Microsoft is changing how you use the Control Panel in Windows

Citadel IT Services — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:25:09 +0000

Microsoft is changing how you use the Control Panel in Windows

The set of icons is being replaced by a menu accessible from the keyboard

We all know Windows 10 is a continuously evolving operating system with regular changes made over the course of its release cycle. It seems those changes are extending to the Control Panel, the central hub for system settings.

Windows10Update.com noted that a modest but significant change in build 14942, the latest Fast ring preview version released by Microsoft, made a change to how the Control Panel is presented when using the Power Menu (the Windows and X key)

Instead of the Control Panel shortcut that was placed between the Task Manager and File Explorer in the operating system, there is now a full menu of options that match the Control Panel’s set of applets.

The site said it is unlikely that the traditional Control Panel will disappear from the OS completely, since the Settings app actually calls for it for more advanced configurations and legacy settings. It speculated that Microsoft would probably just leave it somewhere in Windows 10 unused.

Microsoft has made changes to the traditional Control Panel since Windows 8, rolling out a whole new Settings app that was the default for users with that OS. There have been other changes and tweaks as well, but the emphasis now seems to be on transitioning over all settings and options to the modern application.

Flap Barrier – FB1000

Citadel IT Services — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:43:18 +0000

FB1000

Automatic system detection when power on
LED Light for lane indication
Advanced sensor system
Audible and visible alarm
Fire alarm integration
Flexible reader installation plate

FB1000 – Single lane – Specifications
Basic	Type	Single Lane
	Flap Width	260mm
	Passage width	580mm
	Operation Type	Oneway – Bidirectional
	No of flaps	1
Flap Barrier	Flow Rate	25-30 passages/minute
	Input control signal	Dry Contact
	Ingress protection Degree	IP45
	Flap opening/closing time	1s
Features	Electronic Anti-Pinch Function :
	Auto-suspension of door closure when human is detected
	Optional Battery Backup :
	Flap release when power off(optional with backup battery)
	Multi Battery Mode :
	In Emergency Mode, flaps automatically opens for entrance
	In Power-supply Mode, flaps remain normal operation using battery power
	LED light for lane indication
	Fire alarm Integration (optional)
	Advanced sensor system
General Specification	Power Supply
	SMPS – Input	AC 220V / 110V, 50Hz / 60Hz
	SMPS – output	DC +24V, 5A; +12V, 3A
	Power Rate	Idle = 30W, Working = 80W
	Dimension(mm)	L = 1400, W = 3000, H = 1008
	Gross Weight	156kg
	Operating Temprature	-28oC to +60oC
	Operating Humidity	5% – 85%
	Operating Environment	Indoor

Startek FM220U Optical Finger Print Scanner

Citadel IT Services — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:11:49 +0000

Startek FM220U Optical Finger Print Scanner, STQC Sertified

Startek FM220U Optical Finger Print scanner is UIDAI – STQC certified, and can be used in all projects asking for STQC certified scanners.

Used for:

NDLM
Jeevan Pramaan
Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS)
VTP

Overview

FM220U is a CMOS-based optical reader with high-quality. It can capture images and verify fingerprints with high speed. FM-220U has used in enrollment and attendance verification applications as a stand-alone or embedded device.

Features• ISO compliant
• Low image distortion – Startek’s FM220U is less than 1%.
• Fast scanning & matching speed
• Choice to set different security levels for different application FRR/FAR demand
• Non-distorted image quality
• Small template size
• Real-life applications – no problem in verifying smeared, scarred, stained and smudged fingers
• Support verification on various server platforms
Applications

• Verification for Welfare Distribution (financial empowerment for below poverty level or rural poor)
• Retail or Banking POS
• Workforce/School attendance and welfare management
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) Logon and Logical access control
• Foreign labor management
• E-shopping/procurement/clinic
• E-banking
• E-workflow/ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
• Voting Verification
• Club member verification specifications

