India's fourth largest software exporter HCL Technologies has been ranked as the world's top vendor in the infrastructure space, a recent survey said.

HCL Technologies topped the list of 276 vendors, while beating global and domestic giants like IBM, Accenture, HP, Infosys, TCS, Wipro and Satyam.

HCL Tech is followed by US-based Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) on second and third positions, according to an annual survey by Brown-Wilson survey for "The Black Book of Outsourcing."

A total of five Indian Companies made to the top-20 list, including Satyam 13, Wipro 14, Infosys 18 and Tata Consultancy Services (20).

HCL Technologies also excelled in the sub-categories like on-site comprehensive, remote comprehensive and desk top support services and storage and servers.

Based on our survey results, it is clear that HCL is leading the global infrastructure services market from the client perspective, as evidenced by their top marks across the majority of sub-categories of the survey as rated by global users, Doug Brown, Managing Partner Brown-Wilson Group said.

"We congratulate HCL on emerging at the top of this year's IT Infrastructure outsourcing vendors ranking and commend the company for the innovative approaches used to provide Chief Information Officers (CIOs) across the globe with attractive alternative sourcing options delivered with extremely high quality standards and stringent process benchmarks," Brown added.

The infrastructure ranking was based on vendor evaluation across 18 points of infrastructure operational excellence including innovation, training, breadth of offerings, client adaptability, reliability, support and customer care to name a few.

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Government said that as much as 76 per cent of e-mails originating from India are spams, although the country accounts for only one per cent when compared with top 25 spam-producing nations.

In a written reply, Communication and Information Technology Minister A Raja informed the Lok Sabha: "As per a study conducted on internet security by one of the international industry leaders, the spam origination in India amounts to 76 per cent."

He, however, said when compared with top 25 spam-producing countries, India accounts for only one per cent of the spam mails.

Replying to another query, he said the Department of Information Technology has received a proposal from CBI seeking funds to set up investigation and training facilities for cyber crime investigations with an outlay of Rs 363 lakh for a duration of one year at CBI Academy, Ghaziabad.

To a question on government's plans to set up one lakh cyber cafes in the country, the Minister said it has approved a scheme to provide support for establishing 100,000 broadband, internet-enabled kiosks termed as Common Service Centres (CSCs) in the rural areas.

The scheme is expected to facilitate the delivery of e-enabled government services at the doorstep of the citizen, he added.

Talking about exports from Software Technology Parks of India units, he said there was an increase of 43 per cent at Rs 1,44,214 crore in 2006-07 as compared to Rs 1,00,965 crore in 2005-06.

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