The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, June 15, 2006

STORAGE
NetApp raises performance bar
Storage firm Network Appliances announced that it has achieved the first-ever NFS benchmark result of greater than 1 million operations per second, as tested using the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) SFS97_R1 ... More

OUTSOURCING
Symphony Services opens second centre in Bangalore
Outsourcing firm Symphony Services has inaugurated its second facility in Bangalore. Spread over 2 lakh sq ft, the centre can seat 2,000. The company has two more centres in India, at Pune and Mumbai respectively. Symphony has released 620 ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Reliance says GSM plans are customer-centred
Reliance Communications, responding to the Department of Telecommunications' indications that it may move out of CDMA technology or that it might have to vacate CDMA spectrum, said it is merely looking for the best competitive services for its ... More

Telecom dept seeks clarity on Reliance's GSM foray
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has indicated that Reliance Communication may be asked to vacate part of its CDMA spectrum if it wants to foray into GSM cellular services. DoT has asked the company for more details on its proposal to launch GSM ... More

HARDWARE
Intex plans manufacturing base in Himachal
The Baddi facility would be operational by the end of this year. More

SOFTWARE
Hitachi Data archiving solution
Hitachi Data Systems, a subsidiary of Hitachi, unveiled its digital archiving solution, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform. The platform is an active archive solution comprising both software and hardware, which supports ... More

Profit taking seen on Aztec
Aztec Software, which dropped by 14.5 per cent, ended the day as among the worst losers. It closed at Rs 121.65 on the NSE, a neat Rs 23 lower than its opening mark. The decline, marketmen feel, is prompted by steady sale by investors who wished ... More

Mindteck tool for Freescale
Mindteck announced the successful development of BeeStack for Freescale Semiconductor to be used with HCS08 microcontroller and the MC1319X series of RF data modems. ZigBee is a wireless data transfer technique for short ranges. ... More

IT TRAINING
Xenitis TechnoLab plans 60 more training centres
4 to be set up by company, rest to take the franchisee route More

HUMAN RESOURCES
SAP India plans Rs 115-cr expansion
To sign up new distribution partners More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
US firm acquires Recreate Solutions
Recreate Solutions India Ltd, a Mumbai-based media and entertainment software and outsourcing company, has been acquired by the US-based Corpus Inc. "The interactive media industry is maturing across platforms. It is ... More

SECURITY
Workshop on e-security
The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) will network with the e-Information Systems Security and Audit Association (eISSA) for initiating steps for building awareness in information security ... More

WatchGuard 's new security tool
WatchGuard Technologies, a $200-million US-based provider of network security, has launched Firebox X eSeries, a security solution that helps companies protect their entire network systems, including personal computers and ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL
`Venture capitalists keen on investing in India now'
Venture capitalists are now looking at India as a destination which cannot be kept on the sideline any longer, be it for reasons of cost arbitrage or even the human resources. Of this, about 16 per cent is likely go into the information ... More

PEOPLE
Head of Wipro PC Business
Wipro Infotechon Wednesday announced the appointment of Mr Ashutosh Vaidya as the Head of the Wipro Personal Computing Business. Prior to this, Mr Ashutosh was heading the Strategy and Planning function for Global Delivery ... More