With the remarkable success of the inaugural edition of SBI Green Marathon, country’s largest commercial Bank announces the launch of its 2nd season. In its second edition, this mega event will be held in 15 cities across the country pledging for a greener future. The SBI Group is organizing a 5K, 10K, 21K run on the 2nd of December in Bangalore. The event is going to be a zero-waste event and is expected to witness close to 4700 participants who will run to spread awareness about the importance of cleaner and greener globe.
SBI General Insurance is going to be the health partner for SBI Green Marathon whereas SBI Life, SBI Mutual Funds and SBI Cards are also significantly contributing to this cause. The 15 city marathon event will start from 30th of September, 2018 in New Delhi followed by Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Trivandrum, Guwahati, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Patna and concluding in Jaipur on March 4, 2019. The run category for this fiscal’s SBI Green Marathon would include 5K, 10K and 21K.
Prashant Kumar, DMD & CFO, SBI said, “It gives me immense pleasure to step in to the second edition of SBI Green Marathon. With SBI Green Marathon, the Bank has reaffirmed and endorsed its continued commitment towards greener environment & sustainable development. We hope for maximum participation from across the country which in-turn will help us achieve the goal of a greener future.”
The “Run for Green” theme of this marathon event recognizes every participating individual as agents of change for a greener globe. All the participants will be given organic t-shirts to promote healthy and greener city. Even the runners’ bib would consist of seeds which can be planted after the Marathon. Also bio degradable and recyclable material is to be used by the bank making this a zero waste event.
Nandan Petrochem Limited (NPL), a leading manufacturer of genuine oils, greases, specialty oils and AdBlue/DEF announced the appointment of Alisha Abdullah – India’s first female racing champion as its brand ambassador, for its signature brand VELVEX, in the Lubricating oil and AdBlue segment.
Alisha's association with VELVEX offers an opportunity to leverage the symbiotic synergy between the fast action motorsports and VELVEX brand ethos of passion, persistence, performance and competitiveness.
With a vision to be closer to the customer through presence in multiple locations and regional plants, VELVEX has been developed to provide complete satisfaction by offering value for money with environment conscious premium quality products. Driven by the best-in-class German technology, and accelerating growth through innovation in total lubricant solutions , NPL strives to deliver high performance in all odd situations.
“Passionate about motorsport, I am excited to be associated with VELVEX as a leading brand known for its high-performance lubricants and AdBlue. This is indeed the first time that a female motorsport champion is the face, the brand ambassador of an auto lubricant brand, in an industry that is highly dominated by male brand ambassadors. This association with VELVEX is a reflection of a symbiotic relationship of maintaining the competitiveness at both ends, and I look forward to an exciting journey together.” said Alisha.
Speaking on the occasion, Nandan S Agrawaal – Managing Director, NPL said, “The one who overcomes all obstacles and barriers, and faces every challenge with courage, emerges as the real champion. Both Alisha as well as VELVEX share the same story. On behalf of NPL, we welcome Alisha Abdullah. A youth icon who personifies our new age, ultra–modern, high performance lubricants and AdBlue under brand VELVEX. The brand reflects passion, quality and endurance – breathing a philosophy of excellence. Alisha too had a similar success story full of hardships and her extraordinary courage to overcome every obstacle that came her way - akin to our brand ideals. In a sport where female participants are rare, Alisha paved her way to the top and won accolades. This association between VELVEX and Alisha is a close collaboration that shall accelerate journeys to their respective peaks to success. Our association with Alisha would further enhance our engagement with motorsports as well as the millions of fans and consumers across the country.”
Partnering with government’s Make In India initiative, the company increased its production by twelve times in the past fifteen months by leveraging world class technologies, and pursuing deep innovation to setup state of art infrastructure with seven manufacturing plants PAN India to produce indigenous products and setting global standards in industry.
Having commissioned first AdBlue plant in 2011, NPL is India’s largest manufacturer of AdBlue, a high purity, chemically produced solution that helps diesel vehicles reduce NOx emission and maintain environment friendliness. The upcoming BS VI norms are expected to mandate usage of AdBlue in all passenger and commercial vehicles powered by Diesel Engines and NPL is set to increase its output capacity to meet industry demands. In its position as the market leader for AdBlue, NPL is also actively liaisoning with the authorities to initiate a mechanism to regulate the quality of AdBlue. Usage of substandard AdBlue defeats the purpose of BSIV and BSVI implementation causing damage to the environment through harmful emissions and failure of vehicle resulting into heavy repair cost to the customers.
