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Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS), one of country’s leading enabler of B2B connectivity and cloud communication solutions will now be offering Microsoft Azure to Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). This will enable SMBs to modernize their operations with smooth movement of business workloads to the cloud on a pay-as-you-go model and deliver better experience to their customers even as they scale faster. SMBs are increasingly realigning their business models to respond to dynamic business environments by moving their core operations to the cloud. With TTBS now offering Microsoft Azure, SMBs can look forward to predictive and agile cloud platform to install, scale, and upgrade business solutions more quickly and securely and serve across geographies with speed and innovation and that too at a great price-performance. They will also have access to new technologies like AI and advanced analytics to make better and informed business decisions. These will offer additional savings to SMBs on infrastructure and IT management costs as they will get 24×7 single window support and managed services from TTBS. “TTBS has been at the forefront of accelerating and simplifying digital transformation of businesses. With our vast network across the country and unparalleled cloud managed services, we are well entrenched to take Microsoft Azure to SMBs along with our comprehensive portfolio of solutions and offer a superior cloud infrastructure that empowers them to jumpstart their cloud journey in a secured, scalable manner and at an economical price point” Vishal Rally Sr. VP & Head – Product, Marketing and Commercial Tata Teleservices Ltd. “In today’s era, embarking on the digital transformation journey and moving to a secured cloud is a business imperative for SMBs. It helps them to be more agile for their end customers, be productive in a hybrid working environment, stay competitive and yet be more secured at a lower cost. Companies such as Tata Tele Business Services understand the requirements of SMBs and can empower them to innovate, grow, and become future-ready with Microsoft Azure,” said Samik Roy, Executive Director, Corporate, Medium and Small Business, Microsoft India. Microsoft Azure offers essential compute, storage and networking resources on demand, on a pay-as-you-go-basis. Services offered under Microsoft Azure include: On-Prem to Azure Migration. Microsoft Azure Managed Services. Public Cloud to Azure Migration. Data Center to Azure Migration. Storage as a Service. Back-Up/ DRaaS. Cloud Architecture Review & Cost Optimization. Cloud Infra Hardening. TTBS has taken several initiatives in the recent times to empower businesses with innovative and reliable solutions that help them build digital maturity and continue seamless operations in a flexible, scalable, and secured manner. The company has strengthened its portfolio of enterprise grade solutions such as Smartflo – an advanced cloud communication suite integrated with WhatsApp Business Platform, SmartOffice- a one-box startup kit with voice, data, apps, storage & much more, Ultra-Lola, Smart Internet Leased Line, SD-WAN iFLX an intelligently flexible solution (built on Fortinet’s platform) for network optimization, and a comprehensive suite of cyber security solutions.  

Tech solutions brand won the award for Most Selling Indian SSD Brand & the Fastest Growing Indian Tech Brand CONSISTENT Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. has bagged the awards for Most Selling Indian SSD Brand and The Fastest Growing Indian Tech Brand. The 14th Edition of DT Awards was held recently to honor the best tech brands in the Indian ICT industry. This product and innovation honor is one of the biggest and most prestigious recognitions in the IT industry. The virtual DT Awards 2022 recognized the countless efforts of tech brands in bringing best tech innovations and products for Indian consumers. As a technology solutions brand that has a consistent futuristic approach toward all its products and innovations, CONSISTENT has become a major market player in the security, surveillance networking, print consumables domain of the country. Founded by Nitin Bansal and Yogesh Agarwal in 2011, the brand has achieved a decade-long experience and significant market share in India. The objective of DT Awards has always remained to reward the entire IT community for their great collaboration and partnership which assist this industry in going with great pace. Directors of CONSISTENT Infosystems Pvt. Ltd., Nitin Bansal and Yogesh Agarwal collected these awards and expressed their gratitude with the promise to integrate more purpose into their working and complement the awards won. On this occasion the Directors said, “It is a moment of extreme honor for us to be recognized at this prestigious platform. It is a validation of our work and determination and we hope to continue working for the betterment of the tech sector and its stakeholders, especially the consumers.” CONSISTENT Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. has over 55 centers in India and ensures customers have easy after-sales support. Quality and service are the key parameters on which CONSISTENT has laid its foundation and remain to be of paramount importance in everything they do to provide customer satisfaction. Founded by visionary Nitin Bansal and Yogesh Agrawal with a commitment to delivering value to its customers, vendors, and CONSISTENT employees, Infosystems Private Limited has become one of the fastest-growing IT organisations with products catering to IT, Electronic & Home Entertainment Industries. Riding on its innovative approach for over a decade, CONSISTENT has grown successfully and has increased its footprint across all major states in India with 20+ branches, a team of 300+ employees, 50+ products in its portfolio, and more than 3500+ channel partners. Leadership and vision clubbed with teamwork and technological advancement in the products have made CONSISTENT a promising brand offering technologically superior products and world-class technical support. CONSISTENT has 55+ service centers across the country ensuring that customers have easy after-sales support. Quality and service are the key parameters on which CONSISTENT has laid its foundation and remain to be of paramount importance in everything they do to provide customer satisfaction.  

