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he IT industry is invariably in flux. Recurrent new Tproducts and category innovation define and redefine industries constantly shifting its

landscape. On a continuous basis, IT Industries are re-examining the structure of their businesses and taking bold steps towards its future. The competition, on the other hand, has made customers more demanding, making them desire greater performance, better features, and more platform independence and flexibility at the lowest price point possible.

Especially, in today's economic climate, companies must continue to justify apparently ever-increasing demands for investment in technology to remain competitive. IT departments increasingly need to be more strategic through the adoption of new technologies such as the cloud, mobile technology, social networking and big-data analytics. Small reluctance to make major technology investments, particularly when baseline technologies may be undergoing fundamental changes, may well lead to a broader adoption of cloud-computing services and other managed virtual environments.

Perhaps the most significant technology issue today, will be integrating these new technologies into the enterprise environment, while maintaining cost and other controls. Cloud computing, adoption of mobile devices, leveraging social networking and big-data practices also pose challenges in terms of adoption, integration, supervision, security, litigation and some other risk management. At the same instance, these innovations, if leveraged correctly, can generate cost savings, while improving or creating new products or services and marketing potential. They can also help to increase efficiency, align leadership with functions and capabilities and foster a more innovative corporate culture.

All of these actions must be balanced against the increased risk to cybersecurity threats and information security, mainly as it relates to cloud computing and mobile technologies.

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How IoT linked up thePhysical and Digital Worlds?

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ccording to the evaluated records, more than 75% Aorganizations throughout the world are running on and traversing the application of IoT. In addition,

many countries find IoT as a countrywide access point for industrial and economic development, particularly the “Made in China 2025” program of China, the “Industry 4.0” program of Germany, and the “Industrial Internet” program of the United States. To accomplish these IoT initiatives we need sensors and thing to thing connecting networks to enhance the fusion between digital and physical world. Although, technical and business challenges in IoT are profuse, the mixed power of Data collection, Big Data Analytics, and comprehensive decision-making abilities of IoT can ultimately improve the efficiency and outcome of industrial manufacturing and agricultural productions.

According to the reports, by 2025 there will be about 100 billion IoT devices in the world, and for every single hour, 2 million new sensors will be added and deployed in IoT. It is

How IoT linked up the Physical

and Digital World?

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evaluated that by 2025, more than 55 percent of IoT applications will be applied to the business world, such as intelligent manufacturing, intelligent eCommerce, Smart City, smart public service, etc.

New opportunities brought ahead by IoT needs new products and solutions, plus collaborative efforts of the industry. IoT Solution is particularly concentrated on solving the following main issues, to clear the obstructions and advancement of IoT:

Managing and observing interface for connecting thingsPresently, sensor access has not been standardized, it results in difficulties in gathering broad data and for monitoring and controlling things in the physical world.

Entering into the digital worldIoT requires versatile and rich access technologies to support

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different connections that link things into the digital world.

Service management platformThe IoT requires a constant operation and management platform to maintain a large number of connections, manage various sensor devices, and give intelligent operational management.

The IoT-oriented LiteosAn ultra-lightweight operating system to provide management and control on “things”. This IoT oriented operating system can manage and control sensors, and it can be expanded to support versatile connection protocols to satisfy a variety of service requirements. Liteos can be applied in IoT applications, such as real-time monitoring, smart watches, and other wearable devices.

Agile adoptive IoT GatewaysIt supports multiple protocols and transmission media for connection and access. We can Install, manage and share IoT apps through the IoT Marketplace. It is beneficial for Automatic discovery, and recommendation. We can discover nearby IoT devices based on popular device protocols and get an automatic recommendation on apps to use. It allows IoT to be applied in various applications that can further impact our daily life and business operations.

IoT is rapidly moving, accelerated by the collaborative industry wide efforts and the breakthroughs on core technologies. It is improving from small-scale trials to large-scale deployments. Although, the success of IoT depends on having an open ecosystem for IoT. It needs an open standard based IoT communication protocols and infrastructures that are compliant with these standards. In addition, it is of critical importance to have the application development platform for developing and deploying interoperable IoT applications. Partnership of industries may accelerate the development of IoT, and will continue advancing on connecting the physical and digital worlds to create new values and business opportunities for their

partners and customers.Currently IoT is applicable to fully wired smart cities, wireless medical monitoring devices, wirelessly communicating objects in smart homes, wearable technologies with clothing, jewelry and accessories, and other areas like environment management systems, infrastructure management systems, energy management systems, and intelligent transportation systems.

In future, IoT will appear with growing market applications like smart homes and wearable tech, and these will continue to drive IoT forward. According to the research, the future of IoT

may involve smart wristwatches that lend directions to the nearest fire extinguisher in

case of a fire. Pens that will help to recall and store a customer's hand

motions, thus recording what it has written. Implanted

organs that can inform hospi ta ls when they begin to fail. Smart homes that learn and adapt to their owner's requirements by activat-ing or deac t iva t ing

residential devices based on its predictions of the

owner's behavior. Auto-mated Cars that reduce energy as they

sense approaching gas stations and water conservation systems that conserve water automatically on the basis of weather predictions.

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developed and benefitted tremendously under the leadership of both. KPIT has grown over 50 times in the last twelve years, and today has a revenue of USD 489 million (FY 2014-15).

Indispensable Team WorkAs leadership is important so do the teamwork. KPIT gives immense importance to this, by saying that employees are the backbone of the company. Talent is a competitive differentiator across all major industries, KPIT thinks that it wouldn't have been a success story without the support of its teams and human resource.

Products And Services OfferingKPIT is a vertically focused IT consulting and product engineering solutions and services provider for automotive & transportation, manufacturing, energy & utilities and Life Sciences corporations. In the automotive vertical, KPIT helps companies in the areas of navigation, automotive infotainment, telematics, semiconductors and more. They work on product development that caters to imminent future needs and challenges. KPIT's products for vehicles include On bus Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Revolo (the plug-in hybrid solution), K-SAR (an

Innovation, Sustainability, Quality and Agility are the most sought after qualities in the IT industry

today. Building an integrated and sustainable world by leveraging technology is what the indispensable need of the industry. Additionally, while working in the IT industry with consistently changing landscape, combining technology and process expertise to build solutions for the customer becomes inevitable. KPIT Technologies, stands tall on all of these grounds.

KPIT envisions a cleaner, greener, intelligent world, a world that is self-sufficient, sustainable and efficient, by providing technologies that help their customers succeed in the marketplace, such that the products their customers produce, are of high quality, less costly, use less energy or fewer materials and improve the state of the industries they serve.

Strong Leadership of KPIT It is on the basis of strong leadership that a company touches the success. KPIT's success is also bestowed by two of its founders and leaders, Ravi Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman and Group CEO of KPIT and Kishor Patil, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of KPIT. The company has

AUTOSAR suite), KIVI (infotainment platform). It also provides product engineering solutions and services across automotive sub-systems.

For customers in the energy and utilities sector, KPIT offers solutions for materials planning, procurement, supply chain, contracts, revenue accounting and asset management. As an innovative technology company, KPIT provides a wide range of solutions for OEMs, which consist of the entire manufacturing spectrum. This helps global manufacturers deliver customer delight, improve their supply chain visibility and boost profitability with offerings that include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Value Chain Planning & Execution.

With a potent combination of adept financial management and tech industry experience, KPIT leverages the full scope of SAP and Oracle, offering efficient solutions to companies in the manufacturing, automotive and energy sectors.

Progressing Towards Future Forestalling All The ObstructionsBelieving every challenge is an opportunity, KPIT is progressing every

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single day. The recent announcements by the Government of India around Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities, show that KPIT is at the threshold of a massive positive change in the years to come. The scope to create solutions for problems to build a better tomorrow is what excites KPIT tremendously. They are constantly working towards creating innovative technology solutions which are cleaner, safer, greener and more affordable in our focus areas.

Values Followed By The CompanyThe values that the company works around, are customer focus, agility, passion and trustworthiness. KPIT understands its customer requirements and their challenges, according to which they deliver products and solutions. KPIT has always anticipated change, adapted and responded to their customers with new and innovative technologies. Its passion for work drives them to bring out their best performances and ultimately they are trustworthy partners to their customers, employees, colleagues and other stakeholders in the ecosystem. These values are deeply ingrained in the culture of KPIT and have played a crucial role in their establishment.

Huge Importance To The Client RelationshipKPIT has established a strong client relationship with clients, continuously working with the organization for a long duration. It currently partners with 200+ global corporations, including Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 companies, most of which they have been working with for many years. KPIT has a strong focus on client retention and customer delight for the companies with which they work.

Strategy Followed To Be Ahead Of The CompetitionThe inevitable thing in this competitive industry is to follow a perfect strategy. The differentiators that provide KPIT with a competitive advantage are innovation, sustainability, focus on industries and a commitment to quality.

Working in a dynamic environment makes constant innovation crucial. KPIT's solutions enable customers to offer globalized and integrated products and services. Acknowledging the importance of being interdependent with partners in the ecosystem is another essential factor to sustain relations and deliver excellence, followed by the company.

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Moreover, KPIT strives to provide unique business solutions and high business value by offering patented products and services. Understanding, high quality is a priority for their customers, KPIT have processes that deliver high productivity and the promised results on a timely basis.

Vision And Mission The mission at KPIT is to create technologies for a better world. They act towards creating a green and clean world by collaborating with their customers and partners, and with the mission to integrate with them to build a sustainable environment.

Future Projects KPIT has launched its On-Bus Intelligent Transport System (ITS) for Bus-Manufacturers and State Transport Utilities (STU) in India to create better public transport in urban cities. On-Bus ITS has been made mandatory under the JNNURM II programme which is now known as Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).

