New LC Duplex Generation from R&M

First time ever with integrated laser protection and safety system

With these safety features, LC can now be used more easily in office buildings, residential buildings and highly compact computing centers

BANGALORE / MUMBAI / NEW DELHI, India – January 27, 2010 – Swiss cabling specialist Reichle & De-Massari (R&M) has launched a new generation of its LC Duplex compact fiber-optic connector system. For the first time ever, this system has integrated laser protection and a lock for the connector. With these safety features, LC can now be used more easily in office buildings, residential buildings and highly com-pact computing centers.

A laser shutter provides integrated protection against laser beams, an international first for LC connectors. A flat spring in the adapter opens when the connector is unplugged and covers the fiber stub. No laser beam can escape from the adapter. Any danger of injury is there-fore ruled out, allowing the LC to be utilized risk-free in publicly accessible applications such as Fiber-to-the-Desk and Fiber-to-the-Home. R&M also offers a semi-transparent dust cap that enables the connection to be visually checked safely.

In this new generation, an LC can also be fitted for the first time with the three-stage R&M safety system that provides a better overview of the patch panel and helps to prevent mistakes, errors and tampering. This system involves color coding with colored plastic frames, mechanical coding with additional clips, and plug-out protection. The latter consists of a lock that is inserted in the mechanical coding clip and that can only be opened with a special key. The body of the adapter is a single piece and therefore sturdier than welded plastic parts. The adapter is compatible with all R&M platforms. The new LC Duplex connector system is suitable for grade C, D and M optical fibers, for single mode fibers ground straight or at an angle and for multimode fibers.

Reichle & De-Massari AG (R&M) develops and produces cabling solutions for communication networks. R&M has earned a reputation as a quality leader with its excellent copper and fiber optical products. The company has its own marketing organizations in 30 countries. It generates 78 percent of its sales abroad. Sales in 2008 totaled CHF 247 million; EBIT was 7 percent. The company invests more than CHF 10 million in research and development every year. R&M is one of the 500 largest companies in Switzerland and currently has more than 670 employees. The company is wholly owned by the Reichle family and is now being run by the second generation as an independent family-owned company.

For pictures of New LC Duplex Generation from R&M, please click here.

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About R&M
R&M is a leading supplier of passive cabling solutions for high-quality communication networks. With its copper and fiber optic systems the company contributes significantly towards ensuring operational reliability in voice, data and image transmission - worldwide. As a systems provider R&M has set itself the target of developing optimum functionality and, above all, satisfying the highest quality criteria. R&M also provides maximum installation and maintenance convenience. R&M solutions stand out by virtue of their maximum availability combined with cost-effective network operation. R&M’s high level of product quality and forward-looking system design ensure that the networks are sustainable and the investments safeguarded. R&M cabling solutions are used in office buildings and homes, by net-work operators and in industry. More information is available at www.rdm.com

Inspan launches Genius G-Pen F350 ultra slim Tablet

Works with any screen size & has plug-n-play built-in Vista functions

CHENNAI / BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – January 20, 2010 – Inspan Infotech, today announced the launch of Genius G-Pen F350 ultra slim tablet first time in India. This hitherto not available product is expected to provide that momentum in this category of products. Genius for the first time has come up with this size and Inspan is the first distributor to get this product to distribute this in Indian market.

G-Pen F350 is a portable and slim tablet comes with a high precision cordless pen. This high quality pen enhances the sketching and writing experience for mails signatures etc. It has twenty two short cut keys which help the writing super fast. The sleek slim design in a 3” by 5” size with 2000 dpi is a perfect match for flat and wide screens, especially for notebooks since it’s easy to carry with its light weight of about 200 gm. The cordless pen features two buttons and 1024 level pressure sensitivity for drawing or writing. While using the digital pen one can control the shapes and thickness easily. The cursor moves precisely where the pen is positioned.

It comes with a plug & play built-in Vista functions like personal note taking, handwriting recognition, hand written emails and navigation with a pen flick. It works with any screen size there by allowing the ease of use for different functionalities precisely.

