Contextual innovation in IT is vital: WYSE chief

BANGALORE, INDIA: Contextual innovation is very important to survive in the Information Technology (IT) space, according to Tarkan Maner, president and CEO, WYSE Technology.

He was speaking to the press on the sidelines of the 'India Product Conclave 2011' organized by the Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) here on Thursday.

“Innovation is the key to survive in a huge market like India. If you do not innovate, you will miserably fail in a highly competitive market like India,”

He added that WYSE is investing a massive amount in the IT space in the country, as it offers a huge opportunity.

Tarkan further urged Indian government to create a stable infrastructure and build a better economic value in the country. “India is a very potential market for any IT company. However, when it comes to infrastructure, India lags behind the developed countries like the US. Good infrastructure is essential for enterprises to do innovation in products and services.”

Announcing the launch of its two new services in the could computing space — Projet Status, an infrastructure management service model, and Project Xacto, a content management model — Tarken opined that security is going to be the biggest issue for cloud vendors in next 10 years.

“Security is going to be a nightmare for IT companies. Our Cloud Client Computing model is the ultimate client computing solution which replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, power-hungry and expensive PC. It delivers the security, reliability and user experience with the lower energy usage and total cost of ownership,” he said.

Tarkan further said that one of the key elements in the cloud computing area is user-friendly User Interface (UI), “IT companies make cloud access so complicated. In order to facilitate easy access to cloud computing services, vendors should make the UI so simple and easy to access. Scalability is another important factor,” he added.