For the ninth year in the row, the annual edition of VARINDIA Brand Book has been talking on how the technology brands are evolving with their creative innovations with signifying quality and inspiring confidence. India has seen a dramatic shift on the usage of technology and it has impacted every sector at large, specially the Fintech and the hospitality sector.

Today, we are witnessing newer brands and the start-ups are disrupting and challenging the world class companies that are running since ages. Having said that, a great brand is important for any business to be successful and it must also be important for its first impression that lasts in people's minds and helps them trust the business. Since, a brand is the most potent asset that a business possesses.

The disruption caused by COVID 19 and the extended lockdowns, have been massive with its long term effects being felt on the Indian economy. There has been a shift in higher demand for digital payments and online lending. With this, the UPI payments and digital transaction platforms have attracted 50 percent of new users. Many lending platforms are enjoying the double average transaction value, as per the statistics portal Statista, payments including online commerce and mobile point-of-sale transactions will grow from $64.7 billion in transaction value in 2019 with 513.84 million users to $134.5 billion with 657.77 million users in 2023.

This year a survey was conducted by VARINDIA and it shows how the listed Top 50 technology brands in India have performed in the Indian market out of hundreds of technology brands were evaluated first by the industry leaders and then our editorial team has compiled to present, the Most Admired Brands. The ratings are considered on the basics of product performance, R & D support, On-time availability and the most important is on the post-sales support and these 50 Most Admired Brands underline the contribution and confidence of the consumers after they have tried and tested the leadership in their respective areas.

Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation specializing in advanced electronics technology, headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City. Acer's product range includes laptop and desktop PCs, tablets, smartphones, monitors, projectors and cloud solutions for home users, business, government, presence in more than 160 countries globally. The company refreshes the Predator Helios, Predator Triton and Nitro Gaming Notebooks and launched premium convertible chromebook spin 713 that is based on project Athena. Acer has been ranked as top players in monitor category. The company has witnessed humongous growth across all segments.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise makes everything connect by delivering technologies that work for you, with cloud, network, and communications solutions. It is a French software company headquartered in Colombes, France and provides enterprise communication services. Its hybrid cloud communications solutions with flexible business models and services are tailored for vertical solutions in Healthcare, Government, Hospitality, Transportation and Education. It has recently upgraded its cloud-based video and communications platform Rainbow to take the user experience to a new level and facilitate advanced interactions between larger groups of participants to collaborate effectively with colleagues and customers using chat, audio or video calls, screen sharing, and conference from a smartphone or computer.

AMD, a know name and a pioneer in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies has gained share in the three major processor markets: laptops, desktops, and servers. It has announced the new AMD RyzenThreadripper PRO Processor line-up, with up to 64 cores and unrivalled bandwidth3 built with enterprise-grade AMD PRO technologies built to set the new industry standard for professional workstation compute performance. It develops high-performance computing and visualization products to solve some of the world’s toughest and most interesting challenges. The Revenue was $1.79 billion, up 40 percent year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue.

Array Networks is an American networking hardware company and is a leader in application delivery networking with over 5000 worldwide customer deployments addressing secure delivery of applications to end users. Increasing internet traffic is a major concern that needs immediate attention and it sells network traffic encryption tools. It develops purpose-built systems for hosting virtual networking and security functions with guaranteed performance and addresses the growing market demand for network functions virtualization (NFV), cloud computing, and software-centric networking. Array’s vxAG virtual secure access gateways extend remote and mobile access capabilities to virtualized data centers and public/private clouds.

Aruba Networks is a Santa Clara, California-based wireless networking and a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The edge has emerged as the new centre of the digital universe, opening up opportunities for organizations to create new digital experiences and gain competitive advantages and Aruba Networks bridges the gap by supplying wireless local area network and edge access networking equipment for businesses.The company delivers IT solutions that empower organizations to serve the latest generation of mobile-savvy users who rely on cloud-based business apps for every aspect of their work and personal lives. It also helps enterprise customers to simplify in the adoption of IoT and is geared for the transformation for enterprises with a comprehensive edge-to-cloud networking solution covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN and wide area networking (WAN).