“Size does matter – We are confident that this fantastic product from Genius would definitely evince the interest among such segments also who until were probably vary of this category products. Moreover the features of this product, we believe would give a different directions for large part of the computing and infotainment experience” said Sudhir S, Managing Director of Inspan Infotech. "This G-Pen F 350 is the first offer from Inspan to its partners from the stables of Genius and we foresee the better business for partners with this” adds Sudhir.

Price & Availability
G-Pen F350 comes with black color. This product is priced at an MRP of Rs. 3,500 and is available ex-stock with Inspan Infotech and its partners.

Image of Genius G-Pen F350
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About Inspan Infotech

Inspan Infotech is one of the leading IT distribution companies in India with distribution of established brands like Mercury, ViewSonic, Genius, BenQ, Acer, Numeric, Corsair, A-DATA, etc. Inspan has proved to be one of the fastest growing companies in India registering double the growth rate of IT industry in India for last two years. Inspan has grown due to its strong channel partner network and strong association with major vendors. Inspan believes in providing full value to its partners and is constantly working to add more value per job done. Inspan is looking to constantly add new product lines to complement and leverage on its existing strength to provide more value to partners. With 25 branches across all regions of the country and 3,000 channel partners, Inspan is poised for the next big jump. Website: www.inspaninfotech.com

French Government Advises Users To Stop Using Internet Explorer

MUMBAI / BANGALORE, India – January 18, 2010 – IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, has today commented on the French Government's advice to its citizens to stop using Internet Explorer until critical security vulnerability in the browser is resolved. France's move follows this weekend's recommendations from the German government to do the same, after the unpatched security hole was blamed for the attack announced last week against Google and other companies.

"It looks like governments in Europe might be falling over themselves to advise the public and official departments to stop using the world's most popular internet browser until Microsoft manages to rustle up a fix for this critical security threat," said Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos. "But switching rashly away from Internet Explorer might be a mistake. Some users may be unfamiliar with a different browser and cause support problems, and some web-based applications may not work at all if you're not using Internet Explorer."

"Switching browsers only makes sense if you really know what you are doing with the browser you are swapping to. It may very well be a case of 'better the devil you know'," continued Cluley.

Graham Cluley is available for comment on +44 (0)7990 552181.

Further information about the issue and the French government's announcement, can be found on Graham Cluley's blog at: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/01/18/french-government

Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter: @gcluley

Graham Cluley is recipient of two most prestigious awards in this knowledge domain:

- IT Security Blog of the Year: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc

- Twitter user of the Year: http://www.twitter.com/gcluley

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About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use, and that deliver the industry’s lowest TCO. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, UK and Boston, US. More information is available at www.sophos.com

ViewSonic appoints Inspan as National Distributor

To distribute latest full range of ViewSonic products

CHENNAI / BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – January 18, 2010 – Inspan Infotech, one of the largest IT distribution company for motherboards, cabinets and PC components in India, has been appointed as National Distributor by ViewSonic, the leading digital display components OEM. With this partnership to distribute the entire range of products from ViewSonic, Inspan fulfills the promise to deliver more for its partners and their customers.

Starting this relation, Inspan plans to introduce products in consumer space for higher infotainment experience and products that target the newer business segment. Thus Inspan’s partners can look forward to generating business from newer market segments like education segment. Inspan has put in place a systematic plan to unfold and launch newer product range from ViewSonic right from monitors to projectors in days to come.

Expressing his views on this alliance, Sudhir S, Managing Director of Inspan Infotech said “We are excited and feel more confident about this new partnership and the launch of the high quality products from ViewSonic in days ahead. We are looking forward to more engagements with ViewSonic and our partners in ensuring a seamless conduit between the two. We are sure this provides the partners a shot in the arm to go all out and reap the benefit”.

ViewSonic is known for its clear focus on digital display and many path breaking, innovative, ‘Green’ display products and devices targeted at the infotainment space. It has especially brought out products to suit the market feedback from the end users and partners. ViewSonic has always delivered the ‘new view’ with value.

