Wednesday, February 24, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InformationWeek) 24/02/2010



Developing Nations Risk E-Waste Crisis
As consumption of computers, cell phones, and TVs escalates across the globe, countries need to establish proper recycling programs to deal with all the electronic waste, says the U.N.
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Oracle unveils Exadata V2 in Indian market
The firm claims ten times more data storage and processing with the new Exadata Version
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Thousands of Twitter user accounts compromised
Security firm, Sophos, has warned Twitter users on a recent attack that is designed to steal passwords
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HCL Technologies signs 5 year Infrastructure Management deal with Electrolux
Scope of agreement covers support of workplace services, including proactive monitoring and management of IT infrastructure in 12 countries in the APAC region
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CIO Profile - Muralikrishna K
Muralikrishna K is the VP and Head, Computers & Communication Division, Infosys Technologies
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Tally.ERP 9 Introduces Data Synchronization for Branch Management
Company says product will enable business information flow between distributed environments in just one click
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Samsonite to adopt Polaris’ Linux based retail store management solution
Polaris claims that the Linux based system can potentially bring down the set-up and running cost of retail store software by 50 percent
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â€کUsing social media needs focus and discipline’
Beth Kanter recently spoke at the Global CSR Conclave held at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2010. Brian Pereira met Beth to discuss the approach that enterprises should take to forming social media strategies and policies for its employees
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'Converged infrastructure is a natural progression towards cloud computing'
Jim Wagstaff, VP & GM, StorageWorks Division, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking, HP Enterprise Business, shares his perspective on why unified architecture is the need of the hour
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Cloud Computing—the Most Fundamental Shift in IT We’ve Ever Seen?
Irrespective of the hype, the cloud is here to stay—and grow
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CIO Profile - Zoeb Adenwala
Zoeb Adenwala CIO (Global), Essel ProPack shares his vision on the next big thing for his industry
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â€کDigital marketing allows you to be very transparent’
An exclusive tele-interview with Dominic Powers, Senior VP, Asia Pacific, Epsilon and Adrian Hoon, VP, Asia, Episilon
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Printer Vendors Don â€کConsultant’ Hat to Push MPS
Printer vendors are taking a solution-based route to selling—by presenting a boutique of managed services well supported by detailed SLAs
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PC sales cross 3.71 million units in the first half of 2009-2010, says MAIT
Notebooks sales revive but desktops, servers and printers continue to be sluggish
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SMBs Moving Towards Cloud Computing, says Microsoft study
A recent Microsoft study states that SMBs are beginning to understand the value of renting IT as a service
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Over 1 in 10 â€کTop Search’ results categorized as Malware
A recent Websense report says that over 13.7 percent of searches for news led to malware
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Thousands of Twitter user accounts compromised
Security firm, Sophos, has warned Twitter users on a recent attack that is designed to steal passwords
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Over 1 in 10 â€کTop Search’ results categorized as Malware
A recent Websense report says that over 13.7 percent of searches for news led to malware
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Twelve Recommendations for Your Information Security Strategy
Whether or not your company is directly affected, the global downturn will force you to rethink your security strategy. Here’s a 12-step game plan for today's CISO
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New Win32 Worm can cause severe data loss, warns BitDefender
As its attack mechanism, the worm overwrites parts of the Master Boot Record of the victim system’s hard drive
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Websense introduces Defensio 2.0 for secure Facebook access
The application is designed to provide Facebook page owners real-time content and security analysis of comments, wall posts, third party applications, links and other content posted to their Facebook page
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â€کSecurity is a USD 2 billion business for Cisco’
Harshal Kallyanpur spoke with Tom Gillis, VP and GM of Cisco's Security Technology Business Unit to gain insights on Cisco’s renewed thrust on security, and the overall evolution of physical devices to virtual ones
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New Verizon Business Report Outlines 15 Most Common Attacks
Keylogging and spyware are among the most commonly found exploits in breached companies, report says
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Perimeter E-Security: Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches And Blunders of 2009
A common thread between all of these incidents: They could have been avoided
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Amazon Hit With DDoS Attack
The storage and computing cloud services, S3 and EC2, respectively, were briefly affected
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Security as it Was in 2009—and a Look Ahead
Security-as-a-Service and â€کsafety in the cloud’ will become central themes in 2010
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Facebook Hit By Clickjacking Attack
Social network targeted by emerging brand of attack that's hard to kill
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Adaptive Security Helps HDFC Bank Fight Emerging Threats
To counter security threats coming in various disguises, HDFC Bank has deployed an intelligent self learning authentication technology from RSA
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Safeguarding the SMB
Surendra Singh, Regional Director, SAARC & India, Websense, Inc, shares his perspective on the unique challenges faced by mid-sized organizations in preventing Web threats
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Twitter Downed By 'Iranian' Hackers
Social networking site infiltrated by group claiming ties to Middle Eastern country
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Office 2003 Bug Locks Files
Rights management technology causes glitch that affected RMS-protected documents
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Facebook Christmas Worm Spreads Holiday Infection
Koobface, the worm that has plagued Facebook, Twitter and other social sites, is back
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Social Media—the Latest Playground for Cybercriminals, says Cisco
The networking major issued its Annual security report for 2009, which highlights the growing impact of social media on network security
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What Will Security Threats Look Like in 2010?
