Market
India remains leader in BPO segment: Government
Despite the rise of Philippines in the outsourcing sector, India remains the leader with an estimated revenue of USD 15.9 billion from the segment in 2011-12, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in Parliament. [Continue]
India accounts for 51% of global IT-BPO outsourcing: Survey
India is the global leader in the outsourcing industry with half of the world’s back office being located here. Indian outsourcing revenue at $59 billion for 2011, accounts for 51% of the global offshore market share, says a report from Tholons Research, a Bangalore based advisory firm. The report further notes that over the past [Continue]
Indian IT poised for second revolution
The second phase of the infotech revolution in India – themed around innovation and creativity – is pushing IT promotion body Nasscom to focus on creating the right environment for young Indians, says its former president Kiran Karnik. [Continue]
Industry
Nasscom sticks to export growth forecast despite mixed IT results
Software industry body Nasscom will not budge from its export growth forecast for the next few months, its new chairman said after a mixed bag of results and management commentary from India’s [Continue]
Indian IT services bigwigs grow in global stature
The top 5 Indian IT services providers grew 23.8 percent in 2011 while global growth for the IT services market grew at a slower 7.7 percent growth, notes Gartner. [Continue]
E-Access: What actually making a difference to the enterprise and the end-user?
When you talk of E-Access really you’re looking at services from the customer’s standpoint. They request for end-to-end SLAs and we provide services, let’s say a dedicated ethernet [Continue]
Dr. Atsushi Iwata calls for OpenFlow/Software Defined Networking (SDN)
The current problem in the data centre market is, for example, that because of increasing number of virtualization software on server side, dynamic network configuration for supporting those [Continue]
Finance
TCS profit up 23%, revenue tops $10 bn
A report card for India’s top four IT players
BPOs make hay as IT cos’ profit wanes
Top IT firms’ revenue, margins, profits may dip in Mar quarter
Ruias in talks to sell $1bn Aegis BPO
Indian IT players await good show in 2012
Outsourcing
Indian IT-BPO industry: 4 biggest myths
From zero to over $50 billion in 20 years — that’s been the meteoric rise of the Indian IT-BPO industry. Despite its considerable significance to India and the world, this is not a very well understood industry, perhaps because it doesn’t manufacture a [Continue]Technology
Telco Systems Unveils New Carrier Cloud Gateway and Aggregation Platform in Asia Pacific
T-Metro 8000 provides industry’s first open architecture platform with best in class carrier Ethernet/MPLS density, scalability and price performance for cloud, mobile backhaul, and business services. [Continue]
Emerging Trends
What Effect Will Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Have on the Industry?
Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you have a tablet? So that’s about 50/60%. [Continue]Hardware
Dumping e-waste is illegal now
Starting May 1, it is illegal to dump an old TV, mobile or laptop into the garbage bin or sell any of these to the local scrap dealer. Under the [Continue]
Govt wants ‘Made in India’ PCs
Want orders? Must invest. It’s a tried-and-trusted formula of many policymakers, including those in India, to woo investors. In the Indian [Continue]
India computer shipments to grow 17% in 2012: Gartner
Personal computer shipments in India are expected to reach 12.5 million units in 2012, up 17% over the last calendar year, largely due to election [Continue]
People/HR
Cloud really drives differences in how people approach their work: Clive Longbottom
Cloud Computing changes everything – or does it? Well, you could look at Cloud Computing and say if you moved to a full Cloud Computing model [Continue]
Is the outsourcing story unravelling?
These are tough days for Infosys Ltd., the company whose runway success in the last two decades best epitomised the aspirational belief that the [Continue]
Techma-Satyam may hire 10,000 new staff, says Nayyar
Tech Mahindra Ltd and Satyam Computer Services Ltd, which are in the process of a merger, aim to hire up to 10,000 staff for the combined entity in [Continue]
Corporate/Companies
What’s worrying Indian IT services and can Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Tech come out unscath?
Infosys CEOs aren’t used to listening to sermons. Not from reporters and not from analysts. But that’s exactly what happened, last [Continue]
Infosys plans international acquisitions
Infosys, India’s second-largest IT and software group by revenue, is planning international acquisitions and a renewed focus on “bread and [Continue]
HP Delivers Agility without Compromise with HP Converged Cloud
HP has announced HP Converged Cloud, the industry’s first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture spanning [Continue]
News and Events
New software technology park in Mizoram
The Central government, in association with the Mizoram government, will set up a software technology park in Mizoram to boost IT in Northeast and [Continue]
AMD deploys HP’s Networking Solution & Server Technologies
HP announced that AMD has improved business efficiency and streamlined operations by consolidating its worldwide data centers and standardizing on HP [Continue]
NetEvents Hong Kong Highlights
The Carrier Cloud future… SDN’s killer app… Datacentre modularisation…The launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification… One global data [Continue]