How the Future of Workplace Looks

By 2020 organizations are set to reduce office space by almost a fifth (17 percent). The workplace of the future will provide just seven desks for every ten office workers, with each person accessing the corporate IT network from an average of six different computing devices. The figure for 2020 is as low as six desks for every ten workers in Singapore, the Netherlands, the USA and the UK. Some... By sanjay.gupta gupta

$70 Billion: Indian spending on green IT, sustainability by 2015

By 2015, India's spending on green IT and sustainability initiatives will double from $35 billion in 2010 to $70 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2012, green IT and sustainability spending in India will total $45 billion. In the Gartner report Hype Cycle for Green IT and Sustainability in India, 2012, analysts said green IT and sustainability are emerging as key concerns for... By sanjay.gupta gupta

First industry specific engineered system

Oracle has launched the Oracle Network Applications Platform, its first industry-specific engineered system, designed to meet the extreme network workload requirements for the development and deployment of mission-critical communications services and applications. The communications industry is experiencing rapid mobile broadband network growth, a proliferation of smart connected devices and... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Coping with the Cloud

The cloud is becoming a reality in most organisations, and research groups such as Gartner are endorsing the prevailing trend-- indicating that the adoption of public cloud services has increased from 12 per cent to 27 per cent (private cloud from 19-26 per cent) in organisations. A report by consulting firm Zinnov Management Consulting estimates that the cloud computing market will grow from US... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Indian dominance in IT services at risk from alternative locations

IT services providers are investing in delivery centers in alternative locations around the world in order to meet the needs of multinational corporations, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner believes that Indias dominant position as an offshore location is being diluted by effective alternative destinations as more and more countries are considered potential offshore or near-shore locations. In... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Top 10 issues eroding cloud confidence

Findings from a joint Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA survey show that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the Top 10 areas where confidence in the cloud is lowest. A collaborative project by ISACA and CSA, the Cloud Market Maturity study provides business and IT leaders with insight into the maturity of cloud computing and will help identify... By sanjay.gupta gupta

New servers for enhanced virtualized performance

HP has unveiled two new HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) four-socket servers that facilitate customers move to cloud while delivering increased compute power in less space and a return on investment within three months. Based on the HP ProActive Insight Architecture, the ProLiant BL660c and DL560 Gen8 servers significantly reduce the time spent on maintenance tasks through high levels of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Majority of Indian companies looking at big data: survey

By a greater than two-to-one margin, organizations today view big data primarily as a business opportunity rather than an IT challenge and are moving quickly to do something about it, according to a recent survey of over 200 Indian IT and business professionals conducted by Informatica Corporation, an independent provider of data integration software. Designed to assess the state of big data... By sanjay.gupta gupta

82% of leading cos treat digital mobile consumers separately

Research commissioned by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) shows that during 2012, an average large company ($11.2 billion in annual revenue) will spend between $13 million and $22 million to reach out to and service digital mobile consumers through their mobile devices. The study - The New Digital Mobile Consumer: How Large Companies are Responding - shows that by 2015, investment levels will... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Unlocking more value from Big Data? SAP says it can help

SAP has announced new analytics software that bundles SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions and the SAP Sybase IQ server, a high-performance data foundation designed specifically for analytics. The solutions help organizations of all sizes gain better insight into big data with advanced data visualization, self-service data discovery, mobile BI and predictive capabilities.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Skills to Succeed as Leaders

Personal skills contribute a great deal towards enabling aspiring IT managers to tide over the tough journey as they climb up the career ladder towards the role of a CIO. Needless to say, there is complete consensus about this among the top management across business heads, finance heads, board of directors and technology heads. It is crucial to understand the important personal skills that they... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Appliance to Improve Endpoint Security

Dell KACE aims to make it easier for organizations to improve their endpoint security and achieve regulatory compliance through expanded visibility and audit trail capabilities. The latest version of its flagship product Dell KACE K1000 Management Appliance includes expanded visibility into the network through support for new operating systems such as Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, SUSE Linux... By sanjay.gupta gupta