Critical infrastructure industries in particular, such as utilities, transportation and natural resource producers, together with the communities and economies they serve, face not only particularly damaging outcomes from cyber security attacks, but also need to deal with significant complexity due to the scale of their operations. Fortinet states that almost 80 percent of industrial security incidents in critical infrastructure organizations are caused by unintentional internal issues such as software misconfigurations from human error and malfunctioning network protocols. “Organizations across multiple industries today face an evolving threatscape and growing pressure to...

RAH Infotech today announced its appointment as the National Value Added Distributor (VAD) by Contentkeeper, leaders in Web security solutions. The offerings will include providing solutions that enable organizations to protect and control gateway Internet access and to embrace mobile technology, social media and cloud-based services without compromising security. Ashok Kumar, chief executive officer at RAH Infotech said, “ContentKeeper’s advanced, multi-layered behavioral analysis technology with high speed SSL (decrypted) packet inspection ensures mission critical Internet resources and services are protected – regardless of the device being used or where employees...

Health care providers in India are expected to spend US $1.2 billion on IT products and services in 2016, an increase of 3.4 per cent over 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. This forecast includes spending by healthcare providers (includes hospitals, hospital systems, nursing and residential care, and university hospitals) on internal services, software, IT services, data center systems, devices and telecom services. “IT services, which includes consulting, software support, implementation, hardware, IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO), will continue to be the largest overall spending category within the health care providers...

Software products, rather than services, are the need of the hour. India’s IT industry is currently valued at around $143 billion; this figure is expected to reach $350 billion by 2025, a scant nine years from now. The upcoming National Policy on Software Products will put in place a set of guidelines that will help the government realise its vision of having software products account for $100 billion of GDP by 2025. The government is striving to promote a sustainable software products industry in India, one that will put the...

Following the separation of Xerox’s services business and legacy hardware operations into two publicly traded companies, Xerox said it will name the planned Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company Conduent, and the Document Technology company will continue to be called Xerox Corporation. The name Conduent is inspired by the new company’s expertise in connecting clients and their constituents through seamless transactions at massive scale in areas such as customer care, transportation solutions, and healthcare payer and provider services. Conduent reflects the company’s position as a partner to businesses and governments, delivering...

At a time when the system integration business was prospering, the evolving segment of the channel was going through several difficulties. Seventeen SIs and Retailers decided to provide a platform for the SI community to unite and work towards the betterment of business. Mumbai based Association of System Integrators & Retailers in Technology (ASIRT), founded in 2012 with a vision to enhance collaboration among SIs and help them grow, has today emerged as the most active and vocal IT association in the country. Inclusive Growth of SIs ASIRT understands the...

Canadian enterprise software and smartphone maker, BlackBerry has reportedly roped in HCL Infosystems as the national distributor of its enterprise products and solutions in India. According to the Economic Times report, the move to extend the reach to new segments such small and medium enterprises and startups, besides the big enterprises coincides with BlackBerry’s revival strategy under which it is rebuilding its business with main focus on enterprise sales. Under the leadership of BlackBerry India’s managing director Narendra Nayak, the company has built a completely new enterprise-focused team with sales people all...

The government of India will spend USD 7 billion on IT products and services in 2016, an increase of 3.1 percent over 2015, says Gartner. This forecast includes spending on internal services, software, IT services, data center, devices and telecom services. Government comprises state and local governments and national government, the analyst firm said. IT services (which includes consulting, software support, business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing, implementation, and hardware support) is expected to grow 8.8 percent in 2016 to reach $1.6 billion USD – with the business process outsourcing sub-segment...

Telenor India and Telenor Group today reinforced their internet safety goals with support for Stop Cyberbullying Day 2016, an international awareness day that aims to reduce cyberbullying globally. With an estimated half billion youth in Telenor Asia’s markets of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand accessing the internet for the first time in the next five years, Telenor hopes to educate young users on the benefits of connectivity, as well as how to navigate online threats. Cyberbullying refers to electronic communication used for the purpose of bullying. With 92...

Knowlarity Communications has launched a solution for start-ups and SMEs to establish inbound call centers for connecting with their customers. This cloud based telephony solution costs lesser than the traditional call center as it cuts down on the expensive infrastructure, yet enables better scalability. On one hand, small businesses and start-ups find it challenging to implement an effective customer support solution, and on the other hand traditional call centers are difficult to maintain. However, with Knowlarity’s call center solution being cloud based, an enterprise requires only two basic things to...