About India

India (Hindi: भारत inc-Latn|Bhārat; see also other names), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: भारतीय गणराज्य inc-Latn|Bhāratiya Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. It borders Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Indonesia.

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Home to the Indus Valley Civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated here, while Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread nonviolent resistance.

India is the world's twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the third largest in purchasing power. Economic reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large economy; illiteracy, malnutrition and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.

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    Will the Bean Counters Control Cloud Computing in China? ...omy that is more than six times the size of China's. CIO, CTO & Developer Resources As a side note, India continues to grow rapidly as well, although more slowly than China. Even with 6.8% growth in 2009, ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   India   Beijing   IBM

  3. Security think tank: Value added cloud security services

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    ...isation is happy to outsource their development or business process to an external supplier in say, India or China, they are predisposed to have a risk appetite that would welcome investment in the cloud. ... (Read Full Article)

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  4. VMware's Roadmap Directed Squarely at the Cloud

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    VMware's Roadmap Directed Squarely at the Cloud ...geographic sectors that are growing fastest in the deployment of virtualized systems include China, India, Russia, South America and parts of Eastern Europe. Most businesses have their legacy applications ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   India   Microsoft   Citrix Systems

  5. Hot Trends in Network Security

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    Hot Trends in Network Security ...y, May 27, 2010 Email Print Comments RSS Digg Delicious Reditt Avishek Rakshit BANGALORE,INDIA:Network security solutions are coming of age in the Indian IT market, owing primarily to business h... (Read Full Article)

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  6. IT Spending Recovers After Recession, IDC Says

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    ...h confidence in the economic rebound to start spending on hardware. Emerging markets like China and India are seeing both businesses and consumers ramping up their IT spending, while in the United States, ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   India   Jeffrey Burt   Stephen Minton

  7. Security expert predicts criminals to take cyber extortion tactics to the U.S.

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    ...by companies attempting to protect their reputation. The CSIS survey found extortion most common in India, Saudi Arabia, China and France. It was rarest in the UK and United States. Security experts have a... (Read Full Article)

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  8. VM management in mixed virtual server platforms: The Indian view

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    ...e its data center operations by operating VMs on mixed virtual platforms? At least when it comes to India, the reasons will be the economics. Currently, a lot of growth in server virtualization is happenin... (Read Full Article)

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  9. Novell's web-based security soln for the cloud

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    ... Service (NCSS), a Web-based identity and access management solution for cloud service providers in India. NCSS will allow SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS providers to offer their enterprise customers the ability to ... (Read Full Article)

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