Sanjeev Prasad, Global CIO, Genpact

Genpact Cut IT Costs by Rs 50 Crore to Retain Customers

In recessionary times, customers are dearer. Genpact knew that and to provide more value to its customers, it did something unusual: It cut IT costs.

Nagaraj Bhat Director - Global Information Services, Applied Materials

Applied Materials Journey To Host CAD Designs On Cloud

Rahul Mahajan AVP-IT, K Raheja

Raheja Group Simplifies a Tricky Virtualization Project

Virtualization is the mother of all tricky projects after ERP, feel some CIOs. Here’s the story of a CIO who took a rather bold step and won.

Amit Gupta Head-technology infrastructure services, Fidelity Business Services

Fidelity's Gamble With Server Virtualisation Pays Off

When the I.T. head of Fidelity Business Services wanted to virtualize his servers—at a time when a few were—two forces defied him: The recession and management’s resistance. he had no choice but to prove them wrong.

Mahendra Sekharan GM-IT, Glenmark Generics

Glenmark Generics Learnt From Its Mistake of Rushing Towards Virtualization

In a hurry to virtualize its desktops, Glenmark Generics banked heavily on its system integrator—a mistake that led to an IT meltdown. Here’s how they cleaned up that mess.

V.Balakrishnan CIO, Polaris Software Lab

Polaris Software Labs Leverages VDI to Curb Travel and Training Costs

Polaris Software Labs’ frequent, multi-city training sessions seemed a perfect fit for VDI, but what about its high costs, and the fact that it’s best used on a large base?

Basant Kumar Chaturvedi Perfetti Van Melle

Perfetti Savors the Success of VDI

It's expensive, it's bandwidth intensive, and it meets user resistance. That's what you, like most of your peer, probably think of VDI.  But the IT head of Perfetti   Van Melle doesn't agree.

K.B. Venkataramanan CIO, Viteos

Virtualization Helped Viteos Increase Resource Utilization

How Viteos Fund Services, one of the world’s biggest fund administrators keeps its investors and traders informed — and happy.

Anil Khopkar VP (MIS), Bajaj Auto

How A CIO Increased His Project Budget By 50 Percent

Anil Khopkar, Vice President (MIS), Bajaj Auto, convinced his management to clear not one-but two-budgets in a single year.

Sharat Airani Chief-IT (Systems and security), Forbes Marshall

Forbes Marshall's CIO on Managing End-users and Vendors Effectively

All the CIO of Forbes Marshall, Sharat Airani wanted was to virtualize. He didn't know that he would have to battle user resistance and vendor defiance. Not that it stopped him.

Manoj Arora Global CIO, Bilcare Research

Virtualization Helps Bilcare Optimize IT Resources

Choked by explosive growth and the urgency to develop innovative anti counterfeiting packaging solutions, Bilcare Research was struggling to control its IT costs. A timely dose of virtualization remedied the growth pangs of the pharmaceutical packaging firm.

S.Hariharan Sr. VP Infrastructure Solutions and Services Group, Oracle Financial Services Software

Virtualization keeps Oracle Financial Fiscally Fit

CIO 100 Winner: Oracle was suffering from a server sprawl, where servers were unused or underutilized most of the time.  By virtualizing 225 servers to 15 and consolidating three datacenters into one, S. Hariharan unleashed a host of cost and efficiency benefits.

Parthe Sengupta CIO and Head-IT Shared Services, ITC

Virtualization Cuts Power Use, Cost at ITC

CIO 100 Winner: With an inflexible IT infrastructure and crowded data centre, ITC was struggling.But Partha Sengupta knew a away out. By virtualizing his infrastructure he avoided expenses on multiple fronts with the potential to save about Rs 14 crore over the next five years.

B.L.V. Rao, VP-IT Infotech Enterprises

Infotech Virtualizes Servers for Storage Optimization

CIO 100 Winner: B.L.V Rao adopted a storage optimization project and decided to consolidate and virtualize all file servers and applications with a new server farm. Tiered storage architecture was deployed depending on data criticality and performance needs. He has thus fixed his company's storage woes and enhanced performance by 22 percent.

Amit Gupta Fidelity Business Services India

Server Optimization Ensures On-demand Scalability for Fidelity

CIO 100 Winner: Fidelity is growing at a fast pace but in the last four to five years, dynamic business needs were putting pressure on IT. This ingenious CIO catered to multiple such problems - dynamic business needs and staying ahead of competition - with one solution: virtualization.