From R-L: Shri. Tushar Sighat, VP, India & SAARC Cyberoam, Shri. Vipin Tyagi, Director, C Dot, Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT, Shri. Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. VP, Canon India, Dr. Gulshan Rai, DG, ICERT, Ministry of IT, GOI, Shri. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Publisher, Shri. Benhur Mesfin, Director & GM, APAC, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Shri. Rajesh Sahore, Sales head- India & SAARC, D-link, Shri. Anshul Gupta, GGM, RAILTEL, Shri. Bijoyanda Mishra, Sr. GM- Consumer Mobility- BSNL, Shri. Shirish Moghe, Country Manager, Motorola, Shri. Savitur Prasad, Secretary-IT, Govt. of Delhi, Shri. N.K. Goyal, President CMAI, Shri. Indrajit Sabharwal, Chairman, Simmtronics Semiconductors Ltd., Shri. Som Satsangi, Director, Enterprise Storage Servers & Networking- HP India Sales (P) Ltd., Shri. Sudheer Puthhiran K, President- Field Services, inTarvo Technologies Ltd., Shri. Albert Tung - MD, ASUS (India), Shri. Pradeep Khemani, Country Manager, ESSN, HP India, Smt. S. Mohini Ratna, Editor- VARIndia
The much-awaited 9th VARIndia Star Nite Awards - 2010, the premier diary date for the IT Channel community in India, was held on 26th November, 2010 in New Delhi in the presence of the distinguished audience of more than 600 people, comprising government officials, CXOs, foreign guests, distributors, VARs, SIs and channel partners from across the country.
The winners of the VARIndia Star Nite Awards were felicitated, followed by an awards ceremony and a gala dinner. On this occasion, more than 80 awards were presented to the top performers of the IT industry in various categories.
VARIndia Star Nite Awards - 2010, which played host to the felicitation ceremony of the top performers of the Indian IT industry for the current year, kick-started with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by the guests of honour and other high-profile dignitaries.
The ninth VARIndia Star Nite Awards - 2010 was not merely an award-giving ceremony for the IT vendors, but it was a revelation for the guests.
Shri Savitur Prasad, Secretary, Department of Information & Technology, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, spoke about the latest e-governance initiatives taken by the Delhi Govt. One of the projects undertaken by the Delhi Govt. is TETRA, which played an important role in the successful completion of the Commonwealth Games.
“Technology is seen to have played a pivotal role in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games. Amidst all the controversies that have been covered, the great things have been skipped by the media. One of the systems that was extensively used was the TETRA. TETRA is the most futuristic set up jointly by HCL and Motorola. The best part is that the Delhi Govt. has set the entire system without purchasing it, as the money has been invested by the two companies. The entire DTC buses deployed (around 574) for the transport of the games athletes and the officials were under the TETRA monitoring system. TETRA has been earlier used in the last Olympic Games held in Beijing and will also be used during the London Olympic Games.”
While presenting the awards to the winning vendors, Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General, ICERT, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India, wholeheartedly thanked Kalinga Digital Media and the organizers of the event for putting up such a spectacular show. He also appreciated their efforts for bringing together the Govt. sector and the industry people at the same platform and discussing issues that would decide the future of the IT industry. He congratulated the award winners in different categories and also commended their efforts.
The highlight of the evening was the coveted VARIndia No. 1 Channel favourite company, which was bagged by HP India. Canon joined the likes of IBM, EMC, HP, Samsung, Oracle, Logitech, Intel and Microsoft as this year's big winners. For Console Gaming, Microsoft took the top honours as the Best Company of the Year and also took the awards for the Best Desktop O.S. - Window 7, Best Headset and Best Gaming Hardware. On the Business Application Solution, Oracle took the top honours and won the Best Business Application Solution Company of the Year award. On the Server Virtualization side, VMWARE Software India took the cake by claiming the Best Company of the Year award, while HP won the Best X86 Server award & Storage Solution Company Award.
RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. was given the Best Carrier of the Carriers award.
While Intel was the winner in the Processor category, Asus won the best Motherboard award. Canon swept away the awards in Imaging Solution, Digital Camera and Photo Copier categories.
In the Security arena, Bluecoat Systems Inc., eScan & Check Point Software Technologies shared the spotlight with Check Point taking the fastest-growing Security Companies in India award as well as winning the category of Best Firewall and Best Data Security
Cyberoam walked away with top scores for Best UTM (Unified Threat Management).
