IT Managers can simplify and speed up deployment with OpenStack Cloud

IT Managers often face challenges in deployment of cloud services major reasons are scalibilty and reliability. NetApp has announced new contributions to OpenStack, claiming that these contributions will have deeper integration with its storage and data management systems with new solutions for OpenStack Havana, incubation of a new core service for OpenStack Icehouse, and an expansion of... By varun gupta

Enterprises can now find analytics algorithms on SAP HANA

SAP AG and SAS have inked in a strategic partnership that is expected to advance in-memory data analysis capabilities for businesses across industries. This partnership has been made to create a joint technology and product roadmap designed to leverage the SAP HANA platform and SAS analytics capabilities. By incorporating the in-memory SAP HANA platform into SAS applications and enabling SAS... By varun gupta

IT Managers Can Look at Analytics as New Revenue Stream

HP has announced new cloud-based analytics as a service built on HP's HAVEn Big Data analytics platform, helping enterprises solve business problems and create new revenue opportunities. By leveraging HP HAVEn, clients can more effectively analyze and derive value from their information, such as increase sales with targeted client offerings, improve supply chain performance, detect fraud or... By varun gupta

Value Maps to Help SAP Enterprise Customers in Decision Making

SAP AG has announced SAP Enterprise support value maps. SAP claims that they are an intelligent, innovation selection mechanism to support customers in finding the right services and tools. SAP Enterprise support offers the foundation to implement, operate and innovate better through collaboration, empowerment and automation. The value maps provide guidance for selecting the right offering at... By varun gupta

ITDMs are Replacing legacy Components with Cloud

Accenture has come out with a report, High Performers in IT: Defined by Digital, suggesting that businesses that invest more in digital technologies are able to identify more growth opportunities than the ones who are putting it at the bay. The research report has been written taking the insights from senior IT executives in more than 200 global companies across a range of industries. The report... By varun gupta

BYOD, BYOC Policies have to be Gen Y friendly

Fortinet, a network security player, has published a survey where it reveals a Up to 58 per cent of 21-32 year old employees would contravene company policies restricting use of own devices, cloud storage and wearable technologies for work. It also reveals the growing appetite of Generation Y employees to contravene corporate policies governing use of own devices, personal cloud storage accounts... By varun gupta

ITDMs Collaborate to Fight the Cyberattacks

HP has come up with a community-sourced security intelligence platform called HP Threat Central to empower CSOs to collaborate on real time in an automated way to combat advanced cyber threats. The sophistication of cyber attacks has grown substantially in recent years, as adversaries both specialize and share intelligence, tools and plans in order to improperly obtain data and disrupt critical... By varun gupta

IT Spending to Grow More in Digitalisation

IT spending in the Asia Pacific region is forecast to reach US$767 billion in 2014, a 5.5 per cent increase from 2013, but its the opportunities of a digital world that have IT leaders excited, according to Gartner, Inc. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of Research, explained today to an audience of more than 1,600 CIOs and IT leaders at Gartner Symposium that... By varun gupta

CISOs Facing More Challenges in Mobile Security

Mobile security has been the top technology concern, with more than half of security leaders ranking it as a major technology challenge over the next two years. According to IBM CISO study, mobile security continues to receive significant attention: out of 14 different technology areas, it ranked as both the most important and the most deployed over the last 12 months. Although mobile is top of... By varun gupta

Turning IT Complexity into Data Insight

HP got into the Big Data analytics sphere now. HP solution has been positioned to help IT operations teams to analyze the volume and variety of IT data to predict, prevent and respond to application and infrastructure issues, preventing costly downtime. Cloud, virtualization and mobile technologies create enormous complexities that impact an IT groups ability to control its environment. To... By varun gupta

Open Sources Commercial viability

No matter how much ever its discussed and debated the question on commercial viability of Open Source remains. Given the mandate 'Do more with less', IT managers are looking for ways to cut down the IT spending without compromising on the infrastructure. Recently, Twitter has announced that it will execute the biggest IT IPO this year and it's almost entirely built with Linux and open source -... By varun gupta

Helping Enterprises Realize Big Data Value

Capgemini and Cloudera, have announced a global partnership to bring to market the combination of Clouderas platform for big data management and analytics with Capgeminis expertise in Business Information Management, to ensure enterprises worldwide can unlock the value of big data. Capgemini has worked with Clouderas teams for two years to acquire a deep knowledge of Clouderas solutions, and to... By varun gupta