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TechnoBind Ties ups with Micro Focus to Strengthen Security Offerings TechnoBind has tied-up with Micro Focus to strengthen its security offerings in the enterprise solutions. TechnoBind will be distributing IT Operations Management Suite (ITOM) and Enterprise Security (ESP) from Micro Focus. Along with Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore which are anyway the focus markets, TechnoBind will also focus to extend these solutions to Tier 2 cities. “Micro Focus is a leader in the Operations Management space and with Cloud getting real; most customers are looking at a Hybrid Approach. With this the environments have become even more challenging for the customer from a holistic management perspective. In line with our focus on technologies helping customers adopt cloud, we believe ITOM from Micro Focus has a great solution fit with their comprehensive approach with automation built-in. We believe it will add value to our reseller partners by helping them address this market opportunity”,
said Prashanth G J, CEO at TechnoBind. “Also Data Security being a key area for TechnoBind, the Micro Focus’s ESP portfolio will enhance our traction with our reseller partners.” Micro Focus is one of the largest pureplay software companies in the world. They are focused on building, selling, and supporting software. They help customers bridge the old and the new environments by maximizing the ROI on existing software investments and enabling innovation in the new hybrid model for enterprise IT. Technobind is a Bangalore-based India’s fastest growing specialist partner in IT focusing on Data and related solutions. TechnoBind offers consulting services for organizations to help them focus on reducing costs, mitigate risk and improve productivity along with maximizing returns on investments. The company has a presence in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Singapore.
Forcepoint Brings Full Weight of DefenseGrade Cybersecurity Portfolio Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint has created a new business unit to specifically meet the security challenges faced by critical infrastructure providers in today’s sophisticated threat landscape. The Forcepoint Critical Infrastructure business will leverage the full capability set of the company’s Global Governments and Enterprise Security businesses to deliver defense-grade cybersecurity offerings for insider threat detection, enhanced data security and advanced threat protection for critical infrastructure. The company will initially focus its efforts on organizations using industrial control systems (ICS) such as energy, oil and gas, and critical manufacturing. Leveraging its 20-years of experience securing high-assurance environments, Forcepoint is the only company today that can address the critical infrastructure threat where it is most vulnerable—the human point of interaction with systems and data.
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"DATA IS HAVING AN UNPRECEDENTED IMPACT ON CALL CENTERS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TAKING CUSTOMER SERVICE TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF PERSONALIZATION," MARTIN JETTER, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, IBM.
Genetec Inks Distribution Partnership with InflowTechnologies Genetec has entered into a new distribution partnership with Inflow Technologies. Based in Bangalore, Inflow distributes IT and security products through a network of 1,400+ channel partners in India and South Asia. Through this agreement, Inflow will distribute the entire Genetec portfolio of physical security software and hardware to enterprise, city, government, and education customers across India. “The Indian security market is growing exponentially, with great demand to evolve security platforms into unified, federated models—especially with government initiatives like Smart City and Digital India. Genetec is strategically positioned to bring our unified IP security solutions to new untapped markets in India, made possible by the broad distribution network that Inflow has built,” commented Daniel Lee, Managing Director for APAC, Genetec. “We are excited to enter this distribution partnership with Genetec to address the growing demand for high quality security solutions and hardware for both resellers and end-users,” commented Rajesh Kumar, VP Tech BU, Inflow Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Riverbed Introduces Powerful Microsoft Product Integrations Riverbed at the Microsoft Ignite Conference introduced a series of powerful Microsoft product integrations, enabling mutual customers to leverage their Riverbed and Microsoft investments together to drive business results and maximize digital performance. With this announcement, Riverbed demonstrates its continued and ongoing commitment to deliver customers with the agility, flexibility, and application performance required to compete in today’s cloud and digital environment. Through Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution SteelConnect, customers will now be able to automate local branch path steering for Microsoft Office 365 via conventional Internet broadband. By using the SteelConnect Manager policy engine and intuitive graphical interface, users can extend software-defined policies for steering traffic for selected applications or digital services, users or entire locations. SteelConnect Manager can also be used to connect to Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN, a global network backbone for managed site-to-site and branch-to-Azure connectivity.