Technical updates by KM on various latest trends on IT, Telecom, Systems, SAP and what not.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Disadvantage of Technology !!!!
Mail meant for 300 sent out to 8 million!
A New York Times employee sent an emailer by mistake to millions instead of a few hundred intended to receive it
29 December 2011
About 8 million people are believed to have received email from the New York Times offering them a special discount if they chose to reconsider cancelling their subscriptions.
According to a Reuters report, this email was actually supposed to go to only 300 people who had chosen to cancel subscriptions. But erroneously, it was sent to the millions on an email marketing list.
The incident was also widely reported on various social media sites, some even suggesting that a hacker might have got access to the Times database.
As per a statement issued by the renowned newspaper and quoted by Reuters, "An email was sent earlier today from The New York Times in error. This email should have been sent to a very small number of subscribers, but instead was sent to a vast distribution list made up of people who had previously provided their email address to The New York Times."
What havoc a small human error can cause in these connected times!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Dataquest : DQ CIO Series : CIO of the Month: Integrating Technology with Business
via Dataquest : DQ CIO Series : CIO of the Month: Integrating Technology with Business.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
How Online Surveys Can Help Your Business
How Online Surveys Can Help Your Business
March 11, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
The Internet has opened up all kinds of opportunities for various businesses. Businesses can now have their own websites, advertise online and gain valuable customer feedback online. In today’s business world, customer loyalty is important. Businesses must be certain they are meeting their customers’ needs and desires.
Online surveys have gained popularity in the past few years. They can give businesses valuable information from their customers in a manner that is easy for their customers to utilize. Gaining insight from customers can enable businesses to make changes or adjustments to increase or improve their business. Online surveys can also help determine if employees are following certain policies and procedures set forth by the business and improve customer service.
In order to get customers to the business website, they must know it exists. Businesses should put their website on anything possible such as sacks, receipts or on signs in the store. Businesses may even want to offer coupons that can only be gained by printing them from the business website.
Online surveys should be short and to the point. A customer is not going to take the time to fill out a survey that is time consuming to them. It is a great idea to provide something such as a coupon for something to provide incentive for the customer to fill out the survey. Businesses can provide anything from a free dessert to a 20% off coupon.
Many online survey sites that will let businesses try out online surveys for free. They offer limited information but still provide valuable feedback. Such sites are a great way to test drive online surveys and see if they can help a particular business gain valuable insight as to their customer service and how their customers feel about their business or service.
Businesses can decide to employ an online survey site have the benefit of confidentiality from competitors seeing their information and allowing someone to run their survey system continuously for maximum ongoing results.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
'भारत' में क्या कमाल दिखा रहा है इंटरनेट?
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हिमाचल प्रदेश की कांगड़ा घाटी के पहाड़ी इलाके चीड़ के पेड़ से अटे पड़े हैं। यहां के बाशिंदों का मानना था कि चीड़ की पत्ती जंगल में बार-बार आग लगने की एक मुख्य वजह है। जाहिर है, इससे उनकी परेशानी बढ़ती थी और चीड़ की पत्तियों से नाराजगी भी।
लेकिन, यह धारणा तब बदल गई जब स्वयंसेवा समूह कांगड़ा महिला सभा (केएमएस) की कुछ महिलाओं को इंटरनेट के जरिए इस बात की जानकारी मिली कि मैक्सिको और कनाडा में लोग चीड़ के पेड़ की पत्तियों से कई तरह के हस्तशिल्प उत्पाद तैयार करते हैं। आज केएमएस की कम से कम 500 महिलाएं इन पत्तियों से टोपियां, कोस्टर और टोकरियां बनाकर जीवन बसर कर रही हैं।
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
2012: Year of 'Bring Your Own Device' - The Times of India
Brocade predicts what trends will shape the business and IT landscape in 2012, and foresees the consumerisaton of IT driving networking evolution in unexpected ways.
NEW DELHI: 2011 was a year of significant IT innovation, with major advances in both consumer and business sectors. It was also the year of 'cloud', but as we say goodbye to 2011, what does 2012 have in store for us? Rajesh Kaul, India Regional Sales Director at Brocade looks into his crystal ball to outline the top five technology trends we should watch out for in 2012:
BYOD' (Bring Your Own Device) changes IT procurement
The company PC is becoming a thing of the past, as businesses increasingly allow, and even encourage, employees to bring their domestic, consumer devices into the workplace and access corporate applications.
This will allow application availability at anytime, from anywhere, and will help business slash procurement costs. The smartphone/tablet phenomenon will fuel this trend, and will drive uptake of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), wireless networking and end-point security solutions in the corporate arena.
