A third of consumer digital content to be in the cloud by 2016

The desire to share content and to access it on multiple devices will motivate consumers to start storing a third of their digital content in the cloud by 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that just 7 percent of consumer content was stored in the cloud in 2011, but this will grow to 36 per cent in 2016."Historically, consumers have generally stored content on their PCs, but as we... By

Why do IT Managers Prefer Tier 3 DCs over Tier 4?

Indian data centre market is said to have reached US$2bn by the end of 2011, with third party data centre constituting nearly 30 percent. The IT head and senior IT managers are contented with outsourcing to the tier 3 data centres, rather than exploring the tier 4, which is the new buzz. The reason for such a trend is that the IT managers are not aware of the cost factors and also the additional... By

Mature mobile practices can DOUBLE operating margin

To better understand the degree of mobile adoption, maturity of best practices and impact on enterprise performance across industries, SAP AG has released a benchmarking report. The report found that companies with mature best practices double their operating margins and experience three times higher revenue growth compared to those with average mobile practices. The global study is comprised of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Leading from Within

In eight areas of your life you have the power to be guided by your soul, says Deepak Chopra in this slim but significant book: Thoughts, emotions, perception, personal relationships, social role, environment, speech and the body. The bottomline is that in all of them our behaviour affects the people we lead. If we evolve, so will they, he avers. And that's the basic premise on which Chopra... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Financial services firm replaces Tally with Infor

Infor, a provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, has announced that Emkay Global, a financial services company that creates investment opportunities for its clients across India, has successfully deployed Infor10 Financials Business (SunSystems).Infor10 Financial Business enables Emkay Group to regularly analyse data from real time reporting of the companys... By sanjay.gupta gupta

65% of Hacker attacks motivated by financial fraud

Check Point Software Technologies has announced the results of a new survey revealing 65 percent of organizations who experienced targeted attacks report the hacker's motivation was driven by financial fraud, and resulted in business disruption and the loss of sensitive information, including intellectual property and trade secrets.The report, The Impact of Cybercrime on Businesses, also showed... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Analytics: What to Consider?

Business insights deduced from data can act as a catalyst to business growth. Deriving wisdom based on history, events and actions can tell you a story of business evolution and help in setting the tone for the future. If you get answers to all your questions that tell you the reason behind a particular outcome, you can use that learning to take corrective actions, avoid pitfalls and pursue... By sanjay.gupta gupta

The Pros and Cons of Cloud

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), cloud computing is a model for enabling on-demand access to a pool of computing resources that can be provisioned and released with minimal effort. Furthermore, NIST categorises cloud computing into three service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Each... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Obsessing Over Green

THE SITUATION... How will Prateek Sinha ensure that his organisation supports him in making green an all pervasive habit? It is obvious that CIOs and data centre managers have found it tough to balance organisational pressures with limited budgets while maintaining the same efficiency and output. Sinha, senior IT manager of a large manufacturing company, is faced with a similar challenge. He has... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Global spend on enterprise app software to cross $120 bn in 2012

Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will total $120.4 billion in 2012, a 4.5 percent increase from 2011 spending of $115.2 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. With only limited signs of improvement in the near term, the growth projection for 2012 has been adjusted downward from 5 percent in the previous forecast in 1Q12."The global marketplace is still experiencing a series of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Worlds largest in-memory system for data-intensive problems

SGI has announced the availability of the new SGI UV 2 product family. SGI UV 2 doubles the number of cores (up to 4096 cores) and quadruples the amount of coherent main memory (up to 64 terabytes) from the previous generation, available for in-memory computing in a single-image system.The new system can scale to eight petabytes of shared memory and at a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Honeywell forms unit for protection against cyber threats

Honeywell has announced the formation of the Industrial IT Solutions group, a global team of experts who can help manufacturers and process industry facilities protect against cyber threats.The Industrial IT Solutions group, part of Honeywell Process Solutions, specializes in the design, performance assessment and protection of networks used in the process industry, including wireless instrument... By sanjay.gupta gupta