Dear all, The 21st issue (Volume 2. issue 5) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Apr 2011 is ready and can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-04-01.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 ======= -- Reducing Organizational Risk Through Virtual Patching -- 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report -- Information Pioneers -- Top 50 Green and Environmental Engineering Blogs -- Microsoft Azure tutorial: A look at the cloud platform -- Business Intelligence Buyer’s Guide – 2011 Edition -- Data Deduplication Background -- Why Cloud Backup: Top 10 Reasons -- How to Compare Server Online Backup and Recovery Service Providers -- Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation -- Quantum computer slips onto chips -- TheSportsMirror.com Internship & Training Program -- ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme -- Happiness -- It’s All in Your Head -- Modern Panchtantra Story -- ICT News Headlines & Briefs -- Announcements -- Book: E-Business: A Management Perspective -- Book: Innovation Management - Strategies, Implementation, and Profits -- Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know -- Book: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-04-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of Rs. 500/- each) ====================================================== 1. Name the machine, powered by 90 32-core IBM Power 750 Express servers with a total of 16 terabytes of memory which had recently won $ 1 million in the Jeopardy game show defeating the champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. 2. "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a cartoon by ------. 3. InstaCompute and InstaOffice are the cloud offerings from ------. 4. Name the $99 handheld device which delivers the joy of information by offering three million Wikipedia articles. 5. Name the web tool for language translation launched by the former President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, recently at the WWW conference which has an ambitious task of offering web based translation services to 18 Indian languages. Email your answers by 20th Apr 2011 to csi.infoquiz@gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-04-01”. 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-2011-03-01 =============================== Twoosh, Oh My God, Claude Elwood Shannon, qubits, Epson Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. P. Kumar from Chennai and to Ms. A. Brindha from Thoothukudi. Books from Oxford University Press: “IT Strategy for Business” to Ms. Femina from Chennai & “Entrepreneurship” to Mr. T. Srikanth from Hyderabad. Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “Testing in 30+ Open Source Tools” to Mr. Naveen Aggarwal from Chandigarh & “Nothing is Absolute” to Mr. G. Sivashankar.G from Jagatsinghpur, Orissa. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.