Websense predicts that top targets of security attacks in 2010 will be smartphones, Windows 7, search engines and legitimate ads
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Ramco Selects HP Neoview to Deliver Core Banking Analytics
Joint solution to help customers accelerate growth through improved business insights
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Microsoft Warns Piracy Surge Brings Malware
Amid rising complaints about infected counterfeit software, Microsoft is redoubling its anti-piracy work
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Google Accelerates Internet With Public DNS Service
By taking on Internet traffic direction, Google aims to make the Internet more responsive while also deepening its access to valuable traffic data
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Consumers Join Hands with Microsoft to fight Software Piracy
Part of a global initiative, Consumer Action Day comprises educational initiatives and enforcement actions to protect consumers from unlicensed/counterfeit software
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Monitoring Security Remotely From GSOCs
By centralizing the monitoring of its security equipment to just three GSOCs, Microsoft says it can monitor the global business 24/7
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'Black Screen of Death' Linked To Microsoft Patch
A recent Microsoft security fix has been fingered as one of several possible causes of black screen Windows crashes
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Microsoft Warns Of Zero-Day Flaw in Older Versions of IE
Pointer reference flaw could enable attackers to run their own code on IE machines, software giant says
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Microsoft Issues Internet Explorer Security Advisory
Users of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 may be vulnerable to a malware attack
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Cisco Rolls Out iPhone Security App
The SIO To Go app sends real-time alerts to users' iPhones, notifying of attacks and potential threats to corporate networks
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McAfee Announces Grant of INR 2.5 Million for Data Security Council of India
McAfee’s Cybercrime Grant will support DSCI’s Cybersecurity education project for schools
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CIO Profile - Muralikrishna K
Muralikrishna K is the VP and Head, Computers & Communication Division, Infosys Technologies
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Tally.ERP 9 Introduces Data Synchronization for Branch Management
Company says product will enable business information flow between distributed environments in just one click
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CIO Profile - Zoeb Adenwala
Zoeb Adenwala CIO (Global), Essel ProPack shares his vision on the next big thing for his industry
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â€کDigital marketing allows you to be very transparent’
An exclusive tele-interview with Dominic Powers, Senior VP, Asia Pacific, Epsilon and Adrian Hoon, VP, Asia, Episilon
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Winners of Nasscom â€کInnovation Awards 2010’ announced
A couple of young companies share the awards with illustrious majors such as Wipro, IBM Daksh and Tejas Networks
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L&T Infotech to implement e-governance project for AICTE
L&T Infotech will integrate payment gateways and biometric features in this e-governance solution for the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
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Should Facebook Be Your Company's Intranet?
A company intranet established on Facebook is helping to change both employee and market perceptions of Serena Software, a midsize tech company
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Why users need self-service websites - Part II
In the previous article, we understood the concept of user-self-service to speed up team work. In this article we will explore some examples and address common IT concerns
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New Win32 Worm can cause severe data loss, warns BitDefender
As its attack mechanism, the worm overwrites parts of the Master Boot Record of the victim system’s hard drive
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Sharda University Looks to Improve IT Efficiency
Selects Oracle to offer services to faculty, students, employees and external stakeholders
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BSA and FICCI Launch Software Asset Management Program in Maharashtra
To help SMEs in Maharashtra improve IT governance standards
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Why Users Need Self-service Websites - Part I
Why do users need self-service websites? The answer is simple—to work more efficiently and effectively
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CA Takes Aim at Application Integration Market with Catalyst
The Application infrastructure and middleware market is a huge market and estimated to be close to $15 billion market by Gartner
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Hitachi Eyes 10 Percent Market Share with â€کJP1’
Hitachi has partnered with Patni Computer Systems to jointly promote and implement its integrated systems management product â€کJP1’ in emerging markets outside Japan
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Amara Raja Batteries to Host its SAP Implementation on IBM Hardware
The manufacturer has chosen IBM’s servers for its server and storage requirements
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BI Still Hindered By Technical Problems
A survey of BI professionals found the success rates of business intelligence deployments largely unchanged from the last survey in 2007
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Tibco to Launch Enterprise Social Networking
Tibbr will use a social networking framework to deliver topic-based communications and documents to employees with a stake in those subjects
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Netmagic Solutions Becomes SAP Hosting Partner in India
Netmagic is the first hosting partner for SAP in the Indian subcontinent
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Oracle To Plead Sun Acquisition Case Before EC
The company will make its case with support from the likes of Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center, the Justice Department, and an Oracle users group
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Microsoft to Kill Windows XP SP2 Support
Software maker eyes cutoff date for support for XP, as well as for Windows 2000
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Oracle unveils Exadata V2 in Indian market
The firm claims ten times more data storage and processing with the new Exadata Version
