Top 5 Apps for Business

Vault Password Manager by XLabz Technologies is an encrypted digital notepad of passwords that is far more secure and accessible everywhere. Business Cards for BlackBerry 10 by Saper-ek This scans business cards and allows you to make notes about a person. Hide Files for BlackBerry 10 by Runisoft Ltd. This allows the user to hide photos, videos, documents, music and any other type of file in... By varun gupta

Game Changers for a Cool Data Centre

Data centre best practices have always been top priority for most IT teams across industries. In fact, data centres strive to provide customers the most modern and efficient tools, both hardware and software, ensuring that the best practices are deployed within data centres to make them more green and efficient. A testimonial to this effect is APC Schneider Electric, the data centre energy... By varun gupta

BI Software Revenues to grow by 7% in 2013

As per Gartners forecast, worldwide business intelligence (BI) software revenue will reach $13.8 billion in 2013, a seven percent increase from 2012. The market is forecast to reach $17.1 billion by 2016. "BI and analytics have grown to become the fourth-largest application software segment as end users continue to prioritize BI and information-centric projects and spending to improve decision... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Dont Go by the Low Hanging Fruit in BIs Selection

The first pre-requisite for selecting an appropriate BI solution or a vendor is to map the enterprises need. The selection would need IT heads to invite each vendor for an onsite presentation to explain their capability and features. After mapping current needs and tool/solution, an RFP should be sent out for selected vendors. A clear RFP with intricate details would win half the battle. A... By varun gupta

Cloud Upholds Big Data

The Industry opines that cloud can be a valuable model to support an organisations big data strategy. From a macro view, to holistically manage big data, Hitachi Data Systems proposes a new model comprising three key components: Infrastructure Cloud, Content Cloud and Information Cloud that builds on existing IT investments to provide a single virtualisation platform for all data.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Six technology trends which will dominate the IT agendas in 2013

Business transformation through IT will remain a top priority: Given that the business environment is expected to remain volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous businesses will be under pressure to reinvent the way they work, the compute and the core business processes. The top most priority for IT will be to help businesses transform work and compute. IT service providers and practitioners... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Dealing with IT is Stressful for Gen-Y Employees

VMwares New Way of Life Study indicates a growing trend of work lives and personal lives being merged into one, particularly amongst the millennial generation There is a need to find the right balance between policies and how employees prefer to work. With a growing number of personal devices being used at the workplace, dealing with IT has emerged as the most stressful issue at work for young... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Ideal structures for a DC to make Optimal Decisions

As per James Young, Technical Director, Asia Pacific, CommScope, a reliable structure not only forms the foundation for developing a physical infrastructure but also helps in determining and choosing the most optimal physical layer infrastructure that addresses key requirements of a data centres day-to-day operations. Using modular reference designs, intelligent infrastructure solutions and... By varun gupta

How to calculate RoI for PPM

There is no doubt that the PPM (Project and Portfolio Management) tool emphasises on reviewing the customer scenario amidst all the ambiguities. Besides this, it reviews available data and benchmarks and focuses on hard savings potential while also qualifying intangible savings from the effective utilisation of legacy applications. A thorough discovery and conservative value calculations build... By varun gupta

AsiaPowercom Launches AsiaPower Stabilizer

target="_blank">Asia Powercom,global leader in power protection - a division of Powercom Co. Ltd, today launched AsiaPower AV600 stabilizer for TV. AV600 Safeguards the valuable devices from power fluctuation with its superior performance and design to provide clean power for un-interrupted entertainment. AsiaPower AV600 stabilizer comes with high voltage cutoff protection that protects the... By varun gupta

The Required DC Design Change for Better Efficiency

I would advocate electrical efficiency modelling for data centres. New technologies in a hybrid model go hand in hand with servers and mine different applications in a data centre, deploy specific tools to address legacy applications; this would be possible if a proper bench marking is done to segregate mission critical applications. More than the design, a simple, more accurate efficiency model... By varun gupta

Collaborative Approach to Smart IT

As the CIO of a large merged entity, Dohsung Yum, CIO, The Attachmate Group, had the tough task of ensuring a smooth IT integration of four businesses. As a veteran of the IT industry, Yum advises senior IT executives on how to plan IT strategy and work out an effective collaborative approach and a smart project plan in a merger scenario As the CIO of such a large entity, which has gone... By varun gupta