However, it will create many problems for IT departments as they attempt to mitigate risk, and signals a tough future for PC and laptop manufacturers. Next year, I believe we will see at least one high profile security disaster as a result of this trend, and that will be act as a wake-up call for companies to get proper security processes in place before unlocking their networks to all and sundry.
Campus LAN gets smart
With BYOD, the growth of smartphone/tablet usage among consumers and the Unified ommunications market set to triple by 2015, the Campus LAN will have to step up to the plate to meet demand - 2012 will be the year the campus gets smart. Legacy environments will not be able to cope with the huge pressures being placed on them; high-performance applications (such as video streaming, IPTV, real-time image transfer and distance learning) will suffer as a result and productivity/revenue/brand reputation will fall.
I predict that by the summer of 2012, we'll see enterprise-class characteristics introduced into campus LAN solutions at a more affordable price point. This level of innovation will, for the first time, give companies the simplicity and performance required to meet modern business demands and transform the way campus-wide networks are engineered.
Rise of cloud service revenue
2011 saw organisations slowly moving towards the cloud and this pragmatic adoption will continue in 2012, but will also see the rise of a new form of revenue generation as enterprises from outside the technology sector move towards 'Cloud Service Provision'. In the current economy, businesses look to sweat every asset at their disposal and more and more will look to leverage their data centre environments to offer cloud services as an additional revenue stream.
Those companies wishing to address this burgeoning market will need to have the right data centre architecture in place - a highly virtualised, fabric-based network topology, delivering reliability and performance to meet strict SLAs - to respond to customer demands, and I predict that we will see some high profile casualties as a result of providers trying to make a fast buck.
Greater commoditisation
IT commoditisation will continue through 2012. The maturity of server virtualisation means that hardware is less important; as real estate/energy costs spiral and companies look to reduce capital outlay (CapEx), virtualisation strategies will permeate all companies and the CXO will become more vocal in whether or not their organization has a plan in place.
Traditional, enterprise-owned, clients will become obsolete and businesses will turn to virtualised or even hosted, environments to reduce TCO through procurement of lower cost hardware. Companies that get this right will reap the benefits, but they will need to make sure that the network foundation upon which all virtual environments operate is fit for purpose; get this wrong and soldier on regardless and there will be many, many problems.
Data consumption continues to sky-rocket
2011 was the year in which 'Big Data' stole headlines, but this trend will continue unabated through 2012. The last five years have been awash with new ways to generate, consume and store data - in 2011, the average smartphone user consumed 15Mb of data each day, but this will grow to 1Gb by 2020; as consumers, we will place huge demand on networking and storage resources because of this.
Businesses will need to look at innovative solutions to increase network stability and performance while driving down costs to remain competitive. Those who ignore this trend will face major problems, and we may see one or two more examples!
And finally... the year of the FABRIC
Holistic data centre fabrics - from the storage environment through to the Ethernet network - are going to be the big trend in 2012. All my previous predictions will rely on this. Fabric-based architectures will become mainstream, building on the success of early adopter businesses that have reaped the benefits of flat, reliable, high performance networks that can offer simplified management and increased business agility.
This trend will see a fundamental attitude-shift to data centre design, and will underpin many of the aforementioned predictions. After all, the network is the heart and lungs of modern business and without it simple actions like sending an email or accessing a document, taken for granted by all of us, would be impossible. Fabrics will revolutionise network design and change the networking landscape... forever.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Calling on IT to do more : ZDNet Asia Blogs : By The Way by Eileen Yu
We all go through days where we feel jaded, fatigued and weary of dealing with petty politics and inconsequential squabbles in the office, while stressing out over the need to meet quarterly business targets.
I've had my own share of corporate fatigue having run the rat race for over 13 years which, though short by some standards, can feel like an eternity when you're a media professional in an industry that runs at 300,000 km per second. That's the speed of light, by the way.
Often, I've stopped to ponder why I'm spending the bulk of the short amount of time I have to live this life, on a seemingly endless chase to reach the top of a profession that, at the end of the chase, mayn't have the rewards that match the level of investment.
Covering the IT industry isn't exactly life-changing. The stuff I write about doesn't discuss why the poverty line in some countries is well below a dollar a day, nor does it expose how citizens in war-torn nations are ravaged by famine.
My idealist goal as a young journalist to change the world for the better has since given way to uncovering news about corporate M&As, business strategies and current buzzwords like cloud computing and mobile development...and to the occasional blog rumblings about the meaning of an IT-enabled life.
It's hardly earth-shattering or Nobel Prize-worthy material. In fact, I saw covering the IT industry to be almost immaterial and often, would ask myself: Is this it? What's the meaning to all this?
