‘To defeat APTs, we need to better understand our opponents’: Arthur Coviello, RSA
Arthur Coviello, Jr. Executive VP, EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC shares his views on APTs, hardware-enabled security, and the steps RSA is taking internally to make its processes stronger
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AICTE adopts Microsoft’s cloud-based solution to improve technical education
Microsoft Live@edu will be deployed to more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India and is aimed at expanding students’ access to high-quality technical education and collaboration
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VMware Cloud Foundry plays disruptive role
On Cloud Foundry's first birthday, VMware CTO Steve Herrod likened it to the Linux of cloud computing. That's not quite right, but this open source platform for developers could slay worries about cloud vendor lock-in
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Security solution prevents leakage of reports at Fugro Survey
The company solved about 95 percent of its security threats by restricting the leakage of its reports to competitors, thus preventing business loss
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5 mobility trends to watch for in 2012: RIM
Year 2012 is going to be a watershed year for mobile technology. There will be more mobile phones on earth by the end of 2012 than people. Is anyone surprised? Not at all! In 2011 more and more consumers and businesses have adapted themselves to the use of mobiles.
One of the most widespread changes in business is the growth of the mobile worker population. The global mobile worker population is set to increase from 919.4 million in 2008, to 1.19 billion in 2013 (IDC Market Analysis Report, Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2009-2013 Forecast). Industries that have been built around the ideas of consolidation around fixed facilities and which have slowly moved to the co-located model are today re-architecting themselves to a more dispersed, dynamic and flexible mobile model, bringing in efficiencies that were not possible until less than half a decade ago. Today, mobile devices are becoming the first choice to access networked resources. The impact of this is staggering. Underlying this adoption is the fact that it is driving innovation and development in new technologies that will further cement the use of mobile devices.
Here are the top 5 mobility trends for 2012:
Tablets and smartphones will change the IT environment: Tablet and smartphone sales are going to outrun PC and laptop sales. That itself tells a story. Yes, there will be security and integration challenges. But it’s time for IT to roll up its sleeves and say “hello” to the mobile revolution. More employees are going to come to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) party in the workplace especially as smartphone prices tumble. The device itself bristles with 3D, HD, GPS, QR codes, gyros, accelerometers, gesture recognition, object recognition, augmented reality, visual search, four-core processors and what-have-you. Expect eBook sales to go through the roof, new entertainment and gaming models to emerge, education applications to proliferate and a flurry of innovations that redefine user experience.
The app store era comes of age: A Gartner forecast suggests that end users will splurge USD 15.9 billion on the goodies in app stores in 2012. More importantly, the apps will drive secondary business in hardware sales and advertising spends. Which means app developers will sharpen their tools, and produce cutting-edge stuff for us to consume. That’s great news for consumers. But what about the enterprise? Will it go the way business has always gone – gravitating towards what consumers have already demonstrated as their preference? Even if the seeds of an enterprise app store are planted, what will it mean for the CIO? How will it transform the role of the CIO? That could be an interesting question to explore in 2012.
E-commerce to be overshadowed by the specter of m-commerce: Who wants a wallet the size of a PC or a laptop? Shouldn’t the wallet fit into your pocket? That’s exactly what a mobile phone will do. Transaction platforms are emerging and could begin to supplement – if not replace – credit cards and online payments. In fact, in emerging economies where credit card usage is low and online payment is limited because of poor IT infrastructure, m-commerce could leapfrog entire societies into the future. It’s a question worth pondering in 2012. The signs are already around: Research firm Arthur D Little says that in BRIC nations 1 million users sign up on mobile payment platforms every week. Will other trends in mobile commerce follow? For example, items may be bought simply by shooting pictures of the products on the phone and adding them to a “mobile” cart…it’s a Pandora’s box out there in 2012.
Near Field Communication is about to hit us between the eyes: With m-commerce comes Near Field Communication (NFC). We may not see a wild proliferation of NFC, but 2012 will be the year when consumers will taste the first fruits of NFC as mobile devices being to adopt the technology. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve (9350/ 9360/ 9370) already come armed to the teeth with NFC. Just bump two Curves and exchange photos, knock it against another and your bank account can be debited for a purchase. The short range connectivity provided by NFC also creates entirely new ways in which machine-to-machine (M2M) technology will begin to reshape the world and create new business partnerships to deliver services that were previously unthinkable.
Augmented reality: It is a virtual platform that adds a new dimension to location-based search, making the function a lot more relevant. Some of the next generation BlackBerry smartphones powered by BlackBerry 7 OS are loaded with AR applications like Wikitude to help users find location based information instantly. In this way technology gives users a perfect combination of the real and virtual world and simplifies the way they do things.
2012 will be the year of the Mobile. As the world becomes more connected, begins truly global conversations, collaborates and develops colossal collective bargaining power, there will be pressure on businesses to deliver faster, cheaper and better.
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Android hits 700,000 daily activations
Google's Andy Rubin announced via Google+ that the company is now activating 700,000 Android devices every day.
"There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day," said Rubin in a post to his Google+ account Tuesday. "For those wondering we count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and 'activations' means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."
It wasn't that long ago--October, to be specific--Google told us the daily activation rate was 550,000. It appears as though there's been a pretty big jump in activation numbers this fall, and the rate has doubled since April, when Google said that the rate was 350,000 daily activations.
To put the 700,000 daily activations figure into perspective, 29,000 people are buying new Android devices every hour, or 486 every minute, or 8 every second.
At this rate, Google may be activating one million Android devices each day before the middle of 2012. It is possible Google will sell 250 million Android devices in 2012. That's a lot of devices. (Keep in mind, this is a worldwide number, and isn't specific to the United States.)
Apple's iPhone remains Google's next-closest competitor, but it pales in comparison.
If we take the most recently released quarterly numbers from Apple, we know that it sold 17.07 million iPhones during its fiscal fourth quarter. Divide that by 90 days in the quarter and you get a relatively paltry 189,000 daily iPhone activations.
The big caveat here is, of course, that iPhone sales slowed down dramatically in the May-October period as people waited for Apple to announce the iPhone 5. Of course, Apple didn't announce the iPhone 5, and instead launched the iPhone 4S. iPhone sales picked up again in October once the iPhone 4S reached store shelves--but not in time to give us more reliable and up-to-date daily activation numbers.
Even so, Google is killing Apple, no question, and Apple will likely never catch back up with Android.
With Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, interest in Android will only continue to swell.
Source: InformationWeek USA
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CIO Profile-U C Dubey
Career Track
How long at the current company?
I have completed 6.5 years in Iffco-Tokio General Insurance Co.
Most important career influencer:
H S Manjunathan, then CIO of Rourkela Steel Plant, under whom I started my IT career in 1974 remains the most important career influencer. An industrial engineer by qualification, he inculcated system approach in me at a young age.
Decision I wish I could do over:
I have no regrets.
Vision
The next big thing for my industry will be…
Mobile computing for reaching out to masses in rural India to increase insurance penetration.
Advice for future CIOs
Keep abreast with technology, as well as business domain knowledge.
On The Job
Top three initiatives
In-house data center: I was the head of IT in Hindustan Organic Chemicals in Rasayani from 1981 to 1987. Those days worker’s unions were dead against computerization. After extensive dialogue with union representatives, they agreed to allow us to use computers but did not agree to procure/install computers in the premises. We hired computer time in night shift at some establishment in Mumbai and our team members used to go alternate nights for processing jobs. In 1984 when Shri Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister and advocated for computerization, worker’s unions also fell in line and we could install our in-house data center in 1985.
Common standard application: Indian Farmers Fertilizers Co-operative had four production units in India. Way back in 1980s and 1990s, each production unit had their IT teams and each of them had developed and implemented their own applications like finance, material management etc., using different platforms. Around year 1994, we initiated the idea of having a common standard application to be used by all production units. All the IT teams and business stakeholders were convinced and we could implement common standard applications across all units.
