LTI Launches Fosfor, The Data-to-Decisions Product Suite For Monetizing Data

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (BSE: 540005, NSE: LTI), a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, today launched Fosfor, the Data-to-Decisions Product Suite. Fosfor helps businesses monetize data at speed and scale by providing best-in-class capabilities. The Fosfor suite of products has extensive set of go-to-market and technology partnerships with leading cloud companies and has been recognized by leading industry analysts.

The Fosfor suite consists of five products:

* Spectra - a comprehensive DataOps product enabling the fastest way to harness data;

* Optic - an autonomous data fabric product to facilitate discovery-to-consumption data journeys;

* Refract - a data science and MLOps product automating operations across entire lifecycle;

* Aspect - a no-code, unstructured data processing product; and

* Lumin - an augmented analytics product that provides a search-like interface for all types of insights.

Sanjay Jalona, CEO & Managing Director, LTI, said: “We are in the age of Data Commerce, where data is not just a business enabler or differentiator, but also 'the business' for every enterprise. As an integrated suite of products across the data-to-decisions lifecycle, Fosfor is uniquely positioned in the market for AI-driven data products. We are confident that Fosfor will be a quantum leap in unlocking value for our clients.”

Siddharth Bohra, Chief Business Officer, Cloud & Data Products, LTI, said: “We firmly believe organizations need to fundamentally repivot what data can do for them, and Fosfor will play a significant role in achieving that goal for our clients. It signifies LTI’s intensified focus into the multi-billion dollar, fast growing Data and AI products market. Fosfor is based on our proven technology stack and some of the largest enterprises in the world are already benefiting from the cutting-edge products that are part of the suite.”

The Fosfor suite represents the evolution of LTI’s Mosaic and Leni products. These products have each seen great success in the market and are now brought together into the Fosfor suite. Several marquee clients leverage Fosfor suite of products for their mission-critical data and AI needs.

About LTI: LTI (NSE: LTI) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions Company helping more than 460 clients succeed in a converging world. With operations in 33 countries, we go the extra mile to assist our clients and accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited, our unique heritage gives us unrivalled real-world expertise to solve the most complex challenges of enterprises across all industries. Each day, our team of more than 40,000 LTItes enable our clients to improve the effectiveness of their business and technology operations and deliver value to their customers, employees, and shareholders. Learn more at http://www.Lntinfotech.com or follow us at @LTI_Global.  

YES BANK And NPCI Partner For Launch Of Credit Cards On RuPay Platform

* Card variant launched for YES Prosperity customers

* Loaded with a range of rewards, offers and lifestyle privileges

YES BANK has partnered National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to offer Rupay branded credit cards to its customers on the indigenously developed payment platform, offering another convenient avenue to extend the purchasing capacity of its customers.

YES Prosperity Rewards Plus credit card variant, crafted for the Bank’s YES Prosperity segment, comes with multiple benefits for customers. The most attractive of these include rewards points that mount up with every purchase on the Card, fuel surcharge waiver, accelerated rewards points on YES Cart  and merchant offers enabled by the Bank in collaboration with NPCI, which has developed the RuPay card payment network.

The parternship was announced at the Digital Payments Utsav at New Delhi in the presence Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Cabinet Minister, Ministry for Railways & MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) and Shri Rajeev Chandrashekhar, MoS, MeitY.

In addition, a wide variety of deals and special offers across various merchant categories are available for YES BANK Credit card holders – all aimed to increase their savings. Customers shall enjoy benefits of the most rewarding loyalty program with reward points that never expire along with industry leading features of sharing of reward points and extensive range of rewards catalogue.

Commenting on the launch, Rajanish Prabhu, Head – Credit Cards and Merchant Acquisition, YES BANK, said, “We are pleased to announce our partnership with NPCI to offer our customers credit cards stacked with a range of benefits. The YES Prosperity RuPay branded credit cards complement the lifestyle requirements of our customers – simplifying their purchase experience. The partnership is aligned with our ongoing efforts to expand and diversify our credit offerings for customers, ensuring that their payment journeys are contactless, enjoyable and more rewarding.” 

On this note, Praveena Rai, COO, NPCI said, “We are glad to associate with YES BANK for the launch of YES Prosperity RuPay credit card. We believe that this card will offer a delightful shopping experience to the customers with attractive benefits and rewards. RuPay is gaining significant momentum in the credit card space with an increasing user base. Our tie-up with YES BANK is a step forward to take RuPay cards to a varied customer base of the country and make it an Indian household product.”

