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India Said to Seek Google, Skype Call Interception

Google, Skype and other companies providing communications services in India will have to make provisions for interception of these communications by India's security agencies, Indian home secretary, G.K. Pillai, said in Delhi , according to reports.

Bajaj Auto Finance Adopts Cloud Based CRM and Increases Productivity by 50 Percent.

A case study on Cloud Computing in Automobile

Bajaj Auto Finance has reaped significant rewards for over coming apprehensions on data security and deploying a Cloud based CRM.Rise in transactions from 1,500 per day to a record of 8,500 a day is just one part of the story.

Tech Company Enables Scaling Capacity on Demand using CaaS

A case study on Infrastructure Management in IT

Celstream , a global product engineering services company required an on-demand, flexible cloud solution, which could be provisioned through a Web-based user interface that would allow the  company to better manage IT resources and achieve cost efficiencies, while also benefiting from exceptional performance and security. The company chose the Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution which provided extreme flexibility, enabling Celstream to scale computing capacity up or down on demand, according to the company's business needs. It also helped the company to hand off management of its network infrastructure to free up resources to focus on strategic communications needs, and to explore options to enable on-demand downloads from its customers.

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Airtel Develops Mobile App to Record TV Programs Using a Mobile Phone

A case study on Mobility in Telecom

Airtel has developed a new mobile application giving their time challenged consumers an option that would help them record television shows onto their DTH from anywhere. This intiative aims at maximizing television viewership of Airtel DTH users.

  • Three Cloud Storage Use Cases Ready for Prime Time: Forrester

    Andrew Reichman CIO.com

    Despite the confusion surrounding what cloud storage really means and how it might be used, few advances in storage have been hyped as much as "cloud storage."

  • CIOs: Empower Your Employees' Use of Consumer Tech

    Ted Schadler CIO (US)

    How empowered are your employees to solve customer and business problems? What's your role in empowering them? These questions are often absent from IT's mission, but not from the minds of those it serves.

  • Microsoft to VMware: Windows is Still Relevant in the Virtualization Era

    Jon Brodkin Network World (US)

    Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz's argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world.

  • What CIOs Look for in an Enterprise Architect

    Kim S. Nash CIO (US)

    CIOs need enterprise architects. "It's a unique personality-negotiation skills as well as technical skills," says John Ericksen, chief operating officer and leader of technology and orate services with PNC Financial Services Group. " They're hard to find."

  • Cisco’s UCS Platform: All You Need to Know

    Stephen Lawson CIO (US)

    Cisco has long advocated a systems-based approach to building enterprise networks, saying an end-to-end Cisco infrastructure is worth more than the sum of its parts. Last year it expanded that vision to encompass the whole data center.

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BPO Company Uses CaaS Solution To Host Secure Portal, Saves 35 Percent On Cost

Intelenet, a global contact-center providing services to global Fortune 500 companies, needed a secure, high-capacity, flexible and scalable computing environment for a high-priority project.  It used the Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to create a new computing environment without the need to invest in dedicated hardware and software. The solution enabled Intelenet to cost-efficiently scale up its technology infrastructure in just hours and to make key applications available to the project team within just five days while providing savings of about 35 percent versus building the infrastructure on its own. The company also enjoys Daily billing, integrated security, automated provisioning and integrated storage and backup services to support business continuity.

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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence refers to  software applications that helps  turn raw data into information. This information in turn helps organizations take critical decisions, cost-cuttings and identify business opportunities.

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Software as a Service (SaaS)

Vendors tout the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model as an easy way to deploy applications. SaaS promised easier, speedier and cheaper implementations. But is SaaS all it's cracked up to be?

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

The idea behind SOA is that technology should be expressed in chunks that business people can understand rather than as an arcane application such as ERP or CRM

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Virtualization

Virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single machine. It has its roots in partitioning, which divides a single physical server into multiple logical servers.

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Green IT

Managing information technology sustainably can reduce corporate energy bills and keep toxins out of landfills. Thinking "green" with IT can help companies manage raw materials more efficiently and increase revenue.

 

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Mobile Security

Mobiles are allowing mobile e-mail, Internet and even corporate network access. Critical enterprise information is leaking onto mobile devices whose risk of loss is much higher than it is for PCs at the office.

 

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