Ravi Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman And Group CEO Of KPIT

Holding a master's from Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, USA, Ravi Pandit started a Chartered Accountancy firm in Pune. It's only after a decade that he decided to establish his own company in the Information Technology consulting and services sector and founded KPIT along with Kishor Patil in 1990. A gold medalist and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Mr. Pandit has been accoladed with many awards for his entrepreneurial excellence. Revered for his knack for coming up with innovative solutions, his vitality and trustworthiness, Mr. Pandit has effectively created and built strong relationships with customers, partners and other stakeholder institutions. It is his inclination towards the social sector, that made KPIT get actively involved in many CSR activities, ranging from inculcating an interest in Science amongst students, to waste management drives, and water conservation projects.

Ravi Pandit

Co-founder, Chairman and Group CEO

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KPIT's product is the first in the country to be certified by Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) for meeting the stringent specifications of JNNURM II. They are working with different STUs towards getting these buses on the road.

Valuable Suggestions For Start-Up's By KPITIt is tough to establish a new company, however big or small. Entrepreneurs must have utmost faith in their products and resources. You need to support it throughout, in good and bad times. One must dream big, to achieve big. It is also crucial to understand that your employees and customers are your best way of spreading the word. Keep them happy and satisfied to have a successful business.

Kishor PatilCo-founder, Managing Director and CEO

Kishor Patil, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of KPIT

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Kishor Patil kick-started his career in Kirtane and Pandit Chartered Accountants in 1983.

With his ability to foresee upcoming trends, he saw huge potential in the business prospect of integrating financial & management consulting with Information Technology. In 1990, he founded KPIT Technologies along with his colleague Ravi Pandit.

Under his leadership, the company has grown over 50 times in revenues in the last 12+ years to reach around USD 500 million (INR 3000 crores).

Kishor is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has been honored with the CA Business Leader Award by them in 2014. He has been conferred as one of the top 16 entrepreneurs in India by Ernst and Young in its Entrepreneur of the Year award program. Furthermore, he has also been included in the Top 50 CEOs list of 2013 by The Entrepreneur Magazine. A man of many talents, Kishor has also produced a state-of-the-art inter-nationally acclaimed animation movie, Delhi Safari, on the theme of conser-vation of animal habitat. He was awarded the prestigious Golden Lotus National Award by the honorable President of India.

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Most Challenging Role of CIO's in today's

IT Scenario – By Rajeev Batra

Most Challenging Role of CIO's in today's

IT Scenario – By Rajeev Batra

T applications and infrastructure oftentimes used areasIIn the current IT scenario, IT applications and infrastructure are frequently using two main areas – Customer Facing Systems and Retailer facing. Under Customer Facing Systems it includes, eCommerce website, Social interfaces, Payment Channels, IVR interface, contact centers, short-code, mobile and web applications for Self-care and, Retailer facing includes Retailer CRM, Lead Management Systems (LMS), Products/Services information modules, retailer performance management, eRecharge and payment channels

It includes

Marketing & Sales:

Big Data and Business Intelligence based Analytics, Collaboration tools, Digital Advertising, GIS, mobile applications for FoS (feet on the street) resource information and data capturing to/from retail outlets, LMS, material tracking from primary till tertiary levels, branded web applications e.g. landing page, product portfolio management.

R&R (rewards & recognition), internal communications.

IT:

Ensuring operational support for all business processes automation and support systems, Information Security, Data Centre operations (Tier3), VAS applications (value added services), Infrastructure related IT including servers, storage, collaboration systems, statutory and regulatory compliances related applications

Applications may be developed through organic build or sourced through Cloud; nevertheless SMAC (social mobility analytics and cloud) based applications are slowly and steadily becoming the essential aspects in a service sector, regulatory compliance notwithstanding.

CSD:

Billing, CRM, Social CRM, CEM (customer experience management), Credit Control, Knowledge portal, Contact Centre Technology, GIS, back office applications, KYC, data de-dupe, trouble ticketing and workflow manage-ment apps.

Finance:

ERP – Financials, Risk Management, inventory management, distribution network billing, revenue assurance, fraud management, treasury, inter-connect billing, on-line banking trans-action applications, MIS

HR:

HRMS (HR Management Systems) for all employee lifecycle management, SIP (sales incentive planning), PMS (performance management systems),

The role of the CIO is evolving based on the sector and organization size and maturity

In Sectors where technology plays a very business centric role like telecoms, IT becomes core to business operations. Given that CIO is armed with intricate business process and critical info-rmation he can play a very constructive role of partnering with business teams and providing direction that can plug any revenue leakages, improve business processes or unlock any new revenue stream. Hence it is not an enigma that we are seeing more and more CIOs expanding their roles to shoulder the digital, innovation, customer care related accountability as well besides the traditional role they manage. If CIOs does not show business value in their domain/organization, it does not seem distant that we may start seeing small and medium enterprises start

Rajeev BatraChief Information OfcerSistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd.-MTS India

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force friendly, ensure compliances and still not appear regressive.

Another challenge is free and half baked information about buzzwords like SMAC and BigData available in the public domain, which promises a utopian business environment, but in reality a full implementation is quite complex, time consuming and needs special technical ski l ls besides dedicating business involvement – an aspect, which most of the business leaders take a lot to comprehend in distinguishing technology hype from reality. Taming vagabond applications in an enterprise and ensuring proper lifecycle management for applications is another challenge for which CIOs have to appear a villain in the whole scheme of things, but it's necessary to ensure sane enterprise architecture which performs to its fullest for business benefit 24X7 without fail. Internal challenge comprises of managing skills of IT team up to mark and keeping attrition manageable in a highly competitive environment. Last but not the least managing business

sourcing CIO like services in a share model from “CIO on Cloud”.

However, in case of technology centric and large enterprise business CIOs who have sharp business acumen will remain relevant and contribute to business and revenue growth. Hence CIO should remain a 'business partner', who is helping business to evangelize critical technologies for enhanced business outcomes.

Challenges faced by CIOs of today:

Given the advancement in the available technologies, information proliferation and maturing software packages the challenges in todays world are of a different kind. Most of the workforce is digital native and wants to use their own devices and employ open source and freeware software/ application to execute their work; this poses a big challenge despite availability of BYOD and MDM type of official and private containers, when the regulatory compliances are strict and penalties are punitive in nature - hence, there is a very fine balance which CIOs have to maintain to be business and work-

expectations within constraints of dwindling budgets and fewer resources in the name of leaner and low cost business models.

Startup today have an expanded opportunity in an era where mobility has become omnipresent

Coupled with digital native population percentage on the rise, it presents a very viable proposition for an idea that positively impacts human life. Aspects that the startup may have to critically review their business model for success is high probability of social networking, simple and intuitive interface for customers, enhanced reach, scalability, service quality and a unique nuance that may take a finite time to replicate but gives a first mover advantage.

Given availability of low cost IT solutions offered through Cloud the productivity enhancing tools should be harnessed from the word Go so as not be handicapped in a world that rewards the agile, innovative and merit but perishes the one who is not!

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he IT serv i ces has become more

Trevolutionary for forthcoming industries. It

should be capable to supply required

nancial stability through predictable, recurring

revenue and give a support platform for the user.

Although, the better execution is only done, when

you will follow the appropriate business

strategies through continuous research and

innovat ion, according to the impacted

technologies. IT services help organizations to

create, manage, and enhance information and

business processes with technical expertise.

Theses services are process focused and make a

framework to structure IT related all activities.

According to the experts forecast for worldwide

dollar-valued IT spending growth in 2015 has

been revised to negative 4.9%, up from last

quarter's negative 5.5%. Currency uctuations

are chiey responsible for the change, as in

constant-currency terms, forecast growth for

2015 is unchanged at 2.5%. The worldwide IT

services market will reach nearly $914 billion in

2015, growing 3.8% in constant currency in

2015, or declining 3.7% in U.S. dollars. With

outsourcing contributing more than half of

market growth in constant currency, the market

will reach $1.1 trillion in 2019.

Today, IT industries are eagerly looking for better

solutions. Insights Success magazine has covered

and presents you '20 Most Valuable IT Services

Companies', after scrutinizing a long list of

solution providers. Here Insights Success

showcases to you '20 Most Valuable IT Services

Companies' that t in accordance to your

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to centralize your processes and develop a more

economical way to grow globally. The Insights

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settled upon the list of these '20 Most Valuable IT

Services Companies', who are at the forefront of

addressing the real challenges.

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ccording to the developers of 3D model, new imaging Atechnology will help doctors diagnose the disease more accurately and will make them ready for complex surgical

procedures. This will process hundreds of medical scans to generate a perfect virtual 3D model of the human body.

Sergio Aguirre of California startup Echopixel says, "What our software is doing is taking advantage of that data and presenting it in a format where they can actually see the body parts from that data and interact with them in a three dimensional space", and further added that the doctor's can peel away virtual layers and examine tissue and organs deep within the body.

With the use of this technology in clinical trials, surgeons were able to more effectively correct congenital heart defects in newborns at the same time it helped to decrease the amount of time it took to prepare for the procedures.

Zspace, which creates real world virtual reality systems, developed special monitor and glasses to run the software. The virtual 3D image enabled surgeons to visualize tiny blood vessels and practice their surgery before stepping foot in an operating room.

Aguirre stated, "These vessels are sub-millimeter and the newborn patient is the size of your hand. So they basically get imaged and we use our software to help the doctor to understand the curvature of the vessels, to follow the vessels all the way through the lungs and determine which vessels need to be surgically repaired ".

