Fabindia integrates suppliers, retailers with SQL Server

Fabindia, India's largest private platform for products made from traditional techniques, skills and hand-based processes, has embarked on an aggressive expansion plan to take the brand to tier 2 and 3 cities and set up more stores over the next three years. In this regard, the company needed better tools for integrating, processing, and analyzing its growing data to aid in more informed... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Unlocking Data

Most companies today are talking about managing humongous amounts of data. Sectors like BFSI, telecom and retail particularly, deal with massive amounts of information that will be used to evaluate and plan business strategy. To be able to make quick and informed decisions, data needs to reside in such a manner that different teams can use it seamlessly across marketing, finance, product... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Now general purpose virtual machines from Google

At its recent developers conference, Google launched what it calls Google Compute Engine, which provides general purpose virtual machines as part of its expanding roster of cloud services. In his blog post, Peter S Magnusson, Engineering Director of Google App Engine Team, wrote: "Google App Engine has been at the heart of Googles cloud offerings since our launch in 2008, and were excited to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Capgemini to run IT service center for Bayer

Capgemini and Bayer Business Services recently signed a contract for the provision of IT services from India. Bayer Business Services is the global competence center for IT and business services of the Bayer group, a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials, headquartered in Germany. The contract includes global application... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Gujarat power co. achieves operational efficiency with ERP

SAP has announced that Bhavnagar Energy Company Limited (BECL) has selected SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) running on Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). BECL will get a streamlined end-to-end experience, from integrated product experience to customer service, support and lifecycle management with SAP Business Suite application on Sybase ASE. BECL is one of Gujarats major state... By sanjay.gupta gupta

HP offers predefined solutions for easy manageability

HP has announced new offerings to help small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) prepare their technology infrastructures for a growing mobile workforce. With more than 1.1 billion mobile appliances in use worldwide, organizations of all sizes are challenged by the need to access, manage and secure mobile devices and the data generated by them. HP Converged Infrastructure provides the platform for... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Betting on Cloud Storage

In the current economic scenario, downsizing and cost containment have become a norm for any organisation. One of the biggest concerns for IT heads today is finding better methods and techniques to protect their information assets and be prepared for quick recovery. To address the cost-related challenges associated with data backup, recovery and archival, cloud storage is emerging as the most... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Airtel, HP to jointly offer cloud services to SMBs

Bharti Airtel and HP have entered into a five-year deal under which HP will provide cloud services to Airtel's large base of SMBs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.According to a report on EconomicTimes.com, "The telecom company has 30,000 SMB customers for internet and mobile services and now it will be able to expand that portfolio of services to include accounting software, storage,... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Top 5 daily activities on tablets

People have quickly begun using media tablets for daily personal activities, according to a new survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that the main activities moving from PCs to media tablets are checking email (81 percent of respondents), reading the news (69 percent), checking the weather forecast (63 percent), social networking (62 percent) and gaming (60 percent).Gartner conducted the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

As Safe As Possible

With due apologies to the uber brands of the automobile world, there are only two types of mass-market cars (considered from a certain standpoint): those that have some security products installed and those with just plain vanilla, factory-fitted locks. Then, even among the secured ones, theres an entire cornucopia of fitments gear locks, hockey sticks, central locking...the works. Nevertheless... By sanjay.gupta gupta

How to Retain Your Project

Most often, companies find projects are falling off halfway through. The toughest part of any project management is to have a sound strategy in place which will help in the retention of a project with continued interest from all the stakeholders. The expectation from the IT teams, and in particular, from the senior IT managers, is huge. The level of commitment of IT managers will determine the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Server Optimized for Big Projects

Fujitsu has launched the Primergy RX500 S7 server, which claims to guarantee a high protection of investment by combining economic scalability and four-socket performance with the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of a dual-socket server. It can be upgraded from a dual-socket server to a quad-socket solution whenever required.The Primergy RX500 S7 offers a highly energy-efficient, cost-saving... By sanjay.gupta gupta