Goibibo releases new international air booking app

Online travel portal Goibibo today released a international booking application with features like Air Craft layout, Seat pitch information.
The app will also provide alerts such as Late Night flight & Long Lay Overs, Fare Calendar and sleuth of super refiners, it said in a release.
The firm said Dubai, Bangkok, London, Hong Kong and Singapore are the top 5 destinations on its portal, it added.
Goibibo said the app allows users to see the aircraft layout, seat layout, seat pitch, facilities like entertainment, in-flight meals, baggage information such as size and weight of baggage.
A small icon informs the customer about the option of a late night flight.

The app enables customers to choose the right option by highlighting the alert in case the customer is choosing an option with short or long layover.

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KPIT partners EMC on storage and backup environment * Global IT consulting firm KPIT today said it has partnered EMC to transform its storage and backup environments thereby reducing its back up window by 60 per cent, ensuring 100 per cent reliability and achieving improved productivity of the datacenter team by over 30 per cent.
At the same time its Cloud deployment times have reduced from eight weeks to one week and the deployment of virtual desktops on EMC's ExtremIO flash technology is delivering huge energy and space savings while improving end user experience, it said in a release.

KPIT deployed integrated cloud offerings with data protection with the implementation of EMC's Vblock architecture that provides an integrated private cloud offering for a virtual desktop environment, enables rapid virtualisation deployment and delivers on network performance and storage capacities, it added.
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MongoDB collaborates with Happiest Minds on Big Data * MongoDB today announced an engagement with Happiest Minds Technologies on Big Data solutions that are agile and scalable and offer real time insights for intelligent decision-making.
Research from leading analysts at Gartner predict that business intelligence and analytics will continue to be a priority for CIO's through 2017, MongoDB said in a release.

With the pervasiveness of social and cloud applications, increasing data volume and variety and new architectures like cloud and virtualisation, enterprises need a new approach to data management with solutions that are scalable and flexible, it added.
Happiest Minds will offer a variety of services which will include MongoDB Architectural Advisory and Capacity Planning Services, Development, Testing and Data Migration.