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Case Study: Reliance Comm. evolved GSM platform in record time
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Till 2007-2008, Reliance offered only CDMA services to its customer base of 80 million. Onc they decided to make a foray into the GSM market, they created a single IT platform to support both CDMA and GSM business processes, saving on both cost and money.
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The dark side of server virtualization
Server Virtualization is all good for the business and the server group, but what effect does it have on the management of the network? The truth is that it complicates network management.
Read more..Case study: Sony enhances employee productivity with DMS
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A manual system to handle the paper work of over 400 employees was taking a toll on productivity at Sony. The solution: A document management system that saves staffers hours of work every week.
Read more..Case study : VST triumphs with in-house ERP, now markets it too
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Ratnakar Nemani developed a payroll module which could be integrated with ERP as a part of his SAP consulting services business. The company, which has first focused on bringing home its ERP, now, offers its SAP expertise to other companies.
Read more..How to: Reduce datacenter energy consumption
You are likely spending more money on energy than necessary because of the inefficiencies created by over-capacity and poor airflow management
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22 stories underground: Iron Mountain's experimental Room 48
Among dozens of red steel doors inserted in the rock face along corridors that create an elaborate subterranean honeycomb, you'll find Room 48, an experiment in data center energy efficiency. This data center is quiet, sans fans -- and energy efficient to the extreme. Room 48 is also being used to devise a geothermal-based environment that can be tapped to create efficient, low-cost data centers.
Read more..The glass is greener: an explosion in capacity
Back in 2007, my company predicted that demand for network bandwidth — specifically IP bandwidth — would exceed capacity in the 2010/2011 timeframe. Three years later, it's clear we were right.
Read more..Oracle announces service bus for SOA
The Oracle Service Bus 11g helps turn complex architectures into flexible application networks and provides caching and governance
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Big guns for hire: Supercomputing-in-the-cloud
Some companies are slashing costs and improving production by using on-demand high-performance computing services.
Read more..Case Study: How users at KPMG collaborate and audit efficiently
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Too much time, energy, and resources were being wasted at the 3,350-man, tax, advisory and auditing firm KPMG because data was not being shared. To fix this they deloyed a free collaboration tool that enabled the organization to maximize the potential of its auditors.
Read more..Case study: Aricent converges multiple technologies, cuts travel costs
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When you have operations crossing continents, it becomes pertinent for your company's global workforce to constantly communicate and collaborate with one another. So, in April 2009, Mike Webb, VP and CIO, Aricent Technologies, launched a global platform called 'Aricent Connect' for all its employees to instantly connect with each other.
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How a data center was moved in 13 hours
Sometimes, waiting for a long time can make the result all the sweeter. That's been the case at Tasty Baking Co. of Philadelphia, when it moved out of its cramped factory building and into a new state-of-the-art data center and bakery facilities across town. It's been an IT manager's dream.
Read more..Legacy apps in the cloud: Six details worth sweating
A host of substantial problems with porting legacy apps to the cloud will keep most companies from diving in for now, say analysts reporting on weaknesses in the cloud and ISVs trying to fill in the gaps. Here's a look at the details worth sweating.
Case study: ING Vysya sses BPR for customer relationship
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C.V.G. Prasad launched the 'customer first' initiative that would use IT and BPR creatively towards the objective of making the bank 'easy to deal with' for customers.
Read more..New Yahoo CTO: Standardize then personalize
Raymie Stata, named last week as Yahoo chief technology officer, has a tough job ahead of him. As chief architect, Stata focused on standardizing Yahoo infrastructure.
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Desktop virtualization heading to mainstream
A third of enterprises are looking to move to desktop virtualization according to research from desktop services specialist Centrix. More than three-quarters of the respondents said that cost reduction was the prime driver for the move to the technology.
Read more..How-to: Draw an IT road map for where the business wants to go
Here's how to get started with an enterprise architecture project.
Read more..Danger: Facts ahead
"I think we need legislation to require PC manufacturers to put warning labels on their products along the lines of "Dropping this product on your foot from any significant height may result in injury." Or what about warning labels for Wi-Fi antennas that would read: "Poking this into your eye may result in eye injury?"
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Five lessons of a datacenter overhaul
A datacenter makeover and migration can go wrong in many ways. Do as we suggest, not as we did.
Read more..5 Google Labs projects that should be on your radar
Have you checked out Google Labs lately? If not, it's worth a peek.
Read more..Data center upgrades demand attention now
School is out for summer, but it's time for IT executives to hit the books to prepare for a 2011 data center refresh that will deliver cost savings enabled by virtualization and flatter architectures with lower latency.
Read more..Why on-premise SOA technology vendors should move to cloud computing pricing
Move to service-based pricing, I dare you!
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The Data You Don't Even Know You Have
Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
Chief General Manager - IT, Sales and Dispatch Division, Maruti SuzukiBenefits of the extended enterprise
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
CIO and Head-Delivery Global Transformation Practice, WNS Global ServicesERP: Recipe for Success
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
CIO and Chief of Corporate Strategy, Asian PaintsOf Data Classification and Integrity
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Divisional VP-IS, UB GroupWork - Life Balance. Finding Equilibrium
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".