According to Dr. Louis Wexler of Stanford University, who has been at the forefront of medical imaging for more than half a century, told that this technology's ability to transform hundreds of 2 dimensional images into an interactive 3D model is a game changer.

Wexler stated, "It is going to be a tremendously useful tool for the surgeon. Some surgeons are very good at looking at X-RAY images, CT images, MR and imagining but this shows them exactly what it looks like in the body".

According to Wexler, the technology will save time and improve accuracy of medical procedures, which will ultimately translate into saving patients money and giving them access to better medical care. And further added, "To see an object inside the body, identify it and lift it out of the body was pretty exciting. But that isn't enough. One has to begin to think about how is that going to help in your clinical evaluation of something ". That is something we have to wait and see.

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Company Name Management Brief

Artemisartemisit.com

Travis ProctorCEO

Avekshaa Technologiesavekshaa.com

Rajinder GandotraFounder & CEO

Avekshaa Technologies a next-generationinformation technology products and solutions

Company, providing specialized solutions in theP-A-S-S™ Assurance space to the Enterprise

customers globally.

CBIG Consultingcbigconsulting.com

John OnderCo-founder and Principal,

Strategic Consulting

CBIG Consulting, a leading businessintelligence and Big Dataanalytics consulting firm.

Chatsworth Productschatsworth.com

Michael CusterPresident and CEO

Computacentercomputacenter.com

Mike NorrisCEO

DIVERSANTdiversant.com

Gene C. WaddyCEO

Eliassen Groupeliassen.com

Dave MacKeenCEO

eLynxelynx.com

Sharon MatthewsPresident and CEO

DataMetica Solutionsdatametica.com

Rajiv GuptaCEO

DataMetica Solutions Private Limited, offersBig Data design, application development,

24/7 operations, Business Intelligenceand Analytics services.

Chetu Inc.chetu.com

Chatsworth Products (CPI) is a globalmanufacturer providing voice, data and security

products and service solutions that optimize, store and secure technology equipment.

Chetu is a global provider of high-qualitysoftware development services, delivering

world-class technology solutions toentrepreneurs, SMBs, and Fortune 500 clients.

Computacenter is Europe's leading independentprovider of IT infrastructure services.

DIVERSANT is the largest AfricanAmerican-owned IT staffing

solutions firm in the United Sates.

Eliassen Group is a technology Staffing andConsulting Services.

Atal BansalCEO

Artemis is a multifaceted, end-to-end ITsolutions and managed services provider.

eLynx provides a suite of on-demand Web-basedservices that simplify paperless business processes

between enterprises and their customers and partners.

Erplyerply.com

Kris HiiemaaCEO

Geometricgeometricglobal.com

Jamshyd N. GodrejChairman

Matlen Silvermatlensilver.com

SmartPlay Technologiessmartplayin.com

Pradeep VajramPresident & CEO

VeriStorveristor.com

Ashby lincolnPresident & CEO

Zensar Technologieszensar.com

Ganesh NatarajanVice Chairman & CEO

Zyckozycko.com

David Galton-FenziCEO

Tach Techtachtech.net

Kyle RosenthalFounder & CEO

TachTech delivers a broad range of products andexpertise spanning network, storage,compute, virtualization, and security.

NexWavenexwave.in

AparnaFounder & MD

A truly composite HR Solutions companyproviding single window services to corporate

clients for all their HR requirements:Managed Services, Permanent Recruitment,

Temporary Staffing, HTD & Payroll Processing.

ErgodE IT ergodeinc.com

Rupesh SanghaviFounder & CEO

ErgodE IT is a leading Online Store,trading across the globe and distributing

the best services in eCommerce, outsource.

Erply LTD, is a provider of cloud-based,iPad-oriented Point of Sale and

Inventory Management software for retailers,with a focus on multi-store operations.

Geometric is a specialist in the domain ofengineering solutions, services

and technologies.

Matlen Silver, designs and implementworking solutions in a broad range of IT

disciplines and fields.

SmartPlay Technologies is an established designservices company with expertise in providing

Digital, Analog, Embedded Software,System Design and Geo-Modeling Solutions.

VeriStor provides customized,performance-enhancing virtual infrastructure

and enterprise storage solutions and services toenterprise and mid-market companies.

Zensar Technologies, a leading softwareservices and infrastructure provider.

Zycko is an international specialist ITdistributor of innovative IT solutions, coveringtechnology areas for every part of the business

IT infrastructure.

Jim SilverCEO

Company Name Management Brief

Artemis: Simplifying your technology so you can focus on

your business.

Nowadays, enterprises expect to get a real return on their technology investments.

Artemis is a regional IT and Managed Services Provider, serving as one source for all the technology needs for small to medium sized business. This covers everything from workstations and networks to cloud services and business continuity, business telephone systems to structured cabling, and security solutions to internet development and ecommerce.

In short, they help their clients manage their technology infrastructure with an approach that both controls costs and maximizes efficiency and productivity.

Travis Proctor, Community Supporter, Innovative Business Owner & EntrepreneurTravis Proctor, CEO of Artemis, has a computer science degree from Florida Institute of Technology. In his sophomore year, Travis founded Artemis and has grown it into the leading IT provider in Florida's Central

East Coast with over 50 full time staff.

They emphasize their core values: a great place to work, creating raving fans, technical excellence, innovative growth all to become a trusted business partner.

Artemis offers everything from computer sales and support to network design and installation, hosting, co-location, internet and software development. They are specialized in virtualization and high-availability solutions, 24/7 network monitoring and support, business continuity solutions, remote access and cloud solutions.

The company provides distinct offerings to diverse industries, including

Healthcare, Accounting, Construction, Legal, Manufacturing, Municipalities and Retail.

Vision and MissionTheir vision is to become the leading IT and Cloud services partner for Central Florida with revenues of $75 million within the next ten years. Their mission is to drive client success, productivity, and profitability. They do this by solving business-critical challenges through their proven processes, innovative uses of technology and comprehensive support.

Future AdvancementsArtemis has found increasing interest providing virtual CIO services to help their clients identify strategies and best practices that leverage technology to drive their business goals. Advancements in technology and cloud computing allow businesses of all sizes to access what was only available to enterprise level organizations. Their team works with their clients to implement and maintain the right balance of on-site and remote support by tapping into these advances.

The path to success for new startupsTo new startups, Travis suggests, “Make sure you are doing something you love, and then be willing to put in the time to make it a success. Identify the core functions that need to be completed within your business and then hire the right people to excel at delivering those services. Finally, pay attention to your cash flow. Orders in the pipeline and accounts receivable cannot pay bills, payroll, or fund growth. When it comes time to expand, you have more options if you can demonstrate that your business is a positive cash flow operation that can scale with investment.”

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Travis ProctorCEO

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Avekshaa Technologies : A Next-Generation Specialized

IT Solutions & Products Company

vekshaa offers products and Asolutions to proactively manage and continuously

improve the Performance, Availability, Scalability and Security (P-A-S-S™) of complex, business-critical applications and IT systems for leading enterprise clients across the globe. Avekshaa's P-A-S-S™ Assurance Platform based performance engineering and assurance solutions enables early detection and prevention of technology failures, and helps extract the maximum value from the cleint's hardware and software investments.

Aims to be Global Market Leader in P-A-S-S™ Assurance space

Rajinder Gandotra, founder and CEO of Avekshaa Technologies, with his team of partners is building a world class technology firm. Avekshaa is the pioneer in introducing a paradigm shift in the way the P-A-S-S™ requirements are delivered to busines critical applications and IT systems. By using a proactive, holistic and integrated approach to solving P-A-S-S™ issues, Avekshaa has wow-ed CIOs across i ts ET500 clientele.

The company has successfully delivered significant efficiency improvements in some of the most transacted, highly complex and real time systems across the globe. Given the adoption of the latest technology trends, these situations of increased complexity and customer expectations are becoming a norm and hence need to be solved compre- hensively. Avekshaa & Rajinder has been widely covered in print and online media - 60+ press mentions. Under Rajinder's leadership, the company has been consistently

recognized for its excellence, innovation and value delivered. He has also been awarded recently by the “The Smart CEO-Startup50”.

Proven Track Record

Avekshaa's P-A-S-S™ Assurance Platform - led solution prevents and rapidly resolves P-A-S-S™ related issues across all layers of technology stack. It enables in-depth evaluation of

P-A-S-S™ from an architectural perspective and identifies practical solutions for transforming IT system efficiency. It unlocks complexities of integrated applications that use heterogeneous technologies in multi-vendor scenarios, thereby making it easy to isolate and resolve complex

issues. The P-A-S-S platform is capable of identifying issues in impacted technology layer and supporting it with sufficient empirical analysis where source code is not applicable. This data driven approach helps engage with relevant vendors in deploying timely fixes and to provide faster resolution for complex technology issues.

Vision and Mission

Avekshaa's mission is to help their clients focus and grow their business efficiently and profitably by making their IT systems secure, faster and predictable, with a vision to be, “The leading global niche provider of P-A-S-S™ assurance products and solutions that will transform their customers' IT delivery, paving the way for better business results.”

Future Agenda

The company has achieved the trust of their global clients by advising them by a vendor-neutral and technology-agnostic approach and has delivered improved profitability, customer service, and operational efficiency.

The company plans to aggressively pursue the new solution approach it has so far adopted along with the many products that it is developing to continuousaly differentiate and deliver significant value to its customers worldwide.

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With the advancement of personal technology, the personalization of the experience of technology is advancing too. Additionally, how users will

interact with their personal technology depends on the particular context of their use.