Siebel CRM: At Iffco-Tokio General Insurance Co. we are using core policy administration system of M/s Computer Science Corporation. The product is AS400-based application written in COBOL and uses green screens. It was difficult to expose this core application to our business partners, dealers and franchise. In the year 2005, we initiated the implementation of e-insurance module of Siebel CRM. This facilitated exposure to outside world, as well as integration with the legacy core application. Today the new platform is extensively used for point-of-sale, claims processing, opportunity management, renewal retention, call center and many other applications.
Favorite project
Point-of-sale application developed using e-insurance module of Siebel CRM. The application is integrated in real time with the core policy administration system and provides straight through processing. It is the backbone of all B to B, and B to C transactions.
How I measure IT effectiveness
I measure IT effectiveness in terms of providing simple and easy-to-use applications of technology to the satisfaction of internal, as well as external users. It must provide great business value at an optimum cost.
CIO UNPLUGGED
Leisure activities: Reading Hindi literature.
Best book read recently: The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen.
Unknown talents (singing, painting etc): Instrumental Music.
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Evalueserve reduces printing costs using MPS
Evalueserve, a KPO firm, was facing issues in managing the printing setup, with respect to support, different makes and types, and management of toners. It also had issues with respect to high cost of manageability, tracking of usage and security.
To resolve these issues, the firm decided to go in for Managed Print Services (MPS). Today, MPS has helped Evalueserve replace all old printers. MPS has provided Evalueserve an integrated solution where a user can print, copy, scan and e-mail in a secure way (using access cards). It also offers tracking, remote monitoring and roaming printing, which enables users to print from any printer at any of the offices.
Today, Evalueserve has been able to save approximately 40 percent of paper usage due to forced duplex printing. MPS has also provided a way (due to security and tracking) to reduce the number of printers from 54 to 25, as the new arrangement provides the firm secure printing, which in turn allows the firm to share printers between multiple groups. The new printers consume low energy as compared to old printers, leading to 70 percent savings on electricity costs.
As the printers are being monitored and managed by an external vendor remotely, Evalueserve does not need to deploy its own dedicated engineers to manage printers. As a result, the firm has been able to cut down the size of IT team by two people.
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India ranks highest in flouting IT regulations at workplace, reveals Cisco study
Seven out of 10 young employees frequently ignore IT policies, and one in four is a victim of identity theft before the age of 30, according to Cisco Connected World Technology Report. As per the study, about 79 percent of employees surveyed in India flout the company’s IT policy all the time – score highest in all regions surveyed.
Cisco Connected World Technology Report surveys more than 2,800 college students and young professionals in 14 countries to understand how companies must balance business needs and risk management with the next generation of employees’ technology expectations and behavior.
About 32 percent college students surveyed in India said they have experienced identity theft. When applied to a broader pool of people, about 51 percent college students in the country said they know friends or family members who have experienced identity theft. The report also revealed that nearly 31 percent of employees surveyed in India have lost their mobile device in the last 12 months – score one of the highest amongst all nations surveyed. Students in India not too far behind, about 29 percent, lost at least one of their mobiles devices (tablet/smartphone/laptop) in the same period. Alarmingly, nearly 40 percent students surveyed confirmed lack of concern for privacy.
The report also revealed that 59 percent of students expect their future employers to be open about their need to stay connected with their personal life along with work at all times and about 73 percent of employees expect their companies to be more flexible toward work-life balance and allow devices and applications such as IMs, tablets and Macs.
VC Gopalratnam, Vice President - IT Globalisation and CIO, Cisco India, said “Employees joining the work force today belong to the ‘digital generation’ and are used to being ‘connected’ at all times. They expect their employers to give them unfettered access to the Internet and also the freedom to use their own devices, for both personal and official purposes. Organizations often grapple with the need to cater to employee expectations and at the same time ensure that sensitive company information is not compromised.”
The report reveals that the desire for on-demand access to information is so ingrained in the incoming generation of employees that many young professionals take extreme measures to access the Internet, even if it compromises their company or their own security. Such behavior includes secretly using neighbors’ wireless connections, sitting in front of businesses to access free Wi-Fi networks, and borrowing other people’s devices without supervision.
As per the findings of the report, almost one in four college students (23 percent) has asked a neighbor for access to a computer or the Internet, and almost one in five (19 percent) admitted accessing a neighbor’s wireless connection without permission. In India, about 31 percent of students surveyed agreed to have paid a ‘high’ fee to get internet access from a public place under desperate circumstances.
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Asian nations pledge to use ICT to collaborate and share knowledge
Members of 12 SEARCC nations stood side-by-side with glowing candles as they met for a conference with a theme “Collaboration for Inclusive Growth.” India is hosting the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation conference or SEARCC-2011 in Mumbai on 12th & 13th December. The conference, which has been organized and hosted by the Computer Society of India (CSI) is being attended by delegates from SEARCC member nations such as Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Myanmar, Taiwan, Australia, Nepal, China and others. SEARCC was created by the UN in 1978 and established in 1988.
CSI President MD Agrawal said the conference provides a great opportunity for collaboration and knowledge sharing. He acknowledged that the Indian ICT industry is vibrant and on a fast track growth. He said there is a good eco system provided by entrepreneurs, R&D, and there is the support of open-minded leadership. Agrawal will soon take over the responsibility as President of SEARCC.
“This is CSI’s third conference with the theme of Inclusive Growth. And we want to work on this theme increasingly. We want to partner with the Government and become a catalyst in the movement of ICT for inclusive growth,” said Agrawal.
Anthony Wong, President, SEARCC emphasized the importance of education and certification for ICT professionals.
“While ICT is advancing at an incredible pace, the threat to the smooth functioning of the systems is also growing and there are many challenges. However, we must continue to collaborate to generate trust in the ICT profession and the systems we build. The demand for ICT professionals continues to increase as the digital economy grows and the technology underpins more and more of our business and lifestyle outcomes. Increasingly, the skills, experience and professionalism of these practitioners will need to be verified in order to provide assurance to business and employees. It is critical that we provide the right level of ICT education and certification to ensure that professional standards are met. Asia is taking on a leading role in ICT and the ICT profession. There is a growing need for businesses for ICT certification and professionalism.”
Wong said countries like Malaysia have already realized the importance of this. The Malaysian Government recently introduced a Computing Professionals Bill to create a body for computing professionals in Malaysia. The Government of Malaysia has made it mandatory for all practicing professionals to be registered (with this body).
The Conference program has been designed to present and deliberate latest trends in ICT and the ICT role in providing solutions for Societal and Business Growth. Key sessions are in the areas of research, strategy, ICT solutions, global case studies of ICT solutions for inclusive growth; the role of collaborative and knowledge management technologies; opportunities for business to leverage ICT for better customer reach; and extending market to Bottom-of-the-Pyramid.
About 300 CIOs, CEOs, state level secretaries, and IT and business managers will explore opportunities for learning and collaboration along with senior Government officials and SEARCC member countries’ Presidents. IT Ministers from India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and PNG are addressing the conference along with 50 speakers from leading industries and research centres.
Plenary sessions will cover collaboration for driving innovation for inclusive growth and how ICT fosters business and transformation. Conference sessions are distributed across four tracks.
Also, there are special sessions such as the high power CIO/ CXO summit and the business Summit on Public Private Partnership - Partnership between CIOs and IT Secretaries (Ministerial Conclave).
SEARCC was founded in 1978. The last SEARCC conference was conducted in 2010 in Brisbane, Australia, in conjunction with the World Computer Conference. More details about SEARCC 2011 are available at http://www.searcc-2011.org/
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SAP enables Aegis to increase annual turnover
Aegis Logistics has a current group turnover in the range of Rs 1,800 crore per annum and has six other group companies. The company was utilizing heterogeneous systems for its different functions and on various hardware platforms. However, these software were not sufficient to cover all the business aspects of those functions. Further, all the important and business critical functions were not computerized.