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation and is a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Autodesk has driven innovation in every industry its software touches – pushing the boundaries of what’s possible across architecture, manufacturing, product design, content creation and many more. It continues to develop the broadest portfolio of 3D software for global markets. It has achieved 19 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Use Autodesk software to design, visualize, and simulate your ideas before they're ever built or created. As the digital technologies such as laser plotting improve efficiency and quality, Autodesk and Factory OS have been working together for a few years to use technology to innovate and improve the overall outcomes of construction.

Axis Communications AB is a Swedish manufacturer of network cameras for the physical security and video surveillance industries. Axis enables a smarter and safer world by creating network solutions to improve security and to find new ways of doing business.The complete range of network video solutions including cameras and encoders, VMS and recorders, analytics and applications reduce costs, ensure scalability and simplify integration and its open access control solutions integrate seamlessly with your other systems. Use everything from identification and entry control to advanced access management, moreover, the solutions comes with complete, high-quality audio systems to improve security, make live or scheduled announcements, or create ambience with great-sounding background music.The recent innovation system for touchless access control makes it easier to comply with physical distancing and increased hygiene requirements.

Check Point is a multinational company headquarters are located in Tel Aviv, Israel, and in the United States in San Carlos, California. It is into cyber security, provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, data security and security management. Check Point Software Technologies with its solutions protects its customers from cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks. Check Point Infinity is the first consolidated security across networks, cloud and mobile, providing the highest level of threat prevention against both known and unknown targeted attacks to keep you protected now and in the future. Only 5% of enterprises are using Gen 5 Cyber Security, hence there is growth of cyber-attacks.

CommScope Inc. is an American global network infrastructure provider company having over 20,000 employees worldwide, with customers in over 130 countries. It helps in shaping the infrastructure, products and solutions to improve human life. In 2019, CommScope acquired ARRIS and RUCKUS. The combined companies provide greater technology, solutions and employee talent, with broader access to new and growing markets. The world class solutions bring the innovation, quality and flexibility that businesses need to satisfy the increasing demands and expectations of seamless connectivity.

Commvault is a global enterprise software leader in the management of data for cloud and on-premises environments, headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Commvault enterprise software can be used for data backup and recovery, cloud and infrastructure management, retention and compliance. It is positioned as the trusted data partner for thousands of enterprise, public sector and commercial organisations across India and the globe. It supports for more than 40 cloud storage options across public and private clouds. To expand its foot step, the company has expanded suite of Commvault technology, and a new global Center of Excellence in Bengaluru.

CP PLUS is an Indian company, offers a gamut of products and solutions to meet the varied needs of its audience ranging from IP cameras, HD recorders, intrusion alarms, home automation, video walls, multi apartments video door phones, storage servers, encoders, time & attendance solutions, digital locks and accessories, which are able to successfully deliver integrated end-to-end security solutions (from the camera to the control room). CP PLUS has been honoured and acclaimed as ‘India’s No.1 Security brand’ with its 45 branches and 600+ sales and technical professionals and 6500+ channel partners across the country.

Citrix Systems is an American multinational software company that provides server application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service, and cloud computing technologies, and provider of technology solutions that enable mobile work styles globally. Citrix Workspace with intelligence is reimagining IT to consolidate everything you need into one secure environment and it allows maximising the IT investments by delivering an intuitive employee experience. It aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. Citrix join forces to simplify cloud transformation and speed adoption of digital workspaces and virtual desktops to enable greater agility, productivity, and security.

CtrlS Datacenter was established in October 2007, headquartered in Hyderabad. CtrlS is India’s first Tier 4 certified datacenter having its presence in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Noida. Very soon the Chennai Data-Center is going to operate along with BSNL. Ctrls datacenter provides a penalty backed SLA of 99.995% uptime. The USP of CtrlS is commitment to its customer is total ownership. CtrlS has its plan to build six million square feet of tier-4 data centre by 2021 as it looks to capitalise on growth in data usage and proposed data localisation norms. CtrlS is investing in hyperscale capacities and will soon emerge as the largest tier-4 data centre player globally with a cumulative footprint of 5 million sq feet by 2021.

D-Link is a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a global leader in designing and developing networking and connectivity. D-Link (India) continues to demonstrate stupendous performance and progress in implementing and supporting unified network solutions that integrate capabilities in switching, wireless, broadband, storage, IP surveillance, cloud-based network management, and structured cabling. It aims to connect more homes, small businesses, medium to large-sized enterprises, and service providers. D-Link brings its powerful, intelligent home routers with built-in McAfee protection for every device on network. D-Link India today has 13 branch offices with State of-the-art service support infrastructure present PAN India.