Seneors	CMOS sensor
Scanning	1/15 second
Image resolution	500 dpi (H),500 dpi(V) (600dpi optional)
Image capture format	13.3 x 16.4(mm) (H * V)
Scanner output image size	264 * 324 pixels(H * V)
Gray Level	8bits/pixel,max 256 gray scales
Image ratio of length to width	1 : 1
Scanner interface cable	Standard USB compliant cable
Power supply	1 watt approx(from USB port)(200mA,approx,standby:60mA)
Minimum hardware requirement	P3 800MHz CPU or up,256MB,USB2.0
Dimension	80mm (L) x 41mm(M) x 40mm(H)
Weight	100g(Approx)
Distortion	<1%
Temperature(without external enclosure)	0°C~50°C
Humidity	90% non condensing
Scanning light source	infrared red (940nm)
Operating volts	5V Tolerance 5% (USB connector)
ESD	15KV

Secugen Hamster Plus

Citadel IT Services — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:09:36 +0000

Secugen Hamster Plus

Item Code: HSDU03P

In the today’s world cyber crime has paved dimensions and now the best hackers are associated with this crime. To restrict the unnecessary spying and fishing of the hacker and other than authorized persons in to the recording, we are delivering our clients are wide range of Secugen Hamster Plus. These finger print scanners are capable of large storage capacity and this makes our product demand increase in the industry. Along with small offices and institutions, large firms and corporate offices are also our clientele.

Features:

Durable
Longer service life
Easy to use

Specifications:

Optic Module: SDU03P
Image Resolution: 500 DPI
Image Size: 260 x 300 pixels
Platen Size: 16.1 mm x 18.2 mm
Sensing Area: 13.2 mm x 15.2 mm
Image Grayscale: 256 levels (8-bit)
Light Source: Red LED
LED Lifetime (typical): 60,000 hours
Imaging Speed (capture time):0.2 – 0.5 seconds with Smart Capture
Electrical / Communication
Interface: USB 1.1 Full-Speed, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Supply Voltage: 5 V DC (via USB)
Maximum Current: 120 mA
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 27 x 40 x 73 mm (without stand)
Weight: 100 g (without stand)
Cable Length: 1500 mm
Operating Temperature: -20o to +65o C
Operating Humidity: 90% or less RH noncondensing
Platen Hardness: 750 HK
Other
Warranty: One year limited
Supported Standards: ISO 19794, INCITS 378, BioAPI
Compliance: FCC, CE, RoHS
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, 9x Windows Server 2008 R2, 2003 Windows CE, Java, Linux, SUN Solaris10

Futronic’s FS80 USB2.0 Fingerprint Scanner

Citadel IT Services — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:41:36 +0000

Futronic’s FS80 USB2.0 Fingerprint Scanner

Item Code: FS-80

Major features and benefit: Futronic’s FS80 USB2.0 Fingerprint Scanner uses advanced CMOS sensor technology and precise optical system to deliver high quality fingerprint image. It can capture an almost un-distorted raw finger print image into PC in 100ms. So it is good for any fingerprint recognition application.Its finger scanning window is a crown glass with a thickness of 14mm. So it is much more reliable and robust compared to any semiconductor type fingerprint sensor.The finger is illuminated by 4 infra-red LEDs during scanning and the light intensity is automatically adjusted according to scanning fingerprint’s characteristics (wet, dry, blurred, etc) to optimize the quality of the captured fingerprint image.Special electronic circuit is built into FS80 to do Live Finger Detection (LFD). That is, with appropriate software in PC, user can select this LFD feature so that only live finger’s fingerprint will be scanned into PC. Fake fingers made from silicone rubber, play-doh, etc, will be rejected. And the LFD feature is included in all Futronic’s standard software.

Electrical characteristics

Light source: Infrared LED
Supply voltage: DC 4.5-5.5V via USB port
Power consumption: Active<600mW(during finger scanning), Standby<200mW, sleep mode<11mW

ESD contact – 8KV no permanent damage
Air discharge – 16KV no permanent damage

Specification:

Fingerprint scanning window size is 16x24mm
Image resolution is 480×320 pixel, 500 DPI
Raw fingerprint image file size is 150K byte
With Live Finger Detection (LFD) feature
USB 2.0 compatible interface, plug and play device.
WHQL approved for Vista 32&64 bit.
With a 2M standard USB cable
Small size, 45 x 63 x 26 mm
Light weight, 120 gram
Operation temperature: -10 to +55 C

Server shipments grows 8pc in 2015 Q2

Bikas — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:21:42 +0000

SINGAPORE : In the second quarter of 2015, worldwide server shipments grew 8.0 percent year over year, while revenue increased 7.2 percent from the second quarter of 2014, according to Gartner, Inc.