These systems were neither robust nor scalable in terms of volume of data, number of users, security and connectivity. With the present system, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plan and infrastructure was not in place. The company also faced revenue leakage issues as at times, due to software problems, the bill was not raised to customers.
To overcome these challenges, the company embarked on Project Bluewater, wherein it deployed SAP ERP 6.0 along with industry specific solution SAP IS-OIL & GAS. The initial implementation in the first phase was planned for nine modules for the business-critical processes.
With the implementation of the project, the company increased group annual turnover from Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 1,800 crore. It has also reduced inventory cost and controlled pilferage of stock.
The solution allows automatic mailing of daily stock and dispatch position to customers, leading to increase in employee productivity. SAP ERP’s integrated approach has resulted in the reduction of the duplicity of work, integration of other group companies and availability of standard reports. In addition, the virtualization of servers has minimized energy costs.
Note: Aegis Logistics is a EDGE winner. The complete list of EDGE winners is published in the October 2011 Print issue of InformationWeek India
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7 tests to validate your strategy
The increasing uncertainty of our times combined with the ferocious competition and the need to quickly change gears has created pressure on the growth trajectories of many organizations. Often the challenge is to survive, and annual exercises centered on strategic thinking and business plan creation often generate results only midway, when sometimes it is too late to change course. The raging debate in boardrooms is this: was the strategy faulty or was implementation flawed? While implementation and field force are often blamed, it is important to evaluate whether the strategy was robust in the first place.
Developing a robust strategy, like most "trouble-free" things, is extremely tough in itself. Every business must grapple with questions that seek to chart out the validation of the robustness of their strategies. Testing one's strategy even before roll-out is important as it alerts the management and improves accountability of personnel. Moreover, it tracks progress to facilitate corrective actions and address strategic gaps in a timely manner.
Here are seven tests to validate your strategy:
1. Is your strategy a market-beating one?
A market-beating strategy significantly highlights differences among players instead of being one among many. Organizations are purposeful and yet most struggle in the areas of formulating and putting their strategies into action. The key is to see the big picture, that is, to see how the organization and the competitive environment fit together.
Changing environments and challenging customers make it imperative for organizations to identify those markets in which their company's capabilities can yield a competitive advantage. Defining and understanding the segments correctly is one of the most critical things an organization can do to improve its strategy. Thoroughly understanding direct competitors, budding substitutes, and forthcoming entrants is another. While assessing how the strategy positions the organization in its actual and potential marketplace, identifying distinctive capabilities and surrounding them with a collection of complementary assets are other dimensions. Distinctive capabilities, ones that an organization does especially well; should be scarce outside and must be critical to an organization's profits and growth. For example, a pharmaceutical company's distinctive capabilities may lie in innovations like New Drug Delivery Systems or Contract Research Manufacturing Services or APIs or generics.
2. Is your strategy consistent?
Practice what you preach. Ask if your strategy provides coherence to the directional goals in the long-run. Evaluate your strategy for constancy and viability with the vision, goals, policies, and systems of your organization. The top hierarchy should have a clear, consistent understanding of where the organization stands and what are the service/product offerings. The strategy should not create conflict between the values of the internal stakeholders' and the organization's deliverables to the external stakeholders.
3. Does your strategy have consonance?
No lone strategy can last perpetually, and any strategy needs to be assessed on an ongoing basis to check its relevance. New trends are bound to emerge. A flexible strategy enables an organization to scrutinize the panorama of change in the likely future. One gets ready to lead the change rather than to linger unreceptively for the market forces to do it. Check if the strategy is in harmony internally, as well as with the external environment. One needs to be objective and flexible to realize if the strategy is no longer appropriate as it was first conceived, and whether it needs revision or replacement.
4. Is your strategy feasible?
Strategy is much more than just tabulating the targets and goal sheets in an air-conditioned environment. The finest strategy for any organization is a strategy it can execute! Discussions on strategy often ignore the execution factor. Best of strategies die if no constructive action occurs. A robust strategy requires hard, fact-based, logical information for it to be actionable and pragmatic. Ensure that your strategy neither exploits resources nor underutilizes them.
5. Does your strategy map the true source of competitive advantage?
Is your strategy merely target-oriented or does it give a cutting edge to your employees across hierarchies? Mismatched capabilities and inadequate execution can all play a part in eroding an organization's sustainable advantage. One needs to constantly assess which special capabilities are becoming vulnerable. With fierce competitors seeking to create points of parity and differentiation, there is every reason to believe that competitors will exploit points of vulnerability.
6. Is your strategy insightful?
A robust strategy demands a perfect blend of facts and intuition. Do not fail to examine the assumptions, explicit and implicit, behind a time-honored business model. Check if they still fit the current environment. Most of the times the data required is easily available to foes. Simply analyzing the available data distracts attention from where insight-based advantage lies. To spearhead the growth of your organization, ask if your strategy is supported by validated market insights and transformational business directions.
7. Is there enough passion to act on your strategy?
A strategy cannot depend too sturdily on objectives nor can it focus too heavily on competition. A bigger perspective is needed to make the strategy healthier and that is ‘Serving the Customer!’ Passion is the most crucial success tool in making any strategy robust. Ask how deep the commitment to your strategy is at all levels in the organization.
The fundamental premise of a strategy is goal accomplishment through the best possible deployment of human and material resources to achieve survival, stability, growth, profitability, and, most critically, to have a decisive advantage over competitors. Measuring the robustness of your strategy becomes a must then. Above all, keep the strategy simple and get it right!
Ruth D'Souza, Executive Director of Interlink Marketing Consultancy, is a management consultant, motivational speaker and writer. She has spearheaded number of strategy consulting and competency development interventions at many NCs and MNCs to improve business performance and business health of client organizations
Source: Interlink Insight, a publication of Interlink, a Business Performance Consultancy firm
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More than 700 attendees converge at Virtual INTEROP
What is the value of technology if we cannot exhibit its potential and the possibilities? At UBM India, we experimented with a new format by bringing in Virtual INTEROP for the first time to India. At the end of Day One, we were overwhelmed by the numbers and the reaction to this event.
Day one of Virtual INTEROP was hugely successful as we saw more than 700 attendees (CIOs, IT managers, vendors, analysts) attending the event virtually from the comfort of their desks. An observation by Prashanta Ghoshal, Director IT Solutions and Services, Geometric sums up the experience.
“I should complement UBM for the bold concept of holding it in the virtual space. As they say technology (or IT) intrinsically has no value until people use their imagination to put it to use and that is what creates the value,” said Prashanta Ghoshal, Director IT Solutions and Services, Geometric, who was one of the speakers for this event.
I should complement UBM for the bold concept of holding it in the virtual space. As they say technology (or IT) intrinsically has no value until people use their imagination to put it to use and that is what creates the value
Prashanta Ghoshal, Director IT Solutions and Services, Geometric
Virtual INTEROP took all the successful elements of a live trade show such as the physical INTEROP event, and translated these elements into the elements into the virtual world of the Internet. The event which went live yesterday (7th December) is spread over two days (7th - 8th December, 2011).
The event went live with an insightful presentation by Edgar Dias, Regional Director, Enterprise Asia Pacific, Brocade, who spoke about the significance of Ethernet Fabrics in creating a cloud-optimized network. Dias also shared how Ethernet fabric solutions can deliver enterprise agility through automated, zero-touch VM discovery, configuration, and mobility that evolved with the business.
The next session was by KK Mookhey, Founder, Network Intelligence India, and one of most well known speakers in the security domain. He gave an interesting presentation on ‘How hackers own your network’, and some simple but basic practices that organizations can follow to prevent themselves getting hacked. KK’ session was attended by more than 200 attendees – a remarkable testimony to the fact that hacking is a subject of great interest, and organizations are extremely keen to know how they can be safe in the virtual world.
