Software major IBM has said it has received the first-ever Frost and Sullivan 2007 Market Leadership Award for Storage Solutions in India.

Frost and Sullivan, which had been conferring best practices awards in areas such as enterprise telephony, network security, database and enterprise application software has for the first time recognized excellence in the area storage solutions in India, IBM said in a statement.

"It is an honour to be the first company to win this award in the storage solutions category in India. Receiving this award proves once against that IBM is one of the most trusted IT vendors in the country today," IBM India Country Manager (System Storage) Shailesh Agarwal India said.

"It continues to be our priority to provide first-class storage solutions and services that are tailored to our customers' needs," he said, while adding, "IBM was also looking into rolling out new products developed specifically for small and medium business customers in India."

The company provides innovative technology, open standards, excellent performance and a broad portfolio of storage proven software, hardware and solutions offerings.

The Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award is given to the company that displays excellence in all areas, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these dynamics.

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Internet giant Google may come up with Indian version of its cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) facility, which searches queries in English pages and gives result in native language.

"We introduced this facility in 15 international languages in May and it has been extremely popular. Looking at its success, there is a possibility that Google may introduce the same in any of the Indian languages, depending upon its usage," P Nayak, Member, Technical Staff, Google, said in Mumbai on Tuesday.

Though he declined to confirm the language, he said it could possibly be Hindi or Tamil since they were two widely used languages in India.

"The English web-based search engines have very large and good content available. But there are also smaller language web pages like Arabic and Chinese, where search doesn't give enough information compared to English. CLIR, through its in-built translation facility, expands the scope of search."

CLIR is a subfield tool dealing with retrieving information written in a language different from the language of the user's query. For example, a user may pose query in English but retrieve relevant documents written in French.

"To avail this facility, the user has to log on to www.translate.google.com, type the query in English and seek the information in any of the 15 languages including English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic," he said.

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