Commvault, a recognised global enterprise leader in intelligent data services across on-premises, cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) environment, sponsored a research which was conducted by the leading market research firm, IDC on the challenges faced by Indian organizations arising out of the massive data sprawl and storing and securing the business data in the hybrid cloud era. The IDC Spotlight, commissioned by Commvault, on Modernizing Data Management in the Hybrid Cloud Era with SaaS Data Protection, Doc #APTS7838X, May 2022, which aimed at identifying the top priorities enterprises are looking to thrive in the new normal, revealed that 71% (percent) of organizations cited data backup/data recovery as their number one priority for cloud investments for the next two years. For today’s organizations, data is the most valuable asset, and its loss can result in irreversible damage to the business – loss of efficiency and productivity, profits/revenue, brand reputation, and customers. The research revealed that Cloud-based data recovery is among the key priorities for India enterprises as it helps them effectively deal with multiple issues of traditional backup and recovery solutions such as inability to scale up or down, lack of pay-as-you-go pricing model, or absence of data storage across multiple geographic locations, to name a few. Ransomware emerged as the biggest challenge during the pandemic due to accelerated digital transformation. About 37% of organizations stated that their sensitive or secret data was exfiltrated while 53% of the respondents mentioned that ransom was paid, but 49% of organizations were still unable to access systems or data as it was blocked for a few days. The study also highlighted that 20% of organizations were forced to pay a ransom amount between US$25,001 to US$50,000. “India has been one of the worst victims of ransomware attacks in the past few years. It is imperative for business leaders to therefore invest in a right data partner who can support the organization with powerful and comprehensive multi-layered protection and provide advanced detection and rapid recovery from data breaches and security threats. The hybrid cloud era is here to stay and an advanced data management solution with SaaS data protection capabilities will be the key to a resilient future,” said Balaji Rao, Area Vice President, India and SAARC, Commvault. With organizational data volume increasing at an exponential rate, the ability to quickly recover important data is mission-critical for enterprises. The study cited that over 28% of enterprises will have multiple private and/or public cloud environments and migrate workloads and data between them by 2023. In addition, some enterprises are looking to shift their public cloud workloads to a hosted or non-cloud environment for better performance, security, availability, and control. All of this means that organizations must focus on implementing effective data resilience strategies through a comprehensive backup and recovery strategy for hybrid and multi cloud environments.  

Most organisations across verticals have already opted for and adopted the cloud. According to IBM’s report ‘State of the Multi-Cloud,’ 96% of organizations have deployed at least one public cloud environment. This change has led to the way of multi-cloud on the belief of concept that not-one-solutions-fit-all. This is true, according to IBM’s report, 60% of companies now run at least two or more public cloud environments, and 30% run three or more. This means that a majority of companies today fall into the multi-cloud category. Now that multi-cloud is in place it also raises a lot of questions on security. Some key challenges in securing web applications across hybrid environments or multi-could: Quality of security: Most cloudbased security solutions are based on a ‘negative’ security model, using static, manually defined security policies. Varying levels of protection: Maintaining the same level of protection across platforms is difficult, as each solution has different levels of security. Inconsistent security policies: Security policies between different environments are incompatible and inconsistent with each other. Point of failure: Inline WAF deployments invariably add another point of failure to the system. If they go down, all communication to the server is blocked. Increased latency: Going through third-party cloud networks, external to the public cloud environment, adds traffic hops. Tight coupling between security and delivery: Most cloud-based WAFs require tight coupling between a CDN and security, reducing operational agility and flexibility. SSL certificate sharing: Existing tools require the application’s SSL certificate, adding management overhead and violating user privacy. Fragmented logging and reporting: It’s difficult to get a view of the threats across platforms. No centralized management: Security breaks into silos with disparate management, leading to an overhead nightmare of managing multiple security tools for each platform. To overcome the challenges of multi-cloud application security, Radware’s application security architecture is specifically architected for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments to provide comprehensive, consistent and frictionless application protection regardless of where the application is deployed and without interfering with existing business and development processes. The Radware SecurePath architecture provides several key advantages that address the challenges of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud application protection: State-of-the-art security: Provides industry-leading application security based on advanced behaviour-based machine-learning algorithms across multiple security modules, including WAF, bot manager, API protection, level 7 DDoS protection, threat intelligence and more. Deployment flexibility: Offers multiple deployment types (either cloudbased inline or API-based out-ofpath deployment), and customers can choose whichever architecture they prefer for every application based on their preferred business or technical considerations. Wide variety of supported platforms: Provides native integrators with a variety of common cloud tools and DevOps frameworks, to enable frictionless integration into any environment. Single, centralized application security portal: Security for all applications, wherever they are, can be managed with full security protections (WAF, bot, API, and so on). For every new-age technological problem, there needs to be a new-age solution; this is where Radware SecurePath comes into the picture. Multi and hybrid cloud is here to stay and their adoption by organizations is only said to increase. Keeping this in mind, organizations need solutions like SecurePath to help handle everyday challenges.  

