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Lateral use of Saturday @ Vegayan…..

Last Saturday, we had a very interesting session on “Lateral Thinking”. This is a problem solving approach christened by Edward de Bono which, as the name suggests, looks for not-so-obvious solutions. If you look around, many of the problems (be it in professional or personal life) have been resolved by implementing these so-called not-so-obvious solutions. For eg. The lassi-maker in Punjab who thought of using a washing machine to churn out lassis at a pace that could catch-up with the ever-increasing demand at his stall; would not have obviously thought of using a washing machine to prepare lassis at the first instance….!!!

So coming back to our session, we selected few objects which apart from their regular use, could be laterally used for something substantial in our day-to-day life. There were very creative and at times funny usage ideas from the Vegayan team which was divided in two groups for this exercise. This lateral thinking exercise was very much enjoyed and appreciated by the team.

After this exciting session, we went for a team lunch at a nearby restaurant to nourish our brains which were exhausted after flushing out so many ideas laterally..!!!

Vegayan featured in IT Innovators 2008 by NASSCOM

Here is something we missed reporting in this blog earlier…

Vegayan got featured in the list of “IT Innovators 2008″ by NASSCOM. The list consists of companies which managed to stand out and differentiate themselves in highly competitive, often adverse market conditions and carved a niche for themselves using breakthrough technological products and novel market initiatives. It includes wide spectrum of young enterprising companies and large companies that are making waves both at home and overseas.

We the Vegayan team are proud of this recognition by NASSCOM.

For more details:
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=56235
http://www.nasscom.in/upload/61369/Vegayan_System.pdf

Internships gaining currency, start-ups the new favourites

“Start-ups use internships to attract talent and tend to give interns less restrictive roles than big companies. Doing internship with Start-ups always helps students to explore their interests and gain relevant experience.”

Vegayan also recruits students as interns from various technology and business schools and helps interns to gain good experience.

Below is the news article in which students share their internship experience with Start-ups covered by Aruna Viswanatha and Namitha Jagadeesh, live mint, 5th Feb 2009.

Entrepreneurship – Beginning To Hatch

“Tech start-ups are warmed up in incubation centres. Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) in IIT Mumbai defies all indications of a global economic downturn as young people armed with engineering, math and enthusiasm work on start-up ventures.” Vegayan is also one of them mentioned in the article by Businessworld magazine.

For detailed article visit : Entrepreneurship Beginning To Hatch  By Venkatesh Ganesh (Businessworld Issue 20-26 Jan 2009)

Vegayan @ IEEE ANTS 2008

The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) is back at IIT Bombay. Vegayan had the opportunity to exhibit its products and solutions at the conference. Many stalwarts from telecom world- industry as well as academia- who were participants/speakers at the conference visited our booth.

Vegayan’s CEO Dr. Girish Saraph also played a prominent role in ANTS 2008 conference by moderating Service Provider Panel. The theme of the panel discussion was on current as well as future trends on technologies and services. The panelists were key people driving growth in the Indian telecom industry represented carriers/service providers.

From R to L: J. Gopal- Executive Director at MTNL, Arvind Mathur- Chief Solution Architect at Sify India, Sumit Chowdhury- CIO at Reliance Communications and Dr. Girish Saraph- CEO Vegayan Systems moderating the panel

Congratulations…

Congratulations to Suyash and Vrushali for being MCA topper of mumbai university and college respectively. Very glad to have both of you as a part of Vegayan team and wishing you a great journey ahead.

Interview of Vegayan CEO on The Kamla Bhatt Show

In an interview with Kamla Bhatt, Vegayan’s CEO Dr. Girish Saraph shares his experience on what it takes to run a start-up in India, and about the ever changing business plan, and if there is such a thing as “a good time” to start your business.

For detailed interview go to “The Kamla Bhatt Show”

Exciting Excursion @ Exotica

This time the venue for our day-long excursion was none other than the exotic Exotica- a resort with a tropical ambiance at Yeor Hills (part of Sanjay Gandhi National Park) near Thane. It is a very nice place to relax and enjoy with family and friends. We reached Exotica around 10 am on Saturday. After a wholesome breakfast, we were charged up for a great day ahead. There was no stopping for us…volleyball, badminton, swimming. We also enjoyed a fun competition organized specially for couples. We could not resist taking a dip in the swimming pool and that too in this May summer. We had long swimming session along with a water polo game. The team was now ready for a great lunch. We all cherished the multi-cuisine lunch in the tropical settings of Exotica. After lunch, we chatted, explored the natural beauty around the resort, with few of us capturing pictures as a memory which we would cherish for a long time. Everyone enjoyed as a team. Finally it was time to leave and head back with a recharged mind and body!!!

Industry Track @ NCC 2008…..

Dr. Saraph from Vegayan coordinated the industry track at NCC 2008. It featured prominent invitees from telecom industry including stalwarts from Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Tata-VSNL, Tejas Networks, GTL…..

For more details go to Industry Track @ NCC 2008

Booth……

We had also setup a booth for Vegayan at the conference. This gave us an opportunity to showcase our company, product and vision. We had a wonderful opportunity to interact with some of the dignitaries from the industry, benefited from their insights and gained visibility.

Vegayan Systems "Re-engineering The Network"

Converged networks are the wave of the future—in fact, they’re being implemented right now! Multi-Protocol Label-Switching networks offer tremendous cost benefits, to both service providers and subscribers. Traffic engineering is a basic requirement for converged, next-generation networks, and Vegayan Systems’ work in this field is helping bring next-gen networks to us quicker.

For more details go to i.t. magazine (EFY Group) website

Download article : Vegayan Systems “Re-engineering The Network” by Nilesh Kakade