Simplifying IT and Enhancing Data Protection

As customers progress through their IT journey, visibility, control, and security across dynamic virtual infrastructures and applications can be challenging. IT operations management and data protection are foundational components for building a reliable software-defined data center and delivering IT as a service. VMware's cloud management solutions simplify and automate IT operations management... By varun gupta

6 Principles of SDN that can Benefit Customers

Bob Muglia, Executive Vice President of the Software Solutions Division at Juniper Networks says enterprise and service providers are seeking solutions to their networking challenges and hence looking at Software Defined Networking as a tool. Customers want their networks to adjust and respond dynamically, based on their business policy and those policies to be automated so that they can reduce... By varun gupta

Breaking Down Barriers to SDN

HP looks to create new business opportunities for partners, and providing a simple way for customers to purchase and deploy network services with its launch of enterprise-class software-defined networking (SDN) open ecosystem with the HP SDN Developer Kit (SDK) and the HP SDN App Store. Legacy network rollout typically requires months of extensive human middleware and customization, delaying... By varun gupta

Is Radical Business Transformation the Only Way?

Gartner has come out with a research that indicates that most industries are facing accelerating pressure for fundamental transformation, including embracing digitalization in order to survive and stay competitive.In its annual Predicts research on industry trends titled "Top Industries Predicts 2014, it has featured 12 strategic planning assumptions that CIOs, senior business executives and IT... By varun gupta

Right Mix to Secure Better

With ever-increasing business critical data flowing on a corporate network, Endpoint security has become extremely critical for IT managers to address issues of network protection. The influx of diverse computing and mobile devices has created the need to comply these devices with certain standards to ensure robust network protection before the network access is granted. Organisations are... By varun gupta

Right Mix to Secure Better

With ever-increasing business critical data flowing on a corporate network, Endpoint security has become extremely critical for IT managers to address issues of network protection. The influx of diverse computing and mobile devices has created the need to comply these devices with certain standards to ensure robust network protection before the network access is granted. Organisations are... By varun gupta

Converged Networking to Create Revenue

With Internet of Everything (IoE) being the buzzword around the networking world, telecom service providers in India have been constantly looking at solutions that could create the highly flexible and manageable networking ecosystem to enhance their end users. Cisco has launched Network Convergence System (NCS) to power it. Cisco claims that NCS will become the central nervous system of IoE,... By varun gupta

Banks can Effectively Govern IT using COBIT5

ISACA has outlined action items from the RBI Guidelines on Information Security, Electronic Banking, Technology Risk Management and Cyber Frauds; identifies the COBIT 5 enablers that support these action items; and recommends processes; practices and activities that enterprises should undertake to deliver on the action items. The RBI Guidelines were issued by a working group that formed in 2010... By varun gupta

Taking BYOD for a Secure Walk

Novell has announced that it has partnered with MobileIron, a player in security and management for mobile apps, content, and devices, to enable more secure mobile file access and sharing through Novell Filr and MobileIron AppConnect. Novell Filr is a mobile file-sharing solution that gives IT complete control of all shared files and provides users with anywhere, any-device access. Novell and... By varun gupta

Open Platform Initiative to Help Customers

Akamai Technologies has brought the Akamai Open Platform Initiative to give customers and partners the need for deeper visibility and more streamlined, centralized data control. This is a set of programs and components that comprise the Open Platform Initiative. It is intended to create more opportunities for community collaboration and innovation, and provide deeper visibility into and greater... By varun gupta

IT Resources Monitoring is Free, Now

In a move that disrupts the rapidly growing worldwide IT management market for emerging enterprises and line-of-business customers, CA Technologies has announced the availability of CA Nimsoft Monitor Snapa free version of CA Nimsoft Monitor solution. This solution has been launched to enable resource-constrained customers to quickly achieve enterprise-class visibility into the health of the... By varun gupta

Hot Tech Trends to look in 2014

Gartner has highlighted the top ten technologies and trends that the research firm has forecasted to be strategic for most organizations in 2014. A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and become suitable for a wider range of uses. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or with potential... By varun gupta