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Editor's
Letter
Cloud
computing starts to come of age
Cover Story
A
colocation call
In these times when companies are conscious about energy-efficiency,
colocation seems like an attractive option. However, it comes
with its own set of questions. By Aditya Kelekar
Vertical
Focus
Focus
On: POWER
2009 finds CIOs in the power sector having worked out processes
and strategies and a clear road map for deploying technology.
They are anticipating new business challenges in the current
year, given the economic slowdown, where IT's role is enhanced.
By Invitation
Tighter
regulations- to have or not to have
Is there a case for more regulation in the Indian IT and ITES
Industry with respect to customer assurance?. By S Vijay,
Director, IT Advisory practice, KPMG India
The
journey to virtualization: pitfalls and safeguards
Application availability in a virtual environment is a serious
concern. By Anand Naik, Director, Systems Engineering, Symantec
India
Techvisor
Managing
software updates
Dealing with software updates is not as simple as it seems
on the surface and there are several challenges that CIOs
encounter en route to managing it. By Rajendra Chaudhary
Head to Head
Atria
Convergence Technologies (ACT)
Bangalore headquartered Atria Convergence Technologies (ACT),
a subsidiary of the Bangalore based Atria Group has ambitious
plans to be the leader in providing digital TV and IPTV services.
ACT's Director, C S Sunder Raju and President-Technology Devadas
Menon Pullat believe in the complete automation of their infrastructure
and office to drive growth by providing effective value added
services
Case Study
UTM
saves the day
Marketing communications company Mudra wanted to curb unproductive
Internet surfing without hurting the creative abilities of
its workforce. It found a solution in a UTM box. by Rajendra
Chaudhary
(Q&A)
RoA
is the new RoI
Hubert Yoshida, Vice President and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems
talks to N Geetha about CIO challenges for 2009.
If
it's hard to justify APM, then probably you don't need it
Chris Cook, Corporate SVP & General Manager, APM, CA talks
to Rajendra Chaudhary about Application Performance Management
(APM) and the competitive landscape that CA operates in.
TIBCO
talks the hardware talk
Ram Menon, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing,
TIBCO talks to Rajendra Chaudhary about P-7500 messaging appliance,
the company's first hardware offering and the reasons behind
the strategic move
Outsourcing
business remains firm despite economic gloom
Lemuel Lasher, Global Business Solutions and Services Group
President, CSC talks to Rajendra Chaudhary about the impact
of financial crisis on the global outsourcing industry and
outlines CSC's strategy for the future
New
project to foster Indo-UK technology research
A five-year collaboration between the UK and Indian Governments,
universities and ICT specialists in both countries will work
to develop Next Generation Telecommunications Networks and
ICT services and applications in the two countries, along
with work on wireless sensor networks which could aid healthcare
and early warning weather systems in rural areas
From the
regulator
TRAI's
recommendations on VAS
TRAI has released its recommendations on the growth of Value
Added Services and regulatory issues
The
regulator cracks down on banks with ill-serviced ATMs
In a recent notification (dt: Feb 11, 2009), the RBI has pulled
up banks for faulty ATMs. The regulator said it has taken
cognizance of complaints from bank customers regarding debit
of accounts even when the ATMs have not disbursed cash for
various reasons
Analysts'
Views
KPMG
identifies emerging hotspots for the Indian IT industry
As the existing favorite locations for shared services and
outsourcing start to become saturated, newer cities are emerging,
offering new and improved incentive packages and talent, that
are better geared for the IT / ITeS industry, says KPMG in
its report- ‘Exploring Global Frontiers—the new
Emerging Destinations’
Get
the Web services before the Mashups, Aite Group advises
The Aite Group, a US-based IT consultancy firm in the financial
services domain, has released the results of its study on
the use of mashups
Security
updates
Can't
get a hold over CAPTCHA?
A Websense security alert release says that spammers have
once again chosen to target Microsoft's Live Hotmail services,
by busting Microsoft's latest, redesigned CAPTCHA system
F-Secure
survey: False sense of security
F-Secure's annual Online Wellbeing survey, conducted in December
2008, shows that over 90% of people have security software
installed on their computers
Analysts'
Views
Indian
CIOs' IT spending budgets on the rise
IT spending budgets in India, in contrast to many other regions
of the world, will still grow at 5.52 percent in 2009, according
to results from the 2009 CIO Agenda survey conducted by Gartner
Gartner's
framework for cost optimization
Gartner has identified four discrete levels at which IT organizations
can help their enterprises optimize business costs
Events
Technology
Sabha
The fifth iteration of Technology Sabha, the premier event
on e-Governance, was held recently at the Goa Marriott Resort
in the beach town of Panaji
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