Enterprises Encourage Open Source Culture

The notion of an open source culture is gaining momentum as a business concept that transcends beyond IT. To establish such a culture, leaders must promote collaboration and the values of transparency and openness. Open source culture is ultimately collaborative, and expertise-driven. Developing a successful open source culture inside an organisation also means developing the skills and... By varun gupta

SDN to bring in revolution in LAN

The Annual BICSI India District Conference 2013 was organised with much fanfare and huge participation from the Information Technology System industry. Infrastructure is the key for any accomplished system, be it buildings or IT/Network systems. This brings in the importance of this industry which manages the infrastructure for data transfer. Jangoo Dalal, Independent Management Consultant was... By varun gupta

IT Spending to Rain in Cloud Computing

Gartner, yet again, suggests the use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend. Nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. Gartner describes cloud computing as a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service using Internet technologies.... By varun gupta

Enterprises in Open Source Get New Linux Server for SAP Apps

For the IT Managers dwelling on Open Source ERP, SUSE and SAP have brought some updates to deliver improved performance, reliability and security. At SAP TechEd, SUSE has announced the availability of the newest SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3. It offers the advantages of the newest SUSE Linux Enterprise, providing customers... By varun gupta

How can CIOs get into CFOs mind on Cloud?

In this tough economic climate where CFOs vigilant eyes are on the investments, it plays a vital role in ensuring business return for all major areas of investment. HP says the first step would be the cloud conversation with CIOs. It has been observed that CFOs have responsibility and influence over the information technology investments. There is no doubt in the fact that CIOs are faced with a... By varun gupta

Indian Companies to go aggressive on SDN, SDS

Gartner has outlined SDN, SDS among top 10 strategic technology trends that it forecasts Indian companies to go aggressive in 2014. We have identified the key technology trends that Indian companies should monitor closely over the next five years, said Milind Govekar, managing vice president at Gartner. Internal trends, market trends and societal trends are rapidly converging, and many will have... By varun gupta

CISOs taking mobile as defense to rising fraud

CISOs have loads of questions which IBM attempt to respond with their CISO assessment 2013. Questions like are they doing the right thing or are they focusing on the right things or how do they compare against their peersThese questions arise time and time again for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other security leaders. IBM study shows that information security professionals at... By varun gupta

Global Cloud Traffic will Dominate the Data Centers

Cisco, in its third annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012 2017) has revealed that global cloud traffic is expected to grow 4.5-fold a 35 per cent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017. Overall global data center traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017. It means 107 trillion hours of... By varun gupta

BYOD might be alarming with rising smartphone thefts

Kaspersky has carried out with a survey that puts the alarm on for the mobile users. From the enterprise angle, this survey will bring new wrinkles on the forehead of IT managers and security officers who are looking to adopt BYOD to enable businesses. According to the Kaspersky Consumer Security Risks survey carried out by B2B International and Kaspersky Lab in Summer 2013, every sixth user has... By varun gupta

Banks to go on Modernization and Legacy Replacement Spree

Indian Banks seem to be gearing up for modernization and legacy replacement as a vital part of their IT strategy. This strategy triggered by their expansion over a large unbanked territory creates a gap which already starts to attract investments on back-office areas. Gartner says it continues to see a number of requests from Indian banks regarding the modernization and legacy replacement of... By varun gupta

Indian Govt to Prescribe New rules for Cloud

Gartner has come out with an analysis that forecast Government IT spending in India to reach $6.4 billion US Dollars (USD) in 2013, a 7 per cent increase over 2012. The Indian government is also developing a cloud policy, namely the GI cloud (or Meghraj) which will see more clarity in the near future. Wide proliferation of affordable broadband connectivity (and mobile phones alongside) is... By varun gupta

New OpenStack Plugins to Simplify Application Deployment

OpenStack Havana, in its eight release of the open source software has brought out 400 new features to support software development, managing data and application infrastructure at scale. New services like OpenStack Metering and Orchestration, coupled with enhancements to existing services like global clusters for Object Storage and QoS capabilities for Block Storage are targeted towards... By varun gupta