Ensuring Business Continuity in the event of planned and unplanned disruptions

Due to recurring natural disasters and increasing security threats in India, business continuity and disaster management have assumed significant importance in the enterprise community. Unified middleware Expresscluster family of integrated High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) software provides wide range of solutions enabling fast recovery and continuous protection of critical applications and data, ensuring business continuity in the event of planned and unplanned disruptions.

The series offers powerful and accurate failure monitoring features, failover features that quickly inherit jobs to a healthy server when a failure occurs, and operation management features that determine where failures have occurred at a glance.

The solution addresses unplanned downtime mitigation against hardware, software, and site failures and planned downtime mitigation against periodic hardware and software maintenance tasks that require system restart. The series supports non-disruptive failover for virtual machines through reinforced linking functions with virtualization software. Moreover, the time required to initially synchronize data between the active server and the standby server gets significantly reduced, in addition to usability improvements in the graphical user interface (GUI).

http://www.cxotoday.com/story/nec-india-unveils-expresscluster-x-to-ensure-business-continuity/

Indian Educational Institutions focusing on leading edge in-classroom technologies for better knowledge delivery

Leading edge technologies as adoption of 3-D technology makes education a little more relevant, specifically because its impact is probably 10 times more than the audio or plain words. If a student wishes to design a skyscraper or wants to plan a town, with the help of 3D technology he can have an immersive view of the entire project. He can fly through it; rotate it; move it up and down; have multiple angle snap shots, and thus plan it in a better way.

Educational content providers are working towards generating 3D enabled content—as content is the key for 3D usage. Progressive 3D usage in projection and other technologies will be experienced as soon as the content becomes available. Besides this, Digital Signage is expected to catch up among the most important in-classroom technologies.

Efforts are being made towards combining projection technologies and interactive multi-touch technologies. With incorporation of such a combination, current teaching methodology is in for some big changes. It will be possible to interact, have discussion boards, whiteboards and comments coming in on the same screen with multiple people contributing online.

In-classroom technologies are just tools. Unless a basic infrastructure exists on a sustainable basis, to run and utilise the tools, and the people are trained, it may not be possible to derive total benefits and ROI by deploying the technology. This pertinent aspect needs to be focused upon on priority.

(http://www.edu-leaders.com/content/indian-educational-institutions-make-learning-fun#)