Is Unified Storage the Future?

The SituationHow will Vasanth Kumar check data growth and its complexity? This question has been haunting senior IT managers across industries. Kumar is also the victim of rampant data growth and the complexity that it throws up, putting undue pressure on operations and the bottom line. This senior IT manager of a large manufacturing group finds that storage consumption is escalating with more... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Can Sabeer Bhatia do a Hotmail to SMS?

Going by the promise in the Hotmail co-founder's press announcement, he well could. After all, it's been a long time since Sabeer's last successful venture, the ubiquitous free email service Hotmail, was bought by Microsoft (1998). And this time, the new venture could just click on the simplicity and power of the idea - unlike others such as Arzoo and Live Documents (the latter, unfortunately,... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Cognizant deploys merchandise soln for Dubai chain

Cognizant has completed the deployment of a merchandise planning platform for the Redtag Group, a Dubai-based chain of value fashion and home stores.The platform will help the chain respond faster and more efficiently to the dynamic fashion retailing market by making better informed purchasing and pricing decisions based on detailed and executable merchandise plans. This will help Redtab... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Four key principles for a New CIO Manifesto

As organizations grapple with continued global economic turbulence, CIOs need to uncouple from past processes and beliefs and embrace a new manifesto, according to Gartner, Inc.At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, taking place in Mumbai through November 23, Gartner analysts have identified four key principles for a new CIO Manifesto that they said will not just change CIOs and their departments for the... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Telecom to rule Indian IT spending at $54 bn

IT spending in India is projected to total $79.8 billion in 2012, a 9.1 percent increase over the 2011 spending of $73.1 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Despite global economic challenges, enterprises will continue to invest in IT.India is the ninth-largest economy in the world, and the pace of economic growth in India with a mild (by global standards) dip during the worldwide recession in... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Check Point buys GRC soln provider Dynasec

Check Point Software Technologies has acquired privately held Dynasec Ltd, a provider of Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The acquisition extends Check Point 3D Security that enables companies to view security as a business process, focusing on policy, people and enforcement. The combined security and GRC solutions will enable customers to manage their entire 3D... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Symantec aims at resiliency in private cloud

Symantec has announced version 6.0 of its storage management and high availability products. With this release, Symantec enables IT organisations to build resilient private clouds by transforming their existing infrastructure.Organisations can manage business services end-to-end with built-in resiliency, even if the business service is run across multiple virtualisation technologies, operating... By sanjay.gupta gupta

CIOs losing control of IT budgets: Gartner

By 2014, CIOs will have lost control of 25% of IT spending to the Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs), predicts Gartner. But that's not all - things seem to get scarier (from the perspective of the IT guys at least). By 2017, the research firm estimates that CMOs will have a larger IT budget than the CIOs.These stats and other trends were shared by Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Global... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Oracle promises lower cloud cost and complexity

Oracle has announcedOracle Enterprise Manager 12c, touted as the industrys first solution to combine management of the full Oracle stack with complete enterprise cloud lifecycle management. Building on its business-driven IT management approach, the new software enables better business-IT integration. It allows IT organizations to increase efficiency and responsiveness while reducing costs and... By sanjay.gupta gupta

IBM to smarten up township in Ghaziabad

Diversified business group Wave Inc has engaged IBM to provide a roadmap to make its green-field township, Wave City, a smarter township. Located in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh State), Wave City is among the largest integrated township development projects in Indias National Capital Region. The 4,500-acre township will be one of the first urban developments in the country to be designed with smart... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Arbor appliance to protect data centres from DDoS

Arbor Networks has announced the Arbor Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) appliances, a new product family focused on securing the Internet data centre (IDC) edge from threats against availability specifically, protection against application-layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.Arbor Pravail APS brings carrier-class DDoS detection and mitigation capabilities to the data... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Nasscom India Leadership Forum

The Nasscom India Leadership Forum has witnessed twenty springs. And two decades sure is a long time. So Nasscom is dedicating this twentieth edition of the Forum to the worlds journey from the simple and stable to complex and complicated.If there really was a single phrase to describe this transition, it would probably be Hyper Specialization.. Whatever be your calling, have you thought what it... By sanjay.gupta gupta