CloudWalker, a Smart TV company and Spuul, a popular online video streaming service has announced a partnership to enable users to watch Bollywood and regional movies on Cloud TV X2, India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD Smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat OS. This association will bring about more than 10,000 hours of exciting Bollywood movies right in the living rooms of users of Cloud TV X2, thus providing an immersive viewing experience promised by Cloud TV X2, that’s powered by the latest Android 7.0 Nougat.
Commenting on the association, Jagdish Rajpurohit, President of CloudWalker, said, “At CloudWalker, we are driven with a vision to provide users with the best of digital content and technology on a Smart TV. Thus, after introducing Cloud TV X2 that packs powerful features like a Made in India content discovery & curation engine with the latest Android 7.0 Nougat, we have been working intensely to aggregate the best of digital content for our viewers. To the same end, we are delighted to announce our partnership with Spuul - one of the leading global OTT platform for latest to blockbuster Bollywood movies. We are hopeful that our viewers will prefer to consume this exciting content in our future ready Smart TV, Cloud TV X2.”
Echoing a similar thought, Rajiv Vaidya, CEO at Spuul, added, “Spuul has always been at the forefront of allowing users to consume content on multiple devices like phone, tablet, laptop, e-reader or TV wherever you go. This association with the latest and futuristic features available on CloudWalker, is a step forward in providing an improved and seamless viewing experience for our users. We look forward to our association with CloudWalker and making our extensive collection of blockbuster Bollywood movies available on Cloud TV X2.”
With a global footprint of more than 100 enterprise users, Altizon is a leading Industrial IoT platform provider recognized by Gartner in its Magic Quadrant for IIoT Platforms and by other leading analyst firms including Forrester Research, Frost & Sullivan, VDC Research, BCG, and MachNation. Altizon’s proven technology helps enterprises accelerate their Smart Manufacturing initiatives, modernize Asset Performance Management services and launch new business models for service delivery, among other processes. Altizon’s proven technology is successfully being used in a number of industries, including the automotive, tire, steel, chemical, energy and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) markets.
Dr. Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, President, Aeris India said, "Our partnership with Altizon enables us to expand upon our offering to our manufacturing clients with end-to-end solutions that transform their factories into a smart manufacturing facilities. Through complementary integration of our Aeris IoT Service Platform and Altizon’s Datonis Industrial IoT Technology Platform, we now have the capability to deliver comprehensive and distinct IoT solutions for the complete manufacturing value chain. Our partnership clearly brings a measurable competitive advantage to our customers.”
Vinay Nathan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Altizon says, "With the IoT technology, talent, experience and expertise on the Altizon and Aeris teams, we fully expect to deliver best-in-class IoT solutions that not only improve, but digitally transform, our customers’ businesses like never before. We are proud to be partnering with Aeris to help customers take advantage of the power of IoT to create new revenue streams and service opportunities while building customer engagement and loyalty.”
Aeris, a preferred Internet of Things (IoT) technology partner for the enterprise, and Altizon, a global industrial IIoT (Industrial IoT) platform company today announced a strategic partnership integrating Altizon’s industry leading machine learning and IoT Edge technologies and Aeris’ IoT Services platform.
Aeris offers end-to-end IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and services for the automobile, insurance, healthcare, utilities, and manufacturing industries. Its comprehensive Aeris® Mobility IoT Platform (AMP) helps enterprises enhance revenue, create new services and business models. Aeris allows enterprises to evangelize and embark on their digital transformation journey across a portfolio of business solutions. The company has successfully created unique IoT ecosystem for enterprises, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), technologists, system integrators and solution providers across vertical sectors. Aeris empowers organizations to optimize human intervention and attain real-time remote monitoring of machines, equipment, and other assets along with predictive and preventive maintenance of various products and assets within enterprises.
Juniper Networks, an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced a new software solution that gives service providers a near-limitless ability to cost effectively deploy new revenue-generating services at the network edge. Juniper’s new Contrail Edge Cloud packs the industry’s most functionality into the smallest footprint among competitors to bring a full-fledged secure cloud experience to the space- and power-constrained edge network, which includes base stations, hub sites and switching sites.
Insatiable demand for connectivity and a need to continually invent new revenue sources have driven service providers to decentralize their network architecture and move latency-sensitive applications and services - including connected cars, AR/VR and upcoming 5G services - from the core to the edge. While this part of the network serves as a key competitive asset that operators can leverage in moving beyond offering mere connectivity services, the edge also poses space, power, economic and management challenges that require rethinking existing cloud architectures to make service creation and deployment feasible. Deploying the same amount of hardware and software in every edge site that is deployed in centralized data centers would prove costly from both a capex and opex perspective.
