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Editor's
Letter
Tech
adoption on campus far from pervasive
Cover Story
Campus
Tech-Reality Bites
Although campuses are known for adopting the latest, greatest
IT products and services abroad the same is not true of the
Indian education sector By N Geetha
Homegrown
apps rule
The Indian Educational fraternity prefers homegrown IT over
branded offerings By N Geetha
Wide
open campuses
Vendors selling proprietary software applications face a tough
task when it comes to getting their products deployed on campuses
as IT heads in this sector are whole-heartedly behind Open
Source software By N Geetha
IT@Education:
Gartner’s Perspective
Gartner observes that there has been a good amount of disparity
in terms of campus adoption of technology. The adoption graphs
are not linear as these go with the funding, culture and need
that determines the deployment structure. In a conversation
with N Geetha, Asheesh Raina, Principal Research Analyst,
Gartner India, shared his thoughts about the challenges faced
by IT heads, the priority technology areas, perceptions about
technology and its use
Networking:
The Backbone
The greatest challenge that IT heads of campuses face is how
to scale up their network infrastructure in providing uninterrupted
transfer of data or uptime By N Geetha
Green
IT in education
While going Green has been the agenda of every CIO or IT head
of every industry vertical, campuses seem to be lackadaisical
as far as moving towards the adoption of this trend By N Geetha
Vertical
Focus
Focus
On: Logistics Sector
The Indian environment presents Logistics Service Providers
(LSPs) with some unique challenges, observes Rajendra Chaudhary
By Invitation
Global
Defense Technology in the Information Age
ERP has a lot of relevance in the armed forces, argues Hans
Sonneveld
The
next leap for wireless
The next generation of high performance wireless is around
the corner in the form of 802.11n. How different will it be?
By Sridevi Koneru
Techvisor
Quality
Checked
Product certifications by competent authorities mean a lot
more to vendors than building credibility By Aditya Kelekar
Head to Head
Datacraft
India
IT services and solutions major Datacraft India has been a
pioneer in deploying IT solutions to drive its own business
and to drive optimum business efficiency for its customers.
Sunil Manglore, CEO of Datacraft India and Shailendra Badoni,
COO and IT head have taken up the mission of driving optimum
utilization of IT as a tool to address business growth
Case Study
Up
and running
To support production systems at MIRC Electronics, a fast
and reliable network was critical By Aditya Kelekar
Crossfire
"SaaS
is not hype"...
...It has become mainstream despite the fear, uncertainty
and doubt from on-premise vendors
(Q&A)
‘‘The
problem of insider threat exists within every organization’’
Sundar Ram, Vice President, Technology Sales Consulting, Oracle
Asia Pacific talks about the rising menace of insider security
threat and Oracle Database Vault, in a chat with Rajendra
Chaudhary.
‘‘Virtualization
technologies are evolving and need time to mature’’
While there is definitely a place for application virtualization
in the enterprise consciousness, the discipline hasn't found
a firm footing jut yet. In a chat with R. Viswakumar, AVP,
Global Technology Office, Cognizant, Rajendra Chaudhary tries
to find out the reasons.
SaaS
still needs some work
S. Sunderaraj, Senior Vice President - Enterprise Solutions,
Ramco Systems talks about the increasing acceptance of SaaS,
in particularly on-demand ERP in a chat with Rajendra Chaudhary.
Round table
on printing solutions
Green
concerns dominate round table session on printing solutions
"Think twice before you print this paper"—a
message like that appended at the end of an email might prompt
an end user to refrain from printing a page
Vendor Watch
BSNL
partners with Microsoft India for Managed SaaS foray
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has announced a long term partnership
with Microsoft to launch BSNL Managed SaaS (Software as a
Service) in India
Now,
a new top-tier IT networking certification
Cisco has introduced the Cisco Certified Architect, the highest
level of accreditation achievable within Cisco Career Certifications
CA
eyes erstwhile customers of Sun Microsystems
CA has created a program to migrate Sun Microsystems customers
to CA Identity and Access Management (IAM) products
Security
Bytes
Social
Security numbers need reinforcement, finds study
Citizens of USA who thought that committing a social security
number to memory and keeping the social security card on one's
person safeguarded oneself from a possible theft of the card
details might be in for a surprise
Susceptible
bank puts the brakes on hacking demo
Barnaby Jack, a Juniper Networks security researcher was all
set to demonstrate a way to hack the software of an ATM at
the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas, when he received a request
to go slow on his wizardry
Cybercrime
continues unabated, Cisco's mid-year report
Internet criminals are increasingly operating like successful
businesses, borrowing some of the best strategies from legitimate
companies and forming partnerships with one another to help
make their illegal activities more lucrative, reports Cisco
in its Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report
Telecom Space
Broadband
subscriber base crosses 6.2 million, says TRAI
TRAI's latest report on telecom landscape in India, titled
"The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators Report",
has shown healthy increases in subscription percentages in
all categories except rural wireline subscriber base, which
has seen a slight decrease and is in keeping with the proliferation
of wireless services
Nokia
Siemens Networks in Vodafone deal
Vodafone Essar has completed a rapid service expansion into
seven new regions across India. People living in or traveling
to Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya
Pradesh, North East and Orissa will now be able to use services
provided by India's second largest GSM operator
BT
and IT Holdings Group sign a MOU
British Telecommunications and IT Holdings Group are collaborating
in providing next-generation IT services. The strategic partnership
aims to support and offer IT services for Japanese enterprises
which have business operations throughout the world, allowing
customers to enjoy the most suitable outsourcing environment
on a global basis
Analysts'
Views
Race
to dominate the future of TV is underway: Gartner
Although the web of players competing to lead the way for
TV 2.0 is starting to have some definition, content providers,
device makers, cloud providers and communications firms will
need to come together to secure the future of next-generation
TV, according to Gartner
VOIP,
storage and VPN important for networking growth in the developed
APAC countries, says AMI
The developed APAC SMB networking market is expected to reach
US$1.6 billion in 2009, representing a growth of 1.7% over
2008, according to new research by AMI-Partners
Green IT
Green
IT gaining an upside in the economic downturn?
The current global economic recession may have has squeezed
IT budgets, hindered capital expenditure and generally slowed
the growth of IT development
NetApp
India invests in green innovation center
NetApp has invested in infrastructure and equipment to build
a n new multi-million (U.S.) dollar innovation center, called
the NetApp Innovation Centre (NIC), which has several energy
efficient features
Products
Downtime
Nilesh Gade, Chief Information Security Officer, Adventity
Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
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