The home-grown cloud service provider, ESDS is an expert in Managed Data Center Services, Managed Cloud Solutions, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery Hosting and Auto-Scalable Cloud Solution provider. ESDS has core expertise in managing all flavours of Linux, Windows, IBM AIX or HP Unix. It has presence in the following industry verticals – Banking & Finance, Healthcare, Education, Energy & Utilities, Agriculture, Manufacturing, IT, Entertainment & Media, Travel & Tourism, Telecom, Government and eCommerce. ESDS has a very strong Cloud platform, which takes care of redundancy on the IT Infrastructure level, it is extremely important to have redundancy on Non-IT infrastructure level to ensure 100% power uptime.

Extreme Networks is a networking company based in San Jose, California. Extreme Networks designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipments and develops the software for network management, policy, analytics, security and access controls. Extreme’s IoT solutions offer the ability to easily apply whitelist profiles to IoT devices to limit communication to only what is authorized. Extreme Networks facilitates the deployment of groups of IoT devices in their own secure zone or network segment. The company has over 50,000 customers globally, including half of the Fortune 50 and some of the world’s leading names in business, hospitality, retail, transportation and logistics, education, government, healthcare and manufacturing.

Fitbit is based out of San Francisco, USA and has positioned as the key digital health partner and it has always been about marrying technology with health and fitness. Fitbit designs products and experiences that tracks and provides motivation for everyday health and fitness. The products are carried in over 39,000 retail stores and in 87 countries around the globe. The company’s mission is to empower and inspire to live a healthier and more active life. The company owns a wide range of products like fitness wristbands and clips, watches, wireless fitness headphones etc.   A suite of 15+ Exercise Modes and more than 1,200 apps and clock faces are currently accessible to Fitbit smartwatch users. Google announced it was buying Fitbit last year for $2.1 billion and said it hoped to complete the deal some time in 2020. Antitrust regulators and consumer advocacy groups are increasing their scrutiny of Google's planned acquisition of fitness tracker firm Fitbit.

Fortinet is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It develops and markets cybersecurity products and services, such as firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion prevention and endpoint security. Fortinet has been recognized as one of the Leaders among the 18 vendors included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls report for 2019. With nearly 630 patents it is having several innovations into cybersecurity innovation. It secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers a unified approach that is broad, integrated, and automated. With a security-driven networking strategy in place, FortiGate Network Firewalls ensure consistent, end-to-end protection across all crucial network edges—from campuses and data centers to branch offices and multi-cloud deployments. Fortinet also delivers an enterprise-class SD-WAN solution using custom-built ASIC technology combined with fully integrated advanced security to support and protect distributed WAN locations.

Hikvision has it’s headquarter at Hangzhou and is the world’s leading provider of innovative security products and solutions. Hikvision has more than 34,000 employees, over 16,000 of which are R&D engineers. The company annually invests 7 – 8% of its annual sales revenue to research and development for continued product innovation. Hikvision has established a complete, multi-level R&D system that includes every operation from research to design, development, testing, technical support, and service. Hikvision advances the core technologies of audio and video encoding, video image processing, and related data storage, as well as forward-looking technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and deep learning. The Indian subsidiary, Prama Hikvision inaugurates India’s first and largest integrated security, surveillance facility in Maharastra.

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. is expanding its presence in Hyderabad to help accelerate its global business. Hitachi Vantara has a number of products on the storage market, in fields such as Internet of Things, big data analytics, data protection, cloud storage and converged systems. It has more than 6,300 customers in more than 100 countries, including more than half of Fortune 100 companies. The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series uses Hitachi's Storage Virtualization Operating System to deliver high-speed data transfers. The new distributed file system and management solution helps users gain faster access to and insights from unstructured data such as emails, documents, health records, audio, video and images. It aims to facilitate IoT services to remote facilities, as well as reduce costs and increase availability from a single database.

