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Nippon Paint (India) Pvt Ltd (decorative division), Asia-Pacific’s leading paint manufacturer, has launched its e-commerce platform. To start with, the Momento DIY range will be available on the company’s new e-commerce platform. The Momento DIY range comprises the Momento Designer finish wall paints, and DIY wall-painting tools. This move will optimize Nippon Paint India’s supply chain, which has been only brick and mortar until now. Presently, delivery is available in Chennai and Bengaluru. By purchasing the Momento DIY range, customers can now choose their desired wall paints and DIY painting tools online, within the comfort of their homes. The DIY tools include brushes, rollers, masking sheets, paint gloves and aprons. Mahesh S. Anand, President (Decorative Paint), Nippon Paint India, said, “Nippon Paint has always been a disrupter when it comes to introducing unique paints, and painting concepts for customers. By introducing the e-commerce platform, we will cater to the burgeoning Home DIY segment. The Momento DIY range was conceptualized keeping in mind the demands of the millennial customer who wants to indulge in DIY painting expeditions, amidst the work-from-home culture. We are also certain that this platform will address the safety concerns of the customers who can have their DIY paint and tools delivered at their homes”. The Momento DIY range will cater to artistic individuals and families who are keen on a creative outlet, thanks to its easy-to-apply and environment-friendly, designer-finish paint. In today’s world where DIY projects are the norm and many are opting to invest in home-improvement, the DIY product range is expected to target a more creative audience which is open to embracing digital interior design solutions.

L&T Technology Services (LTTS), one of India’s leading software services companies, has been recognized as a Leader for development and verification & validation services in Industry 4.0 by the consulting and research firm, Everest Group. In its report – PEAK Matrix for Industry 4.0 Service Provider 2020 – Everest Group has identified LTTS among the six leading companies in the market based on various parameters such as market adoption, portfolio mix, value delivered, innovation & investments, delivery footprint, and vision and strategy. “The focus of LTTS on the development and verification and validation (V&V) in the Industry 4.0 segment is evident from the fact that this service function accounts for over 50 percent of the firm’s revenue from Industry 4.0 services,” said Akshat Vaid, Vice President, Everest Group. “The firm’s dedicated investments in V&V labs infrastructure and CoEs catering to next-generation themes such as IIoT, AI/ML, cloud engineering, robotics, and cybersecurity have significantly elevated its positioning among enterprises as a reliable Industry 4.0 service provider”, added Vaid. “Additionally, LTTS’ focus on IP development is reflected in a suite of solutions, including modular frameworks and platforms such as Aikno, nB-oN, and DFX, which helps enterprises enhance productivity and speed-to-impact in Industry 4.0 initiatives. LTTS’ vision for this.  space, along with focused investments have helped them achieve a strong growth momentum in this market,” elaborated he. According to the Everest Group, LTTS has a strong ability to drive a high level of innovation around Industry 4.0 that customers recognize, buoyed by robust investments in establishing dedicated infrastructure, developing a strong partner ecosystem and enhancing IP assets for Industry 4.0 services. The objective of the PEAK Matrix is to provide a data-driven assessment of service and technology providers based on their overall capability and market impact across different global services markets, classifying them into Leaders, Major Contenders, and Aspirants. Amit Chadha, Deputy CEO & Member of the Board, L&T Technology Services Ltd, said, “The advancements in the Industry 4.0 landscape have witnessed rapid traction with businesses across sectors realizing its true potential. With a rich engineering DNA combined with our leadership position in engineering services, LTTS has been at the forefront of introducing pioneering innovations in this space. We are delighted to receive this latest recognition from an independent research body as globally acclaimed as Everest Group and further resolve to usher in newer benchmarks in the domain of Industry 4.0”.

