Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. has announced the completion of its acquisition of REAN Cloud LLC, a global cloud systems integrator, managed services provider and solutions developer of cloud-native applications across big data, machine learning and emerging internet of things (IoT) spaces. Through this acquisition, Hitachi Vantara gains critical capabilities and industry-leading expertise in cloud migration and modernization, instantly elevating its cloud offering portfolio and managed services capabilities.
Directly complementing the strength of its Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) and on-premises deployments, Hitachi Vantara’s solutions offer unified cloud management for workloads across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. By combining REAN Cloud’s expertise in public cloud and intelligent data governance with its robust global delivery ecosystem, Hitachi Vantara will now be better positioned to meet the growing infrastructure and analytics-based needs of its customers.
According to Gartner Inc.: “Most Gartner clients are facing the challenge of adopting public cloud services while maintaining existing IT responsibilities for on-premises infrastructure and private clouds. To meet this challenge, the IT department must evolve into a broker of IT-based services by blending traditional services with both public and private cloud services. Gartner calls this evolution ‘hybrid IT.’”
Hitachi Vantara aims to address this gap with its new offerings, providing cloud migration and managed services that enable customers to operate across hybrid and multicloud infrastructure. Additionally, 47Lining, acquired by REAN Cloud last year, provides deep capabilities in cloud-based analytics and machine learning that powerfully expand Hitachi Vantara’s ability to maximize data-driven value for its customers focused on vertical IoT solutions.
“In the last year, we have expanded our investment in agile and flexible infrastructure as an engine for driving our customers’ digital transformations,” said Brian Householder, chief executive officer of Hitachi Vantara. “This acquisition underscores our commitment to meeting the ever-changing needs of the digital enterprise, as well as pioneering offerings that set the standard for excellence within intelligent analytics.”
“We are thrilled to welcome REAN Cloud into our Global Services organization,” said Bobby Soni, chief solutions and services officer at Hitachi Vantara. “Adding REAN Cloud to our portfolio strengthens the value we bring to transformation projects through advanced multicloud and analytics capabilities, and also extends our fully managed offerings targeting deep domain use cases.”
OPPO, The Selfie Expert, recently partnered with Tencent Games, the world’s largest gaming company for India’s biggest eSports Championship, ‘Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds MOBILE Campus Championship 2018’ in India. After receiving multiple entries and a total of 10,000 teams from over 2000 colleges, a month-long action-packed tournament finally culminated on October 21st at the first ever PUBG themed OPPO store in Bangalore. Today, the winners were commemorated with a prize money of INR 50 Lakhs.
Keeping in mind the growing trend of PUBG, the OPPO brand showroom has been designed like the real battleground. Along with the combat feel, consumers can now move away from the virtual world and step into the real word of PUBG by experiencing the adrenaline of the game in the store with the new OPPO F9 Pro.
Speaking on the announcement, Mr. Will Yang, Brand Director, OPPO India, said, “With PUBG’s massive success amongst the youngster, we are delighted to announce the revamp of our brand showroom based on PUBG. Our unique showroom has been designed to cater to the youth of India who are continuously following new and interesting trends in the market. By leveraging this partnership with Tencent Games, OPPO wants to strengthen its relationship with the youngsters as the F9 Pro is the perfect combination for unified and unique experience.”
Packed with extraordinary features, OPPO F9 Pro acted like the perfect gear for all the gamers in this championship. The 6.3-inch bezel-less, 1080*2340 resolution and a super-high screen-to-body ratio of 90.8% ‘’waterdrop screen’’ helped participants achieve maximum kills to get to the finale. After intense rounds and some amazing performances leading to ‘’winner winner chicken dinner’’, a total of 20 teams competed at the grand finale and the ultimate winner was awarded a prize money of INR 50 lakhs.
Along with the mega prize pool, participants were commemorated with the following awards at the revamped PUBG themed store.
MVP - Overall Best Player with maximum number of MVP awards
The Executioner - Awarded for maximum kills overall
The Medic – Awarded for highest number of revives
The Redeemer – Awarded to the player with highest amount of health restored
The Rampage Freak - Awarded for maximum kills in one lobby
The Lone ranger - Awarded for Maximum Time Survived in game
Syska Group, a leading FMEG brand in India today announced its partnership with Tuya Smart, a leading global AI IoT platform. Syska has introduced a bouquet of smart home products that will be enabled on Tuya’s IoT platform. With this partnership with Syska, Tuya Smart marks its entry in the Indian market to offer IoT based solutions.
