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Beneath
the SOA hype
Despite its presences in the Indian market for a decade, SOA
adoption rates continue to be hampered by issues such as control
and ownership of shared services and bureaucratic opposition
to process reengineering. By Rajendra Chaudhary
Other Cover
Stories
SOA
in practice
To satisfy market demands in today's marketplace, the IT infrastructure
must be able to handle rapid, constant change. Rajendra Chaudhary
put together some interesting proof points for SOA and how
it's transforming businesses to stay competitive
An
SOA project mandates a best practices approach
Kalyan Kolachala provided some insights on successful SOA
projects and cautioned that it should not be pitted against
the measurable returns of ERP or CRM projects
SOA:
please consume it in small doses
Enterprise-wide SOA strategy in its purest form is no longer
valid in today's struggling economy and organizations need
to approach SOA in pockets to better accommodate it in their
IT set-ups, says Rajendra Chaudhary
Head to Head
An
executive conversation
IndiaFirst Life Insurance, a joint venture between Bank of
Baroda, Andhra Bank and Legal & General, UK. Bank of Baroda
is all set to invade the market with its insurance products
and services while leveraging IT to its maximum advantage.
The company's Managing Director, Dr. P Nandagopal and
their IT Head, Vinayak Khadye wanted to streamline business
processes with automated process to increase the efficiency
and ensure competent deliverables.
Vertical
Focus
Technology
spending continues to rise in banking
CIOs in the banking vertical are focusing on technologies
that would help them reduce OPEX and hence IT projects such
as server-storage consolidation-virtualization, DC optimization
(to reduce power and cooling) and rationalize network connectivity
would be prudent in 2010. By N Geetha
Case Study
Aircel
finds growth with CRM
Siebel CRM has helped this regional service provider to integrate
its internal business and customer facing process to become
a national service provider. By Rajendra Chaudhary
Special Features
New
business dynamics drive outsourcing story further
Businesses are doing long term complete IT outsourcing contracts
to increased RoI and reduce operations costs. By N Geetha
Red
Hat open sources for SPICE
The Linux major announces its return to the Linux desktop
segment by open sourcing the new virtualized desktop protocol
called SPICE. By Rajendra Chaudhary
Crossfire
‘‘Reaching
out to customers through operators (carrier) is a strategic
choice that we've made’’
Kimmo Alkio, Global CEO, F-Secure Corporation talked to Rajendra
Chaudhary about the big chunk of business coming from telcos
in India and the company’s retail focus
By Invitation
CIO’s
need to be bilingual
Linda Price, Group Vice-President of Executive Programs, Gartner
said CIO must develop and hold a strategic view and resist
the temptation to return to the area of personal comfort now
correctly occupied by other members of the team
Forrester's
security predictions for 2010
Jonathan Penn, Vice President, Forrester Research answered
some of the key security trends in 2010
Addressing
information overload on the shop floor
By Surya Bhardwaj, Vice President, India Applications, Oracle
India Private Limited
6
keys to real-time analytics
Are you getting all you can out of your analytics initiatives?
Nitin Singhal provided six best practices for data management
professionals to ensure that their performance management
and analytics initiatives meet success
Update
‘‘We
expect ERP adoption to increase post recession’’
Marlabs India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marlabs Inc, US
has a decade old operation in India. It specializes in a wide
variety of areas including ERP, Data Warehousing, Business
Intelligence (BI), IT consulting and Smart grid solutions.
Raj Menon, Global Marketing Director for Marlabs talked about
the India ERP market and management concerns pertaining to
its implementation with Rajendra Chaudhary
‘‘India
is a perfect market for WAN optimization technology’’
Robert Healey, Marketing Evangelist, Asia Pacific & Japan,
Riverbed Technology stated that the Indian market is ripe
for mobile WAN optimization technology. He shared his views
on the market conditions and emerging trends with Rajendra
Chaudhary
‘‘It
is imperative that IT security is visualized in a holistic
manner’’
Ramnath L Ram, Vice President India and Middle East, Wipro
Infotech talked about how a standards based approach to security
is the only way that organizations can build a strong protective
mechanism to safeguard their IT. By Rajendra Chaudhary
RIM's
BlackBerry Bold 9700 available in India
Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the launch of
the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone in the Indian market
Kobian
iScan IXA40S Portable Scanner
Kobian, a manufacturer of motherboards, casings and other
computer peripherals, has launched the IScan IXA40S A4 Scanner
in the Indian market
Kingston
Digital releases new SSDNow V+ Solid-State Drive
Kingston Digital the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology
Company has just announced the release of its second-generation
SSDNow V+ solid-state drive
ZyXEL
launches security gateway
Networking vendor ZyXEL has launched a unified security gateway,
ZyWALL USG 100
Lexmark's
Interpret S405 by Cyberstar
Cyberstar Infocom, an emerging distributor of IT peripherals
and networking products in India has announced the launch
of Lexmark Interpret S405, a wireless, all-in-one printer,
copier, scanner, and fax
Analyst View
SaaS
cannibalizing on-premise software in India: Springboard Research
Traditional software applications are slowly beginning to
yield to SaaS applications, with 32% of SaaS adopters replacing
an on-premise application, said the latest bulletin 'Software-as-a-Service
in India 2009/2010' from Springboard Research
Gartner
reveals five social software predictions for 2010
A lot has happened in 2009within the social software and collaboration
space and the growing use of platforms such as Twitter and
Facebook by business users is prompting enterprises to seriously
consider procuring social software platforms for the business,
claimed Gartner Research
Security
Bytes
Two
thirds of Internet users reuse their online banking credentials
on other Web sites
Trusteer, a customer protection company for online businesses
recently reported that the vast majority of online banking
customers reuse their login credentials to access non-financial
and much less secure Web sites
Technology
News
Juniper's
new chip for routers offers high throughput
Juniper Networks announced a new generation of silicon that
will help customers to quickly, efficiently and non-disruptively
upgrade existing T Series Core routers, to a full duplex slot
capacity of 250 Gbps without service interruption
Microsoft
study reveals SMBs using hosted services for better financials
Microsoft's global SMB IT and Hosted IT Index 2010, which
investigates how small and midsize businesses (SMBs) across
multiple segments fared during the recession and how they
use technology has some interesting findings on technology
IBM's
new Power7 servers
IBM showcased its latest generation of its Power-based servers,
the new POWER7 system, which is designed to manage demanding
emerging applications such as smart electrical grids and real
time analytics for financial markets, which rely on processing
an enormous number of concurrent transactions and data while
analyzing that information in real time
Downtime
Ashwin P Rao,IT Group Director, Cadence Design Systems
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