Norton won the best Antivirus Software, while the top honours for Best Gateway Antivirus Software went to Symantec. Logitech made a great showing in various categories, which included Best Keyboard (Membrane), Best Webcam, Best Mouse and Best Speaker winning the Best Company of the Year award for each category.
Cisco dominated the Networking Solution scene and bagged the Best Company of the Year award. Iomega Corp did the same in the Best Entry Level NAS, winning the Best Company of the Year award.
And, of course, it is no surprise that in ERP Solutions, SAP once again took the top prize as the Best Company of the Year. TVS Electronics had a repeat performance as the Best Company of the Year in Mechanical Keyboard.
Fastest Growing Distributor of the Year goes to Presto Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.
While HCL Infosystems was awarded the Best Distributor of the Year, Global Infonet Distribution (P) Ltd. was named as the Emerging Distributor of the year.
Besides, the event also witnessed corporate presentations to showcase their capabilities with audio/video presentations.
Addressing the august gathering, Benhur Mesfin, Director & GM, Wireless Network Solutions (WNS), Asia Pacific, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, said, “When we talk about our businesses and our future, what comes to mind is a saying by a Computer Scientist who said that the best way to predict future is to invent it. Ever since then, there have been a lot of innovations and many scientists are working towards inventing a better future.”
“Technology is the means to an end and the end is solving the customer’s needs. One of the key differentiators that VARs can bring is to have that knowledge, competency that allows them to pull together the right technology. Doing this will build an everlasting relationship in that business with the customers. The success in business is not based on the ability to simply change, but it depends on our ability to change faster than our competitors, faster than our customers.”
According to Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. VP, Canon India Pvt. Ltd., it is a challenge to take the $ 80 billion IT industry to $ 300 billion industry in ten years’ time. He further said, “Not only are we going to make this industry so big, but we are going to be its beneficiaries too. The size and scale is very important, but the speed is all the more crucial. As we enter the next decade, every single aspect of governance, large enterprises, consumers and entrepreneurs is driven by technology. One sees getting impacted by four things of technology in IT - digitization, connectivity, mobility and convergence. Also, entrepreneurial depth is going to increase in the country and more into the tier-II and tier-III towns. And this would mean adoption of technology which
is very, very important.”
Som Satsangi, Director, Enterprise Storage Servers and Networking, HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd., underscored the need for public-private partnership.
“One thing is clear that the governments there work very closely with the community like ours to work for the entire ecosystem to drive IT and technology. HP is a company that invests more than $4 billion on IT innovation, and this is true for all the other organizations. So, if all the OEMs and the principal vendors decide to make India a proud country to live in, we need to make more investments towards the government, government bodies rather than maintaining a customer-vendor kind of a relationship.”
Talking about the business strategy of Oracle, Prittam Kalasskar, GM, Distribution, Oracle India, said, “For us, partners here are a key driving force for the revenues which we drive in India. If you look back a couple of years ago, Oracle was predominantly looked upon as an organization which worked only between large partners. But I would say over the last 3-4 years, our approach to the whole business has changed.”
Albert Tung, MD, ASUS India, said, “Motherboard is a very sophisticated technology, but in a channel we want to keep it very simple and nurture an environment of mutual sharing, mutual trust, and mutual benefit. We believe that only trust can drive the channel and mutual reliance is very important.”
Krishna Vamsi, Manager - Product Marketing, APAC, AMD India, said, “When applications are becoming more demanding, it is the combination of CPU and GPU which will give the right experience to the customers. Being in this unique advantageous position, we are going to launch some innovative products or accelerated processing units by the beginning of 2011.”
Last but not the least, the vendors took the opportunity to give exposure to their products by setting up stalls, which were visited by the guests in large numbers. The vendors included HP, Canon, Cyberoam, Epson, AMD, WatchGuard, Alvarion, Oracle, Asus, Bestnet, TVS-E, Simmtronics and DigiLink.
The VARIndia Star Nite event enjoyed the support of the leading IT vendors like Motorola, Oracle, AMD, Presto, Alvarion, DigiLink, Asus, D-Link, Epson, nComputing, inTarvo, WatchGuard, Bestnet, Cyberoam, Simmtronics and Canon.
While concluding, Deepak Sahu, Publisher VARIndia, proposed a vote of thanks. Expressing satisfaction at the successful completion of the event, he thanked the channel partners and the sponsors of the event.
