'We See Huge Potential for the Growth of e-Commerce in India,' Jeff Bezos

A day after Indian e-commerce company Flipkart announced it had raised $1 billion in funding, Amazon has announced plans to invest an additional $2 billion in the Indian market. The Amazon marketplace that was launched in India about a year ago, has grown with over 17 million products from a continually growing base of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses, serving millions of... By

Arun Gupta to Quit Cipla as CIO

Arun Gupta, CIO at Cipla, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in India, has decided to move on after working with the company for more than two years. His last day at Cipla will be on Thursday, 31 July 2014. “After selling medicines to make a world a healthier place I have decided to leave Cipla to pursue something new again. Some of you will wonder 'not again' and some of you... By CIO&Leader

Citrix bullish about DaaS segment in India

Citrix today announced its reinforced India focus on Desktops-as-a Service (DaaS), a desktop virtualization solution that delivers desktops, applications and data as an on-demand service. The company’s focus is in line with the growing demand among Indian CIOs for TCO reduction in enterprise desktop deployments along with the need for anytime anywhere access to corporate data. Globally,... By IT NEXT

Cloudwatt Deploys OpenContrail

Cloudwatt, a new-generation European public cloud provider, has deployed OpenContrail to improve network operation efficiency and ensure data sovereignty and security for its large-scale cloud deployment. OpenContrail is an open source project initiated by Juniper Networks in September 2013 to foster innovation in software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and... By CIO&Leader

Piracy 2.0: The New Face of Unlicensed Software

Software piracy has long been the scourge of the IT industry. It has not only raised hackles amongst vendors but also troubled enterprise technology leaders alike – those who have inadvertently deployed unlicensed software. While vendors have lamented the loss of revenues, CIOs have had to be at the receiving end of audit firms, and their subsequent punitive actions. The numbers... By Yashvendra Singh

‘We Leveraged ‘Flash’ Technology for the Clear Business Benefits’

With corporate data growth rates at 50 to 60 per cent per year and the IT budgets waning, businesses are forced to try new approaches as they deploy storage assets. Data storage is a key enabler for this transformation. Capacities offered by storage systems although have grown exponentially, disk performance has not grown anywhere near the same speed.  Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), as we... By Mastufa Ahmed

Building a BYOD Policy for Your Enterprise

Defining a policy framework around BYOD to access right data, combined with right security measures will ensure higher productivity. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) as a concept provides freedom to employees in an enterprise to use multiple devices (enterprise owned or personal) to access different layers of enterprise data. The desire to have seamless user rich experience without any downtime is... By

How Cleartrip Accelerated Application, Reduced Cost Using MPLS Platform

With the stiff competition in online travel industry, one of the early entrants, Cleartrip had only one agenda, “making travel simple” for its customers. All they wanted was a clean and clutter free website, easy to load, quick in providing relevant information, simple to navigate and offering an easy booking process. The biggest challenge The biggest challenge was to address... By IT NEXT

India’s Mobile Services Market To Reach $19.2 Billion In 2014

The mobile services market in India will remain almost at the same level as 2013 at $19.2 billion in 2014. “The mobile market in India is going through a rough patch, where voice average revenue per user (ARPU) is falling very fast, and the increase in data ARPU is not able to fully compensate for the decline,“ said Neha Gupta, senior research analyst at Gartner. “If the... By

BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Now Available as a Hosted Service

BES10 will now be available as a hosted service through third-party partners worldwide. BES10 Hosted provides the benefits of trusted BlackBerry enterprise mobility management (EMM) and advanced security capabilities with the convenience of hosted IT administration. BES10 Hosted will allow organizations to benefit from BlackBerry’s network while leveraging the expertise of a BlackBerry... By

Red Hat and Cisco Extend Cloud Collaboration in India

Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, today announced the extension of their cloud collaboration with Cisco in India.  IDC estimated in 2014 that the size of the worldwide cloud systems management software market in 2018 stands at US$5.8 billion. With this in mind, Red Hat and Cisco have announced a new Center of Excellence in Gurgaon, India, to provide customers and... By

GCPL Transforming Data Analysis into Winning Decisions

Historically, Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) had been using SAP ERP as its foundation which was supported by the SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse solution (formerly named SAP Business  Information Warehouse) for Business Intelligence, analytics and reporting. GCPL was looking for a self-service, user friendly BI solution that could provide improved analytical capabilities at all... By Subhankar Kundu