Commvault, the frontline player in the data protection space encompassing on-premises and cloud frontiers, has expanded its Metallic Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) portfolio of solutions. Metallic is adding new data protection solutions, features, and enterprise workload support including enhanced SaaS application protection with the introduction of Metallic Salesforce Backup and Microsoft Teams recovery enhancements. It also covers Oracle and Active Directory to Metallic Database Backup and the expansion of its hybrid cloud capabilities with the addition of HyperScale X as a fully integrated appliance and edge offering for Metallic. “As we continue our global rollout of Metallic, we’re finding more and more customers around the world are immediately grasping the value and inherent simplicity that cloud-native, as-a-service data protection can bring to their environments,” said Manoj Nair, General Manager, Metallic. “With our new offerings like Salesforce and Oracle backup and our unique SaaS Plus capabilities, Metallic solutions offer customers what no other cloud-delivered backup service can match: the most comprehensive portfolio of BaaS solutions and the flexibility to backup each data source to the optimal storage target–whether that be cloud or on-premises storage, or the new HyperScale X for Metallic at the edge for ultimate performance with BaaS simplicity”, added Nair. “The rise in both remote work and potential data risk is driving strong demand for cloud-based data protection solutions that offer customers the security, agility, and functionality needed to not only continue day-to-day operations, but in many cases, to exceed them,” said Vinny Choinski, Senior Validation Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “With the continued expansion of Metallic’s SaaS Plus portfolio, Commvault has created an impressive backup-as-a-service ecosystem – a comprehensive range of offerings supporting enterprise-wide workloads to the backup target of choice, whether it’s on-prem, in the cloud, or to the HyperScale X appliance”, explained Choinski. By the way, Metallic is now generally available in 23 countries in total, announcing support for nine new countries in the EMEA region including Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South- Africa, Spain, and Switzerland. Takeaways at a glance Understanding that businesses across the globe need dedicated protection for their SaaS applications, Metallic has made global availability a top priority, tripling its country availability and doubling its product offerings. Recent additions include hybrid cloud data protection solutions for SAP HANA and Kubernetes. Metallic Salesforce Backup provides customers scalable, enterprise-grade SaaS data protection for the Salesforce Sales, Service, and Financial Cloud. It offers simple protection for valuable Salesforce data with unlimited retention, unlimited storage, and hardened security controls built-in – helping to meet stringent standards, unique requirements like sandbox seeding, recovery requirements, and SLAs. Metallic Office 365 & Teams Backup & Recovery now builds on Metallic’s existing Microsoft Teams capabilities to include in-place restore of Teams conversations

HCL Technologies, one of India’s top software services companies, has come out with a virtual mega recruitment drive in Vijayawada on February 12th & 13th, 2021. The company is offering around 1,000 job opportunities to freshers as well as experienced professionals at newly opened Global IT Development Centre  at Gannavaram in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh (AP). HCL Technologies Global IT Development Center has been operational since February 2020 with nearly 1,500 employees. HCL’s Vijayawada center which is on approximately 30 acres of land was envisaged as part of AP’s drive to create new IT hubs in the state. The center is in sync with HCL’s philosophy to create and operate, a state-of-the-art global IT development center; recruit, train and employ local talent and create sustainable ecosystems to retain them. The center also houses a skill development center that will bridge the employability divide. HCL Vijayawada focuses on high-end technologies including engineering R&D, application development and product & platforms business. Srimathi Shivashankar, Corporate Vice President, HCL Technologies, said, “HCL Technologies’ New-Vistas initiative provides talent in India with innovative opportunities and platforms that will empower them with the necessary skills needed to play crucial roles in the technology landscape. I’m happy to announce that HCL Vijayawada is organizing a mega recruitment drive on February 12th and February 13th, 2021, that will present opportunities to both freshers and experienced professionals to join one of our fastest growing and most exciting New-Vistas centers in Vijayawada”, said . “In the last four years, the New-Vistas locations like Madurai, Lucknow, Nagpur and Vijayawada have nurtured and hired over 15,000 candidates, who are now an integral part of HCL Technologies”, added Shivashankar. Also, the Vijayawada facility has got 750-plus students enrolled in TechBee – HCL’s early career program. The TechBee program skills class-XII completed students for entry level job roles at HCL. On completing first-year of the TechBee training program, students are placed in HCL Technologies. The company also supports higher education of TechBee scholars through its arrangement with BITS Pilani or SASTRA University where students can enrol for completing their graduation programs.