Syska Group for the first time has partnered with a global IoT company to bring smart home products in the Indian market. The smart home market in India is on a booming stage and Statista report predicts Indian smart home market to hit 7.2% by 2022. To transform every Indian household into a smart home, Syska has introduced wide range of smart home products that include ‘Smart Door Bells, Smart Switches, Smart IR, Smart Down Light/ Ceiling Light, Smart IP Camera, Smart Wall-Light, Smart Door Sensors, Smart Plug, Smart Spike Buster, Smart Weighing Scale and Bluetooth Bulb Array’. All the products will be launched in December 2018.
As an endeavor towards providing the best customer experience through innovative product solutions, SYSKA has proactively introduced WiFi enabled home appliances which will be voice controlled. Syska aims to enter two million homes in the next 1 year and plans to grow steadily year on year. The company is targeting revenue of 200 crores in next financial year. Syska Group will be investing 25 crores in Marketing and R&D in the upcoming year to build the smart home category in India.
Commenting on the partnership with Tuya Smart, Rajesh Uttamchandani, Director, Syska Group said, “Upgrading of wireless Internet, emergence of cloud based services and convergence based technologies including Internet of Things (IoT), has brought about a new era in smart home automation. As the demand for smart home automation is increasing, we believe that this is the right time for Syska to introduce innovative smart home solutions for its Indian consumers. Through this partnership with Tuya who is a leading global IoT player, Syska aims to be the leader in developing next-generation smart home products backed by superior technology and at competitive pricing.”
Talking about the partnership, Mengda Zhao, Chief Strategic Investment Officer of Tuya Smart said “It’s a stride forward for both Tuya and Syska by partnering with each other in IoT, and it’s a big moment for us to seize the booming trend of IoT development. To have everything connected and intelligent inside is the future, and Tuya is very delighted to witness this with our partner Syska, who is one of the leading and reputable player in India markets. By leveraging the strengths from each party, we are excited to announce our partnership with Syska.”
Dilip R.S., Country Manager for Alexa Skills, Amazon India, added “Voice-first experiences are driving growth in the smart home category in India. With the option of hands-free voice-control of Syska and Tuya’s smart home devices with Amazon Echo and Alexa, customers can now experience that setting up a smart home isn’t as complicated as many people once thought.”
“India’s deep desire to establish a global and robust electronics industry will necessarily stand on building strong champion companies from India. Syska is emerging as one of the potential champion companies. The expansion into these important smart home products vertical is timely. With Syska’s stellar record of excellent trade and consumer relationship we are confident that this will emerge as a very strong vertical for Syska and will deliver great customer satisfaction” say Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, India Cellular and Electronics Association.
Syska Group is rapidly expanding and diversifying into various categories. Last month, Syska made an announcement about its partnership with Suyin Optronics and Biometronics to set up a first of its kind camera modules factory in India. In the month of July, Syska entered in the wires and cables business and roped in Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador. SYSKA is in line with government’s mission of Make in India and has made a total investment of over 350 crores to set up manufacturing units in various parts of the country.
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, has announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout the world.
Twelve independent jury panels of distinguished industry experts selected the 57 finalists from 420 nominations submitted by more than 340 user organizations around the world.
At a ceremony and gala at the conclusion of Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference, Bentley acknowledged 19 Year in Infrastructure Awards winners and nine Special Recognition Awards winners.