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'Converged infrastructure is a natural progression towards cloud computing'
Jim Wagstaff, VP & GM, StorageWorks Division, Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking, HP Enterprise Business, shares his perspective on why unified architecture is the need of the hour
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“SNIA will Create Standards for Green Storageâ€‌
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) India is drafting new standards towards power measurement and energy conservation. Vijay Pradhan, Executive Director, SNIA India shares his plans
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LaCie Intros USB 3.0 Storage Device
The USB 3.0 spec enables the transfer of data at rates up to 4.8Gbits per second
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Hitachi Eyes 10 Percent Market Share with â€کJP1’
Hitachi has partnered with Patni Computer Systems to jointly promote and implement its integrated systems management product â€کJP1’ in emerging markets outside Japan
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EMC Speeds Up Storage Connectivity
The Symmetrix V-Max storage array gets 8Gb-per-second connectivity for mainframe and open systems environments
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“In the NAS Area, We Are Targeting the Number One Slotâ€‌
Joel Schwartz, Sr Vice President & GM, Common Storage Platform Operations, EMC was a key person behind the acquisition of Iomega by EMC. Varun Aggarwal from the Network Computing team gets a first hand account of the benefits that the acquisition has bought for both the companies
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Toshiba Boosts Smartphone Storage with 64-GB Flash Memory
The 64-GB NAND flash memory module could double internal storage of smartphones
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Religare to Use HP Blade Servers to Run Mission-Critical Applications
To improve server utilization and minimize risk, Religare will migrate its mission-critical applications and database to HP Blade servers
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Storage Services as a Virtual Machine
As server technology continues to increase in performance, the concept of providing storage services is becoming popular
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Zenith Infotech’s PROUD May Redefine Enterprise IT
An ambitious Indian product company is attempting to break into the niche space of centralized computing. Zenith Infotech’s product has the potential to firmly etch India’s name on the global map
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Religare Lays the Foundation for a Dynamic Infrastructure with IBM’s Storage Platform
IBM says its SAN Volume Controller and DS5000 solution will enhance storage utilization for Religare by as much as 30 percent
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Toshiba Launches Unified Messaging For Small Businesses
The Linux appliance is designed to provide affordable messaging to small and medium-sized businesses, with 400 mailboxes and 300 hours of storage
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Informatica 9: Another Step Toward Next-Era Data Integration
Collaboration, data quality and data services functionality move Informatica beyond its batch-oriented roots
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IBM Offers Security Software for Virtualization
The product secures each layer of the infrastructure of a VMware vSphere virtual server
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Cray, Dell, Microsoft Team On HPC
The high-performance computing system combines a workstation with a computing cluster to give users extra computing power at their desks
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Dell Offers Exchange 2010 Services
The computer maker introduced reference architectures and consulting services for customers migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010
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HP Acquires IBRIX to Extend Scale-out Storage Capabilities to Global Customers
HP and IBRIX join hands, promise customers enhanced storage solutions
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HP Offers Data Center Scalability
An elastic data center, based on virtualized resource pools, can scale in response to unpredictable business conditions, says HP
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Huawei Symantec N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System Achieves Leading Position in SPECsfs Test
Huawei Symantec's NAS storage system has achieved the highest IOPS (OPS) score on the SPECsfs2008NFS benchmark of SPEC
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Brocade Outlines India Market Strategy
Brocade has identified India as a strategic country of focus within the Asia-Pacific region and significantly increased its investments and commitment to the country
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IBM Eyes DNA For Chip Development
A breakthrough in DNA-based chip design by IBM and Caltech could help maintain Moore's Law well into the future.
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Falcon Launches â€کWorkplace Recovery’ as a Service
While most organizations have the required infrastructure in place to handle a disaster, the weak link is the human element. Mumbai-based Falcon Disaster Recovery Services believes it has the answer to this challenge, with its unique workplace recovery as a service
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NetApp Upbeat on Opportunities in Indian â€کStorage Cloud’ Space
With storage demands increasing exponentially, NetApp is betting big on its portfolio of solutions that enable service providers or user organizations to quickly build a storage cloud
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“The amount of data has grown ten fold in the last five yearsâ€‌
The NetWorker Fast Start for SMBs is a lighter version of EMC NetWorker backup solution. Deepak Visweswaraiah, Senior Director, Storage Software Group (SSG), India Center of Excellence, EMC, spoke with Harshal Kallyanpur about EMC NetWorker backup solution—which promises to address some of the issues that organizations in the SMB segment face with handling growing data demands
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Informatica Takes PowerCenter to the Clouds
With data fast moving into the cloud, an integration independent delivers its software via Amazon EC2
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Hardware Vendors Pledge Support for VMware's DPM Solution
Called Distributed Power Management (DPM), the solution is designed to lower power consumption in the datacenter by aggregating unused capacity and powering off unused servers without disrupting service levels
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Where's Google GDrive?
