INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
This small IT consulting outfit gets a contract with a very, very big company -- which is a very big deal, says a pilot fish at the
consultancy."On a daily basis, a large text data file needs to get loaded into a very fast database, and that information is used to deal or
not deal with certain customers," fish explains
"And this all has to happen in real time."The big client is very security conscious, and it won't let the consultancy download the data from
Instead, a third-party site is used, and access is through a secure connection with a totally inscrutable password.And on the first day,
The big client puts the data on the site and fish's company downloads the data, then keeps checking back periodically to see if anything has
