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Wipro Infotech bags ‘Best Partner Award’

NEW DELHI: Wipro Infotech, an Indian IT services firm has been bagged the

"Best Partner Award" for India at the recently conducted Citrix

Solution Network (CSN) Summit in Sydney, Australia. Wipro Infotech is a division

of $ 660 million Wipro Ltd. More than 400 attendees gathered at the 2-day summit

from all over Asia pacific to discuss the future direction of CSN members and

their role in Citrix sales cycle. Wipro Infotech’s national business manager

(enterprise software) Rajat Basu said, "Wipro Infotech is uniquely placed

as a value added distributor of software products in India, apart from our

strong channel reach we also have one of the strongest direct presence in the

enterprise segment across verticals". — CNS

LexSite partners with ICIC for payments



BANGALORE: LexSite.com, website on Law and Taxation, has announced its
alliance with ICICI for payment gateways and lookforgreen, prepaid cash cards

for the Internet respectively. With the help of these strategic alliances,

subscibers of LexSite will be able to transact online with utmost security. As

per the agreement, ICICI will develop customized financial software for LexSite

to ensure smooth financial transactions through ICICI's payment gateway.

Subscribers using the ICICI payment gateway will be also ensured of the

integrity and privacy of all transactions. According to its alliance with

lookforgreen (from Smartcc), LexSite will now accept the prepaid cash cards from

all customers for online e-commerce transactions. These cards are available in

denominations of Rs. 100, 250 and 500, and will be especially beneficial to

subscribers in purchasing LexDrafts (legal documents) online from LexSite —

CIOL Bureau

Cisco runs Asia manufacturing from S'pore



SINGAPORE: Cisco Systems Inc, the world's largest maker of Internet
networking gear, said on Thursday it has made Singapore home to its Asian

manufacturing centre to coordinate with suppliers in the region. "Singapore

is one of our critical bases of operation in the Asia-Pacific region,"

Asia-Pacific president Gordon Astles said in a statement as Cisco also

inaugurated its new regional office in the City-State. "The country plays a

crucial role in our ability to provide leading Internet technologies and

customer service and support." The manufacturing centre will not make

anything itself but will work with regional partners such as Venture

Manufacturing, Inventec Corp and the Thai operations of Canada's Celestica, a

spokesman told Reuters. "Asia is expected to play an increased role in the

company's global manufacturing system in order to lower costs and shorten

customer lead times," the Cisco statement said. - Reuters.

EMC increases market share in storage systems



NEW DELHI: According to a report from Gartner Dataquest, an independent
research and advisory firm, EMC increased its share in the information storage

systems market to 34.6 per cent, gaining nearly three times more market share

than any other supplier. The industry's first independent market share research

revealed that EMC's revenue share of the external RAID storage market exceeded

the combined shares of Compaq, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems which

are the its rivals in the market. EMC also extended its top market share lead in

storage management software in 2000, according to an April report from Gartner

Dataquest, growing nearly six points to a 25.5% share last year. EMC outpaced

the next closest software competitor by more than nine percentage points in the

rapidly growing worldwide storage management software market. - CNS