Usha Int'l deploys SAP HANA on Business Warehouse

SAP India has announced that Usha International Ltd (UIL), a multi-product consumer durable manufacturing, marketing and distribution company, has chosen SAP HANA on Business Warehouse (BW), to gain real-time visibility into its businesses to improve operational excellence and achieve better business outcomes.With increased growth in information by more than 20% per annum, UIL wanted to look at... By sanjay.gupta gupta

CeBIT 2012

CeBIT is the digital industry's biggest, most international event. Thanks to its unique combination of exhibition, conferences, keynotes, corporate events and lounges, CeBIT represents an unrivaled tool for doing business and sealing deals.CeBIT visitors will be treated to very latest digital trends, industry news and inspired innovations at the tradeshow's home base in Hannover, Germany.... By sanjay.gupta gupta

149 Million smartphones sold in Q4 2011: Gartner

Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 47.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from 2010.Smartphone volumes during the quarter rose due to record sales of Apple... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Over 50% of employees don't follow or unaware of security policies

Think confidential information is protected by company IT security policies? Think again. A new survey commissioned by Xerox and McAfee reveals that more than half (54 percent) of employees say they dont always follow their companys IT security policies (33 percent) or arent even aware of the policies (21 percent) leaving the security of customer credit card numbers, financial reports, and HR... By sanjay.gupta gupta

WNS launches ERP-Card Solution Xponential

WNS (Holdings) Limited, a global BPO services provider, has launched Xponential ? The ERP-Card Solution, as part of its BizAps Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Solutions brand umbrella.Xponential is an integrated SAP Purchasing Card (P-Card) program management solution. It enables organizations to leverage their existing investment in SAP and extends the benefits of process optimization, operational control... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Symantec announces new risk and compliance solution

Symantec Corp. has announced the upcoming release of Symantec Control Compliance Suite 11, the latest version of its enterprise-class IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution. It will feature the new Control Compliance Suite Risk Manager module which enables security leaders to better understand and communicate risks to the business environment from their IT infrastructure. Risk Manager... By sanjay.gupta gupta

SafeNet strengthens exec team

SafeNet has expanded its executive team to maximize near- and long-term growth opportunities in the cloud and in the enterprise. Through this move, the company aims to stay ahead of the rapidly increasing demand for the cryptographic security of valuable information. The company announced that Tsion Gonen will assume the newly created role of Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Sangeeta Anand... By sanjay.gupta gupta

The App Innovation Gap

Many organizations are finding themselves with an enterprise application strategy that no longer satisfies the needs and desires of the business community, and this often leads to poor decisions and bad investments, according to Gartner, Inc."There is a gap developing between the business users of enterprise applications and the IT professionals charged with providing these applications," says... By sanjay.gupta gupta

HP to ease "supplier sprawl" with new offering

HP has introduced new services that enable enterprises to integrate, manage and govern complex multivendor environments, resulting in reduced risk and costs.According to research done by Gartner, business groups are adopting cloud 2.5 times faster than IT groups. Procurement of cloud services from external suppliers by business groups separate from services developed by IT is creating "supplier... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Microsoft kills 21 security bugs

Microsoft released nine new security bulletins fixing 21 vulnerabilities in all supported versions of Internet Explorer and the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office and .NET/Silverlight in its February Patch Tuesday release.Four of the nine bulletins were rated "critical" because the vulnerabilities could result in remote-code execution on the computer if exploited, according to Microsoft'... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Volume alone is not Big Data: Gartner

According to Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report for the data warehouse DBMS market, introduction of big data is causing transformational changes for both vendors and enterprise users. The supplier side of the data warehouse database management system (DBMS) market consists of those vendors supplying DBMS products for the database infrastructure of a data warehouse and the required... By sanjay.gupta gupta

How about transforming virtualized datacenters into elastic clouds?

Citrix has announced the general availability of Citrix CloudStack 3, the first release of the open-source cloud platform under the Citrix brand. CloudStack is claimed to be the worlds most successful platform for public clouds, powering over $1 billion in revenue for more than 85 large-scale production clouds, including some of the biggest brands in the industry. With the new CloudStack 3... By sanjay.gupta gupta