Year in Infrastructure 2018 Special Recognition Awards winners:
Advancing Collaborative Digital Workflows in Rail and Transit
China Railway Engineering Consulting Group Co., Ltd. – BIM Project for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway – Beijing, China
Advancing Digital Twins for Airports
Infraero Empresa Brasileira de Infraestrutura Aeroportuária – Digital Airport-Londrina – Paraná, Brazil
Advancing Digital Twins for Bridges
Composite Structures Lab, Chung-Ang University – Innovative Bridge Maintenance System Using Digital Twin Model – Seoul, South Korea
Advancing Digital Twins for Roads and Highways
Guangxi Communications Design Group Co., Ltd. – BIM-based Collaborative Design and Construction Management of All Elements and Objects in the Lipu-Yulin Expressway Project – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Advancing Digital Twins for Tunnels
AECOM – Tideway Tunnels C410 Central Contract – London, United Kingdom
Advancing Digital Twins for Utilities Transmission and Distribution
POWERCHINA Hubei Electric Engineering Corporation Limited – Cha’anling-Xiaojiazhou
220-kV Electric Transmission Line Project – Xianning City, Hubei, China
Advancing Industrialization through Digital Components for Urban Infrastructure
CCCC Water Transportation Consultants Co., Ltd. – BIM Technology Application in the Municipal Infrastructure Phase 1 Project of Zhong-Guan-Cun Science and Technology Town – Baodi District, Tianjin City, China
Advancing Digital Workflows for Asset Performance Modeling of Transit Systems
Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. – Nagpur Metro Asset Information Management System – Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Continuous Surveying in Constructioneering
Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC and Eye-bot Aerial Solutions – Pennsylvania Chemicals Project – Monaca, Pennsylvania, United States
The winners of Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards for going digital advancements in infrastructure are:
Bridges
PT. WIJAYA KARYA (Persero) Tbk – Design and Build of Road Bridge at Teluk Lamong Port Project – Gresik-Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Buildings and Campuses
Shalom Baranes Associates – Cannon House Office Building Renewal – Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Communications Networks
iForte Solusi Infotek – iForte Fiber Management System – Jakarta, Indonesia
Construction
AAEngineering Group, LLP – Phase II of Pustynnoe Gold Plant: Modernization and Capacity Increase – Balkhash, Karaganda region, Kazakhstan
Digital Cities
Yunnan Yunling Engineering Cost Consultation Co., Ltd. – New Municipal Road Construction PPP Project of the Municipal Public Facility Construction Project of Guandu Culture New City – Kunming, Yunnan, China
Environmental Engineering
PT. WIJAYA KARYA (Persero) Tbk – Landslide Disaster Protection Project on the National Road Network – Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
Manufacturing
Digital Engineering (BIM) Center of Shenyang Aluminum & Magnesium Engineering & Research Institute Co., Ltd. – Alumina Refinery Project Cooperated between CHALCO and Indonesia – Bukit Batu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Mining and Offshore Engineering
Northern Engineering & Technology Corporation, MCC – SINO Iron Ore Mine – Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Power Generation
Sacyr Somague – Hydroelectric Use of the Foz Tua Dam – Foz Tua, Alijó- Vila Real, Portugal
Project Delivery
AECOM – Gaining New Perspective through ProjectWise Project Insights – United Kingdom
Rail and Transit
Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture (SCS) – HS2 Main Works Lots S1 and S2 – London, United Kingdom
Reality Modeling
Skand Pty Ltd – Building Envelope Inspection Powered by Machine Learning and Reality Modeling for RMIT University Brunswick Campus – Victoria, Australia
Road and Rail Asset Performance
CSX Transportation – Annual Patch Rail Capital Planning – Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Roads and Highways
Lebuhraya Borneo Utara – Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak – Sarawak, Malaysia
Structural Engineering
Shilp Consulting Engineers – Alambagh Bus Terminal – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance
Oman Gas Company S.A.O.C. – Asset Performance Solution for Reliability Management – Al-Khuwair, Muscat, Oman
Utilities Transmission and Distribution
Pestech International Berhad – Substation Design & Automation for Olak Lempit Substation Project – Banting, Selangor, Malaysia
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited – 400,000 ton/day Water Supply Project of Wenjiang District, Chengdu City – Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Networks
DTK Hydronet Solutions – Conceptioneering and Master Planning of Bankura Multi Village Bulk Water Supply Scheme – Bankura, West Bengal, India
Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. Detailed descriptions of all nominated projects are in the print and digital versions of its 2018 Infrastructure Yearbook, which will be published in early 2019. To review the past editions of this publication, which together feature more than 3,500 world-class projects recognized in the Year in Infrastructure Awards program since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, provides endpoint security solutions to state-run BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited), securing nearly 23,000 endpoints of theirs’ across 35 locations. Partnering with CMS IT Services, BHEL implemented the Trend Micro Endpoint Security solution in phases, helping protect them against advanced threats and attacks. With Trend Micro’s state-of-the-art anti-malware techniques, BHEL further gained multiple layers of threat protection and data security for their endpoints and servers.
BHEL, having multiple units across several geographical locations in India and worldwide required a unified security posture for its endpoints and management servers—because each business unit managed its own IT procurement for endpoints. This distributed architecture made BHEL vulnerable to security threats. After exploring the offerings from several major security providers, BHEL chose Trend Micro to address their complex requirements. The consolidation across 35 locations also resulted in reducing the number of management servers to six.
