november 2010 issue 10 n volume 07
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India at the World Stage! Receiving the second edition of eGov IT Directory (October 2010) was great. egov magazine’s effort to give information to the government about the vendors providing ICT solutions, is indeed commendable. It was good to read the company profiles of IT leaders of India, which updated me on who is doing what. The editorial has rightly pointed out that Indian IT sector has set India on the world stage. This USD 12.8 billion dollar domestic industry is surely strengthening the India government agenda to promote national growth. Well done India, well done the Indian IT sector! Subhash Kumar, Meerut
Priya Saxena, Manoj Kumar, Gunjan Singh (subscription@elets.in) Graphic Design Team Bishwajeet Kumar Singh, Om Prakash Thakur Shyam Kishore Web Development Team Zia Salahuddin, Amit Pal, Sandhya Giri, Anil Kumar IT Team
Getting food security
Hope, government pays heed to this and acts.
The questions of food security and the right to food have indeed become a major concern for India. The egov article on “Food for All” has rightly pointed out the key steps that can help the country achieve this objective. Not to miss the fact that a strong political will is also needed for this.
Shaila Chaudhury, Delhi
Amitabh Mukhopadhyay, Patna
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Powering India Events
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There is a great demand-supply gap in the power sector in India, due to the huge transmission and distribution losses. In this scenario the market potential of UPSs, batteries and inverters are booming. The article “Fallback biz is big” (October 2010) has rightly pointed out that data centres also leading to growth of global UPS market. And since the demand for data centre space is set to grow globally, UPS based power solutions are here to stay.
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Chaitanya Banerjee, Bangaluru
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Great Potential Tightening budgets push large enterprises towards cheaper systems designed for small and mediumsized businesses. Sales revenue from entry-level storage systems, which cost below US$15,000, has increased by 9.9 per cent, in 2009, as per IDC research. With the growing trend of digital lifestyle, there is a large potential of storage market, as pointed out in the article “Latent Demand” (October 2010). However, it is disheartening to note that the government spending in India on storage is still low.
Securing Home This is in reference to “360 Degree Vigil” article published in Oct 2010 issue. The article highlights the significance of information security and as well as the physical security. On the latter, it is very notable that it has got a huge potential for strengthening the homeland security. Our security forces, including the police, are not well equipped to confront the challenges that a high tech–based extremism and terrorism pose onto the country. It’s high time that the government, at the centre, takes note and expedite the implementation of project like Safe State, Command and Control Centre and CCTNS. Siddharth Kishore, Ahmedabad
Household driven market The upward trend in the sales of notebooks and personal computers (PC) in India is very positive sign for the recuperating economy. One of the prime reason behind this growth is the market is being driven by the household segment rather than being confined to the business segment. The article “Getting ready for G2C play” also shows a similar increase in the shipments of peripherals including – printers and projectors. Its quite rationale that as the education and awareness about the benefits of using IT increase, further adoption of computing and peripheral devices will happen. Jitendra Parashar, New Delhi