Differentiation The eDVR Series is Hikvision’s latest generation of DVRs. Its most distinguishing feature is that it uses eSSD storage. As you know, traditional DVRs use HDD drives, and by contrast, the new Hikvision eDVRs replace the mechanical moving parts of HDDs with eSSD chips. That makes them more stable, more energy efficient, more compact and more cost effective. eSSD Storage Advantage eSSD is a highly compact, super-high performance storage chip that supports advanced software functionality with a high level of reliability. It combines two components – a ‘controller’ and a ‘nand’ – into a single, fully integrated solid-state chip unit. The highly integrated 128-layer 3D-NAND technology not only makes eSSD chips smaller in size, but also improves their memory capacity, heat dissipation, and overall electrical performance. Besides, as SSDs are embedded in the devices, users don’t need to worry about assembly, for the eDVRs arrive ready to use with no additional hard drive installation or assembly required. When it comes to video applications, and DVRs in particular, eSSD reduces the size of the storage chip overall, while also delivering major performance gains. Most special performance gain They are more sustainable than the traditional DVRs. The eDVR Series uses a single eSSD chip instead of HDD, which has multiple moving parts, such as rotating platters, spindles, and the drive actuator and drive head. This means the new eDVRs are much more durable, less vulnerable to falls and shocks, and require far less maintenance than competing solutions – helping to minimize negative environmental impacts. Equally importantly, using eSSD storage with no moving parts means that the new eDVRs use around 45% less energy than traditional DVRs. That saves around 45 Kilowatt-Hours (kWh) electricity per year. With this amount of electricity, a smartphone can be fully charged for 3000 times. In a time of energy shortage and electric price hikes, the energy efficiency of the eDVR can make a difference to the size of a business or a household’s electric bills. To make this product even more eco-friendly, we use cardboard and degradable plastic materials to pack them, abandoning the conventional plastic packages and EPE foams. Innovative Features eDVRs have superior coding efficiency, as they use the ‘scene adaptive bitrate control technology,’ which automatically optimizes encoding for video footage. With this technology, higher ‘bitrates’ are assigned to footage with people or vehicles, providing high-resolution recordings of security events for later use. Likewise, ‘no action’ footage is assigned a much lower bitrate to maximize storage efficiency. Aside from this, the eDVRs are able to support a range of advanced software features including motion detection which is based on Hikvision’s Motion Detection 2.0 technology. This distinguishes human beings and vehicles from other objects, allowing businesses and homeowners to respond quickly and effectively in the event of a security breach. Applications and Scenarios Basically, the use of eSSD storage for the eDVR series means that the devices themselves are far smaller than traditional HDD-powered DVRs. This means that they can be stored and shipped far more easily, and installed literally anywhere, from the top of a desk to a post or behind a cabinet. As well as saving space in this way, the devices are extremely simple to install, with no need for the cables or screws typically used to install HDD devices. This saves time for installers and end users, and significantly accelerates deployment of video-related projects of all types and sizes. You see, these features make them great for both business and residential use. The eDVR Series’ cost-efficiency and simplicity to set up and use makes it accessible to SMB owners and residential users with no particular IT knowledge nor enough time and budget to elaborate a more complex security solution.  