Another session by Reliance Communications shared an excellent insight into the planning and project management skills that organizations need to have when they undertake complex migration projects during acquisitions. This session too was well attended with more than 100 attendees logging in for the event.
The event witnessed interactive conversations with attendees visiting the virtual booths put up by exhibitors such as Juniper, Brocade and NComputing. More than 800 documents were downloaded from the booths of the exhibitors by the attendees.
You can watch all these sessions now by logging in at
https://presentations.inxpo.com/Shows/UBM/Interop/09-11/Registration/interop-registration.html
Today promises to be another interesting day. We have user case studies, and technology experts speaking on technologies such as cloud and Big Data.
The agenda for Thursday, 8th December, 2011, is as follows:
11:00 - 11:30 am, Topic: BYOT - Is it an opportunity OR Challenge for Enterprises.
Speaker: Sajan Paul, Director - Systems Engineering
11:30 - 12:00 pm, Topic: Leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage
Speaker: Balasubramanian Somasundaram, Associate Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Corporation India
12:00 - 12:30 pm, Topic: Rethinking Campus Economics - Performance and value, together at last
Speaker: George Chacko, Systems Engineer Manager and Lead Technical Consultant, Brocade
12:30 - 14:00 : Lunch / Expo Break
14:00 - 14:30, Topic: Using social media for banking
Speaker: Umesh Jain, CIO, Yes Bank
14:30 - 15:00, Topic: Social media networks: The next frontier of corporate espionage?
Speaker: Abilash Sonwane, Senior VP, Elitecore Technologies
15:00 - 16:00, Panel Discussion, Topic: The changing role of the CIO in 2020
Moderator: Arun O Gupta, Group CTO, Shoppers Stop
16:30 - 17:00, Topic: How the Royal Orchid Group of Hotels is using the cloud to improve team collaboration and deliver personalized service
Speaker: Dhiraj Trivedi, Assistant Vice President of Revenue Management & Electronic Distribution, Royal Orchid Hotels
You can catch all these sessions live by logging in at:
https://presentations.inxpo.com/Shows/UBM/Interop/09-11/Registration/interop-registration.html
Besides knowledge and networking, there are some exciting prizes to be won.
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Android market downloads hit 10 billion
Ten billion is a big number. Google Tuesday celebrated 10 billion downloads from the Android Market, approximately three years after the Market's launch. It took the Android Market 20 months to reach its first billion downloads. Then the pace picked up. It took just five months to reach the second billion; two months to climb from 2 billion to 3 billion; two months more to reach 4.5 billion; and another two months to jump from 4.5 billion to 6 billion. In the last four months the number of downloads jumped from 6 billion to 10 billion.
"None of these apps would have existed if it weren't for the developers who created them," said Google in a blog post. "Every day, these developers continue to push the limits on what's possible and delight us in the process. For that, we thank them."
Google is so happy with the big milestone that it is offering a tempting promotion. It's selling some applications that normally cost between USD 1 and USD 10 for a mere 10 cents each. Google will offer a total of 100 applications over the next 10 days--introducing 10 new apps every day--at the near-giveaway price.
The first batch of 10-cent apps includes: Asphalt 6 HD, Color & Draw for Kids, Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro, Fieldrunners HD, Great Little War Game, Minecraft, Paper Camera, Sketchbook Mobile, Soundhound Infinity, and Swiftkey X. A different set of 10 apps will be available tomorrow.
Currently, the Android Market offers more than 300,000 apps. That includes apps for both Android smartphones and Android tablets. Android users also can install apps from sources other than the Android Market, which means the total number of app downloads to Android devices could be significantly higher.
In comparison, Apple's iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. It took only two and half years--January 2011--for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users to download 10 billion apps for their iOS devices. (The 10 billionth app downloaded was Paper Glider, purchased by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, U.K.)
In July, three years after launch, Apple's iPhone App Store reached 15 billion downloads. Again, that includes downloads to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
Given Android's stronger sales figures over the last few quarters, the question now is how long will it take Android device users to close the gap with their iOS-using peers? Probably not long at all.
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Empowering the state through e-education
The School Education Department of Madhya Pradesh had a challenging task before them. They wanted to achieve universal elementary education and promote quality education up to class 12. The massive number of stakeholders involved made the task both important and demanding. They had to administer more than 1 lakh schools, 3.5 lakh teachers and staff, maintain and monitor a database of more than 1.6 crore students.
School education is the largest sector in the state in terms of number of beneficiaries, geographical reach, number of institutions and engagement of human resources. It is also the most complex sector with multiple departments and local bodies exercising control over the workforce engaged in it. Over the past many years, the workload of the departments, institutions and offices dealing with school education has increased manifold without corresponding increase in the quantity and capability of the supervisory staff.
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 requires the state to provide free elementary education and ensure compulsory admission, attendance and completion of elementary education by all children between the age group of 6-14. The inception of RTE Act in 2009 has levied additional expectations on the state-school education departments to be able to provide transparent and accountable governance apart from ensuring quality education to the masses.
These challenges led to the development of a bilingual, database driven, dynamic portal in collaboration with the National Informatics Center (NIC), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh for all the schools. The portal www.educationportal. mp.gov.in facilitates a single source of live and authentic information related to school education for all the stakeholders of the state education system namely students, teachers, citizens and educational managers.
Benefits to stakeholders
The portal facilitates effective learning and enhancement of achievement levels of students by online monitoring of their performance in the monthly tests. Online application ensures timely availability of all assistance like free textbooks, uniforms, cycles, and scholarships to the children as per their eligibility. Parents can also submit online demand for more teachers to ensure an appropriate pupil-teacher ratio. Based on the demands received, the administration can engage the services of the guest teacher as per the norms.
As per the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, the application facilitates the department to register the CWSN (Children With Special Needs) and enables online tracking of the assistance being provided to the child to ensure personalized followup. The portal also provides services to 1.6 lakh Out of School Children (OOSC) by facilitating the automation of various processes involved in their identification, registration and enrolment. Apart from this, it facilitates the citizens to register any OOSC in their locality and work area online.
Additionally, the portal provides the list of classes and schools with poor academic performance of students and the responsible subject teachers. Based on this report, the District Education Officers (DEO) can take necessary corrective action to augment the school with more teachers or upgrade the skills of the poor performing teacher or replace the teacher.
The portal includes a well integrated suite of e-governance applications and facilitates a common platform that fulfils the needs for all school education related services. “To be effective, a portal must be alive with the latest content,” saysManoj Jhalani, Principal Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh. “This solution gives us the tools to easily make such updates. With up-to-date information, the school-government interaction and information sharing achieves the much needed transparency.”
Madhya Pradesh has made dramatic improvements in the achievement levels of primary school children, leading to improved results for the state. “Effective implementation of the RTE Act 2009 along with better administration has been the major gains of this project,” says Jhalani. “Providing quality education to nearly 1.6 crore children including under privileged children along with ensuring better resource management have been the high points in the project’s implementation. Read More
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Integrated Analytics platform delivers huge benefits for Mahindra & Mahindra
As a huge conglomerate with diverse business interests, the top management at the Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) group wanted to improve their ability to make insightful decisions faster, through a consolidated group wide view.
With this objective in mind, the IT team at M&M developed a common analytics platform that could be used for delivering integrated intelligence across the group. The project has been implemented for more than 40 business units across the Mahindra Group.
The unique feature of the BI architecture is that M&M can pull in data from disparate source systems into its business warehouse and churn out meaningful comparative analysis for its users. Today, the top management has a harmonized dashboard that has been implemented across the group. It has also developed more than 50 industry specific operational dashboards, over 1,000 management reports, and more than 25 scenario specific reports that can be used for deep dive analysis. This in turn can be used by the smaller companies within the group, who on their own would not have been able to create or use the entire range of solutions.
