90% of all mobile app store downloads in 2012 will be FREE

Free apps will account for close to 90 percent of total downloads in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide mobile app store downloads will surpass 45.6 billion in 2012, with free downloads accounting for 40.1 billion, and paid-for downloads totaling 5 billion (see Table 1). "In terms of the apps that consumers are buying, 90 percent of the paid-for downloads cost less than $3 each," said... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Worlds thinnest 2.5-inch hybrid hard drive

WD, a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has announced it is sampling a 5mm-thin hard disk drive featuring hybrid technology. The company has developed hard drives slim enough for integration into todays thinnest notebook PCs, which provide high-capacity storage and robustness while featuring instant-on and application performance similar to todays client solid state drives (SSDs). Mobile... By sanjay.gupta gupta

The Tech Spring

In the past few weeks, actor Aamir Khans debut TV programme, Satyamev Jayate, has sent a ripple of renewed enthusiasm for positive change in a country that has been marred by poverty, lack of education and, of late, a long list of corruption scandals. Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook are abuzz with the issues raised in the show, which have included female foeticide, alcoholism and... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Jet Airways to save $6 million annually through analytics

IBM has announced it has enabled Jet Airways to more accurately calculate, track and report aircraft emissions. Realizing this significant milestone as a part of the Strategic Outsourcing construct allows Jet Airways to use advanced analytics to map the carriers carbon emissions, optimizing its fuel usage by detailed analysis of each flight. In 2010, Jet Airways signed a strategic 10-year... By sanjay.gupta gupta

ProtectV for Virtual Security

Efficiency, automation, and availability are some of the key benefits of cloud computing. However, many organizations may not be able to take advantage of these benefits due to concerns with regulatory compliance and security risks such as provider access to tenant data. As more data moves to private or public clouds, the number of super-users with access to an organizations data multiplies, the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Emerson intros first of kind design for datacenter infra mgmt

Emerson Network Power has introduced two new models in the Avocent Universal Management Gateway family. Available globally, the Avocent Universal Management Gateway is a core component of Emersons data center infrastructure management (DCIM) portfolio, combining KVM, serial console, rack PDU, embedded service processor and environmental management into a single appliance. The Avocent Universal... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Datacentre Redesign Challenges

Most industry experts unanimously agree that managing data centres has become a more challenging task, given the fact that the businesses are getting more demanding and dependent. The reasons for this are attributed to the rapid expansion in the business, with the top management having set ambitious growth targets, both around organic and inorganic growth. The data centre operations are expected... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Capgemini Helps Customers Leverage Salesforce.com Cloud Platform

Capgemini has announced that it is expanding its alliance with enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com, through a joint fast growth initiative. While Capgemini has been implementing Salesforce solutions since 2007, this agreement signals a global approach with dedicated leadership and mutual investment in a joint go-to-market strategy to drive successful customer experiences in the... By

Data Centre Outsourcing Becomes Critical for IT Managers

while data centre is the heart of enterprise IT infrastructure, the increased complexities in terms of escalating cost of maintenance, expansion in the data centre components, increased manpower cost, besides increased investment around power and cooling, the need for outsourcing the data centre maintenance to a third-party vendor is felt strongly. But the IT heads and the team are unable to... By

Asian Paints Empowers Workforce with SAP Mobile Solutions

SAP AG has announced that Asian Paints has achieved new found business capabilities with the successful implementation of mobile solutions from SAP. Using the SAP mobile platform and the SAP Afaria mobile device management solution, Asian Paints is the first SAP customer to extend the capabilities of SAP software onto the Android mobile platform to gain real-time visibility into business... By

IT Managers Bet on Business Analytics

IT managers are betting big on Business Analytics (BA) and leveraging its advantages in making use of data, statistical techniques and prediction models to provide insights into business performance. BA has been making inroads slowly into organisations and throwing up huge opportunity for the IT heads and enabling them to provide information in real time to help the business groups to make... By

IOB first bank in India to fool proof ATM, PoS and Net transactions

Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) claims to have become the first bank in India to fool-proof all its ATMs, point of sale and internet transactions, by adopting Visas real time fraud detection solutions. The new smarter, self-learning solutions, Visa Advanced Authorization (VAA) and Visa Risk Manager (VRM), have been introduced to offer unprecedented levels of real time protection and greater security... By sanjay.gupta gupta