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For fourth consecutive year:

Virtusa named to Global Services 100 List

The Virtusa team

Virtusa Corporation, a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, has been named to the 2011 Global Services 100 List (GS100) by Global Services, in association with NeoGroup. Virtusa was also recognized in the category of Top Specialty Product Engineering Vendors. The GS100, which honoured Virtusa in its 2011 list for the fourth consecutive year, represents companies that demonstrate excellence in delivering IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) services globally using matured models of service delivery. It is considered a benchmark for identifying service provider leadership because of its thorough evaluation and selection process.

Now in its sixth year, the GS100 is a rigorous assessment that evaluates organizations across multiple dimensions both quantitatively and qualitatively. The study identifies the top 100 companies based on four primary pillars: management excellence, customer maturity, global delivery maturity and breadth of services portfolio. Companies honoured on the GS100 List are those that are consistently accelerating business outcomes for their customers and expanding their customer base as well as services portfolio. Virtusa was recognized as an industry leader that has experienced significant growth and increased profitability.

Oracle announces Unified Directory 11g

To help customers manage the critical identity information that drives their business applications, Oracle announced Oracle Unified Directory 11g.

As a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Unified Directory is the world’s first unified directory solution with highly integrated storage, synchronization, and proxy capabilities.

These capabilities help meet the evolving needs of enterprise architectures that must support an increasing number of mobile computing and cloud computing requirements.

Using Oracle Unified Directory, customers can lower the cost of administration and ownership by maintaining a single directory for all of their enterprise needs, while also simplifying their enterprise architecture.

Oracle Unified Directory is optimized for mobile and cloud computing environments where elastic scalability becomes critical as service providers need a solution that can scale by dynamically adding more directory instances without re-architecting their solutions to support exponential business growth.

Oracle Unified Directory joins the Oracle Directory Services Plus Suite of products, which also includes Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition, Oracle Virtual Directory 11g and Oracle Internet Directory 11g.

This next-generation product builds on the company’s existing directory solutions, providing the most integrated and complete directory services offering on the market.

Samsung says five m Galaxy handsets sold

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, the world’s second-largest mobile phone maker, said Wednesday it had sold five million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide since the device debuted in April.

The new model, which is spearheading the company’s smartphone push this year, was released locally on April 29, in some European countries in May and in Japan last month.

The handset went on sale in China this week and will hit the US market next month. “Since being launched into the retail market in late April, the Galaxy S II has seen tremendous growth,” Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business Head JK Shin said in a statement.

AFP