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Cloud is changing the security equations today, by moving security to the ‘application’ level, rather than at the network level. Veera Swamy Arava, CEO & Director, SAT Infotech, tells us more.

Innovating For Purpose-Built Storage

The world is generating ever-increasing amounts of data, along with an acceleration in its richness and immediacy. The exponential growth of the data-centric universe across Big Data and Fast Data applications is also making enterprises rely heavily on fast access to their storage now more than ever before. In a conversation, Siva Sivaram, Executive Vice President of Silicon Technology and Manufacturing, Western Digital and Supria Dhanda, Vice President and Country Manager for Western Digital, India tell how the company is driving innovation in storage products and solutions for application across industries.

The Multi-Cloud Advantage

Approaches to multi-cloud range from choosing different platforms for different workloads to dynamically moving workloads to take advantage of vendor-specific pricing and performance. Cloud performance monitoring gives you the insight you need to make informed management decisions.

Gearing Up For New Normal

With disruptive tech forces changing the enterprise computing dynamics, CIOs are reinventing the IT organizations to tame the nexus of tech forces and to stay relevant in the market place.

A Five-Step Digital Transformation Plan For ICT And Media Companies

Though companies in communications, media, and technology sectors share the common goal of accelerating their product and service delivery, most are invariably hazy about the specific digital transformation that truly fits them.

Walking The Open Source Way

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Senior Vice President and General ManagerRed Hat, APJ and Neeraj Bhatia, Director - Partner, Alliances & Commercial Sales at Red Hat India talk about how organizations in India are embracing open-source solutions to thrive in the digital economy, the benefits of open source software vis-a-vis proprietary software and how Red Hat is hand-holding its customers in their cloud and digital journey. Excerpts:

Smart Energy Management In The Smart Era

In today’s times of new age technologies, use of AI, ML and IoT is gradually becoming important in the power sector. Venkatraman Swaminathan, Vice President, Secure Power, Greater India, Schneider Electric discusses some of its aspects in this interaction

Mahindra École Centrale (MEC) College of Engineering

Graduates its Second Batch of Engineers

A Client Of Automation

We often publicise the IT leaders who build IT platforms for BFSI and other sectors. However, we need to also understand what the BFSI sector clients want from the IT industry. Nafees Ahmed, Group Head, Chief Information Officer, Indiabulls Group, gives us an insight into the way IT platforms are being adopted in the IT sectors and the kind of needs they have. These insights are invaluable for the IT industry

New Turn In The Traditional Businesses

How the new tech-start ups are changing the course of traditional business model in India

Training On Cloud

Cloud is becoming more and more important now. AWS cloud has evolved a system of training young graduates and start ups to enhance their scalability in new age technological organisations through Educate. It is also using data mining to help various sectors such as agriculture, traffic management system etc. Manav Sehgal, Head, Solutions Architecture, Public Sector India, Amazon Internet Service gave us some insights in this interaction

Storm In The Schools

The impact produced by AI, ML, IoT, VR etc on the education sector

IOT For Large Enterprises

While IoT is a fast evolving technology, it still has gaps in its implementation. At the same time, IoT can be used in large enterprises to serve a number of sectors. Alok Bardiya, Head, IoT Business Unit, Tata Communications, discusses some of these issues

AI-Empowered Workforce

Corporate India is going through a defining time, with emerging technologies taking over many areas of business.

How Secure Is The Data Of Your Organization?

Data privacy and protection has not been an easy task for organizations, given the potential risks leading to financial losses that they face today.

Every Data Breach Incident Has The Potential Of Causing Long-Term Reputational Damage

45% of Indian organizations cant analyze or categorize all the consumer data they store. With pressure mounting to ensureconsumer data is protected, Gemalto has recently released the results of a global study which reveals that two in three companies globally (65%) are unable to analyze all the data they collect and only half (54%) of companies know where all of their sensitive data is stored. Compoundingthis uncertainty, more than two-thirds of organizations (68%) admit they dont carry out all the procedures in line with data protection laws such as GDPR. In an exclusive conversation with Dataquest, Rana Gupta, Vice President of Asia Pacific, Gemalto Identitys and Data Protection business, talks about the latest report findings, what challenges the company is facing while handling data and ways to protect data. Excerpts:

Technology Is No Longer Just A Business Enabler. It Is Extremelycore To The Business Model Itself, No Matter What Industry

Debashis Chatterjee, President, Digital Systems & Technology, Cognizant decodes the nexus of forces disrupting the tech industry and Cognizants play. Excerpts.