For addressing the growing automation markets in the Nordic region, India’s TATA Technologies has intensified its operations under its newly formed subsidiary, TATA Technologies NORDICS AB, in Sweden at Gothenburg. This move marks the completion of its acquisition deal with Escenda AB in 2017. Sweden and the overall Nordics region holds strategic importance for the new entity, considering the presence of global OEMs and Tier-I automotive majors, large export volumes, and augmented focus on vehicle electrification. Through the new delivery centre in Sweden, TATA Technologies will offer its expansive portfolio of solutions covering entire product engineering value chain to customers across Nordics. This includes solutions across smart manufacturing, telematics, digital thread, smart trinity of ERP-PLM-MES solutions, contactless retail solutions and many other solutions. “TATA Technologies has reinforced its leadership position in product engineering services as per Zinnov’s 2020 rating and has bagged the prestigious Frost & Sullivan ‘company of the year’ 2020 award. We’re excited to create value for our customers in Nordics through this delivery centre and stand by our ethos of helping our customers realize better products”, said Warren Harris, CEO & MD, TATA Technologies. Arun Krishnamurthi, President, Europe, TATA Technologies, said, “TATA Technologies NORDICS AB is a crucial cornerstone of Tata Technologies’ European growth strategy. We already have our presence in Sweden where we work with leading OEMs and we wish to deliver our services and value to potential customers in Nordics”. Sameer Joshi, VP-Nordics, TATA Technologies, viewed, “Sweden holds strategic importance, considering the growth opportunities for Tata Technologies. I’m excited about TATA Technologies’ growth journey across Nordics countries as we continue to build our relationship with customers by creating value through our engineering R&D & digital services”.

In a recently conducted market study by Cognizant has revealed that while most of the Asian businesses were quick to respond to the pandemic – compressing many long-term digital projects into the space of weeks and months – the Indian companies weathered through the pandemic much better than most of their regional and western counterparts. The study finds that the Indian companies are most bullish on embracing digital ways of working as 52 percent of them (highest among APAC countries) agreed that the pandemic had accelerated the adoption of new, digital ways of working practices. Only 36 percent of companies in India (compared to the regional average of 44 percent) experienced slightly negative to a very negative impact on their business performance in 2020. According to the study, businesses in APAC and the Middle-East have reached a point of clarity in terms of the real purpose of digital tools and made great strides in understanding what the human-machine balance of work should be. “Although the digital revolution is 74 years old, it’s kicking into second gear now. The first phase saw the dominance of big tech giants in the west leading the global digital agenda. The second phase will be marked by AI, automation, analytics and IoT – all of which are more aligned with industry and business strengths in Asia Pacific. The work ahead will be all about striking a balance between machine-driven and human-centric work. Even when machines can do everything, it will still be people who are the ultimate X factor”, Manish Bahl, Assistant VP, Center for the Future of Work, APAC, Cognizant. To understand the changing nature of work, commerce and success in this new world, Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work surveyed 4,000 senior executives (1,200 from APAC region and the Middle-East, including 160 in India) across 23 countries and 14 industries including BFSI, FMCG, education, healthcare, information services, life sciences, manufacturing, media & entertainment, oil & gas, retail, transportation & logistics, travel & hospitality, and utilities. Some of the key findings Revenue from digital: Indian companies currently generate 12 percent of the total revenue from digital channels (highest among APAC countries). By the end of 2023, they aim to take their digital-driven revenues to 17 percent. Human-centric skills will continue to gain prominence: Top five skills that will become more important in 2023 than they are today: Decision-making (62%), Analytical (54%), Learning (55%), Strategic Thinking (54%), and Communication (54%). Three ways work will be transformed by 2023: Jobs to become more specialized (54%), we will work faster (50%), and work will require greater technical expertise (47%). Top three technologies being invoked: AI (40 percent), Sensors/ IoT (35 percent), and big data & business

