Cloudway Receives ‘Business Network Partner of the year 2018’ Award at the SAP India Partner Summit 2019

Cloudway Consulting today announced it is the recipient of the prestigious ‘Business Network Partner of the year 2018’ at the SAP India Partner Summit 2019.

The SAP Partner Awards are presented annually to the top SAP partners that have excelled in developing and strengthening their alliance with SAP to drive customer success.  Selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner India Summit Awards are based on field recommendations, customer feedback, various other performance indicators and internal SAP sales data during the period FY 2018-19.

At the award function, Naveenn Suri, CEO - Cloudway Consulting said, “We at Cloudway are greatly honoured to receive the ‘Business Network Partner of the year 2018’ award. The prestigious recognition will further cement our position as one of the leading SAP Cloud partners in India, driven by innovation and customer first approach. I would once again like to thank SAP for their consistent support in accomplishing our business objectives.’’

A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category for General Business and Strategic Alliances for the Indian Subcontinent. 

Parvesh Ghai, Vice-President – Strategic Alliances and Channels, SAP Indian Sub-continentsaid, “Our esteemed partners play a pivotal role in extending our market reach and strengthening our brand. I congratulate Cloudway Consulting for receiving the ‘Business Network Partner of the year 2018’ award. I am confident that our partner engagement activities will further strengthen our business alliance and enhance service delivery for our customers.”

Cloudway offers widespread portfolio of SAP cloud services encompassing SAP business Transformation Solutions & Technology accompanied with Value Proposition Services to provide competitive edge in the marketplace for the clients. With deep alignment of thoughts and actions into SAP solutions and deliveries, Cloudway Consulting focus is on being a world-class SAP Cloud solution provider.

Atos Opens New Global Delivery Centre in Tirunelveli, South India

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, has announced the opening of a new global delivery centre in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.

The first building on the 100-acre campus will house 2,300 software engineers delivering digital and technology solutions to global clients. The new Tirunelveli campus will leverage the region’s high-quality talent pool and provide opportunities to solve complex business problems using technology.

Sean Narayanan, SEVP and Head of Business and Platform Solutions and member of the Atos Group General Management Committee, said the centre will generate employment opportunities for local talent and leverage their potential to create new digital ecosystems for global clients.

“At Atos, we strive to hire a diverse and competent talent pool and mould it to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions to our clients. This latest global delivery centre reinforces our commitment to growing and scaling our footprint in India.”

According to Ram Singampalli, Chief Delivery Officer, Atos Syntel — a member of the Atos group — the region’s legacy of educational excellence played a major role in the decision to locate the new campus in Tirunelveli.

“A successful transformation is the outcome of a highly skilled workforce which leverages digital technologies to disrupt existing business models. With a large number of engineers graduating every year, the region around Tirunelveli has established itself as a hub for high-tech education in South India, making it an optimal location for our latest campus. This new facility augments our delivery footprint in India, which includes delivery centres in Pune, Chennai, Mumbai and Bengaluru.”

The design of the campus has been inspired by the local culture, with employee-friendly architecture centred on the concept of ‘courtyard planning’ — where social spaces seamlessly integrate with work zones. Additionally, the campus design makes optimal use of natural light and incorporates the latest energy conservation principles to promote sustainability.

The opening ceremony was attended by members of the Atos global leadership, as well as dignitaries from the government of Tamil Nadu, and by members of the ICT Academy.

Trend Micro Boosts Channel Partners’ Business Through its New Channel Program in India

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has announced its channel plans and strategy for 2019 in India. As part of that, the company has introduced the new managed service provider (MSP) program in India, to further accelerate and transform its partners’ business by providing more recurring revenue opportunities with endpoint, data center, mobile, email, and cloud solutions that deliver the best protection for its customers.

Trend Micro works with nearly 300 active partners in India, out of which five are platinum partners and 10 are gold. All the focused partners have demonstrated a growth more than 100%; some of them are witnessing a robust threefold growth year-over-year (YOY).