“The second quarter year-over-year growth for 2015 slowed compared with the annual growth of the first quarter of the year,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “Currency exchange rate changes have started to show their impact by reducing relative spending power in regions like Western Europe. It is likely that in anticipation of further currency rate shifts that some organizations utilized their budgets earlier in the year rather than waiting until the third or fourth quarters when their purchasing power may be further reduced by these relative currency changes.

“x86 server shipments increased 8.3 percent in the second quarter of 2015 and revenue grew 9 percent. RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 18.7 percent globally for the period, while RISC/Itanium revenue declined 9.7 percent compared with the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 7.8 percent,” Mr. Hewitt said.

From the regional standpoint, North America grew the most significantly in shipments with a 14.8 percent increase. The region also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 14.7 percent for the period.

In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the second quarter of 2015 with a year-over-year shipment increase of 2.5 percent. HP’s worldwide server shipment share was 21.7 percent, representing a 1.2 percent drop in share from the same quarter in 2014. Of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide, all produced shipment increases except for Dell.

HP maintained its No. 1 ranking in the worldwide server market based on revenue with a 25.2 percent market share. Lenovo experienced the largest increase in the second quarter of 2015 with 526.5 percent growth in revenue. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the second quarter of 2015 except IBM.

Courtesy: www.ciol.com/

‘Cloud to power transactions worth $3-5 billion in India’

Bikas — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:35:05 +0000

MUMBAI: UK-based transactional cloud platform cloudBuy said it expects transactions worth $3-5 billion taking place on cloud platform in the near term based from India.

“We at cloudBuy expect transactions worth $3-5 billion on this platform in the near-term based on the initial response not only from the CII members but also from the non-member trade community,” cloudBuy India country head Nilesh Gopali said in a statement.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has roped in cloudBuy to recently launch a new e-commerce business gateway to global supply.

The CII has around 8,000 strong members who cumulatively account for annual revenues of $80 billion.

cloudBuy provides cloud solutions for buyers and sellers, and brings them together to trade securely and ethically via an increasing number of public e-market places and private purchasing portals powered by cloudBuy technology.

According to a study conducted on companies listed on London Stock Exchange, it was concluded that FTSE 350 index companies can save up to 53 billion pounds via B2B online purchase.

Using the same benchmark of 5% saving in procurement, the 3,300-odd BSE listed companies (excluding those in broking, software and finance) will be able to save around Rs 1,26,475 crore that will invariably add to the operating profit and subsequently to the bottomline, Gopali said.

India’s manufacturing space can also boost its EBITDA or operating profit by 20% by ensuring a 5% savings in procurement through B2B online process replicating the global practice, he added.

Manufacturing universe of 364 companies on the BSE 500 index excluding those like information technology, finance and broking that does not require raw material procurement can save around Rs 1,02,000 crore going by a similar case study on London Stock Exchange FTSE 350 around five years back, Gopali said.

“Unlike a B2C online place, corporate purchases are done in a controlled environment without compromising on their ERP solutions. We have received enquiries from several large Indian corporates to establish a secured facade or solution between their ERP and a B2B online market place to provide a dynamic B2C style experience to meet their procurement needs” Gopali added.

Courtesy:timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Office 365 beats Salesforce as most popular enterprise service in new survey

Bikas — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:30:42 +0000

Microsoft’s Office 365 has passed Salesforce.com as the most popular service among companies that use Okta’s device and identity management products, according to a new report released Thursday.

From November 2013 to June 2015, Microsoft went from being the fourth most popular service to passing Google Apps, Box and recently Salesforce.com to become the most-used app among the more than 2,500 companies that rely on Okta’s services. Those businesses range from large enterprises like Intel to smaller firms with fewer than 250 people.

Unsurprisingly, 74 percent of large businesses with more than 4,000 employees run only Office 365, while just 50 percent of businesses with fewer than 250 employees subscribe only to Microsoft’s office suite. It’s most popular in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe.

While Office 365 is ascendant, those gains didn’t translate into user growth for Yammer, the enterprise social networking service that Microsoft bundles with many editions of its office suite. That service’s user growth flatlined over the past few months, even as other applications exploded in popularity.

