A two day IT Summit Confluence 2011’ – on “Information Storage, Security and Compliance for Business Excellence” organized by Amity School of Engineering & Technology (ASET) in association with EMC2 Data Storage Systems Pvt. Ltd was inaugurated at Amity University Campus, Sector – 125, Noida.
Inaugurating Confluence’ 2011, Chief Guest, Dr. B.B Bhattacharya, Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University said “It is heartening to see that India is successfully keeping abreast with the fast technological advancement of the world by producing higher number of users of the available technologies. However India still has miles to go as the nation is yet to make a mark in producing IT brands of its own”. Mulling over the scenario of India’s Hardware business Dr. Bhattacharya informed that “India has already lost its Hardware business not to the technical leader nations like U.S, Germany and Japan but to countries like China, Taiwan and South Korea whose Hardware business evolved only in the 1990s. The prime concern of investigation today is to identify the barriers that are preventing India from producing its own IT brands”. He advised the students of IT to maximize their potential in IT knowledge so as to be able to work towards their own innovation and to achieve this the leading industrialists can play a major role in realizing this dream by picking up the best brains from the leading technology institutes of our country like Amity, to develop India’s own IT brands”.
During her welcome address Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Pro Vice Chancellor, Amity University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP) said “At present when Information Technology has become a part of our daily lives, the objective of information dissemination is to protect the interests of those who rely on information and to ensure that right information should reach the right person at the right time”.
Addressing the august gathering Mr. Manoj Chugh, President India & SAARC, EMC Corporation informed that “The primary key driver of the changing IT landscape is the Facebook generation. With the advent of social networking sites, information growth in India is twice the information growth of the world”. He said “In 2010 without the wide coverage of 3G services, India has stored 40 thousand petabyte of information and within a decade India’s information storage capacity will multiply 60 times more (2.3 zettabyte)”.
Addressing the gathering Mr. M Moni, Deputy Director, National Informatics Centre said “Poverty growth in India is also increasing with the growth of information therefore India necessarily needs to develop technology and algorithm to develop wealth. Growth of information is meaningless till it can cater to the development at grass root level. In an agriculture based country like India where only 5% of the population is proficient in English language, it is of paramount importance to develop local information processes”. He appealed to the budding technology professionals to spare a thought to the need of making information available in local and vernacular languages, which in future can be translated to action to help the farmers reap benefits out of IT revolution.
Wishing success to Confluence’ 2011, Maj. Gen K. Jai Singh, Vice Chancellor, AUUP, stated that “Presently the primary keys of advancement are computer and communication. The security and management of information should strictly operate on the need to know basis and it is vital for the technology users to ensure the 3Cs of information disseminated such as Correct, Current and Consistent”.
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The technical sessions and paper presentations on ‘Next Generation Computing Technology – Challenges & Future ahead’, ‘Cloud Computing and its Impact’, ‘Business intelligence, Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management’, ‘Information Security, Compliance & Business Trends-Technological Challenges and Strategies’, ‘Information Security and Management’, ‘Web Security and Compliance’ and ‘Industry Academia Collaborations – Issues and Road Ahead’ will unfold in the two days of the Confluence.
Also present during the inauguration of the Confluence were Dr. Ajoy Kr. Ray, Vice Chancellor, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shivpur, Mr. M. Thyagaraj, Chief Information Officer (Retd), ONGC, Dr. Abhay Bansal, Head of Department (IT) and students and faculty members of ASET.