This trend of context-rich systems, is a direct response to this growing need for more reactive and adaptive technology and the personalization of the experience. We are at the threshold of a very exciting time in adaptive technology, and the use of these complex systems and applications that draw information about the situation and the environment surrounding people, places, and things, really has the ability to revolutionize the entire world.

Personalized Context-Rich Systems

Context-rich systems work deeper in personalization by pulling in a number of diverse signals about the user and their context — from their location and the device they are on, to the weather and speed they are traveling. Additionally, it can use these signals to adjust content, display and input methods, according to the user's current situation. It gives better feedback to the user and allows the user to seamlessly link together various services to engage more fully with the website.

Ecosystems getting created by Context-rich Systems

With the increase of bringing more and more internet-connected devices into homes and businesses, the existence of personal ecosystems has started to form, and the subsequent usefulness of context-rich systems are becoming more

evident. Just a while ago, companies that had attempted to use Context-Rich Systems made the mistake of applying outdated technology principles to their new technology. Biggest example of its failure is, the Internet-connected refrigerators, which soon became a center of a joke. But in reality, the true advantage of context-rich systems is when the technology is used in a way that doesn't disrupt the user's life, but instead bridges various services to work together seamlessly.

Integration Of Context-Rich System

The core of context-rich system is to collaborate the raw data with deep analytics, an integration that both reflect awareness of the surrounding environment and responds to the user

actions. Now, the big technology problem is how to deal with this raw data. These types of systems rely on users connecting and computing from anywhere in order to gather the constant data required to build its context. Now, the difficulty with this data is that these large quantities of crude data have a number of random variables such as diversity, speed, and quantity. 'Intelligent inferencing', is the solution over it. In it system must make educated guesses, bridging factors between raw data collection and intelligent, contextually aware computing systems.

Future Perspective

Looking at the future, it is clear that context-rich systems will lead the upcoming strategic technology trends, because contextually relevant data sharing is the ultimate goal of modern technology, with user convenience being the

ultimate outcome.

In the meantime, beyond user experience, businesses stand to see overall improvement with almost real-time, context-rich results becoming of extreme importance when it comes to ensuring swift decision making and better operations control. Just imagine about a system that can track foot traffic in and out of a store and then automatically recruit more floor workers to open up registers at a major retailer, freeing up lines and moving people through the store more quickly.

This rapid movement towards the context-rich systems means advancing from the point where all people and their data are expected to be connected and available all the time, to a place where we are not only constantly interconnected, but we expect that every object, place, and environment, will gain awareness of who is there, what is happening in the context,

Context-Rich Systems - Future Of Technology

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and how to interact with its surroundings.

But before we can fully embrace this future, we need to accomplish a couple of things.

Need to search a way to maximize network intelligence. Well, finding the right data is just the beginning. We will need to bridge the gaps and boost our network intelligence. Data by its own is totally worthless. The true value of data is in the insights we extract from it. But the currently available platforms are not that much of use.

In the future world, networks will have the ability to react to data's context, not just the data itself. And then the context will be determined by a combination of four data layers.

First- Device layer: where devices communicate with each other

Second- An individual layer: where information about browsing history, location history and online records will be there

Third- A social layer: which links people across social platforms

Forth- An environmental layer : information about current conditions, such as nearby businesses, streets and the weather

Need to Develop cross-platform, universal personal profiles

There will be a need to aggregate every piece of information about individual users into one place. This can be the only way to fully understand the context of each user and gain a dynamic understanding of his characteristics and needs.

For an instance, if you search for a project manager, you won't see the same project managers that business leaders in other industries are seeing. Contrary, your results will be personalized with the information the platform has about you, such as your geographic location, your job experience, your likes and dislikes and the brands you follow.

We need to gain a semantic understanding of user data. Now this is a time to take the next step in proactively developing insights on users based on the context of who they are and what they're likely seeking.

What we need is, to head towards context-rich systems and personalize it within the context of what's relevant to each person.

CBIG Consulting : Aligning Innovative Analytics Solutions

ince its founding in 2002, CBIG

SConsulting's services have evolved and become more strat-

egic in nature, culminating in advanced analytics that help organizations grow their market share, speed products and services to market, increase profit margins, decrease costs, and expand products and services.

CBIG Consulting is a global Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics consulting practice with a singular goal,“We help leading enterprises leverage their data assets so they may better understand – and make intelligent decisions about– their customers, brand, competitors, operations and market opportunities.” From strategy and planning, to analytics and reporting, to data management and staffing solutions, CBIG offers a full array of data analytics solutions from their network of international offices.

John Onder: A Connoisseur Of Business IntelligenceJohn Onder, Co-founder and Principal, Strategic Consulting, is a pioneer in the rapidly evolving field of Big Data and Business Intelligence. Mr. Onder is recognized as a leading expert in the strategy, planning and implementation of business intelligence, data warehouse and big data analytics solutions. With over 25 years of experience, he has led successful engagements for Fortune 1000 organizations, federal government departments, multiple State govern-ments, higher education institutions and non-profit organizations. Mr. Onder has written extensively on the subject of business intelligence, authored metho-dologies in use today, and regularly speaks at industry conferences. Mr. Onder obtained his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Maryland.

Expert Services CBIG offers unmatched subject matter expertise, a structured, collaborative approach, and a commitment to emerging technologies. Their BI and Big Data consultants are experts in the field and leverage their collective knowledge gained in over 500 projects that have helped enterprises increase their value and competitive edge.

CBIG's project teams are comprised of strategic business consultants, data scientists and analysts, and data engineers and architects. Together, they work on behalf of their client

organizations to develop and deploy game-changing analytics solutions that address critical business functions to positively impact profitability and business growth.

Envisioning VisionCBIG's first and foremost goal is to help their clients be successful by taking the vast amounts of data they collect and transform that data into information and

insight. CBIG Principals make it a priority to share their BI expertise. The scope of untapped potential regarding Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics is huge, and CBIG recognizes that its contributions in the field combined with important lessons learned along the way offer tremendous value as an educational tool for other enterprises.

CBIG's thought leadership and creative vision builds mutual understanding and last ing trust among their cl ient enterprises, helping their clients achieve superior strategies for continued growth and success.

Future plansCBIG continues to concentrate on developing industry-specific solutions, focusing on creating easy-to-deploy products and services that solve challenges within business units for the industries they serve. These solutions don't require massive system or process overhauls and can jumpstart improvements and automation in business units such as marketing, sales, operations, and IT, etc. And in the near future CBIG plans to add more offices. Presently, CBIG has thirteen offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

“Startups should stay

focused, listen to your

clients, invest in your

people and create an

environment that

encourages continuous

innovation.”

- John Onder

John Onder

Co-founder & Principal, Strategic Consulting

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nterprises are more than ever seeking to derive value from their data, to Edrive business results and customer engagement. As data grows, analytics progressively moves to real-time and becomes more

complex, the role of Big Data is in focus. There are forces at play that enterprises must embrace driving profound changes in data management, such as: The penetration of mobile devices, personalization of services, internet of things, online commerce and the expectation of customers and consumers for instant response. DataMetica is world-leading in Big Data analytics, helping organizations gain competitive edge and drive success from their data, to save cost, to become a real-time enterprise, to modernize their information management strategy, tools and processes.

DataMetica : See the invisible

“ I think the key is to have products, services andan approach to customers that delivers value,in a way that is quickly apparent to clients.”

Rajiv Gupta

CEO

attract clients even before they founded the company. DataMetica leads the Big Data industry with extensive use-cases, governance, data modeling, techniques and methods to migrate workload and run operations in large enterprises. Initiatives are focused on driving value f rom da ta in ways p rev ious ly impossible.

DataMetica offers a blend of Big Data and Analytics best practices, method ologies, standards, templates, auto-mation and process orchestration. The firm incorporates standardized and “ready to deploy” models, frameworks for rapid delivery of high quality application services. They offer proof-of-concept leading to production, with application accelerators, tools to handle m e t a d a t a a n d d a t a m o v e m e n t accelerators, all to minimize the total amount of effort & cost spent by an organization when implementing Big Data solutions.

DataMetica's foundation is a pool of skilled Big Data resources, staffing clients needs for projects and operational support. A robust project governance model with a dedicated account team is put in-place for reliable communication and alignment. Highest

Experienced and Skilled Team Behind DataMetica

DataMetica founders, Rajiv Gupta, CEO and Dr. Phil Shelley, President, bring extensive business leadership skills with IT and analytics backgrounds . Wi th decades of collective experience, they gained skills in Big Data and Advanced Analytics while working together at Sears. As early adopters of Hadoop, building and running large-scale production Big Data environments taught them the importance of a rel iable, well-governed and an integrated approach to new data platforms and advanced analytics. The e x t e n d e d l e a d e r s h i p t e a m a t DataMetica bring deep operational knowledge, patterns, tools and services, with many years of hands-on large-company knowledge, showing clients how to integrate Big Data solutions into an established data management landscape.

DataMetica was fortunate to start with customers from day one. Their track-record was well known and their expertise and operational experience were recognized by peers in other companies; these factors helped to

visibility and oversight from DataMetica Executives, along with a strong core multi-functional team, delivers results, reliably and fast.

Mission of DataMetica

DataMetica has the single-minded mission, to design and del iver enterprise-class Big Data solutions, with agility and reliability. They dedicate their business process and innovation know-how, their deep industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients. Particular areas of strength include all aspects of Big Data, Data Governance, NoSQL, Cloud, both structured and unstructured Data Processing, Web Analytics, In-memory processing, Real Time Analytics and Data Science.

Future Plans

Being recognized as delivering results, reliably and quickly at a cost that is affordable: This model is creating waves in the IT industry.