Courtesy: http://www.infoworld.com/

Juniper promises better efficiency with new router

Bikas — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 06:56:40 +0000

MUMBAI, INDIA: Insatiable consumer and business customer demand for always-on, always-available services, including enterprise applications, unified communications and other bandwidth-intensive activities, such as streaming video, has led telecom service and cloud-content providers to rethink how they architect networks for efficient service and content delivery.

In a bid to meet these demands from telecom and cloud service providers, Juniper Networks has expanded its converged Supercore architecture with the introduction of the PTX1000.

“For telecom service and cloud content providers, the network is the lifeblood of their business. In developing the PTX1000, we recognized that these customers can increase performance while reducing operational complexity by distributing the load of serving up content across multiple peering points to deliver the high quality user experience that consumers expect,” informs Paul Obsitnik, Vice President, Service Provider Marketing, Juniper Networks.

While some providers consolidate their peering points to a limited number of network locations, today’s announcement gives customers the option to deploy a distributed peering architecture. Distributing peering sites across the network for access to cloud services improves the user experience by decreasing application response time and increasing reliability via fixed and mobile access. With the rise of machine-to-machine traffic and the advent of virtualized services becoming more distributed throughout the network, the need for increased IP/MPLS performance while maintaining cost control is in great demand, Juniper said.

According to Juniper , PTX1000 is the industry’s most compact 3 Tbps fixed configuration core router. The new two-rack unit (RU) router, like the PTX3000 and PTX5000 core routers, leverages Juniper’s ExpressPlus custom silicon for IP/MPLS performance applications.

The 28-nanometer chip can drive 5x100G interfaces and leverages 3D memory architecture, which reduces power consumption and space requirements. In addition, the PTX1000 features flexible port interface options to maximize investment protection and ensure smooth upgrade cycles.

Courtesy: http://www.ciol.com/

Will 2016 show SDN picking up in India?

Bikas — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:54:03 +0000

PUNE, INDIA: In recent times, SDN has become the buzzword in the networking industry and is widely tipped to be the next game-changer. A Juniper Networks commissioned study by IDC entitled “Understanding SDN is the key to transformation”, surveyed 171 IT decision-makers from over 151 organizations across various industries, to find out more on their plans to deploy SDN in their networks.

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, has found through a study commissioned with leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC that a majority of large enterprises in India were planning to deploy Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies as part of their network architecture by 2016.

The study reveals that most large enterprises in India plan to deploy SDN in 2016 – 63 per cent of large enterprises in India plan to deploy SDN as part of their network architecture in 2016.

It also found that 22 per cent of the respondents were “users,” defined as organizations that have deployed SDN in the pilot stage while the rest of the respondents were “intenders” who were planning to deploy SDN in the near future. Among the “intenders,” 40 per cent were planning to deploy SDN within the next year, while the other 60 per cent were aiming to deploy SDN after two years or more.

In terms of Budgets allocated, 42 per cent of intenders and 34 per cent of users do not have a specific budget assigned to the purchase of SDN solutions.

When benefits of SDN were tracked, improved network performance and efficiency emerged as the top benefit of adopting SDN. As to key concerns around SDN adoption, although 86 per cent of respondents projected that enterprise networks of the future will be a combination of SDN and traditional networks, they also cited initial concerns like difficulty in integrating SDN with already deployed or available infrastructure, security concerns, technical skill gap, total cost of ownership, and lack of management.

“SDN has the potential to transform the networking landscape. The networking architecture landscape in India is in a state of transition and the software-defined model can enable significant advantages, making it the logical solution every organization turns to for better efficiency and security,” said Sajan Paul, Director (Systems Engineering) – India & SAARC, Juniper Networks

“Innovations like SDN can enable the organizations with an unmatched capacity, flexibility and scale that can act as a worthy foundation to help achieve that business value.
As per the Juniper Networks-commissioned study by IDC, India is at a critical juncture where organizations now need to move forward and start adopting innovations like SDN to be able to adapt to the rapidly changing business environment. Currently, 86 per cent of the respondents felt that enterprise networks in future will be a combination of SDN and traditional networks and 48 per cent felt that SDN can provide value if implemented well. ” added Gaurav Sharma, Research Manager, Enterprise Computing, IDC India

Courtesy: http://www.ciol.com/