Huawei is recognised for its high-quality technological products. Indeed, the Huawei brand has come a long way since it was founded in 1987. Within a short 30-year history, Huawei is today a global behemoth competing against the likes of Apple and Samsung.  Huawei offers integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services.  The company has redefined data infrastructure from computing, storage, and data processing. Huawei’s products and solutions are deployed in over 170 countries, and is serving for more than one third of the global population. Huawei is the third-biggest global manufacturer of routers, switches and other telecommunications equipment. It has more than 180,000 employees, and operates in more than 170 countries and regions. Huawei has over 80,000 research and development employees (comprising 45% of its workforce) in Germany, Sweden, UK, the U.S., France, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Russia, India, and China.

It is the most tested and most awarded security software for your every type of needs to protect – your PC & mobile devices or your family’s entire digital world. Its core values are cutting-edge technology, innovation, highest quality, passion for progress, reliability and transparency. Today Kaspersky is operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company employs more than 4,000 professionals and IT security specialists in 34 dedicated regional offices across 31 countries, and its cybersecurity technologies protect over 400 million users around the world.The company also cooperates extensively with INTERPOL, Europol, and national police bodies to actively assist them in their fight against cybercrime. Kaspersky's TOP3 metric regularly monitors the performance of both consumer and business products from top security vendors.

L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited focused on Engineering and R&D (ER&D) services. It offers consultancy, design, development and testing services across the product and process development life cycle. Its customer base includes 69 Fortune 500 companies and 53 of the world’s top ER&D companies, across industrial products, medical devices, transportation, telecom & hi-tech, and the process industries. Headquartered in India, it has over 16,600 employees spread across 17 global design centers, 28 global sales offices and 51 innovation labs as of June 30, 2020. The acquisition of Orchestra will enhance its offerings in the areas of Network Engineering & Enterprise Mobility and provides it strategic access to Telecom service providers who are investing in next generation digital systems for 5G and IoT networks.

Lava International Limited is an Indian smartphone manufacturer company in the mobile handset industry.  Founded in India, it is also having overseas operations in Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Egypt, Middle East, Nepal, and Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. The strong belief is that a strong culture is what separates great companies from those that perish sooner or later. In line with Govt. of India’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, Lava has taken a lead in support of this important nation building program and has already set up a design team in India, becoming the first to do so in the country. With this ‘Design in India’ initiative Lava is now the only Mobile handset company that makes truly ‘Make In India’ phones with complete control on design and manufacturing within India.

NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics company, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. NEC has the leading position in the industry and is a testament to NEC's foresight in innovating and developing biometric solutions for the future that maximizes customer value and experience. It is a champion in executing governments and commercial enterprises worldwide that are increasingly adopting biometric solutions for comprehensive protection across digital, personal and infrastructure domains. NEC's biometric solutions are used in more than 700 systems in over 70 countries, including police department, immigration control agency, national ID and entertainment industry systems. NEC has emerged as a leader in the Asia-Pacific biometrics market with dominance in both public and private sector deployments.

NetApp, Inc. is an American Hybrid Cloud Data Services and Data Management Company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Netapp delivers everything to build your unique data fabric. Netapp has gone into various transformations to address the growing demand and expanding its product portfolio, with the acquisition of Talon Storage, a provider of hybrid cloud storage software to boost its hybrid cloud capabilities. Gaining leadership into cloud data services, it has acquired leading virtual Desktop Infrastructure player CloudJumper, which helps in improving and accelerating public cloud virtual desktops for work from home, branch offices and enterprise deployments and recently it has acquired of Spot, a leader in compute management and cost optimization in the public clouds. NetApp’s cloud-connected flash solutions, an element of a Data Fabric strategy, provides the simplicity, operational efficiency and protection needed to support innovation, add unprecedented performance and power to the most demanding data sets and technologies, such as artificial intelligence or 5G networks.

NTT Ltd. is a world-leading global technology services provider. It brings a compelling mix of domain expertise and unmatched global reach, to be a comprehensive Datacenter, Cloud & Network Services Partner to your organization. This division operates one of the largest data center platforms in the world, now with over 160 data centers spanning more than 20 countries and regions, and providing NTT Group clients and partners with access to a powerful digital ecosystem with global reach and local expertise. NTT is ideally positioned to serve global hyperscale entities, as well as enterprises seeking a comprehensive one-stop solution. It’s global presence supports and enables end-to-end solutions whilst offering flexibility for clients to balance their critical IT load across various locations.The company’s customer success stories cut across a wide spectrum of industries, including Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, E-commerce, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, IT & ITeS, Logistics, Hospitality and Education.