Tom Cheeran, head of channel business, Trend Micro, India, said: “We have 25 focused channel partners in India who contribute significantly to our revenue. With a focus of building a robust channel ecosystem, we are in the process of signing up MSP partners in 2019 who will offer services to our customers and take complete ownership of our product and service implementation. This provides an opportunity for partners to build a better profitability and invest in Trend Micro.”

Sharing an update on the channel initiatives, he further added, “A good amount of rebate is already being disbursed to channel representatives who have registered to our TrendSetter Channel Rewards program. It is highly beneficial for the resellers, as it helps them grow their business with us. With continuous effort in developing the channel partners across the country, we are in the process of finalizing more channel initiatives to excite the channel community.”

In 2018, Trend Micro moved to a focused partner approach and signed up with industry-leading channel partners. The objective of the focused partner approach is that partners who contribute to Trend Micro’s business will equally benefit from the company’s success. Trend Micro also incubated a few partners into the system who grew up in its culture and were instrumental in helping to build business pipeline.

Trend Micro in India is present in all the major verticals, including telecom, banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), manufacturing, IT/ITES and healthcare. With substantial presence in the BFSI sector, the company has also entered the product line of large enterprises. The focus areas for the company in India this year include Apex One for advanced endpoint security, hybrid cloud security and network defense.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Looks to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS to Help Redefine Financial Services

Enterprise cloud computing leader, Nutanix has announced that leading Indian financial products and services provider, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited, has adopted the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS to redesign its IT infrastructure and help redefine the company for the future.

In response to the request, Nutanix installed a hyper converged, virtualized software solution to deliver exceptional enterprise performance for the multi cloud world, while equipping Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited with a simple, centralized management solution utilising machine-learning, predictive analysis and automated data movement to strengthen the company’s service delivery to business.

Pankaj Purohit, Head, IT, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited said on the adoption of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, “Nutanix underpins our service delivery to business. Several business-critical applications today run on the Nutanix platform, including our in-house trading on RF3 and RF2, our CRM application Saathi, and critical high-performance databases. Our online trading application, MO Investor, developed in-house, and our mobile application also run on the Nutanix platform.”

He further added, “Nutanix’s platforms have increased our application deployment speed, enhanced our Virtual Machine consolidation, and already registered a three hundred percent improvement in distributed database queries. All while significantly improving our management and monitoring of the entire infrastructure and reducing our overall IT costs.”

Sehul Shah, Vice President IT, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited said, “Our IT staff are happier. Nutanix software and hypervisor upgrades were performed during week days using the 1-click upgrade feature, saving weekends for other infrastructure activities. The team have freed up the time available for migrating virtual machines using Nutanix Xtract, with minimum planned application down time.”

Neville Vincent, Vice President, A/NZ, ASEAN and India, Nutanix said on the successful deployment, “When trust is the main currency of your business, confidence in your technology becomes fundamental. Our software is built to enable workplace transformation for fast-growing companies like Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited, that have no room for error. As Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited looks to offer a tailored customer experience at scale to a wide spectrum of increasingly more demanding and sophisticated customers – Nutanix will be there, helping underpin the entire journey and experience.”

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud combines the agility and simplicity of the public cloud, with the security and control needed in a private cloud. Built on the industry’s leading hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology, it integrates compute, storage, virtualization and networking in a full-stack solution that runs nearly any application.

Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Emerge Winner of the TECHgium 2019 for PoC on Worker Activity Assessment Wearable

L&T Technology Services Limited, a leading global pure-play engineering services company, has announced the winners of the third edition of its national futuristic technology-based innovation competition TECHgium. Kickstarting in January, the event received record-surpassing 19,000 applications from over 270 reputed colleges & universities across India clocking a 200% increase in participants from its inception year 2016.

On this special occasion, the Postmaster General of Bengaluru HQ Region, Col. Arvind Varma, launched the TECHgium stamp to mark the successful conclusion of the 3rd season of TECHgium. The one-of-its-kind stamp bears the hallmark of LTTS’ culture of engineering excellence and innovation. The artwork of the stamp is an ode to the potential that engineering students in India hold and how industry-academia collaborations such as TECHgium can propel this talent to greater heights.

