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Virtusa named to 2009 Global Services 100 list

Recognized as a Top Global Services Provider again

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global information technology (IT) services company that provides IT consulting, technology implementation and application outsourcing services through an enhanced global delivery model, announced that it has been included in the 2009 Global Services 100, a list of the top global providers of business and technology services.

“Virtusa is delighted to receive this award for the second consecutive year,” said Virtusa Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kris Canekeratne.

“Our teams are keenly focused on reducing IT costs and improving business outcomes for our enterprise clients. In today’s economic climate, improving IT efficiencies within core business processes has become more important than ever. Our approach, combined with our highly efficient global delivery model, enables us to not only reduce costs, but deliver much more value to our clients,” he said.

The Global Services 100 recognizes the world’s most innovative service providers, selected on the basis of a research study conducted by Global Services and neoIT, an outsourcing advisory firm.

Now in its fifth year, the Global Services 100 is designed to enable buyers of business and technology services to readily identify leading providers in key service-delivery areas.

“The Global Services 100 is like an index of globalization in the services industry. This year’s list comprises companies headquartered in 19 countries, with customer locations in over 30 countries, and service delivery locations in 31 countries. A company that figures in this list bears testimony to the fact that it can serve global customers from multiple locations,” said Editor, Global Services Ed Nair.

Oracle Database 11g sets another world record

Oracle set a new world record TPC-C benchmark for Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on Windows. With this result, Oracle now holds the top four record benchmark positions in the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance category.

“Mission critical databases require powerful hardware systems, and these systems should be open and affordable,” said Senior Vice President, Enterprise Product Management, Dell Brad Anderson, “Dell, is focused on innovation based on industry standards. Through this approach, we are making it simple for organizations of all sizes to quickly and easily deploy the Oracle Database on flexible, cost-effective and standards-based PowerEdge servers.”

Achieving 104,492 transactions per minute with a price/performance of $.60/tpmC, Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on a Windows-based Dell server with one Intel Quad-Core Xeon 2.83 GHz processor, delivered the best price-per-transaction-per-minute ever achieved with the TPC-C benchmark.

“This benchmark result demonstrates that Oracle continues to deliver the best price/performance in the industry, whether customers are running Windows or Linux,” said Senior Vice President, Systems Technology, Oracle, Juan Loaiza.

“The combination of Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server is the latest example of how Oracle provides customers with unparalleled value and cost efficiencies,” he said.

Telekom donates computer lab

Dialog Telekom has donated a computer laboratory for Kaloogalla Maha Vidyalaya in Pussallawa, Gampola recently. Hundreds of underprivileged children from the estate community will be benefited from this donation.

Deputy Regional Director of Education (Tamil Medium) Thureiraj, said that providing facilities to disseminate IT knowledge to the children of rural areas , where access to new technological advancements are very limited , should be highly appreciated.

“The parents of most of these children are estate workers. They are not able to provide their children with new technological facilities. Therefore, we must appreciate the initiatives taken by non government corporate bodies such as Dialog Telekom to open the doors of ICT education to such needy children of remote areas, setting aside their commercial benefits.

The Minister of Education has urged the need to plan for producing at least 500 skillful graduates per year from estate sector communities from the year 2012. The fulfillment of this objective will be further strengthened by this kind of Corporate Responsibility practices. We are very grateful to Dialog Telekom, who has taken a leading role in this regard” Thureiraj said.

“We are thankful to Dialog Telekom for the encouragement provided to our students via this valuable donation.

This school was founded 80 years ago and for the first time in history we are receiving this kind of donation. At the same time, a student of this small school has excelled in year five scholarship examination for the first time and Dialog Telekom came forward to reward him with a token of appreciation.

We are grateful to Dialog for providing much needed facilities to these underprivileged children” said the Principal of Kaloogalla Maha Vidyalaya C. Rajendran.

“The Government has declared year 2009 as the year of Information Communication Technology and English. Yet IT infrastructure of Sri Lanka is mainly confined to the urban areas.

Our aim is to provide novel technology to all Sri Lankans to empower and enrich their lives, irrespective of their status. This donation is another milestone in fulfilling this vision. We hope these facilities would assist the children to gain the competencies required by new knowledge era,” said a Change volunteer from Dialog Telekom, Pradeep Mahalingam.

EWIS, Top Performing Partner of HP in Asia Emerging Countries

EWIS was awarded the HP top performing partner award in the PSG (Personal Systems Group) - Commercial Products category at the HP Partners Connect 2009. The awards ceremony was conducted in Singapore recently.

Chairman/CEO of the E-WIS group of companies Sanjeewa Wickramanayake said - “This achievement is not solely an achievement of EWIS. It is a national achievement. Despite the global recession and Sri Lanka being in a developing stage with respect to ICT, managing to position ourselves as a leader in technology within the region is a definite success.”

EWIS is a tier one ASDP (Authorized Service and Distribution Partner) of HP. Distribution and service channels of EWIS cover the island including north and east.

HP is ranked as 14th in the Fortune 500 listing and is one of the largest ICT companies in the world with 320,000 employees working in 174 countries serving more than one billion customers.