Alumni in the news - Dec 17

Ganesh Natarajan is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Harvard Business School. He is a former chairman of NASSCOM and currently CEO of Zensar Technologies. He also chairs the Task Force on Higher Education for the Confederation of Indian Industry in western India and is spearheading a skills transformation initiative across Asia through a new entity he co-founded called Global Talent Track.

Q. Last year, there was a major drying up of jobs in the IT sector. What are your expectations of the placement scenario in the coming B-School season for the IT sector?

A. The global slowdown has impacted recruitment for the last 12 months but one can expect robust hiring in 2010-11 -- at least 100,000 new jobs will be created in India.

Q.--What do you perceive as the major challenges before the Indian industry with particular reference to IT & ITES?

A. --As the global environment moves from vanilla services to more consulting-led and deep domain skills-driven solutions, Indian professionals and service providers need to move up the value chain and capture clients much earlier on in the outsourcing cycle. This needs a skills transition that has to be planned and engineered across the industry.

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Having tasted success with server virtualization, data center managers will look to double or triple the average number of virtual machines (VMs) per host from less than 10 today to nearly 20 by the end of 2010. So far, data center managers have left many of the heavier database or messaging applications untouched and not incorporated them into their virtualized server farms due to concerns regarding performance and I/O bottlenecks. This will change in 2010 ... more.

Voicetap Technologies, a start-up venture based in New Delhi has recently launched Getafixx, a knowledge engine that was a web-based solution for connecting users to experts directly. "The applicability is immense. Students want to know about career options, parents want to connect with other parents, the average investor wants to talk to the real investment expert and the job seeker wants to get tips on how to crack an interview. All this is real knowledge – for which people inherently want to interact directly to relevant experts who can help them through the problem. That’s where Getafixx fits in. The response has been great - even though we launched the private beta less than a week back, we have already got close to 700 experts signed on across various fields," Vivek Khandelwal, a co-founder of the company and a current student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay added ... more.

Mindteck (India) Limited announced the appointment of the key senior management team at Mindteck. The company has announced the appointment of Ramesh Ajjampur as Senior Vice President, Global Delivery  ... Mr. Ajjampur is responsible for planning, monitoring, and managing the global delivery operations at Mindteck. His role is to ensure quality, predictability and reliability standards across all projects globally ... more.