My Brand Book - First Brand Book on ICT Industry

A Strong Vision for Future Cities   Lux Rao, Country Leader – HP Future Cities & CTO – Technology Services HP’s vision for Future Cities is one that is a self-sustaining ecosystem that allows efficient and effective utilization and management of resources like energy and water. HP’s vision focuses around a citizen and community centric approach that calls for open and collaborative systems allowing transparency and public access to data. Eventually, leading to citizen empowerment, effective e-governance and economic growth. HP will be focusing on: Health, Education, Citizen Services, e-governance, Security, Transportation and Utilities Infrastructure. External research as well as our experience in working with cities indicates that cities must address six areas that are very closely interrelated. These six components of a Future City form a tightly integrated whole, and all six must be considered when designing the next generation of services. They are – •...

CLOUD COMPUTING It can be said without a shadow of doubt that transition of cloud computing from being the latest industry buzz word to an accepted operational expenditure is nearing completion. Cloud has emerged as an IT service that businesses, both enterprises and SMBs, have already adopted or are in the process of evaluating its adoption. The adoption of cloud computing by SMEs is also increasing at a greater pace. According to a survey, it has been found that the number of companies with 10 or fewer employees adopting paid cloud services will triple in the next three years. Concerns around understanding security requirements for cloud services are top of the mind for nearly half of business and technology executives in India. More than half of those surveyed also indicated that they are concerned about how to secure and consume big data. However, for all the benefits cloud computing provides, it cannot be said to have foolproof security. The very nature of cloud makes it more ac...