Arkadin acquires ConferencePlus

Collaboration solutions provider Arkadin has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ConferencePlus, a subsidiary of Westell Technologies, Inc. The acquisition is believed to help Arkadin significantly increase its market share and make it the third largest independent collaboration service provider in North America. It's already got the number two position in Europe and Asia. The... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Santa and His *Technology*

To the CIOs and tech geeks, the very existence of an avuncular chap in red and white and a flowing beard atop a snow sleigh who goes around the world distributing goodies to kids might seem quite preposterous.Not so to Larry Silverberg, associate head of North Carolina State University's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Larry has apparently spent a lot of time figuring out Santa... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Nimbula launches inexpensive cloud migration service

Nimbula, which brands itself as the cloud operating system company, recently launched its newest cloud migration service offering to customers looking to migrate from the public cloud to private or hybrid clouds.Many customers start their online operations on a public cloud infrastructure like Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) because they cannot afford the capital investment required for... By sanjay.gupta gupta

10 Reasons why Android will lose the tablet race

The tablet market hasnt been too friendly to Googles Android operating system. Over the last year, consumers have been increasingly turning to Apples iPad to satisfy their tablet desires. Android-based products, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Dell Streak and countless other slates, have been collecting dust on store shelves. Of course, there are some who say that that will change. To prove their... By sanjay.gupta gupta

CSO Summit

The 4th Annual CSO Summit brings together global experts and 70 80 of Indias leading CSOs and experts on security for a 2 day offsite to help build a security road map for the next decade It presents a well thought out agenda put together by the CSO community and researched for over a year! The CSO Summit keeps in mind the challenges faced by the CSOs today and those of the future and enables... By sanjay.gupta gupta

SAS Forum India 2012

Its a knowledge sharing platform where business users, experts and industry leaders meet to exchange knowledge and experience on embracing Analytics. With the rising complexity of global businesses, gut decisions and hunches no longer suffice. Successful responses to threats and opportunities now depend on rapid and smart execution. To achieve these objectives, more and more organizations are... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Oracle misses earnings after 10 yrs, other tech firms down

Oracle Corp's dismal quarterly results sent shock waves across the technology sector as investors feared they may have overestimated the resilience of corporate tech spending in a deteriorating global economy, says a report by Reuters.In what is believed to be the first earnings miss in 10 years from Oracle, the company's fiscal second quarter (ended November 30) results caused its shares to... By sanjay.gupta gupta

8 Security trends to watch out in 2012: Fortinet

Fortinet has revealed FortiGuard Labs 2012 threat predictions, highlighting eight security trends to watch out for next year.Ransomware to Take Mobile Devices HostageRansomware, an infection that holds a device hostage until a ransom payment is delivered, has been around on PCs for years. Mobile malware that utilize exploits have also been observed, along with social engineering tricks that lead... By sanjay.gupta gupta

500 Indian varsities working with IBM on analytics

To address the growing market demand for analytics-savvy graduates, IBM is working with universities around the world to bring advanced analytics training directly into the classroom. The company is expanding its Academic Initiative for business analytics with new programs in India, China, Ireland and Scotland, helping students keep pace with today's competitive job market by gaining skills in... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Mobility, virtualization fuel server security growth: IDC

Trend Micro has kept its lead in the corporate endpoint server security market with an estimated 23.7 percent market share, according to the report Worldwide Endpoint Security 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares from IDC. The current overall IDC estimate for the server security market is $439.2 million, with a growth rate of 6.1 percent, and expected to reach $694.4 million by 2015. IDC... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's hard disk biz

Seagate Technology has announced the closing of the transaction to acquire the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. Under the terms of the transaction, Seagate has gained select elements of Samsungs HDD business, including assets, infrastructure and employees that enable Seagate to drive scale and innovation. These assets include Samsungs M8 product line of high-... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Salesforce.com acquires Rypple, targets HCM solns

Salesforce.com recently entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management company. The acquisition signifies Salesforce.coms entry into the human capital management (HCM) market for the social enterprise. Salesforce.com plans to re-launch Rypple as Successforce and create a new HCM business unit, which will be run by John Wookey. Rypples social... By sanjay.gupta gupta