The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the second largest equipment firm in the World, has appointed John Suffolk, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the British Government as its chief cyber-security officer. The firm said the move is aimed at developing a state of the art security system for the company which can be deployed to […]
Mphasis, one of India’s biggest BPO companies (majority owned by HP), has acquired a US-based firm that makes insurance management software for an undisclosed sum. Mphasis, listed on the Indian bourses, said the acquisition is part of its strategy to focus more and more on specific verticals, one of which is insurance. The move is […]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has based its Cloud strategy on an ‘own brand’ model, CEO N Chandrasekaran told reporters in Delhi today. He said TCS’s strategy for the Cloud market — in which software is not purchased or ‘deployed’ by customers, but used through the Internet — will not be dependent on other big cloud-brands. […]
Web graphics and multimedia company, Adobe Systems, has acquired EchoSign, provider of a web-based electronic signature service — a move that may have far reaching consequences for how electronic documents are authenticated and certified. Digital signatures, though invented several years ago, have not quite taken off due to the cumbersome nature of creating and checking […]
Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach $12.1 billion in 2011, a 20.7% increase from last year’s $10 billion, market research firm Gartner said. Nearly all of this revenue comes from companies as the research agency had put enterprise part of the SaaS market at $10 billion. SaaS is so-called because, […]
The Congress Party has asked the opposition party BJP to “let go” off the report by the Public Accounts Committee on the 2G scam. Spokesperson Manish Tewari made the call on a day when a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee — the statutory Parliamentary body in charge of keeping a watch on government expenditure […]
The IEEE, World’s largest professional association that has invented standards like WiFi may be the one to solve one of the biggest challenges in the emerging Cloud computing economy. Unlike the current business software vendors such as SAP, Oracle, IBM etc., providers of equivalent cloud versions do not provide an easy way for their individual […]
In a sign of increasing business confidence, Gartner Inc, the market research agency, has raised its growth forecast for 2011 for the third time due to a stronger-than-expected bounce-back in the IT market. It’s first guidance, made last year, was for a 3.5% increase in IT spending this year. It hiked the forecast to 5.1% […]
Gartner Inc, the World’s leading IT research firm, has revealed that cloud computing or Internet based software already accounts for 10% of the global enterprise market. The service, known also known as Software as a Service or SaaS, requires the user to log into his or her application through the Internet and is located at […]
Ramco Systems, the Chennai-based cloud-provider and arguably the largest Indian stand-alone cloud brand, has expanded its portfolio to analytics. The player, one of the pioneers of the Cloud model in India and among the most affordable among such services, said it has around 3,000 users for its current offering — enterprise resource planning or ERP. […]
Only 4% of the enterprises (companies) in India have taken advantage of cloud computing, with the SaaS market reaching Rs 465 crore this year, according to Cyber Media Research. “This is expected to rise to 6.8% for all large and mid-size enterprises in the country by 2012,” it predicted. The key SaaS applications that showed […]
Wipro has beaten others like Cognizant, Infosys and HCL to emerge as the World’s second best Salesforce.com deployment partner, according to a study conducted by Forrester Research. In a study of the World’s top 11 salesforce.com partners, Wipro was beaten to the first place only by its much bigger global competitor Accenture. Along with the […]
Even as the government prepares an ambitious broadband program, Internet penetration in India is slowing down, according to TRAI numbers. Rate of growth of Internet connections (including slow connections) fell to just 4.4% during the December quarter, or 23% compared to the last three months of 2009. According to the latest data, India – which […]
Indian IT outsourcing firms, such as TCS and Infosys Technologies, may have to tweak their business plans if Forrester Research’ latest prediction on the evolution of the cloud market turns out true. While the firm has come out with one of the (if not THE) biggest projection for cloud services, albeit by 2020, it has […]
Third-party datacenters will overtake captive datacentres in growth over the next three years, according to CyberMedia Research. In a new report, the agency also puts the size of the India Data Center Services at Rs 11,800 crore. Data centres are buldings that host thousands of computers that are used to process large amount of data […]
Wipro, one of the top India-based IT services providers, said it has seen good potential and traction for open source software among its enterprise customers. The company, which announced a 2.7% quarter-on-quarter rise in its dollar revenue for the September quarter today, mentioned open source adoption as one of the key trends it is seeing […]
Wipro Ltd, one of India’s top four IT, Consulting and Outsourcing company said it would triple its employee strength in Germany over the next three years by hiring over 1,000 professionals. In all, Wipro has about 140,500 employees, most of whom are in India. “Wipro has been supporting customers in the German market for over […]
Even as the Law Ministry and the Sports Ministry are engaged in fine tuning a draft law to prevent manipulation of matches, the Sports Ministry has come out with an appeal for BCCI President N Srinivasan to step down. In a statement, the Youth Affairs and Sports ministry said Srinivasan should step down on ‘moral […]
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 79.2 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a 11.2 percent decline from the first quarter of 2012, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Global PC shipments went below 80 million units for the first time since the second quarter of 2009. All regions showed a decrease in shipments, […]
The Kerala High Court has also directed oil distribution companies like Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation to supply diesel to the Kerala State Transport Corporation at subsidized rates. The Madras High Court had, yesterday, asked the companies to supply subsidized diesel to the local transport corporation. KSRTC is currently getting […]
