Right Data, Right Decisions

Western Digital offers an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices, systems and solutions for business and consumers alike. The data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital, G-Technology, SanDisk, Upthere and WD brands. Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive, helping customer capture, preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Here, Guruswamy Ganesh, Senior VP, Western Digital and Supria Dhanda, VP & Country Manager, India, WD, share their thoughts on how data is evolving

Technology And The Future Of Education

With the internet becoming more accessible to a majority of population in India and around the world, Internet of Things has emerged as a technology that is revolutionising multiple sectors

Bridging The Skill Divide

Dataquest T-School Conference & Awards 2019 got academicians, policy makers and industry leaders from across the country to discuss the gaps in skill training and solutions

Social Entrepreneurship Is The New Value Addition To Business: Microsoft

jean-Philippe Courtois, EVP and President, Global Sales, Marketing & Operations, Microsoft Corporation is convinced that technology is opening new opportunities to help the company solve some of society’s biggest challenges. He has begun to notice that many of his customers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud for creating a positive societal impact

T-Schools Should Contribute To The Growth Of The Technology Required For The 21st Century Industries

T-Schools should add value in offering human resource to the industry

Building Digital Infrastructure For Economic Growth

The ‘Digital India’ program launched in July 2015 was focused on three key vision areas – infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens.

Metadata And Methodology

The 14th Edition of Dataquest Top T-School Survey had participation from across the tiers of T-schools in the country.

How Technology Could Impact Social Development Challenges

The CSR Leadership Conference 2019 in New Delhi in partnership in with ICICI Foundation was hosted by NASSCOM. The event brought over 300 delegates including CxOs, CSR Heads of the top most companies from across the industry, NGO leads from all over India, Government officials, Tech4Good champions, social innovators under one roof to encourage the use of new-age technologies to solve the social development issues at the grassroots

Electronic Waste Sector Can Create Half A Million Jobs In India By 2025

A changing environment means even the best risk management may not remain adequate for long

New IT For New Normal

Dataquest Technology Innovation Summit & Awards held recently in Mumbai deliberated on the impact of disruptive technology forces and best practices

Rising Financial Cybercrime And Identity Theft

Financial frauds’ share of victims has doubled to 37 percent of respondents year-over-year. Half of all consumers ages 27-37 experienced fraud during last year. 96 percent of consumers who were victimized during last year had switched to mobile apps

Reviewing Our E-Commerce Policy

Consistent with its objectives, TECI has worked with its members to discuss, collate and crystallize the viewpoints of the members with regards to the Draft National E-commerce Policy

Are CIOs Ready To Embrace Digital And Take Their Enterprises To Next Orbit Of Growth?

Digital disruption is testing the glory days of the IT Organization. More than ever, the CIOs need to double as a business leader as well as the driver of tech. So, are CIOs ready to embrace Digital and take their enterprises to next orbit of growth?

Becoming An Atron Franchisee Is A Rigorous But Valuable Process

Atron, incubated by Huddle, provides smart sanitisation technology, complete with IoT ready integration, to reduce cleaning related downtimes at industrial facilities. Atharva Sabnis, Co-Founder & CEO of Atron speaks to DQ Channels about the diverse marketing programmes of Atron

Telecom Manthan 2018

Discovering the New Age Customer and Emerging Business Dynamics in the Telecom Sector

Cloud Addresses Business Complexities With Ease

Cloud is the new normal. CtrlS Datacenters’ Founder & CEO, Sridhar Pinnapureddy in an exclsuive interview to Dataquest takes a deep dive into the state of enterprise IT infrastructure today, the role of Datcenters and how ‘Community Cloud’ can offer an agile and cost effective delivery of IT. Excerpts:

Decoding Cyber Security

Prasenjit Saha talks about the benefits of Cyber Defense resiliency Centre (CDrC) for a robust Cyber Security Ecosystem

We Make It Easy For Customers To Integrate Tax Automation Into Their Existing Business Ecosystems

Avalara Inc., is a provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation, serving more than 20,000 businesses worldwide, and an Application Service Provider (ASP) in India. The company helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, and other tax types. It delivers comprehensive, automated SaaS solutions that help customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by the state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world. In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest, Gautam Mukherjee, General Manager, Global Delivery – India, Avalara Technologies talks about how Avalara helps companies cope with the new tax regime, what are the new trends seen in ERP and Tax automation in India, and what are the recent announcements made by them. Excerpts:

Fast, Efficient, And Secure It Backbone A Must For Successful Digital Transformation

IT complexity can be overwhelming, and could be a hindrance rather than enabler in digital business

Cyber Security: There Is Still A Long Way To Go

With the advent of the chilly months, it can become tough to brave the cold and train when all you want to do is curl up under a warm blanket. Trainer Raoul Hirani and physiotherapist Tariq Wasim tell us how professional footballer keep going, without letting the cold play spoilsport.

India Rides The Smart City Bandwagon

The government has recently released the list of first 20 smart cities… Here’s a lowdown on the project.

India Datacenter Market Is Valued At $2.2BN

India Datacenter Market Is Valued At $2.2BN

Going Digital Is A New Way Of Engaging With Customers

Abhijit ChatterjeeCIO, Abhi Technologies

CIOS Need To Cultivate A Digitalist Mindset

Anis Pankhania Gm – It Delivery & Process Excellence,Vodafone India

For Us, Going Digital Means, Transforming The Organisation Across Processes

Ashok Jade CIO, Shalimar Paints

Right To Privacy To Boost The Encryption Market In Five Years

Carlos Creus Moreira, CEO, WiseKey who has spent most of his time as a UN expert on IT and eSecurity was recently in India. His visit to India coincided with the Supreme Court’s landmark  judgment on making privacy the fundamental right. Moreira finds the judgment unprecedented and a far cry that will boost the encryption market in India. To justify his point, he compares the judgment with the European Union’s the right to be forgotten which triggered a wave of cyber security in that continent. Here are the excerpts of the interaction:

What We Need Is Not Just Security But A Better Cyber Security

Dataquest spoke to Dr Debabrata Nayak, CSO, Huawei Telecommunications India to understand from him how the cyber security space is becoming more critical and complex. Dr Nayak stressed on the need to have better cyber security in place for every organization. Excerpts:

ICANN Is Changing The Keys For The Internet's Addressing System

Internet users should contact their ISP or network operators to make certain that they are ready for the key change

Digital Adoption Dynamics In Manufacturing

An Accenture research finds that balancing digital investments is key to driving sustainable growth in India’s manufacturing sector

VR and Beyond: Powering the Immersive Computing Era

A number of futurists predict that VR will dramatically change education and the landscape of many industries ranging from retail to military, healthcare to entertainment, and gaming to fashion.