SonicWall has entered a strategic partnership with Fusion BPO services, a global BPO with headquarters in Kolkata, India and Draper(USA). SonicWall will offer its state-of-the-art next-generation firewalls (NGFW) for SMB, enterprise, and government organizations.
“SonicWall has been extremely proactive in attending to our business requirements and implementing the right solutions. Earlier we were managing two devices, one for UTM Firewall and other for SD-WAN. Sonicwall has enabled us to manage the firewalls better through one single platform,” further added Mr. Singh.
Fusion offers a diverse range of call center services, including garnering potential customers, managing data efficiently, or troubleshooting technical problems and administration issues from 18 centers in 9 countries. Its host of peripheral activities is aimed to propel business through a blend of manpower, technology, research, and analytics.
“We are very happy to have this newer and comprehensive relationship with Fusion now. After analyzing their requirements, the SonicWall team proposed to resolve the issue with its current generation of SonicWall NGFWs, which offers several performance advantages. This includes enhanced functionalities such as SD-WAN that benefits businesses by reducing overhead costs and increasing network performance. Our solutions can now offer management efficiencies and simplicity, finally realized by switching to a single-platform architecture like SonicWall NGFWs,” said Mr. Debasish Mukherjee, Vice President, Regional Sales APAC at SonicWall Inc.
“After in-depth vendor evaluation, Fusion ultimately chose to deploy more than 15 pairs of NSa Series NGFW in high-availability (HA) configuration, augmented with a six-year subscription to SonicWall’s support services. are delighted and look forward to this new partnership, which will add great business value”, added Mr. Mukherjee.
“By replacing its mixed bag of cybersecurity solutions with a total SonicWall platform, Fusion was able to unify cybersecurity management from multiple sources into a single‑pane-of-glass management and reporting, making it easier to interpret and assess all cybersecurity measures,” said Mr. Singh.
“As a result of using this platform, we have seen a 15% increase in security effectiveness and 10% increase in system stability. This transition has also resulted in an overall boost of operational efficiency and increase in business continuity. Additionally, this solution gives us an overall saving of 25% from a 6-year period,” added Mr. Singh.
“Some of the benefits for Fusion will be a Secure SD-WAN, Lower TCO with HA licensing policy, alongside a dedicated and secure Cloud-based management. Last but not the least, a Single-pane-of-glass management and reporting for all firewalls, will be a huge game changer for it business”, shared Mr. Mukherjee.
India government IT spending is projected to total $8.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 8.6% from 2021 according to a latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.
“Digitalization initiatives of Indian government organizations took a giant leap in 2020 because of the global pandemic. The pandemic forced the government to shift priorities as supply chains and revenue streams dwindled,” said Apeksha Kaushik, senior principal research analyst at Gartner. “As vaccination rates increase throughout the country and public health improves, the governments will focus on furthering the digitalization efforts on concerns such as ‘citizen experience’ and digital inclusion.”
Individual digital solutions do not correlate to overall digital maturity. As a result, the overall digital maturity of Indian government organizations is low compared to its western counterparts. Moving from legacy systems to digital will be a major reason for IT spending growth in 2022. For initiatives, such as digital licensing, online judicial proceedings, digital taxation, that were initiated as a knee-jerk reaction to the pandemic in 2020, there is a still long way ahead to achieve full potential as digital inclusion is not fully met in the country. The forthcoming 5G spectrum auction in India will aim at solving some of these challenges related to digital inclusion in 2022.
India’s leading esports platform, The Esports Club has announced its first ever mobile esports tournament, LG Ultragear TEC Invitational Season 1 for Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI).
The invite-only tournament will witness participation from India’s top 20 teams while featuring a total prize pool of INR 5,00,000 ($6,722 USD). It will be a four days tournament, starting from the 21st of August 2021 till the 24th.
This announcement is considered to be a big first step into the world of mobile esports for The Esports Club who currently runs some of the largest PC esports campaigns in South Asia.
Speaking about the announcement, Ishaan Arya, Co-founder of The Esports Club said-‘Initially, we decided to focus on our strengths, creating some of the best PC esports events in the region over the last 2 years. We felt this was the right time to enter the mobile ecosystem with our first BGMI event with others in the pipeline as well.‘
He added that TEC’s approach to BGMI would be similar to other TEC IPs, with ‘regular running and recurring events for sure’.
Mansoor ‘Nabu’ Ahmed’, Director of Esports, The Esports Club, “We’ve been working hard behind the scenes for our mobile expansion and the TEC Invitational is just the first step. We always believe in providing opportunities for players and creating a valuable platform; over the next few months you’ll see more BGMI opportunities from TEC that are open to all gamers across India.
ATechnos Group, a growing leader in Digital Transformation, Gaming Platforms, Content Distribution today announced its association with ITM University and ITM GOI, Gwalior. As part of the association, ATechnos has opened ‘ATechnos ITM Innovation Labs’ at the ITM Campus Gwalior that will help students in upgrading their skills and prepare themselves to be industry ready.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Apurv Modi, Managing Director, ATechnos Group and Co-founder, Almond Solutions, said, “We are pleased to announce that we have associated with one of the renowned education institutions of the country, ITM University for mutual benefits. Our objective with this association is upgrading the skills of the students of ITM University, making them industry-ready by providing internship opportunities and training. In addition, we will provide them with placement opportunities as well. Students will get ample resources that will help them gain immense knowledge, experience to boost their career opportunities. On the other hand, For ATechnos and Almond, this association opens up a wide talent pool, and given our fast-paced growth in the last couple of years, this partnership will be a win-win.”
JK Tech announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leaderin low-code application development for enterprises,to become aGlobal System Integrator. The strategic partnership will focus on two main areas: helping enterprises to modernize systems and rid their legacy technology, as well as helping to drive hyperautomation.
As low-code’s only all-in-one solution, the Mendix platform supercharges application production across the development lifecycle, enabling a much quicker turnaround time for app production and delivery. The platform is at once sophisticated enough to boost the productivity of expert developers while providing the kind of visual language that empowers citizen developers to create enterprise-level apps.
“We are delighted to have this important partnership with JK Tech as we pioneer the next-generation of low-code application development and deployment”, said Derek Roos, CEO, Mendix. “The pandemic has accelerated the need for organisations to digitize and this partnership will address the needs of enterprises that are looking for economically efficient application services which can rapidly scale their digital solutions.”
