http://www.btmarch.com where business meets technology http://www.btmarch.com/images/btmarch_logo1.jpg http://www.btmarch.com 195 96 enhttp://www.biztechmarch.com/SOA/exclusives/customer-service-key-driver-for-it-investments-in-logistics-survey.htmlSoftlink 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.http://www.biztechmarch.com/BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE/exclusives/-oracle-revs-autovue-enterprise-visualization.htmlOracle 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.http://www.biztechmarch.com/INFORMATION SECURITY/whitepapers/cost-effective-defence-in-depth-security-controls-and-solutions.htmlInformation ranging from trade secrets to financial data to privacy related information has become the target of sophisticated attacks from both sides of the firewall. While most organizations have deployed firewall, intrusion detection, and anti-spam technologies, protecting data now requires a defence in-depth strategy that enables both preventive and detective controls to enforce security principles such as need-to-know and trust-but-verify. This white paper explains defence-in-depth security controls and available solutions.http://www.biztechmarch.com/ECM & STORAGE/exclusives/3par-unveils-utility-storage-in-india.html3PAR, 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.http://www.biztechmarch.com/VIRTUALISATION/exclusives/red-hat-moves-into-desktop-server-virtualisation-territory-with-rhev-22.htmlRed 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.http://www.biztechmarch.com/BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE/exclusives/microsoft-testing-on-twitter-like-microblogging-service-for-enterprises.htmlMicrosoft 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.http://www.biztechmarch.com/CLOUD COMPUTING/exclusives/microsoft-windows-azure-brings-end-to-end-cloud-computing-to-india.htmlThere 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.http://www.biztechmarch.com/SOA/offthepress/red-hat-upgrades-middleware-platform-with-jboss-enterprise-soa-platform-50.htmlRed Hat has updated its middleware portfolio with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0 that it says can provide improved web services and cloud integration. The company claims businesses can use JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to customise the platform deployment to suit their specific needs, including using the entire solution, its individual components and even integrate it with third-party open- and closed-source products and tools. Early adopters of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform cut across a wide swathe of industries including financial services, transportation, telecom, government and entertainment.http://www.biztechmarch.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.biztechmarch.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.