at the event.

Varad Pande, Partner, Dalberg Advisors, commented on the initiative, “We are delighted to partner with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and CII on this event. At Dalberg, we firmly believe that if we are serious about inclusive economic transformation, we have to solve the problems of the small and marginal farmer. This requires us to creatively bring together technology, policy, and business. The #SmartFarming4AP Pitch Competition aims to do exactly this – by catalyzing the next frontiers of AgTech innovation.”

Innovators are invited that are working on the following themes: Technology-enabled Rural Advisory Services (RAS); Technology-enabled market linkages; Digital Financial Services for agriculture; Data mining for agriculture.

Last date to submit an application is October 31, 2017.

Indian Railways Working on Suburban Rail Network for Bengaluru: Railway Minister Goyal

Indian Railways (IR) is working on a proposal to create a suburban railway network for Bengaluru, like the one in Mumbai, to decongest the city and link it to the airport, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said.

Goyal said the idea was suggested to him before he took over as the railway minister by senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar who told him that he had been pushing for a suburban rail service for the Indian IT capital since 1996.

He said that during a review meeting of South Western Railway on September 18, he asked the officials to study the city for a rail network and come up with a preliminary project report for an elevated network.

"And possibly also have a road on top of the rail to connect the airport to places of work in the city," Goyal said speaking at the International Conference on Green Initiatives and Railway Electrification here.

The minister said he gave the SW Railways 30 days' time to come up with a plan but on September 20, when he was in the city again, he was given a document listing out initial action plans on the project to be executed within 28 days.

On September 26, Goyal said the SW railway construction wing of Bengaluru awarded the consultancy to the Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES), a government of India initiative, for a conceptual planning and study of the proposal.

By October 1, the minister said he was presented with a rough assessment on the availability of land for commercial use including the relocation requirements.

"They used google to locate and prepare the plan where land is available because the scheme has to be self-financed. Then they identified various sections which need to be elevated and also pointed out which were to be done on ground," he said.

By October 18, the RITES had already finalised an initial conceptual plan with drawings of how the project will look like, where the routes will be and with height and elevation details, the minister said.

"So in a months' time, we have a proposal upon which the Indian Railways can now start deliberating.

"I am sharing this to reflect the new confidence with which the Indian Railways is working with the commitment to time-bound delivery of services," said Goyal.

Karnataka Government to Make Amendments to the Rule on Banning Pillion Riding: SIAM

Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) –apex body of automobile manufacturers – has written to Karnataka Govt. to make amendments to the act prohibiting registration of two-wheelers with less than 100 cc engine capacity, with a pillion seat.

SIAM also highlighted the fact that, as per Motor Vehicle Act (MVA), powers have been given to Central Government to make rules under the Central Motor Vehicle Rule (CMVR) inter-alia related to construction of motor vehicles. Hence, as per these rules, the motor vehicles are tested at one of the notified test agencies of Government of India for certifying compliance to all emission and safety regulations notified by Government of India from time to time.

Commenting on this, Sugato Sen, Deputy Director General, SIAM, said, “This is the first time in the country that such ban has been imposed. There are no such provisions in the Central Motor Vehicles Act either. There are several popular models of motorcycles that are just below 100 cc. Many of them are 99 cc. SIAM has approach the state government seeking a revision of this provision of the motor vehicles rules”.

The recommendations comes in the wake of Karnataka government banning riding pillion on two-wheelers with engine capacity of less than 100 CC, giving effect to a 2015 court order. The transport department also banned registration of such vehicles.

The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) is a not-for-profit apex national body representing all major vehicle and vehicular engine manufacturers in India. SIAM works towards supporting sustainable development of the Indian Automobile Industry with the vision that India emerges as the destination of choice in the world for design and manufacture of automobiles. It also works towards facilitating enhancement of the competitiveness of the Indian Automobile Industry, reducing cost of vehicles, increasing productivity and achieving global standards of quality.

Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho 8.0 with Real-Time Data Processing Helps Fast-Track Digital Insights for Enterprise Customers

From its PentahoWorld 2017 user conference, Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has unveiled the next generation of its Pentaho data integration and analytics platform software. Pentaho 8.0 is enhanced and provides support for Spark and Kafka to improve data and stream processing, plus the ability to easily match compute resources with business demand in real time. The new release is designed to help Hitachi’s customers extract greater value from their data to gain a competitive advantage and accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

According to independent research firm IDC, the global datasphere will grow to 163 zetabytes by 2025 – 10 times faster than the amount of data generated in 2016. The firm also forecasts that more than a quarter of that data will be real-time in nature, with IoT data making up more than 95-percent of it.

With its Pentaho 8.0 release, Hitachi Vantara helps customers to better prepare their businesses to address this real-time data deluge by optimizing and modernizing their data analytics pipelines and improving the productivity of their existing teams. New enhancements to the Pentaho 8.0 platform allow users to:

Improve Connectivity to Streaming Data Sources: With data moving faster, it’s critical to process it as it happens and react immediately if necessary. New capabilities in Pentaho 8.0 include:

o   Stream processing with Spark: Pentaho 8.0 now fully enables stream data ingestion and processing using its native engine or Spark. This adds to existing Spark integration with SQL, MLlib and Pentaho’s adaptive execution layer.

o   Connect to Kafka Streams: Kafka is a very popular publish/subscribe messaging system that handles large data volumes that are common in today’s big data and IoT environments. Pentaho 8.0 now enables real-time processing with specialized steps that connect Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) to Kafka. 

o   Big data security with Knox: Building on its existing enterprise-level security for Cloudera and Hortonworks, Pentaho 8.0 now adds support for the Knox Gateway used for authenticating users to Hadoop services.

 Optimize Processing Resources: Every organization has constrained data processing resources that it wants to use intelligently, guaranteeing high availability even when demand for computation resources are high. To support this, Pentaho 8.0 provides:

• Worker nodes to scale out enterprise workloads: IT managers can now easily bring up additional nodes and spread simultaneous workloads across all available computation resources to match capacity with demand. This matching provides elasticity and portability between cloud and on-premises environments resulting in faster and more efficient processing for end users.
• Adaptive execution enhancements: First introduced in Pentaho 7.1, Pentaho’s adaptive execution allows users to match workloads with the most appropriate processing engine, without having to rewrite any data integration logic. Now, Pentaho 8.0 makes adaptive execution easier to set up, use and secure. The functionality is also now available on Hortonworks. 
• Native support for Avro and Parquet: Pentaho 8.0 makes it easy to read and write to these popular big data file formats and process with Spark using Pentaho’s visual editing tools. 

• Boost Team Productivity: Pentaho 8.0 also comes with several new features to help increase productivity across the data pipeline. These include granular filters for preparing data, improved repository usability and easier application auditing.

“On the path to digital transformation, enterprises must fully exploit all the data available to them. This requires connecting traditional data silos and integrating their operational and information technologies to build modern analytics data pipelines that can accommodate a more connected, open and fluid world of data,” said Donna Prlich, chief product officer for Pentaho software at Hitachi Vantara. “Pentaho 8.0 provides enterprise scale and faster processing in anticipation of future data challenges to better support Hitachi’s customers on their digital journeys.”

Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho 8.0 software will be generally available in November.