SOME IT Companies in India

aadiinfosolutions Haryana	CLC Technologies Limited Haryana	Orbit Infotech Haryana
CMG Technologies Chandigarh	Osprosys Software (P) Ltd Karnatka	Infinite IT Solutions Haryana
Valle Soft New Delhi	E-Softtek Pvt Ltd Chennai Tamil Nadu	BusinessListing.stripHTML Chandigarh
SPG Solutions Haryana	Adrenalin eSystems Ltd Haryana	Aspen Communications Pvt Ltd Haryana

SanDisk Doubles Capacity of High-Performance Memory Card

16-GB CompactFlash 5000 Meets Next Generation Demands for High Capacity and Performance in Harsh Operating Conditions


SanDisk Corporation announced it is doubling the capacity of its CompactFlash 5000 flash memory cards for industrial markets. In addition to fast read and write speeds, the cards provide a high level of durability and reliability for mission-critical applications such as industrial PCs, medical instruments, military applications, and point-of-sale equipment and gaming machines.
The new 16-gigabyte1 high-performance CompactFlash 5000 card was unveiled at CeBIT 2008, one of the world’s largest technology trade fairs.
With twice the capacity of its 8GB CompactFlash introduced last spring; SanDisk’s 16GB flash card uses binary memory, designed by SanDisk specifically for mass storage applications, to achieve a sustained read and write performance of up to 30 megabytes per second2. It supports a transfer mode of up to UDMA 4, an industry standard that enables high data transfer rates and includes performance boosters and on-the-fly error detection.
In addition to the mass storage-specific flash memory chips, CompactFlash 5000 includes an intelligent controller that provides a high-level interface to the host computer. This controller manages data storage and retrieval, defect handling and diagnostics, power management and clock control.
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory – from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk’s product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers.

Top IT Skills to cope Recession

Today’s globalized environment not only provides greater job opportunities but also ever keener competition that churns by the minute from any corner of the world. But in the recession, when jobs are scarce and witnessing cuts altogether, there are certain IT skills that will never go out of style.

According to a study done by Linda Leung, the Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here is the top hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond.

Virtualization: It is hot and happening, as vendors are pushing each other for lead position in the virtualization stakes and user organizations are seeing its benefits through increased efficiency, lower costs, quick return on investment (RoI) and a more flexible computing model. It encompasses the entire IT infrastructure, from the desktop to servers and storage systems. According to a recent report, the number of jobs required in 2008 increased by 43% and 37% for VMware and general virtualization skills, respectively.

Web 2.0: Beside establishing their websites, organizations have done more for their brands. Currently, they are embracing social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, where you can find such household names as Ford and AT&T. Each company has been demanding IT professionals who can keep them with the fast-moving Web 2.0 world.

According to reports, the typical salary for a Web designer in the U.S. range from $37,285 to $59,070.
 
Networking/Windows Administration: According to the various reports, the networking and Microsoft Windows administration skills will likely never go out of style and these skills consistently appear in the top slots every year in various surveys. The skill most in demand in Q209 is desktop support, according to the survey. It can fetch around $65,000 to $75,000 in the US as there is a limited supply of qualified workers in that profession.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL): It is a business framework that was developed by the U.K.’s Office of Government Commerce. It has been in constant news, as various firms like DHL and General Motors adopting the IT services efficiency framework. Surveys suggest that its experts can get salaries ranging from $50,000 to $130,000. In 2009, there is a sharp increase in pay and demand for ITIL, CoBIT and similar expertise.
IT Architect/Project Management: The report also notes that nothing has been hotter than IT architect and project management skills and will still be hot commodities long after the economy improves. Analysts have reported a pay increase of at least 10% in the last 12 months to January 2009, according to the report.
IT Security: Various firms require to pursue regulatory controls and data protection requirements, therefore security will never go out of style, even during an economic recession, as hackers continue their assaults no matter what the economy is doing. The survey reported that 79% of respondents saw no cuts to their security staffing levels. Hence, the skill has seen significant gains in pay.

Finding the Path to IT modernization

Modernization is a particular challenge for IT entities, which have to face the legacy systems and applications, but modernizing IT will lead to more agile, efficient organizations better able to serve the public, often at a lower cost.

Blockages in the path of modernization/ Present system
1.       Legacy systems: Organizations can have compelling reasons for keeping a legacy system, such as - the system works satisfactorily and the owner sees no reason for changing it. Further, the costs of redesigning or replacing the system are difficult or time taking. For e.g. NASA's Space Shuttle program still uses a large amount of 1970s-era technology.
2.       IT infrastructure: Various organizations are always resistant to the innovations and does not accept the tech advancements readily. They clung to the old machines and do not welcome any hardware/software changes.
3.       Efficiency and transparency: Reluctant nature of companies to modernization is the roadblocks in efficiency and transparency.
4.       Open standards: The methodology and practice of working needs to be redefined as old practices always hamper the performance.
5.       Skilled workforce: Modernization needs skilled workforce who is capable of understanding technology. But, sadly our public sector lack such people who are tech savvy or even understand simple technology.


Solutions for Legacy Problem
IT organizations face some hard choices when going for modernization. Before choosing the modernization path, various analysts advise that IT managers need to take the important first step of understanding and assessing current IT assets.
Go on as before: Organizations may choose to not act, to continue monitoring and maintaining existing systems and infrastructure. There are costs to this choice but without adequately trained staff, doing nothing is becoming harder for facing competition.
Retire and replace the systems: This approach can be expensive. Turning to SOA can be a wise decision.
Modernization: This can take many forms, including using SOA to extend some of the legacy data via web services and re-hosting. But migration to new languages and new platforms must be undertaken deliberately and with experienced partners.
Application Portfolio Management: The premise of APM is that before prescribing remediation of a legacy system, customers need to know what they have currently. APM provides the ability to assess the complexity of assets. APM can be done in as lightweight a way as simply filling spreadsheets with code counts—or to seek help from vendors and partners.

Pathway for Modernization
By modernizing existing technology with the help of various applications provided by companies like Oracle can reduce costs, increase agility, eliminate reliance on legacy skill sets and satisfy compliance requirements while preserving business-specific data and functionality.
Re-hosting: firms can shift an application to another without disturbing the day-to-day business.
Re-architecting: organizations can use tools to reassemble the business-relevant code from legacy applications while eliminating technology-specific code.
Commercial Off -the –Shelf (COTS) Replacement: managers can replace a legacy application with a COTS application.
SOA Integration: firms can wrap the legacy applications, creating SOA services that function on a new platform but are implemented by the existing code.
Automated Migration: IT professionals can automate the migration to new technologies, as it does not change the application design.

Conclusion
Modernizing the IT infrastructure, by moving to open standards or using service-oriented architecture, will increase efficiency and transparency and as a result will transform the service delivery.