Fortunately, a dinner function this week helped provide some answers and slap me out of self-pity.
A handful of professionals from the local IT industry had gathered over dinner to meet Thorkil Sonne, founder of Specialisterne, a Danish IT computer company that hires individuals with high-functioning autism.
We had written a piece that looked at the potential of autistic workers to excel in IT, tapping their intrinsic passion for details to perform tasks such as software testing and quality control. Thorkil's organization aims to help the autistic hone their skills and secure gainful employment with IT companies, and he was in Singapore this week to champion this cause to the relevant stakeholders here.
Over dinner, he spoke passionately about how his own son, diagnosed with autism at the age of two, had ignited his desire to help autistic people identify and build on their strengths so they can also be independent citizens of the world.
He explained that high-functioning autistic individuals have much to offer if companies would give them the opportunity and understand their unique traits so they can be appropriately managed in a work environment.
Autistic people, for instance, don't get irony. They can't read between the lines or get innuendos and are unable to detect sarcasm. What they say is what they mean so electronic communications like e-mail and text messages are actually ideal because with text, what you see is what the words mean.
According to Thorkil, autistic individuals do congregate on Facebook and engage with like-minded peers in spirited conversations, so they can be sociable--on their own terms and under conditions that they comprehend. Two people whom Thorkil's company had assessed and trained were recently offered internship with IBM in Denmark.
Conversations that night also turned to news this week that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation would set aside US$42 million in grants to spur innovation to help improve toilets and sanitation. Some 2.6 billion people worldwide currently lack access to safe sanitation, leaving waste that usually go into a sewage system on the ground or in a ditch. Such unsanitary conditions have resulted in illness, killing 1.5 million children each year from diarrhea-related diseases.
Part of Gates' efforts include reinventing the toilet and by year-end, the foundation expects to have some 50 groups working on ideas for the next generation of toilets including one that runs without water or electricity.
That night over dinner, I realized that immaterial it might sometimes seem, technology can play a role in helping to change lives and make the world a better place for those in need of one.
So rather than wallow in self-indulgence about how meaningless the corporate race can get, I shall resolve to help in whatever small way I can, to highlight how individuals and organizations like Thorkil and the Gates foundation are driving the use of technology to improve society.
Calling on IT to do more : ZDNet Asia Blogs : By The Way by Eileen Yu
Calling on IT to do more : ZDNet Asia Blogs : By The Way by Eileen Yu
We all go through days where we feel jaded, fatigued and weary of dealing with petty politics and inconsequential squabbles in the office, while stressing out over the need to meet quarterly business targets.
I've had my own share of corporate fatigue having run the rat race for over 13 years which, though short by some standards, can feel like an eternity when you're a media professional in an industry that runs at 300,000 km per second. That's the speed of light, by the way.
Often, I've stopped to ponder why I'm spending the bulk of the short amount of time I have to live this life, on a seemingly endless chase to reach the top of a profession that, at the end of the chase, mayn't have the rewards that match the level of investment.
Covering the IT industry isn't exactly life-changing. The stuff I write about doesn't discuss why the poverty line in some countries is well below a dollar a day, nor does it expose how citizens in war-torn nations are ravaged by famine.
My idealist goal as a young journalist to change the world for the better has since given way to uncovering news about corporate M&As, business strategies and current buzzwords like cloud computing and mobile development...and to the occasional blog rumblings about the meaning of an IT-enabled life.
It's hardly earth-shattering or Nobel Prize-worthy material. In fact, I saw covering the IT industry to be almost immaterial and often, would ask myself: Is this it? What's the meaning to all this?
Fortunately, a dinner function this week helped provide some answers and slap me out of self-pity.
A handful of professionals from the local IT industry had gathered over dinner to meet Thorkil Sonne, founder of Specialisterne, a Danish IT computer company that hires individuals with high-functioning autism.
We had written a piece that looked at the potential of autistic workers to excel in IT, tapping their intrinsic passion for details to perform tasks such as software testing and quality control. Thorkil's organization aims to help the autistic hone their skills and secure gainful employment with IT companies, and he was in Singapore this week to champion this cause to the relevant stakeholders here.
Over dinner, he spoke passionately about how his own son, diagnosed with autism at the age of two, had ignited his desire to help autistic people identify and build on their strengths so they can also be independent citizens of the world.
He explained that high-functioning autistic individuals have much to offer if companies would give them the opportunity and understand their unique traits so they can be appropriately managed in a work environment.
