Security in a Virtualised Environment: The New Battleground
Virtualisation has established itself as the next significant dimensional change in enterprise computing. The cost benefit it offers by consolidating underutilised computing resources makes it a critical initiative for IT directors who are instructed to ‘do more with less’. Estimates are that the server virtualisation software market will be worth USD $6.2 billion by the year 2013 and that over 50% of all servers will be virtualised by 2012. With the rising popularity of virtualisation, heated debates regarding security and compliance have surfaced. As with any new technology, in order to achieve a secure implementation, existing practices and policies need to be augmented with a clear understanding of how virtualisation works.

Google Turning Broadband Internet Provider to Fuel Cloud Ambitions?
In 2006 Google said it had no plans to be an internet service provider. In the same year an Internet news portal had also reported, “Several sources have reported over the last year that Google has been quietly acquiring inactive or ‘unlit’ optical cable — otherwise known as dark fiber — a key ingredient used to build data networks.” Snapping back to February 2010, Google announces they are putting to use miles of dark fiber -- the underground cable left unused since the Internet bubble -- in an experimental project to build an ultra-fast fiber-optic broadband network. So you cannot help but look at the small print in this particular initiative – Cloud Computing.

How to Achieve BPM Triumph
The benefits of BPM has been lauded and berated depending on the results the organisation in question recorded for its project. While some companies achieved the goals they had planned for and found BPM met, and even exceeded, their expectations, others found that projects took longer to complete and cost more than what they were initially budgeted for. This failure to meet basic goals led to the eventual disenchantment for BPM among companies. The distinguishing factors between the implementation methods of the successfull and failed projects will give us a better idea of the guidelines that should be followed to ensure a high rate of success in future BPM projects.

What the Salesman Did Not Tell You: The Murky Side of Virtualisation
Pundits are saying 2010 will be the year of virtualisation. It takes an unbiased opinion to make a wise decision about something of as high importance for an organisation as this. Read on to find out what you probably did not know about virtualisation.

Storage Trends in 2010 Show Significant Shift from Traditional Methodologies
The IT world's need to store massive amounts of data is insatiable. The last time storage technology kept up with information growth was in 2002. And with the introduction of cloud storage users, mainly corporations, are presented with a choice they never had before. Read on to know which are the technologies that will see wide scale employment in 2010 and why?

Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions Take on Amazon and Google
My challenge to everyone competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft is to remember that you are competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft. These are strong technology companies, and if you’re going to compete with them, open source is the only way to do that. Otherwise, you have no leverage.” – Matt Mullenweg. Companies making cloud solutions have listened to Matt. Solutions such as Chef, Eucalyptus and Swarm are taking on the biggies with completely open source cloud solutions. And Infosys, TCS and Wipro are launching cloud-based services catering to Indian companies

Search Vendors March into the BI Space
The integration of search technologies with Business Intelligence tools has expanded the definition of BI. The added flexibility and increased usability now allows business users to gain a 360 degree view of their organization's data. The insurgence of search vendors into the BI space needs some close analysis to understand the coupling between these two distinct areas of intelligence to create search-enabled BI.

Information Security Solutions for India in the New Decade
2009 has been titled as the most productive year for Trojan/malware writers. There were about 25 million new malware strains in 2009 compared to a combined total of 15 million in security company Panda's 20-year history. The previous year saw Trojans such as Zeus, UrlZone and Clampi performing their operations with a high level of anonymity leaving affected users completely unaware of their presence. Every detail from identity information to financial details were reported to have been captured by these Trojans. This is a clear indication of the complexities information security providers of today are dealing with.

Big Blue Buys Security Company, File Security Patents to Gain from US Defence Budget
IBM recently acquired a company that provides IT security services to US government agencies and has filed for dozens of security patents. These moves are aimed at grabbing a fair share of the US government's IT spending, which is predicted to grow to USD $75.7 billion in fiscal 2010

Top 10 SOA Trends for 2010
Despite several recent claims that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives have fallen off the radar following the economic crisis, SOA is seeing adoption at a massive rate. Is SOA a vehicle for companies to emerge out of the financial crunch?

Open Source Business Intelligence Gaining Foothold in India
The Business Intelligence market in India is still evolving as enterprises are considering BI to overcome challenges resulting from competition and globalisation. They also view usage of open source BI solutions as resulting in increased revenue and profitability outcomes. However, they need to differentiate between low cost and zero-cost before making a final choice.