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ritical infrastructure such as electric, gas and water

Cutilities rely on Information and Communications

Technology (ICT) solutions to deliver reliable,

efficient and affordable services throughout the world. UTC

is the trusted resource for ICT solutions, collaboration and

advocacy for utilities and other critical infrastructure

industries. The growing convergence of IT and OT within

utilities is quickly becoming a catalyst for greater

interoperability and real-time communications.

New discussions involving “smart city” technologies are

starting with the electric utility infrastructure. The new

Envision America initiative announced by the White House is

issuing a challenge to America's cities to become smarter by

accelerating deployment of innovative technologies that

tackle energy, water, waste, and air challenges. UTC brings

together government, the research community, utilities and

cities to discuss innovative solutions to problems citizens care

about – like reducing traffic congestion, fostering economic

growth, improving sustainability, fighting crime and

IT and

Communication

Trends for

Critical

Infrastructure

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improving the delivery of

important critical infra-

structure services.

Quickly emerging issues

around cyber and physical

security are bringing a new

challenge to cities and utilities

large and small. Not a single

week goes by without a news

story about a company or

government agency being

hacked and millions of

personal, customer or

otherwise sensitive

information exposed. Disruption of critical infrastructure by a

cyber-incident is a serious concern for utility executives and

technical practitioners. UTC believes that cyber security is the

21st century reliability challenge. To help our members

address this challenge, UTC is implementing a

comprehensive, holistic strategy that provides practical tools

and information about handling cyber security challenges in a

utilities environment.

With billions of data packets

and millions of endpoint

connections, utilities are

exploring optimization and

efficiency solutions from a

multitude of vendors,

including large established

companies as well as

entrepreneurial solutions built

on the latest protocols. The

key decision point for packet-

based communicat ions

networks is not only cyber

security, but also latency with

the communications network.

Machine-to-machine and grid edge computing interacting

with central computing and data analytics demands real-time

communications over secure networks.

How will telecom providers address the massive growing list

of smart devices, which gather terabytes of data for critical

infrastructure processes? Join the conversation at UTC

Telecom & Technology 2016, which will take place in Denver

at the Colorado Convention Center May 3-6, 2016.

About Bobbi Harris

Bobbi Harris is the VP of Market Strategy and Development at UTC.

She is a smart city industry expert with more than 15 years of

experience focusing on environmental issues and sustainability

technologies to address water and energy challenges, including smart

water infrastructure, smart grid, cleantech and green building

initiatives. UTC is a global trade association dedicated to creating a

favorable business, regulatory and technological environment for

companies that own, manage or provide critical telecommunications

systems in support of their core business. Founded in 1948, UTC has

evolved into a dynamic organization that represents electric, gas and

water utilities, natural gas pipelines, critical infrastructure companies,

and other industry stakeholders. Bobbi HarrisVP of Market Strategy and Development

Utilities Telecom Council

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Since 1994, eLynx has been helping customers in the financial services and real estate industries capture and manage documents and associated data electronically

throughout the document life cycle, ensuring compliance with industry regulations, reducing costs, improving workflow efficiency, and automating paper-intensive processes.

Sharon Matthews, guiding hand behind eLynx

Australian born but now a long-time resident of Northern California, Sharon Matthews, President and CEO, joined eLynx in 2007 just as economic markets were heading into the worst turmoil of this generation. Being a seasoned executive with experience in software development, sales and the service industry, Sharon artfully steered eLynx to success, emerging stronger and more stable. Sharon also serves as the Chair of City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley, a non-profit dedicated to the increasing graduation rates for at-risk youth in the community.

The executive team of eLynx provides senior leadership and management across all the key functional areas and disciplines within the company. Sharon trusts her team to help her run and manage the company.

Services Offered

eLynx provides on-demand Web-based services that simplify paperless business processes between enterprises and their customers and partners. eLynx helps lenders convert paper-based lending processes to more efficient and less costly data-driven paperless workflows. Their products and services ensure that their customers remain compliant with complex lending regulations, while making the loan process easier for consumers to transact and more transparent for secondary market investors.

eLynx has recently launched its most comprehensive set of enhancements and new features to its Expedite® platform. These new capabilities help mortgage lenders comply with entirely redesigned regulatory rules and forms that recently

went into effect. These new regulations are the most significant the mortgage industry has seen in nearly 50 years.

Future Panorama

On the basis of two key values eLynx has consistently overcome roadblocks year in and year out. The first is an unrelenting focus on their customers and the second is reliability. If they make a customer commitment, they rally as an organization to get it done.

eLynx's mission is to automate and unify the processes, documents and data essential to the highly regulated, security

sensitive workflows in the financial services industry.

It's broad vision is to become the most trusted and valued provider of essential document delivery and collaborative data technology, value-added services and innovative ideas in the eyes of their customers, partners, competitors, team members and shareholders.

eLynx is excited to be so well-positioned to be a part of the new changes and to play their part in moving the industry forward.

Client Relationship basics

eLynx believes that the "perfect" client relationship would be one in which there is an equal and fair recognition of value given and received on both sides, a collaborative rapport whereby their client understands that their contri-butions play an important role in determining success, continual and

organic account growth over time through value-added services, and open communication at all times that leads to constant learning, strong dialogue and opportunities for innovation.

Suggestions for the new startups

Find good, loyal people and invest in them heavily. A good team can make a bad strategy work well enough to refine or evolve it into a good one. The other piece of advice Sharon gives is, 'to really understand what you're good at and then focus on making that your differentiation.'

eLynx : An Absolute On-demand Web-based Services

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eLynx can help.”

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reen Computing drives energy-saving techniques for

Genterprise systems, from network proxies and virtual machine migration to the return of thin clients.

Implementing sustainable equipment is actually Green Computing or Sustainable Computing. It turns around creating environmentally sound Information Communication Technology (ICT). But Green technology is only profitable to us when it will work efficiently and effectively, with minimal or no impact on the environment.

Apparently, everybody is willing to go for green computing. As San Murugesan was already pointing out his opinion in 'Harnessing GreenIT' -“We are legally, ethically, and socially required to green our IT products, applications, services, and practices”.

Equally, Tariq Soomro and Muhammad Sarwar observe in their paper “Green Computing: From Current to Future Trends- “Organizations are realizing that the source and amount of their energy consumption significantly contributes to Greenhouse Gas emissions.”

According to Soomro and Sarwar,“In the past, the focus was on computing efficiency and cost associated to IT equipment and infrastructure services were considered low cost and available. Now the infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck in IT environments, and the reason for this shift is due to growing computing needs, energy cost and global warming. This shift is a great challenge for IT industry”.

Green Technology: Fast And Futuristic Change In Europe

IT departments of European countries and ICT professionals are consistently facing the challenge of providing a green IT environment for upcoming years.

May be, it is possible that organizations are in growing demand for the global energy. According to the ‘European Commissions Energy Road Map 2050, European companies face rising energy costs for at least another 15 years.

Additionally, European organizations may suffer with more government taxes if they do not address the environmental implications of their infrastructure. Public expectation of governmental action is high in Europe. As per EC Climate Change report from 2011, it was found that most of the Europeans suffer from climate change, which is a more serious problem than the economic situation. Indeed, 20 per cent of Europeans feel climate change is the single most serious problem.

Green Technology: Reasons To Invest In Sustainable Technology

While investing in green technology, one factor is most important to consider, that is “how to identify sustainable ICT products at the first instance”.

ENERGY STAR is known for an international standard for energy efficient consumer products, introduced in the United States in 1992 by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, then in Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the European Union implemented the program. Devices having an ENERGY STAR label like computer products and peripherals, kitchen appliances, buildings and other products, generally use 20 to 30 percent less energy than required by federal standards. Alternatively, for a company to join the ENERGY STAR program, an organization's top-ranking official must make a public commitment to improve energy efficiency.

According to the EPA, this award is “a new distinction that recognizes products that deliver cutting edge energy efficiency along with the latest in technological innovation”. There is a race within enterprises developing ever larger, more powerful and more efficient equipment. So, if green purchasing is a factor, it's useful considering the ENERGY STAR Most Efficient awards.

For example, EPA awarded two Lenovo monitors in 2014, the

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ThinkVisionLT2223d Wide, and ThinkVisionLT2452p Wide, its 'ENERGY STAR Most Efficient' products designation. Both monitors exceed ENERGY STAR 6.0 power consumption requirements and can deliver long-term savings.

Green IT: Estimating the cost and ROI of sustainable computing

Investing in green technology is effective, only if organizations can calculate their Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), but it is again difficult. According to this Product Carbon Footprint Strategy, published by Lenovo, “There are numerous and, in some cases, nearly insurmountable challenges to calculating an accurate carbon footprint for ICT products, especially if the intent is to use the data for product to product comparison.” Collecting and compiling dependable data from multiple geographies with a continuously evolving ICT product portfolio represents a beneficial challenge.

Even when an organization has data on its carbon footprint, it's hard for ICT managers to use it effectively. The range of different standards and measurements can make comparison between competing products difficult. Presently, the ICT industry is working towards a common carbon footprint framework that will simplify PCF measurement.

In case of MIT's ‘Product Attribute to Impact Algoritham’ (PAIA) is supported by major ICT providers. It is expected that PAIA will empower the industry as a whole to surround a standard method for evaluating the carbon footprint of products. In the near term, PAIA is enabling participating companies to build tools like the Lenovo Energy Calculator, which provides annual energy cost estimates for several IT configurations. It is expected that this sort of tool will increasingly become part of the ICT decision-making process.

