/India PRwire/ – Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a leading graphicsprocessor provider and second-largest supplier of microprocessors, and FXLabsStudios Pvt. Ltd., India’s leading end-to-end game development company, todayannounced a strategic technology alliance to foster game development in thecountry. The association makes FXLabs the first Indian game development companyto join forces with AMD to deliver a compelling gaming experience. As a part ofthe alliance, FXLabs will deploy the latest ATI FirePro™ series of workstationgraphics technology for the development of upcoming games, provide a test baseconsisting of AMD Radeon™ series of consumer graphics processors and inaddition, provide the technology expertise of its graphics engineers.

In June 2008, AMD demonstrated a milestone achievement in ultra-realism andinteractive visual computing through the processing power of its teraflopsgraphics chip. The demonstration of what AMD termed, “Bollywood 2.0experience”, eradicates the sensory barrier that separates today’s visionarycontent creators and the interactive experiences they desire to create foraudiences around the world. The Bollywood 2.0 demo showed the fusion of dynamicreal-time interactivity with convincing cinematic digital effects that appearto be real places and things captured on video.

ThisAMD advancement in processing technology can now begin combining with theartistic passion of top movie directors, visual effects companies and gamedevelopers worldwide to open the door for unprecedentedly engagingentertainment experiences.

RamkumarSubramanian, sales and marketing vice president, AMD India, said, “Gamingconsumers in India have begun to demand content that is near life-like andflawless. AMD is in the right position to provide the technology that drivesthis content with its platform combination of processor and graphics. Inaddition, through our technology alliance with FXLabs we expect to break thenext frontier in gaming.”

Commentingon the partnership, FXLabs Founder & CEO, Sashi Reddi said, “Gaming inIndia has matured significantly over time and is driven by the demand forquality content with regional flavour. We are very happy to collaboratewith AMD for their professional graphics series. I am confident that ourdevelopers can now scale their projects to superior quality levels.”

Speakingduring the signing of the MoU, Janet Matsuda, Senior Director of ProfessionalGraphics, AMD, said “graphics content developers demand superior performanceand speed that does not hinder their creativity. AMD’s ATI FirePro series ofgraphics technology enables developers to create and innovate rather thanhaving to wait for their computers to catch up. This provides The UltimateVisual Experience™ to consumers.”

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About AMD

AdvancedMicro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is an innovative technology company dedicated tocollaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the nextgeneration of computing and graphics solutions at work, home and play. For moreinformation, visit http://www.amd.com.

About FXLabs

FXLabsis the leading end-to-end game company in India. Founded in September 2004,FXLabs began its operations building PC based games both for the Indian marketas well as the global market. In December 2007, FXLabs acquired an online gameportal to expand its operations into the online casual game space. The visionof the company is to be the top developer and publisher of games for allplatforms including PC, console, online casual, MMOG, and handheld. FXLabs is the firstIndian company to release a game worldwide. Recently Ghajini The Gamewas released globally. The upcoming title “NetherWorld Beyond Time I Stand”is ready for release in the US region. The current pipeline of PC titles underdevelopment include a game based on Archie Comics, a game based onBollywood property Dhoom and a game called Bollywood Badass. FXLabshas its production studio in Hyderabad, India and a sales presence in New Yorkand Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.fxlabs.com.

©2009, AdvancedMicro Devices, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ATI, the ATI logo, FirePro,Radeon, The Ultimate Visual Experience and combinations thereof, are trademarksof Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informationalpurposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

/India PRwire/ – Maveric Systems, one of India’s leading dedicated software testing companies, announced the expansion of its Operations and R & D facilities in Chennai today. These facilities will enable Maveric Systems to scale up their infrastructure to meet the growing demands from clients. Maveric is increasing its investment and focus on Research & Productivity Tools development. The new offshore facility is situated at the Larson & Toubro Estancia, GST Road, Chennai and the new research and Intellectual Property Development facility is located at the IIT Madras Research Park at Adyar. A total investment of Rs. 8 crores has gone into these facilities. Maveric expects to move into these new facilities by July 2009.

Mr Venkatesh, Director and Co-Founder, Maveric Systems said "In the current market conditions, clients are more willing to explore offshore delivery models. Being a niche player, it is also important for us to strengthen our Intellectual Property through increased focus on Research & Development and Innovation." He also said "This move will help us consolidate our leadership position in the Software testing domain and achieve the projected 35 percent growth during this fiscal year."said "In the current market conditions, clients are more willing to explore offshore delivery models. Being a niche player, it is also important for us to strengthen our Intellectual Property through increased focus on Research & Development and Innovation." He also said "This move will help us consolidate our leadership position in the Software testing domain and achieve the projected 35 percent growth during this fiscal year."