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. It designs graphics processing units for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on chip units for the mobile computing and automotive market. NVIDIA has positioned as to power AI at the edge of enterprise networks and in the virtual radio access networks – or vRANs – powering next-generation 5G wireless services. Post-acquisition of Mellanox Technologies with a transaction value of $7 billion, it would allow it to sell more integrated networking, storage and processor solutions, boosting performance and lowering costs for customers and eyeing an opportunity of $61 billion by 2023. NVIDIA is moving towards, EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform, where the cloud-native platform is optimized to take advantage of three key revolutions – AI, IoT and 5G – and provide the world’s companies the ability to build next-generation services.

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Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company sells database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products—particularly its own brands of database management systems. Oracle continues to deliver innovations and enhancements in database software with the latest generation of Oracle Database, in infrastructure with engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata, and in the cloud with the Oracle Autonomous Database. Oracle has been named as the leader in digital commerce for ten consecutive evaluations, it brings transformational technologies and approaches in the digital commerce market that are delivering on the future needs of sellers and their customers and its ERP Cloud is well positioned to move business forward.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. It strives to protect the way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks and ensuring customer data is secured everywhere. Palo Alto have performed consistently against a variety of rigorous evaluations for certification. This effort makes Palo Alto Networks to place in the Leaders quadrant furthest to the right for completeness of vision and highest for ability to execute. This marks the eighth consecutive time that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader.

Poly born in 2019 from Plantronics and Polycom, Headquartered in San Jose and Santa Cruz, California, brings world-class communication products with its strong workforce of more than 6,500 employees working in 75 offices located in 35 different countries. Poly is the leader in video and voice solutions and enables to collaborate with HD voice, video, content, and web tools with the broadest interoperability—while delivering a great user experience on any device. It also intended to allow creators to easily share and access 3D objects. The company has more than 1,500 patents in force worldwide. Poly has $2 billion in annual revenue, and 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on Poly products and services.Poly Leads Industry with the Most Microsoft Teams Certified Headsets Available and it has sold nearly 17 million Microsoft compatible devices over the last three years.

Qualcomm is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates intellectual property, semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. As the world becoming increasingly connected Qualcomm works with the vision to shape a better future. It is a global leader in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies that help power the modern mobile experience. From network equipment and broadband gateway equipment to consumer electronic devices, it helps billions of people around the world connect, compute and communicate. Recently, Qualcomm joined hands with Reliance Jio, by investing $97.1 million for 0.15% equity stake, to support Jio Platforms on its journey to rollout advanced 5G infrastructure and services for Indian customers.

Radware Ltd. is a provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions for physical, cloud and software-defined data centers. Radware's corporate headquarters are located in Mahwah, New Jersey and international headquarters are located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Radware is a global leader in application delivery and application security solutions for virtual, cloud and software defined data centers. Its solutions portfolio delivers service level assurance for business-critical applications, while maximizing IT efficiency. Radware has a solid set of features such as WAF integration, integration of threat intelligence, advanced analytics, SSL traffic inspection, cloud signalling and hybrid DDoS protection capabilities. Radware provides unique SLA times detection methods in less than 15 seconds. Its award-winning solutions portfolio secures the digital experience by providing infrastructure, application, and corporate IT protection and availability services to enterprises globally.

Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a strong presence over the worldwide and became a subsidiary of IBM on July 9, 2019. It is a world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat made a smart move by acquiring CentOS, a RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) clone that’s available for free of cost and is the biggest competitor to Debian. It accelerates Open Hybrid Cloud technologies to meet customer needs, from weathering the storm to scaling critical services. Enterprise open source will continue to grow and the growth of open source software will come at the expense of proprietary software.

Redington has traversed an eventful and exciting journey to evolve from a very humble beginning into the company it is today. The incredible journey has seen it emerge from one brand, one product category, and one market into a US $7.3 billion distribution and supply chain solutions provider to over 200+ international brands in IT and Mobility spaces, serving 37 emerging markets.The new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Big Data and Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G communications are opening new possibilities and new opportunities for tomorrow. It provides end-to-end supply chain solutions for all categories of Information Technology, Telecom, Lifestyle, Healthcare, and Solar products.

