CIOs Intend to Reap the Benefits of IoT

As in the  Internet of Things (IoT)  (the online network where devices are talking to devices, appliances and machines), devices communicate with one another, it is going to create that digitally connected environment which is not only innovative and promising but also slated to grow and connect 50 billion devices by 2020. CIOs across large enterprises intend to reap the benefits of... By Subhankar Kundu

Vishal Sikka Needs To Establish Credibility in the Infosys Brand

The appointment of Dr. Vishal Sikka as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (CEO & MD) of Infosys, is expected to end the uncertainty at Infosys. Dr. Sikka will be inducted as a whole-time director of the Board and CEO & MD (Designate) on June 14, 2014. He will take over as CEO & MD from S. D. Shibulal on August 1, 2014. The Infosys board has also elevated U.B. Pravin... By CIO&Leader

CSO Forum Mid-Year Summit kicks off in Bangalore

The CSO Forum Mid Year Summit – the premium event for enterprise security decision makers – started in Bangalore today with top CSOs deliberating on the top-of-the-mind security issues confronting corporates today. The day-long event, attended by more than 60 CSOs, would be debating on such topics as DDoS attacks, data protection and the legal regime, identity thefts, security for digital... By CIO&Leader

Creating a Facebook-like Social Enterprise, Internally

It’s critical to have internal social enterprise network to collaborate for better productivity. Collaboration is indeed the top priority for almost every organisation, but knowing what makes organisations successful still remains tricky. Collaboration initiatives of no two companies are alike, and there is a vast difference in the strategies and technologies each one adopts to be... By Subhankar Kundu

What Big Data Means to Healthcare

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CIO, What’s Your Style of Leadership?

Each CIO comes with his own way of handling his team, some of them believe it’s all about empowering the team that consists of senior IT managers; a section of them think that coaching and mentoring activities take the team a long way; yet there are others who consider that having a business mind helps them in getting equipped to sit at the corporate table.Some CIOs follow their instincts... By Subhankar Kundu

HP Promises to Give Enterprises Speed with Moonshot

HP has announced its Moonshot innovations that promise to give enterprises the speed, agility and lower economics to build next-generation data centers that will power tomorrow’s successful organizations.Data centers are reaching an unsustainable point—in the next five years the average enterprise will see data capacities grow more than 800 per cent. Enterprises need to be able to... By IT NEXT

CISOs' Current Strategy a Recipe for Failure

“CISOs are often forced to cast a wide net, ineffectively doing a little bit of everything in an attempt to address the wide range of security threats facing their organization. Unfortunately, this approach breeds more failure than success, resulting in more tools purchased than could ever possibly be effectively deployed given the existing staff,” a report titled 'The Role of... By CIO&Leader

SRP is the New ERP for Services Sector

Ramco Systems has given a spin to ERP by introducing SRP (Services Resource Planning (SRP), an ERP built and positioned to help services sector.Ramco came out of loss phase and it recorded profits in last quarter of 2013-14. Now, under Virender Aggarwal, CEO, the company has transformed itself into a Global Enterprise Cloud provider with comprehensive offerings to address ERP, HR, Aviation MRO... By IT NEXT

Rebuilding Flipkart's Data Centres

Challenge In 2010, as traffic on the website grew manifold, Flipkart started looking for an agile and robust data center solution housed in India. The company’s data center was located in Canada. Due to the location, the web portal had higher latency for people logging in from India. It was not good for Flipkart’s business, as most of our customer, around 95 per cent, were logging in from India... By CIO&Leader

Most Enterprises in SAP Landscape Moving to Cloud?

HCL Technologies has revealed in one of its report that that $39 billion of SAP landscape could move to the cloud in the next two years, as large enterprises plan to migrate 46 per cent of their existing SAP on-premise environment. The global survey of 100 executives from large enterprises focused on their current and future plans to deploy SAP applications and infrastructure in the cloud. It... By IT NEXT

Wearable Devices will Drive 50 per cent of App Interactions

With digital business blurring the line between the physical and the digital worlds, consumer-centric mobile apps are playing an important role.Gartner predicts that, by 2015, most mobile apps will sync, collect and analyze deep data about users and their social graphs, but most IT leaders are failing to consider the deep impact that mobile apps have on their information infrastructure.Gartner... By IT NEXT