Manufacturing

Case Study

How Micro Inks Virtualized Core Apps and Got Rid of Downtime

Micro Inks was growing at a rapid pace and it needed an infrastructure that could not only handle the load but also ensure zero downtime and uninterrupted business continuity. That's when Head-IT Mayank Desai decided to revamp the company's entire IT infrastructure and move all its core apps to a virtualized environment.

How Omniactive Curbed Losses and Saved Costs Using a Mobile App

When inaccurate data began to eat at Omnikan’s profits—the marigold managed farming arm of Omniactive—the company turned to a mobile app and weeded out losses.

Essar Steel Fixes An Efficiency Bottleneck

A large part of Essar Steel’s orders were customized, creating an efficiency bottleneck Its CIO had a plan to fix that, but it was both bold and untried.

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Feature

The MacBook Pro: An Origin Story

Every component in the Apple MacBook Pro takes a long, interesting journey before it ends up in your hands, and the 'Assembled in China' tag is only just the beginning.

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Interview

Rajesh Varrier: 'Authentick' to Make Selling of Counterfeit Drugs 'More Difficult'

Rajesh Varrier, CEO ActiveCubes talks about how the company is helping in the fight against counterfeit drugs.

BYOD is a Reality & Organizations Will Have to Learn to Deal With it: LG India CIO

Daya Prakash, CIO, LG Electronics India Limited says the company sensitize employees about the security concern of BYOD.

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Video

Stanford Lab Research Could Result in Faster, Lighter Electronics

Inside the Stanford campus—deep in the basement—physicists are working on a project that is proving theories about the ways in which electrons act.

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News

2013 Ford Mustang Balances High Tech with Muscle-car 'tude

No one buys a Mustang for its tech, but it's there, including a racing app and awesome pony projection lights.

EADS CEO Seeks IT Industry Help to Speed up Aviation Innovation

But innovation speed mustn't come at the cost of aircraft safety, EADS CEO Tom Enders said at the Cebit opening ceremony.

Hospitals Need to Copy Airline, Bank, Retail E-Business Models

Warner Thomas, CEO of Louisiana's (U.S.) largest healthcare system, pointed to airlines, banks and online retailers as examples of how the healthcare industry should implement technology, cut costs and improve the customer experience.

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