According to a report from the United Nations University, it takes about 1.8 tons of chemicals, fossil fuels and water to produce a typical desktop computer - and worldwide over one billion computers have been sold. According to the sources, Carbon Trust evaluated that official devices currently accounts for about 15 percent of total UK energy use. This figure is expected to increase about 30 percent by 2020, with computer equipment to account for about two-thirds of this energy consumption. In April 2007, a Gartner Press Release also explained that the global ICT industry accounts for about 2 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions, or roughly the same as aviation.

With energy costs rising, and European governments legislating more and more about carbon footprint management, it is always a good practice to analyze the energy usage of ICT purchases.

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CXO Standpoint

Can Analytics Change the Way Companies Collaborate

and Consume Technology?

Can we honestly say that our professional day starts with a morning clearly with intentions as to what we should be doing, how we should be working, whom

we should be working with and when should we get things done by? There is an option for all of us that is Analytics. Now, can Analytics combined with smartly-enabled collaboration tools make a difference in how we choose to spend our time?

Top teams and organizations make decisions every day on how best to achieve their goals, but do we have all of the information required to make the right decisions at the right moment? Will Big data, predictive modeling with connected devices that provide real-time insight be the next new trend to change the way we work?

But to while it comes to save time, I honestly do not think we have mastered the art of collaboration because we still seem to be working harder and not smarter. It seems as though the technology we use works us, more than we work the technology. Why is it that we still find ourselves completing work task the same way we did back in history? In our personal lives, we definitely have new levels of multitasking and time runs by, but in business have we really gained the most with our utmost precious valued commodity called time?

We exist in a time where information is accessible at the tap of a button. With the rise of new gadgets, apps on our iPhone

and portable devices comes the influx of new “techies.” But, why then we are still stuck with unproductive tasks which no more than a w a s t e o f t i m e ? I n today's world, we have Instant Messaging at our workstations and even video endpoints to connec t us wi th anyone in the world. Still, we find people spend 50% of their time in the wasteful, ineffec-

tual and uninspiring meetings, ruining their fifteen to twenty hours a week. With all the advancements in technology, can't this ill-favored corporate pastime be executed better?

Technology Collaboration and Consumption The goal has always been to collaborate better. Access to basic information across multiple data sources coupled just in time could enable us to have insights on who we should invite to the meeting, selection of collaboration tools that yield the fastest results and meeting spaces that will generate the best outcome and highest output of participation from key team members during collaboration. For this new level of collaboration to be the most effective should the information come before you book the meeting or afterwards. At UC Interlink, we think about everyday how to enable IT services engine to yield recommendations with the right outcome, when you're ready to consume it and way before it turns into another wasteful meeting.

With the right data sources and business intelligence, the options are prescriptive and predictive, and limitless. Imagine improving your time to market for a new product launch, having absolute focus and team alignment, via tracking behaviors of the team, while getting recommended efficiencies to keep the team working at its best.

With this platform of intelligence, the Business Leaders can target key performance metrics that enable them to devise strategies, because if you are in such a place, then results matter, gaining time matters and the behaviors of the workforce matter. Regardless of the industry or application, incorporating the use of data and analytics provides the organization the ability to move from a defensive to an offensive posture. Currently, we are working on algorithms that can think and recognize patterns, predictions and choices based on the collective knowledge.

Amazon's ModelThe list of technology giants that have figured out how to solve the problem of what is best to consume when you need it is a short list with one name at the top of it; Amazon.

Amazon, attributes 40% of its revenue to recommendations the e-commerce giant makes to its customers, based on their

Stephanie CarheePresident

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search histories and previous purchases. For example, last week when I wanted to add lighting to my walk-in closet, I searched Amazon, not only did my Amazon search, locate the best reviewed product, it also recommended the right size Amazon batteries. This is a simple idea, but has limitless potential that can be applied to how users can consume valued IT resources within the enterprise.

Let's examine how this concept can be used to optimize IT service delivery. By tracking and mapping work patterns, preferences, daily activities, past beha-viors, technology usages, connected devices and networked systems; we can recommend the right tool based on the role of the worker, key performance goals, and business outcomes or even based on defined user experience strategy. This is what I call the Internet of Things (IoT) personified.

Companies have to think about how they want to spend their time and investments in software applications. Purchasing collaboration software tools in isolation is not a silver bullet, but when combined with technology adoption expertise, user analytics and smartly-enabled devices and software, the possibilities are endless. At their core, big data solutions are designed to provide the right information, to the right person, at the right time.

The Road to Business Analytic Adoption ServicesMy personal advice to companies is to stop wasting time and resources, stop making the same mistakes and actually challenge your technology partners to think differently about the outcomes you want. This can be achieved by creating and defining a Collaboration Strategy that will optimize how you do things and empower the best people to deliver their best work.

Here are some Collaboration Strategy best practices• Have intention behind every software tool, work station and conference room than can be enabled by your cloud and network capabilities. • Understand how all of your dipartite software collaboration tools and devices can be seamlessly connected to each other.

• Let the user experience drive your technology decisions and not the other way around.

• Understand the behaviors of every user within your workforce to identify what is working well and what can be improved to obtain a workforce trans-formation.

• Don't set out on this journey using only instinct to answer tough questions;

rather let the data drive your decisions coupled with experts that know your environment and how to interpret the data to achieve your key goals.

• Use the Internet of Things (IoT) as a strategy to tie unlikely data sources together to make better decision and improvements in the way you work. • Devise a game plan based on your company's trends, and vulnerabilities (not obvious by the naked eye) to enable your teams to work smarter and be better prepared than the competition.

• Hold your technology partners accountable to not selling you another technology service or product, rather “incentify” them to deliver an outcome that you can track and measure.

Collaboration at Its BestThis kind of business insight will change the game, reduce loss of revenue and take technology investments in collaboration software tools to new levels of value. Let's face it, our top assets are the people with whom we work.

In the end, technologies are designed to help you work better and get things done in time or we should say save your time and compete to win!

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ErgodE IT : Nucleus of Distinct IT Services

Rupesh Sanghavi

Founder & CEO

hroughout history, technological innovations have often led to greater Tefficiency in our lives. Let those advances occurred during the industrial revolution or in this time period, the world is constantly changing as a result

of these advances. Modern technology enables us to be connected to the world through social media and video technology. And today, we have Industries running on the premises of these interconnecting Technology.

There is one such company, who on the basis of these communication technologies, working all over the world as a part of IT industry. Based in Richmond, TX, ErgodE IT has an ocean of e-commerce services to offer. Here at ErgodE IT, you will get a complete set of skills from software development to marketing in house for efficient solutions.

Rupesh Sanghavi - Adept Personality behind ErgodE IT

Founder and CEO of ErgodE IT, Rupesh Sanghavi has Bachelors in Engineering from University of Mumbai, Masters in Chemical Engineering from A&M University Kingsville, Texas. Started working as Application Engineer in Invensys, later founded the company in 2005 and did moonlighting for business for almost 4 years before leaving the job. It proved to be his biggest achievement, now that he expanded company, multi-fold since then and heads team of 250 people across 5 vertical lines of business.

Portfolio of Services Offered

Specialized in to eCommerce, ErgodE IT offers a variety of services, from IT, eCommerce to Outsourcing services. They have created 12 websites through which they sale. Additionally, ErgodE IT is a seller on Marketplaces across the world - serving customers in 174 countries, large parts of ErgodE IT's business come from U.S.A.

ErgodE IT offers quality products at most competitive prices with the best possible service. Having 24x7 customer support center and lenient return policy and they do their best to be price competitive.

Key Values Of The Company

Firm believer of customer is a king, ErgodE IT follows this adage to the core and keep the customer at the center of every decision they make or offer they do. Considering the supplier as a partner ErgodE IT creates a win-win environment for them. They have focused on creating order through their website than through any marketplace. Many suppliers give ErgodE IT exclusive access to their inventory through drop-ship means because customers feel that they br ing additional buyers to their products. ErgodE IT increase brand value of the product and show products to buyers

who do not always follow conventional traffic patterns.

In today's tough competitive world, ErgonE IT believes that vertical

integration with category focus website would help their business.

Vision and Mission

ErgodE IT's vision is to be trusted seller of items that consumer needs around the world. It follows the mission of making every item available around the world to every consumer around the world.

Future Aspect

ErgodE IT has grown multi-folded till this time. It's team size is an indication of that where they have more than doubled to 250 in last one year alone and on to actively hiring the best talent. ErgodE IT gives those tools and platform to express their creativity. Most exciting part of their future is its eCommerce executed on a Global scale.

Valuable Guidelines for Startups by ErgodE IT

Be persistent. Be Willing to go the extra mile. Brainstorm solution and you will find one. Believe in Multiple Truth. Keep it simple. Take risk and you would be rewarded.

“ErgodE IT:

One stage,

Numerous

advantages”

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ew technologies hitting the market with smart Ngadgets, cars, watches and virtual reality, for which you pay with just a touch on your smartphone? 2015

may make it a reality.

The Smart-Home

AS we are getting smarter with smart gadgets, your home could be smarter too. Whether you call it the internet of things or a smart tech home for interconnectivity of separate devices and ecosystems, where connected devices are added importance in our day to day life. Today IoT is a future of domestic settings. Companies are pulling the ideas of the smart home primarily into focus. Ultimately, it means more smart devices aimed at monitoring utilities and home systems, supporting productivity and delivering entertainment.

Smart Appliances

The Home cannot be a smart home without smart gadgets and appliances. Now home appliances and home gadgets will also pop up in the development area alongwith security, entertainment and utility. For example, if you wear a UP24 - the activity tracker on your wrist by Jawbone, it will alert your thermostat when it notices you have woken up and increase the temperature to something more comfortable. Again a Smart Lock helps you every time when you leave the house. The lock will alert the Nest Thermostat and it will switch to Away mode automatically.