Hikvision India has launched Next Generation X-Ray Baggage Scanner with AI- based intelligent security inspection system in India. It is one of the first X-Ray Baggage Scanners with AI-based intelligent security inspection systems to be introduced in India. The state-of-the-art security inspection system is embedded with integrated functions like intelligent recognition of threat objects, Real time Video Monitoring and variable speed, etc. “We are proud to introduce the latest Hikvision X-Ray Baggage & Parcel Inspection System in India. It is powered by value added features like threat identification, built-in Artificial Intelligence and Real Time Video Monitoring, etc. This newly introduced system is an innovative product offering in the security inspection product segment. We sincerely hope this AI enabled inspection product will add tremendous value to the security inspection across the key verticals,” said Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd. The key features of Hikvision X-Ray Baggage & Parcel Inspection System are as follows: Threat Identification Identification of advanced material properties such as effective atomic number for accurate material discrimination of organic, inorganic or metal objects based on Standard Colour coding. AI Recognition Intelligent Threat Recognition Technology, a deep learning recognition algorithm with full independent intellectual property rights, which realizes the integration of intelligent recognition algorithm and X-ray imaging software, and achieves better identification of potential threats. Video Linkage The system has an in-built camera with video recorder. It has more channel to show an operator’s video. Reliable Performance and Safety Amazing image quality, double lead curtain design effectively provides extra shielding to minimize radiation leakage. Characteristic Function Speed can be changed according to the scene, supports access to Hik-central, and implement the data upload. Data storage supports local storage, view and playback of the images and alarm information. Login Options Supports login with face and fingerprint authentication. Hikvision X-Ray Baggage & Parcel Inspection System supports detection of prohibited things by deep learning algorithm. It supports detection of 15 kinds of prohibited things, including guns (standard gun, non-standard gun, components), knives (restricted knifes, daily knives, military knives), bottled liquid, battery, umbrella, laptop, cellphone, aerosole can, scissor and lighter. Hikvision X-Ray Baggage & Parcel Inspection System is available in following models as per tunnel size – 500×300, 650×500 and 1000x1000mm.  

Central Association of Private Security Industry (CAPSI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO). The International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO) is committed to support and do professional development of protection officers and supervisors through advocacy, promoting training standards, and providing accessible training, education and certification opportunities. It seeks to enhance their professional standing as well as increase and diversify the value of the vital services they provide. IFPO is a US based 30 years old organisation having huge international membership. CAPSI partnership with IFPO will help their security officers enhance their professional knowledge to deal with new security challenges.  Hundreds of security professionals working with corporate are certified by IFPO.  

Honeywell announced recently it is expanding its strategic alliance with Nexceris, developer of Li-ion Tamer® lithium-ion gas detection solutions, to help make electric vehicles (EVs) safer. Honeywell and Nexceris will offer advanced automotive sensing technology to help prevent conditions leading to thermal runaway in EV batteries, a phenomenon that causes extremely high temperatures within the battery cell and can result in a fire. Global sales of EVs doubled in 2021 from the previous year to nearly 7 million, and India’s electric vehicle market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 90% in this decade to touch $150 billion by 2030. Many of these vehicles today use lithium-ion batteries as an energy source, which can pose safety risks that can impact EV owners. To help mitigate these risks, automobile manufacturers are looking to incorporate technology to provide enhanced safety. Honeywell offers a wide range of lithium-ion battery safety and performance solutions, including sensors used in battery management systems to monitor the health of EV batteries, gas detection solutions used throughout the manufacturing process and electrical safety personal protective equipment, providing protection to workers and allowing them to operate safely in hazardous conditions. Rajesh Rege, President, Honeywell India, mentioned, “As more people switch to electric vehicles, automakers need to supply lithium-ion batteries that are reliable, safe and secure at every point of their lifespan. EV sales are likely to increase exponentially ‘in the coming months and years’ due to the demand incentives provided under FAME II, the launch of state policies, rising fuel prices, tightening emissions laws and increasing awareness of the green environment. Honeywell is assisting this transition to more EVs on the road by providing ready-now solutions to help reduce safety concerns. Honeywell’s collaboration with Nexceris to develop an enhanced suite of battery monitoring sensors will help automotive manufacturers strengthen their battery health monitoring systems with the ability to detect thermal runaway conditions even earlier.” The companies will collaborate with leading global vehicle manufacturers to deliver advanced gas detection solutions in EV battery packs to allow for early intervention, helping avoid costly property damage and safety issues. “Our work with Honeywell will help us empower the global transition to electric vehicles through enhanced battery monitoring,” said Kyle Shen, President and CEO, Nexceris, “Fires from lithium-ion batteries are dangerous and often difficult to contain after they start. By combining our shared expertise in battery sensing and gas detection technology with Honeywell’s extensive manufacturing capabilities, we will be working toward offering our vehicle manufacturing customers a more advanced safety solution and meeting the growing demand for lithium-ion batteries.”  

