Godrej initiates Business Discovery with QlikView

QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery user-driven Business Intelligence (BI) today announced that Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (GCPL), has chosen the QlikView Business Discovery platform to assist in their sales and distribution performance. GCPL needed their sales staffs across the country to have online interactive access to their sales and distribution data in order to monitor and drive... By varun gupta

IT spend by PSUs in India valued at US$ 8.5 billion in FY 2012

Zinnov, a market expansion and globalization advisory firm,today released its report onIndian PSU landscapecapturing interesting facts and figures on the burgeoning PSU segment in India. According to the report findings, Public Sector Units (PSUs) in the Indian economy account for USD 383 billion of turnover in FY 12 with a revenue growth of 11 per cent since 2009. The sector gives employment to... By varun gupta

10 PC IT Security will be Cloud Enabled

By 2015, 10 per cent of overall IT security enterprise product capabilities will be delivered in the cloud, according to Gartner, Inc. The services are also driving changes in the market landscape, particularly around a number of key security technology areas, such as secure email and secure Web gateways, remote vulnerability assessment, and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Gartner expects... By varun gupta

12 GB/s SSDs launched to absorb the data deluge

target="_blank">HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC)announcedthe industrys fastest and most advanced enterprise-class, multi level cell (MLC) SAS SSD family the Ultrastar SSD800MH, Ultrastar SSD800MM and Ultrastar SSD1000MR. The SAS/FC SSDs, these HGST drives are the first to double todays SAS interface speed. Designed for the most... By varun gupta

Make a Fusion with Cloud

Douglas Hughes, VP, Applications Product Development, Oracle, JAPAC, is upbeat about Oracles cloud vision announced recently at Oracle Open World. In conversation with N Geetha, Hughes brings to light the initiatives taken around its Fusion middleware to make it cloud enabled. Can you elaborate on Oracles application road map for the future? Oracle is invading its cloud mission enabling all... By varun gupta

Big Data, a big Priority for IT Managers

Enormous amounts of data are being generated daily by smartphones, sensors, video cameras, smart meters, and other connected devices, adding to the huge store of information from traditional sources. This data avalancherepresents a potential gold mine of insights, but a new studycommissioned by Cisco reveals that IT professionals and businesses are challenged to extract strategic value from... By varun gupta

BlackBerry Z10: Top 10 Keyboard Tricks

1. To hide the keyboard, long press on the space bar. Or swipe down with two fingers. Swipe up with two fingers to call it up. 2. To delete a word, swipe to the left 3. Long press a letter to see/select special characters. Or get a capital letter. 4. To dictate text aloud, long press the period key. 5. To enable audio and visual typing feedback, swipe down from the top edge of any home screen,... By varun gupta

Measuring the V in Big Data

Advocates of big data often argue that the big data has transitioned beyond hype and that it is for everyone. However, the value it brings in is to analyse how it matters to the user and how the traditional three Vs of big data--such as volume, velocity, variety--add value. Most vendors believe that volume is of less importance; what matters is the variety of data generated and the value it... By varun gupta

Cyber attacks occur once in every 3 minutes

FireEye, Inc., who is focussed on preventing today's new breed of cyber attacks, announced the release of its 2H 2012 Advanced Threat Report. The report shows that malware activity has become so pervasive that organizations experience a malicious email file attachment or Web link as well as malware communication that evades legacy defences up toonce every three minutes. Drawing on data gathered... By varun gupta

Panel Discussion on Future Of Intelligent Networks

The physical IT infrastructure in a typical enterprise has lots of smart devices connected to it: from servers and storage, to network equipment and end-user devices like laptops and smart phones. Running on the network is lots of sophisticated software. Does all this make your network intelligent? Are you able to manage capacity and performance on your networkquickly and easily? Does your... By varun gupta

Cisco expert Ashish Wattal provides solutions to business leaders on issues of IT

Hitendra Chaturvedi Founder, Reverse Logistics Company (RLC) RLC is Indias largest reverse logistics company with around 500 people in our 15 offices in India. We have developed a world class proprietary, open source solution. This open source solution tracks a returned product from the point of return all the way till it gets a new lease of life through our repair factory and gets sold through... By varun gupta

Simplifying IT Management Through Cisco's UCS

In a series of interactive articles, Cisco will shed more light on its Unified Computing System (UCS), thereby enabling CIOs to better manage their IT infrastructure How can UCS help me in simplifying management of my IT resources? Dinesh Kaushik, Head IT, Caparo India Management solutions for an integrated data center infrastructure must help monitor the network and storage resources required... By varun gupta