The Vessyl smart cup can accurately identify your drink, tell you how many calories you are consuming, let you know how hydrated you are, and alert you when it's time to drink again. You can have your refrigerator tell you what is in it or your kitchen range text you when a roast is almost done With LG and Samsung technologies.

Mobile Payments

Mobile payment services are becoming widespread and more usual in 2015. People prefer these services to save time and for their convenience. Now no need to carry cash, cheque, or credit card, a person can use a mobile phone to pay for a wide

range of services. Android's app Zapp launched in 2015, and EE's Cash on Tap service is laying the foundations for a year where every transaction could get the mobile treatment. Apple and Samsung introduced Pay services like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay respectively. Even Wallet by google has been launched this year.

Drones

Drones are used in cases, where manned flight is difficult. The coming months will continue to place unmanned aerial vehicles as a fixture in our collective day-to-day consciou- sness. Drones can carry lightweight parcels quickly and easily within a small distance. Cities like New York find drones more easier and cheaper than a two wheeler. While it's the most obvious and immediate application, drones will completely go beyond deliveries. They have been already proven invaluable for cinematographers seeking impressive camera shots, real estate agents filming sweeping tour videos of homes, and farmers analyzing their crops and dusting them with pesticides. It may act as a common device to supervise. Companies like Amazon are very much interested in utilizing them to use for delivery and may be more in coming days. As drones find more utility amongst us, they will become an essential part of our lives.

3D Printing

Recently, NASA made it possible for a 3D printed spanner to be created aboard the International Space Station. Serving to highlight how far the technology has come, this will help 3D printing into an amazing development. Hardware and equipment costs will lessen, leading to increased access to them and can be applied in industrial, health and commercial areas. A 3D printer won't become a reasonable buy for the home any soon, but yes, 3D printing services will become more popular across the world and more accessible as regulations are cleared up.

Virtual Reality At Home

The Oculus Rift, Sony's Morpheus VR, and upcoming device by Microsoft are all being passionately developed and tuned

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up. However, with a bluster solid software support the Microsoft's device appears to become available at the end of 2015. The Rift and Morpheus VR should follow with consumer launches of their own, and advocates will ensure at least one is accepted. It's still too early to know whether virtual reality devices have a longer-term appeal or not. The coming year should help to answer the question. When one of the three aforementioned products comes to market, we can be sure the others won't be far behind.

Connected Cars

Connected cars are already being explored by Apple's Carplay system. Android's forthcoming Android Auto will develop the market further, transferring apps and services from our smartphones to the dashboards. But these are just initials. At the same time Android and Apple will be a key in generating thoughts about what drivers need and can gain, cars will become smarter with advance apps. We can take benefit of built in mobile hotspots, smartphone connected security systems and manufacturers' own integrated systems.

4K

The replacement for HD, 4K as the Ultra HD resolution will only become popular across the world with a fall in price, sensible business models and the expansion of 4K content and services. 2014 was considered to be the year for 4K, but without a convincing argument for the standard and the means that people can access it easily, it did not make a good mark. 4K is now 2015's to champion and the choices are it either falling away or being moved into an attractive proposition. The latter is far more likely.

Smartwatches

Tying your Phone to the hand rather than holding is more convenient now a days, as smartwatches are available with functionality alongwith sporty and stylish looks. If you are yet to succumb to pairing your mobile life with a smartwatch, you may be tempted next year. 2014 saw companies growing in the market and struggle for position, and we can expect to see more. The Apple Watch will solve the problem with hard touch screen by iPhone and iPad users, while Android's strong end to the year will lead to even more innovation. Some good performing smartwatch offerings will come together with the ongoing development of the Android Wear ecosystem. We can even see a shift away from watches being dependent on phones. A watch with its own SIM-card, number and completely independent data connection cannot be too far away. Samsung's Gear S has hinted as much.

Wearable Smart Ring

In wearable gadgets, smart ring is one kind of jewelry designed by Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Projects such as Mota SmartRing, and Cuff zipped past their funding goals, proving that women may not be interested in bulky smartwatches, but they sure do love the idea of smart jewelry. Freshly into the market is Intel's trending MICA smart bracelet, which bundles smartwatch features into an attractive bangle. The snake skin bracelet even has gold accents and semi-precious stones like pearls tacked on for style. Some rings like Ringly, Mota, and Cuff will ensure that smart jewelry makes it big in 2015.

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CXO Standpoint

s we all know Internet of Things is capturing most of Athe world's market. Analysis says that by 2020 there would be 50 billion connected devices.

The innovations that occurred in the 20th century are responsible for the global challenges of the 21st century.., no doubt new technology will solve a lot of global problems like food, energy, health etc..

One of the biggest breakthrough in technology is the cloud computing. IT innovation and agility are two main things what cloud computing can help., cloud computing is becoming the hub for operational infrastructure. Big data, generated through Internet of things, is an important factor for organizations to adopt the cloud. Existing organizations are willing to invest in improvement of existing Cloud solutions and we will see more and more such companies coming forward in investing for this development. 3-D printing again makes a great breakthrough where a customers personalized stuff can be done in a batch size, thus meeting business and consumer demands with the correct specifications.

The most important of all what we need to watch is the 'Project Loon' from google which is supposed to be launched

‘Success Mantra

Is To Embrace

New Technology,

Give Chance To

Young Talent’

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in a couple of years where helium balloons are launched where Billions of people can get online at a time.

There are tons of other emerging technologies. But according to me the most important ones to be on the radar are the IoT(Internet of things), Cloud and the Project Loon… because.. Whatever you are, these three connect you wherever you are.. make you do whatever you want to.. make you realise whatever you have dreamt of. All provided taken in the right manner.

Big Data being one more great inventions in technology has been saving millions of dollars for many organizations. Big data simply help

process structured and unstructured data which cannot be processed using traditional methods. This increases the efficiency of a company to act, deliver and track faster than earlier methods. This looks simple, but may have many important features attached to it. UPS is an example with its 10 Million customers, sending 18 million tracking requests a day.. Would need something called Big data to assist them to streamline their operations and save money and increase efficiency.

Whatever we spoke above is about few emerging technologies.. But the limitations are heavy.. Where are the required skills to perform all these? Are the government assisting in research and

project services? Are sufficient funds being invested to train people to perform these highly talented skills? The answer is NO. We still have an acute shortage of skills for most of the emerging technologies and there is a big gap there.

Government and big corporate fundings on research and training on these skills at a nominal and affordable price is very much important to get those talented IT guys to do many of these. In a country like India and China.. I have seen plenty of talented youth who is deprived of getting training on these due to heavy costs involved and a narrow approach by some corporate giants to monopolize the market is killing young talent.

Entrepreneurs are taking a lot of challenges when dealing with big corporate giants… entrepreneurs are killing themselves with indigestion. They do not know when to say NO to a client.. They need everything and they cannot deliver. This is nothing but GREED. Get off it.. Work on what you can digest. Entrepreneurs need to create a work culture where they can retain skilled workers or Talent to build their company. With increased federal regulations, laws, etc. They are over-burdened with other priorities than maintaining a healthy flow stream of what is mainly required.

To get the required funding is one of the main problems what current entre-preneurs are facing.. So we see many companies fail on the verge of being successful. To end this note.. Everything is with you as an entre-preneur. Thinking of being an Entre-preneur itself is a great success.. Then why can't you take the boat to the shore? If it's fear – get over it and I always believe in “ Every Entrepreneur has his day.”

Yashasvi ShankarPresident & COO

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NexWave : Complete Talent Management Solutions

To survive in this ardent competition today, what organizations need is the right

number of people, the right kind of people at the right place, right time, doing the right things for which they are suited for the achievement of the goals of the organization.

Here NexWave comes in a role, providing Talent Solutions. It focuses on helping clients to develop best-in-class Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Initiatives that are not only aligned to a client's business, but that serve as critical strategic enablers helping to drive overall corporate objectives.

Company DescriptionA truly composite HR Solutions company providing single window services to corporate clients for all their HR requirements: Managed Services, Permanent Recruitment, Temporary Staffing, HTD & Payroll Processing.

Aparna, Proficient Persona of NexWaveAparna, founder & MD of NexWave, holds graduation engineering degree. She worked in IT for 8 years in India & US. In 2008, Aparna started NexWave which was primarily focused only on corporate trainings & related services. After 2 years, she found out that companies HR Talent Acquisition teams face huge challenges in recruiting talent with the right mix of skill, availability, location, cost & scale then, she started these services.

Services offered Nexwave provides highly skilled talent for business organizations on a Contract OR Contract-Hire basis in sectors such as IT & BFSI sectors. Hiring can be done on need basis for these highly skilled

professionals to complete mission-critical projects and solve their vital recruiting challenges. Companies choose Nexwave for staffing solutions because of their commitment to understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations. Professional consultants come to Nexwave because of their ability to provide the best match between their skills and our clients' needs.

Aparna said, “When it comes to a new or existing technology projects, finding the best candidates for the job can be a

difficult, time-consuming and costly process.” Many companies turn to workforce staffing solutions companies to help them find the best candidates for their job. When you turn to an IT staffing solutions company for help in hiring experts for your long-term project, you can reduce up to 70% of the cost. You will also find the most talented and experienced employees faster than any other hiring process.

Aparna added “We recently have made huge investments into niche skills technology categories, like SMAC, Digital, SAP HANA, Hybris, Azure, Security, AWS & Mobile Developers and have built Managed Services competencies in these technologies. The talent in these technology categories is

very rare and is not available at all for companies from the marketplace. Either companies have to imbibe these skills through their internal trainings which require lot of overheads in terms of time, energy, un-billable & more importantly money OR they come to Nexwave and make use of available resources with us. This saves a lot of time for companies since these skills are readily available with us. These professionals from NexWave works at client's premises as a dedicated workforce of the client. NexWave also manages the HR, Administration and regulatory

compliance's.” Aparna added, “This is the core reason for our growth”.

