20th April 2014
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iLink’s Center of Excellence in Technology releases Channel Central Framework

iLink’s Center of Excellence in Technology releases Channel Central Framework

Redmond, WA, April 20th, 2014: iLink Systems, an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Nationally managed Microsoft SI Partner and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, today announced the release of their Channel Central Framework, powered by latest Microsoft technologies including SharePoint 2013, O365, Outlook, Lync & Bing. iLink Frameworks are a set of pre-built code libraries and well defined business processes that are designed to facilitate software development and implementation of business processes.

iLink’s Channel Central Framework is a plug and play solution combining the benefits of a service center locator with a platform for collaboration with entire channel distribution. It serves as a complete reference for all levels of your channel partners and is built using the SharePoint hosted app model and can be easily downloaded from the SharePoint app store which makes it fairly easy for any user to install, use, manage, upgrade, and remove. Channel Central has a rich and configurable feature set including Intuitive Modern UI based interface; Configurable set of distributors and dealers including easy admin interfaces for adding/editing or deleting; Ability to associate distributors with dealers; Seamless communication with channel teams via different mediums such as Lync, Skype, and Outlook; and more.

For more information, one can visit https://www.ilink-systems.com/ThinkingBeyond/iLinkFrameworks/ChannelCentralframework

About iLink Systems Inc:

Founded in 2002, iLink Systems, Inc. is an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. iLink integrates software systems and develops custom applications, components, and frameworks on the Microsoft platform for IT departments, application services providers and independent software vendors. iLink solutions are used in a broad range of industries and functions, including Health & Life Sciences, Telecom, Government, Education, and Oil & Gas. iLink’s expertise also includes mobile and embedded systems, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and user experience design. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, iLink has offices in Fairfax, VA; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA and Chennai, Pune, Trichy – India. To learn more, please visit https://www.iLink-Systems.com

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Sankar Annamalai
PR Contact, iLink Systems, Inc
Ph: 425-869-8104
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3rd April 2014
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iLink Systems showcases Intelligent Systems solutions at the Microsoft CXO NEXT 2014

iLink Systems showcases Intelligent Systems solutions at the Microsoft CXO NEXT 2014

Redmond, WA – April 3, 2014: iLink Systems, an ISO and CMMI Certified global software solutions provider and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, showcased its Intelligent Systems solutions at the recently concluded Microsoft CXO NEXT 2014 Summit held at the Microsoft campus, Redmond WA from March 25-27, 2014.

The CxO NEXT Conference for enterprise customers is an invitation-only event for key accounts, held twice per year at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Over the course of 2 ½ days, this executive event provided learning and networking opportunities through a combination of keynotes, breakout sessions and ancillary activities. The CXO NEXT 2014 had sessions around four megatrends impacting CxOs today: Mobile, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Social, and how Microsoft’s ecosystem of devices and services supports the C-suite in “Reimagining the Enterprise.”

At this event, iLink showcased solutions and frameworks around Intelligent Systems and how it can help healthcare organizations to gather, store and process data from devices on the edge of your network, to developer tools, back-end systems and services, and provide valuable business intelligence. iLink’s solution portfolio allows enterprises to drive a new level of business intelligence, including Social, Data, Mobile and Cloud, and identify opportunities that would otherwise be out of reach.

“In the next few years, a variety of devices including embedded sensors, wearables, compact medical devices, etc. will reshape the applications and services in the Health and Life Sciences (HLS) industry. As a Microsoft Intelligent Systems Partner, iLink helps HLS organizations leverage the changing trends and gain valuable business intelligence through its intelligent systems solutions” said Anand Gaddum, HLS-Practice Director at iLink Systems, Inc.”

The CXO NEXT 2014 summit brought together top executive people from various industries and provided a great platform to showcase iLink’s solutions and frameworks around Intelligent Systems, and demo how one can leverage Windows Embedded 8.1, Cloud computing, Windows 8.1 and Modern UI technologies to extract valuable business insight.

To know more about iLink’s Intelligent Systems solutions, visit https://www.ilink-systems.com/Industries/HealthandLifeSciences/IntelligentSystems

About iLink Systems Inc:

Founded in 2002, iLink Systems, Inc. is an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. iLink integrates software systems and develops custom applications, components, and frameworks on the Microsoft platform for IT departments, application services providers and independent software vendors. iLink solutions are used in a broad range of industries and functions, including Health & Life Sciences, Telecom, Government, Education, and Oil & Gas. iLink’s expertise also includes mobile and embedded systems, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and user experience design. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, iLink has offices in Fairfax, VA; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA and Chennai, Pune, Trichy – India. To learn more, please visit https://www.iLink-Systems.com