About YES BANK

YES BANK is a 'Full Service Commercial 'Bank' providing a complete range of products, services and technology driven digital offerings, catering to Retail, MSME as well as corporate clients.

YES BANK operates its Investment banking, Merchant banking & Brokerage businesses through YES SECURITIES, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank. Headquartered in Mumbai, it has a pan-India presence including an IBU at GIFT City, and a Representative Office in Abu Dhabi.

Solve.Care Launches Care.Labs, The New Development Portal That Gives Physicians The Power To Change The World Of Healthcare

 

Solve.Care, the global healthcare blockchain technology company, announced today that they have launched their new development portal Care.Labs. Care.Labs will help to guide both physicians and developers in designing and creating Care Networks on the Solve.Care decentralized blockchain platform.

A Care Network is a digital health network that connects healthcare stakeholders to deliver streamlined care with the patient at the center of the experience. Care.Labs empowers physicians to play a more active role in changing the world of healthcare by designing their own healthcare decentralized solutions, and an opportunity to work with like-minded colleagues from around the world, something that has not been available in this industry as of yet.

An example of a Care Network is the recently launched Global Telehealth Exchange, an international cross border telemedicine network that allows patients to connect with doctors and specialists worldwide for teleconsultations, developed by Solve.Care.

In designing and creating their own healthcare networks, physicians can make their practices more efficient, cost-effective, and patient-focused. Care.Labs collates documentation, tutorials, videos, support blogs, and guides, making it easy for practitioners to learn the basics and start creating their own healthcare decentralized Care Networks. In the case that a physician was interested but had neither the know-how nor time, there will also be the option to get tech support from a dedicated developer team to create a sponsored Care Network. This represents a timely solution to the complexity of today’s healthcare.

This is the first release of the development portal, where physicians and developers can learn about the Solve.Care Platform, its components, find out how to create their own Care Network, and build one by experimenting with a sandbox using Solve.Care’s dedicated GitHub repository.

Speaking on this launch, CEO of Solve.Care Pradeep Goel said, “It is the physicians who are on the front line and are most aware of the pressing needs of healthcare and where the gaps currently lie. We are launching Care.Labs to empower the global community of physicians to use their expertise and knowledge to redefine healthcare for the benefit of their patients and their families. We are reaching out to those who do not accept the status quo of the current healthcare system.”

The Care.Labs development portal will continue to evolve as more functionalities and tools are added on to it. This will provide physicians and developers the ability to build even the most complex Care Networks with ease. Solve.Care is empowering each physician with digital capabilities never seen before, beginning with this new launch.

About Solve.Care

Solve.Care is a global healthcare platform company that redefines care coordination, improves access to care, reduces benefit administration costs, and helps reduce fraud and waste in healthcare around the world. The Solve.Care platform allows for digital health networks called Care Networks, to be built and run, for patient-centric care based on medical conditions, economic and social needs, and other tailored eligibility criteria, creating an entire healthcare ecosystem. It is also the first company in the world to successfully deploy digital currency and blockchain technology for value-based healthcare payments. Solve.Care is a multiple award-winning company, receiving accolades such as: ‘Most Innovative Blockchain Project Award’ at the Blockchain Life 2019 Forum, ‘Top Innovative Blockchain Solution’ and ‘Top Outstanding Project’ at the 2019 World Blockchain Awards, BRI’s ‘Industry Solution of the Year 2020’, SSOW Impact Awards’ ‘Technology of the Year 2020’, and many more. For more information, visit https://solve.care

Microsoft Launches Azure Availability Zones In Its Central India Datacenter Region

* New Availability Zones to provide additional resiliency and redundancy for customer workloads on the Microsoft cloud

Microsoft India today announced the launch of Availability Zones in its Central India datacenter region, providing additional resilience options for customers’ cloud applications. Azure Availability Zones allow businesses to spread their infrastructure and applications across dispersed datacenters, delivering additional protection and isolation from localized failures, which can range from mechanical or electrical issues, structure fires or flooding, or any unforeseen disaster. They also provide access to mission-critical application, data, and services to every Azure customer to support their most important workloads and processes.

Azure Availability Zones are physically and logically separated datacenters with their own independent power source, network, and cooling. If one becomes unavailable, the others ensure resiliency. They provide the scale, business continuity, and the security businesses need to run their most important applications in the cloud. The new Azure Availability Zones in Pune ensures uptime of up to 99.99%, empowering Microsoft customers in India to spread their infrastructure and applications across the data centers' locations, increasing security and accessibility.

