infrastructure

Continuing hospital upgrades and healthcare institutions building their IT infrastructure from the ground up will boost healthcare IT spending in India.

Governments stay the course in 2010 with continued infrastructure investments and an eye on transforming the face of public service

In order to build its service-oriented architecture infrastructure, the Hong Kong Housing Society has selected Oracle Enterprise Repository, which will reduce its software development costs by as much as 25%.

To enhance its effectiveness, the Ministry needed to integrate data housed in disparate sources to provide a holistic one-MOM view. The impetus for a holistic view of the Ministry’s work led to the conceptualization of an enterprise-wide platform called Employer Relationship, Industry Knowledge Analysis (ERIKA). It turned to SAS to build such a platform.

Public sector spending on networking is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 13% from 2009-2013. E-government initiatives are likely to drive adoption of enterprise networking equipment, especially in emerging markets such as India and China.

An audit of Uganda's US$106 million national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure project, which was contracted to Huawei Technologies of China, has brought to the fore inadequate supervision by the relevant government ministry and pricing anomalies on the part of the contractor.

In order to provide secure authentication, encryption and digital certificate technologies for its upcoming national ID program, the government of Kuwait recently signed on with VeriSign, a global provider of Internet network infrastructure.

Aiming to implement an innovative platform to optimize train route, reduce energy consumption and improve punctuality within the Dutch Rail infrastructure, ProRail, the Dutch National railway’s infrastructure manager, has chosen to deploy GigaSpaces XAP across its system.

The U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing, manager of the launch operations for the Department of Defense space programs, has recently virtualized its IT infrastructure using CA ARCserve Backup to protect data across physical and virtual servers, and CA XOsoft Replication for IP cloud-based replication.

The Ministry of Foreign affairs of Malaysia announced recently that it will upgrade its network backbone from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to Gigabit Ethernet technology through 3Com’s H3C enterprise code and edge network infrastructure solutions.