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About ViewSonic
ViewSonic® Corporation is a leading global provider of visual display products. ViewSonic develops, markets and supports a broad range of innovative products including LCD monitors, LCD TVs, projectors, digital signage displays and other display products. For further information, please visit http://in.viewsonic.com

About Inspan Infotech
Inspan Infotech is one of the leading IT distribution companies in India with distribution of established brands like Mercury, Genius, BenQ, Acer, Numeric, Corsair, A-DATA, etc. Inspan has proved to be one of the fastest growing companies in India registering double the growth rate of IT industry in India for last two years. Inspan has grown due to its strong channel partner network and strong association with major vendors. Inspan believes in providing full value to its partners and is constantly working to add more value per job done. Inspan is looking to constantly add new product lines to complement and leverage on its existing strength to provide more value to partners. With 25 branches across all regions of the country and 3,000 channel partners, Inspan is poised for the next big jump. Website: www.inspaninfotech.com

Array Networks appoints Redington as VAD

Sustained growth in India market sees appointment of more distributors

BANGALORE / MUMBAI / CHENNAI, India – January 13, 2010 – Array Networks Inc., a global leader in secure application delivery, today announced it has appointed M/s. Redington India Ltd., (Redington), a vendor-authorised end-to-end Supply Chain Management of IT and non-IT products and support services, as its national Value Added Distributor.

Redington is a focused distribution player with a significant reach across India, Middle East and Africa. The company has successfully transformed itself from a pure IT products distribution firm with traditional cash and carry model to a leading integrated Supply Chain Solution Provider

Array Networks expects that there will be a positive impact from the tie-up to its growth, footprint and financial performance in India. Redington sees this as valuable addition in its portfolio and offerings to the market. Today's move enables both Array and Redington to better meet the needs of a broader set of customers by combining the two companies' complementary strengths – reach and technology respectively.

R Sasikanth, Strategic Business Unit Head - Enterprise SBU, Redington India said “We are delighted to join hands with Array Networks in its mission to provide best of breed security solutions in Application Delivery and Remote Access. We feel the products have immense potential particularly for countries like India. We believe that Array Network products will strengthen Redington’s presence in the Enterprise Market Segment”.

Array Networks already has an impressive list of resellers and customers in India, and has posted higher-than-industry-average growth in India even during the economic slowdown. The association with Redington is expected to give Array a reach in key markets and a wider footprint. The next phase of growth will be fuelled further after this tie-up.

Shibu Paul, National Sales Manager - India, Array Networks, said “The market for secure remote access and application delivery appliances is growing in leaps and bounds. The volume per customer has increased along with the marketplace acceptance and trust for Array products. We are excited with this tie-up as the potential is very high. The depth, breadth and vast footprint that Redington brings to the table will be of great value. They have a solid understanding of the security market and also in Value Distribution in India. Array’s top-of-the-line products and solutions for secure remote access and application delivery solutions will help them strengthen their security and high availability portfolio.”

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About Array Networks
Founded in 2000, Array Networks is a global leader in enterprise secure application delivery and universal access solutions for rapidly growing SSL VPN and application acceleration markets. More than 2,500 customers worldwide – including enterprises, service providers, government and vertical organizations in healthcare, finance, insurance and education – rely on Array to provide anytime, anywhere secure and optimized access. Industry leaders including Deloitte, Gartner, Red Herring, and Frost and Sullivan have recognized Array as a market and technology leader. Website: www.arraynetworks.net

About Redington India
Redington provides end-to-end supply chain solutions for global brands in IT and Non-IT verticals in potential geographies of South Asia, Middle East and Africa. REDIL represents more than 48 leading global brands covering product categories like Systems, Software, Peripherals, Components, Network products, Mobile Phones etc. with vast reach of network. Some of the brands carried by Redington includes Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Microsoft, IBM, Lenovo, Samsung, Blackberry, Apple, Intel, Acer, Dell, Cisco, Epson, Seagate, APC, Oracle and Sun Micro. Through its network of over 22,000 resellers and 70 warehouses, the Company distributes products across geographies in India, Middle East, Africa and Singapore. The company also provides warranty and post warranty services. The consolidated turnover of the company for the FY 2007-2008 stands at Rs.108700 million (over US$ 2.7 Billion). Website: www.redingtonindia.com

Huawei Symantec signs up iValue as its national VAD

BANGALORE, India – January 7, 2010 – Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd., world leading storage & security solutions provider, announced signing iValue InfoSolutions as its National Value Added Distributor. Huawei Symantec is a joint venture between Huawei Technologies – world leader in telecom solutions and Symantec Corporation – world’s leading Software Company focused on security, storage & system management solutions.