Tata Technologies, one of world’s leading IT solutions companies, has been awarded as COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2020 by Frost & Sullivan. The award is based on a recent analyses of the global market for offering a suite of innovative digital solutions for the global manufacturers and tier suppliers to help them engineer and realize better products faster and efficiently – staying more competitive in the new normal. Frost & Sullivan’s global teams of analysts and consultants research a wide range of markets in multiple industries and regions and identify companies that are true industry leaders, delivering best practices in growth, innovation, and leadership. With the unprecedented challenges from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, global automotive manufacturers are struggling to streamline and de-risk their supply chains, optimize operating costs, reinvent business models, and accelerate new product development. Warren Harris, CEO & MD, Tata Technologies, said, “We’re delighted to be recognized as COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2020 by Frost & Sullivan for digital solutions that address challenges of global manufacturers and tier suppliers amidst COVID-19. This recognition by Frost & Sullivan is a corroboration of our efforts to create value for our customers through our innovative digital solutions covering the entire digital product engineering value chain from design to manufacturing to after sales service. It also reflects our commitment towards developing capabilities and solutions that enable our customers across the world to design, develop and realize better products every day, and help us achieve our vision of ‘Engineering a better world’. Tata Technologies’ objective is to help the clients engineer the better products. There’re two key components to the company’s value proposition; the first one being outsourced product engineering services for its clients helping them conceptualize and design better products, and the second one is helping them manufacture and realize better products. Frost & Sullivan recognition has acknowledged Tata Technologies Leadership across the both the elements of this value proposition from Digital perspective through this recognition as well as recognition to digital thread services from the perspective of manufacturing and realization of better products. Rohit Karthikeyan, Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan, viewed, “Tata Technologies’ digital solutions are uniquely positioned to address the challenges of the manufacturers and tier suppliers in the New Normal. The company’s holistic approach of integrating its proprietary solutions across product design and the manufacturing value chain with its partners’ broad portfolios of products and solutions drives enhanced customer value. The firm has won several new deals in the emerging areas of Digital thread, Embedded and Electric vehicles, and its significant presence in Auto, Aero, IHM and Industrial vertical positions it strongly to serve the global businesses with its end-to-end digital engineering capabilities”. Through its integrated digital

GPX India, one of the top rung data centre service providers, has added NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India) to its interconnection ecosystem. It is the 5th Internet Exchange operational at the GPX Mumbai data centre campus – in addition to AMS-IX, Bharat IX, DE-CIX, and Extreme IX. GPX India is perhaps the only data centre in the country with the presence of a total number of five Internet Exchanges. “GPX would like to thank NIXI for setting up PoP at our Mumbai DC campus. Before this tie-up, NIXI has only been a major Internet Exchange of India, which was not present at GPX.  NIXI will be connecting to OTTs and CDNs for the first time at GPX,  as in all other PoPs, NIXI provides interconnections only between ISPs and Carriers. NIXI has a distinct value proposition for ISPs, and its IX PoP at the GPX DC will leverage and further strengthen GPX’s unparalleled and high-performance Interconnection Ecosystem. We will work with NIXI along with other Internet Exchanges and the Ministry of IT to further develop the Internet Ecosystem in India to add new customer segments and enhance our value proposition”, said Manoj Paul, Managing Director, GPX India. GPX data centre campus offers a ‘Carrier Content Cloud’ rich neutral ecosystem comprising 12 carriers, 140-plus ISPs, five Internet Exchanges, 8 cloud service providers, 9 CDNs, and leading global content providers. With the addition of NIXI to the rich Interconnection Ecosystem, GPX’s customers now have the opportunity to connect to NIXI, the oldest and one of the most significant Internet Exchanges in the country for low-latency and cost-effective interconnection solutions to expand their reach. NIXI has played a pioneering role in being an enabler for improved interconnection between ISPs and telecom service providers.

