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Editor's Letter
Paint
it Green
Cover Story
The
greens have it
With the green movement gaining popularity worldwide, the
pressure is mounting on enterprises to make green initiatives
a priority. The path is far from straightforward. By Aditya
Kelekar
Vertical Focus
Focus
On: Plastics
N Geetha looks at how CIOs in the plastics industry are addressing
business challenges.
By Invitation
It's
a limited world
Organizations must realize their obligations to the environment,
or face the bullet from the green forces. by Ashit Panjwani
Techvisor
The
Usability Challenge
Though usability engineering isn't a direct responsibility
of the CIO, a good CIO can actually help institutionalize
the idea in an enterprise. by Rajendra Chaudhary
Head to Head
Nagarjuna
Fertilizers & Chemicals
Hyderabad-based Nagarjuna Fertilizer and Chemicals (NFCL)
is growing with a focus to reduce dependence on imports and
trying to drive volumes to satisfy domestic consumption requirements
Events
Feeling
the customer's pulse
Satisfying customers has never been more challenging than
in today's highly competitive marketplace. The modern customer
is extremely demanding and insists on being treated as an
individual with specific needs
Case Study
Strategic
Transformation
Godrej has strategically outsourced its entire IT infrastructure
and application development to Hewlett-Packard (HP), Ayushman
Baruah gives an insight.
Wipro:
Last Stop Greenville!
Wipro's approach to ‘green’ is a holistic one, encompassing
IT infrastructure as well as other crucial non-IT assets such
as office buildings and employees. by Rajendra Chaudhary
(Q&A)
Netmagic
adds another data center
The increasing demand for third-party data center services
has prompted Netmagic to introduce a new data center. Sharad
Sanghi, CEO and Founder of Netmagic Solutions shares his views
with Priyanka Akhouri on the recent developments in his company.
Intel's
processor plans
Sanat Rao, Marketing Director, (Emerging Markets) Embedded
and Communications Group, Intel South Asia, discusses the
potential of the Atom processor in the embedded market space
with Ayushman Baruah.
Cisco's
data center 3.0 vision
Sumit Mukhija, National Sales Manager (Data Center) of Cisco
India & SAARC in an interview with Priyanka Akhouri discusses
on how the data center 3.0 initiatives taken by Cisco will
enable the customers to better utilize their data center resources
and enhance data security.
(Project Management)
Light
at the end of the deployment tunnel
(News Brief)
Airtel
launches VeriSign identity protection services
Bharti Airtel recently introduced VeriSign Identity Protection
(VIP) Services for its enterprise customers in India
IBM
launches 'IBM Smart Business' for Indian SMBs
IBM has announced the availability of "IBM Smart Business",
a way for small and medium businesses (SMBs) to acquire, use
and manage technology that is radically simple
Mahindra
Group and SAP enter into a strategic alliance
India's Mahindra Group has signed an enterprise agreement
with SAP for consolidation of its systems and strategic transformation
across the company's diversified operational landscape
Hexaware
appoints N Nataraj as CIO
Hexaware Technologies has announced the appointment of N.
Nataraj as Chief Information Officer (CIO). As a member of
the executive management team, Nataraj will be responsible
for managing and strengthening company's global integrated
information technology (IT) systems and processes
Cisco
data leakage study assesses the 'Insider Threat'
Cisco issued the third and final set of findings from its
global security study on data leakage, shedding light on the
employee "insider threat" to corporate information
Hitachi
announces ‘CIO of the Year’ awards
Harish Shetty, Senior Vice President - IT, HDFC Bank received
the CIO of the Year, announced during the IT Inspiration Awards
ceremony, hosted by Hitachi Data Systems
Unisys
to offer hosted revenue accounting service
Unisys Corporation announced that it will be offering the
AMBER Cargo Revenue Accounting solution from Kale Consultants
as part of its air cargo portfolio
Green Bytes
Gartner
and WWF evaluate enterprises for environmental leadership
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Gartner presented the
results of an assessment of 24 global information and communication
technology (ICT) providers on their commitment to tackling
climate change within their own company and their capabilities
in innovating and developing solutions that will help them
and their clients thrive in a low carbon economy
Green
IT services market to reach US $2 billion, says Springboard
According to the Springboard Research the Green IT Services
market in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) will grow
from a small base of US$251 million in 2007 to US$2 billion
in 2011
Survey
finds green sensibilities make for good cost-cutting
In a recent poll conducted by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and
the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions,
an astounding 83% of the respondents stated that going green
results in cost-savings, while 17% believed that that green
measures are not necessarily cost efficient
News Analysis
Are
the doors closing on open source?
After putting vast sums of money in open source projects for
several consecutive quarters, VCs are displaying restraint.
Is this the end of the dream run for open source? by Rajendra
Chaudhary
Products
Adaptec's
scalable Host Bus Adapters
Adaptec has unveiled the Adaptec series 1 Unified Serial Host
Bus Adapter (HBA) family featuring two low-profile cards that
deliver data storage connectivity solution, supporting up
to 128 SATA or SAS storage devices
Transcend's
128GB SSD in India
Transcend has announced the release of its 128GB high speed
2.5-inch Solid State Disk (SSD) in India
Quick
Heal introduces new antivirus products
Quick Heal Technologies has launched its new 2009 series of
products, the new Quick Heal Antivirus Plus 2009 and Quick
Heal Total Security 2009
Downtime
N P Singh, Sr. Vice President and CIO—Textile and Apparel,
Madura Garments , Aditya Birla Group
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