The offshoring facility at GST road will span over an area of 25,000 sq ft, in two phases, with the first phase scaling up to 200 employees by the end of this year. This facility will play a crucial role in delivering quality services to clients across Middle East, and United Kingdom with an increased focus on the APAC markets.

The research facility at the IIT Madras Research Park will house a dedicated 40 member team within 5000 sq ft. The team will work closely with the finest minds from academia through a combination of research projects, consultancy and student sponsorships at the Research Park, to create innovative IP that gets deployed globally on Maveric’s client engagements.

The offshoring unit along with the IIT Research Park facility will enable Maveric to deliver process driven Functional, Non-Functional and test automation services for its clients.

For more information on Maveric Systems, please visit www.maveric-systems.com

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About Maveric Systems Ltd

Maveric Systems Ltd. is one of India’s top three independent software-testing companies since the year 2000. Over the past nine years, Maveric has been pioneering the outsourcing model in software testing. Maveric has successfully moved up the value chain in software testing by taking clients away from a resource augmentation model to provide value added IP-led services that significantly enhances quality of applications deployed by clients. As a leading pure-play, independent software testing company, Maveric today has multiple delivery locations in India, UK, Middle East, USA and proposed centres in APAC. Maveric’s impressive client list includes a wide array of leading software product companies, system integrators and financial institutions. With a dedicated talent pool of testing professionals, Maveric has been growing rapidly over the past nine years.

/India PRwire/ – Quest Software Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, bagged the ‘Great Indian Developer Award II’ in the security segment for their product ‘InTrust’. The award was received by Krishnan Thyagarajan, MD, Quest Software India, at the JN Tata Auditorium, IISc, on April 25. The Great Indian Developer Awards honour trailblazing technologies and organisations contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the software developer ecosystem. Quest Software’s InTrust was highly acclaimed for understanding the user and administrator activity which is the pulse of a secure and well-managed infrastructure.

Quest Software competed with industry stalwarts spread across various areas of security (authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention). The initial three-stage selection process involved people voting for each category. In the final stage, votes were consolidated and an esteemed panel of judges selected the winners. Quest Software’s InTrust scored on being a single user interface to both — policy compliance monitoring and real-time, business- critical security event alerting.

Reiterating the value of the first laurel for Quest Software in India, Mr. Thyagarajan said: “Great Indian Developer Award is a stamp attesting the quality of our security solutions. Securing votes from a community well-versed with technological developments, speaks of our success in resolving issues arising out of the heterogeneous IT environment, thereby reaffirming our commitment towards security issues.”

About InTrust

InTrust is a single solution to monitor access to critical systems on multiple platforms. The solution reduces complexity of event log management, saves expensive storage administration costs, improves information assurance, and mitigates risk. The cumulative effect of these merits is an efficient security, operational and compliance reporting mechanism.

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About Quest Software, Inc.

Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Quest also provides customers with client management through its ScriptLogic subsidiary and server virtualization management through its Vizioncore subsidiary. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest’s Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions simplify, automate and secure Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Windows Server, Office Communications Server and BlackBerry Server. Quest is the Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the year for 2004 and 2007. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com

/India PRwire/ – Yahoo! India R&D announced that Ashish Mangalampalli, a 2nd year PhD student from IIIT Hyderabad is one of the winners of the 2009-2010 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program Award.

Twenty-one exceptional PhD studentsfrom all over the worldhave been selected to be part of Yahoo!’s Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program and Ashish Mangalampalli is one of them. Ashish is the only winner from a non-US institute/university and has been awarded with $2,000 of unrestricted funds to support his research activities and is exclusively invited to the KSC Graduate Student Summit planned for September 2009 in Sunnyvale, California. The workshop will focus on novel disciplines and important technical challenges for the Internet research community, slanted specifically for graduate students whose innovative work is emerging.

“Supporting the academic community is a top priority at Yahoo! and we created the KSC Program to support outstanding PhD students who we believe are doing research in very important and challenging areas,” said Rajeev Rastogi, VP and Head of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore. “We are excited to be able to support students likeAshishwith KSC grants, and we look forward to having them as part of our broad research alliance of outstanding students and faculty,” Rastogi added.

