What is Innovative about Software Defined Networking?

Commoditisation of NetworksOn the one hand, Software Defined Networking (SDN) will commoditise switching hardware from the current proprietary or rather monopolistic block it is today. On the other, it will give rise to a new industry with Software, Apps platforms, and orchestration tools and/or optimised hardware for controllers. The nature of this innovation is such that every enterprise will... By varun gupta

Customers Should Rethink Security Strategy

HP today announced new products and services that enable enterprises to disrupt the adversary marketplace, manage risk and extend their security capabilities to better protect themselves against a growing threat landscape. Cybercrime continues to increase, with 92 per cent of Forbes Global 2000 companies reporting data breaches in the last 12 months. This growth is due to adversaries forming a... By varun gupta

How to Free up Wireless Chokepoints

Vishak Raman, Sr. regional Director SAARC, Fortinet says, metaphors aside, it probably goes without saying that office workers are running on more bandwidth these days. More than ever, in between bouts of actual office productivity, desk jockeys are using their systems and mobile devices to shop, play games, stream movies, music and more. But what happens when personal entertainment habits begin... By varun gupta

Manage risk exposure through security services

As the adversary marketplace intensifies, internal security teams are struggling to respond to the velocity and severity of threats. HP Managed Security Services (MSS) help internal security teams accelerate threat identification, response and remediation by providing expertise and advanced security intelligence. With HP MSS, intrusions are detected within 11.8 minutes, and 92 per cent of major... By varun gupta

How to Free up Wireless Chokepoints

Vishak Raman, Sr. regional Director SAARC, Fortinet says, metaphors aside, it probably goes without saying that office workers are running on more bandwidth these days. More than ever, in between bouts of actual office productivity, desk jockeys are using their systems and mobile devices to shop, play games, stream movies, music and more. But what happens when personal entertainment habits begin... By varun gupta

Have Better HPC Experience as Technology Moves from Lab to DC

IBM introduced theNeXtScale System, a new, flexible computing platform providing three times as many cores as current one-unit rack servers, making it ideal for the fastest growing workloads such a social media,analytics, technical computing andcloud delivery. The rapid adoption of these workloads and delivery models is putting increased demands on data centers, and clients are looking for new... By varun gupta

Top Five Reasons Enterprises seek a New HRIS

According to a survey report from Bersin by Deloitte, the HCM users are keen on deploying integrated talent management suites, improved end-user experience, improved integration across talent platforms and the ability to derive people analytics. The majority of HR professionals surveyed indicated that they plan to procure new software within the next 18 months (57%) and most indicated they will... By varun gupta

How to Use Cloud Data Management to Bridge Public and Private Cloud

Regardless of the ultimate computing destination, the CIO will maintain ownership of the organisations data. The introduction of new multicloud architectures would make data governance more complex because data is distributed, and not under direct control, says Jay Kidd, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NetApp Our vision is to create an enterprise data management solution,... By varun gupta

Banking CISOs Evolve Risk Control Mechanisms to Secure Cloud

Banks and insurance companies are in a situation today where their organisations just cannot do without having a cloud model. Cloud technology potentially offers insurers and bankers an efficient way to undertake the huge amount of actuarial and risk modeling calculations and transactions that need to be performed. Gone are the days when the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) and his team... By varun gupta

COBOL on an Integration Spree

Dang elaborates on the innovation in traditional COBOL and how it offers cost savings to customers, besides ensuring increased productivity and the ability to drive focus on product innovation Can you elaborate on the innovations in the enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions arena? Micro Focus operates in the space of enterprise application modernisation,... By varun gupta

Indian Public Cloud Services Market to Total $434 Million in 2013: Gartner

The public cloud services market in India is on pace to grow 37.5 percent in 2013 to total $434 million, an increase of $119 million from the $315 million forecast for 2012, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS),including cloud compute, storage and print services, is expected to grow 41.8 percent in 2013 to $62.5 million. Gartner predicts that from... By varun gupta

Production-ready SDN for Cloud Era

JuniperNetworks, announced the availability of JuniperNetworks Contrail, a standards-based and highly scalable network virtualisation and intelligence solution for software-defined networks (SDN). Contrail is a production-ready SDN solution shipping today that is based on stable and proven networking standards. Contrail creates a virtual network, enabling seamless integrationbetween physical and... By varun gupta