NEXT100 Winners Batch 1

Speaker Ritesh Bhargava, General Manager - Business Solutions, Vodafone Business Services Ritesh has more than 16 years of experience in formulating total telecom solutions, and performing network design for global service delivery, operations & business development. He provides advice on telecom solutions like Backhauls, IP Transit, Hosting & Unified communications to enterprises... By IT NEXT

Appreciation for NEXT100 2014 Jury

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What will the ePublic Sector and Government Look Like in 2020?

The pace of change continues to accelerate. Technology once seen only in science fiction films now sits in the palm of a hand. Innovative business models are not only succeeding but scaling rapidly. The same trends and forces currently remaking business and society are also transforming the way government operates and serves citizens, a process examined in Gov2020, an extensive new study by... By

Next100 2014 Winners Are Here!

Winners of 2014 NEXT100 Awards have been announced!  100 Winners felicitated at a glittering celebration held at Hyat Regency, Gurgoan.  22 November 2014 was a momentous date for the Indian IT manager community as the winners of the NEXT100 awards for the year were announced then. ITNEXT celebrated this  landmark fifth year of the awards... By Manan M

Zoho to Open a Data Center in India

Zoho Corp announced the launch of Zoho.in, a suite of applications for companies to run their entire business on Zoho. Zoho is offering this package free exclusively for Indian businesses. Included in the package is an offer for Indian businesses to register a free .in or .co.in domain, a flexible website creation application in Zoho Sites, Email Hosting application in Zoho Mail... By IT NEXT

SaaS Deployments Are Now Mission Critical

Global buyers of cloud applications cite cost, innovation and agility as reasons for adoption, says a survey by Gartner. In May and June 2014, Gartner conducted a survey across 10 countries in four regions to examine organizations' adoption and deployment of cloud services across SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).  "The most commonly cited reasons... By

Internet of Things in Simple Words

The term Internet of things or IoT is one of the most widely used phrases these days, especially after the Government of India’s smart city plan. People are familiar with the term, however, there are confusions that still exist when it comes to terms like ‘Internet of things’, ‘Internet of everything’, and machine to machine’, etc.  Here we try to... By

DeitY Releases its Latest Draft IoT Policy

The draft Internet of Things (IoT) policy released by DeitY (Department of Electronics and Information Technology) aims at IoT driven consumer and business actions based on intelligent industry solutions. Further, the launch of the Digital India Program & Smart City concept of the government focuses on ‘transforming India into digital empowered society and knowledge economy’.... By Sanjay Kumar

10 Sectors that Can Leverage M2M for Business Benefits

From monitoring of energy use with smart metering, freight tracking, intelligent transportation to remote diagnosis of illness, the technology has potential that can permeate beyond the benefits early adopters of M2M stand to gain.   Because there are myths that businesses need to dispel and complexities involved around the technology, adoption of this technology on a scale will take time... By Mastufa Ahmed

The 5 Factors that Will Make a Senior IT Manager Change His Job

Anyone into recruitment knows that good talent is scarce. If you are in the market for senior IT managers, you should know what will make them say yes to your offer. What is it that will make a Senior IT Manager change his job? Is it money, better brand, more perks, or a global role?  We asked 40 senior IT managers from across business domains --from finance to realty to manufacturing to... By Mastufa Ahmed

Way To Do DevOps

There are organisations that are leveraging this new trend to expedite software delivery by reducing dysfunctions arising out of development and operations silos. However, since the rules of the game are not well crafted as yet, organisations are practicing it in different styles and forms. We spoke to IT managers and developers to know how they are exploiting it to their business benefit. Here... By Mastufa Ahmed

40% Mobile Apps Not Safe for Handling Data, Survey

As much as 40% of mobile application vulnerabilities detected are related to unsafe handling of data, says Indusface, a provider of application security solutions for web and mobile applications. While sectors like BFSI and E-commerce that conduct a large part of their business over mobile and web are already taking proactive measures to protect their data transactions, others that are... By