With the announcement of Chrome OS, having a general storage service for files becomes essential for Google. Yet the company remains coy about acknowledging a project that has been rumored for at least three years
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IBM Upgrades its Storage Portfolio
Enhancements to the XIV Storage System include high-end disk storage architecture and dual processors while the System Storage DS8000 can now support Thin Provisioning
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Tata Communications Flexes its Data Center Muscle
The company's new data center in Kolkata, spread across 6000 square feet, already has an anchor customer
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EMC Acquires Data Domain For $2.4 Billion
With businesses storing 50% more data each year, EMC is betting companies will line up for its combined data archival and de-duplication offering.
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Who’s Spending on Storage?
Sectors like BFSI, Government, Telecom, and FMCG continue to grow, and are the obvious IT spenders. The BFSI sector continues to expand with the addition of new customers and increased business. Large banks that deployed storage sometime ago are now upgrading its infrastructure.
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Best Practices for Optimizing Capacity Utilization
Most businesses have cut down or deferred spending on additional capacity and have chosen to optimize existing capacity for now. Industry experts offer their opinions and advice for optimizing existing capacity.
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The Big Storage Juggling Act
There is a data explosion in the enterprise, yet investment in additional storage is deferred for now. Here are some strategies for CIOs to manage the data tidal wave
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Emerging Technologies That Will Change the Data Center
Three emerging technologies bound to make Wall Street data centers more efficient in the coming year.
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Dell Expands Virtualization, Server, Storage Portfolio
The company also added more flexible support services and turnkey virtualization configurations for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Hitachi Data Systems Offering to Help Customers Reclaim Underutilized Storage
With these offerings the company claims to have customers realizing up to 200 TB in reclaimed storage capacity and CAPEX savings upwards of $2M, thereby deferring future storage purchases.
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Cloud Storage Status Check
In the face of organizational budgetary cuts, there are seven effective ways enterprises can reduce costs in the data center during a 12- to 18-month period, says Gartner
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Seven Practical Ways to Save Costs in the Data Center
In the face of organizational budgetary cuts, there are seven effective ways enterprises can reduce costs in the data center during a 12- to 18-month period, says Gartner
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â€کDigital marketing allows you to be very transparent’
An exclusive tele-interview with Dominic Powers, Senior VP, Asia Pacific, Epsilon and Adrian Hoon, VP, Asia, Episilon
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Printer Vendors Don â€کConsultant’ Hat to Push MPS
Printer vendors are taking a solution-based route to selling—by presenting a boutique of managed services well supported by detailed SLAs
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PC sales cross 3.71 million units in the first half of 2009-2010, says MAIT
Notebooks sales revive but desktops, servers and printers continue to be sluggish
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Intel Unveils 32-NM Chips
A total of 17 CPUs, along with three new chipsets and seven microprocessors providing Wi-Fi and WiMax support will be available early next year
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LG Focuses on SMB Sector as Growth Driver
With its product line, LG aims to capture 10 percent of the USD 400 million SMB market in India in 2010
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Amara Raja Batteries to Host its SAP Implementation on IBM Hardware
The manufacturer has chosen IBM’s servers for its server and storage requirements
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HP Rides Managed Print Services Wave
Using the recession as an opportunity, print major, HP has succeeded in printing its stamp in the nascent but exploding Managed Print Services (MPS) market
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Intel Shrinks Atom, Boosts Performance
The Atom platform, which now integrates the graphics and memory controller on the same piece of silicon as the CPU, is primarily used in netbooks
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Blade PCs Boost Energy Efficiency at TJGI
By using the combination of blade PCs and thin clients, the T John Group of Institutions (TJGI) has succeeded in reducing its energy needs by an impressive 67 percent
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Dell Offers Software Bundling, Free of Cost
With cut-throat price competition in the PC and notebooks market, smart vendors have started bundling free software with their products. Dell is the latest vendor after HP to take this route
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HP Targets Premium Workstation Market with New Features
Bundling features such as desktop virtualization and video conferencing in the workstation, HP is aiming at extending its leadership position
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Cisco Celebrates 25 Years of Technology Innovation
Calls on employees to contribute 200,000 hours of community service
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Dell Dabbles With Chrome OS
Owners of Dell Mini 10v netbooks can now try a version of Google's Chrome OS for themselves
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Indian PC Shipments Register 24 Percent Q-o-Q Growth in 2009, Observes IDC Report
IDC in its recently released report on Indian PC shipments has observed that PC shipments in India touched 21.9 lakh units during the July-September 2009 quarter, registering a 24 percent quarter on quarter growth pointing to a strengthening recovery
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Healthcare Goes Mobile, Virtual With Dell Offering
Dell Mobile Clinical Computing solution provides clinicians with single sign-on and roaming capabilities
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ESIC to Deploy 31,000 Virtual Desktops
Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), with the help of Wipro, will deploy NComputing’s virtual desktop solution in its offices and clinics across the country
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Logitech to Acquire LifeSize Communications
With this acquisition, Logitech expects to make life-like, HD-quality video communication as mainstream and seamless as a telephone
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Cray, Dell, Microsoft Team On HPC
The high-performance computing system combines a workstation with a computing cluster to give users extra computing power at their desks
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HP To Acquire 3Com In USD 2.7 Billion Deal
The battle to control the virtualized data center of the future heated up, as Hewlett-Packard announced a deal to purchase 3Com for USD 2.7 billion
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Tata Elxsi and Narayana Hrudayalaya Join Hands to Develop Healthcare Solutions
To jointly develop affordable and efficient healthcare devices
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Cisco Considers Withdrawal of Tandberg Offer
Cisco said it might drop its USD 3 billion acquisition offer if Tandberg stockholders don't vote for the takeover in significant numbers
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Dell Offers Exchange 2010 Services
The computer maker introduced reference architectures and consulting services for customers migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010
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Intel Claims Memory Research Milestone
Research could lead to chips that cost less and have higher performance and memory densities than traditional NAND flash memory
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HP ProCurve Looks to Increase its India Market Presence
Since its 2006 foray into the Indian market, HP ProCurve has moved to the number 3 position in the market. The company is now looking at capturing the number 2 spot
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Banks Increasingly Looking at Consolidation Technologies to Reduce Cost
The survey which takes inputs from top management and technology leaders of 15 leading Indian banks estimates that 40 percent of the respondents have at least one virtualization, application consolidation and workflow/process automation project lined up over the next one year
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Dell Joins Hands with Reliance to Offer End to End Mobility Solution
Dell and Reliance offer Computing on the go solution for notebooks/netbooks
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Switching to Power Saving Mode
Considering the inadequate power infrastructure in the country, a few solutions adopted at both the active and passive infrastructure levels can help organizations to actively address energy woes
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Hardware Vendors Pledge Support for VMware's DPM Solution
Called Distributed Power Management (DPM), the solution is designed to lower power consumption in the datacenter by aggregating unused capacity and powering off unused servers without disrupting service levels
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Dell Expands Virtualization, Server, Storage Portfolio
The company also added more flexible support services and turnkey virtualization configurations for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Seven Practical Ways to Save Costs in the Data Center
In the face of organizational budgetary cuts, there are seven effective ways enterprises can reduce costs in the data center during a 12- to 18-month period, says Gartner
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The Next 40 Years of the Internet? One Word: Video
Video will be the driving force behind a total transformation of user experience
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Eko’s Mobile Platform Accelerates Financial Inclusion
A project in North India offers semi-literate workers a simple way to operate savings accounts and remit money using basic mobile phones
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Dell Offers Software Bundling, Free of Cost
With cut-throat price competition in the PC and notebooks market, smart vendors have started bundling free software with their products. Dell is the latest vendor after HP to take this route
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Toshiba Boosts Smartphone Storage with 64-GB Flash Memory
The 64-GB NAND flash memory module could double internal storage of smartphones
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Google Phone Could Spur Mobile App Development
A branded handset could help the search company develop a more software developer-friendly infrastructure
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Tele-Commerce Service to Help NGO Raise Funds for Cancer Patients
The Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) has deployed Atom technologies’ IVR based and mobile phone based payment services to accelerate the fund raising process for the treatment of its cancer patients
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SMS Project Fights Malaria In Africa
IBM, Vodafone, and Novartis are using text messages to manage supplies of anti-malarial drugs in Tanzania
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IDC Sees 1 Billion Mobile Internet Devices By 2013
Mobile Internet use will more than double, and most activity will be in online shopping, blogging, and accessing business applications
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The Power of a Simple SMS
A simple SMS is all that it takes for the management and field workers at Asia Motor Works to query information related to product availability, inventory levels or outstanding collections
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AT&T, LG Introduce 1 GHz Smartphone
The eXpo is the first major U.S. smartphone to feature a 1-GHz processor, an integrated mobile projector, and a fingerprint sensor
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Cisco Rolls Out iPhone Security App
The SIO To Go app sends real-time alerts to users' iPhones, notifying of attacks and potential threats to corporate networks
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First LTE Data Call Made On Live Net
Alcatel-Lucent's live call is the latest in a series of Long Term Evolution tests and trials in preparation for the launch of LTE
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Healthcare Goes Mobile, Virtual With Dell Offering
Dell Mobile Clinical Computing solution provides clinicians with single sign-on and roaming capabilities
