Making Green All Pervasive

The concept of green is becoming indispensable in our lives. Global warming threats have made it imperative for all sectors to invest in addressing the green factor. This means producing eco-friendly power and reducing carbon footprint to a large extent, and also generating energy through renewable energy sources such as sunlight or wind power. Going green means making the basic resources such... By sanjay.gupta gupta

So, Google infringed on Oracle copyright: US jury. But was it LEGAL?

After many days of deliberation, a US jury has found that Google has infringed on some of the copyrights held by Oracle for the latter's Java programming language, notes a report on Reuters.com. However, the jury seems to be still in split-hair mode on whether the infringement by Google constituted fair use and all its associated legal ramifications. Says the Reuters report: "The fair use... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Top 5 Indian IT services companies grow 23.8% in 2011

The top five India-based IT services providers grew 23.8 percent in 2011, compared with 7.7 percent growth for the global IT services market as a whole, according to Gartner, Inc. Cognizant displaced Wipro to become the third-largest Indian IT services provider, and it experienced the highest growth rate of 33.3 percent amongst the top five providers in 2011 (see Table 1).2011 signaled a change... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Be a Product Evangelist

The ancient proverb You are what you think is changingfast as we see technological evolution making its impact on the individual and the industry. It is interesting to watch that this evolution is bringing about disruptive changes in the IT managers world and is enabling them to draw clear differentiations. Needless to say, cloud computing hype is adding to the confusion. It is throwing up... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Want EA to deliver value? Focus on business outcome

A disconnect remains between the way many organizations pursue enterprise architecture (EA) and the impact of EA on the business, which prevents EA from delivering business value, according to Gartner, Inc. EA practitioners need to re-examine old practices and shift their focus to deliverables that direct change and empower business and IT leaders to make better decisions.Focusing on a standard... By sanjay.gupta gupta

China is new No. 1 in smartphone shipments

Canalys has released smart phone shipment estimates by country for Q1 2012. Total shipments worldwide grew 45% year on year to 146 million units, but significant country and regional differences were apparent. Shipments in the US rose just 5% year-on-year, in marked contrast to the 81% growth seen across the Asia Pacific region. Shipments in China doubled and overtook those in the US for the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

RIM launches BlackBerry 10 beta

Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its vision for the BlackBerry 10 platform at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida, and released the initial developer toolkit for native and HTML5 software development. The toolkit is available in beta as a free download from http://developer.blackberry.com.BlackBerry 10 builds upon the core values and exceptional user experiences that have... By sanjay.gupta gupta

New, fast solid state drive claims breakthrough

HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company) has announced the storage industrys first technology demonstration of a 12 gigabit per second (12Gbps) SAS solid state drive (SSD), representing the next performance step in the evolution of SAS, the preferred interface technology for enterprise servers and storage solutions.SAS SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Huawei to design, deploy 4G network for Airtel in Karnataka

Bharti Airtel has selected Huawei to plan, design, supply and deploy its TD LTE (4G) network in Karnataka.Besides offering rich data content to the customers in Karnataka, Bharti Airtels 4G LTE deployed on Huawei's TD LTE technology, will allow subscribers to experience high-speed wireless internet access that can support bandwidth-intensive applications, support video streaming and high-... By sanjay.gupta gupta

CIOs, Chief Legal Officers need to work more closely

Chief legal officers (CLOs) consider their enterprises' CIOs to be important contributors to corporate strategy and policy, but they need more in-depth interaction with their IT department, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. and ALM. In October of 2011, Gartner and ALM surveyed 70 CLOs, deputy CLOs, general counsels, and division general counsels. The survey was designed to increase the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Facebook to use Trend Micro technology for protection

Trend Micro has announced a strategic partnership with Facebook to help educate and protect users digital life against malicious sites and malware.Facebook will support integration of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure, which uses cloud technology, threat correlation, and a global network of threat intelligence sensors to proactively stop malware and web threats before they... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Role of IT Head shifting from enabler to innovation driver

Have you looked closely at the portfolio of IT initiatives in your company lately? If so, you might have found an interesting change in topics happening. Theres a significant shift in the role of IT, moving towards business value orientation and innovation for quite some time now. IT is no longer only in a pure enabler function but feels a pull to be the driving force in business innovation. The... By sanjay.gupta gupta