We've Recently Started Our Cloud Journey As We Wanted To Focus More On Innovation And Expanding Our Core Business

According to research by ICRA, India is one of the fastest growing poultry markets globally, with 7% y-o-y growth last year. India is now the worlds fourth largest poultry producer in volume terms. The country has emerged as one of the few emerging economies with a self-reliant, technology-driven poultry industry. Karunanithi S, CIO, Suguna Foods in an interview to Dataquest talks about IT adoption dynamics in the poultry industry. Excerpts:

Digital Disruption In Indian Agriculture

Agri-tech is clearly the next big thing in digital. As per NASSCOM, the global agri-tech investment in 2016 was US$ 3.2 bn and in the same period India got about US$ 320 mn funding for 50+ start-ups.

Innovating For The ERA Of Industry 4.0

The dawn of industry 4.0 has brought about dramatic changes in the way we live and how large enterprises function today. Manufacturing companies can now connect data from different systems for better analytics and Honeywell is well-positioned to support and drive this trend further with its ability to combine advanced software with physical products to provide value to customers across a wide variety of verticals. Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS) Bangalore centre is uniquely positioned to drive the change with the deep domain knowledge expertise combined with fresh talent availability, says Akshay Bellare, Vice President and General Manager, Honeywell Technology Solutions India.HTS is an integrated technology incubation, development and engineering arm of Honeywell which supports Honeywell’s four businesses-Aerospace, Home and Building Technology, Safety and Productivity Solutions and Performance Materials and Technologies, globally and in India. With a network of state-of-theart labs and Centres of Excellences, it helps to drive innovation at every stage of the product lifecycle right from product conception to technology development and insertion, design, engineering and all the way to delivery. Excerpt:

Powering Data-Driven Digital Transformation

Businesses today have more data at their disposal. Advanced algorithms are around for extracting meaningful insights from that data and turn that data into action. Data play a crucial role in digital transformation, and it’s not just the sheer volume of the data, it’s the data quality that makes all the difference. Amit Walia, President, Products and Strategic Ecosystems and Ansa Sekharan, EVP and Chief Customer Success Officer at Informatica walk us through some of the company offerings that are helping businesses to transform themselves and sustain in the increasingly digital and data-driven world. Excerpt:

Lowering Adoption Barriers To AI

Although AI as a concept has been there for a very long time, it is only now that the businesses are exploring the technology to see how it helps in their transformation objectives. Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML) technologies are now being used extensively to recognize patterns across data, user interactions to draw insights and do away with the mundane tasks, so on and so forth. Premalakshmi R, Head - Cloud Platform, Oracle India talks about how the traditional businesses and applications are able to improve their user experience and productivity by infusing AI/ML into the business processes and customer interactions. Excerpts:

The Impact Of Tech Disruption

While opening up an abundance of new opportunities, these technology disruptions are presenting a formidable challenge to the USD 167-billion (2017-18 revenue) strong Indian IT industry which is employing about four million professionals.

Do Engineers In India Stand Exposed To The current technology Evolution?

The problems most often cited in literature regarding the pitfalls of education and assessment systems in India range from an emphasis on acquisition of learning, outdated curricula and lack of infrastructure to promote computer-aided modeling and visualization solutions.

The T-School Survey: Gearing Up To The New Market Realities

In India, the skills debate is raging for a while. It has become more pronounced when a rapidly changing dynamic industry like ICT going through severe headwinds in the form of a structural recession- changing job roles, skills sets getting obsolete, contraction of market and business volume leading to cyclical unemployment waves. And since then the ICT industry is grappling with change and more recently the ‘Digital Disruption’. Are our ‘Tech Schools’ geared for this disruption?

Combined Skills in Cloud Computing And Devops Can Make One A Master Of Development And Operations

Vineet Chaturvedi, Co-Founder, Edureka in an interview to Dataquest talks about the hottest job realted skills for 2018. Excerpts:

Finally, A Silver Lining

After a lull, the India PC market is showing signs of rebound and indicates a positive outlook as we move forward.

Sustained Momentum

According to Dataquest estimates the overall market for external storage in India stood at ₹2,500 crore, signifying a growth of 10% 

Powering The Datacenters

With India becoming the preferred destination for datacenters, there is an urgent need for the right policies and reforms in the IT infrastructure industry that will spearhead India amongst the top players in the global IT infrastructure market.

Augmented Analytics - The Way Forward

Big data analytics has become a true gamechanger for the business today. Transforming data into actionable intelligence helps organizations to become nimbler and create new business opportunities.