The winning teams are facilitated with awards worth over ₹10 lacs with additional benefits such as continuation of work on the PoCs of interest as a paid project, pre-placement offer and recognition by reputed industry professionals.

The winners of TECHgium were selected by a distinguished jury of industry experts including Dr Ranganath Navalgund, Distinguished Professor at ISRO, Mr Vikas Bhalla, Director (Ultrasound) Philips India, Mr Rakesh S, Director at Antrix, Mr R Ganapathi Raman, Country Manager India at ARC Advisory and Mr Pareekh Jain, Founder of Pareekh Consulting.

“LTTS has always been a big proponent of the student-scientist culture to enable engineering students rise above curriculum and stand out. In my discussion with our global customers, the requirement for industry-ready talent with high digital & innovation acumen is a top priority. The continued overwhelming response to TECHgium’s third season is a testament to the fact the students are willing to go the extra mile to differentiate themselves,” said Dr. Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology Services Limited. “TECHgium is dedicated to bringing the brightest minds together and innovate the next-gen solutions that can make a real difference to how organizations operate in the age of Industry 4.0. I wish heartiest congratulations to the winners and hope that TECHgium continues its legacy of excellence.”

TECHgium’s third season saw 68 innovative PoCs on real life technical challenges pertaining to emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning & Deep Learning, 5G, Wearables Devices, Solar Technology, Video Analytics, Blockchain and Face Detection among others.

Unity Technologies Enables World’s Top Auto OEMs Towards the Future of the Automotive Industry with Real-Time Simulation

Unity Technologies, the market-leading platform for developing a broad range of applications in the field of real-time 3D, and AR/VR, recently showcased how a real-time simulation can create virtual environments allowing developers to test autonomous vehicles in simulated real-world situations at VRTECH 2019.

Unity displayed revolutionary demos around how it is enabling eight of the 10 largest OEMs in the world by helping improve the way they design, build, service and sell automobiles and cut down cost in design and sales.

Unity also revealed that the company is strengthening the OEMs through-

Bringing the real-time revolution to automotive- Unity’s flexibility and support for 25+ platforms is transforming how OEMs execute designing, training, marketing, autonomous driving, and human-machine interaction. OEMs already save on average of $3-5 million Euros for each model designed using Unity.

Unlocking interactivity demanded by today’s car buying audience through real-time technology- Unity is powering the future of car buying experiences, helping car dealerships reduce inventory on lots, and increasing attach rates for dealer options. Using Unity’s real-time technology, Lexus gave prospective customers the power to configure, experience and buy the Lexus LC500 in VR, before the physical car was available in retail.

Advancing towards level 4 and level 5 autonomy safer and smarter with Unity’s machine learning capabilities- Unity’s simulation environment is allowing OEMs to drive millions of miles in a virtual environment, running 100,000s of scenarios at a time, all without endangering lives. OEMs are witnessing the ability to conceptualize autonomy to advanced levels without undergoing physical testing.

Enabling OEMs to innovate and deploy human-machine interfaces (HMI) for the next generation of vehicles through Unity’s real-time 3D development platform- As part of its growing autonomy efforts, Unity has recently collaborated with brands including Baidu and Microsoft to support artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning for autonomous systems, as well as its recently launched SimViz Solution Template: a package that provides OEMs and other brands with autonomous driving simulations solutions.

Unity, being the global leader's in-game engine is being used in all industries, particularly in education, film and furthering towards the automotive sector enormously. On the occasion, Mr. Anumukonda Ramesh, County Manager: India, Unity Technologies said, “We are already on the journey of advancing towards the future of automotive. We are enthralled to be part of the real-time revolution of the automotive sector by equipping the automakers through our real-time rendering technology. The ability to design, market, train and accurately conduct autonomous testing in a simulated environment allows for millions of simulations to simultaneously occur, providing automakers with a competitive advantage while helping to keep their business costs down.”

The mega-successful event witnessed 150+ delegates from the industry. Delegates from Tata, HCL, Mercedes- Benz, CHRP and many more joined the conference to share insights on how companies are building new competitive advantage using AR/VR and 3D technologies.

