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Editor's
Letter
The
Mobile Enterprise
Cover Story
The
Mobile Enterprise
The trend of mobile working is starting to catch on in India
and organizations are moving to support this trend. By Rajendra
Chaudhary
All
for one, one for all
UC vendors it seems are finally starting to come around and
They are Now talking about creating open, Interoperable platforms
so enterprises can reap true benefits of Unified communications
By Rajendra Chaudhary
Vertical
Focus
Focus
On: Online Trading
The release of new products, IT processes and technologies
are on the agenda for 2009, said CIOs in the Online trading
segment. Given the economic meltdown and low trading volumes,
these CIOs are faced with the challenge of using IT effectively
to drive business and profitability finds N Geetha.
By Invitation
Every
cloud has a caution lining
Cloud computing seems to be all the rage, but CIOs are demanding
more management capabilities so as to ease service adoption
barriers. By Stephen Elliot, CA Cloud discussions are hot,
but often the definition of what a "cloud provider"
is creates confusion.
Profit
from criticism
Customers who complain can be a useful resource to the enterprise.
If the enterprise feedback system is able to tap into the
complaints, that is. By Vinod Ganesh Ram, CDC CRM Solutions
Techvisor
Finding
their Webbed feet
Web 2.0 projects are increasingly becoming the lynchpin of
an effective marketing strategy. But getting the project to
work isn’t a simple task. By Aditya Kelekar
Head to Head
Wipro
Infotech
Bangalore headquartered IT major, Wipro Infotech, has been
a pioneer in deploying varied technologies within its organization
to drive growth.
Case Study
Navigating
through turbulence
Most OTAs are in dire straits, but that hasn’t stopped
Cleartrip from innovating By Aditya Kelekar
Cross Fire
Few,
but fast...
At last month's Gartner India CIO Summit, Gartner Analyst
Mark P McDonald delivered a keynote address on Leading the
Challenge, Leading the Change. Express Intelligent Enterprise
Sr Correspondent Aditya Kelekar caught up with him shortly
after that to discuss CIO's role in tiding over difficult
times.
(Q&A)
Managing
VM should not be any different or more difficult than managing
physical machines
In a chat with Rajendra Chaudhary, Pallavi Kathuria, Director,
Server Business Group, Microsoft discusses her company's virtualization
play and talks candidly about the competition with VMware.
It’s
all about choosing the right security policies
Rajeev Goel, Vice President of iPolicy Networks, Tech Mahindra's
Security Division talks to Rajendra Chaudhary about security
and how organizations can build a consistent security mechanism
across large distributed networks.
Growth
despite the gloom
Sridhar Reddy, CMD, Ctrl S Datacenters talks to Rajendra Chaudhary
about the data center business and the impact of the economic
slump upon it.
From the
regulator
New
QoS parameters issued by TRAI
TRAI has ammended the parameters for measuring the Quality
of Service of Basic Telephone Service (wireline) and Cellular
Mobile Telephone Service
TRAI
goes soft on service providers
Earlier last month TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)
issued guidelines to all service providers (ISPs, UASLs, CMSPs,
BSOs) providing Internet/ broadband to ensure better service
levels to their subscribers
RBI
mandates two-factor authentication
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with a notice informing
banks that with effect from August 01, 2009, it will be mandatory
on them to have a mechanism that will ensure two –factor
authentication in force
Security
CERT-In’s
vulnerability round up
CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) has posted
information about several vulnerabilities uncovered last month
Beware
of SWF malware, Websense cautions
Websense Security Labs has announced that it has seen a new
SWF (Shockwave Flash, owned by Adobe) threat thriving in the
wild
Online
skepticism still high, says F-Secure
F-Secure’s annual Online Wellbeing survey has found that
the ajority of respondents are still apprehensive about using
their credit cards over the Internet
Analysts’
Views
Saugatuck’s
findings on the potential of enterprise social computing
A new report by Saugatuck Research shows that the business
potential of enterprise social computing (ESC) goes far beyond
typical reports promoting it to improve marketing and customer
service
Semiconductor
Capital Equipment spending to decline, says Gartner
Worldwide capital equipment spending for the semiconductor
industry is forecast to total $16.9 billion in 2009, a 45.2
percent decline from 2008 spending of $30.8 billion, according
to analysts at Gartner
Slowdown’s
pretty side
In a recent blog titled “Can IT Emerge From This Period
In Better Shape Than Ever?” on Forrester’s official
website, analyst Sharyn Leaver comments that the recession’s
had some beneficial effects on the CIO-senior management relations
Products
Downtime
Sumit Chowdhury, CIO (RCOM) & Reliance Tech Services,
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
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