The purpose of an award could be to recognize great work; it could also be to celebrate success and achievement. But can awards also serve as catalysts for fostering IT Innovation and helping the CIO community as a whole?

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On Jan 23, 2010, The Hindu Newspaper published an update on Internet running out of addresses.

We are currently using IPv4 addresses and only less than 10 per cent of available IPv4 addresses remained unallocated and hence the urgent need to shift to a new addressing scheme IPv6.

Interestingly we did discuss this 'alert' in Strategic Boardroom (November 03, 2009) with Mr. Howard Charney on "The Future of IT", Bangalore and June 2011 was cited as the likely time-line for this saturation.

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Cloud Computing WHY?



Lot have been written on cloud computing. But is it really a viable option? if yes. Then how do we assess it and measure the business value? What are the main challenges in the technology? In short lets break the problem in brief, like a Technology Consultant.

The Definition: Cloud computing refers to the delivery of software, infrastructure, or development platforms as a service [SaaS, IaaS, PaaS], enabled by a multi-tenant architecture which can provide service on-dema… Continue

I'm happy to inform you that NASSCOM has offered a special offer for their flagship event, The Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2010 (http://indialeadershipforum.nasscom.in) for the members of the CIO Association of India.

Our members can get a special discounted rate of Rs. 27,000 compared to their regular non-member price of Rs. 34,000. This offer if open to all CIO/Heads of IT/Equivalent members of the CIO Association… Continue

Recently my team was handed out the task to install and configure Oracle 10g2 on RHEL 5.3 ....after a few initial hiccups we managed and here is a document that i wrote which explains the entire process ...hope this helps as search on this topic does not yield very comprehensive and straight-forward results.

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