Subroto Das is Western Digitals new India Sales Director

Western Digital, storage solutions provider announced that Subroto Das will be the new sales director, India, for its components and branded products businesses. Reporting to Scott Davis, WDs vice president of worldwide channel sales, Das is responsible for the sales-management and market-growth strategies of the Indian subcontinent. India is a diverse and dynamic market, and is critical to WDs... By varun gupta

Customers can optimise big data processing, besides saving cost

Informatica Co, powered by the target="_blank">Informatica Vibe virtual data machine,to save costs and optimize their end-to-end big data processing, delivers a comprehensive data integration platform for Hadoop environments, with support for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR. Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition also runs on the Teradata... By varun gupta

DC Transformation to Meet New Age Application Demands

Cisco unveiled a data center networking architecture. Designed to usher in the era of >Application-Centric Infrastructure, Ciscos architecture aims to transform data centers to better address the demands of new and current applications in the Cloud era. Accelerated to market by Ciscos investment in Insieme Networks, this fundamental shift to application-centric infrastructure will provide IT... By varun gupta

DR as a Service to address the Business Objectives

HCL Infosystems Ltd, Indias premier Services and ICT Systems Integration, Distribution and Hardware Company, has today announced its partnership with Sanovi Technologies, the market leader in Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions, to offer Disaster Recovery services to Indian Enterprises. With this engagement, Sanovi becomes a HCL Blu Enterprise Cloud partner as the technology provider... By varun gupta

IT Spends One-third on Innovation

The role of IT heads has now changed dramatically and they have been given a mandate of influencing the non-IT functions and business groups to ensure that technology is put to the best of use. The traditional role of IT, as it was in the past, is not in vogue any more as the perception is now different. ITs Standing ITs standing across organisations is currently going through an overhaul and is... By varun gupta

Minimise revenue loss using Business Analytics

Maharashtra Sales Tax Department (MSTD) has partnered with SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, to identify and minimise revenue loss through tax evasion. MSTD contributes to approximately two-thirds of the total revenue of the State Government and has a strong workforce of 11,000 professionals. With the deployment of SAS analytics solutions, MSTD will leverage data-... By varun gupta

Pain Points in BI & Analytics Cloud Model

While the IT Heads are drawn towards deploy cloud based BI and analytics model, there are certain barriers to cloud adoption, which needs to be addressed. Some of the pertinent questions that senior IT managers raise are: Why do I need cloud when virtualisation is serving my purpose to a certain extent Encryptionsecurity issues No clarity of SLAs as it is purely dependent on... By varun gupta

SaaS BI popular as use case for KPIs

Bhavish Sood, Research Director at Gartner How is the cloud-based BI and Analytics model perceivedby the industry? Although SaaS-based BI is an emerging market, a considerable enhancement has occurred in the number of offerings and the acceptance of clients, owing to the pricing and delivery model. However, with the exception of the SAP Business Objects On Demand products, none of the major BI... By varun gupta

Energy Forecasting Increases Return on Smart Grid Investment

SAS, the business analytics services and solutions provider, announced the availability of SAS Energy Forecasting to help utilities operate more efficiently by capitalizing on new interval data from smart meters. Unlike other load forecasting software, SAS Energy Forecasting supports multiple planning horizons from the next hour to the next 50 years. Faced with volatile wholesale energy markets... By varun gupta

10 Data Security Tips to Keep Your Sensitive Information Safe

With advanced cyberattacks, data theft by employees through portable storage devices and stories of accidental data loss, we have had increasing insight to the frightening ramifications of data theft. Here are 10 quick points to consider when contemplating>how to keep your sensitive data secure and protected against data theft: Endpoint Protection- Intellectual property (IP) and confidential... By varun gupta

Extremes Return Material Authorization Depot in India Now

Extreme Networks, Inc. today announced the opening of its first Return Material Authorization (RMA) depot in Mumbai. This depot will serve to support mission critical installations of customers in India on selected Extreme Networks support offerings; namely, Extremeworks, Partner Works Liteand Partner Works.Customers of these support offerings can have extended support level which includes... By varun gupta

Key Steps for Planning a Cloud-based BI and Analytics

The initial undertaking is crucial for all IT heads while deciding on the Cloud Strategy. Besides, the case of Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics is highly complex for most enterprises as it still is a developing concept. However, those who have taken the initiative on the Cloud-based BI and Analytics Model have stated a few meticulous steps, which can ease out the process.... By varun gupta