Pyramid IT bags order from Jindal Steel

New Delhi: Pyramid IT has bagged a Business Process Management (BPM) order from Jindal Steel (JSPL) for automation and management of their entire content and legacy documents. Under the contract, Pyramid will implement its FineDocs ECM product suite at Jindal's Angul site in Orissa. "We are proud to partner with the country's leading business conglomerate through this order. Through this... By shubhendu.parth

Infosys to take care of Microsoft's internal tech

New Delhi: Microsoft has outsourced its internal tech support to Indian technology services firm Infosys, the companies have announced. The move was first revealed in an Infosys press release Tuesday announcing a three-year deal to "manage internal IT services for Microsoft worldwide" and later confirmed by the US software giant. "As part of this managed services agreement, Infosys will... By shubhendu.parth

Powering Netbooks

The story of netbooks essentially started with Asus launching its Eee PC in the latter half of 2007. Consumers really took to these lighter, cheaper versions of notebooks and a lot of other vendors, including HP, Lenovo and Dell caught on to the netbook fever by launching different variants. Ever since, around 44 million units of netbooks have been sold worldwide. The microprocessor platform... By shubhendu.parth

The Service Play

A recent Springboard Research study report shows a remarkably high awareness levels on SaaS (Software as a service) in India than in the Asia Pacific region as a whole, with 74 percent of respondents reportedly being very familiar with SaaS in India compared to only 60 percent in other APEJ (Asia Pacific excluding Japan) countries. India has also emerged as one of the fastest growing SaaS... By shubhendu.parth

What chokes my Internet?

The situation... Ravinder, can you check what is wrong with the Internet again, exclaimed exasperated Manoj Tyagi, Vice President of an investment banking firm in Delhi. I need to urgently download the presentation that Kartik has sent from Mumbai, he added.I am already printing this 300 page document for the client and need a copy of this presentation to complete it, he added, raising the alarm... By shubhendu.parth

Problem slayer!

EDITOR'S NOTEOne of the tasks of Hercules, in ancient Greek mythology, was to kill the 9-headed serpent-like beast Lernaean Hydra. The Greek hero apparently was stumped by the fact that every time he chopped one of its head two more grew back in place. Finally, he devised a workaround to slay the Hydra. Todays IT manager has to deal with a many-headed serpent of a different genreinefficient use... By shubhendu.parth

Unwire for Growth

EDITOR'S NOTEThere has been considerable debate as to what are the key components of enterprise mobility. The broad agreement has it that it comprises the handheld device, the enterprise WLAN and the mobility applications. Some stakeholders add peripheral input devices such as barcode scanners and other input devices to the enterprise mobility portfolio, given enterprise mobilitys vast adoption... By shubhendu.parth

How to deliver with a soppy SLA?

The Situation...Raghav, you seem to have lost all appetite, said Suhasini. Is something wrong at work?Raghav tried to avoid the conversation, but could not hide the tension that writ large on his face. He was a senior IT manager at RapCorpone of Indias largest real estate companies. But the last few weeks at work had been difficult for him because of the repeated delays in the ERP project that... By shubhendu.parth

The epic centre

Honestly, this wasnt my idea. I just rolled with it.Late last July, in the midst of a busy workday, my colleague Bronwen turned to me.Chindu, have you seen this?What?This article about mobile fiction.It was about amateur novels being read as SMS on mobile phones. Apparently, Japanese teenagers were crazy about it. Bronwen sent more news. While the Japanese were, umm, thumbing through portable... By shubhendu.parth

Learning is golden

Why do we need God, if we are doing our work religiously? said Pushkar Raj when asked if he was religious and God fearing. As Manager IT, Express Retail Service, Big Apple, Raj believes in learning from every situation that life provides and is not the one to be much perturbed with challenges that come in the way.Having started his career as System Engineer with Pantagon System in Mumbai, he is... By shubhendu.parth

WiMAX 2 to meet the ITU requirements for 4G

New Delhi: WiMAX proponents continue to push the technology along, with a handful of backers this week announcing the next generation of the platform WiMAX 2. It may all be in a name, but WiMAX 2, otherwise known as IEEE 802.16m, meets the ITU requirements for 4G, delivering higher peak throughout rates of up to 300Mbps, along with lower latency and better support for VoIP. Intel, Alvarion,... By shubhendu.parth

SpringSource acquires RabbitMQ CM Tech

New Delhi: SpringSource, a division of VMware, has announced the acquisition by VMware of Rabbit Technologies, an open source software company based in the United Kingdom. SpringSource will add the RabbitMQ open messaging system into its suite of technologies that reduce the complexity associated with development, deployment and management of enterprise applications. "As organisations... By shubhendu.parth