Commenting on the announcement, Rajiv Sodhi, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India, said, “Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure comprises more than 60 announced datacenter regions around the world – more than any other cloud provider – and has been essential in connecting people, businesses, and governments while running mission-critical applications. We are continually upgrading the infrastructure in India to provide support for customers building and operating applications and workloads. From facilitating architectures for modern cloud applications, to meeting data residency requirements, the new Azure Availability Zones in Central India will bring resilience to businesses, as they accelerate digital transformation”

Azure Availability Zones enable many core Azure services that provide the necessary support for deploying, building, and operating highly available applications. As part of the design process, Microsoft evaluates more than 30 viability and risk-based criteria which are considered to determine the configuration of Availability Zones. 

Abhijit Mazumder, VP & Chief Information Officer, Tata Consultancy Services said “Cloud First is an important component of the TCS' Business 4.0 framework that guides our internal IT strategy, and which our Microsoft Business Unit uses extensively to further our customers' growth and transformation agenda. We believe this launch of a new Azure Central India Availability Zones from Microsoft will further enhance the resiliency and availability of mission-critical applications for us, as well as our clients in the region”.

Microsoft continues to build Azure to support customer needs for low-latency, high-availability cloud services, with the ability to both store and process data within a country or geography. This is essential in providing a trusted cloud that is secure, reliable, and supports regulatory compliance. 

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 16,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research, development and customer services and support, across 11 Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida and Pune. Microsoft offers its global cloud services from local data centers to accelerate digital transformation across Indian startups, businesses, and government organizations.

Polygon And Lumos Labs Set Up PolygonLEAP 2021 Accelerator To Drive Web3 Innovation In India

* Lightspeed, Elevation Capital, Woodstock Fund, Jump Capital, Sino Global Capital, and BuidlersTribe join as investor partners and mentors

* Winning startups stand to get $250K from Polygon and upto $9M+ from investment partners contingent to their due diligence process and investment thesis fit

Polygon, one of the largest blockchain ecosystems in the world, has partnered with technology innovation management firm Lumos Labs to launch the PolygonLEAP 2021 Accelerator today to drive their initiative to support Indian startups that want to start their Web3 journey, build innovative token economies and get access to mentorship, ecosystem and marketing support. Elevation Capital, Lightspeed, Jump Capital, Woodstock Fund, Sino Global Capital, and Buidlers Tribe join as investment partners and mentors. A total grant amount of $250,000 has been set aside from Polygon for Indian startups that build interesting projects on Polygon. The startups also stand a chance to raise a pre-seed/seed investment of over $9 million+ from Elevation Capital, Lightspeed, Jump Capital, Woodstock Fund and Sino Global Capital. These investments are contingent on the due diligence process and investment thesis fit with refusal rights afforded to both the funds and the founders.

The blockchain ecosystem has expanded rapidly in the last few years and has revolutionized multiple sectors including finance, technology, investments, banking, entertainment. The industry is expected to expand from $3 billion in 2020 to $39.7 billion in 2025 with the Asia region being at the forefront of this emerging technology.  The blockchain industry has been the hub of accelerated innovations due to the pandemic and has encouraged the startup sector immensely with new ideas, visions, and solutions constantly emerging. 

Despite regulatory ambiguities, India too has witnessed a major boom in the technology adoption that is transforming the country into a hub for Web 3.0 development. The emergence of Polygon, a company born out of India, as the go-to scaling solution for Ethereum is one of the reasons to be bullish about India's potential. Polygon is focussed on giving back to the community and building Web3 unicorns in India.

“Polygon seeks to empower Web3 developers by providing an accessible and scalable infrastructure. We look forward to working with Lumos Labs and inviting passionate innovators in India to build on Polygon” Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder, Polygon. 

“We are excited to onboard web 3.0 startups and enhance these solutions further with expert guidance and support in partnership with the PolygonLEAP 2021 Accelerator. Blockchain technology has been transformative for the global and Indian tech ecosystem and through this accelerator, Polygon and Lumos Labs are working towards empowering the startups even further. We hope to see a lot of web 2.0 startups looking to come into web 3.0 with numerous innovative and robust solutions and hope to support them till the end.” Kaavya Prasad, Co-founder, Lumos Labs .

The registrations are open as of today until February 4, 2022. This accelerator will focus on startups in the Indian Web 3.0 space. Over a four-month period, participants will build unique blockchain-based solutions along several tracks, including entertainment, decentralized finance, decentralized applications, and open innovation.

