HASSAN: There is concern across the world over non-utilisation of 65 per cent of computing power in the IT industry. Full utilisation will help open up new vistas in the sector, B.S. Gopala Rao, alumnus of Malnad College of Engineering and CEO of Merrit Systems, has said.

He was delivering a lecture on "Current trends of Indian IT industries" at Kalabhavan auditorium here on Tuesday. It was attended by students and IT professionals. Mr. Rao is also chairman of the Bangalore Chapter of Computer Society of

India and a member of "The Indus Entrepreneurs," a global non-profit organisation for promoting entrepreneurship. Mr. Rao said that regulations were necessary to protect the interests of netizens. "With progress in the IT sector, Bangalore, which was a non-entity in the 90s, has become a global leader," he said. "Now we are on a par with any other country that boasts of supremacy in the IT sector," he said. The availability of bandwidth and growth in computing power would help expand the prospects of the IT industry in the country, he said.

Referring to the future trends in software technology, Mr. Rao said electronic paper would be a viable alternative to paper, and applications would be process-driven instead of being data-driven.. Business intelligence, data warehousing and data mining would play a major role, he added.

On hardware technology, Mr. Rao said optical computing technology, continued miniaturization, multi-media, mobile computing and improved expert systems would dominate the IT arena.

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