http://www.btmarch.com where business meets technology http://www.btmarch.com/images/btmarch_logo1.jpg http://www.btmarch.com 195 96 enhttp://www.btmarch.com/ECM & STORAGE/offthepress/oracle-launches-oltp-machine-exadata-2-in-india.htmlOLTP is a widely accepted technology known to deliver extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing. Oracle has launched Oracle Exadata Version 2 in the Indian market, which it says is the world’s fastest and only online transaction processing machine. The new machine is targeted at enterprises in the manufacturing, government, telecom, financial and public sectors. In order to cater to the ever increasing demands of the growing data centers in India, Oracle intends to use Exadata to leverage itself with respect to its key competitors in the area, specifically IBM.http://www.btmarch.com/VIRTUALISATION/exclusives/security-in-a-virtualised-environment-the-new-battleground.htmlVirtualisation 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.http://www.btmarch.com/INFORMATION SECURITY/offthepress/nordic-edge-turns-google-nexusone-windows-mobile-and-jave-me-phones-into-security-devices.htmlCompanies and organizations want to find an economical, secure and user-friendly security solutions that employees or customers can use to connect without requiring hardware tokens can now turn to Nordic Edge. The Swedish firm has developed a mobile client, Pledge, which turns phones like Google Nexus One and Windows Mobile into a security token.http://www.btmarch.com/BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE/offthepress/indians-most-trust-its-it-sector-and-india-headquartered-companies.htmlIndia-based companies have emerged as the most trusted ones, with the technology sector being ranked the highest in terms of transparency and credibility, according to the recently released report from Edelman Trust Barometer. India-headquartered companies are trusted by a majority of people in the country. While US' trust in technology is 78 percent and China is 83 percent, in India it is 88 percent. Technology is the most trusted sector in India at 88%, followed by banks, automotive (79%), pharmaceuticals (75%), healthcare (73%), entertainment (70%) and media at a relatively low 58%.http://www.btmarch.com/CLOUD COMPUTING/offthepress/rackspace-offers-sharepoint-as-a-cloud-service.htmlIT hosting firm Rackspace has added Microsoft SharePoint to its cloud computing suite of services. The Rackspace offering includes a control panel to allow administrators initiate SharePoint, add/remove users and create SharePoint sites. Administrators can also use the control panel to manage Rackspace Email & Apps’ full suite of applications, including hosted Microsoft Exchange, Rackspace Email, Email Archiving, and Rackspace Cloud Drive and Server Backup, in one dashboard.http://www.btmarch.com/CLOUD COMPUTING/exclusives/google-turning-broadband-internet-provider-to-fuel-cloud-ambitions.htmlIn 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.http://www.btmarch.com/BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE/exclusives/how-to-achieve-bpm-triumph-.htmlThe 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.http://www.btmarch.com/SOA/offthepress/oracle-snaps-up-soa-management-vendor-amberpoint.htmlOracle has acquired AmberPoint to strengthen the Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite and Oracle Enterprise Manager with top of the line SOA management capabilities.http://www.btmarch.com/VIRTUALISATION/offthepress/intel-powered-citrix-xendesktop-claims-to-run-5000-desktops-from-one-virtualisation-server.htmlCitrix is lending a helping hand to companies looking at lowering their infrastructure costs. Its newly released XenDesktop 4 server with FlexCast technology can deliver up to 125 virtual-based desktops, 500 hosted shared desktops and 5000 local streamed desktops from a single physical server. The company says the new desktop virtualisation solution was made possible with Intel's Xeon processor 5500 technology. With XenDesktop 4, desktop virtualisation can now possibly be implemented with 20 percent lower infrastructure costs.http://www.btmarch.com/VIRTUALISATION/exclusives/what-the-salesman-did-not-tell-you-the-murky-side-of-virtualisation.htmlPundits 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.