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Although one stop solution for an enterprise is much sought in the IT world, CIOs still have to wait for a long time before their dreams come true.

This is what IT heads came to know at the “Revenge of CIOs,” an event organized by CIOL as a part of its EnterpriseConnect Series, here on Wednesday.

A question posed by Sridhar S, Head- IT, Hutch, at the Q&A session, led to an interesting debate, and the venders said it would be ideal thing to think about an end-to-end solution for an enterprise as a whole.

“IT landscape is so complex in an enterprise that one stop solution to address the needs as a whole is difficult”, said Murali Krishna, Technical Head, HP Software.

“But through consolidation we can gain some grounds, and Business Service Management (BSM) is very much helpful,” he added.

While HP spoke about BSM, Riverbed, Datacraft and Wipro presented the case studies on WAN optimization, Intrusion detection and Business Continuity Planning respectively.

Pradeep Chakraborty, Executive Editor, CIOL moderated the discussion.

Vodafone bags Hutch-Essar with a $19.3 bn offer ( As published in wwwagencygfaqs.com)

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telecom giant Vodafone today emerged victorious in the battle for Hutchison Essar Ltd, India's third largest private mobile services operator, with an offer that gives the company an enterprise value of about $19.3 billion.

Ending the two-month-long drama, the Hutchison Telecommunications International Board met in London today and chose Vodafone over the Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications, the Ruias of Essar and the Hindujas for sale of its 67 per cent stake in Hutchison Essar.

India’s carriers are now some of the fastest growing carriers in the world. So is the Value Added Services (VAS) market here. But it is sad to see that most of the carriers operate strict walled gardens and are extremely slow in launching newer services with the help of entrepreneurs independently. The best that they generally do is that they take up the service within their own brand within their “walled” gardens. Airtel operates a walled service called Airtel “Live” so does reliance with their service “RWorld”.