Thursday, January 31, 2013

IT News Head Lines (InformationWeek) 01/02/2013


Advanced Persistent Threats to rule 2013: Trend Micro APTs are stealthier and more sophisticated than the typical threats, using insidious social engineering techniques Read More ...
Delhi International Airport launches India’s first virtual shopping wall At HomeShop18’s virtual shopping wall, flyers will be able to order by simply scanning the QR code displayed against each item Read More ...
Research In Motion changes its name to BlackBerry Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that it will now operate around the world under the iconic name BlackBerry, effective immediately. Read More ...
BlackBerry 10 platform launched on two new smartphones RIM today announced that it had launched BlackBerry 10 on two new LTE-enabled smartphones, the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones Read More ...
How Big Data could help tame cancer UK cancer scientists say a huge DNA database could help prolong the lives of some patients Read More ...
The four steps to IT consolidation nirvana The path starts with adopting advanced consolidation strategies that build upon a foundation of basic server virtualization, deepen the use of virtualization, and extend consolidation across the enterprise Read More ...
Collaboration helps KPIT Cummins slash communication costs By adopting Lync Server 2010 as its company-wide communications tool, KPIT Cummins has reduced communication costs by 35 percent Read More ...
How Big Data analytics can benefit the retail sector Analysis of Big Data in the form of transaction history, purchase frequency and web-behavior, can offer retailers the opportunity to study patterns in customer behavior and tap into unmet customer demands, says Sheshagiri Anegondi of Oracle India Read More ...
‘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 Read More ...
Mobile computing, virtualization and cloud driving data center complexity in Indian organizations: Symantec report 96 percent of organizations looking at information governance to address challenges Read More ...
VMware, EMC shakeup hints at data center's future VMware CEO Maritz moves up to EMC chief strategist role and Gelsinger becomes VMware CEO, as virtualization changes how data centers are run. Take a look at EMC's larger vision Read More ...
How to not plan a data center The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency built a bigger data center than it needed. Now the potential federal IT boondoggle is being turned into a storage center for data generated by remote sensors and cloud computing. Read More ...
A peek inside Wipro’s LEED GOLD Certified Data Center Kiran Desai, VP and Business Head, Managed Services Business, Wipro Infotech, talks about the power management and cooling technologies deployed within Wipro’s LEED GOLD-certified Data Center in Greater Noida Read More ...
Software-Defined data centers are future, says VMware CTO, Steve Herrod VMware CTO Steve Herrod predicts that all data center resources will be virtualized and governed by a unified console Read More ...
Netmagic and Spectranet enter into strategic partnership India's first multi-location commercial Datacenter-n-Datacenter worth Rs 200 crore to be set up in four cities as part of the partnership Read More ...
Acquisition by NTT Com will open up global market for Netmagic - Sharad Sanghi Calling the acquisition a huge win-win deal for both Netmagic and NTT Communications Corporation, Netmagic’s CEO, Sharad Sanghi, says that this deal will help his firm access global markets Read More ...
Andhra Pradesh Government launches State Data Centre Spread across 9000 square feet, the Data Centre has a storage capacity of 50 TB Read More ...
Data centers, DR, and private clouds now ‘on-demand’ Want a data center? A company is now offering it ‘on demand’ and claims you can have it in a few weeks. It claims you can save significantly with their on-demand private cloud and on-demand DR site; resources can be self-provisioned much faster Read More ...
Aircel reduces overall DC carbon footprint The data center has helped in establishing service oriented architecture (SOA) that, in turn, has enabled fast rollouts pan-India without compromising on the flexibility to adapt to business requirements Read More ...
'Cloud optimized networks can help organizations solve business challenges' At the Brocade Technology Day 2011 event at San Jose, Dave Stevens, CTO, Brocade spoke to Vinita Gupta about Brocade’s ways of extending data center-class capabilities to the network edge Read More ...
HP Networking becomes EAL 2 CC certified HP is the first company in India to have leveraged the CC certification process, having met the rigorous security standards established by the CC framework, to ensure IT security Read More ...