Unity is the creator of the world's most widely used real-time 3D (RT3D) development platform that gives developers around the world the tools to create rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. Unite is Unity’s global developer conference hosted in 8 countries and is the most important gathering of Unity developers, artists, publishers, educators, and enthusiasts.  

Bengaluru City May Plunge into Digital Darkness Due to Indiscriminate Cutting of Fiber Cables by Authorities

India’s IT capital city, Bengaluru is staring at potential blackout of its digital services across-the-board as BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) has resorted to large-scale cutting of Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) of telecom and internet service providers. This random cutting of OFC across areas like Sarjapur Road, Whitefield, Marathahalli, Bellandur, Sarjapur etc. without any prior intimation of telecom and internet service providers is leading to huge outages and inconvenience to the citizens in densely populated areas across the city. Such coercive actions will have huge impact on the connectivity for a State like Karnataka which is popularly known as the IT Capital of India and needs uninterrupted and seamless telecom services.

The telecom industry has made immense investments in setting-up infrastructure in the Karnataka circle to provide fast connectivity to the citizens, as well as to the IT industry.  Over 1,47,200 Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) on approximately 34,700 towers have been installed in Karnataka state to support telephone, mobile and internet communications. This alone equals INR 14,500 crores in network investments. The sector also generates approx. INR 10,000 crores per annum in revenue in Karnataka alone, from which it contributes over approx. INR 1,700 crores to the State exchequer by way of levies and taxes. Such coercive actions from BBMP are expected to bring the entire city to a virtual halt and cause immense setback to its robust digital economy, while bringing no benefit to the BBMP government.

BBMP is treating all over-the-ground cables as unauthorized, though the industry had obtained all necessary permissions and had originally laid them underground. However, the service providers were constrained to lay them overhead with the permission of BBMP as and when the same were unintentionally cut/removed during various civil works carried out by BBMP, BESCOM, BWSSB etc. The disconnection of the cable by BBMP is a huge blow to the Digital Bengaluru plan, which has the potential to cripple essential services including Point of sale purchase applications at retail outlets and various Government services in Bengaluru.

Speaking on the crisis that would bring the city to a virtual halt, Rajan S Mathews, Director General, COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India), stated, “We are deeply disappointed with the unwarranted action by the BBMP to remove the OFC cables, which has led to network outages and caused inconvenience to customers, many of whom are without connectivity. This impulsive action will also impact overall internet connectivity and businesses, especially IT firms in the city. We would once again like to highlight that all our members are fully compliant with the rules and regulations of the concerned authorities. While the industry has been trying to discuss and resolve the issue, BBMP has chosen to remove this key last mile connectivity infrastructure rather than work with telecom companies to find an amicable solution. We once again appeal to the Government of Karnataka and to the BBMP to immediately allow the restoration of the infrastructure and develop a future ready framework to enable deliver world-class digital connectivity to citizens in the IT capital of India. We once again reiterate that we are open to discussing the issue in a threadbare manner for the larger benefit of Bengaluru’s netizens and wide range of essential digital services.”

In a city that takes pride in its digital superhighways, it will also result in a complete communication black-out threatening emergency situations if calls can’t be connected and data connectivity is lost. This action will not only jeopardise the operations of companies/industries at India’s Silicon Valley, but will also have a huge impact on consumers and citizens.

BBMP must stop this retrograde and regressive fibre cutting drive immediately, as it is damaging operations of businesses and individual customers. At present, there is no comprehensive policy in Bengaluru which can ensure smooth provisioning of telecom infrastructure. Hence, Karnataka Government should formulate a comprehensive State RoW policy that is aligned with Right of Way rules dated November 2016 issued by the Government of India to facilitate smooth deployment of telecom infrastructure across the city.

The Right of Way rules, 2016 issued by the Central Government for provisioning of the underground/over the ground telecom infrastructure has enabling features such as no restriction on location of telecom towers, single window clearance mechanism, defined time-period for approvals, appointment of Nodal officers, nominal administrative fees and deemed approval etc. extensively supporting the Digital India mission.

In order to streamline the issue, the telecom industry is ready to help and Municipal body to provide and discuss the best practices being followed in other states regarding RoW rules, 2016.