The biggest beneficiaries have been the smaller business units and new acquisitions. Lack of relevant technology knowledge or lack of expertise would have actually lengthened the new technology learning curve. However to bring them to speed faster, the IT team provided these business units with ‘BI Joining Kit.’ This kit contains standardized reports and templates. The best part about the way these reports have been developed is that they can be enhanced to meet the new BUs requirement by just adding a few free characteristics, without hampering the original structure. The entire development is done centrally by a team of eight, who ensure sharing of the best practices. This amounts to savings of 7,200 man days on a recurring basis.
Today, the BI tools are now widely used by the Sales Team. For example, in the auto division at M&M, all sales reviews across locations now happen on dashboards.
Further, the use of BI as an analytical tool had enabled the sales team to not only monitor their performance against KPIs, but also determine the future course of action. For example, availability of accurate and timely information has led to reduced reconciliations and better management of the billing process, leading to quicker payment and a reduction in accounts receivable. The analysis of sales data coupled with production and inventory data has improved product mix and increased sales as it has reduced the loss in sales revenue due to timely fulfillment of orders. Improved visibility across locations has led to the reduction in inventory carrying cost.
Use of BI resulted in savings in the procurement of indirect material. M&M’s cross-functional procurement team has developed a report, which provides the vendor wise, plant wise cost of a particular material and their payment terms. Vendor negotiations carried out for various material categories have yielded substantial savings to a significant number of every company in the group. For example, with the view of consolidated volumes and also the disparity in offerings, an exercise was conducted to determine the potential savings. Accordingly, negotiations were carried out with the relevant suppliers in some cases, while M&M adopted the e-auction route in other cases. Through this exercise, M&M has been able to generate massive savings.
Highlights
- Use of BI has led to savings of crores in procurement of material
- Savings of 7,200 man days on a recurring basis
Note: Mahindra & Mahindra is a Diamond EDGE winner. The complete list of EDGE winners is published in the October 2011 Print issue of InformationWeek India
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IBM opens Airport Solutions Lab in India
IBM today announced the launch of its Airport Solutions Lab in New Delhi, the first-of-its-kind center in the Asia-Pacific region. Co-located with IBM’s Research and India Industry Solutions labs, the Airport Solutions Lab will be a center to showcase IBM’s technology innovations and solutions for airports and airlines.
The demand for air travel continues to expand globally, with an estimated 7 billion passenger trips by 2020, from 2.2 billion trips in 2009. With rising capacity demands, airports are also facing challenges in providing enhanced customer services, reducing costs, and increasing revenues. Airports therefore need smarter solutions to revitalize their processes and ensure better business growth.
The Airport Solutions Lab will host technical and subject matter experts who will help customers witness and understand the various airport solutions that are offered by IBM. The lab aims to enable customers to have access to solutions on a wide range of areas such energy management, asset management, space management, airport operations management and security management, among others. As a regional hub, the lab will cater to airports across the entire Asia-Pacific region.
Daniel O’Connell, Vice President, Distribution Sector, IBM Growth Markets said, “Airports are fast becoming multi-modal transportation hubs and centers for economic vitality across the globe. It is important that airports embrace new technologies and infuse intelligence into their systems to create a more responsive and agile operating and commercial environment. IBM has put together its software, services, and research & development capabilities to develop these novel solutions.”
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How Walmart plans to use Big Data
By analyzing the huge volume of data produced every day on social media, Walmart is trying to shape the future for retail
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Surviving the data explosion
With frequent and rapid changes in market, thick competition, compliance and regulatory norms, and the urgency to increase customer bases and profitability, Information Management is gaining new significance in business
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IBM tops India external disk storage market
According to newly released data from IDC, IBM India has emerged as the number one vendor in revenue for Q4 and full year (2010) in the India external disk storage systems
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Done right, cloud storage promises to free up your I&O staff from complex and onerous storage management tasks
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EMC sets new records for storage
Launches 41 new products for mid and lower tiers
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Commvault releases IT storage spending survey results
A recent survey conducted by CommVault, the data management and storage solutions provider, revealed that managing data growth (i.e., data reduction) will be the top budget priority for 2011
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Symantec takes on unstructured data with Data Insight
New tools provide visibility and control to utilize stored data more efficiently and strategically
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IBM wants to maintain storage leadership with Storwize v7000
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“Dell will focus on standardization, simplification and automation of the environment”
Dell announced its Efficient Enterprise strategy last year, which is aimed at helping businesses reduce spending on IT infrastructure maintenance. In an exclusive interview with InformationWeek India, Jim Merritt, President, Asia Pacific Japan, Large Enterprise, Dell gave Brian Pereira an update on Efficient Enterprise
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What business data should be in the cloud?
In theory, the ability now exists to put all your data types on a cloud storage platform, but is that the right choice for your business?
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IBM unveils Power7 and Storage migration offer for HP and Oracle-Sun clients in India
IBM has launched a new financing program targeting Oracle-Sun and HP customers in India
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Hitachi Data Systems unveils new storage virtualization platform
Firm claims that the platform will deliver up to 33 percent reduction in TCO and more than 30 percent reduction in power, cooling and floor space costs
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Steve Leonard, President, EMC Asia Pacific and Japan, shares his perspective on how organizations are
making their journey to the cloud
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SafeNet teams up with NetApp to provide storage security
This collaboration will provide users with the ability to manage and protect on-premise, cloud-based and virtualized data storage
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EMC opens its second Global Command Center in India
The new Global Command Center (GCC) and Critical Incident Response Center (CIRC) will play a key role mirroring the company’s existing facilities located in the United States
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CommVault launches cloud-based storage
New and existing customers can leverage Rackspace’s cloud-based data storage by purchasing a per-terabyte capacity license from CommVault
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Yesterday's tech strategies are woefully inadequate for today's global economy - NetApp CEO, Tom Georgens
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HP wins 3PAR bidding war
Dell submitted a renewed offer that included a sweetened termination bid approaching USD 100 million, but 3PAR declined to accept it, clearing the way for HP to acquire the storage company for more than USD 2.3 billion
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The value of storage solutions in the financial services industry
An optimized storage solution can contribute to more informed and timely decision making in the FSI sector, says Gerrit Franzen of Hitachi
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Data warehousing shifts to analytics arms race
Performance upgrades and in-database functions highlight latest Netezza, Aster Data and Infobright releases
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Verizon to offer storage on the cloud
The service can be used to either augment traditional storage options such as storage area networking and network-attached storage or be used as a stand-alone solution
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PC sales tumble as consumers, workers eye tablets
New market data shows that the iPad and Android-powered slates may be taking a bigger bite of the PC market than expected.
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HP advances 'Converged Infrastructure' strategy in India
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iPad 2: Five things Apple left out
Apple's second-generation iPad mostly impresses, but Apple still managed to leave some key technologies out
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Dell makes laptop battery recycling easier
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IBM to provide Bharti Infratel smarter cell towers
Bharti Infratel, a subsidiary of Bharti airtel, has chosen IBM to provide Intelligent Site Operations to more than 32,000 Bharti Infratel tower-sites spread across 11 telecom circles in India
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HCL Infosystems to provide 6,500 laptops to Keltron
HCL Infosystems have bagged the contract to provide over 6,500 units of laptops and netbooks from Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (Keltron)
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CES: BodyMedia sends calorie and sleep data to your phone
The company's newest Armband uses Bluetooth to send over 5000 different health variables to your Android or Apple-based phone
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CES 2011: Android-based car stereo receives Internet services, iPod's music
It's time to put the smart phone back in the car. Sort of. Parrot's media console, running Android, offers a slightly different take on auto-tech.