Contrail Edge Cloud is the industry’s only production-grade solution that extends a full suite of orchestration, automation, security and analytics to the edge in order to deploy dynamic consumer and enterprise services in a cost and resource efficient manner. With this new solution that leverages the software-defined networking capabilities of Contrail Networking and Contrail Security with Kubernetes and OpenStack to provide advanced networking, Juniper has taken another step toward enabling a secure automated distributed cloud that provides operators a simple way to create, manage and monetize new services in preparation for 5G. As a champion of open source networking, Juniper has built Contrail Edge Cloud based on Linux Foundation’s open Tungsten Fabric project and continues to contribute to the Linux Foundation’s Akraino Edge Stack project to further the open cloud initiatives.
News Highlights
Footprint-optimized distributed computing: Integration with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, with distributed compute, leverages many of the latest OpenStack capabilities to remotely manage the lifecycle of compute nodes and virtual machines (VMs) from a centralized data center, without requiring the footprint of co-located OpenStack control plane functions in each of these remote edge sites. This is critical in space-, power- and compute-constrained edge sites.
Containers for faster time to revenue: Kubernetes provides the orchestration for the containerized applications. Containers running on a Kubernetes application platform will help service providers to increase the density of applications deployed on their platforms and be more immediately responsive to service provisioning and activation.
Contrail Edge Cloud will be capable of supporting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and other Kubernetes distributions.
Unified workflow, policy and service chaining: Contrail Networking with remote compute capabilities enables service providers to deliver a seamless network fabric between VMs, containers and bare metal servers from a single-user interface across physical and virtual environments. Contrail Networking translates abstract workflows into specific networking policies, simplifying the orchestration of virtual overlay connectivity across all environments. Fabric management capabilities automate policies and life-cycle management of each data center and edge site fabric. Contrail Networking provides connectivity and service chaining for OpenStack VM, Kubernetes containers and bare metal workloads without requiring the footprint of co-located control plane functions.
Native security and microsegmentation: Contrail Security provides visibility, telemetry and network policy enforcement in a single unified mechanism for service providers that are increasingly deploying a mix of VMs and containers. It includes adaptive firewall policies and tag-based ability to enforce security policies across Kubernetes and OpenStack.
Open source software-defined storage: Red Hat Ceph Storage provides massively scalable storage that runs economically on industry standard hardware and manages petabytes of data across cloud and emerging workloads. Red Hat Ceph Storage is tightly integrated with OpenStack’s modular architecture and components for ephemeral and persistent storage, offering a single efficient platform to support block, object and file storage. Red Hat Ceph Storage can also be used in hyperconverged deployments with the OpenStack platform for greater operational efficiencies, available as Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud.
Machine learning-based analytics: AppFormix provides machine learning-based performance and health monitoring to give health and service insights into workloads and deployments.
Full-featured virtualized security: cSRX and vSRX deliver an industry leading container and virtualized security instance as part of the service chain.
Supporting Quotes
“Service providers’ edge networks are beachfront property. As 5G and new applications such as IoT, AR/VR and connected cars all require extreme proximity to the end user, the edge will become ground zero to deploy virtualized network infrastructure, as well as to monetize new applications. Contrail Edge Cloud will greatly simplify the IT side of spinning up and managing these new services in a secure way. And what’s great is it isn’t just for network engineers. It also gives sales and marketing executives a way to get creative with agile new services, so businesses and consumers start seeing carriers as more than just connectivity providers. We are executing all of this in an incredibly small edge-friendly footprint.”
Sally Bament, Vice President, Service Provider Marketing, Juniper Networks
“The way people use the network and what they’ve come to expect is very different from just five years ago. Because of this, service providers are looking to transform many parts of their networks to satisfy evolving demand, and the network edge is key. However, it’s not as simple as just flipping a switch. In order to use the edge to deploy new low-latency services at scale in a cost-effective way, service providers need a simple way to fit all the orchestration, telemetry and security needed into a part of the network that’s constrained on space and power. Juniper Networks is giving telcos a huge leap forward in this area with Contrail Edge Cloud.”
Dr. Ray Mota, CEO and Principal Analyst, ACG Research
“With 5G connectivity targeting millions of sensors in addition to millions of consumers, service providers will need solutions that help manage networks. Red Hat is pleased to extend our collaboration with Juniper to develop and scale the intelligent edge, enabled by Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Our work with Juniper is based on a commitment to open source technologies that helps to provide our customers with more choice and innovation, as well as validated solutions that can accelerate time-to-market during an organization's digital transformation journey.”
