6 Winning Techniques Prescribed for Analytics

Analytics is strongly knit with various applications across the IT estate and processes data so as to produce the desired insights to business, thus positioning analytics as a good framework of application systems.  ITDMs across industries have some winning techniques to get the desired business insights. Integration across functionsThe best strategy is to integrate information across... By Mastufa Ahmed

Smart Connectivity Creates Smart Townships

The entire IT industry is abuzz with the concept of end-to-end solutions and convergence of IT, telecom and networking, which will together pave the way towards developing smarter cities or townships. Most vendors--whether IT, telecom, cabling, networking or enterprise applications or others are bitten by the bug-–that of creating  smarter cities and developing infrastructure... By Mastufa Ahmed

How Data Discovery Helps ITDMs Discover Hidden Insights

The popular belief now about analytics techniques is go the data discovery way.  According to Gartner, Business Discovery or what it terms “data discovery” is now a mainstream architecture for BI. With Business Discovery, businesses can connect things that are seemingly unrelated, and discover hidden insights in the data that help users ask the next question. Old style, top... By Mastufa Ahmed

IT NEXT Compensation Survey 2014: Top IT Certifications

Certifications in the IT resume determine an IT manager's salary to a large extent. The findings of the survey conducted by ITNEXT shows that about 35 per cent of the respondents have acquired ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) certification. This is followed by 17 per cent PMP (Project Management Professional) and CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) which is 16%. Air... By Manan M

Oracle Introduces Oracle Solaris 11.2 Cloud Platform

Oracle has introduced Oracle Solaris 11.2, a platform that melds virtualization, application-driven software-defined networking (SDN) technology and a full OpenStack distribution. This combination of an enterprise-class operating system and other components creates a highly efficient, compliant, secure, open and affordable software platform for cloud computing. With deep integration among... By CIO&Leader

Unified Communications Market Declines In India

One of the key business priorities for most enterprises is to remove the communication bottle necks; Unified Communication (UC) solutions adoption would help with this. However, there are few adoption challenges like cost, resistance to change, and lack of awareness on the benefits derived by UC adoption. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the overall Unified Communications... By CIO&Leader

CIOs Welcome Malkani as Cisco India Head

Dinesh Malkani, VP-Sales, Cisco India & SAARC will be heading Cisco India. Reporting to Irving Tan, President for Asia Pacific and Japan, he replaces Jeff White who is returning to the US to be close to his family. Nataraj N, Global CIO, Hexaware thinks Malkani will bring the local experience which will help Cisco in strengthening not only its focus on private enterprises but Government too... By

2nd Gen inRow RC Enhances DC Cooling

Schneider Electric has introduced the second generation of the InRow RC as the latest addition to the InRow product line, expanding Schneider Electric’s vast cooling portfolio to meet the evolving cooling needs of an ever-changing data center environment. This second generation release introduces two new models that significantly improve cooling efficiency by reducing power consumption... By IT NEXT

SDDC, Cloud Impact DC Consolidation

Not very long ago, the DC consolidation strategy was primarily uni-dimensional. ITDMs and CIOs were looking to virtualise their IT workloads and reduce the footprint, to achieve considerable cost reduction and operational benefits. Enterprises across industries have realised that data centre consolidation reaps loads of benefits—be it effective communication internally or better... By IT NEXT

Dinesh Malkani to Head Cisco India

Dinesh Malkani, VP-Sales, Cisco India & SAARC, reporting to Irving Tan, President for Asia Pacific and Japan will be heading Cisco India.  Among other structural changes, Cisco’s official spokesperson confirmed, Amit Phadnis, Vice President, Enterprise Networking Group will expand his role to become the new India Site Leader.Phadnis replaces Surya Panditi who re-focuses his role... By

Blue Coat’s SSL Visibility Appliance Automatically Secures Against Heartbleed

Blue Coat Systems has announced that its SSL Visibility Appliance delivers automatic protection against attacks exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability. By automatically detecting, blocking and logging attempted Heartbleed attacks, the SSL Visibility appliance provides enterprises with the security assurance they require. Discovered in early April, the Heartbleed vulnerability affects servers... By CIO&Leader

All Eyes on Digital Marketing Budgets in 2014

Digital marketing budgets will rise by 10 per cent in 2014, as per Gartner which implies a double-digit percentage increase in 2013. This conclusion was drawn from a survey which found that, on average, companies spent 10.7 per cent of their annual 2013 revenue on overall marketing activities, with digital marketing spending averaging 3.1 per cent of revenue.  "Marketing leaders are... By IT NEXT