Speaking on the deployment, Nilesh Jain, Vice President – Southeast Asia and India, Trend Micro, said “BHEL wanted to work with single security provider to consolidate their security posture with a centralized architecture to bring all endpoints and servers under a single umbrella with a unified cybersecurity operations center (SOC) assurance level.”
“BHEL gained a strengthened security environment with Trend Micro’s OfficeScan, which enabled anti-malware and advanced threat protection. They also integrated Trend Micro’s Control Manager into their cyber-SOC which resulted in greater visibility of the endpoints and servers located across all locations,” he further added.
Sridhar Namachivayan, Enterprise Business Head, Trend Micro said, “The business benefits for BHEL were manifold. The centralized, user-based security management dashboard of Trend Micro, enabled BHEL to ensure their multiple endpoints are protected with a cost-effective solution, while securing them from the next generation of advanced attacks.”
“Trend Micro’s Endpoint Security solution provides complete visibility at a centralized level, giving a unified level of cybersecurity awareness across BHEL,” said Sandeep Kumar, Dy. General Manager, BHEL.
Trend Micro has been identified as an endpoint protection leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms since 2002, is a leader in the IDC MarketScape, and was recognized for the “most effective recommended breach detection system” for two years running by NSS Labs.
Expanding its existing line-up of Moonbow by Hindware air purifiers, HSIL today launched VAYO air purifier. The sleek and elegant new air purifier is equipped with a PURI 5 technology, a 5 stage filtration system which purifies particles as small as 0.3 micron in size such as fine dust, smoke, bacteria, pollen and mould spores and its pre-filter traps large particles like human hair, pet dander and dust and also has a high grade True HEPA filter (HEPA 13) which filters 8 times smaller particle than PM 2.5 with 99.5% efficiency to ensure clean breathable air. Its activated Carbon Filter neutralises odours such as smoke, harmful gases and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and a formaldehyde filter and refreshing energizers releases more than 8 million negative ions for improved indoor air quality.
Priced at INR 21990, VAYO room air purifier, is CB Certified product and has been developed to address the deteriorating air quality that many cities across India are facing.
VAYO comes with a user-friendly touch panel with PM2.5 display along with an air quality indicator, which with a light display feature shows the air quality in the room, ranging from green (excellent quality), blue (good quality) to red (Un Healthy Quality). It also has a CADR of 400 m³/hr and up to 50m² coverage area. The latest air purifier is equipped with additional features such as auto mode, 3-speed level, filter replacement indicator, timer, child lock and sleep mode to enhance user experience.
VAYO will be available on e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Tata Cliq and brick-n-mortar outlets like Croma and Reliance Digital.
BRITZO, a pioneering communications brand and the latest entrant in the Indian mobile phone industry, has announced its ‘BRITZO UPHAAR’ offer for business corporations ahead of Diwali. The offer is applicable on all bundled purchases of iVVO Smart Feature Phones via its online platform www.ivvo.co.in.
The BRITZO UPHAAR offer has started on the 22nd of October, 2018 and will continue till the end of this festive season. During the offer period, the bundled purchases of more than 2 to 50 units of iVVO Smart Feature Phones from the brand’s e-commerce portal will extend discounts of up to 68% on MRP and up to 25% on Selling Price to business corporations. Moreover, corporates buying 200+ iVVO Smart Feature Phones will also be able to avail additional benefits of cashback or exclusive gift vouchers of in-demand fashion and FMCG brands. All corporate bundle purchase will be eligible for iVVO Smart Care 201-day replacement warranty and 455-day product warranty.
Speaking on the occasion, Pradipto Ganguly, CEO-Founder, iVVO-BRITZO, said, “I am delighted to extend this year’s festive excitement in the form of UPHAAR Offer. The festive offer comes as a unique combination of BRITZO’s collective achievement in creating the ‘future phones’ that has an added essence of Diwali celebrations. With it, we are confident that corporates who are looking to gift their employees something with best-in-class design, cutting-edge features, and an unmatched user experience will be able to do so while simultaneously adding to India’s digital growth story.”
BRITZO is the latest entrant in India’s smartphone industry which recently came to spotlight for spearheading innovations in ICT. It offer a range of cost-effective offerings including 4G Smart Feature phones that come loaded with smartphone-like applications and unrestricted access to online media. The ongoing UPHAAR Offer is valid for all range of iVVO Smart Feature Phones and only applicable on purchases made via its own e-commerce platform www.ivvo.co.in.
