John McHugh: BYOD Requires Architectural Changes

Increasing demands from the enterprise are putting tremendous pressure on the network infrastructure. John McHugh, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Brocade Communications, talks to Varun Aggarwal about how Campus LAN can resolve these challenges. What has been driving you to invest into the campus LAN area?Arguably theres been a dearth of innovation in campus LANs. This has led to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Essar Oil expects annual savings of $60,000 through private cloud

With a rapidly expanding global footprint, Essar Oil Limited has turned to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and System Center technology to address its need for superior infrastructure that will reduce costs, increase efficiency and simplify management of the companys data center.A global producer of petrol and diesel, Essar Oil serves its customers through a network of more than 1,400 retail... By sanjay.gupta gupta

30% of IT projects driven by compliance: survey

McAfee has announced findings from its annual study that highlights how IT decision-makers view and address the challenges of risk and compliance management in a highly regulated and increasingly complex global business environment.The report, title Risk and Compliance Outlook: 2012, found that Database Security and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) were among the top priorities... By sanjay.gupta gupta

AON Hewitt: Winners of TPL2012 - Delhi

After several weeks of hype and excitement - and a feverish two-day offsite just concluded at The Oberoi in Gurgaon - IT Next and CTO Forum have announced the winners of India's first and largest multi-city corporate IT team challenge, the Technology Premier League. For the Delhi leg of TPL2012, a total of 22 teams matched their wits against each other in a business case study challenge.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

PPM Leaders Must Embrace Change

The pervasiveness of information and communication technology is driving intense levels of change, requiring business to adapt in ways that IT organizations are not currently structured to address effectively, according to Gartner, Inc. This dynamic is being felt most in IT-intensive functions and services where IT effectiveness is closely coupled with business success, and in industries where... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Indian PC market grows 6.6% in Q1 2012

The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled nearly 2.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 6.6 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc.Consumer buying accounted for 47 percent of total PC sales in the first quarter of 2012, which is down 3 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, said Vishal Tripathi, principal research analyst at... By sanjay.gupta gupta

New initiative to help enterprises accelerate the cloud

iGATE has announced an expansion of its flagship advisory service, the Cloud Acceleration Program (CAP). The augmented service offers customers support in their initiatives to build public, private and hybrid clouds, migrate their existing application and systems portfolios, implement cloud-based development and testing environments, and pursue downstream offerings around cloud security,... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Checking Out Analytics

THE SITUATION...How will Vivek Singh provide better answers to managements complex questions and create a path for improved performance?The goal and motto of every IT head is to provide a platform which enables the business and top management to make better decisions. Most business heads are keen to have market intelligence at their fingertips and expect their IT team to provide it, unaware of... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Significant malware increase across all platforms: McAfee

McAfee has released the McAfee Threats Report: First Quarter 2012,which exposes an increase in malware across all platforms. The report shows that in Q1, PC malware reached its highest levels in four years, as well as a steep increase in malware targeting the Android platform. Mac malware was also on the rise, indicating that total malware could reach the 100 million mark within the year. In the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Emerson Network Power Releases Trellis Platform

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, has announced the global availability of the first four software applications in the Trellis platform. Working with the previously released Avocent Universal Management Gateway, the Trellis software applications deliver real-time infrastructure... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Indian enterprise IT spending to reach Rs1.9 lakh crore in 2012

Indian enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to reach 1,910 billion Rupees in 2012, a 16.4 percent increase from 2011 spending of 1,640 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Some of this growth is attributable to the relative strength of the Rupee against a weakened US dollar, and growth is expected to be moderate through 2016 and settle in at the range of eight to nine... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cloud: On the Upswing

Cloud computing is fast gaining popularity as a key part of information technology. Nearly every enterprise is at some stage of evaluating or deploying cloud solutions. Even as enterprises turn to the cloud to reduce costs, streamline staff, and increase efficiencies, some IT managers and CIOs remain wary about the security of their applications and data. While software-as-a-service (SaaS) has... By sanjay.gupta gupta