Challenges Faced

NexWave is running successfully in Bangalore & Hyderabad for the last 8 years. NexWave has come over all the challenges they faced, only on the basis of their belief in- “Promise what you can deliver & Deliver what you promise no matter what, Respect For All, Trust, Honesty & Openness, Customer Care & Relationship, Excellence, Lifelong

Learning & Continuous Quality Improvement.”

Vision and MissionNexWave has a broad vision before them, which is to be the preferred talent partner for all the corporate clientele globally.

Valuable advice to the new startupsNexWave suggests to the new startups, to identify the customer pain point. You should define the Solution/Service with key metrics. Recruit the right team and clearly articulate their job roles & responsibilities along with incentive structure and their career paths. Always, deliver the best.

AparnaFounder & MD

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TachTech : A Trusted Information Technology Solutions

Innovator

anked high in an exclusive ranking of the nation's Rfastest-growing private companies and chosen in the top-tier list - TachTech, a San Francisco based

information technology solutions provider is flying high with its excellence in IT solutions.

TachTech is a global provider of information technology solutions. Their passion for people, business, and technology results in superior experiences for their clients. TachTech is Committed to deliver and adapt solutions that position their clients for optimal performance and sustainable competitive advantage. TachTech's approach aligns innovation and best practices with each client's unique constraint and business strategy.

Kyle Rosenthal, A Technology EvangelistKyle Rosenthal, Founder and CEO of TachTech, has over twenty years of experience in information technology. He has a long-standing reputation in the San Francisco Bay Area as a community builder, emerging technology evangelist, and proponent of best practices in web scale infrastructure and monitoring.

Services OfferedTachTech is designed to deliver IT innovation in an unprecedented way, and offers global logistics services traditionally associated with large firms whose primary value is logistics versus technical leadership.

TachTech delivers a broad range of products and expertise spanning network, storage, compute, virtualization, and security. Today's data center best practices demand this breadth of expertise, along with programming capabilities to leverage the DevOps approach to agile operations. TachTech also provides global logistics and integration services to help ease the challenges and lower the costs associated with its clients demands for international expansion and support.

TachTech addresses the needs of both traditional and agile IT environments while delivering global logistics capabilities that include importer of record services to more than 75 countries.

Key ValuesTachTech is connected to this culture of innovation in a special way, and has shown it can deliver results as evidenced by its growing client base and industry recognition. All of this could be only possible on the basis of high values followed. TachTech follows values like integrity, persistence,

resilience, teamwork, empathy and most importantly, putting people before profits.

TachTech differentiates itself by providing highly innovative and tailored solutions that only a smaller provider has the agility to provide, coupled with the global logistics capabilities of large providers.

Future PerspectiveTachTech recently announced its global expansion to more effectively serve clients in more than 75 countries. This includes offering importer of record services to ease and speed up international deployments, and the ability to deport equipment globally.

In addition, TachTech is developing a plan to offer international integration centers. TachTech projects that a portion of the market will align with innovative practices from established vendors, while others will seek more open solutions that efficiently leverage hardware commoditization.

Valuable Guidelines For New Startups by TachTechCulture is a key. The right culture will glue a team together to adapt to market opportunities and yield success. Be prepared to be humbled daily, and to gain a deeper understanding of the values that drive your culture. You will need to be a student and a teacher.

Kyle RosenthalFounder & CEO

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loud Computing is generally used for

Ckeeping organizational data in the cloud and then organizations access those data from

the cloud. The data here moves from one device to another and it is possible only if you are online or connected to the internet. There is no issue using the cloud to store your data, but the way we are completely relying on the internet. Yingwei Wang of the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada, said, "If any problem happens to the servers or an internet connection is not available, the user cannot access their data."

Organizations run with complex data and to maintain those data manually between the cloud and interconnected local computers is quite important for the admin. According to Wang’s architecture, there are dew servers that clasp on the local systems that appear as a buffer in between the local user and the cloud servers avoiding the problem of data inconsistency from source to destination. It is possible only if one can return back to the old school approach in which data is carried only on the local server whether it is in network or not. Wang elucidated, "The dew server and its related databases have two functions: first, it provides the client with the same services as the cloud server provides; second, it synchronizes dew server databases with cloud server databases."

But what is dew server? It is a lightweight local server that continuously holds a copy of the given user’s data making it available, online or offline and synchronizing once more with the cloud server just right after connection is available again. The cloud dew architecture is also used to make websites work without internet or offline. This is a really significant concept for organizations to reduce internet data expenses, where organizations are dependant on internet connectivity to process huge data. Evidently filling forms online or exchanging emails would be

Effective Memory ManagementStrategy Can Support Chips WithThousands Of Cores

In Conversation

difficult this way where you always need an internet connection, as the code communicates with the server through several responses and redirects. But functions like displaying file images, playing audio or video will be possible through “dewsite” from the web throughout the last connection made.

Here is the logic. In a 128 core chip, the new technique would require only one third memory as its predecessor. If talking about Intel 72 core high performance chip, the space saving expands to 80 percent, and with 1,000 core chip, 96 percent. It simply means when multiple cores are stored at the same location and they read the data, there is no problem. Incompatibility only appears when one of the core would like to update the shared data. In directory system the chips looks up which cores are working on that data and sends them messages invalidating their locally stored copies of it. Xiangyao Yu, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper states, "Directories guarantee that when a write happens, no stale copies of the data exist. After this write happens, no read to the previous version should happen. So this write is ordered after all the previous reads in physical-time order."

Discussion OverviewBesides the saving space in memory, Time machine and spacecraft also removes the requirem-ent to broad-cast invalida-tion messages to all the cores that are sharing a data item. In enormously multicore chips, Yu states, this also could lead to performance improvements. “We didn't see performance gains from that in these experiments, but that may depend upon the benchmarks”, Yu informed. --the industry-standard programs on which Yu and Devadas tested Tardis. “They're highly optimized, so maybe they already removed this bottleneck,” Yu states.

“There have been other people who have looked at this sort of lease idea, informed Christopher Hughes, a principal engineer at Intel Labs, but at least to my knowledge, they

tend to use physical time. You would give a lease to somebody and say, OK, yes, you can use this data for, say, 100 cycles, and I guarantee that nobody else is going to touch it in that amount of time.” But then you're kind of

capping your performance, because if somebody else immediately

afterwards wants to change the data, then

they've got to wait 100 cycles

before they can do so. Whereas here, you can just

advance the clock. That is

something that, to my knowledge, has

never been done before. That's the key idea that's really

neat. Hughes said, however, that chip designers are conservative by nature. “Almost all mass-produced commercial systems are based on directory-based protocols,” he states. “We don't mess with them because it's so easy to make a mistake when changing the implementation.” But “part of the advantage of their scheme is that it is conceptually somewhat simpler than current schemes,” he adds.

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to somebody and say,

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this data for, say, 100

cycles, and I guarantee

that nobody else is

going to touch it in that

amount of time.

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Zycko : Delivering Services for Channel Growth

ycko was founded with the Zoriginal business concept to provide a portfolio of

accessories and infrastructure into the networking channel. As a value added UK IT distributor, Zycko's offering includes pre-sales expertise, technical support, custom configuration, industry-leading accredited training programmes, full demonstration and proof of concept facilities, financing, and in-house marketing support.

David Galton-Fenzi, a Growth Enabler Appointed as Sales Director from September 2001- March 2013, David Galton-Fenzi, is now working as a CEO of Zycko from April 2013. Prior to joining Zycko, David held the position of Sales Manager at Comstor and was instrumental in the period of rapid growth that saw sales ramp up from $50m to over $500m per annum.

Services offered by ZyckoZycko has an extensive suite of professional services and business services that they utilise to research the market, complete due diligence, provide partner enablement, create sales tools, fully support solutions, and help drive business generation. These services are wrapped around technology areas including network and communications, accessories and infrastructure, monitoring and management, storage and virtualization, cloud and performance management.

A characteristic which differentiates Zycko from its competitors is, its focus on new and emerging 'for the next generation' best-in-class technologies. Zycko takes active responsibility for driving market demand, whereas other distributors concentrate on fulfilling more es tab l i shed b rands whi le simultaneously offering competitive vendors. Their model of 'distribution'

will never be able to compete with Zycko for depth of knowledge, vendor focus, market confidence & loyalty. Zycko also offers a global services and fulfillment program, allowing European based partners to deliver managed projects worldwide.

Roadblocks overcome On the basis of their core principles & philosophy, high adaptability, knowledge, capability and differentiation, Zycko proactively accelerated the evolution of many of their vendor channel programs and customers. Their key values such as collaboration, clear communication and enablement is within their DNA and it is these values that have seen Zycko grow both in front end revenue and profitability in the ever changing ever more competitive world of IT.

Future VistaWith the vision to continue their

transformation into a worldwide services organisation through leveraging their unique technical and enablement expertise, Zycko aims to be recognised as the go-to services partner for SIs, SPs and VARs for delivering next generat ion best- in-class technologies.

In the future it is going to be important that Zycko stay one or two steps ahead of their SIs, SPs and VARs customers in order to help them lower the initial cost of investment and then allowing them to exponentially scale their own services securely on demand.

Suggestions for new startupsThe root to any successful project is its 'preparation', seek industry advice, do extensive market due diligence, employ good people and find a way to keep them.

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