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Airline Passengers Can Now Download Bar Coded Boarding Passes on Mobile Phones
Hexaware’s QwikCheck solution will enable airlines to improve logistic efficiencies and enhance web and mobile check-in facilities for passengers
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Your Debit Card Pin Number, Now Via An Encrypted SMS
With its latest solution, 3i Infotech Consumer Services is harnessing the power of the mobile—users can now send sensitive information such as debit or ATM card pin numbers via an encrypted SMS
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Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire Starent Networks
Acquisition of Starent Networks expands Cisco's mobile Internet offerings for service providers
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Increase in Internet Usage on Mobile and Usage of Mobile Devices for Business in India
In a session on Mobile and Wireless at Interop, Nilay Yajnik observed an increase in the application of mobile phones for driving business
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IBM’s SDP to Help IDEA Deliver Messaging and WAP-based Content Services
IDEA Cellular's implementation of IBM's Service Delivery Platform will give the telecom company's subscribers easy access to multiple channels such as SMS, MMS, WAP and Web
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Blue Dart Deploys PacketShaper to Optimize Bandwidth
The firm has deployed Blue Coat’s PacketShaper Appliance to enhance application visibility
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Alcatel-Lucent Sets Up An IP Transformation Center in Chennai
The IPTC will develop, integrate and test end-to-end IP networking solutions for Alcatel-Lucents Indian and global customers as they migrate to next generation architectures
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Dell Joins Hands with Reliance to Offer End to End Mobility Solution
Dell and Reliance offer Computing on the go solution for notebooks/netbooks
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Samsung Readies Application Store
About 300 programs will be accessible by Samsung smartphones running Windows Mobile and Symbian
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Dr Batra’s launches â€کHealth In Your Hands’ WAP-enabled services
The launch of 'mHealth,' a mobile phone application, will make healthcare solutions available at the touch of a button
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BlackBerry Boosts Property Tax Collection for the Chennai Corporation
A customized BlackBerry-based solution from Airtel has helped the Chennai Corporation to eliminate human errors and expedite the process of property tax collection
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Microsoft Launches OneApp Platform
The application will bring lightweight versions of Twitter, Facebook, and other programs to feature phones
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Google Integrates Apps With RIM's BES
The integration with Blackberry Enterprise Server provides deep connections between Google's corporate apps and RIM's smartphones.
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Microsoft Aims For Premium Mobile Apps
Developers are being told their mobile apps can be priced at more than 99 cents, which is the most-popular price in Apple's App Store.
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Persistent Systems Increases its Android Focus With a New CoE
Two applications developed at the CoE are already available for download on Android’s application store
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Accenture Buys Symbian Services Unit From Nokia
Symbian OS is the world's most widely used smartphone platform, but it is facing increased competition from Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, and Research In Motion's BlackBerry.
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Google Optimizes Search for Mobile Phones
The search giant is tailoring its results to fit better on a mobile screen, and it will also include relevant data from Google News, Google Images, and other Web properties
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Apple 3GS Cost $179 To Build, Sells For $199
Teardown analysis from iSuppli shows that Apple managed to boost performance over previous generations of the device, without significantly increasing cost to itself.
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Agile Financial Technologies Adds Microfinance Capabilities to its Product Stack
Agile FT enables MFIs to reach the unbanked rural populace using mobile and smart card technology
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ESC to Show Indian Embedded Systems Companies the Road Ahead in Recession
The Embedded Systems Conference, to be held in July in Bangalore will include a panel discussion that will help explore growth opportunities in the Indian semiconductor market
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Acer to Use Android on Its Netbooks
Dell and HP have said they, too, are looking at Google's open source operating system as a possible OS for their mini-laptops
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INQ Mobile Building Twitter Phone
The company is building a phone that has strong integration with the popular microblogging service and costs less than $140
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IBM Extends Green Patch, Partners with MTS India
IBM to build green data centers, targets 20 percent energy savings for Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL)
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Google Giving Android A Barcode Scanner
The move could make it easier for Android users to find and buy products online, which would help Google move its lucrative ad platform to the mobile space
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WiGig Alliance Plans Short-Range Wireless Standard
Heavy hitters LG Electronics, Microsoft, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, and partners are up against 802.11n Wi-Fi technology
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Telcordia’s New Mobile Number Portability Initiative
The Telcordia Number Portability Gateway promises to streamline number porting processes for service providers by integrating their internal operations with their national number portability clearinghouse
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RIM Looking To Hire As Rivals Cut Jobs
The BlackBerry maker is not as hard-hit by the economic downturn because smartphones are still expected to have strong growth.
