About - HCL Technolgies

HCL is a global technology enterprise and a name to reckon with, in the industry. The passion of its founder and the entrepreneurial zeal of its employees have made its Information Technology and Software services arm, HCL Technologies [HCLT], a leading provider of business transformation, enterprise & custom applications, infrastructure management, business process outsourcing, and engineering services. Leveraging its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries, HCLT delivers solutions across a wide range of verticals such as financial services, manufacturing, consumer services, public services and healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ which empowers its 83,076 transformers to create real value for over 500 forward looking customers, seeking to shift paradigms and transform the way business is being done.

When HCLT commenced its transformation journey based on the foundation of ‘Employees First’ in 2005, disruptive technologies and new business models were beginning to impact the industry. HCLT had already anticipated the shift from ‘employer driven’ to ‘employee driven’ market conditions. Today, the impact of this unique management philosophy is being recognized and praised worldwide for empowering employees to become the drivers of growth. HCL has also become one of the fastest-growing IT services companies in the world.

“Employees First, Customers Second – Turning Conventional Management Upside Down” – a business book authored by the CEO Vineet Nayar encapsulating HCLT’s transformation journey from 2005, was launched in June 2010. Already a massive bestseller in key markets, the book has won accolades from leading management thinkers and CEOs such as Tom Peters, Gary Hamel, Tony Hsieh, Judy McGrath, and Victor Fung. Covered by leading media groups around the world, the book has already been translated into five languages – French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese, and over 50 Employees First, Customers Second [EFCS] workshops for clients and partner organizations have been conducted in the USA, UK and APAC regions.

3-D Without the Glasses

A new type of display from Microsoft produces multiple images and tracks the viewers' eyes.

Today's 3-D movies are far more spectacular than the first ones screened more than 50 years ago, but watching them--both at the movie theater and at home--still means donning a pair of dorky, oversized glasses. Now a new type of lens developed by researchers in Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group could help make glasses-free 3-D displays more practical.

The new lens, which is thinner at the bottom than at the top, steers light to a viewer's eyes by switching light-emitting diodes along its bottom edge on and off. Combined with a backlight, this makes it possible to show different images to different viewers, or to create a stereoscopic (3-D) effect by presenting different images to a person's left and right eye. "What's so special about this lens is that it allows us to control where the light goes," saysSteven Bathiche, director of Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group.

3-D technology has seen a renaissance recently. Thanks to the success of movies likeCoraline, Up, and Avatar, Hollywood is spending more money than ever to give audiences a stereoscopic experience. And electronics manufacturers are racing to replicate the 3-D theater experience in the home. The market for 3-D-capable televisions is expected to growfrom 2.5 million sets shipped in 2010 to 27 million in 2013, according to the research firmDisplaySearch. However, the glasses required to watch 3-D video is a turnoff for many would-be early adopters.

At the Society for Information Display International Symposium in Seattle last month, companies showed off 3-D displays that don't require glasses. These sets often use lenticular lenses, which are integrated into the display and project different images in two fixed directions. But a viewer needs to stand in designated zones to experience a 3-D effect; otherwise the screen becomes an out-of-focus blur.

Microsoft's prototype display can deliver 3-D video to two viewers at the same time (one video for each individual eye), regardless of where they are positioned. It can also shows ordinary 2-D video to up to four people simultaneously (one video for each person). The 3-D display uses a camera to track viewers so that it knows where to steer light toward them. The lens is also thin, which means it could be incorporated into a standard liquid crystal display, says Bathiche.

The idea of tracking viewers to make the glasses-free 3-D easier has been around for decades. One of the big challenges, explainsKen Perlin, professor of computer science at New York University, is that the computers used for eye-tracking were too expensive and too slow to make such a system practical. As computers have become faster and cheaper, viewer-tracking systems have gotten up to speed; other components, particularly those needed to target viewers, have remained bulky and impractical to manufacture on a large scale.

IBM Acquires Cloud Computing Integration Company Cast Iron Systems

IBM has acquired cloud computing startup Cast Iron Systems to “broaden the delivery of cloud computing services for clients.” Cast Iron Systems provides a SaaS cloud integration software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cast Iron Systems’ software-as-a-service provides cloud computing integration appliances for large and midsize companies, including Allianz, NEC, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Dow Jones, Schumacher Group, ShoreTel, Sports Authority, Time Warner, Westmont University and others. The company has capitalized on the growing trend of companies running key business applications through software as a service models and cloud deployments.
Clearly, the acquisition represents IBM’s strong push to the cloud, with IBM expecting the global cloud computing market to grow to $126 billion by 2012.Cast Iron’s offerings will help IBM customers integrate their cloud-based applications and on-premise systems and advance IBM’s capabilities for a hybrid cloud model.
This year, IBM bought up health care data management firm Initiate and Intelliden. Last year, IBM acquired six companies, including Guardium, RedPill Solutions, SPSS, Ounce Labs, Exeros and Outblaze.

