Palit Microsystems Ltd, has released the latest Pascal architecture Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Series. With innovative new gaming technologies, GeForce GTX 1060 makes it the perfect choice for the latest high-definition games. Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Super JetStream 6GB has 1280 cores and ships with 1847 MHz Boost clock, and 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory clocks. Palit GeForce GTX 1060 6GB series provides 3X VR gaming performance than previous-generation GPUs. Equipped with the JetStream cooler and optimized product design, Palit GTX 1060 JetStream series offers the best graphics benchmark performance and...

Karnataka government will soon unveil its new startup policy that aims to nourish startup ecosystem in the state. Addressing a gathering of start-ups at the Global Mobile App Summit and Awards organized recently, Priyank Kharge, Karnataka Minister for IT, said the State government is working on a new start-up policy. “We are coming up with a start-up booster kit where start-ups can register with the Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services,” the Business Line report quoted the minister as saying. The State has identified nine universities and has earmarked a budget of...

Cyber security firm Symantec has named Michael Fey as the president and chief operating officer of the company. The appointment comes in the heels of Symantec’s announcement last month that it intended to acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion. Fey currently serves as president and COO of Blue Coat. After the deal closes, Fey will report to Greg Clark, who is now Blue Coat’s CEO and is slated to take the helm of Symantec, CRNreported. Fey’s appointment will become official upon the closing of the acquisition, which is expected to take...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled new high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, including a comprehensive software-defined platform and a new ANSYS computer-aided engineering (CAE) software based solution designed to help manufacturing organizations optimize their design simulation deployments. To simplify and accelerate the configuration, deployment and management of clusters for HPC, HPE is introducing a highly flexible, simple and comprehensive software-defined platform for HPC using the new HPE Core HPC Software Stack with HPE Insight Cluster Management Utility v8.0. Designed to meet the needs of server cluster environments that may need to...

The Cyber security industry has witnessed consolidation of business with major cyber security companies announcing acquisitions of their rivals this fiscal. Whether it is Symantec’s acquisition of Blue Coat acquisition or Avast Software’s announcement to buy AVG Technologies, it seems that security enterprises are acquiring their direct competitors other small security enterprises to become more powerful in the industry. While this trend is quite visible in the industry, enterprises with different domain expertise are also contemplating to explore the booming cyber security business. Cisco Systems, which is known for its...

Infogain, a business and IT consulting firm, has named Sunil Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer effective July 1st, 2016. Bhatia has held the position of CEO Designate at Infogain since the completion of Infogain’s acquisition of the IT assets of Blue Star Infotech Ltd. (BSIL) in January 2016. Founder and former CEO Kapil Nanda will remain an active part of the company as full-time Executive Chairman of Infogain’s board of directors. Read Also: Criteo Pursues Further Growth With New Office and New Hire “It’s been a great honor to serve as...

Smart phone manufacturer Xiaomi is exploring Direct-to-Retail (DTR) with a novel approach that cuts out middle men and lowers costs. “We broke our own records by selling phones only online. Xiaomi sold over a million units in the September 2015 quarter, and repeated the feat in the two subsequent quarters,” said Manu Kumar Jain, India Head of Xiaomi Technology India. Read Also :14.8 Million Xiaomi Phones Sold In Q1 2016 Xiaomi had become the fifth largest smartphone company, purely on the strength of its online presence. Currently, it is the...

Power management company Eaton has introduced its new advanced range of rack power distribution units (PDUs), ePDU G3, in India. Featuring Eaton’s third-generation (G3) technology, the ePDU G3 platform combines best-in-class efficiency and reliability with innovative technologies such as the new Eaton patented grip feature for International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) connectors that make operations safer. Offering a variety of capabilities to fulfill IT requirements, the range of ePDU G3 models support a wide-array of applications ranging from small/medium businesses to enterprise data centers. In India, Eaton’s ePDU G3 range will...

Surpassing major smartphone brands, Chinese smartphone manufacturing company Vivo Mobile (Vivo) has become the world’s fifth largest smartphone manufacturer. According to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Q1 2016 Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report, the brand shipped 14.3m units in the period — a year-on-year increase of 123.8 percent– achieving 4.3 percent of global market share. According to Vivo’s global vice president and chief marketing officer Alex Feng, “Vivo’s outstanding performance mainly depends upon its commitment to new product development and precise understanding of customer needs. We saw consumers’ needs...