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Current Edition
16 - 31 July 2011
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SaaS
& the Indian SMB
Indian SMBs are taking to Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) when it comes to applications such as CRM
or e-mail. The market has expanded over the past
year on the back of strong user demand and an
expanding ecosystem of vendors, partners, and
third-party service providers.
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Beyond
SAAS
Platform- and Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings
have fewer adherents than SaaS largely because
the latter has been around for a longer span of
time. Today, the push to IaaS is being spearheaded
by service providers targeting SMBs with these
offerings while PaaS is mostly the preserve of
startups at this point.
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Slicing
OPEX with desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization has much to offer but,
while administrators love it, change management
has to be handled with care. The adoption of this
technology has been fairly widespread in IT/ITES
and BFSI with government, education and manufacturing
showing some signs of interest.
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Maintaining
security in the Cloud
As organizations begin to migrate to the Cloud,
there is still considerable confusion about how
best to handle information security.
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Data
residency: a thorny issue
The issue of where a Cloud provider stores its
customers’ data is a troublesome one. Organizations
in verticals such as BFSI and government/public
sector are barred from allowing their data to
be stored outside the country. Pupul Dutta polls
the experts to find out what’s going on with
regards to this facet of the public Cloud
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The
Indian government’s Cloud roadmap
With no road map from the centre to hop on to
the Cloud, state governments are doing their own
test runs, creating multiple opportunities for
vendors.
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Opening
up the Cloud
Open source is playing a dominant role in Cloud
computing changing the platform and application
dynamics. Mehak Chawla evaluates the scope, usage
and enthusiasm around open source software in
Cloud computing
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Indian
CIOs and the Cloud
Indian CIOs continue to show increased interest
in the Cloud with smaller organizations taking
the lead in deploying critical applications and
infrastructure in the public Cloud.
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Sonata
plays the solution card
The software services player wants to get into
the ready-to-deploy solutions game in the travel,
transportation and logistics vertical where it
is the second biggest Indian player after TCS.
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Preparing
for the unexpected
Ashish Kumar writes about how planning for an
emergency today is not just an option, it is a
requirement
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Fraud
trends and defense approaches
Jan Valcke provides an overview of recent trends
in hacking and fraud dynamics and outlines how
organizations can go about protecting themselves
from cybercrime
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Changing
rules of the game
Parag Deodhar writes about the need for reasonable
security for sensitive personal information
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System
Integrators upbeat about RIM’s Indian prospects
Pooja Gautam charts the system integration side
of the Indian RIM story
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Selling
local ERP
While MNCs rule the roost in terms of selling
ERP to larger companies, many local players have
done well selling enterprise software to SMBs.
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Travel,
Food and IT
A professional sushi chef, a DJ at the Hard Rock
Cafe, Mumbai and the MD of Compuware India—meet
Neeraj Dotel.
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Networking
all the way
Meet Kedar Shah, CEO, Nirmal Datacomm and find
out how he built the company from the ground up.
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“It’s
time to move up the value chain”
B Raghavendran, Vice President and Head, Partner
Organization, Cisco India & SAARC
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“With
the introduction of 3G, VAS has received a boost”
Arjun Rishi, Director, MVL Telecom talks about
the way forward for the company
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“SimmStores
are going to create greater awareness about our
products”
Simmtronics Semiconductors is expanding its base
in India by opening a thousand Indrajit Sabharwal,
Managing Director, Simmtronics Semiconductors
talks about the need for and the desired impact
of the company's retail strategy
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Cisco
commences its Cloud Partner Program
Cisco, today, announced the commencement of a
'Cloud Partner Program' for partners to effectively
monetize the opportunities in the multi-billion
dollar Cloud computing space
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Channel
partners can offer notebooks with ‘Accidental
Damage Protection’ to HP customers in India
As a part of its ‘Total Care’ initiative,
HP has introduced the HP Accidental Damage Protection
(ADP) as an additional feature in all its Pavilion
G and Pavilion DV class notebooks
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GajShield
appoints WeP Solutions as its national distributor
WeP Solutions India Ltd. and GajShield Infotech
(I) Pvt. Ltd., India’s homegrown network
security appliance manufacturer have entered into
a strategic relationship to market Data Leak prevention,
Cloud Security Solution and UTM to Indian enterprises
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Cisco
India’s ‘F1 Overdrive’ Initiative
receives support from partners with more than
2500 registrations
Cisco announced the successful roll out of the
F1 Overdrive program in India
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Trend
Micro rolls out deal registration program for
partners
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in the
fight against cybercrime, has announced the launch
of its deal registration program to all partners
from July 1, 2011
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Lenovo
continues retail expansion in India, inaugurates
its 400th LES Lite
Lenovo India, in line with its ‘Get Closer’
to customers strategy is continuing its aggressive
retail expansion and inaugurated its 400th LES
Lite in the country
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Infor
appoints Xoriant as new India channel partner
Infor has appointed Xoriant as a new channel partner
for India
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Tech
Mahindra recognized as 2011 Microsoft communications
sector partner
Tech Mahindra has won the 2011 Microsoft Communications
Sector Partner of the Year Award
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Blue
Star Infotech ties up with QlikTech to offer collaborative
BI solutions in India
Blue Star Infotech Ltd (BSIL) has entered into
a partnership with QlikTech, a provider of user
driven business intelligence (BI) software
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Products
- Epson EB-G5000 series
- HipStreet HSM13
- Lava M30
- Lenovo IdeaCentre A320
- Remote Data Center/ Rack Monitoring solution
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