ING Vysya To Deploy NetApp’s FAS Storage System For Online Banking Needs

ING Vysya Bank is looking forward to deploy NetApp’s FAS storage system to deliver the necessary throughput, capacity and connectivity, across 553 branches. With the NetApp FAS storage system ING Vysya can deliver online and mobile banking services to more than 2,000,000 customers across the country. “We are proud to be the first core banking application in India to be hosted on... By CIO&Leader

Ganesh Murthy Joins Dell Services As CFO

Ganesh Murthy, the former executive vice president and CFO of Mphasis Limited, a subsidiary of HP, has joined Dell Services as vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Based in Bengaluru, he will be reporting to Thomas Sweet, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Dell and will support the Dell Services business and Suresh Vaswani, president of Dell Services, according to... By CIO&Leader

A few learnings from Mahabharata for CIOs to Negotiate Better

As cost and best solutions are the two can’t-miss components of IT deal with the vendors, CIOs and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) need to look at how to make the best use of lean resources to get things done. As budgets are shrinking, CIOs will have to ensure the vendors don’t compromise on levels of service. Drawing a parallel with Mahabharata teachings Drawing an analogy with... By Subhankar Kundu

Driving the Growth Wheel

For Ramesh, the inspiration for 27 years of his work life has been the urge to create incredible things through IT projects – and ensure it reaches end users for the benefit of the organisation with minimal support required from the management.Early daysHe chose IT as a career as he found the scope to grow to be unlimited and enormous. In early ’90s, he was more interested in... By Subhankar Kundu

Changing Role of CTO with the Arrival of Cloud Telephony

In 2009, CTOs were still trying to get their heads around cloud telephony; in 2013 they have become its biggest advocates. How did this happen? In order to understand this phenomenon better, we have to go back to the economic conditions prevailing in those days. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 was bruising for the investment industry in particular and the industry as a whole. Many VCs... By IT NEXT

Oracle Cloud Roadmap Laid As Enterprise grade

Cloud computing is driving a significant part of Oracle’s product development plans – from enterprise applications to middleware, databases, servers and storage devices, as well as cloud management systems. Oracle’s overall roadmap is to provide the industry’s most complete, open and integrated set of products from applications to disk. For cloud computing, Oracle’s... By Subhankar Kundu

5 Suggestions for IT Managers Across Industries to Exploit IoT

What are the key drivers of Internet of Things?The confluence of efficient wireless protocols, improved sensors, cheaper processors, and a number of start-ups and established companies developing the necessary management and application software has finally made the concept of ‘Internet of Things’ mainstream. Consumers are currently the key driver for this data explosion in the... By Mastufa Ahmed

Is Veracity the King of Big Data Vs?

Veracity of the data is a big element that can determine the success of Big Data. With the unprecedented information explosion, managing data has become a herculean task. Today, across industries – and primarily in manufacturing, retail, telecom, IT/ITeS, healthcare, BFSI and Oil – IT managers are all betting big on Big Data; but the challenge they face is to draw up the right... By Subhankar Kundu

Why Should Businesses Consider Big Data, Gamification and Mobility?

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How to Align Your Business with the Changing Technology

Technology depends significantly on business, which CIO supports. However, today the fact is technology quickly keeps on changing, and hence it is very important for any CIO to have an action plan as part of the strategy to align these changing technologies with business. An effective IT road map certainly helps in charting out these changes and tech- transformations. CIOs need to have the... By

Why CIOs and CMOs Should Consider a Bank-Specific App Store

The explosive growth of apps is causing significant challenges for the banking industry, according to a Gartner report.  By 2016, 25 per cent of the top 50 global banks will have a banking app store for customers, say the report.  Banking CIOs, CMOs and line of business (LOB) heads face two key challenges. The first is that the visibility of customer banking apps in public stores is... By

Transforming IT Into A Profit Centre In Writer Corporation

IT is increasingly seen as a business enabler. Haven’t corporates in India moved from viewing IT as a cost centre? In India, even today, IT is looked upon as a cost centre. In fact, in most organisations, IT doesn’t even have a cost code. Technology investments are kept to a minimum, and the expectation of the board with respect to IT is low. As they are not hands-on, they (... By Yashvendra Singh