Please contact:

Sankar Annamalai
PR Contact, iLink Systems, Inc
Ph: 425-869-8104
E-mail: PR@ilink-systems.com

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28th March 2014
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Microsoft and iLink to present a half-day event on ”Employee Engagement and Organizational Effectiveness with SharePoint 2013, Windows 8, Power BI and Social Tools” in Alpharetta, GA

Microsoft and iLink to present a half-day event on ”Employee Engagement and Organizational Effectiveness with SharePoint 2013, Windows 8, Power BI and Social Tools” in Alpharetta, GA

Redmond, WA, Mar 28, 2014: iLink Systems, an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of the several Microsoft “Partner of the Year” Awards, today announced an upcoming complimentary lunch event titled ” Employee Engagement and Organizational Effectiveness with SharePoint 2013, Windows 8, Power BI and Social Tools” scheduled for Apr 18th in Alpharetta, GA. The event is co-sponsored by Microsoft and will be held at Microsoft MTC in Alpharetta.

One can register at https://www.ilink-systems.com/ThinkingBeyond/iLinkEvents/AtlantaEvent

The agenda for the event:

  • 09:00 AM : Welcome and Registration
  • 09:30 AM : SharePoint 2013, Office 365 and Collaboration tools overview
  • 10:00 AM : Employee Engagement the Social Way Using SharePoint 2013/O365 & Social/Collaboration tools for Process automation, interactive and self-service BI, and LOB applications
  • 10:45 AM : Coffee break
  • 11:00 AM : Increasing productivity using Windows 8 and Modern UI Apps
  • 11:20 AM : Key concepts discussion, including demo of real-life examples and iLink Frameworks
  • 12:00 PM : Lunch and deeper discussion on your needs

Hosts for this event will be Neil Axelrod, Principal Technology Specialist, Southeast US, Microsoft and Abhi Vantaram, Practice Manager at iLink Systems. On asking why one should attend this event, Abhi said “At this event, you will learn how you can best leverage SharePoint 2013/O365, Windows 8, Power BI and Microsoft’s Enterprise Social tools to improve employee engagement, enterprise content management, department workflow automation and collaboration. Also you will learn how iLink’s 60+ frameworks can help in facing your current business challenges, increase business productivity, make more informed decisions and reap the desired ROI.”

About iLink:

Founded in 2002, iLink Systems, Inc. is an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of the 2013 Microsoft windows 8 growth partner of the year 2012 Microsoft Public Sector PSNS Partner of the year and 2011 Mobility partner of the year award. iLink integrates software systems and develops custom applications, components, and frameworks on the Microsoft platform for IT departments, application services providers and independent software vendors. iLink solutions are used in a broad range of industries and functions, including healthcare, telecom, government, education, and life sciences. iLink’s expertise also includes mobile and embedded systems, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and user experience design. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, iLink has offices in Fairfax, VA; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA and Chennai, Pune, Trichy- India. To learn more please visit https://www.iLink-Systems.com

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25th March 2014
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Network Functions Virtualization

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Today’s Networks are filled with a large and increasing variety of proprietary hardware appliances. Launching a new service often requires, yet another variety of technology and struggle to find the space and power to accommodate exploding number of devices & boxes. It is further compounded by the increasing costs of energy, capital investment challenges and the lack of skills necessary to design, integrate and operate proprietary hardware-based appliances. Adding salt to the injury is the life of Hardware based appliances which are becoming shorter resulting in delayed roll out of new revenue earning network services. Operators are caught in the endless repeat cycle of procurement, design, integrate, and deploy with little or no revenue benefit.

Network Functions Virtualization aims to transform the way that NW operators architect networks by evolving standard IT virtualization technology & processes to consolidate many network equipment types onto industry standard high volume servers, switches and storage. Implementation of network functions in software allows separation of location from functionality, freedom of deploying NW gears even in Data Centers, and instantiation of services from anywhere & any location.

NFV decouples the network functions, such as network address translation (NAT), firewalling, intrusion detection, domain name service (DNS), caching, etc., from proprietary hardware appliances, so they can run in software. It’s designed to consolidate and deliver the networking components into a fully virtualized infrastructure. It utilizes standard IT virtualization technologies that run on high-volume service, switch and storage hardware to virtualize network functions. IT orchestration mechanisms provide automated installation, scaling-up and scaling out of capacity, and re-use of Virtual Machine (VM) builds eliminating the need for application-specific hardware .

It is applicable to any data plane processing or control plane function in both wired and wireless network infrastructures.