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Orange Business Services Upgrades IP Network
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Avaya Partners with Orange Business Services India
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The Linux appliance is designed to provide affordable messaging to small and medium-sized businesses, with 400 mailboxes and 300 hours of storage
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Logitech to Acquire LifeSize Communications
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Cisco Considers Withdrawal of Tandberg Offer
Cisco said it might drop its USD 3 billion acquisition offer if Tandberg stockholders don't vote for the takeover in significant numbers
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Websense introduces Defensio 2.0 for secure Facebook access
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D-Link wants to take its motto, â€کBuilding networks for people’ a step further by enabling the entire application through social networking portals and localized services. In an exclusive interaction with Network Computing, Tony Tsao, CEO & President, D-Link Corporation tells Brian Pereira how D-Link plans to achieve this new vision
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Twitter Buys Out Mixer Labs
Microblogging service acquires developer of the GeoAPI location mapping tool
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IDC Sees 1 Billion Mobile Internet Devices By 2013
Mobile Internet use will more than double, and most activity will be in online shopping, blogging, and accessing business applications
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Google Accelerates Internet With Public DNS Service
By taking on Internet traffic direction, Google aims to make the Internet more responsive while also deepening its access to valuable traffic data
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Microsoft, Google Face Off On Healthcare
Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health want to be the repository of choice for millions of personal health records. Are they up to the task?
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HCL Partners with SANAKO to Provide e-learning Solutions for the Education Sector
The two companies have signed an agreement which will have them jointly providing localized e-learning solutions for schools and campuses across India
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Microsoft Issues Internet Explorer Security Advisory
Users of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 may be vulnerable to a malware attack
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Social Networking Is Here to Stay
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Google Helps You Find a Flu Shot
Flu Shot Finder uses Google Maps to help people locate areas where they can get swine flu and seasonal flu vaccines
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80 Percent of Enterprise Collaboration Platforms Will Be Based on Web 2.0 Techniques by 2013
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Google Tips For Burying Ugly Search Results
To manage your search engine reputation, Google suggests saying less is more, except when saying more is more
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India Witnesses the Future Impact of the Internet on the Way We Work
The Interop Mumbai 2009 conference was off to an innovative start, with Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalisation Officer and EVP, Cisco Services, showing an amazed enterprise IT audience on how the Internet will transform the way we work
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In a session on Mobile and Wireless at Interop, Nilay Yajnik observed an increase in the application of mobile phones for driving business
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HCL and BSNL to Work Together on National Broadband Penetration Program
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DoT Lays Down WiFi Compliance Requirements for ISPs
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has introduced new compliance requirements for ISPs providing WiFi services at public hotspots such as airports, malls, etc
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A new coalition opposed to Google's Book Search settlement has been formed.
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HP Ushers Telecoms Toward Cloud
The company is positioning itself to become a software-as-a-service platform for telecommunications companies
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Amazon Auctions Cloud Computation
Businesses can now bid for computing capacity during times of low demand to save money
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Three-level course targeted at both students and IT professionals
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Logica to Help Microsoft Drive BPOS-D Implementations
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Microsoft Lands UK Cloud Deal
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Microsoft AppFabric Adds Azure Cloud Plumbing
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Salesforce Adds Enterprise Social Networking
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IBM Launches Business Analytics Cloud
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Anantara Eyes New Space in World of Clouds
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SugarCRM Opens Up To Amazon EC2
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Far from the perception that COBOL is a language of the past, vendor Micro Focus has given the language a big energy boost by giving enterprises an opportunity to deploy it in the cloud
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Amara Raja Batteries to Host its SAP Implementation on IBM Hardware
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Red Hat Open-Sources Virtualization Protocol
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The Frost & Sullivan Market Share Leadership Award recognizes companies for their contribution to their respective industries or for achieving a competitive position in the market
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Sun Upgrades VirtualBox Virtualization Software
The new version allows users to move running virtual machines between systems without interruption
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Religare Lays the Foundation for a Dynamic Infrastructure with IBM’s Storage Platform
IBM says its SAN Volume Controller and DS5000 solution will enhance storage utilization for Religare by as much as 30 percent
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F5 Upbeat on Growth in India
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The product secures each layer of the infrastructure of a VMware vSphere virtual server
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ESIC to Deploy 31,000 Virtual Desktops
Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), with the help of Wipro, will deploy NComputing’s virtual desktop solution in its offices and clinics across the country
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IBM Offers Security Software for Virtualization
The product secures each layer of the infrastructure of a VMware vSphere virtual server
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HP To Acquire 3Com In USD 2.7 Billion Deal
The battle to control the virtualized data center of the future heated up, as Hewlett-Packard announced a deal to purchase 3Com for USD 2.7 billion
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HP Offers Data Center Scalability
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Cisco, EMC and VMware Form Coalition
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Patni Virtualizes 85 Percent of its IT Infrastructure
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The IT industry must shed light on the fundamentals of virtualization rather than creating an aura around it
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Dell's CEO said that server standardization and virtualization could take a large chunk out of the USD 1.2 trillion spent on IT in North America each year
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Red Hat Bids for Enterprise Virtualization
Released on Wednesday, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 includes the KVM hypervisor, extensively tested for enterprise use
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Microsoft and TCS Launch Virtualization CoE
The Microsoft-TCS virtualization CoE will help customers experience and gain from the benefits of virtualization technology
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IBM To Offer Desktop Virtualization
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The Blueprint to a Virtualized Business
As the demand and costs for computing power soar, a core team at Infosys is undertaking a series of green IT initiatives that could help in raising the bar for Green IT practices in the country
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In Economic Cloud, Infosys Sees a Green Lining
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Sun Boosts OpenSolaris On Networking, Virtualization
Configuresoft products, which assist IT operations in maintaining continuous regulatory and security compliance, are used in EMC's server configuration solutions.
