Nokia and NTT DOCOMO to Work Jointly on 5G Technologies

This move builds on the MoU signed by the two companies in January 2014 to research future radio access experimental systems. To meet the demand for extreme capacity and performance, future 5G networks will need to overcome the challenges that will become relevant for operators, such as guaranteeing cell-edge rates in excess of 100 Mbps and reducing latency by a factor of 10. Nokia’s... By

Why Organizations Need to Grow Capacity and Performance Management Skills

Agile infrastructures demand that infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers acquire the performance management skills present only in Web-scale IT, according to Gartner. While major organizations will need to maintain and sustain their conventional capacity-planning skills and tools, they will also need to regularly re-evaluate the tools available, and make a special effort to... By

Revolutionising Retail

The sheer love for technology and its ability to change the way businesses function brought him to IT. He loved the technology arena and the pace at which the IT landscape changes, the sheer pace and the constant innovation.A turning point of his career was the assignment in Tesco, one of the largest retail chains. Chakraborty says, “The tremendous amount of confidence that I derived out... By Subhankar Kundu

SDDC Gives ITDMs the Power of Choice and Flexibility

How can Hitachi Storage Virtualization OS ensure software-defined environment without compromise? Our journey is to get set of feature capabilities, behaviors, operational semantics and so forth. Historically, we have two kinds of search operating systems. Users are asking for operational consistency and feature sets which are consistent as much as possible across the spectrum of hardware... By CIO&Leader

Citrix Strengthens Desktops-as-a-Service

Citrix has announced Workspace Services  for better designing, building and delivering mobile workspaces. The cloud-based platform allows both partners and customers to rapidly build and offer desktops-as-a-service (DaaS), virtual application delivery and mobility services from any cloud. Citrix leads the DaaS market today serving over 350,000 subscribers, growing 50 per cent annually,... By

How Rolta Saved a Fortune with Private Cloud Implementation

Rolta’s front-end organizations, spread all over the world, needed a faster way to be able to customize and showcase Rolta’s products to their customers. This required a way for them to quickly deploy and modify their products. The company decided to look at a private cloud to solve their problems. This initiative was driven by a need to provide speed to their sales and engineering organizations... By Mastufa Ahmed

How to Measure IT’s Business Value?

In today’s world, each and every business initiative is measured in numbers. However, more often than not, the IT community is not overly inclined towards getting IT investment measured in terms of business outcomes or attributed to numbers.  In fact, what one can observe is that the project’s cost-benefit analysis often places IT as the cost centre, while the business takes... By

DPaaS: Don’t Protect Your Data, Just Get the Service

Throw light on the market scenario of Data Protection-as-a-Service?Data Protection as-a-service has witnessed an uptake in the mid-market segment from a public cloud standpoint, while large enterprises have been using this phenomenon as a private cloud. One of the factors that fuelled the adoption of DPaaS is the increasing deployment of virtualisation solutions in the data centre.... By

Precision Infomatic Deploys a Novel Solution to Balance Loads on ISP Links

Why has Precision used Array Networks’ load balancing technique to ensure uninterrupted services? Precision Infomatic is an organization that provides end-to-end IT related services. At the moment, their workforce exceeds 1800 employees. Precision Infomatic has a datacenter in Chennai that receives multiple links. A few essential characteristics of a datacenter are, to ensure high... By Mastufa Ahmed

How SDDC Provides Better Control over DC Consolidation

Cost is one major factor that fuels data center consolidation. Over the past few years, IT spending have been constrained in the scheme of overall enhancements which throws a new challenge to ITDMs in reducing the cost of existing supporting systems. A set of staff is required to maintain scattered assets. However, hardware assets undergo underutilization while environmental support costs are... By Mastufa Ahmed

Is Visual Collaboration the Next Level of Mobility?

Mobile has already been an integral part of businesses with organizations betting big on its potential to take their business to next level. It’s time visual communication should move from boardroom to users’ desktops and mobile, for organizations to innovate faster by collaborating with distributed workforce, says the newly appointed managing director of Polycom, Minhaj Zia. A... By Mastufa Ahmed

Mobility Trends of 2014

By Mastufa Ahmed