Data Centers are moving away from monolithic and closed architectures to increasingly virtualized, dynamic and open environments. The desire to deploy elastic and efficient infrastructure at a lower cost enables CSPs to offer enhanced services to their customers is pushing innovation to a new level in order to provide a strong differentiator over competition and entry of new network Software vendors.

The Changing Telecoms Industry Landscape:

Network Functions Virtualization brings many advantages to the telecommunications and the call back service but it is likely to transform the vendor landscape much more. The challenge for network operators is how to migrate their operations and skill base to a software based networking environment while carefully re-targeting investment to maximize reuse of existing systems and processes.

Two big technology enablers to make the goals of Network Functions Virtualization achievable are following:

Cloud Computing: At the core of these cloud technologies are virtualization mechanisms: hardware virtualization by means of hypervisors, as well as virtual Ethernet switches (e.g. vSwitch) for connecting traffic between virtual machines and physical interfaces. Cloud technology provides methods to enhance resource availability and usage by means of orchestration and management mechanism, applicable to the automatic instantiation of virtual appliances in the network.

Industry Standard High Volume Servers: The use of industry standard high volume servers is a key element in the economic justification for NFV A common feature of industry standard high volume servers is that there is competitive supply of the subcomponents which are interchangeable inside the server. Today’s Appliances depend on the development of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) which will become uncompetitive against general purpose processors as the cost of d.eveloping ASICs is higher.

High Level Benefits:

  • Reduced equipment costs and reduced power consumption through consolidating equipment and exploiting the economies of scale of the IT industry.
  • Increased speed of Time to Market by minimizing the typical network operator cycle of innovation.
  • Availability of network appliance multi-version and multi-tenancy, which allows use of a single platform for different applications, users and tenants to allow network operators to share resources across services and across different customer bases.
  • Targeted service introduction based on geography or customer sets is possible. Services can be rapidly scaled up/down as required.
  • The possibility of running production, test and reference facilities on the same infrastructure provides much more efficient test and integration, reducing development costs and time to market.
  • Redistribution of workloads in case of hardware failure or quiet time. Like concentrate the workload on a smaller number of servers during off-peak hours so that all the other servers can be switched off or put into an energy saving model.
  • Enables new ways to implement resilience, service assurance, test & diagnostics and security surveillance.
  • Facilitates innovation towards new network functions and services that are only practical in a pure software network environment.
  • Supports virtualization of data/user plane functions in fixed or mobile networks
  • Supports automation of management and configuration of functions.
  • Improved operational efficiency by taking advantage of the homogeneity of the physical network platform.
  • Reduction in variety of equipment for planning & provisioning. Assuming tools are developed for automation and to deal with the increased software virtualization.
  • Option to temporarily repair failures by automated re-configuration and moving network workloads onto spare capacity using IT orchestration mechanisms.
  • The potential to support in-service software upgrade (ISSU).
  • Development & implementation of Management & Orchestration (MANO) layer & integration between VNF to VNF are keys to NFV success.. MANO itself will have three functional sub-layers with clearly defined functionalities.

NFV Orchestrator (NFVO):

  • On-boarding of new Network Service (NS), VNF-Forwarding Graphs, and VNF Packages.
  • Lifecycle management including instantiation, scale-out/in, performance measurements, event correlation, termination.
  • Send resource related requests: authorization, reservation, allocation by VNF manager.
  • Send configuration info to VNF Manager & manage policy management for NS instances.
  • Ensuring the appropriate level of resilience to hardware and software failures.
  • Automated Scalability & Resiliency.

VNF Manager:

  • Lifecycle management of VNF instances – – instantiation, update, query, scaling, termination.
  • Collect state info on VNF for life cycle management.
  • Overall coordination and adaptation role for configuration and event.
  • Reporting between NFVI and the E/NMS.

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM):

  • Control & manage interaction of VNF with computing, hypervisor, storage, and network resources within one operator’s infrastructure sub-domain.
  • Visibility into and management of NFV infrastructure.
  • Root Cause Analysis of Infrastructure collection & forwarding of performance measurements and events.
  • Collection of infrastructure fault information, capacity planning, monitoring & optimization.

In summary, Network Functions Virtualization will deliver many benefits for network operators and their partners and customers and it will encourage rapid innovation with reduced cost and reduced risk. Network Functions Virtualization combined with SDN technology will someday potentially completely revolutionize NW operator landscape and business paradigm.