SAS is a statistical software suite developed by SAS Institute for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, criminal investigation, and predictive analytics. SAS was developed at North Carolina State University. As a leader in analytics, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the new standards for businesses to make profitable decisions or avoid unknown risks. SAS has been recognised for its completeness of vision and ability to execute and is also recognised by Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. This is the seventh consecutive year for SAS to be recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Driven by more than 40 years of innovation, SAS has customers in 147 countries and at more than 83,000 business, government and university sites.

Savex Technologies is the third largest information and communication technology distributor in India. Head quartered in Mumbai, the company has 86 sales offices and 42 Stocking locations across the country, across 7000+ customers every month in over 650+ cities, catering to over 7000 Channel Partners, Retailers, Corporate Resellers, VARs & System Integrators every month, with this savex deals with 20,000 products and serves more than 5500 orders serviced per day. Today, Savex is a Rs 11,500+ crore IT hardware distribution company in FY18 and is one of the fastest growing IT hardware distributor in India.

Schneider Electric is a European multinational company, leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation. It addresses homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automation, software and services. Schneider empowers all to make the most of their energy and resources, ensuring Life Is On everywhere. Being present over 100 countries across the globe, Schneider Electric is leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation in homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries. It provides integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation and software. It has recently announced the launch of its expanded E-commerce platform in the country. This is an effort to help its partners and customers source products digitally, without manual intervention easing access especially in the current scenario.

Seagate Technology PLC is an American data storage company. Seagate introduced a revolutionary modular storage solution to manage the surge of enterprise, cloud, and edge data. Seagate’s Lyve Driv Mobile System is a portfolio of simple, secure, and efficient data management solutions built to activate the datasphere. Powered by IT 4.0—the fourth wave of industrial revolution within IT—where connected homes, connected cities, AI-powered factories, autonomous vehicles, and media and entertainment content drive explosive data growth, the global datasphere is forecasted to grow from 41 zettabytes in 2019 to 79.4 ZB of data in 2025. Recently, the company said it aims to consolidate its facilities in Minnesota to one location and continue to align resources to better support future growth prospects.

SonicWall, originally a private company headquartered in Silicon Valley, sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security. Its network security solutions give us the performance and visibility to make better informed business decisions. SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) provide the security, control and visibility you need to maintain an effective cybersecurity posture. The company offers its SuperMassive line for the largest networks; NSA for midrange companies; and TZ series firewalls for small companies. The next-generation firewalls and network security solutions protect more than 1 million networks worldwide, for more than 500,000 organizations in more than 150 countries. The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team researches and develops counter measures to deploy to firewalls for up-to-date protection.

Sophos Group plc. is a British security software and hardware company. Sophos develops products for communication endpoint, encryption, network security, email security, mobile security and unified threat management. The global leader in next-generation cybersecurity acquired by Thoma Bravohas made an offer to acquire Sophos representing an enterprise value of approximately $3.9 billion. Sophos partners with more than 53,000 resellers and managed service providers to protect more than 420,000 organizations and 100 million users from the most advanced cyberthreats. Its comprehensive product portfolio is easily managed through Sophos Central, a single, integrated cloud-based management platform where solutions work together for real-time information sharing and threat response with Sophos’ unique synchronized security approach. Sophos Managed Threat Response services provide an additional 24/7 security team for fully-managed threat hunting, detection and response spanning across endpoint and firewall.

SUSE is a German-based, multinational, open-source Software Company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for the enterprise. One can modernize its infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise servers, cloud technology for IaaS, and SUSE's software-defined storage. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, based on latest SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 1, is another example of our open, open approach helps to optimize and modernize your multimodal IT infrastructure to meet the comprehensive functionalities, including security, robust storage, software deployment and support. SUSE works with an ecosystem of partners and communities to deliver enterprise-grade, open source software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions backed by superior service and support. Recently SUSE has acquired rancher labs, becoming a market leader in enterprise kubernetes management.