“I am extremely happy to be the winner of this prestigious award and would like to thank Yahoo! for giving me this opportunity. Apart from the monetary aspect, I value the opportunity that Yahoo! will be providing to interact with Yahoo! scientists and other top graduate students in an informal and supportive environment, said Ashish Mangalampalli, Winner of KSC Award Program. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank my teachers and peers at IIIT Hyderabad, and in particular, my advisor, Dr. Vikram Pudi, Director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Dean (R&D), Prof. P.J. Narayanan, and Dean (Academics), Prof. Kamal Karlapalem,” he added.

The Key Scientific Challenges Program was launched on 26th January 2009. It enables students to work alongside Yahoo!'s leading scientists to solve fundamental challenges and potentially contribute to the next big thing on the Web. Students were invited to submit a paper about their current or planned research that is relevant to the challenges and explains why their work would make an impact in the area. A committee composed of senior scientists in each research area reviewed the papers and selected a group to be a part of the program.

Yahoo! Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the Web. As the center of scientific excellence for Yahoo!, Yahoo! Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research and new technologies powering the company's products.

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About Yahoo! India Research & Development

Yahoo! India R&D was established with a mission to deliver product and technology innovation to create a significant business impact globally. The organization has invested in specialist talent in key areas like product managers, user experience designers, architects, developers, program managers, quality engineers, service engineers and researchers to build a world-class team in India.

Yahoo! India R&D engages in end-to-end product development from concept through launch. It also runs the entire Yahoo! network, which one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, on a 7×12 basis. The research arm, called Yahoo! Labs, focuses on basic and applied research in the areas of next-generation search, advertising and large-scale computing systems.

Yahoo! India R&D has built out best in class consumer experiences and online advertising products for both global and emerging markets. Some of its products like Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Cricket are well known.

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McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced the release of its line of McAfee Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls. The McAfee UTM Firewalls, formerly referred to as SnapGear, are multifunctional network security appliances that are attractive to small and mid-sized (SMBs) businesses based on their competitive pricing, reliability, and ease of use.

The appliances are available in seven different models for small to medium sized businesses, and come fully integrated with, intrusion prevention, network firewall protection, and VPN services. Optional modules include enterprise-class technology such as TrustedSourceÔ reputation ratings for mail filtering, and Web filtering for protection against known and unknown threats, which can include anti-malware, anti-spyware, and antivirus capabilities. They can be easily deployed in remote substations, such as large enterprise branch offices or retail locations, or at a vendor’s site to provide strong authentication of devices attempting to access critical assets.

The UTM Firewall family now includes key new features and functionality under the McAfee brand, including:

• Centralized management and new dashboards—users can now securely manage any of the UTM appliances centrally via a new feature-rich browser based McAfee UTM Firewall Control Center, and gain an overall picture of their network and device status at a glance
• Active intrusion detection and prevention—proactively monitors network events and alert network personnel when there is suspicious activity using an enterprise class signature set
• 3G Wireless Support—Models with USB ports are able to support 3G wireless connectivity for a primary connection or backup/failover

“Unified threat management devices continue to be in high demand and are the predominate security appliance that SMBs will be looking for in 2009,” said Chris Christiansen, IDC. “They help SMBs respond to cost-cutting initiatives, managing their risk, and meeting their compliance regulations programs. Devices that offer a wide range of security solutions in an integrated package with a platform for subscription-based security services will remain to be the most viable.”

As part of McAfee’s focus on its small and medium customer’s security needs, it recently conducted a survey with MSI International to McAfee SMB customers to better understand the UTM opportunity for SMBs. Findings suggested that the most utilized features by customers on a UTM device are network firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention and virtual private networking capabilities. McAfee has ensured these features are available on all devices without licensing restrictions, which is important for smaller, yet growing, organizations.

“McAfee UTM Firewall is a complete office network-in-a-box Internet security appliance that can be deployed as a firewall, VPN gateway or UTM security appliance,” said Darrell Rodenbaugh, senior vice president of McAfee’s midmarket segment. “With its smart, simple and secure functionality, it also perfectly aligns with McAfee’s security management approach to help its smaller businesses maintain a very strong security posture in just 15 minutes a day.”

Availability

For more information on the UTM Firewall models and features, please visit http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/network_security/utm_firewall.html.

McAfee UTM Firewall is available now through McAfee and its channel partners.

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About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is relentlessly committed to tackling the world’s toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com

NOTE: McAfee and any additional McAfee marks herein are registered trademarks of McAfee, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. © 2009 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved.