Autistic people, for instance, don't get irony. They can't read between the lines or get innuendos and are unable to detect sarcasm. What they say is what they mean so electronic communications like e-mail and text messages are actually ideal because with text, what you see is what the words mean.
According to Thorkil, autistic individuals do congregate on Facebook and engage with like-minded peers in spirited conversations, so they can be sociable--on their own terms and under conditions that they comprehend. Two people whom Thorkil's company had assessed and trained were recently offered internship with IBM in Denmark.
Conversations that night also turned to news this week that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation would set aside US$42 million in grants to spur innovation to help improve toilets and sanitation. Some 2.6 billion people worldwide currently lack access to safe sanitation, leaving waste that usually go into a sewage system on the ground or in a ditch. Such unsanitary conditions have resulted in illness, killing 1.5 million children each year from diarrhea-related diseases.
Part of Gates' efforts include reinventing the toilet and by year-end, the foundation expects to have some 50 groups working on ideas for the next generation of toilets including one that runs without water or electricity.
That night over dinner, I realized that immaterial it might sometimes seem, technology can play a role in helping to change lives and make the world a better place for those in need of one.
So rather than wallow in self-indulgence about how meaningless the corporate race can get, I shall resolve to help in whatever small way I can, to highlight how individuals and organizations like Thorkil and the Gates foundation are driving the use of technology to improve society.
Calling on IT to do more : ZDNet Asia Blogs : By The Way by Eileen Yu
Friday, December 9, 2011
NEXT100 Future CIO Award for Kamal Matta by Subhojit Paul
NEXT100 Future CIO Award Winner Kamal Matta
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Announcing the NEXT 100 Winners!-ITNEXT
Announcing the NEXT 100 Winners!
Ladies and Gentlemen, here are the ones who made it to the Next 100 Awards
06 December 2011
IT Next has announced the winners of its annual Next 100 Awards. They were felicitated at a glittering celebration held at Fort Jadhavgadh Hotel near Pune in Maharashtra on December 4.
Three cheers to all the winners, many thanks to the participants, jury members and the sponsors who all made the event not only possible but a great success! The following list is arranged in alphabetical order of the surnames:
NEXT 100 WINNERS
Rajeev Agarwal Head - Corporate IT HAL Manuhaar Agrawalla Systems Manager (Corporate IT) The Oberoi Group Sharat Airani Chief-IT (Systems & Security) Forbes Marshall Group Ajit Awasare Deputy General Manager Larsen & Toubro Ltd Joy Bagish Senior Manager - IT Apeejay Surrendra Corporate Services Ltd Manoj Bhat Head - IT Operations 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd Pradeep Chaudhary Assistant General Manager (IT) Corporate Shree Cement Limited Johnson Cherian General Manager - IT Infrastructure Varun Beverages Ltd Vijay Choudhary Deputy General Manager - IT HRH Group of Hotels Gurinder Preet Singh Chugh Senior Manager - IT Vodafone Essar Limited Kaustav Das Delivery Head -SAP Highbar Technologies Ltd (HCC Group Company) Goutam Datta Assistant Vice President, Technology ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd Harin Dave Manager - Projects Cognizant Technology Solutions Keyur Desai Delivery Head - Network & Communications ESSAR Information Technology Ltd Sanjay Deshmukh Div. Manager - IT Mercedes-Benz India Yogesh Dhandharia IT & Business Manager Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd Suresh E IT Manager Paterson Securities P Ltd Sreekanth Elkuri Project Manager Mindtree Shiju George Senior Manager Shoppersstop Ltd Somasekhara Rao Gonuguntla IT Project Manager TESCO Hindustan Service Center Deepak Gupta Chief Manager (IT) JK Tyre & Industries Ltd Dinesh Gupta Deputy General Manager - IT Godrej Consumer Products Ltd Gyanendra Gupta Deputy General Manager (Systems) IFFCO Kapil Gupta Director - IT MTS Sandeep Gupta IT Strategy Consultant TCS - Global Consulting Practice Tarun Gupta Manager Lanco Solar Pvt Ltd Ravindra H S Associate Vice President - Information Systems Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd Archie Jackson Senior Manager & IT Service Delivery Manager Steria India Pvt Ltd Sandeep Jha