BIZ-TECH

Virtusa rings Nasdaq closing bell

Virtusa Chairman Kris Canekeratne at the New York Exchange

Virtusa Corporation (VRTU) visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square and in honour of the occasion, Virtusa Corporation, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kris Canekeratne rang the NASDAQ closing bell.

Virtusa provides end-to-end information technology (IT) services to Global 2000 companies.

These services, which include IT consulting, application maintenance, development, systems integration and managed services, leverage a unique Platforming methodology that transforms clients’ businesses through IT rationalization.

Virtusa helps customers accelerate business outcomes by consolidating, rationalizing and modernizing their core customer facing processes into one or more core systems. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has operations in the North America, Europe and Asia.

Microsoft Partner Conference fetes excellence

Microsoft Sri Lanka recently hosted its annual Partner Conference with the participation of a broad gathering of partners from both Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

The conference focused on enlightening partner communities on new products and strategies of Microsoft and also highlighted the importance of their continued commitment to the enhancements of local IT infrastructure.

The winners at this year’s Partner Conference.

The hallmark feature of this event has always been the celebration of Microsoft Sri Lanka’s relationships with its partner network and at the same time, strengthening of these partnerships to meet the growing IT needs in the market.

The conference was followed by the Partner Awards Ceremony which is also held annually to honour outstanding performances by partners.

The evening saw Microsoft’s extensive partner network being recognized for their performance during the year in the following manner: Best Managed Partner won by DMS Electronics Limited, while the runner up was Millennium Information Technologies Limited, Best ‘Attach at Source’ COEM Partner won by Softlogic Trading (Pvt) Ltd, Best ‘Attach at Source’ COEM Distributor presented to Trident Corporation, Best Partner - Maldives awarded to Focus Computer, Best Distributor won by Tech One Global, Best Partner Microsoft Dynamics, awarded to H-ONE Private Ltd, Best Competitive Win Back, awarded to Zillione Technologies and ‘Best Certified Partner in Learning’ presented to NetAssist International. One of the key features of the conference was the presentation made by Microsoft Corporation’s Enterprise Technology Strategist Gary Sweeting.

During his presentation Sweeting stressed on the need for continued unity among the IT community of Sri Lanka in order to maximize the impact technology could have on organizational efficiency.

Abans launches powershot Canon digital camera

Abans recently launched the Canon Powershot A490 digital camera. It is the best and most practical choice for amateur photographers who like to work with a camera that has high-end features, and yet is very affordable.

It features 10MP resolution (1/2.3-in.CCD), 3.3x Optical Zoom (37-122mm equiv.), a 6.4 -cm (2.5-in.) LCD display screen, and uses 2 convenient-to-find AA batteries. You can either use two Alkaline batteries (included) or optionally go Green with two rechargeable NIHM batteries.

The digital camera

For general purpose photography, smart auto shooting mode analyzes your scene and automatically selects the appropriate setting. For more challenging shooting situations, you can match the scene yourself to the appropriate Scene Mode.

For example, Night Snapshot Scene Mode sets the camera so you can take a night picture where the main subject (lit by flash) and the background (long exposure) are both recorded. Low Light Scene Mode extends the high ISO up to 3200 when photographing without a flash in dimly-lit situations.

For those who desire a bit more control, they can switch to program AE (P) Mode and dial in an exposure compensation to compensate for scenes that are too bright or too dark. Custom White Balance allows you to obtain the correct colours under artificial lighting conditions.

For artistic photo effects, My Colours can record pictures more Vivid, Neutral, Sepia, Black and White or use custom colour to adjust the contrast, sharpness and saturation to your taste.

Global IT giants contract Runeware Integrated

Over the past few decades, IT has met business needs by continually adding new applications on incompatible architectures, across a disparate collection of hardware and infrastructure.

As such today’s business experts are expected to move effortlessly from IT manager to strategic visionary - steering critical processes, anticipating and overcoming barriers, and collaborating with key stakeholders to orchestrate fundamental change. To stay ahead of the competition, leaders in many industries are looking to improve business processes and ensure optimum delivery.

Runeware Integrated, recently partnered with VMWARE to discover the power of virtualization - a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute.

It is the solution that slashes capital costs, enhances security, productivity, application quality and deployment, raising the bottom line significantly.

Enterprises everywhere are rapidly adopting virtualization and achieving significant benefits in a number of areas. In particular, reducing the time spent on routine IT administrative tasks, managing new server workloads, whilst also becoming more responsive to business needs.

Runeware Integrated CEO Michael Abayasinghe said the company was launched in 2002 as an integrated marketing service agency which specializes in technology events. “Everything we do is geared towards generating revenue for our clients by applying our expertise in maximizing business and networking opportunities through associated conferences, features, events and sponsorship opportunities.

As such, geared towards IT decision makers and business heads, this event served as an opportunity to engage and network with the VMWARE management team, Sales teams and other industry peers.

The conference was packed with interactive sessions, panel discussions and one-on-one networking opportunities where topics were chosen by the sector experts in order to best identify and address issues being faced by leaders in the space,” he added.

With over 300 attendees from around the country present throughout the day, the VMWARE Summit held in Colombo provided a great showcase of the country’s dynamic virtualizations market.

He said Runeware Integrated has helped many local as well as international organizations deliver events attended by more than 150,000 delegates collectively.

Being the regional partner for some of the biggest Indian Event Companies in the region has given Runeware Integrated the edge on handling mega corporate events ranging from ten people half-day seminars, through to multi-day international conferences for thousands of attendees.

“We work with a number of organizations in the public and private sector to deliver events that exceed the expectations of our clients and impress delegates who attend,” he said.

“As such we also recently worked with a leading integrated marketing services company in Bangalore, India, to handle the production, event management and logistics of the Juniper Networks Partner Summit - which, though originally destined to be held elsewhere, was transferred to Sri Lanka due to the great advances they have seen in our country’s political and economic environment.

We were proud to take on this initiative as their local event partner which again saw more than 150 delegates in attendance throughout the day”, he said.