/India PRwire/ – Impetus Technologies (www.impetus.com), the pioneers in outsourced product development and engineering services has received the Sony Ericsson Developer World India Award 2009. Impetus nominated its highly innovative application “GeoScrapper”- a mobile application which provides Location Based Services and Social Networking.

Great Indian Developer Awards is India’s first and premier awards for the software developer ecosystem that recognizes organizations and products that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. The winners were announced and honored at the Great Indian Developer Awards 2009 ceremony held on 25th April,2009 in Bangalore. The three day event was attended by delegates from mobile operators, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies and media and entertainment organizations. Seven winners qualified for a 100 day mentor program to become a “Sony Ericsson Certified Developer” .

Impetus’ GeoScrapper is a mash up application providing Location Based Services and Social Networking. It is a GPS-based navigation system using Google Maps, where users can share information related to any interesting location by posting scraps and comments within their social community, which then gets displayed on the Map.

Speaking on the achievement, Mr. Praveen Kankariya, CEO, Impetus Technologies said, "We are truly privileged to be recognized in this Award Competition. This is a moment of joy for the entire Impetus family. We have again proven that we are fast becoming a major player in the exciting and high-growth domain of mobile and wireless application software. We are doing some exciting work in the upcoming mobile technology space, and this recognition will only serve to inspire and motivate us more.”

As a winner, Impetus is entitled to “Business and Technical mentorship” program conducted by Sony Ericsson and four industry experts, that will lead to the ‘Sony Ericsson Certified Developers’ certification.

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About Impetus:

Headquartered in San Jose, Impetus Technologies provides outsourced software product design, R&D and related services to leading global software product companies. Impetus has been involved with hundreds of product launches over its decade-long association with its clients ranging from enterprise class companies to innovative technology start-ups.

Impetus works on cutting-edge technologies to develop a variety of next-generation products for a range of vertical domains. From enterprise applications that optimize supply chains and credit portfolios, to solutions for the emerging rich media and digital content verticals; and from products for wireless networks and mobile handsets to software for network forensics and communication monitoring, Impetus’ emphasis on continuous innovation adds significant value to its clients’ technology initiatives.

/India PRwire/ – Infosys Technologies Ltd. and The Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) have today announced that CFS has chosen Finacle™ Universal Banking Solution to power its business transformation initiative. As part of the programme, CFS, part of The Co-operative Group, the UK's largest consumer co-operative, will replace systems across its back-office and channels in the Retail Banking and Corporate Banking businesses with Finacle™. This initiative will also include the implementation of Finacle™ core banking, CRM (uniting CFS banking and insurance businesses) and e-banking solutions across the critical home-market operations of CFS in the UK.

A strong customer focus and high operational excellence are vital as part of CFS’s future development and growth strategies. The existing technology infrastructure while fit for purpose at present is considered unsuitable for future requirements and CFS has decided to replace the existing legacy systems with a world-class banking solution.

David Anderson, Chief Executive at The Co-Operative Financial Services, said, “The Enterprise Platform programme is a strategic initiative for CFS and deploying the right technology is critical to creating a client-centric business based on our core principles of value, fairness and social responsibility.”

According to Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Infosys Technologies Ltd, “The value-driven best-in-class capabilities of Infosys combined with the global leadership of Finacle™ Universal Banking Solution provides CFS a strategic partner with proven expertise for achieving the group’s transformation objectives.”

The rigorous selection process focused on acquiring a new generation platform to support the group’s crucial objectives of product innovation and client-centricity, standardisation of platforms and processes, and scalability for future growth.

Clive Elliott, Director of Enterprise Platform at The Co-operative Financial Services, commented, “We selected Finacle™ from Infosys as our strategic partner in this transformation journey for the strong technical architecture and functionality of the Finacle™ solution, extensive domain knowledge of the team and the global experience of working with leading financial institutions. Infosys’s approach to sustainability was also important, given the importance we place in this area.”

John Hughes, Director of Retail Banking, and business sponsor of the Enterprise Platform Programme said, “Once the new platform is implemented CFS will be able to create a differentiated customer experience through innovative products, a unified customer view and seamless integration across channels. Finacle™ will also enable CFS to acquire and retain customers, achieve sustainable scale, and lower operational costs.”

Sanat Rao, Vice President and Global Sales Head at Finacle™, Infosys Technologies Limited said, “We are delighted to partner with CFS for this strategic initiative. This partnership is another endorsement of the global leadership of Finacle™ and its superior value proposition to large financial institutions around the world and further consolidates our footprint in the growing European market. We look forward to enabling CFS to effectively employ the transformational capabilities of Finacle™ to achieve its objective of sustainable and client centric growth.”