HP Enterprise has  accelerated mainstream enterprise adoption of high performance computing (HPC) by offering its HPC solutions as a service through HPE GreenLake. The new HPE GreenLake cloud services for HPC allow customers to combine the power of an agile, elastic, pay-per-use cloud experience with HPC systems from HPE. Now, any enterprise can tackle their most demanding compute and data-intensive workloads, to power AI and ML initiatives, speed time to insight, and create new products and experiences through a flexible as-a-service platform that customers can run on-premises or in a colocation facility. The new offering removes the complexity and cost associated with traditional HPC deployments by delivering fully managed, pre-bundled services based on purpose-built HPC systems, software, storage and networking solutions that come in small, medium or large options. Customers can order these through a self-service portal with simple point-and-click functions to choose the right configuration for their workload needs and receive services in little as 14 days. Peter Ungaro, Senior Vice President & General Manager, HPC and Mission Critical Solutions (MCS), HP Enterprise, said, “The massive growth in data, along with Artificial Intelligence and high performance analytics, is driving an increased need for HPC in enterprises of all sizes, from the Fortune 500 to startups”. “We’re transforming the market by delivering industry-leading HPC solutions in simplified, pre-configured services that control costs and improve governance, scalability and agility through HPE GreenLake. These HPC cloud services enable any enterprise to access the most powerful HPC and AI capabilities and unlock greater insights that will power their ability to advance critical research and achieve bold customer outcomes”, added Ungaro. HPC On-Demand goes mainstream The high performance computing provides massive computing power, along with modeling and simulation capabilities, to turn complex data into digital models that help researchers and engineers understand what something will look like and perform in the real world. It also provides optimal performance to run AI and analytics to increase predictability. These combined capabilities are used to solve challenges from vaccine discovery and weather forecasting to improving designs of cars, planes and even personal and consumer products such as shampoo and laundry detergent. According to Intersect360 Research, the HPC market will grow by more than 40 percent, reaching almost $55 billion in revenue by 2024, to support ongoing data growth, including data from emerging applications and endpoints, such as AI training models and edge devices, to efficiently process and analyze data. However, traditional deployment and management of HPC systems is costly, complex, and resource-intensive. Top concerns involve system costs, operational costs related to power and cooling, and lack of skilled HPC technical staff, according to Hyperion Research. HPE is dramatically simplifying this experience by speeding up deployment of HPC

In a new development, Socomec, world’s leading power conditioning products & solutions company, has launched Link-UPS, a 24/7 UPS remote monitoring solution to assure the business and operation continuity of its customers to support during remote working environment. The increasing demand for high quality energy – supplying data centres and other critical infrastructure – makes the UPS one of the most vital elements of the electrical architecture. Although reliability is engineered-in, UPS equipment is not impervious to unforeseen eventualities with the potential to negatively impact performance and, ultimately, business continuity – but by monitoring the UPS 24/7, and anticipating problems before they arise, it is possible to carry out rapid repairs and maintain continuity of operation. A New smart approach Socomec has harnessed the power of the latest digital smart technologies to improve support services. New IoT resources now enable the UPS, end-user and Socomec experts to be connected with unprecedented speed and transparency. By integrating smart technology within an electrical infrastructure, our innovative services enable the continuous monitoring of UPS parameters. Faults can be prevented before they take hold, and, if an anomaly occurs, proactive actions can be initiated without waiting for the end-user’s call. Sushil Virmani said “Socomec has taken multiple initiatives and puts in place necessary measures to adapt the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to navigate the uncertain times and to continue the business activity, Socomec is quickly adapting to the evolution in demand, aiming for operation continuity and introducing remote monitoring of UPS 24/7 through Link-UPS. We are confident that our customers will be benefited out of this new initiative”. “In these trying times, our commitment to serving our customers remains intact. Our expert services team members are remain mobilized in the field to serve essential and critical customers power management needs, particularly in the battle against COVID-19. We respect our experts contributions, who are working tirelessly to ensure our customers operations uninterrupted”, added Virmani. Keeping systems up and running means detecting issues before they arise – but if an unforeseen problem does occur, then the ability to react quickly, and reduce the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), can make a world of difference. Thanks to the Link-UPS service, Socomec can identify and carry out a range of remote fixes – without being physically in front of the equipment. If, however, an on-site intervention is necessary, a Socomec engineer will be deployed immediately along with the pre-diagnostic brief and any spare parts that might be required. This approach will enable Socomec to reduce the risk of downtime significantly; saving time as well as human and financial resources – every step of the way. So, in the event of any type of anomaly, the UPS system will