The process will also include a series of meetups designed to engage and interact with the developer community. The program will conclude with a month-long bootcamp phase where selected startups will turn their vision into reality under mentorship from the industry's leaders.

If you want to be a part of this revolution and work with the best names in the industry to make your dream into a reality, register here: https://www.bridge2web3.com/

Lam Research Unveils Syndion GP To Help Chipmakers Meet Demand For Advanced Power Devices

* Expanding Company’s Leadership in Deep Silicon Etch Technology, New Semiconductor Manufacturing Solution Supports Development of Chips for Automotive and Smart Technologies

Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) today announced Syndion® GP: a new product that provides deep silicon etch capabilities to chipmakers developing next generation power devices and power management integrated circuits used in the automotive, electric power delivery and energy industries.

As technologies in these sectors become more advanced, the need for higher power, improved performance and greater density at the chip level increases, requiring greater cross-wafer uniformity for higher aspect-ratio structures. These enhancements can be achieved by moving to an advanced device structure without sacrificing form factor. To do that, device manufacturers need a very precise and uniform deep silicon etch process.

Syndion GP is designed to support this precision manufacturing process and can be configured to manufacture devices at 200 mm and 300 mm wafer sizes, providing a simplified transition path to increased capacity. Currently, many power devices are manufactured on 200 mm diameter silicon wafers; but to support increased demand, production is migrating to 300 mm wafers.

The Syndion GP solution builds on Lam’s industry-leading deep silicon etch capabilities and extends its suite of specialty technology offerings. Specialty technologies refer to power devices, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), analog and mixed signal semiconductors, radio frequency IC (RF) solutions, optoelectronic devices, and CMOS image sensors (CIS) that support a broad range of consumer and industrial technologies and applications, such as electric vehicles, the internet of things and 5G.

“Demand for specialty devices continues to grow rapidly,” said Pat Lord, executive vice president of the Customer Support Business Group and Global Operations at Lam Research. “Through close collaboration with our customers, we identified the need for an accelerated path to manufacture advanced power devices using 300 mm wafers. Syndion GP can help chipmakers meet the growing demand, while supporting the continuous innovation of new specialty technology breakthroughs.”

Syndion GP expands Lam’s extensive deep silicon etch portfolio that includes the production-proven 200 mm DSiE™ platform and market-leading 300 mm Syndion GS for packaging, hybrid memory, and CMOS image sensor markets. Syndion GP offers the flexibility in meeting both the precision control and improved productivity for high volume manufacturing processes - all demonstrating the diverse range of deep silicon etch solutions required to address the next generation device challenges.

About Lam Research

Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) is a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. As a trusted, collaborative partner to the world’s leading semiconductor companies, we combine superior systems engineering capability, technology leadership, and unwavering commitment to customer success to accelerate innovation through enhanced device performance. In fact, today, nearly every advanced chip is built with Lam technology. Lam Research is a FORTUNE 500® company headquartered in Fremont, Calif., with operations around the globe. 

Airtel Inks Deal With Juniper Networks To Further Expand Broadband Network Coverage Across India

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced that it has been selected by Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s premier communications solutions provider, to deliver network upgrades for the expansion of Airtel’s nationwide broadband coverage across India.

Airtel has rapidly expanded its Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband coverage to over 430 towns with plans of covering 30 million households in over 2,000 cities in the next three years. In support of this increased nationwide penetration into many previously underserved cities and markets, the latest network upgrades build on the strong long-term relationship between Airtel and Juniper Networks.

As part of the deal, Juniper Networks will supply, install and provide support for upgrades to the MX Series routers and line cards as part of its market-leading broadband network gateway (BNG) to manage their subscribers and services, as well as carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT) solutions to ensure secure encryption across the network respectively.

Commenting on the partnership, Sajan Paul, Managing Director & Country Manager, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks, said, “We are privileged to have been Airtel’s partner for the last 15 years, growing alongside them as they have expanded their broadband and ISP network, in service of India’s home, SMB and large enterprise customers. At Juniper, we strive to deliver network experiences that transform how people connect, work and live. As Airtel gears up their network for 5G, we are excited to continually contribute towards their network transformation, not just in support of their fiber-to-the-home broadband services expansion, but also for other use cases and applications across various business segments.”

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is dedicated to dramatically simplifying network operations and driving superior experiences for end users. Our solutions deliver industry-leading insight, automation, security and AI to drive real business results. We believe that powering connections will bring us closer together while empowering us all to solve the world’s greatest challenges of well-being, sustainability and equality. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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