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Hands-on with RIM Playbook at CES
After months of waiting, RIM finally let us touch, feel and use its Playbook tablet at CES; its first foray into the tablet market. As tablet hardware goes, this one stacks up nicely
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IBM in hybrid chip breakthrough
Technology could lead to exaflop computing—systems that can perform one million trillion calculations per second
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iPad, smartphones dragging down PC sales
Gartner lowers 2010 and 2011 forecasts for global PC shipments, as Apple and other tablets and smartphones cut into conventional computer shipments
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Server shipments up 13 percent for Q3 of 2010
Gartner report also observes that blade servers outpaced the other form factors, namely tower and rack servers, for the period
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FC Kohli honored with CSI Lifetime achievement award
The father of the Indian software industry and Padma Bhushan winner was bestowed this honor at CSI’s 45th Annual National Convention 2010 on November 25th, in Mumbai
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Methane powered laptops could arrive soon
Harvard researchers develop platinum-free solid-oxide fuel cells, which could be reliable and cheap enough for mobile technology
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Emerson network power unveils comprehensive DCIM strategy
Firm claims that the platform will enable dynamic infrastructure optimization
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Can mainframes do BI?
Analytics is achievable in mainframes when coupled with the right processors and algorithms
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Cyberoam unveils its new line of Wireless UTMs
Cyberoam claims that these appliances can reduce the overall cost of managing WLAN environments for SMBs
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Environmental Sustainability is becoming an important criterion in PC brand selection
Businesses are placing a greater emphasis on environmental sustainability in their choice of PC brand, according to new research from Gartner
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Laptop heat may cause 'Toasted Skin Syndrome'
A review of recent cases concludes with a call for heat shielding and warning labels for laptop computers
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802.11n certification booming
The Wi-Fi Alliance reports that more than 1,100 products have been certified since the launch of its Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n testing program
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Energy costs account for 12 percent of overall data center expenditures
Energy-related costs are the fastest-rising cost in the data center, say researchers at Gartner
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Dell to launch second tablet
Chief Executive Michael Dell showed off a prototype of the 7-inch tablet at Oracle OpenWorld, but did not offer details
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Oracle introduces the Exalogic Elastic Cloud
The machine is designed to provide a complete cloud application infrastructure by consolidating the widest possible range of Java and non-Java application types and workloads
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Sandeep Nair takes over as new president for MAIT
Alok Bharadwaj appointed Vice President
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Virtualization leads server manufacturers to a new paradigm
As the number of physical servers decline, server manufacturers are now focusing on revenue per server than on the number of units sold
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How degaussing can help in secure disposal of media
Plug-in compatible with Ubuntu, other Debian-based Linux distributions released two years after Windows and Mac versions
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Linux gets Google Voice, Video chat
Dual-platform strategy will also see Hewlett-Packard ship a slate computer that runs Windows 7
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HP confirms WebOS tablet
Dual-platform strategy will also see Hewlett-Packard ship a slate computer that runs Windows 7
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5 things RIM must do in 2012
Research In Motion has a tough year ahead of it. Here is what the company needs to do to turn itself around
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Tackling the uncertainty of core network planning
To avoid breaking the economics of core network provisioning, service providers must extract every bit of cost out of their networks without compromising services or reducing quality of experience for their end users
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Videoconferencing, telepresence spending to double by 2015
Cisco-Tandberg, Avaya, Lifesize, and Polycom are focusing on conference room systems, projected as the area of greatest growth, according to Infonetics
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Why is Cisco betting big on video?
The networking giant believes that video will drive the next wave of communications for enterprises
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Cisco unifies enterprise communications with Jabber
Cisco rolled out Jabber, a unified communications application that brings together presence, instant messaging (IM), voice and video, voice messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing into a single consistent experience across PCs, Macs, tablets and smart phones
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Communication trends for 2011
Explore how communication will be influenced by Unified Communications, Video, Tablets, SIP Trunking and the cloud
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IBM’s cloud version of Lotus Notes finds good uptake in India
12 percent of Lotus Notes adoption has been via the cloud
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HP partners with IIIT-B to launch Network University
The University will aid IT professionals to advance their knowledge in the delivery of next-generation enterprise networks
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Unified Communications: The new mouthpiece in enterprises
Indian enterprises are taking UC beyond basic communications, by using forms such as UC-as-a-service and virtual teams, for R&D, training and client interactions
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Facebook becoming ultimate CRM system
The social network's latest messaging features point to a future in which you can contact someone wherever they are with a single click
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Verizon outlines top 10 technology trends for 2011
Technology trends include cloud, unified communications, convergence, mobile apps and IPv6
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The Office: Who needs it
60 percent of employees in study say they don't need to go into an office to be productive; IT execs worry about security of mobile workers
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Taj Hotels selects NEC as preferred network solution provider
NEC to provide IP telephone systems for eight new hotel locations
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Cisco to introduce home telepresence system
A USD 600 video conferencing system that includes a video camera and a device to connect to a HD TV will reportedly be launched by the network equipment maker
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Collaboration possibilities for organizations are 'infinite'
Right tools and right approach enhance the communication paradigm for employees
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Interop Mumbai 2010 kicks off
Opens up with keynotes which describe IT to be converging, networks going borderless
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BT delivers B2B telepresence solution for Wipro in India
BT’s B2B exchange connectivity will enable seamless video and voice communications between Wipro and its customers
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Microsoft, Polycom team on Unified Communications
Partnership will integrate voice, instant messaging, and videoconferencing for large enterprise, government, and SMB customers
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Educational training goes virtual at NIIT
The educational institute has conducted over 248 training sessions using the UC platform it deployed two years ago
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"Immersive telepresence has a great future"
Managing Director of Polycom India & SAARC, Neeraj Gill, says that Polycom is witnessing increased demand for telepresence solutions
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Based on the open standard SIP protocol, Avaya Aura is an important milestone in the evolution of UC architecture
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In the future, conversations will follow you from one device to another, and you will be able to collaborate from any device–yes, even your television set
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Spectranet and nivio to jointly offer hosted messaging and collaboration
The firm plans to offer a range of hosted solutions such as basic email solutions and high end enterprise applications based on the Microsoft Exchange platform
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Bharti Airtel, Cisco and Servion team up to provide hosted contact center solutions
The consortium is launching ‘customizable’ hosted contact center services
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Tata Communications and BT to extend Telepresence facilities to each other
Using the intercompany service, customers of both the companies can invite clients of the other service provider to join them in multipoint telepresence meetings
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‘Cisco will focus on Smart Connected Communities’
The network is getting smarter and Cisco wants to apply
intelligent networks in other industries through connected
communities. Naresh Wadhwa, President & Country Manager,
Cisco India & SAARC told Brian Pereira how Cisco plans to
achieve this through strategic alliances with domain experts.
