Virtualisation Helps Polycab Reduce Cost

Mumbai-based Polycab Wires has leveraged the power of virtualisation to cut down operational costs by as much as 25 per cent. The virtual environment has also helped the company in taking care of the back-up of end-user data and security. For Polycab, deploying virtualisation has been a win-win situation. Polycab Wires ranks amongst India's leading cables and wires’ company. From modest... By Yashvendra Singh

Is the Enterprise World Ready for Wearable Devices?

Growing at a CAGR value of 56.1% over the next five years, wearable device technologies will become an integral part of enterprise mobile enablement strategies. As expected, the North American region will be the largest and grow at a CAGR value of 39% over the next five years.  More interestingly, the Asia-Pacific region will become the second largest market outpacing Europeby 2019 with a... By

SAP Unifies Cloud Offerings for Customers to Easily Navigate to Cloud

SAP India announced a unified strategy of delivering next-generation cloud solutions to enable customers better manage their critical assets and relationships, namely HR, Finance, Customer and Procurement. “The cloud has profoundly changed the way people interact. In enterprises today, IT is required to scale up, provide real-time insights into business and help companies decide, respond... By

Are Organizations Continuously Compromising Safety?

The threat landscape has seen a proliferation of highly targeted zero-day attacks and APTs that are designed to steal intellectual property or other critical enterprise data. Researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have discovered more than 140 new zero-day vulnerabilities to date, including 18 found in 2013 alone.  “More than ever, enterprises require intelligent, integrated... By Mastufa Ahmed

Passion is the Only Ladder

Technology is just not a career for Kiran, he is passionate about it. That’s what brought Kiran take the diversion of his career towards IT from his commerce background. His first step to IT was at a computer institute where he first trained himself in computer applications and networking and later was absorbed as a trainer. First steps to IT His first corporate job was at Micro Clinic... By Subhankar Kundu

Mphasis Eyes Big in Banking with Delta Power

Mphasis, which has recently gone through a new branding has announced the launch of what the company calls an “innovative all-in-one e-Surveillance & Power Efficiency Solution ‘ProTecht’”, in partnership with Delta Power Solutions. The partnership will enable Mphasis Payment Managed Services (MPMS), the end-to-end ATM Deployment and Management Services unit of... By IT NEXT

Are MDM and BYOD On the Same Wavelength?

Vendors have been advocating the need for MDM given the rising Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) trend that can be seen across industries and organizations. Altaf Halde is the MD at Kaspersky Labs, India. He explains MDM as “a handful of features that simplifies administration for mobile devices which use a corporate network, while simultaneously providing data protection. It puts the power... By Subhankar Kundu

ITDMs Need to Check the Vendors Roadmap in x86 Space

Get away from the box, fly on cloud. That’s what IBM did last month as the big blue sold its x86 server unit to Lenovo in a deal worth $2.3 billion in its definitive agreement which includes System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, networking and maintenance operations.... By Subhankar Kundu

Riding IT with Style

Santhosh Kempaiah derives inspiration from his team members. And that’s the motivating factor that propels him to go to work every day --the team gives him the flexibility and space to share his ideas. He says, “Today, the opportunity and liberty I have in this role--to explore and innovate in my expert areas of business--is immense. I must say I am very fortunate to work in such an... By Subhankar Kundu

In and Out

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Big Data, the Future, Definitely

Neville Vincent, a Senior VP and GM, APAC at Hitachi Data Systems, talks about the constantly changing role of the CIO, the 3Vs of Big Data, the Indian Market Place and Smarter Cities.  Are CIOs embracing Big Data the way the vendors project it?I don’t think Big Data is just a passing technology fad. When I look at CIOs today, I get quite worried because the management is getting... By Subhankar Kundu

Juniper to Build A NexGen Enterprise Data Center Network for UBS

Juniper Networks has partnered with UBS to build what it calls as a ‘next generation enterprise data center network infrastructure. Many financial service institutions face unprecedented pressures ranging from changing economic conditions to increased regulations and rapidly evolving technologies - all while needing to optimize their cost structure. According to Gartner, sixty-eight per... By IT NEXT