Indian IT cos entrepreneurial, says Australian expert

MELBOURNE, PTI: Companies

emerging in India are entrepreneurial and start-ups and it would be a mistake to gauge the countrys role just as supplying outsourcing to Australian business, an IT industry official has said. CeBIT Australia Managing Director Jackie Taranto said it would be a mistake to gauge Indias role as supplying outsourcing to Australian busi-

ness. Companies emerging in Bangalore, the nerve centre of Indian Information Technology, were enterprises and startups rather than outsourcing hubs, she added. Excited about India being a partner country in 3-day long mega ICT event, CeBIT Australia 2012, that kicked off in Sydney, the event organiser has said Indias selection will help boost trade between the two

countries. India was Australias fifth-largest trading partner and its being CeBITs partner country this year would mean a tremendous amount of business between the two countries, Taranto said. India has developed technical solutions for e-health, mobility, financial services, engineering, utilities and e-government, and the country is investing in the future by training its young peo-

ple in computing skills. Indias business is very strong in financial services, and they are putting a lot of work into mobility, she added. Companies were being challenged to integrate cloud computing into their business, and thats what this show is about, she said, adding, Cloud technologies are the way of the future, but there are still reservations about its adoption

because of security questions. Cloud computing enables end users access various business applications through the Web, while the software and data are stored on servers at a remote location. Taranto said the New South Wales government is showcasing software that lets staff of a mining company remotely control vehicles in a shaft from hundreds of km away.