Dear all, The 20th issue (Volume 2. issue 4) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Mar 2011 is ready and can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-03-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. With regards HR Mohan Chairman, Div IV, CSI & eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- eBook: Storage Virtualization for Dummies -- 7 Virtualization Challenges -- Is SOA Being Pushed Beyond Its Limits? -- Design Considerations for Software plus Services and Cloud Computing -- Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Design -- Business Insight = Business Infrastructure = BI Platform -- Red Hat PaaS: Bringing Open Choice & Application Portability to the Cloud -- The Fundamental Principles of Network Security -- Desktop Virtualization: Drivers, Challenges, and Best Practices -- 9 Essential Requirements for Web 2.0 Security -- Data Center Project: Standardized Process -- Blade server technology faces virtualization hit in the data center -- MCA programme: Eligibility, Best Institutes, more -- Careers & Courses: Software Testing -- Web 3.0 Emerging -- How to divorce your tech vendor -- Design Rules by Eric S. Raymond, the author of the book The Art of Unix Programming. -- Some startling facts in India -- ICT News Headlines & Briefs -- Announcements -- IT Events: Call for Papers & Participation -- Book: IT Strategy for Business -- Book: Entrepreneurship -- Book: Testing in 30+ Open Source Tools -- Book: Nothing is Absolute -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-03-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of Rs. 500/- each) ================================================================= 1. ------ is a tweet that is exactly 140 characters long. 2. In SMS/Chat lingo “OMG”means what? 3. Who is considered as the "Father of information theory?" 4. Classical Computer : bits = Quantum Computer : ------ 5. Identify the company whose tagline is “Exceed Your Vision” Email your answers by 20th Mar 2011 to csi.infoquiz@gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-03-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. The first person to answer correctly and one randomly selected lucky winner will be awarded Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com). Oxford University Press (http://www.oup.co.in) & Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd (http://www.shroffpublishers.com) will present the books which are briefly reviewed above. In all, there will be SIX prizes – TWO cash prizes of Rs. 500/- each and FOUR prizes of one book each. Answers along with the winner info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2011-02-01 =============================== Vodafone, handsets from Motorola, Chatter, twttr, Tally Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. R. Jayakanthan from Chennai and to Ms. S. Sangeetha from Walajapet. Books from Oxford University Press: “Mechatronics: Integrated Technologies for Intelligent Machines” to Mr. N.M. Zaheer from Chennai & “Skills Development for Business and Management” to Mr. M.Elavazhagan from Kanchipuram. Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” to Ms. L. Kannagi, from Guduvancherry & “Heads You Win Tails You Win” to Mr. S. Shankar from Hosur. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.