IT Companies Now Generate Higher Revenue From Fixed Price Contracts

The $120-billion information technology industry now generates almost half of its revenue from fixed price contracts. While this indicates the rising comfort of overseas clients in dealing with Indian software providers, industry watchers feel that the trend may result in…

IT Companies Now Generate Higher Revenue From Fixed Price Contracts

The USD 120-billion information technology industry now generates almost half of its revenue from fixed price contracts. While this indicates the rising comfort of overseas clients in dealing with Indian software providers, industry watchers feel that the trend may result…

Microsoft Corporation On Cloud Nine

The Indian workplace is changing quickly, with technology at the centre of the change. Cloud computing is no longer a technology buzzword tossed around in company corridors. It’s mainstream now than ever before and to be on the cloud is…

The days of ‘big bang’ hiring by IT firms may be over

‘Trespassers will be recruited,’ an adage that defined the hiring needs of India’s $120-billion IT services space in the last decade may no longer hold true. All indications are that frontline companies may hire fewer staffers going forward as they bring…

Micromax YU Vs Everyone Else

On the afternoon of January 13, YU Televentures began selling its first smartphone - Yureka - on online retailer Amazon's India site. The phone was showcased almost three weeks earlier, and the Micromax unit had been heavily advertising the device.…

MicromaxYU Vs Everyone Else

On the afternoon of January 13, YU Televentures began selling its first smartphone - Yureka - on online retailer Amazon's India site. The phone was showcased almost three weeks earlier, and the Micromax unit had been heavily advertising the device.…

EMC Redefines Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise

EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Federation Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Edition with VMware available immediately. Microsoft Cloud Platform and OpenStack® Editions to be available in 2015. Solution offers public cloud interoperability with VMware vCloud® AirTM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…

EMC Furthers Its Hybrid Cloud Ambition For Enterprises

Last month IT major EMC announced globally that it is venturing into the hybrid cloud space. At a recent webinar the IT major explains how the company is furthering its hybrid cloud ambition by launching a new solution for enterprises…

EMC Announces Professional Services For Hybrid Cloud

The company has announced four new services under its professional services portfolio to for end-to-end turnkey operational management; to analyze application requirements and workload suitability; for IT transformation and education services According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group…

Riding The Next Wave Of Digital Growth

Indian IT services companies are realizing that ‘digital’ is the way to go. They are investing in new technologies such as cloud computing, mobile technologies, data analytics among other and bagging high-margin outsourcing contracts to respond to the growing competition. In an…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCIndia)collaborates with cloud service providers in India to target $1 billion cloud market #Press #Media #BusinessStandard

Information management and storage major EMC has partnered cloud services providers, Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of its efforts to tap the USD 1 billion cloud market opportunity in India. "The addressable Cloud market in India is expected to…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCIndia)collaborates with cloud service providers in India to target $1 billion cloud market #Press #Media #InformationWeek

EMC is enabling hybrid cloud solutions with key cloud service providers in the Indian market. EMC announced collaboration with cloud service providers Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of a larger effort to target the cloud market opportunity in India, which…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCIndia)partners cloud service providers to tap $1 bn opportunity in India #Press #Media #EconomicTimes

Information management and storage major EMC has partnered cloud services providers, Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of its efforts to tap the $1 billion cloud markopportunity in India. The addressable Cloud market in India is expected to hit the…

Catch Greyhound Research as a Jury in the IBM HackFest

What is the event all about?  How can you reach over 243 million Indian online users? By joining the IBM HackFest Virtual Hackathon. Choose from one of three themes: Finance/Technology, Entertainment or Social Good. Create an awesome hack, alone or…

Google Identifies Enterprise Mobility And India Key For Growth

On July 18th 2014, Google organized an analyst briefing in India. The event conveyed two messages from Google – 1) growing importance of India for their business, and 2) commitment to the enterprise business. Attended by key Google representatives from…

Hard Facts: Enterprise Mobility

Like some magic wand, CIOs and enterprises have taken to quoting mobility as one of the top emerging technologies in their wish list.  It would be the answer to a large number of issues that enterprises face, and maybe the…

#GreyhoundInMedia: How To Pick The Right Mobile Sales Force Automation App #Press #Media

For Ywain Cheney, Fridays used to be dominated by manually uploading documents and photos to his company's intranet. He spent several hours updating the site to provide the sales department with the tools it needed. Cheney, head of the art department…

Enterprise Mobility – Value Lies in Data, Not Device Alone!

Times have changed, and so has how we use smartphones. From their earlier simplistic use of fetching email and contacts, smartphones are now the powerhouse for consumers and business users who use mobile gadgets for accessing applications and surf the…

Nokia makes a calculated gamble with Android

The worst-kept secret of the mobile world - Nokia's adaptation of the Android operating system for mobile phones - finally came out last month: the Finnish handset maker said that its X series of smartphones would run on Android. Before…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Forecast 2014: Boost your mobile bandwidth

When Robert Howard first took over as CIO at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., last year, there was little doubt of his mandate. "Wireless connectivity and general bandwidth issues were a point of concern among students," Howard says. And…

Could A Google Tikona Deal Trigger New Models?

Google Capital, a company owned by internet search giant Google is evaluating to buy stake in Tikona Digital Networks, as per a report published in Economic Times. The speculations are rife that internet firm Yahoo and software giant Microsoft are also…

The challenge of mobility and the cost of BYOD fleets

In March 2013, ZDNet reported that the size of the 2013 bring-your-own-device (BYOD) market would be double that of 2012, making BYOD truly mainstream. Sixty eight percent of respondents in the same research report said that getting buy-in from staff presents…

Mobile Strategy In Emerging Markets: 10 Tips

Consumers in emerging economies have skipped past stodgy old landlines and PCs straight to mobile phones. But that doesn't mean CIOs in those regions won't run into problems with building the mobile enterprise. "To successfully implement a project compared to…

10 dicas de estratégia de mobilidade para mercados emergentes

Consumidores em economias emergentes substituíram as velhas linhas fixas e PCs diretamente por telefones móveis. Mas isso não quer dizer que CIOS destas regiões não encontrem problemas ao montar empreendimentos mobile. “Implementar um projeto de sucesso [em países emergentes] é…