Internet technology also has a major role in building connected
communities
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AGC Networks to be acquired by Essar Group
Essar will acquire Avaya’s stake in AGC Networks, previously known as Avaya GlobalConnect
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"Our products and technologies will be the foundation for Borderless Networks"
Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco tells us why she thinks that the troika of video, virtualization and cloud computing will push enterprise-level productivity to a new level
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Orange Business Services appoints Bala Mahadevan as India CEO
In this role, Mahadevan will be responsible for driving business growth for the company in India in the network related services and IT services domains
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Siemens Enterprise Communications and T-Systems now speak with one voice
This new agreement will let Siemens Enterprise Communications and T-Systems simplify migration
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Travelers stranded by the Icelandic volcano are using telepresence and videoconferencing to stay in contact with their businesses
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CSC launches Unified Communications as a service
Targeted at Fortune 1000 companies, this offering is based on Cisco’s collaboration portfolio
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Finding the right inflection points for “green” change is key for business success
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Polycom expands its partnerships with HP and Microsoft
The new partnerships are aimed at delivering open and interoperable collaboration solutions
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The initiative aims to deliver transformational education and health care solutions to citizens across India
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Avaya targets SMBs with new UC solution
The company says that its new version makes UC up to 40 percent more affordable for companies with less than 20 employees
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Avaya expands UC for healthcare
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Microsoft Outlook Becomes Social Hub
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Slated to be more than Rs 100 crore in 2010, the distance learning market is likely to grow at a compound rate of 50 percent year-on-year
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The deal includes fully managed services from BT that will help enable cross-company collaboration between PepsiCo and its key distributors and retailers
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Video will be the driving force behind a total transformation of user experience
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Cisco Offers Open Telepresence Standard
In agreeing to release its protocol to the public domain, Cisco joins Juniper Networks and Polycom in the growing trend toward collaboration among videoconferencing providers
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Several trends and developments are emerging and catching up to make a big impact on unabated growth of Wi-Fi. Ajay Kumar Gupta, WLAN Access and Security Specialist, elaborates on 10 such trends
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As the application performance management market is still in its nascent stages in India, the company is confident of becoming the numero uno player
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‘IPv6 seeds have to be planted now '
While Indian Internet Service Providers still have some reserves of IPv4 addresses left, the stocks will be likely depleted before the next growing season, says Yves Poppe, Head-IPv6, Tata Communications, in an exclusive interview with InformationWeek’s Srikanth RP
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HCL Infosystems gets broadband connectivity project from Indian Railways
The company will provide end to end ADSL 2+ Broadband Network on Indian Railways enterprise Wide Area Network through RailTel Corporation of India
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Majority of the online spend (43 percent) comes from SMEs who spend between Rs 12 to 25 lakh on advertising on an annual basis, reflecting the low-cost benefit of the Internet
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Microsoft challenges Google to offer patent indemnification
If Google is so sure that the WebM video codec is safe, it should guarantee legal protection against patent claims, Microsoft argues
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Low-bandwidth website delights customers
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Top 10 Google predictions for 2011
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Mozilla releases eighth Firefox 4 beta
Latest version includes support for graphics rendering in the browser without the use of a third-party plug-in
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Facebook debuts e-mail service
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Google debuts instant previews
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Firefox extension created to shine a light on the problem of unencrypted websites fails, because rather than offering a solution, it only makes it worse
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Facebook Apps found sharing user IDs
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IPv4 addresses nearly depleted
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6 ways cloud computing will evolve in 2012
Cloud computing has become so broadly accepted that it won't rank as an exciting development for 2012. Instead, you will see a more organized, concerted application of resources to further the cloud's use in conjunction with central IT. Let's take a look at the top things we can expect from the cloud over the next year.
1. 2012: Year of the hybrid cloud
The most obvious expression of the trend is the serious interest in private cloud computing, where more of the enterprise data center is given over to virtualized and automated operations, including end-user self service. Why? Because the public cloud, if still not fully trusted, is understood to be a long-term player on the landscape. The movement to internal cloud computing isn't in opposition to the public cloud. Rather, it reflects the growing sense within IT that its own environment will need to be as efficient and compatible as possible.
Interest in EC2-compatible Eucalyptus Systems, the general purpose Nimbula Director cloud operating system, and the OpenStack initiative are all signs of serious private cloud planning and implementation. VMware's cloud initiatives would be faltering if virtualization stopped at the edge of the virtualized server, but it doesn't. It extends out into storage, I/O, and networking. Managing these resources as virtualized pools is a giant step toward internal cloud computing. Dell's support for VMware's cloud software and VMware's ability to attract programmers to its Cloud Foundry all speak to interest in and use of the future private cloud.
2. Development moves in
Speaking of Cloud Foundry, the unusual open source initiative (unusual for VMware, a strongly proprietary company) launched last April has born unusual fruit. There's a growing understanding that applications in the cloud will be different; that agile development will never quite get to dev ops unless development for the cloud moves into the cloud. Both of these realizations were behind Cloud Foundry being named the best overall developer platform in a recent Evans Data survey of programmers. It had to beat out both Microsoft Azure and IBM's Smart Cloud, both well provisioned with developer tools, as well as Google App Engine with its Gadgets.
Why did it win? Well, for one thing, I think the Evans Data surveys appeal to independent programmers, the ones who are less frequently users of IBM Rational or Microsoft Visual Studio tools (although there are plenty of enterprise programmers using Cloud Foundry). In addition, VMware is scrupulously cultivating an open atmosphere where all are welcome. Cloud Foundry is a staging ground for Spring Framework projects by Java developers. But in mid-December, Tier3 and Uhuru Software contributed .Net Framework support. The Foundry itself is written in Ruby and will also support dynamic languages such as PHP and Python. It's becoming one of the few broadly supportive development platforms where many programming groups might find a home. As it does so, more development moves into the cloud.
3. Finally, the virtualized client
Bigger than development, however, is the head of steam building up behind virtualized clients. So far, the success story has been virtualized servers, with the unwashed masses of confused clients lagging far behind. In 2012, that's about to change. Didn't we say that last year? This time, it's real. Big advances are being made in keeping virtualized clients secure, in some cases, lead by Citrix Systems.
If virtual desktops are more secure than physical ones, then a major cost justification for the move materializes. A virtual user interface that can move from device to device resolves some of the conflicts preventing the transition to bring-your-own-computer to work. Look for a major ATM supplier, Diebold, to describe how it's using virtual end-user transactions to secure its ATM networks. Personal data can't be stolen (the way it was at supermarkets) if it's not resident on the endpoint transaction machine. If it works on ATMs, it may work on your end-user clients.
4. Cloud security ... in depth
In a conversation, Capgemini CTO Joe Coyle made an interesting prediction: "An accepted security model will come to the cloud in 2012." Amazon started 2011 with a new PCI compliance rating that said secure credit card transactions could be executed in EC2. During the year, cloud provider Terremark's NAP of the Americas data center in Miami, Fla., passed the Department of Defense's Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process, while Harris implemented its Cyber Integration Center for healthcare data processing, with market-leading defenses in depth. Security can be achieved in the cloud as well as the enterprise data center. "It's a matter of both the clients and the vendors understanding who has responsibility for which pieces," said Coyle. And in 2012, a blueprint for how that's achieved will be laid out.
5. Green eye shades or shades of green?
Builders of new data centers, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, boast about the new levels of energy efficiency that they've achieved. With melting ice caps, we are not far off from when individual electricity consumption will be monitored with the same intense scrutiny as home consumption, and energy-efficient clouds will appeal to both IT and consumers. Not all applications need 300-watt, high-capacity, and high-speed servers behind them. In some cases, 15 or 20 watts will do. The intense use of mobile devices could in many instances be served by leading edge, energy efficient data centers, perhaps populated with servers like the ones HP announced using Calxeda's ARM chip. Maybe the Cortex chip servers, using 89 percent less power than conventional ones, wouldn't be the best platform for streaming video of the ballgame you want to see. But they'd be fine for the occasional burst of data telling you what the score is. And they'd keep you out of the red zone of too much energy consumption.
6. Going over to the dark side
In 2012, we will see the first incident where a hacker gets inside a public cloud and produces mischief and mayhem. He will seem to understand its infrastructure, its protective measures and for a time will defy expulsion. CIO Jerry Johnson's account of how a hacker (unidentified but possibly a Chinese intruder) got into Pacific Northwest National Lab is too compelling a story to allow me to believe the public cloud has better defenses than it did. At this stage of cloud computing, too many doors are constantly opening and closing to the public cloud for defenses to cover all eventualities. Defense in depth is needed and is coming, but is not quite sufficiently in place to prevent an incident.
Source: InformationWeek USA
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IIHT chooses Dell to provide data center-as-a-service on its cloud
IIHT Cloud Solutions, a subsidiary arm of IIHT Limited, announced Dell as its trusted solution platform to create one of the world's first vertical cloud services solution for IT Training, Test and Development Industry.
