Customer Service Key Driver for IT Investments in Logistics: Survey
Softlink Logistic Systems, an Indian logistics software provider, today revealed the survey results on – ‘Adoption of Technology in Indian Logistics Sector-2009’, conducted amongst 700 Indian logistics players operating as Customs Clearing, Freight Forwarding, NVOCCs and 3PL players. The survey revealed that larger logistic players are opening up for technology investments in the year 2010. It highlights that the number of larger players, making technology investments up to Rs. 10 mn have been doubled to 14 percent in 2010 compared to last year.

Oracle Revs AutoVue Enterprise Visualization
Oracle has unveiled AutoVue 20.0, featuring a new architecture that aims to scale with an organization’s evolving enterprise requirements and more efficiently serve the document visualization and collaboration needs of enterprise and desktop users. New capabilities within AutoVue 20.0 support customers in a variety of industries including Engineering and Construction, Utilities, Oil and Gas, and Manufacturing.

3PAR Unveils Utility Storage in India
3PAR, a global provider of utility storage, has launched its first sales and customer service office in India and has named Arvind Khurana as country manager. This move into India is intended to position 3PAR to meet growing demand for technologies to support cloud computing, the virtual datacenter,green IT initiatives, and enhanced infrastructure agility in an economy that has been expanding in the midst of a worldwide recession.

Red Hat Moves into Desktop, Server Virtualisation Territory with RHEV 2.2
Red Hat has released an updated version of its virtualisation platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, after it was first announced in November 2009. RHEV 2.2 has an abundance of new features that could elevate Red Hat’s value and accelerate its growing popularity.

Microsoft Testing on Twitter-like Microblogging Service for Enterprises
Microsoft has been working on a micro-blogging tool for the enterprise and has christened it 'OfficeTalk'. With the new ALL IN campaign that Microsoft has launched for cloud computing, understanding how social media works at the enterprise level can give them the edge they have been looking for.

Microsoft Windows Azure Brings End-to-End Cloud Computing to India
There have been a lot of questions lately if India is ready for adopting cloud computing solutions and vice versa. Microsoft clearly believes in the affirmative and launched Windows Azure. Now more than 50 partners including HCL Technologies, Wings Info, Cerebrate and CDC Software are developing commercial applications and solutions on Windows Azure platform.

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?