Microsoft’s SMB Customers Can Now Procure Cloud Locally

Micorsoft has announced that Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in India will now be able to purchase Microsoft Azure cloud platform from their local IT partner.  Microsoft has made this possible by making Azure available in the open licensing catalogue for India.  SMBs in India rely on products available with their local IT partner in open licensing catalogue to fulfil their IT needs... By IT NEXT

IBM’s New Cloud Solution to Help Customers in Workforce Science

IBM has announced new cloud-based solutions and a Talent and Change consulting practice to enable organizations to use analytics and workforce science to identify top talent, deepen employee engagement and manage transformational change to provide differentiated client experiences. The new offerings are delivered through IBM’s Smarter Workforce initiative and draw upon the company’s... By IT NEXT

NxtGen to Secure its Customers applications with WAF

NxtGen and Indusface have announced a strategic partnership to advance application security across NxtGen’s cloud infrastructure to secure its customers from cyber threats  and DDoS attacks. All NxtGen customers are expected to benefit from this partnership, enabling them to get instant Return on Investments( RoI) by accurate virtual patching of existing vulnerabilities on day one,... By CIO&Leader

Saving Store Costs with Analytics

Background Thangamayil Jewellery is among the fastest growing companies in India, with a chain of jewellery retail stores across several districts of Tamil Nadu--the state with the largest share of India’s total gold consumption. In the past year, four new outlets opened, bringing the total number of showrooms to 31. The Madurai-based company with 1,200 staff deals in gold, silver,... By IT NEXT

5 Steps to IaaS Public Cloud Implementation

Most CIOs and their teams agree that during the journey towards enterprise cloud implementation, the IT team’s task is much harder after the cost-benefit analysis has been approved by the senior management and after the budget is approved. Hence, the team’s priority would be to meticulously architect the cloud solution to meet the performance as well as the cost targets to reap... By IT NEXT

High performance data centre for AO cloud

 AO Cloud has created a new network architecture for cloud platform services with “convergent cloud” solutions based on Brocade VCS Fabric technology. With its low-latency, high-availability onshore hosting environment, AO Cloud meets data sovereignty needs in keeping corporate data within New Zealand borders. Within its data centres AO Cloud has deployed 10 Gigabit Ethernet (... By IT NEXT

Smartphone Market in India grows 11 per cent Y-o-Y

Smartphone market in India has maintained its growth impetus with smartphone shipments touching year-on-year growth of 84 per cent in Q2 2014 and a quarterly growth of 11 per cent.   According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the overall India mobile phone market stood at 63.21 million units in Q2 2014 i.e. a 5 per cent quarter on quarter growth against Q1 2014. The growth can be... By IT NEXT

Microsoft to Drop Support for Older Versions of Internet Explorer

Only the most recent version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates, says Microsoft. Customers using Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, or Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 SP1 should migrate to Internet Explorer 11 to continue receiving security updates and technical support. Here is what Microsoft says... By

Indian Banking & Securities Firms to Spend 47000 Crores on IT In 2014

Indian banking and securities companies will spend 470 billion rupees on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of more than 10 percent over 2013 revenue of 426 billion rupees, according to Gartner.  This forecast includes spending by financial institutions on internal IT (largely personnel), hardware, software, external IT services and telecommunications. IT services is the... By

Education Sector Accounted for 85 Per Cent of Chromebook Sales in 2013

By 2017, sales of Chromebooks are set to nearly triple to reach 14.4 million units. "Competition in the Chromebook market is intensifying as more vendors launch Chromebooks, with eight models in the market in 2014," said Isabelle Durand, principal analyst at Gartner. "Now that the PC market is no longer growing strongly, vendors are searching for new business opportunities. They launched... By

Quick Tips to Discern and Evade Pirated Software

The most common form of piracy is ‘end-user piracy’. End-user abuse occurs when you or your company uses one licensed copy to install a program on multiple computers or servers, when you copy disks for installation and distribution, when you acquire academic or other restricted software to use for an unqualified purpose or when you swap disks inside or outside the workplace. Without... By

3 Best Practices To Drive Big Data

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