Cisco introduces portable data centers The containerized data centers house 16 racks and include chilled water cooling systems for enterprises that need a quick, flexible, and mobile computing power Read More ...
Smartlink Network Systems sells Digilink to Schneider Smartlink Network Systems Ltd (SNSL) today announced that it is selling its Digilink Business to Schneider Electric India (Schneider) for Rs 5,030 million, under Business Transfer Agreement (BTA). The transaction would primarily include the transfer of the “Digilink” brand and trademarks, part of the manufacturing facility at Goa, the distribution network and employees who served Digilink. The company has agreed to a non-compete condition for a period of 5 years for the passive networking business. Read More ...
Tech giants push smart networking standard Rivals Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, along with Cisco and IBM to name a few others, are overlooking their differences to promote programmable networking Read More ...
Juniper aims to flatten the network with QFabric QFabric is Juniper’s vision of a single fabric to reduce network latency Read More ...
Ethernet fabric switching solutions to ease data center bottlenecks Brocade introduces VCS technology and the VDX platform for virtualized data centers and cloud environments Read More ...
What will future data centers look like? With the ability to add multiple cores in a single server, combined with virtualization capabilities, data centers of the future might be a fraction of the size they are today Read More ...
Emerging data center designs aimed at deriving highest compute performance per kilowatt New data centers will be able to provide a 300 percent growth in capacity in 60 percent less space than existing data centers, according to Gartner Read More ...
Gartner survey shows data growth as the largest data center infrastructure challenge More than half of respondents plan to expand capacity at existing data center sites by end of 2011 Read More ...
Linux replacing Windows in data centers A Linux Foundation survey found increasing preference for the open source operating system in new server deployments Read More ...
Trimax wins Managed IT services project from Rajasthan Govt As a part of the project, the company will manage end-to-end IT for various organizations of the State of Rajasthan Read More ...
Emerson Network Power launches new data center management tool The firm recently introduced Avocent Data Center Planner, a visual infrastructure planning and management software solution Read More ...
40 GbE will be an important technology for the data center Paul Hooper, Chief Marketing Officer, Extreme Networks shares his perspective on the evolution of the cloud and why 40GbE will prove to be a powerful solution in the data center Read More ...
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 Read More ...
Wipro launches data centers that can be set up in a week Wipro Infotech announced the launch of FluidState data centers, which can be launched almost ten times faster than a conventional data center Read More ...
Data center power can be reduced by 50 percent, says IIT Delhi professor Dr Preeti Ranjan Panda from IIT Delhi is working on a project to reduce power consumption in the data center by up to 50 percent Read More ...
IBM unveils Next-Generation mainframe Big Blue calls new zEnterprise server a "data center in a box" that will appeal as much to CFOs as CIOs Read More ...
HP delivers new collaboration and consolidation solutions for SMBs New offerings include server and storage solutions that HP claims will allow upto 56 percent reductions in total cost of ownership compared to traditional IT infrastructures Read More ...
10,000 cows can power 1 MW data center, says HP Labs Research from HP Labs shows how the manure output of cows and the heat output of data centers can be combined to create an economically and environmentally sustainable operation Read More ...
IBM bets on ex5 to propel x86 market share The firm’s eX5 architecture will allow enterprises to scale the memory in their data centers without having to buy new servers Read More ...
‘Systems are getting instrumented and increasingly interconnected’ If you were stumped by terms like ‘smart grids,’ ‘smarter planet’ and ‘dynamic infrastructure’ and wondered how all this would change the world, you’ve got to have a chat with Dr P (Gopal) Gopalakrishnan, VP, IBM India Software Lab. Dr Gopal has been tracking technology for years and contributes to several major products from IBM in the areas of software and systems. He told Brian Pereira about IBM’s Smarter Planet and Dynamic Infrastructure visions and how these will transform the data center Read More ...
