Cisco Systems has handed over more than 500 houses to the Government of Karnataka, as part of the completion of Phase I of “Project Samudaya.”
Cisco had partnered with the government for the Asare programme that aims at rehabilitating entire villages and communities that were displaced due to the floods that ravaged northern districts of the State last year.
The documents were handed over at a function held in Malkapur in Raichur district and was presided over by Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Wim Elfrink, chief globalisation officer and executive vice president, Cisco Services.
An MoU was also signed with the government where remote specialist healthcare services were launched in Gillesugur village, where Cisco is using the network as a platform to help bring healthcare and education services to the flood-affected villages.
The initial pilot services are now operational, a press release from the firm stated.
Coding challenge
IT firm IBM announces “The Great Mind Challenge 2010,” a software development and research contest under its Academic Initiative programme.
Touted as the largest software development and research contest, it provides an opportunity for programmers, students in particular, to develop innovative solutions using open standards-based IT tools.
The contest aims at enabling participants acquire hands-on experience on IBM software products.
Virtualisation
Red Hat, a leading open source solutions provider, announced the next step in the integration of its enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualisation portfolio with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2.
In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for desktops, the 2.2 update includes new scalability capabilities, migration tools and features to expand the performance and security of the solution.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.1, which introduced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, was released in November 2009.
This is capable of hosting and managing machines running on Microsoft Windows and Linux virtual machines.
It also provides a single infrastructure from which customers can manage their server and desktop virtualisation deployments.