Huawei Symantec inherits the excellent genes of the parent companies – highly reliable and scalable system capability from Huawei & years of experience and knowledge in information security & storage from Symantec. Huawei Symantec is focused on network storage, security & software solutions and has over 1000+ key customers in 40 countries across 100+ partners covering 7 regions including customers of India top telecom carriers. Huawei Symantec with head quarters at Chengdu, China and four R&D centers world-wide, employs over 4000 with 55% of them in R&D with over 500+ patents.

Storage offerings include SAN – IP/FC, NAS, VTL, storage server, Virtualization gateway, cloud storage node. Security offerings include Firewall, IDS/IPS, UTM, SSL/IPSEC VPN, unified Security gateways. Huawei Symantec can also resell Huawei switches and server product to industry customers.

Alex Zhang, Chief Operating Officer at Huawei Symantec said “iValue’s proven expertise in India, across key customer & channel, with end to end capabilities will help develop our business in India and address customer’s needs in information security and storage.”

S Sriram, CEO at iValue InfoSolutions said “iValue & Huawei Symantec share many synergies – Customer focused Mission, Security & Storage market focus, strong background with aggressive growth plans. We are keen to complement mutually and win together for our customer & partners, through this alliance.”

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About Huawei Symantec

Established in Feb 2008, Huawei Symantec is a company devoted to R&D, Sales and Service of Network security and storage solutions. Huawei Symantec is dedicated to bringing sustainable value multiplications for its customers by focusing on their requirement, accelerating innovation and application of information storage and security technologies and providing cost effective solutions. Apart from 4 R&D centers, Huawei Symantec also has setup first laboratory of attack and defense for networks and applications. Huawei Symantec is taking on the responsibility of setting standards in multiple international and national storage and security standardization organizations. Please visit http://www.huaweisymantec.com/ for more details.

About iValue InfoSolutions

A premium technology enabler, iValue InfoSolutions drives adoption of cutting edge technology solution & services through the entire life cycle stages for IT Security, Storage & Managed enterprise wireless space.

With a Mission to empower organisations effectively manage their “Digital Assets” which are critical business differentiators, for protecting and growing the business, iValue offers solutions & services that are aligned & optimized for customer business needs through its partnerships. The team at iValue have proven track record of creating robust & scalable delivery models for niche & emerging solutions/services, while continuing to provide additional growth for matured solutions.

iValue forged & nurtured relationships with over 20+ premium technology partners & done business with 275+ unique partners over last 6 quarters. iValue has direct presence across 10 cities in India along with SriLanka operations. For more information on iValue, please visit http://www.ivalue.co.in/

Job Openings at Change Agents

Associate / Sr Associate (Tech PR practice)

Change Agents is a specialty consulting firm that has become a unique source for ideas and contacts that help public relations, marketing and branding activities of organizations work synergistically, increase effectiveness and deliver better return on investments of monies and efforts. We provide strategies that can make the new whole add up to far more than the sum of the parts. And that adds up to a win for everybody. Started in December 2003 (then called mEssence Consulting) and based out of Bangalore, Change Agents is involved with new age clean technology organizations from IT and Renewable Energy space.

Change Agents is looking for right people to fuel its growth plans. We are on the look out for ambitious executives to join our growing team and catalyse further growth in all major markets in India. You would need to have strong agency / media experience and have a solid background in trade focused technology media / PR. The right candidate would help develop and then execute communications strategies for high profile technology accounts. You should have strong contacts within the trade press and an impressive coverage history. You need to be hard working, self motivated and have the drive to really push yourself to the next level as this agency values and rewards ambition. A background in new business and pitching would be useful as would international client work but the key is a strong history of b2b technology work. This is a brilliant opportunity to work for a highly successful, boutique agency on some excellent technology brands.

Location : Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore

Renumeration: Tailor made for each person

Please write to me if you are interested to be part of this growth plan.

cheers

Shubhendu Nath
Founder & CEO
Shubhendu.Nath@ChangeAgents.in