Thangamayil Jewellery Saves 55 Percent on Operating Costs Using Qlik

Qlik announced that Thangamayil Jewellery (Thangamayil), a leading retail chain in India with 30 stores across several districts of Tamil Nadu, is using the QlikView Business Discovery platform.  Thangamayil is monitoring all its inventory in order to better manage stock levels, and as a result has reduced operating costs by 55 percent.  For a jewellery retailer like Thangamayil, the... By

BHEL Wins Bengaluru Leg of TPL 2014

The Bengaluru edition of Technology Premier League 2014 (TPL 2014) was won by the IT team from Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) reperesented by Baliga B. S., Addl. GM (IT & S), Parthasarathy P, Addl. GM and Pradeep Kumar S, Engineer (IT & S). Baliga headed the team at TPL 2014 Bengaluru. The winning team gets a sponsored trip to Las Vegas. The third edition of Technology Premier... By IT NEXT

Philips-Salesforce.com To Deliver Cloud-Based Healthcare IT

Philips and Salesforce.com has announced a strategic alliance to deliver an open, cloud-based healthcare platform. Leveraging Philips’ positions in medical technology, clinical applications and clinical informatics and salesforce.com’s experiece in enterprise cloud computing and customer engagement. Patient relationship management will be at the center of the envisioned platform,... By CIO&Leader

Google Introduces Google Drive for Business Users

As announced at Google's I/O conference, Google Drive will offer unlimited storage on for just $10 a month per user and will accept files up to 5TB in size.  Google Drive for Work is a new premium offering for businesses which includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls.  Google introduced Drive two years ago with an aim to help enterprise work... By

Inventory Management And Remote Care Drive Mobile Adoption In Healthcare

The healthcare ecosystem in India is witnessing a sea change in terms of government focus, growth of corporate healthcare provider brands, and strategic public-private partnerships, with the key aim of increasing geographic and demographic reach. According to IDC Health Insights, the ICT spending in the Indian healthcare industry in 2013 is estimated to be US$ 413.4 million, a growth... By

Why Indian Exporting Manufacturers Should Use Clean IT

According to a survey by IDC, 42% Indian manufacturers named loss of reputation in the global market as the biggest risk due to non-compliance with clean IT, followed by loss of exports, legal costs, etc. Reduction in software piracy by 10% points can generate $1.6 billion revenue for India, says the IDC report. Privacy may cost companies in Indian manufacturing sector upto 40 times their... By Mastufa Ahmed

What's New with Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers?

Companies in Asia-Pacific are rapidly adopting hybrid cloud to increase application response and scalability, as well as expand the range of workloads running in the cloud, says Rackspace. According to Gartner, nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. Rackspace Hosting announced that its redesigned public cloud with Performance Cloud Servers will... By

Data Loss to be Biggest Risk of IoT, Followed by Malware

Fortinet released the results of a global survey that probes home owners about key issues pertaining to the Internet of Things (IoT).  Independently administered throughout 11 countries, the survey titled, “Internet of Things: Connected Home,” gives a global perspective about the Internet of Things, what security and privacy issues are in play, and what home owners are willing... By

Top 10 Technologies for Information Security in 2014

“Enterprises are dedicating increasing resources to security and risk. Nevertheless, attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Advanced targeted attacks and security vulnerabilities in software only add to the headaches brought by the disruptiveness of the Nexus of Forces, which brings mobile, cloud, social and big data together to deliver new business opportunities,”... By

Why Indian Risk Managers Rate Cyber Risk as Top Concern

The majority of risk and insurance professionals inIndia are unaware of whether or not their organisation has been a victim of cyber attacks in the past three years despite a majority of them considering such attacks to be a top concern, according to a survey by Marsh India.  The survey of more than 150 risk and insurance professionals from a wide range of industries found that risk... By

Team Hero MotoCorp Wins New Delhi Leg of TPL '14

The New Delhi edition of Technology Premier League 2014 (TPL 2014) was won by team Hero MotoCorp reperesented by Sujoy Brahmachari, Head- IT Infrastructure & Information Security, Vikas Malhotra, GM-IS and Rohit Khanna, Associate Manager - IS at Hero MotoCorp Ltd. Brahmachari headed the team at TPL 2014 New Delhi. The winning team will get a sponsored trip to Las Vegas. The third edition of... By IT NEXT

How to Combat Next Generation of Advanced Malware

In the biomedical field, researchers and doctors have long understood that microbes and bacteria evolve over time and become more resistant to antibiotics. They need to develop new and stronger medicines to stay current. Likewise in the information security world, new breeds of malware have emerged that are more advanced and resistant to the conventional defenses. Attackers have evolved over... By Mastufa Ahmed