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EMC To Acquire Configuresoft
The virtualization giant will own 5% of Terremark, which produces cloud and managed IT services for large companies and government agencies.
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VMware Invests $20 Million In Terremark Cloud Services
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iGate Streamlines Training with Application Virtualization
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'Virtual' Reality
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
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Citrix to Develop Virtualization Solutions for Intel Desktop and Laptop Chipsets
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
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HP’s ProLiant BL495c Blade Server
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VMware’s Desktop Virtualization Solution
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
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IBM Launches Six-core Intel Xeon Powered Servers
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Perks Up Virtualization
In addition to Hyper-V, Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name.
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BT Offers Tool for Tracking Video Conferencing Travel and Carbon Savings
Users document millions of dollars in annualized cost savings
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Switching to Power Saving Mode
Considering the inadequate power infrastructure in the country, a few solutions adopted at both the active and passive infrastructure levels can help organizations to actively address energy woes
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Hardware Vendors Pledge Support for VMware's DPM Solution
Called Distributed Power Management (DPM), the solution is designed to lower power consumption in the datacenter by aggregating unused capacity and powering off unused servers without disrupting service levels
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Plugging into a green future
Aiming to reduce its carbon footprint while reducing costs, improving productivity and overall efficiency, Applied Materials India launched â€کOperation Green.’
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Sowing the seeds for a greener company
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Amara Raja Batteries to Host its SAP Implementation on IBM Hardware
The manufacturer has chosen IBM’s servers for its server and storage requirements
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Blade PCs Boost Energy Efficiency at TJGI
By using the combination of blade PCs and thin clients, the T John Group of Institutions (TJGI) has succeeded in reducing its energy needs by an impressive 67 percent
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IBM to Monitor and Manage Safexpress’ Data Center
As a part of its five year IT Infrastructure Management Services deal, IBM will offer Data Center Optimization and End User Management services to over 500 Safexpress “points of presenceâ€‌ across India
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Mumbai International Airport Awards Extensive Services Contract to Nortel
Nortel Enterprise Solutions to manage airport’s networking needs for five years
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News International Signs 5-year IM Engagement with HCL Technologies
As per this engagement, HCL Technologies will be responsible for managing News International’s data center and network environments
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Worldwide Server Market Showing Signs of Stabilization, Says Gartner
While global server shipments dropped for the third quarter, Gartner believes that the market is showing signs of stability
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Religare Lays the Foundation for a Dynamic Infrastructure with IBM’s Storage Platform
IBM says its SAN Volume Controller and DS5000 solution will enhance storage utilization for Religare by as much as 30 percent
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F5 Upbeat on Growth in India
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Cosmos Bank Ups its DR Readiness
The bank has deployed Sanovi Technologies’ DR solution to ensure the seamless running of its core banking infrastructure
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Informatica 9: Another Step Toward Next-Era Data Integration
Collaboration, data quality and data services functionality move Informatica beyond its batch-oriented roots
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Most Security Products Fail Initial Certification Tests
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HP To Acquire 3Com In USD 2.7 Billion Deal
The battle to control the virtualized data center of the future heated up, as Hewlett-Packard announced a deal to purchase 3Com for USD 2.7 billion
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HP Offers Data Center Scalability
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Patni Virtualizes 85 Percent of its IT Infrastructure
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HCL Infosystems Bags India’s First RAPDRP Order
Bags contract worth Rs 500 crore to implement solution that will facilitate implementation of power reforms by the ministry of power under Re-structured Accelerated Power Development and Reform Program (RAPDRP)
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Tata Communications Flexes its Data Center Muscle
The company's new data center in Kolkata, spread across 6000 square feet, already has an anchor customer
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CtrlS Datacenters Deploys Next Generation Cooling System for its Datacenter
IBM to build green data centers, targets 20 percent energy savings for Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL)
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IBM Extends Green Patch, Partners with MTS India
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Unique data center design manages space constraints
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EMC To Acquire Configuresoft
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Wipro Infotech Forays into Data Centre Space
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AT&T Opens its First Data Center in India
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Open Source Firm Launches Cloud Middleware Platform
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Google Releases Chrome OS Code
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Toshiba Launches Unified Messaging For Small Businesses
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Google Introduces 'Go' Programming Language
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Red Hat Bids for Enterprise Virtualization
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