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HPE collaborates with Wipro to offer agility to customers

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Wipro have signed a new global go-to-market agreement to provide joint customers with on-premises IT infrastructure at flexible consumption-based pricing. This collaboration will leverage HPE’s Flexible Capacity and Wipro’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings to address the increasing customer demand for consumption-based IT.  IT organizations are under pressure not only to ensure that day-to-day operations run smoothly, but also to deliver new applications, processes and services that allow businesses to innovate. Some enterprises have turned to the public cloud to fulfil these new demands, attracted by the IT-as-a-Service model that allows customers to pay as they go only for the technology resources that they use. While some workloads may be right for the public cloud, others – which may require higher security, compliance and service levels – are best kept on-premises. Through the new HPE and Wipro partnership, customers can take a...

Rajiv Gauba to be the next Home Secretary

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Union urban development secretary Rajiv Gauba will be the next home secretary of the country. The appointments committee of the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cleared his appointment. Gauba, a 1982-batch Jharkhand cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, will take over on August 30 when the current home secretary, Rajiv Mehrishi, superannuates after a fixed tenure of two years.... Read More

MoU between Kerala Govt. and IESA to attract investments from SE Asia

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The state government of Kerala has signed an MoU with the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) to attract high-value investments from South-East Asia and also offer unprecedented access to lucrative markets in that region, known as Asia’s tech hub. This will give a major fillip to the state’s information technology and electronics sector.  The Secretary to Government of Kerala for Electronics and Information Technology, Shri M. Sivasankar IAS, and IESA President Shri M.N. Vidyashankar signed the MoU at the state Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram in the presence of Chief Minister of Kerala Shri Pinarayi Vijayan.  Under the agreement, Kerala will partner with IESA – the country’s premier industry body for electronics, semiconductor and embedded systems – to set up a liaison agency in Taiwan to promote the investment potential of the state’s electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) sector.  In addition to the host nation, the other t...

MSMEs foresee a mix of opportunities and challenges under GST regime

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MSME (Micro small and medium enterprises) share a major presence in the Indian economy with a contribution of 37.54% to its GDP. Also, it has been continuing to maintain a strong foothold in the market contributing to nation building. The role of MSME role is very crucial with regard to job creation, employment generation, increase in income of people and the overall economic growth.  The Ministry of MSME with a total budget of Rs. 85.705Cr, including Government of India’s contribution of Rs. 58.105Cr during 2017- 18 to 2019-20 has decided to implement Digital MSME scheme for promotion of information communication technology in the MSME sector. Through this the government envisions to make MSME digital, and plan to promote ICT in MSME industry along with the implementation of the scheme.  The GST regime holds an enormous opportunity for various sectors of the economy and is expected to herald a new era of indirect tax regime. By replacing various indirect taxes, GS...