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India will store 2.3 zettabytes of info by 2020: experts at Amity
Announcement / Corporate January 27, 2011, 16:52 IST
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A two day IT Summit Confluence 2011’ – on “Information Storage, Security and
Compliance for Business Excellence” organized by Amity School of Engineering &
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Technology (ASET) in association with EMC2 Data Storage Systems Pvt. Ltd was Liability Bill | US economy | income
inaugurated at Amity University Campus, Sector – 125, Noida. tax refund | Mahindra Satyam | IPL 4 |
Inaugurating Confluence’ 2011, Chief Guest, Dr. B.B Bhattacharya, Vice Chancellor, Union Carbide | Cairn India | iPhone |
Jawaharlal Nehru University said “It is heartening to see that India is successfully Reliance Industries | 3G | SEBI |
keeping abreast with the fast technological advancement of the world by producing
higher number of users of the available technologies. However India still has miles to ULIP | Airtel | IPL | BSNL | silver
go as the nation is yet to make a mark in producing IT brands of its own”. Mulling over prices | BSE | NSE | Amitabh
the scenario of India’s Hardware business Dr. Bhattacharya informed that “India has already lost its Hardware business not
to the technical leader nations like U.S, Germany and Japan but to countries like China, Taiwan and South Korea whose Bachchan | Mukesh Ambani | Anil
Hardware business evolved only in the 1990s. The prime concern of investigation today is to identify the barriers that are Ambani | Bollywood | TCS | Infosys |
preventing India from producing its own IT brands”. He advised the students of IT to maximize their potential in IT
knowledge so as to be able to work towards their own innovation and to achieve this the leading industrialists can play a
Pranab Mukherjee | Maruti Suzuki |
major role in realizing this dream by picking up the best brains from the leading technology institutes of our country like Sonia Gandhi | Tata Steel FPO |
Amity, to develop India’s own IT brands”. New Pension Scheme | Service tax |
During her welcome address Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Pro Vice Chancellor, Amity Reliance | RBI | GDP | Gold | Ratan
University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP) said “At present when Information Technology Click here to visit SME Buzz Tata | ICICI | B-School | Sensex |
has become a part of our daily lives, the objective of information dissemination is
to protect the interests of those who rely on information and to ensure that right Tax calculator | Home Loan | Personal
information should reach the right person at the right time”. Finance | inflation | oil prices | Barack
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Wishing success to Confluence’ 2011, Maj. Gen K. Jai Singh, Vice Chancellor, AUUP, stated that “Presently the primary
keys of advancement are computer and communication. The security and management of information should strictly
operate on the need to know basis and it is vital for the technology users to ensure the 3Cs of information disseminated
such as Correct, Current and Consistent”.

The technical sessions and paper presentations on ‘Next Generation Computing Technology – Challenges & Future
ahead’, ‘Cloud Computing and its Impact’, ‘Business intelligence, Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management’,
‘Information Security, Compliance & Business Trends-Technological Challenges and Strategies’, ‘Information Security and
Management’, ‘Web Security and Compliance’ and ‘Industry Academia Collaborations – Issues and Road Ahead’ will unfold
in the two days of the Confluence.

Also present during the inauguration of the Confluence were Dr. Ajoy Kr. Ray, Vice Chancellor, Bengal Engineering &
Science University, Shivpur, Mr. M. Thyagaraj, Chief Information Officer (Retd), ONGC, Dr. Abhay Bansal, Head of
Department (IT) and students and faculty members of ASET.

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