Tech Caravan completes first season in Simla

When mercury was soaring in Delhi, The DQ Week conducted its Simla chapter of Tech Caravan series on 27th May in Hotel Himland East. It was a temporary respite from the heat wave of the north region. The partners added to the environment and had a cool discussion. Microsoft and Uniline were two sponsors of the event. 

Ankur Ohri, Channel Partner Development Manager-North, started the presentation with figures detailing Microsoft's $1 mn business from Himachal Pradesh, last fiscal. It was unknown how much have been earned from non-government deals. Himachal Pradesh government procures all their IT requirements from HP State Electronics Development Corporation, where local IT partners don't get a share at all. However, the idea was to know how much of the Microsoft's business was through their partners in Himachal.

Nevertheless, Ohri educated present partners of Microsoft's cloud product-Office 365. He said that MS Office 365, a cloud based productivity solution, has essentially four components under it: MS Exchange, Office, Lync Online, and SharePoint. Ohri said, "It is cloud based architecture; has geographical redundant data centers, multi device and mutli platform access, market accepted solutions, free upgrades and most importantly 99.9% financially-backed SLA."

Arvind Goel from Uniline presented on the ongoing UPS markets scenario and the offers from the company.