Gamble Apps to Gain

Expert Panel:     1) N Jayantha Prabhu, CTO, Essar Group   2) Vinod Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Walmart India   3) Dheeraj Sinha, Head- Global IT and Supply Chain, Apollo Tyres     THE SITUATION... Will Vijay Sahai be able to muster the confidence to move all his enterprise applications to cloud? I am sure most IT heads face a similar dilemma - in making... By Manan M

Facebook Bats for Open Source Switches

The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future. Six months ago, the Facebook-led Open Compute Project shared its plans to work with networking vendors on creating an open source top-of-rack switch, and now that mission is almost complete. Frank Frankovsky, chairman and... By Manan M

How to Analyze Complex Structured Data?

Insights from IBM’s Intelligent Business Strategies states that the type of big data analytical workload may be on structured data taken from a data warehouse or from other data sources (e.g. operational transaction systems) for the specific purpose of doing complex analysis on that data. This may be needed so that power users can mine data to produce predictive models for use in every-day... By Manan M

Flash to Drive Storage with Newer Offerings

Taking an aggressive step towards establishing Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) as end-to-end player, the company has now unveiled new offerings which it claims directed to help organizations extract meaningful insights from information that will lead to innovation and inspire global action. Today’s advancements in flash technology, advanced x86 servers and support for OpenStack are the next... By Manan M

Will Smartphones be Smarter than Employees by 2017?

Smartphones will be smarter than a human brain. Is that what Gartner study saying? This might have an impact on enterprise mobility where IT managers may find the employees dumber than smartphones. So, bring your own device because that’s smarter than you. Quiet an interesting take. Gartner says smartphones will soon be able to predict a consumer’s next move, their next purchase or... By Manan M

Enabling Business with Security

Where is the transformation happening? IT is being aligned with business to enable security officers to rope in more security measures. Security Perception Changes Before evolving the laws and relevant corollaries, it is also essential to look back as to why the field of information security is evolving faster than ever. Now, senior leadership across enterprises is taking interest. Shift in... By varun gupta

Helping ITDMs Monetize Big Data

With the buzz around Big Data, HP is constantly trying to help customers and partners with adoption and monetization of Big Data. Aligning with the strategy around Big Data, HP has announced HAVEn, a set of core technologies that form a Big Data analytics platform, enabling organizations to create next-generation applications and solutions to accelerate the adoption and monetization of Big Data... By varun gupta

BFSI Betting Big on Desktop Virtualization

With the rising challenges of taking desktops virtual, CIOs today are looking at effective desktop virtualisation to improve productivity and enhacing the manageability of IT infrastructure while tackling increasing costs. Fullerton India, one of the leading non-banking finance companies (NBFC) with 368 branches, announced the implementation of Citrix desktop virtualization to enhance... By varun gupta

IT Managers security focus shifting to FUD

Gartners 2013 Global Risk Management Survey has come out findings that fear of attack is causing security professionals to shift focus away from disciplines such as enterprise risk management and risk-based information security to technical security. This shift in focus is driven by what Gartner analysts refer to as fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), which often leads to reactionary and highly... By varun gupta

ITDMs have One View to the Entire Infrastructure

HPs constant push to position converged infrastructure sees the launch of OneView which the company claims to be industrys first consumer-inspired infrastructure management platform for HP Converged Infrastructure. HP claims that it simplifies the most basic steps that underlay all data center processesallowing IT teams to dramatically improve operations while reducing costs and manual errors... By varun gupta

MDM, MAM in the Top Enterprise Mobility Priorities among ITDMs

A recent survey by Citrix has revealed that 71 per cent of enterprises believe mobility is a top priority for their business and 63 per cent believe it to be the greatest factor in helping their organization gain a competitive advantage. Of the organizations surveyed, approximately half have implemented technologies to support mobile devices, with 48 per cent using mobile device management (MDM... By varun gupta

ACI Helps IT Managers Make Data Center More Responsive

Keeping in mind the need of IT transformation, Cisco has unveiled Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) which is new professional services, and an open ecosystem of partners to help customers unleash their applications and enable greater business agility. With ACI, Cisco claims its delivering to customers the first data center and cloud solution to offer full visibility and integrated... By varun gupta