The IIHT Cloud is one of India's largest cloud installations. IIHT Cloud Solutions has formed a consortium of solution providers comprising of ESDS and Nestor to power its Cloud Platform. The multi-million dollar ESG (Enterprise Solutions Group) and datacenter deal follows similar cloud infrastructure wins for Dell in India in recent months. This is also the first Dell Force 10 win in India post acquisition.
Shivajee R Sharma, President and CIO, IIHT Cloud Solutions said, “When we decided to pioneer an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud, servicing the Training, Test and Development segment, our value proposition was very clear, 'own virtual data centers and not just virtual machines.' As an architect my challenge was to build a cloud platform, which gives an experience as close to a real data center infrastructure and is highly capable of supporting real-time experiential cloud service which is accessible anywhere, anytime and on any device instantly on demand. The Dell Blade solutions enabled us to build the scale and density required for the cloud and Dell Force10 z9000 network switches allowed us to build a highly scalable 320 Gbps throughput IP SAN to support the instant provisioning.”
Sharma further added, “While selecting the consortium partner with Data Center co-location services to host our cloud solution, we were looking for partner with very deep expertise and experience of cloud platform and ESDS with its developed cloud fabric for its web hosting services clearly emerged as the best Data Center co-location service provider for us. Nestor, a core member of the consortium, with its expertise in handling the end-to-end deliveries and it's deep relations with IT OEM's worked with us on this project from the beginning as our preferred solution partner.”
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Intel unveils its Cloud vision
For many, it will be hard to fathom the connection between a leading microprocessor manufacturer and the cloud. But Intel is taking its manageability lessons and reference architectures from the chip design world and applying these to the office and enterprise areas. Intel works with vendors and solution providers through institutions like the Open Data Center Alliance (ODC) and others, to create standards that make it easier for everyone to access applications on the cloud. In fact, it’s own IT department, dubbed Intel @ IT, successfully transitioned the organization from a phase of server consolidation to a virtualized infrastructure and then to an internal cloud. As a result, Intel enjoyed savings of USD 9 million through its internal cloud efforts. Intel India recently conducted The Cloud Summit 2011 in Mumbai to highlight the importance of Cloud and Intel Cloud Builder(s) Program, the IntelOpen Data Center Initiative and Intel Cloud 2015 vision.
Commenting on the opportunity and the way forward on cloud computing, Kimberly S. Stevenson, VP IT, GM IT Global Operations and Services, Intel said, “Cloud Computing is a key area of innovation for Intel and one of Intel IT’s top objectives for the year 2012. Having realized the immense potential of cloud, it is essential for companies to come together and enable collaborative innovation to address both India and global market needs.”
Stevenson said the key focus should now be on developing the ecosystem, which should also include developing talent for cloud development. The other focus areas are connecting startup ISVs with large system integrators, enabling startups on the cloud market places, and influencing government policies to become cloud friendly in the near future.
Speaking to InformationWeek on the sidelines of the Summit, R Ravichandran, Director, Sales, Intel South Asia said, “There are three focus areas for Intel in 2012: Client aware, Federated cloud, and Automated. Intel wants to create new standards like Client aware wherein websites will sense the device on which they are being viewed and reformat their appearance on the fly for that screen. This will improve the user’s surfing experience, irrespective of what device he uses.”
In a Federated cloud one would be able to share data securely across public and private clouds. Client aware means optimizing services based on device capability. And once provisioning of resources and services are automated, IT can focus more on innovation and less on management.
The Summit also focused on how the industry is working towards creating benefits of cloud computing to enterprises across the region. The event showcased Intel Cloud Builder(s) reference architecture and had various demonstrations from partners such as Microsoft, Dell and Fujitsu.
The lack of standards has been an inhibitor to the adoption of cloud computing. So Intel helped create the Open Data Center Alliance in October 2010. The ODC has a membership of 300 plus IT leaders from user organizations that work with vendors for the developments of standards for cloud computing. Approximately 100 companies (which account for more than USD 50 bn in annual IT spending) have joined the Alliance, including BMW, Royal Dutch Shell and Marriott Hotels. The Alliance's Cloud 2015 vision is aimed at creating a federated cloud where common standards will be laid down for those in the hardware and software arena.
“Accelerated adoption and usage of cloud solutions across large enterprises, SMBs and Government has led to the development of a strong robust Cloud Tail end in India,” said Ravichandran. “To balance the play many managed services providers, Telcos, data center hosting companies and the local solution providers are actively building up ‘Cloud’ based solution delivery capabilities.”
The Summit also focused on Intel’s Cloud 2015 Vision and how Intel is bringing the cloud to reality by developing a cohesive set of open, well-defined cloud computing solutions across IT infrastructures.
Intel Cloud Builders is a cross-industry initiative aimed at making it easier to build, enhance, and operate cloud infrastructure. It is is relevant to enterprises, hosters, telcos, and service providers
looking for transformational guidance that will yield more simplified,
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Global cloud traffic will exceed one-third of all data center traffic by 2015, says Cisco study
Cloud is the fastest growing component of data center traffic, which itself will grow 4-fold at a 33 percent CAGR to reach 4.8 zettabytes annually by 2015, says a study by Cisco. Excerpts from the Cisco Global Cloud Index reveal that the cloud is also estimated today to be 11 percent of data center traffic, growing to more than 33 percent of the total by 2015.
The Cisco Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015) was developed to estimate global data center and cloud-based Internet Protocol traffic growth and trends. As the network and data center are becoming intrinsically linked in the delivery of cloud services, this study complements existing network traffic studies to provide new insights and visibility into the emerging trends affecting data center and cloud architectures.
The vast majority of the data center traffic is not caused by end users but by the data centers and clouds themselves undertaking activities that are largely transparent to end users – like backup and replication. By 2015, 76 percent of data center traffic will remain within the data center itself as workloads migrate between various virtual machines and background tasks take place, 17 percent of the total traffic leaves the data center to be delivered to the end user, while an additional 7 percent of total traffic is generated between data centers through activities such as cloud-bursting, data replication and updates.
Highlights
Cloud will account for one-third of total data center traffic - Globally, cloud traffic will grow from just 11 percent (11 exabytes per month and 130 exabytes annually) of total data center traffic in 2010 to more than a third of total data center traffic (34 percent specifically--137 exabytes per month and 1.6 zettabytes annually) by 2015.
Global cloud traffic growing twice as fast as global data center traffic - The transition to cloud services is driving global cloud traffic at a growth rate that is twice as great as global data center traffic. Global data center traffic will grow fourfold (a 33 percent CAGR) from 2010 to 2015, while global cloud traffic will grow 12-fold (a 66 percent CAGR) over the same period.
Global data center traffic growth: a four-fold increase by 2015 - Data center traffic is forecast to more than quadruple from 1.1 zettabytes in 2010 to 4.8 zettabytes annually in 2015, representing a 33 percent CAGR.
Most data center traffic stays within the data center itself - Of the data center traffic in 2015, 76 percent stays within the data center itself, through such activities as storage and authentication across virtual machines. 17 percent is data-center traffic being delivered to end users, while 7 percent is generated between data centers through activities such as backup and replication.
Peak end-user activity more than 2.5 times average in 2015 – Due to the rise in video-based consumer services, data-center-to-user traffic has some significant peaks in activity. Much like prime time viewing hours, average amount of data center traffic per hour during peak periods is expected to rise up to 2.5 times, requiring the need to plan for additional capacity from data centers and the cloud as well as from the network. The on-demand model of cloud is perfectly suited to serve this type of variable demand.
Workload transition - In 2010, 21 percent of workloads were processed in a cloud-based data center with 79 percent being handled in a traditional data center. 2014 is the first year where the balance of workloads shifts toward the cloud for the first time – 51 percent of total workloads will be in a cloud environment versus 49 percent in the traditional IT space. Overall, the data center workload from 2010 – 2015 is growing 2.7-fold; however, the cloud workload from 2010 – 2015 is growing more than 7-fold over the forecast period. Read More
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