‘Application owners want the infrastructure to be secure multi-tenant’ As data centers become increasingly virtualized there are a new set of challenges to be tackled. Brian Pereira caught up with Rajesh Janey, President – India and SAARC, NetApp, to discuss customer concerns, and how NetApp is addressing these issues through its storage efficiency drive and solutions Read More ...
Are you neglecting your WAN? Web apps and consolidated data centers are adding pressure, and video will bring more. It could be time to explore new options Read More ...
A new approach to IT Infrastructure When it comes to deploying IT infrastructure, organizations are moving from an application-centric approach to a service-centric approach. All eyes are on your data center, which is set to undergo an unprecedented transformation Read More ...
Enterprise data center : Still the core of business tranformation Though SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and the idea of private/public clouds is getting a lot of attention, the enterprise data center will continue to be the key focus area for CIOs Read More ...
Cloud, Mobility and Open Source will drive Indian application development market The Indian application development software market is expected to reach more than USD 227 million in 2012, says research firm, Gartner Read More ...
India plays key role in Red Hat’s global plans Besides playing a key role in the firm's R&D operations, Red Hat's entire product line is supported from India Read More ...
Amazon makes clever private cloud play Partnership with Eucalyptus, the open-source purveyor of Amazon APIs, guarantees ongoing compatibility between public EC2 and private cloud operations Read More ...
How to reduce your cost and improve time to market by using open source NextGen portals At INTEROP Mumbai 2011, Bharati Lele, Head - Innovation Labs, L&T Infotech, will deliver a session on why open source portals represent a great alternative to commercial portals Read More ...
Rains from private clouds percolate to SMBs In India, a couple of small firms are demonstrating the true value of private clouds Read More ...
No more technology lock-in As much as 90 percent reduction in connectivity, power and other recurring costs Read More ...
Adoption of open source infrastructure management tools on the rise A growing number of Indian CIOs are considering open source network management tools to manage their infrastructure Read More ...
Open source vulnerabilities paint a target on Android With smartphone exploits on the rise, an almost-successful attack against Android devices hints at future dangers Read More ...
Linux developers mull unified App Store Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other distros are working on a framework for a universal application installer Read More ...
Indian CIOs open up to open source Indian CIOs are opening up towards adoption of open source but it will not be a ‘rip and replace’ technology and will co-exist along with proprietary software Read More ...
Open source project server hacked, software rigged with backdoor trojan ProFTPD File Transfer server software compromised by attackers; anyone who downloaded it between November 28 through December 2 most likely at risk Read More ...
Red Hat looks to strengthen its PaaS offerings with Makara acquisition By integrating the JBoss Enterprise Middleware infrastructure with Makara’s Cloud Application Platform, the company aims to offer a more comprehensive PaaS solution Read More ...
Microsoft supporting cloud open source code for Hyper-V The software giant says its customers don't necessarily want a single hypervisor cloud, so it's supporting OpenStack Read More ...
Actuate partners with Wipro to drive open source BIRT adoption in India Wipro Infotech will promote the use of Actuate products including Actuate BIRT among organizations in India Read More ...
Indian open standards policy for e-governance finalized India's Department of IT (DIT) has approved a far-reaching policy on open standards for e-Governance Read More ...
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says software industry broken Jim Whitehurst believes all vendors, not just Linux distributors, need to embrace open source development methods to improve quality and reduce cycle times Read More ...
mCarbon selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux for new infrastructure platform Post implementation, mCarbon’s voicemail application has seen a steep increase in call attempts from 2 lakh to about 5 lakh in just two years without any drop in performance Read More ...
Go green with Open Source Industry is adopting Open Source because of its many benefits and going green is one of the major ones Read More ...
Informatica aids information management with Marketplace Informatica Marketplace provides a central location for the community members to contribute mappings, mapplets, connectors, templates, dictionaries, vertical solutions and more. Read More ...
Oracle releases 'Unbreakable' Linux kernel Competition with Red Hat heats up with a modified Linux that Oracle says is best for running its software on its hardware Read More ...