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| Shri Savitur Prasad, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of Delhi addressing to the gathering | Shri Benhur Mesfin, Director & General Manager, Asia Pacific, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions talking about Motorola | Shri Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. Vice-President, Canon India Pvt. Ltd. talking about potential in the Indian Digital Industry |
| Shri Som Satsangi, Director, Enterprise Storage Servers and Networking- HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd. talking about strong presence of HP in the Indian IT Industry | Shri Prittam Kalasskar, General Manager - Distribution Business, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. addressing about the presence of Oracle in India | Shri Albert Tung - Managing Director, ASUS (India) express the ASUS dominance in the technology |
| Shri Krishna Vamsi (Manager Product Marketing - APAC), AMD India expressing how the position of AMD is in the processing power | Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General, ICERT, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. Of India while giving Award to HP INDIA SALES LTD. as the Best Storage Solution Company | Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General, ICERT, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. Of India while giving Award to CANON INDIA PVT. LTD as the Best Imaging Solution Company. |
| Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General, ICERT, Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. Of India while giving Award to TVS ELECTRONICS LIMITED as the Best Indian Company in hardware manufacturing. | Shri Benhur Mesfin, Director-Wireless Network Solution, APAC- Motorola Electronics Pvt. Ltd while giving Award to HP INDIA SALES LTD as the Best Inkjet Printer- Single Function | Shri Benhur Mesfin, Director-Wireless Network Solution, APAC- Motorola Electronics Pvt. Ltd while giving Award to CISCO SYSTEMS INDIA PVT. LTD as the Best Networking Solution Company. |
| Shri Savitur Prasad, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of Delhi while giving Award to HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd. as the Best Desktop -Enterprise & Best Notebook-Commercial. | Shri Savitur Prasad, Secretary, Department of Info
rmation Technology, Government of Delhi while givimg award to HP INDIA SALES Pvt. Ltd as the Best X86 Servers, Fastest growing Networking Solution Vendor - HP Networking and Best DAS Vendor - HP- Storage. | Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to HCL INFOSYSTEMS Ltd as the Best Projector- DLP ( In-Focus ) |
| Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to EMC DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS (INDIA) PVT. LTD as the Best SAN Vendor | Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to D-LINK INDIA LTD as the Best Networking Switch Company. | Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to D-LINK INDIA LTD as the Best layer Two Switches. |
| Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to EPSON INDIA PVT.LTD as the Best Projector - LCD. | Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to EPSON INDIA PVT.LTD as the Best Dot-Matrix Printer. | Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to CANON INDIA PVT. LTD as the Best Digital Camera. |
| Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director , C-DOT while giving award to CANON INDIA PVT. LTD as the Best photo Copier. | Shri Bijoyananda Mishra, Sr. G.M.-BSNL while giving award to SAMSUNG INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD as the Best TFT Monitor. | Shri Bijoyananda Mishra, Sr. G.M.-BSNL while giving award to SAMSUNG INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD as the Best LFD Vendor. |
| Shri Bijoyananda Mishra, Sr. G.M.-BSNL while giving award to SAMSUNG INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD as the Best LED Technology Monitor. | Shri Bijoyananda Mishra, Sr. G.M.-BSNL while giving award to SAMSUNG INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD to the Best ODD | Shri Bijoyananda Mishra, Sr. G.M.-BSNL while giving award to SAMSUNG INDIA ELECTRONICS LTD as the Best Netbook and Magical Printer in laser Jet category ML 1666 |
| Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT while giving award to LOGITECH ELECTRONICS INDIA PVT.LTD. as the Best Key Board (Membrane). | Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT while giving award to LOGITECH ELECTRONICS INDIA PVT.LTD. as the Best Webcam | Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT while giving award to LOGITECH ELECTRONICS INDIA PVT.LTD. as the Best Mouse. |
| Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT while giving award to LOGITECH ELECTRONICS INDIA PVT.LTD. as the Best Speaker. | Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT while giving award to Belkin India Pvt. Ltd as the Fastest growing brand in Laptop accessories. | Shri. Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Director, MAIT while giving award to Microworld Software Services Pvt. Ltd. as the Best Internet Security Suit of SMB (eScan). |
| Shri. Anshul Gupta, Group General Manager, RAILTEL Corporation of India while giving award to MICROSOFT CORPORATION (INDIA) PVT. LTD as the Best Desktop O.S.- Window 7 and Best Gaming Console - X Box. | Shri. Anshul Gupta, Group General Manager, RAILTEL Corporation of India while giving award to MICROSOFT CORPORATION (INDIA) PVT. LTD as the Best Head set and Best Gaming Hardware. | Shri. Anshul Gupta, Group General Manager, RAILTEL Corporation of India while giving award to DIGILINK as the Best Structure Cabling Company, to DIGISOL as the Fastest Growing Brand in IT and to DIGI CARE as the Best Post Sales Services |
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