Wednesday, October 23, 2013

IT News Head Lines (InformationWeek) 10/24/2013





India IT spending to reach USD 71.3 billion in 2014: Gartner
IT spending in India is projected to total USD 71.3 billion in 2014, a 5.9 percent increase from the USD 67.4 billion forecast for 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. IT services will record the strongest...



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Noshin Kagalwalla appointed as MD for SAS India
SAS has named Noshin Kagalwalla as the Managing Director of SAS Institute (India). Noshin Kagalwalla is a veteran in the IT industry and has over 19 years of experience across business functions. Noshin...



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Microsoft Suspends Windows RT 8.1 Update
Microsoft suspended downloads of its Windows 8.1 update for RT devices Friday after some users reported seeing a "blue screen of death" when they attempted to install the upgrade.
Microsoft began a...



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Social business adoption: Focus on people
Many companies understand the value of social business: increased employee productivity, increased revenue and reduced operational costs. In July 2012, the McKinsey Global Institute released a report that...



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How SDN can transform the networking industry
The server and storage industry have undergone a huge transformation in the last decade due to virtualization. The networking industry is expected to undergo a similar transformation with the birth of...



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‘CIOs need to align IT strategy with business objectives’: S S Kukreja, VP and Head IT, IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance

IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance (ITGI) incorporated in the year 2000 is a joint venture between the Indian Farmers Fertilizer Co-operative (IFFCO), Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Group. ITGI offers insurance...



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How would you build IT from scratch?
What would you do if you were starting from scratch? This is a question businesses seldom ask themselves. Yet it's an essential one, a destructive one and ultimately one that's at the root of reinvention....



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Two-thirds of enterprise workloads to be processed by cloud data centers by 2017: Cisco Global Cloud Index
In the recently released third annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012 – 2017), Cisco has forecast that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold...



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Manthan System launches mobile analytics app for retail vertical
Manthan Systems recently announced implementations of ARC Mobile, a retail analytics solution that provides retailers access to critical operations, merchandising, marketing and financial insights from...



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India appears to be the ransomware capital of Asia Pacific: Norton Report
Symantec has recently released India findings from the 2013 Norton Report, which reveals that India is among the world’s top five countries for the highest number of incidences of cybercrime such as ransomware...



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Beware of the ransomware CryptoLocker: Quick Heal
In early September 2013, Quick Heal Threat Research and Response lab received several incidents about a malware that once executed encrypts files in the victim’s computer, and demands a certain ransom...



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