TeamViewer is a proprietary software application for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers, founded in Uhingen, Germany. TeamViewer software application allows remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer between computers. TeamViewer is compatible with multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. TeamViewer allows a user to access another computer remotely using a web browser. Through innovations in technology and an incredibly fast and secure global network, it is making the world a smaller place — paving the path towards a truly global workspace. Installed on over 1.9 billion devices and creating over 750,000 new IDs every day, TeamViewer is available in more than 30 languages and supports international keyboards, which makes it an ideal solution for international use. Global companies require systems that enable a diverse workforce to interact with an equally diverse customer base.

Tech Data Corporation is an American multinational distribution company specializing in IT products and services headquartered in Clearwater, Florida Tech Data is now one of the world's largest distributors of IT products and services. Tech Data Corp. provides thousands of items to more than 125,000 resellers in 100-plus countries; dealing with products includes computer components, networking equipment, peripherals, systems and software. Tech Data also offer products and services geared to data centers that include storage, networking, servers, and cloud infrastructure. More than 60% of Tech Data's revenues are generated outside the US. Apollo Global Management has completed acquisition of Tech Data Corporation for $5.4 billion, with this the Tech Data team will have the strategic and financial flexibility to invest in new technology, expand services and pursue transactions that we believe will drive long-term value creation.

Thales Group is a French multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets. The company is headquartered in Paris' business district, La Défense and its stock is listed on the Euronext Paris. Post-acquisition of Gemalto, it became a global leader in digital identity and security. With Gemalto, Thales will cover the entire critical decision chain in a digital world, from data generation via sensors, to real-time decision support. This acquisition increases Thales’s revenues to €19 billion and self-funded R&D to €1 billion a year, with 80,000 employees in 68 countries. Now, Thales will develop secure solutions to address the major challenges faced by the societies, such as unmanned air traffic management, data and network cybersecurity, airport security or financial transaction security.

UiPath is a global software company that develops a platform and designs and develops robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software. The UiPath Enterprise RPA platform offers an easy-to-use automation design tool and supports on-premises and automated cloud deployment. The platform supports both attended and unattended robots known for high scale, secure, resilient operations. It has become the first vendor of scale to bring together both process mining and robotic process automation. UiPath is delivering free and open training and collaboration and enabling robots to learn new skills through AI and machine learning. UiPath Brings Conversational AI Capabilities to Hyperautomation, it has to support of pool of investors. UiPath nabs $568M at a $7B valuation to bring robotic process automation to the front office.

Veeam Software is a privately held information technology company that develops backup, disaster recovery and intelligent data management software for virtual, physical and multi-cloud infrastructures. The company’s headquarters are in Baar, Switzerland. Veeam is the leader in backup solutions that delivers Cloud Data Management. Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data. Veeam ensures that the data is always available, protected and actively working for businesses including physical systems, SaaS services, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud. Veeam Backup & Replication is helping organizations make the most of their investments in virtualization. It is very simple, flexible and reliable solutions for the existing 375,000+ customers worldwide, served through 40 offices worldwide.

VMware, Inc. is an American publicly traded software company listed on the NYSE under stock ticker VMW. Dell Technologies is a majority shareholder. VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure & digital workspace technology, accelerates digital transformation for evolving IT environments.VMware is the first commercially successful companies to virtualize the x86 architecture in a strong belief on the software has the power to unlock new possibilities for people and our planet. It offers customers the ability to run, manage, connect, and protect all of their apps on any cloud–so they can reduce costs, gain efficiencies, and innovate faster by supporting end-to-end management and security for all of the applications that the employees need. The company’s cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace offerings provide a dynamic and efficient digital foundation to over 500,000 customers globally, aided by an ecosystem of 75,000 partners.

Western Digital Corporation is an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company. It designs, manufactures and sells data technology products, including storage devices, data center systems and cloud storage services. The company recently announces worldwide availability of 16TB and 18TB Capacities for Ultrastar HDDs, WD Gold HDDs and Ultrastar storage platforms, serving a diverse set of workloads from big data and enterprise/SMB storage to SDS and hyperscale deployments. New WD Gold 16TB and 18TB HDDs are now available in the channel for system integrators and resellers serving enterprises and SMBs who need more reliable storage for big data and enterprise storage workloads compared to traditional desktop-class HDDs. It continuously innovates to help organizations keep pace with rapidly expanding volumes of data.