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New Intel lab opened

A new lab with 50 Intel classmate PCs for the Mahinda Rajapakse Vidyalaya in Homagama was declared open by the Minister of Education, Bandula Gunewardena recently.

The lab was facilitated by Intel Sri Lanka, via its World Ahead Programme, under the Ministry of Education's IT literacy campaign targeting 1,000 local secondary schools around the island.

Indika De Zoysa, Country Business Manager, Intel EM Ltd - Sri Lanka Liaison Office handing over a Intel Classmate PC toMinister of Education, Bandula Gunawardena at the event.

BPO Sri LankaWebsite relaunched under one platform

www.bposrilanka - the website that provides six outsourcing services under one common name in the virtual world was re-launched with a new look and feel.

The newly revamped website www.bposrilanka.com will provide these outsourcing services under one roof.

The new website with its added features and easy to scroll options will provide the necessary information on Accounting, Computer Services, Legal, Secretarial Services, Payroll and Recruitment.

These six services; offered through leading companies MSL, ACSPL, LEGALINC and M&S provide the best solution to the customer's varied needs under a common platform.

The website features the six companies and its services fall under the same Management and Board of Directors.

MSL provides three of the services namely Computer Services, Payroll and Recruitment.

The companies featured on the website are:

Accounting Consultancy & Solutions (Pvt) Ltd - ACSPL, is a leading accounts and finance outsourcing company in Sri Lanka. The company has structured its line of services to best accommodate accounting and financing needs in an outsourcing perspective.

ACSPL offers customized, industry-specific outsourcing solutions, full, limited or one-off, that provide the best fit for a variety of requirements. Along with them, the Company ensures the necessary quality, accuracy, integrity and confidentiality that make outsourcing a highly strategic management tool.

Their thoroughly professional, personalized service allows clients to focus on their core business more effectively and efficiently.

Legalinc with its experienced lawyers not only provides outsourcing services but their work involves high-end legal research. LegalInc is more than just "LPO" or "legal process outsourcing."

Their legal outsourcing work involves high-end legal research, analysis and drafting, as well as other legal services

Managers and Secretaries (Pvt) Ltd - M&S is a professional secretarial firm offering company secretarial services to private entities. M & S provides company secretarial solutions to ensure statutory compliance with relevant current legislation in a completely professional manner that is individually designed for each client

With more than four decades of experience to its name, Management Systems (Pvt) Limited is identified as a leader for payroll, computer services and human resource service in Sri Lanka.

MSL provides a wide range of payroll outsourcing solutions to all types of businesses.

Their personal yet completely professional services are cost-effective and increase productivity and operational efficiency of their clients' payroll processes.

Through the successful fulfillment of executive search assignments and the successful placement of exceptional leaders and talent, maintaining utmost confidentiality, they have won the trust and confidence of the array of clients, both locally and overseas and strengthened their stand in the executive search space in the market.

MSL Computer Services is one of the pioneering bureaus in Sri Lanka to outsource software applications.

Its expertise is in the development of software packages, providing IT consultancy, Bureau Services and IS Auditing.

www.bposrilanka.com has gone through a major overhaul.

A more streamlined design, links to Common Management and Boards, and expanded information on the six services, are now easily accessible.

DMS Electronics and VMware look beyond virtualization

DMS Electronics (DMSE), one of Sri Lanka's most experienced and innovative software solution providers, recently hosted a seminar with VMware under the theme of "Beyond Virtualization."

The event focused on the possibilities for advanced virtualization of data centres - including disaster recovery, security and virtualization of business-critical applications - offered to local companies by both DMSE and VMware.

T. L. Chandranath addressing the crowd.

The event saw a host of CIOs, IT experts and members of the local IT community come together for presentations and an interactive panel discussion. The resource panel included a number of key VMware executives from India.

Speaking at the event, Mr.Lal Chandranath, Managing Director of DMS Electronics (Pvt) Ltd stated, "DMSE has been an Enterprise-level partner with VMware for more than a year and, together, we have executed some significant projects for many local companies. Virtualizing data centres are definitely the next step for many Lankan companies, and this seminar is an opportunity for us to showcase the many advantages of implementing virtualization in your organization."

The presenters at the event included Balaji Rao, Director Sales, VMware SAARC & India, and Vivekanand Biradar, Systems Engineer, VMware India & SAARC. Thilanka Mendis and Rushdie Rizwie, Systems Engineers from DMSE took the audience through some local case studies. Seema Ambastha, Director Technical Services, VMware SAARC & India and Ganesan Arumugam, Director Channel & Alliances, VMware SAARC & India joined in a panel discussion that followed. A range of topics and issues were addressed by the speakers, including the manageability, high availability and disaster recovery solutions facilitated by the VMware product suite, the business case for virtualization, security in a virtualized environment and VMware's commitment toward development of the local market.

Speaking further, Balaji Rao said, "Virtualization is the way of the future and the benefits it offers companies can be immense. It enables a company to optimize its IT infrastructure and create an extremely flexible and resilient computing infrastructure while also enabling security."

Commenting on the Sri Lankan virtualization market, Ganesan said, "Many Sri Lankan companies have been experimenting with virtualization for non-critical business applications for a while.

The next step would be to place their business-critical applications in a virtualized environment. More Indian companies are beginning to do this now and we see the same trend emerging in Sri Lanka."

Ganesan also revealed that VMware works closely with leading software vendors so that a broad range of applications are validated on the VMware platform.

He also said that VMware works with leading hardware and storage suppliers so that their platforms are optimised to work with VMware cloud infrastructure.

DMSE is an active VMware partner and has implemented virtualization solutions for leading organisations in the financial services, insurance, aviation and manufacturing sectors. DMSE also prides itself of having carried out the first VMware vCenter(tm) Site Recovery Manager(tm) deployment - VMware's cost effective disaster recovery product - in this region.

Apple fends off Android challenge with maps, Siri

Apple said Monday it was revving up the software running its coveted gadgets, training its sights on the China market -- and tossing Google Maps aside in the process.

Apple used its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to show off upgrades to the software running iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices including its own Siri-infused mapping technology and features tailored for Chinese users. The hundreds of improvements in the iOS 6 mobile operating system due out before the end of the year come as Apple seeks to outdistance rivals powered by Google's Android software. AFP