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ZNetLive launches High Availability Cloud Servers with Plesk Onyx
ZNetLive, India’s leading web hosting and cloud services provider, today announced the launch of High Availability (HA) cloud servers to provide businesses with high uptime and reliability. The servers are packed with enterprise grade hardware and scalable cloud technology for improved performance and flexibility to meet all business needs. “Our new offering has been designed to meet the high-performance operational needs of enterprises at affordable prices. State-of-the-art infrastructure backed with cloud technology will help companies build and run applications faster with dedicated resources and meet their digital transformation goals. Plus, our support team will always be there to provide resolution for any issues related to the service.” said Munesh Jadoun, Founder & CEO, ZNetLiv...
Goodbye: Yahoo Messenger to shut down next month
Yahoo is finally putting its instant messaging app Yahoo Messenger to rest on July 17. “Yahoo Messenger will no longer be supported after July 17, 2018. Until then, you can continue to use the service normally. After July 17, you’ll no longer be able to access your chats and the service will no longer work,” wrote Yahoo on its website. Launched around 20 years ago in 1998, Yahoo Messenger was initially called Yahoo Pager. It was rebranded as Yahoo Messenger in 1999. The Messenger competed with AIM, MSN Messenger and ICQ for years. In 2008, it had about 248 million users, but the numbers started decreasing as the smartphone and mobile apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram emerged. In 2015, the messenger held only 5.8% market share in US. To bring the users back, the comp...
IAMCP India’s North and East chapter conducts digital marketing workshop
IAMCP, Independent Microsoft Partner Association, recognized as the world’s largest association of Microsoft partners, recently organized a comprehensive training and interactive session on digital marketing. The session “Understanding Digital Marketing – 360-degree view” organized by IAMCP India’s North and East chapter was held at Microsoft office, Gurugram last week. The session, delivered by Shilpa Dureja Puri, Director Digital Marketing, Microsoft India, focused on how Microsoft partners can leverage right marketing strategies to grow their business. A modern marketing enthusiast and a digital transformational leader, Shilpa heads Microsoft’s digital discipline and is architecting the digital experiential strategy. The interactive training session covered most important aspects ...
Latest version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform focused on hybrid cloud and digital transformation
At the OpenStack Summit 2018, Red Hat announced , the latest version of its cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform– Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13. RHOP 13 will evolve the IT infrastructure into a more agile and efficient environment, so that the enterprises can easily adopt the emerging technologies like hybrid cloud and digital transformation. It is based on the OpenStack Queens to benefit organizations with mission-critical workloads, as well as the ones who are investing in containers, NFV, edge computing and machine learning. RHOP 13 features integration with Red Hat’s hybrid cloud services portfolio which includes Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Ceph Storage, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It will help enterprises to build an on-premises cloud architecture whic...
ZNet becomes authorized Plesk distributor in India
ZNet, India’s leading hosting and cloud services provider, today announced that it has become the distributor for Plesk in India. Plesk is the leading WebOps platform to build, secure and run applications, websites and hosting businesses that scale in the Cloud. Plesk is more than just a generic control panel providing automation capabilities to reduce complexity, save time and simplify the lives of web professionals and IT administrators alike. Plesk’s rich and open extension catalogue provides access to relevant features and enables service providers of any size to specialize, address customer needs and grow their business. This aligns well with ZNet’s extensive customer and partner network comprising hosters, developers, system administrators and service providers, who will now be able ...
cablex acquires equipment and staff of Stierli Strassenbau AG, Unterentfelden
cablex continues to grow, sustainably strengthening its competencies in cable line engineering. The company thus now is offering customers greater capacity and more expert staff for the successful planning and realisation of their demanding cable line engineering projects. Acquisition of assets and staff of Stierli Strassenbau AG, Unterentfelden cablex has acquired assets and staff of the company Stierli Strassenbau AG based in Unterentfelden with retrospective effect from 1 April 2018. The staff members were taken over by the company in April for the cable line engineering division. Various construction machines, vehicles and materials were acquired as well. The equipment acquired by the company includes rollers, deck finishers, skid steer loaders and pneumatic loaders which the company p...