Manager IT Africare Ltd Asad Joheb Datacentre Manager Taj Group of Hotels Makarand Joshi Deputy General Manager (IT) Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corp Ltd Hitender Kanwar Senior Manager - IT Tulip Telecom Ltd Dipthi Karnad Senior Manager -IT HyperCITY Retail India Ltd Aniket Kate Manager IT Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Suresh Khadakbhavi Deputy General Manager - ICT Bangalore International Airport Ltd Farhan Khan AVP - IT Radico Khaitan Ltd Feroz Ahmad Khan Associate Vice President - IT Godrej Consumer Products Ltd Ashish Khanna Corporate Manager IT Infrastructure EIH Limited (Oberoi Hotels) Pradeep Khanna Senior Project Manager Infosys Ltd Shishir Khare Head Internal IT (Noida Region) , Consultant TCS Manoj Kumar Assistant General Manager - IT Jai Suspension Systems Ltd Prajwal Kumar Deputy General Manager - IT ACG Worldwide Prakash Kumar Senior Manager & Head-IT Delta Power Solution (India) Pvt Ltd Santosh Kurhade SVP - IT IDFC Securities Sushanta Kumar Lenka Manager-IT Mitsubishi Electric Automotive India Pvt Ltd Satish Mahajan Consultant Suchit Malhotra Senior Manager Program Management Sapient Umesh Malhotra Assistant General Manager Hero MotoCorp Limited Kamal Matta Head IT & Telecom Sonic Biochem Ext Ltd Kapil Mehrotra Senior Manager iYOGI Technical Services Pvt Ltd Ajit Mishra Manager Sistema Syam Teleservices Ltd (MTS) Amit Mishra Head IT - Applications & Data Center Mothers Pride Education Persona Pvt Ltd Samad Mohammed General Manager iSpace Global Services (India) Pvt Ltd Ramkumar Mohan Head - IT & CISO Orbis Financial Corporation Ltd Ranganathan N Manager - IT Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd Satyen Naik Manager - IT Surat District Co-operative Milk Producer's Union Ltd Rajkumar Nair Manager - IT Kanakia Spaces Pvt Ltd Alagar Raj Nallasamy Technical Manager Perfsystems India Pvt Ltd SDPL Narayana Assistant General Manager - IT Neuland Laboratories Ltd Subhasis Nayak Senior Manager - IT Bata India Limited Beena Nayar Manager-IT Forbes Marshall Ltd Manish Pal Senior Manager Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd C O Parmar Deputy General Manager (Systems) IFFCO-KANDLA Nitin Parmar Senior General Manager - IT Welspun Naresh Pathak Head & AGM - IT Promed Group Shyamanta Phukon Global Head - IT SIRO Group of Companies Dinesh Pote Manager Corporate IT Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Puneet Prakash Manager Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Prasad Pudipeddi Head - IT Hamilton Houseware Pvt Ltd (Milton Plastics) Adarsh R Assistant General Manager (Systems) Kerala Financial Corporation Gracekumar Rajendra Associate Director - IT Cognizant Technology Dharmaraj Ramakrishnan Head - Core Banking, ITCD ING Vysya Bank Ajay Rana Director Amity Manvendra Singh Rana Acclerated Value Leader IBM India Private Limited Subha K Rudra Manager - Group IT Usha Martin Ltd Anil Saini IT Head Ricoh India Ltd S Saravanan Deputy General Manager - Technology Transformations IBM Global Process Services Makarand Sawant Assistant General Manager - Information Technology Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd Rupendra Sharma Manager -IT RJ Corp Vivek Sharma Manager Reliance Power Udupi Arunkumar Sheth Head-Software Development Gati Corporation Ltd Shobha Shetty Deputy General Manager - IT Godrej Properties Ltd Berjes Shroff Senior Manager - Information Technology Tata Services Ltd Avtar Singh AVP Bajaj Capital Dinesh Singh Technology Head SJM Technologies Jagdish Singh Manager IT Ramtech Software Prashant Singh Assistant Director Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd Sanjay Pratap Singh IT Head Medical Information Technologies Pvt Ltd (MediSysinfo) Sanjay Kumar Srivastava Assistant General Manager- IT Andritz Hydro Private Limited Anuroop Sundd Technical Suport Manager - Asia Pacific Siemens Industry Software (India) Pvt Ltd Kanaka Durga Bhavani Prasad Suravarapu Senior IT Manager Fifth Avenue Sourcing Pvt Ltd Dinesh Tandel Senior Consultant Capgemini India Pvt Ltd Balaranjith Thangakunam General Manager Atul Ltd Rajesh K Thanua Senior Manager IT Carzonrent India Pvt Ltd Sanjay Tiwari Manager - IT Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Mangal Verma General Manager - Application Projects Eon Infotech Limited Sandeep Walia Assistant General Manager - ( IT) HT Media Ltd Rajnish K Wangoo Technical Manager - IT Nokia Siemens Networks Kishor Yadav Deputy General Manager Adani Power Limited R A Yadav Deputy General Manager Hero MotoCorp Ltd