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25th March 2014
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Microsoft latest blog highlights iLink’s solutions at HIMSS 2014

Microsoft latest blog highlights iLink’s solutions at HIMSS 2014

Redmond, WA – March 25, 2014: iLink Systems, an ISO and CMMI Certified global software solutions provider and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, was highlighted in the Microsoft latest blog titled Intelligent systems in health: Addressing three key industry trends. The blog talks about iLink’s latest solutions and frameworks showcased at the recently concluded Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) event in Orlando, FL from February 23-27, 2014. HIMSS is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through information technology (IT). HIMSS leads efforts to optimize health engagements and care outcomes using information technology.

iLink showcased its solutions and latest frameworks around Office in Health, Mobility, Intelligent Systems, Business Intelligence and Analytics at the Microsoft booth #4749 in the HIMSS Exhibition hall. HIMSS 2014 brought together over 37,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world, and provided a wonderful platform to showcase iLink’s powerful healthcare solutions & frameworks on Microsoft technologies, and demonstrate how healthcare organizations can benefit from them.

Microsoft Blog highlights iLink as, “Partner iLink Systems demonstrated an intranet framework using Office 365 and a Checklist/Survey/Forms framework for health services. The intranet framework helps healthcare organizations quickly set up an intranet using SharePoint 2013. The framework helps the organization easily create checklists, forms and surveys and deploy them to their on-premises or in-cloud installation of SharePoint 2013. iLink Systems’ frameworks can be accessed through any device with any form factor; it was demonstrated using a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 and a Dell Venue 8 Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro tablet”.

To know more, visit https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/archive/2014/03/19/intelligent-systems-in-health-addressing-three-key-industry-trends.aspx

About iLink Systems Inc:

Founded in 2002, iLink Systems, Inc. is an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. iLink integrates software systems and develops custom applications, components, and frameworks on the Microsoft platform for IT departments, application services providers and independent software vendors. iLink solutions are used in a broad range of industries and functions, including Health & Life Sciences, Telecom, Government, Education, and Oil & Gas. iLink’s expertise also includes mobile and embedded systems, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and user experience design. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, iLink has offices in Fairfax, VA; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA and Chennai, Pune, Trichy – India. To learn more, please visit https://www.iLink-Systems.com

Please contact:

Sankar Annamalai
PR Contact, iLink Systems, Inc
Ph: 425-869-8104
E-mail: PR@ilink-systems.com

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17th March 2014
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iLink’s team recognized at the Microsoft Windows 8 Camp in Chennai, India

iLink’s team recognized at the Microsoft Windows 8 Camp in Chennai, India

Redmond, WA, March 17th, 2014: iLink Systems, an ISO and CMMI certified Global software solution provider and Microsoft National Systems Integrator, today announced its team participation and recognition at the recently concluded Microsoft Windows 8 Camp held in Chennai on Feb 13th, 2013. App developed by iLink’s team was named as one of the top 5 Windows 8 apps at this event.

Microsoft has been organizing a series of “Windows 8 Camp“, an exclusive event organized especially for the developers’ community in India. The primary motive of these events is to help developers build a ‘Quality’ app for Windows 8 Store, which will offer compelling experience for consumers round the globe. Windows 8 Camp provides a unique opportunity for developers to learn the design/technical tenets in building a ‘Modern Style’ app and build & showcase ideas via apps to a global audience.

At this event, as part of hackathan – an on the spot app development exercise, iLink’s team developed a Windows 8 “Blood Helpers” app that would help people willing to donate blood and those in need of donor information. The app provides an option to search by blood groups, locations and more, and with the ability to request/post information. The app was named as one of the top 5 Windows 8 apps at the event and soon will be moved to Windows store.

“We are very excited about this recognition and really proud of our team that has developed this app in no time. Our team has excellent expertise and experience using Windows 8 and Modern UI, and has been delivering high quality and innovative solutions on Windows 8 platform for Web, Mobile and Slate since pre-beta days. As the 2013 Windows 8 Growth partner and one of the very few Launch Partners for Windows 8, iLink has successfully delivered over 150 apps on the Windows 8 platform and has several industry-specific Windows 8 frameworks that can be readily customized and enhanced based on customer requirements“said Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Director and Head of Delivery & Operations, iLink systems.

About iLink Systems Inc:

Founded in 2002, iLink Systems, Inc. is an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, Microsoft Gold Level Partner and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. iLink integrates software systems and develops custom applications, components, and frameworks on the Microsoft platform for IT departments, application services providers and independent software vendors. iLink solutions are used in a broad range of industries and functions, including Health & Life Sciences, Telecom, Government, Education, and Oil & Gas. iLink’s expertise also includes mobile and embedded systems, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and user experience design. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, iLink has offices in Fairfax, VA; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA and Chennai, Pune, Trichy – India. To learn more, please visit https://www.iLink-Systems.com

Please contact:

Sankar Annamalai
PR Contact, iLink Systems, Inc
Ph: 425-869-8104
E-mail: PR@ilink-systems.com

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