Chris Wright, CTO, Red Hat
The brand is developing cutting-edge technologies specifically for rural mobile phone customers in India and foresees a future where they will be the first beneficiary of emerging technologies
Etching a novel identity with its unique, rural-first approach, iVVO – a pioneering communications brand and the latest entrant in the Indian mobile phone market – and its CEO, Mr. Pradipto Ganguly, have been felicitated by AsiaOne as one of “India’s Greatest Brands and Leaders”. The award ceremony was held at Hotel Taj Lands End in Mumbai on 10th of September, 2018.
The felicitation event was marked by the presence of numerous dignitaries including Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of Women & Child Development, Vineet Jain, MD, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd., and Ashish Kumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange, High Commissioners and Consul Generals of various countries, and Bollywood personalities amongst others. Ganguly was presented the “India’s Greatest Brands and Leaders” award following an assessment by process reviewers of AsiaOne. Other notable awards included “BlackSwan Women Empowerment Awards 2017-18”, “BlackSwan Bollywood Awards 2017-18”, “AsiaOne Global Indian of the Year”, and “India’s Greatest CXOs Award 2017-18”.
Commenting after receiving his award, Pradipto Ganguly, the Co-founder and CEO of BRITZO said, “We are on the verge of ingraining transformative ethos into the market and are delighted to know that our efforts are simultaneously being acknowledged by industry leaders such as AsiaOne. I believe this award is a direct result of the relentless determination displayed by our workforce while catering to the technologically-underserved rural audience of India. It has, by the same token, charged the entire BRITZO and iVVO stakeholders with a renewed enthusiasm. We would like to thank the AsiaOne team for their acknowledgment of our collective contribution.”
iVVO, the latest entrant in the Indian mobile phone dynamics envisions to bring a complete reversal of the order by developing cutting-edge technologies cost-effectively for rural consumers. It, then, aims to trickle down these technologies to urban mobile phone consumers as a part of its rural-first approach. iVVO is a subsidiary of communications brand BRITZO that lately came to fame for spearheading multiple forward-looking innovations in ICT (Information and Communications Technology). To boost digital adoption amongst rural consumers, it has moreover covered all of its offerings under a hassle-free service policy comprising 201-day replacement guarantee and a product warranty of 455 days.
At present, the iVVO product lineup includes 10 Smart Feature Phones and 2 Smartphones. All of its Smart Feature Phones fall within the pocket-friendly price slab starting at Rs. 649.
iVVO and its parent organization is also known to have a hierarchy-free corporate culture wherein all of the stakeholders that are directly and indirectly associated with the company enjoy superior empowerment. The company is, moreover, going to mobilize Rs. 100 crore towards ‘Make in India’ initiative primarily targeting indigenous R&D and manufacturing of products.
HP Inc. India has introduced a mini desktop to help students across India to learn, collaborate and enjoy the learning experience. Priced below INR 20,000/-, the HP 260 G3 desktop mini is aimed at encouraging the use of technology for learning.
Designed specifically for the Indian education ecosystem, the affordability of these desktops will enable schools and institutes to set up or upgrade the computers in their Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) labs at a minimal cost. These devices will help students enhance their science and technological skills, thereby enhancing their knowledge and creativity.
“As technology becomes integral to businesses and consumers’ daily lives, students need to learn digital skills that equip them well for the future. Driven by our goal to empower students, HP has launched the mini desktop solution to enable easy and affordable digital learning for students across India.” said Sumeer Chandra, Managing Director, HP India.
Vickram Bedi, Senior Director, Personal Systems, HP Inc. India said, “We are hitting a new price band with the HP 260 G3 desktop mini. With this, HP will be able to address the market’s need for cost-effective desktop PCs. We are reaching out to schools and educational institutions in metro cities as well as those in smaller cities, where affordable digital learning devices can be highly useful.’’
The HP 260 G3 is an extremely compact yet powerful PC with Intel integrated graphics. When paired with HP Integrated Work Center and HP EliteDisplay, teachers can read and present files effortlessly. With the wide range of input display connectors (VGA, USB, HDMI), documents can also be shared across multiple monitors.
Easy to carry around and store, the HP 260 G3 is also easily upgradeable and serviceable. Its rear thumb screw allows the unit to be opened easily and components are labelled and color-coded for easy replacement. To help maximize desk space, the device can be mounted on a monitor with the Dual VESA Sleeve and paired with an HP Wireless Keyboard.
HP 260 G3 desktop mini
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Processor: 7th gen Intel Core
Memory: Up to 32GB of DDR4
Warranty- 1 year onsite
Pricing and Availability
Pentium Dual Core with 18.5” Monitor is available at a starting price of INR 19990 + GST
Intel Core i3 with 18.5” Monitor is available at a starting price of INR 25990 + GST
HP Wireless Keyboard is available at a starting price of INR 1250
