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Cover Story
Ingredients
for a successful DR set-up
Large companies have extensive DR set-ups in place. We provide an
overview of the state of DR in Indian enterprises By Geetha N.
Other Cover Stories
Part
of a CIO’s strategic focus
With analysts predicting close to 400% data growth in the near future,
a robust DR set-up across locations is at the top of the agenda
for most CIOs By Geetha N
Partial
outsourcing results in reduced services cost
Partially outsourcing a DR set-up has led to a reduction in services
cost and savings on power, cooling and management costs for Bharti
Axa General Insurance By Geetha N.
Data
backup: Virtually making sense
Although virtual backups are picking up, physical backups will continue
to account for the bulk of the average enterprise's requirements
for some time to come By Geetha N.
Hosted
and outsourced
Outsourcing is a popular concept when it comes to IT and DR is no
stranger to it although total outsourcing is still viewed with skepticism
By Geetha N
Head to Head
An
executive conversation
Bangalore-based Microland Ltd., is an IT and managed services vendor
that has built robust IT systems to help its customers and employees
leverage changing technology. Jawahar Bekay, COO and Guru Murthy,
Vice President - Information Systems have been instrumental in driving
business efficiencies and growth with IT deployments.
Vertical Focus
IT
driving consumer electronics’ growth
Consumer electronics manufacturers are optimizing their supply chain,
data centers and are using BI to drive growth By Rajendra Chaudhary
Case Study
Pidilite
deploys MAIA 1KEY FCM to streamline financials
Pidilite eliminated spreadsheet-based manual closing of books and
financial consolidation with MAIA’s 1KEY FCM By Rajendra Chaudhary
UC
and messaging puts LVB on the fast track
From basic telephony to advanced unified communications capabilities,
Lakshmi Vilas Bank made the transition in the blink of an eye By
Rajendra Chaudhary
Crossfire
‘‘If
we went after the 5-10 seat market, we would be running an unprofitable
business’’
Michel Van Woudenberg, Director, CRM On Demand, Oracle Corporation,
APAC talked what's stored in the company’s latest CRM On Demand
release and its strategy around it. By Rajendra Chaudhary
By Invitation
Five
golden rules for converting data to decisions
According to Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence enterprises need
to grow beyond the four walls of spreadsheets and start building
data-warehouses in order to gain enterprise-wise transparency and
a competitive edge
Securing
the cloud with GRC
Sushilkumar Nahar, Varun Kashyap and Malini Rao of Wipro Consulting
Services talked of the importance of having a GRC strategy for cloud
computing
Update
Q&A
Take
a proactive approach towards GRC
As more organizations contemplate a move to GRC, it can be a tad
difficult for them to identify the right approach. Mukund Surange,
CEO, eGestalt Technologies discussed some essentials of GRC with
Rajendra Chaudhary
‘‘Cloud
adoption in enterprises is happening a lot quicker than we had anticipated’’
On the eve of commencing direct operations from its Singapore data
center, Amazon Web Services’ Senior Vice President, Andy Jassy
talked about the potential for cloud services in India with Rajendra
Chaudhary
‘‘Social
media has a definite future in the enterprise’’
Dhruv Singhal, Senior Director - Fusion Middleware Sales and Consulting,
Oracle India talked about the relevance of social media and Web
2.0 technologies in the enterprise with Rajendra Chaudhary
Too
much hype has hindered DLP’s adoption
Surendra Singh, Regional Director, India & SAARC, Websense argued
that too much hype around DLP has made the customer a bit apprehensive
about it. In conversation with Rajendra Chaudhary
Analyst View
CFO
becoming the top IT decision maker in many organizations
A joint survey conducted by Gartner Research and Financial Executives
Research Foundation (FERF) has revealed that the CFO is increasingly
becoming the top technology investment decision maker in many global
organizations
Internet
Explorer losing ground to competitors
According to a survey conducted by consulting and services firm
Net Applications, Internet Explorer (IE) dropped to a historic market
share low in April
Security Bytes
APEJ
security software market set to grow by 21% in 2010: IDC
According to the latest IDC’s Asia/Pacific Semiannual Security
Software Tracker, the security software market in the Asia-Pacific
excluding Japan (APEJ) region rebounded quickly during the second
half of 2009
Sneaky
worm targets Yahoo Messenger users
According to a Symantec blog post, a new and potentially dangerous
worm managed to sneak into the Yahoo Messenger community earlier
last week, infecting many users by tricking them into clicking on
a link masquerading as ‘foto’ or ‘fotos’ from
someone in their contact list
Technology News
IBM
brings ‘FedFast’ to Federal Bank; helps to ease remittance
process
IBM has implemented it’s WebSphere Enterprise Services Bus
(ESB) for ‘FedFast’, an online processing system of foreign
remittance at Federal Bank
F5’s
new virtual and hardware-based application delivery controllers
F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking
(ADN), has announced new Application Delivery Controller platforms.
F5 is offering a new high-end appliance series with the BIG-IP 11050
platform and a new 8950 hardware appliance featuring higher throughput
and enhanced layer 4 performances
EMC’s
new technology to enable virtual storage over distance
EMC Corporation unveiled new technology that significantly advances
virtual storage and will help facilitate new models of computing
Lakshmi
Vilas Bank revamps its IT platform to enhance customer service
In an attempt to consolidate all its business databases into one
single platform, Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB), a private sector bank,
has acquired an Enterprise Storage Solution which is a centralized
system that the bank will use for managing and protecting vital
customer data
Product
Downtime
Snehal Pancholi, CIO, Thermax Ltd
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