Google Android on Apple iPhone

Android ported on iPhone

A hacker who goes by the name of David Wang has just done something to prove that platforms of competing smartfone companies can indeed be compromised. 

David posted a video on the 'Linux on the iPhone' blog demonstrating how Google Android can be booted onto a first-generation iPhone. He suggested that Android could be ported to all versions of Apple’s smartphones, a move that seemed greeted positively by many of the blog’s supporters.

In his blog, David also said, "At some point this summer, Apple will release the iPhone OS 4, which will include features such as multitasking and an 'iAd' mobile applicationadvertising platform. Lack of multitasking has been one of the traditional complaints lodged against the iPhone, and used as a selling point for smartphones running the multitasking-capable Google Android."

CSS announces suite of cloud tools

CSS Corp, a provider of IT operations optimization, announced a suite of tools and services to help enterprises, independent software vendors (ISV) and services providers to levearage public, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure.


The CSS suite of Cloud management tools include:
CSS CloudSmart: CloudSmart is an ANT-based automated deployment tool to automate complex enterprise application deployment process on the cloud. ANT tasks and run book automation for deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Eclastic Compute Cloud EC2 are part of the feature set.


CSS Cloud Buddy Enterprise: Cloud Buddy Enterprise is a tool that helps organizations take advantage of the capabilities of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) storage.


Also Read: Storage-as-a-service: Cloud Storage 

It features an Enterprise Administrator console that manages access privileges/storage limits at the group and user levels. Cloud Buddy Enterprise has multi-mode access such as web, WebDAV, web services and Native Client for Windows to the AWS S3 storage.

It also has an integrated indexing engine, to index all the ?les that get stored on the AWS S3.


CSS CloudBuddy Analytics: Cloud Buddy Analytics is an Open Source web based tool to generate reports about S3 Bucket access. It has an intuitive interface for a rich user experience.

Cloud Buddy Analytics takes care of enabling logging, fetching logs and generating reports and can be con?gured for Multiple S3 Accounts, and could be made available on the network as a multi-user tool.


CSS also announced availability of its cloud enablement services, which include:
· Cloud design, orchestration, automation and testing services
·Cloud monitoring and management services
· Cloud support services

“Nick Sharma, CEO of CSS Corp. “Our cloud computing suite of tools and services are helping our customers truly benefit from the private, public and hybrid infrastructure.”

Wireless services: The race is not about speed but reach

Bridging the last mile broadband connectivity gap seems to be the latest craze among Indian telcos. No one, not especially the giants of the the likes which include Bharti, Vodafone, Reliance Communications (RCom) and Tatas, wants to be left behind. They want to try their hands on every technology they can afford to.

Gone are the days of dial-up connections, where one used to get an Internet connectivity speed of up-to 56 Kbps, that too over a wireline. Today one talks of megabits over kilobits, and that too over wireless connection, for data, voice and text.

Also Read: WiMAX: The wireless Broadband

Be it LTE (Long Term Evolution), WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), 3G (Third Generation)or WiFi (Wireless Fidelity), the wireless future of India shines bright.

On one hand, where the second generation of communication technology, 2G/2.5G, is set to give way for the third generation (3G). On the other, 4G technologies, such as LTE (the surprise factor of the BWA spectrum) and WiMAX, have also booked themselves a berth in India's race for wireless networks. Not to be left behind is WiFi, one of the longest serving wireless technologies in India today.

Theoretically, WiFi (IEEE 802.11g) can transmit up to 54 megabits per second (Mbps), whereas, WiMAX ((IEEE 802.16e) can provide a speed of up to 70 megabits per second. Coming to LTE, it will be more and and 3G will speed of up to 3 Mbps.

Considering the advanced versions of these technologies, Wireless N ((IEEE 802.11n) of WiFi, which will be rolled out this year, is said to give a speed of 300 Mbps, whereas, WiMAX 2.0, (IEEE 802.16m) will provide a throughput of over 350+ Mbps. Now coming to LTE (Rel 10 and Advanced) they are said to give much more speed than its predecessor.

So, among these technology siblings, who will win the race?

Sudarshan Boosupalli, country head, Ruckus Wireless, notes: “All technologies will co-exist. Today, the question is not about speed, but who will reach the market first and how affordable will their technology be for masses.”

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