DataQuest - November - December 2021

Generative AI: The Race Where The 'Slowest' Wins

Responsibility, caution, transparency, checks and control could be the new set of criteria for winners in an otherwise pound-for-pound game. Why is Generative Al going to be a different race track in the enterprise Olympics and would everyone play ball?

Is It About Gen Alpha And Gen Z?

Pradeep Khanna, who has multiple global roles in the Metaverse/XR ecosystem, looks at the post-ChatGPT Metaverse trends and timelines.

The perils of censorship in the age of tech

As newer and newer technologies come, it becomes easier for the citizens to make their voices heard. But that always rattles the governments of the day and there are always renewed efforts to censor those voices

Amendment virtually censors the Press

The government of India has amended rules that cover fake, false or misleading news along with factchecking. The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) issued a statement against it...

TREAD MARKS THAT LEAD YOU TO A TREASURE ISLAND

'Failure is not an option' by Veer Sagar is as much a chronicle of his personal journey and life-lessons as it is a curation of key events that punctuated and defined the Indian IT landscape. Tips and tricks to navigate leadership, teams, conflicts, contingencies, crisis-hours and camp-escapades - are a big bonus. Read it for a lazy jog down the memory lane of the builders of Indian IT story.

VMs AND CONTAINERS: IRONMAN AND SPIDERMAN

And by that analogy, virtual machines and hyperscalers could be the Marvel and DC Universes. But what if these heroes and universes joined hands instead of being busy with their own super-powers and battles? Are they? We ask Guru Venkatachalam, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, AsiaPacific & Japan, VMware about some recent and future super-forces that are shaping this world

PROCESSING, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF DATA GETTING COMPLICATED

According to Benoit Coquart, Global CEO, of Legrand Group, the areas of growth in India in terms of segments are government (both central and state), Hyperscalers, telecom, finance, logistics and e-commerce-related DCS.

NOT EASY FOR INDIAN PLAYERS TO COMPETE WITH TOP 3 PUBLIC CSPs

Ashish Varerkar, Head of Cloud Native, LTIMindtree gives a lowdown on what's new and what's turbulent in the cloud space-especially with multi-clouds, super cloud, discounts, cloud economics, reasons of poor cloud ROI, FinOps, verticalisation, bundles and poor governance.

AI IS MORE OF AN ENABLER THAN A DISRUPTOR

According to Sourav Ganguly, Head Premier Support at Lenovo Asia Pacific, we must look at the journey of the customer and customize accordingly. Today time is becoming very important at every touch point. The value is for the time and experience together. Edited excerpts from a video interview...

HEALTHY MIX OF DIGITAL WITH HUMAN ASSISTED CX THE KEY

Nikhil Pereira, Customer Experience (CX) Practice Leader at Tech Mahindra talks of leveraging Al to analyze hundreds and thousands of customer touchpoints and feed insights at a macro and micro ecosystem that use technology to provide differentiated service.