Dhiraj Khare

News Facts After the success of Sangam 2009, the All India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG) presents Sangam 2010– a two-day Oracle user conference in Hyderabad, 3rd to 4th September 2010. As part of its charter to encourage Oracle technologists in India to exchange, experience and discuss advancements and innovations on various Oracle technologies, Sangam 2010 will host multiple sessions by international and Indian experts. Key speaker highlights include: Roland Slee, Vice President, Database Product Management, Oracle Asia Pacific & Japan will describe how Oracle is leveraging its expanded product portfolio, including the acquired Sun assets, to progress its long-standing vision of enhanced information management and a simplified, standardised IT infrastructure Jonathan Lewis, renowned expert on Oracle Database and an independent consultant from the UK, who has worked on the technology for more than 23 years, will discuss various aspects of ...

Information storage remains the fundamental yet a neglected component for small and medium businesses (SMBs) as well as big organisations. EMC Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure systems and works in the education front to spread awareness about data storage. Alok Shrivastava, senior director, EMC spoke to EFYTimes.com about the future of data storage management in a growing cloud environment. Excerpts from the interview:  Q: What are the main challenges that you identify in relation to data storage across businesses? A: Every year, we conduct a worldwide study (*) of the information storage industry to identify the challenges IT is facing today. Consistently, we find the biggest challenge is the ability to manage expanding data storage growth. For instance, a recent industry study (**) found that the data created last year (2009) grew by 62 per cent despite the economic slowdown. Further, the analysts forecasts that between 2009 and 2020, informatio...

When like-minded people come together in a non-commercial attempt to promote open source initiatives in India, they can work magic. It is with this view that Linux For You team recently initiated the formation of the 'Forum for Open Source Initiatives in India' or FOSII (pronounced foss-eye). FOSII comprises individuals from various walks of the Linux/OSS ecosystem including the industry, academia, media, government, users and the developer community. What binds them together is their deep interest in driving innovation in and adoption of open source principles, practices and software in India. How does it work? The forum works quite like a "mailing list", where its members discuss issues/challenges and decide on future plans of action/solutions, in line with the goals of the forum. One of the key reasons for the formation of FOSII is to ensure that such attempts happen on a continuous basis and not merely during conferences and such events. FOSII brings togethe...

Open Source India (formerly LinuxAsia) started in 2003, with the mission to accelerate the growth of adoption of Open Source in Asia. Till date, the overall mission of Open Source India remains the same. A key attribute of Open Source India is that it tries to bridge the gap between the 'community' and the 'industry' OSI Days is the crossroads of all things open source, bringing together 3000+ of the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new, and to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption Join us in Chennai, India to: Meet the experts of PHP, Open Source Databases, Apache, Python, Perl, Ruby on Rails See the best of breed technologies of Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Parallelism for Open Source World Meet decision makers, CXO level Open Source champions, students and Government Official Use open source to target Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms Learn Open Source Busines...