IET India IoT Panel joins hands with Exhibitions India Group for the 3rd edition of IoT India Congress
IET India IoT Panel today announced that it will be partnering with the Exhibitions India Group for the 3rd IoT India Congress on October 9-10, 2018 in Bengaluru. IoT India Congress is India’s Platform of Platforms for the Internet of Things conceptualized by IET India IoT Panel, a think tank constituted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) India. The 3rd edition of IoT India Congress will be hosted in collaboration with India’s leading trade promotion organisation Exhibitions India Group during October 9-10, 2018 in Bengaluru. With the combined strength and experience of the partners, the future will be presented in an immersive manner through the conference and expo segments. The 1st edition of IoT India Congress was devoted to unifying the IoT ecosystem in India and bu...
ZNetLive rolls out Advisory Club – an initiative to aid IT startups and established businesses sell cloud with ease
ZNetLive, India’s leading hosting and cloud services provider, today announced the launch of its Advisory Club – a program that has been designed to help budding businesses as well as established enterprises sell and bundle cloud solutions, leveraging ZNetLive’s cloud expertise. The ZNetLive Advisory Club will be a facilitator platform to sell cloud solutions from leading providers, without having an established business infrastructure or support for cloud sale, a subscription business. The platform addresses the challenges associated with professional cloud selling, including lack of an expandable marketplace, automated updation of product pricing along with profit margins, streamlined support and transparency in subscription billing. Established businesses becoming Advisory Club me...
CCW Executive Exchange to bring together senior contact center executives to strategize for future contact centers
The contact center landscape is continuously evolving, embracing new innovations and business delivery models and these endeavors define how a company can satisfy its customers and eventually grow its business. Executives need to identify trends in the contact center and how they can be applied to an organization. The Customer Contact Week (CCW) Executive Exchange to be held between August 12-14 at Chicago, Illinois, will discuss about the major trends in the contact center arena. A customer contact executive needs to strike a balance between building great customer experiences and taking care of the budgetary constraints of an organization. This means being aware of what customers and business stakeholders desire to ensure investments in the right direction. For this, executives need to b...
Infographic: How to manage Big Data?
In the modern business age, you’re surrounded by data. You collect data from the moment a customer begins his or her journey with you, either as a lead or a sale. You continue collecting data along that journey, from customer service queries to the first order and then return orders. But big data can be overwhelming, particularly if you don’t have a plan for using the data or organizing it. And data unused can be sales opportunities left on the table. That’s why you need to create goals and learn how to implement them to complement your strategy. For starters, you have to make sure you’re collecting the right data, particularly when it comes to conversion rates. How and when your customers convert, especially compared to others in your industry, is a great must-have benchmark. What other m...
90% of organizations consider at least 50% of data on cloud as sensitive: Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report
90% of the information security professionals consider more than 50% of the cloud-resident data as sensitive, according to Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report, 2018. The cloud adoption has become a business imperative for most of the organizations, because of its vast advantages like cost savings and enhanced security. Oracle and KPMG LLP surveyed around 450 IT security pros worldwide, and found that enterprises were struggling to protect their data on cloud with the increased number of security breaches. The report highlighted that a large number of organizations were confident about cloud adoption, which was evident from the finding that 90% of them stored at least 50% of data on cloud. “As organizations expand their cloud footprint, traditional security measures are unable to keep up wi...
Swisscom expands its global cloud services
Swisscom is expanding its public cloud portfolio by assuming full operational responsibility for Amazon Web Services and Azure on behalf of customers. Swisscom is also introducing a public version of its development environment (PaaS) for independent software vendors (ISV). The global public cloud market, according to Gartner forecasts, is set to grow by 21.4 percent in 2018. This is mirrored in Switzerland, where there is considerable demand for more cost-effective, agile infrastructures from global market leaders Amazon and Microsoft. Hybrid and multi-cloud approaches, in particular, are becoming increasingly popular. For customers looking to find a local operator for their public cloud environment, Swisscom is now also providing managed services alongside its existing professional servi...