India’s premier indigenous security and surveillance product manufacturing brand, PRAMA displayed its innovative transportation solutions at TrafficInfraTech Expo with a theme ‘Innovation Meets Expectation.’ Prama India had participated in the TrafficInfratech Expo held between 16-18 November at Bombay Exhibition Center (BEC) in Mumbai. The exquisitely designed PRAMA booth got good response from the security professional community. A special commemorative Coffee Table book on PRAMA’s ‘Make-in-India’ mission to boost indigenous manufacturing was inaugurated by S.V.R. Srinivas, Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA in the presence of transportation industry leaders, government representatives and delegates. PRAMA booth at the TrafficInfraTech Expo displayed its innovative and indigenously developed transportation security products and solutions, including Highway Control Room Solutions, Toll Plaza Surveillance, Advanced Traffic Management Solution, In Bus Surveillance Solution, Mobile Enforcement Solution, Ai Sense Solution and other solutions. PRAMA booth also displayed Speed Detection Cameras and ANPR Cameras. The three-day Smart Mobility Conference 2022 was concurrently organised along with the TrafficinfraTech Expo event, it covered eclectic mix of contemporary themes on transportation, traffic management, logistics, Mobility, Smart Cities Parking Management. On the first day of the conference, Vinay Mishra, Senior Vice President – Projects, Prama India Pvt. Ltd., gave a detailed presentation on the trendy theme ‘Smart Transportation, Smarter Solutions.’ He also briefed about the latest Transportation security solutions offered by PRAMA India. His presentation got an overwhelming response from the conference delegates. PRAMA’s Transportation Solution enables the promise of advanced video security solutions. It provides mission critical security to the transportation hubs. It has a Command and Control solution to proactively monitor the video data of video security cameras. Its bespoke products and solutions serve the vehicular security needs. PRAMA’s Smart Traffic Solution provides the help to resolve the Traffic Management challenges. It keeps the vehicle traffic moving swiftly while ensuring the security and safety of travelers, vehicles and pedestrians. TTTrafficInfraTech Expo 2022 provided a networking forum for government representatives, experts, project heads, system integrators and service providers to collectively find solutions to urban transport challenges. The event got concluded with relevant insights on latest developments in the India’s transport sector. A large number of dealers, distributors, consultants, system integrators and end-users visited the PRAMA booth to check the latest transportation security solutions on display.  

Fortinet®, a global company in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, recently announced a business benefit analysis of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and its ability to support large enterprises by delivering 300% RoI over three years and payback in eight months. As one of the top SD-WAN vendors, Fortinet commissioned a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study by Forrester Consulting to analyze the value that Fortinet Secure SDWAN can provide to large enterprises, examining both the network and security impact on customers’ businesses. As part of the independent study, Forrester interviewed business decision-makers with experience across industries and geographies, including retail, healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing. Collectively, the organizations deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and other Fortinet products, such as switches, wireless LAN, and wireless WAN, and have more than $1 billion in annual revenue, up to 8,500 sites, and up to 133,000 employees. Based on customer feedback, Forrester developed a composite model for the study and built out a three-year financial model to reflect the costs and benefits of the investment. Key findings from the study and benefits for customers include: Eight Months Payback and 300% RoI: Customers deploying Fortinet Secure SD-WAN achieved a 300% return on investment over three years with payback in eight months. These benefits include a reduction in communications costs, increased productivity of security and network teams, improved network and security performance, and increased productivity of deployment teams. 65% Reduction in Network Disruption: With enhanced network performance enabled by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, business users experienced a 65% reduction in the number of network disruptions. 50% Improvement in Resolving Issues: Fortinet offers increased visibility and effective, broad protection, allowing security and network teams to identify and remediate network issues more quickly. Improving time to issue resolution by as much as 50% enabled the composite organization to reassign security and network team resources to higher value activities, resulting in a three-year, risk-adjusted productivity benefit of $1.4 million. Increased Productivity of Deployment Team: Fortinet Secure SD-WAN enabled the composite organization to save time by 75% per new deployment, resulting in significant efficiencies for the deployment team. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Transforms and Secures WAN Prior to implementing Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, the organizations used a combination of technologies and vendors to manage, maintain, and monitor their networks. These solutions, which relied on MPLS, internet, and assorted hardware, lacked visibility and adequate security coverage, forcing network engineers and administrators to spend excessive time identifying and resolving unanticipated problems on an ad hoc basis. Additionally, scaling and modifying existing solutions became increasingly cost-prohibitive and time-consuming. Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales, India, SAARC and Southeast Asia at Fortinet, said, “Large enterprises around the world continue to turn to Fortinet to achieve their digital acceleration goals with solutions that converge networking and security. We’re pleased that Forrester has quantified both the network and security benefits of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, which will advance our commitment to helping customers make informed decisions with validated solutions.”