A leader in banking transformation, Finacle™ has a global footprint across 62 countries and has been acknowledged by top analysts including Gartner and Forrester as being among the leaders in the core banking solution space. Finacle™ is also the winner of a series of awards for its innovation and implementation capabilities, the most notable ones being The Banker Technology Award, The Banking Technology Award, and The Asian Banker IT Implementation Award.

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About Co-operative Financial ServicesThe Co-operative Financial Services is part of The Co-operative Group, which is the world’s largest consumer co-operative with over 3 million members. CFS currently has 5.5m customers and employs over 8,000 staff. It has 116 retail and corporate branches/centres and over 1,000 face to face financial advisers.

About Finacle™ Universal Banking Solution

Finacle™ from Infosys helps banks WIN IN THE FLAT WORLD by providing solutions and services that enable a shift in their strategic and operational priorities. The offerings address the comprehensive technology-led business transformation requirements of retail, corporate and universal banks worldwide by maximizing their opportunities for growth, while minimizing the risks that come with such large scale transformation. For more information, visit www.infosys.com/finacle

About Infosys Technologies Ltd

Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY) defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a flat world. These solutions focus on providing strategic differentiation and operational superiority to clients. With Infosys, clients are assured of a transparent business partner, world-class processes, speed of execution and the power to stretch their IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model that Infosys pioneered. Infosys has over 100,000 employees and operates globally from 21 countries. Infosys is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index. For more information, visit www.infosys.com

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/India PRwire/ – Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the “Switch it On” program to help customers derive more efficiency out of their environments by improving the optimization of their storage assets. As part of the program, Hitachi Data Systems is offering *free storage virtualization software which enables customers to consolidate all externally attached, third-party storage under common management and optimize with advanced capabilities such as transparent data movement, dynamic provisioning, intelligent tiering and disaster recovery.

“Programs that promote storage efficiency are endemic right now and deservedly so,“ said Mark Peters, senior analyst, the Enterprise Strategy Group. “Heterogeneous support and virtualization are extremely valuable approaches both operationally and financially; however with ‘Switch it On’ Hitachi Data Systems strikes a new and welcome chord – it is not only exposing inefficiency and talking about what it can offer, but is actually helping its customers to do something to address it, without them having to get out their checkbooks.”

“Customers are increasingly aware that their data should be considered as digital assets," says Benjamin S. Woo, vice president, enterprise storage systems at IDC. “By consolidating and increasing utilization through virtualization technologies, customers can maximize the return on their digital assets as well as the return on the investment in the infrastructure that protects those assets."

Hitachi’s storage efficiency technologies and world class services and support provide customers the assurance that they can reclaim unused storage capacity, improve storage utilization and realize a dynamic and efficient storage infrastructure optimized to meet business requirements. Hitachi Data Systems market proven storage virtualization technology and dynamic provisioning help improve overall storage utilization by up to 40 percent, recover up to 50 percent of unused storage capacity and reduce overall power, space and cooling costs in the data center. With more than 11,000 virtualization-enabled controllers, Hitachi Data Systems is the undisputed market leader in the storage virtualization space.’s storage efficiency technologies and world class services and support provide customers the assurance that they can reclaim unused storage capacity, improve storage utilization and realize a dynamic and efficient storage infrastructure optimized to meet business requirements. Hitachi Data Systems market proven storage virtualization technology and dynamic provisioning help improve overall storage utilization by up to 40 percent, recover up to 50 percent of unused storage capacity and reduce overall power, space and cooling costs in the data center. With more than 11,000 virtualization-enabled controllers, Hitachi Data Systems is the undisputed market leader in the storage virtualization space.

“This initiative reaffirms our commitment to help customers save money by enabling them to leverage existing assets they own and reclaim under utilized storage capacity,” said Brian Householder, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and business development, Hitachi Data Systems. “Customers tell us we have the winning strategy because, unlike other storage vendors, our strategy is built upon enabling customers to do more with less and improving on operational and capital expenditures. By leveraging our market leading storage virtualization technology, customers can dynamically thin provision not only internal storage, but external storage as well for nondisruptive data movement, copies, replication, business continuity and migration of thin volumes across externally virtualized storage.”