Microsoft goes 'open' with Windows Azure The company has announced the availability of a new set of developer tools and SDKs for open source developers to build applications for Windows Azure Read More ...
Symbian and Android to lead mobile OS market, says Gartner The two operating systems will account for close to 60 percent of mobile OS sales by 2014 Read More ...
Red Hat Linux helps NCDEX achieve 99.99 percent uptime With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, NCDEX has designed a high-performance and cost-effective IT infrastructure that has delivered 99.99 percent uptime for its business applications Read More ...
Ubuntu 10.10 Linux released to beta Distribution, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, speeds boot time, enhances cloud integration Read More ...
Red Hat leaps on to PaaS bandwagon A key component of Red Hat Cloud Foundations, Red Hat PaaS will leverage JBoss Enterprise Middleware for open choice in application development and deployment Read More ...
Novell introduces cloud security service The company is targeting more than 200 IaaS and 1300 SaaS and PaaS vendors with the service Read More ...
The idea of version 2.0 of any software will be dead - Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst In an exclusive interview with Srikanth RP and Harshal Kallyanpur, Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst details why the cloud can be the mother of all lock-ins, why the idea of version 2.0 of any software will be dead, and why the new-world IT order will be led by a different set of leaders Read More ...
Red Hat joins hands with Wipro to deliver open source solutions Both organisations plan to collaborate in building integrated solutions on Red Hat technologies through joint investments in Wipro’s CoE Read More ...
Linux Foundation launches license compliance program The non-profit foundation is trying to remove barriers to open source code adoption by easing compliance issues including providing code scanning tools that identify if open source code is linked to commercial code Read More ...
Cloud APIs get open source treatment Red Hat, Rackspace, and others are taking an open approach Read More ...
How to build your own Linux cloud Ubuntu lets you create your own Eucalyptus cloud computing infrastructure on commodity servers, plus it's interface-compatible with Amazon's EC2 Read More ...
Red Hat integrates server and desktop virtualization Red Hat claims that Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 will provide a single infrastructure from which customers can manage their server and desktop virtualization deployments Read More ...
Open source security solutions: An attractive alternative Explore the pros and cons of adopting open source security solutions Read More ...
Rackspace announces open source cloud platform OpenStack counts Intel, AMD and NASA among participants in the cloud computing project that may boost competition for market leading Amazon Web Services EC2 Read More ...
SMBs lead Linux server OS adoption across India: Springboard Constrained by limited budgets, Linux is proving to be the right platform for SMBs Read More ...
Red Hat powers Just Dial’s IT infrastructure Just Dial currently has more than 200 servers with its mission-critical Intranet and extranet applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Read More ...
Nine ways to avoid open source pitfalls Follow these guidelines and avoid problems while still benefiting from what the open source software community has to offer Read More ...
Pentaho launches on demand open source BI Rapid-deployment option promises ready-to-run dashboards, metrics and reports within 72 hours Read More ...
New open source OS will feature 'disposable' virtual machines Invisible Things Lab building secure OS that better locks down the VM environment Read More ...
Open source databases pose unique security challenges Most open source database platforms aren't supported by third-party database activity monitoring and security policy tools Read More ...
Linux proving disruptive in smartphone market Android will run a third of the world's smartphones by 2015, and open source mobile operating systems from Intel, Nokia, and Samsung will also compete, says ABI Research Read More ...
DLP gets an open source boost A new agent-based DLP discovery tool has been released to Google Code called OpenDLP Read More ...
‘We positioned Ubuntu as a version of Linux that was personal and non-technical’ Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux on why he thinks Ubuntu will succeed on the desktop, where other equally famed competitors have failed Read More ...
eScan introduces antivirus protection for Linux based systems Called eScan for Linux version 3.0 the antivirus software is designed for both Linux desktops and file servers Read More ...
Inside Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 beta New features in the distro's latest version will make it possible to run heavy I/O servers, such as database servers, in a virtual machine under Linux, company says Read More ...
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