Hitachi Storage Efficiency Customers Storage Efficiency Customers

With a nationwide network of 1412 Branches and 3,177 ATMs in 527 Indian towns and cities, HDFC Bank saves thousands of labor hours each year in part because of Hitachi virtualization technologies. Mr. Harish Shetty, executive vice president of IT, HDFC Bank stated: “The Hitachi virtualization solution has helped us simplify our storage management practice. We're not only able to enhance the life of our legacy assets but also to manage all assets in one single, virtualized pool — improving storage utilization and operational efficiencies. We've drastically improved efficiency and productivity by delivering notably faster customer response times and keeping costs low for multiple snapshots of 3TB production databases."

HUK-Coburg, a large European insurance company, dramatically simplified its storage environment, improved storage utilization and reduced operational costs. Since implementing Hitachi Data Systems’ dynamic provisioning technologies, HUK-Coburg has reclaimed 30% storage capacity. Renar Grunenberg,manager of data administration, HUK-Coburg said: “We capitalized on Hitachi virtualization and tiered storage technologies to reduce operational and capital IT expenses by minimizing the cost of doing business. We have reduced the number of systems and applications that needed to be managed separately and deferred storage purchases to the future for long-term savings, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership. Now we are actually doing more with less — we’re managing more capacity more effectively with less effort and less cost to operate.”

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/India PRwire/ – WHAT: AMD announced a platform refresh today for Dragon platform technology, including the new AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Black Edition processor. As AMD’s fastest ever quad-core processor, it brings all the capabilities gamers, enthusiasts and do-it-yourselfers have come to expect from AMD, including world record setting performance, high-speed DDR3 memory support and AMD OverDrive™ 3.0 technology, giving users more control over their computing experience.

The Dragon technology refresh consists of the new AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor, AMD 7-Series chipsets and award winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics. With this platform refresh, AMD is combining its fastest processor with the massive graphics processing muscle of its most powerful GPU to deliver high definition video entertainment and “beyond HD” resolutions[iii] that allow gamers to take the latest games to the extreme.

WHY: AMD is committed to bringing high-performance desktop PCs to the enthusiast, gaming and DIY communities. To best meet the needs of these communities, AMD is taking a balanced platform approach, providing optimal CPU, graphics and chipset performance all at an affordable price.

BENEFITS: Running at a frequency of 3.2 GHz, the new AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor joins Dragon platform technology to give users speed with plenty of headroom. With speed, you need control, and the new AMD OverDrive 3.0 software[iv] delivers with a few new features:

§ AMD Black Edition Memory Profile lets users create custom profiles that can easily overclock known DDR3 memory to quickly and easily achieve optimum high speed DDR3 performance.4

§ AMD Smart Profiles can automatically tune performance for specific applications, whether for max performance or quiet operation. Choose from pre-defined application profiles or create your own to personalize the experience.

With AMD, consumers have the option to upgrade when the time is right for their budget and overall experience. Socket AM3 processors, such as the latest AMD Phenom II CPUs, are backwards compatible with existing AM2+ platforms running DDR2 memory, and can also transition to AM3 motherboards that support DDR3 memory when the time is right. Unlike the competition, AMD users can upgrade without having to purchase multiple new components.

For more information on the latest Dragon platform technology and where you can get it – Check it out!

See what AMD’s Ian McNaughton has to say about this new processor here.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ATI, the ATI logo, AMD OverDrive, AMD Phenom, Radeon, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ATI, the ATI logo, AMD OverDrive, AMD Phenom, Radeon, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

/India PRwire/ – CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced the launch of its Federated Identity Management (FIM) offering, a solution designed to enable companies and organizations to establish trusted relationships with business partners and outside parties. The new solution is part of CSC's Trusted Identity Enterprise Suite(TM), the company's portfolio of fully integrated, end-to-end identity management solutions.

FIM fulfills business and technical requirements among an organization and its partners to provide secure shared access capabilities through a single set of identity credentials. The offering provides companies the ability to create and maintain digital trust relationships by enabling interoperability between vendor software solutions and technical security standards, while meeting security requirements.

"Enterprises today are extending access to applications and information resources to a greater number of individuals – including partners, suppliers and customers – while simultaneously facing the critical need to protect themselves from unauthorized access," said James W. Sheaffer, president of CSC's North American Public Sector line of business. "CSC's Federated Identity Management solution enables clients in the private and public sectors to improve information exchange, security and compliance, while enhancing privacy and lowering the risk of identity theft."

The offering includes assessment of an organization's current business processes and infrastructure, deployment of a technical solution optimized to meet client needs and follow-on life cycle support. FIM uses open standards products and services. For more information, please visit www.csc.com/fim.

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About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.1 billion for the 12 months ended Jan. 2, 2009. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.