Business
DataQuest
"We're excited to support India's push to develop their domestic capabilities in advanced technology"
Ritu Favre, President, Emerson Test & Measurement Business Group, answers a wide range of questions from the test market, acquisition of NI, the India story, AI, data analytics, to their partner ecosystem.
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
SAP NOW AI Tour Mumbai 2025: Business AI at Scale, with India at the Helm
SAP has made a strategic shift from automation to agentic AI — a framework where AI is seamlessly embedded across applications, data, and platforms to unlock autonomous, outcome-driven business processes.
4 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Agentic Al: A la Carte or Table d'hote?
It's only been a few years since SaaS and Cloud models disrupted the IT licensing landscape with a completely new pricing approach. Will it last now? How do you crunch the 'pay as you use' maths in the AI era?
10 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Chief Intelligence Officers? How Gen AI is rewiring the CXO's Brain
Not long ago, executive strategy hinged on experience, instinct, and PowerPoint decks.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
The New C-Suite Ally: Generative AI
The role of Chief Executives and their C-suite counterparts is profoundly transformed, driven by the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI (GenAI).
7 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Packing a punch with containerised AI applications
Just like no two lunchboxes look the same, there are endless possibilities and considerations in the development of a modernised IT infrastructure.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Is Nuke the Next Normal?
All SMRs utilise nuclear energy, but not all SMRs function the same way. Which one do you prefer?
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
AI is like a super coder at our disposal
Ultimately, we need to shift from AI vs. developers to an AI + developers' mindset, advises Nagasanthosh Joysula, Co-founder of TableSprint, as he unpacks the new trend and possibilities of Vibe coding, while also addressing concerns around quality, accuracy, the value of human lens, copyrights, citizen-coding etc.
5 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Public sector in India is looking at the next wave of digitization and digital transformation
Shipra Sinha, Lead Analyst – Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR), engaged in a conversation with Rishi Mehta, President and CEO of WAISL, and Pankaj Gupta, Leader – Public Sector, AWS India and South Asia, to explore how digital transformation is reshaping India’s public sector and aviation industries.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
India's Critical Role: Flexera's CTO on Strategic Growth and Talent
As the pace of digital transformation speeds up, Flexera is investing even more into India, in particular as a strategic hub for innovation, product development, and customer success.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
How Enterprises Can Rethink Data Management in the AI Era
Enterprises are generating data at an unprecedented scale, requiring a shift from traditional storage to AI-driven solutions. Sanjay Agrawal from Hitachi Vantara discusses how enterprises can rethink data management with AI.
4 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Generative AI and New Geopolitics
Why does the US government restrict companies like NVIDIA from supplying GPUs to other countries, including China? What did the fall in NVIDIA and other tech giants of the USA share prices with the launch of the DeepSeek signal? What is the response of the USA and other countries?
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Betting on AI vs. Banking on AI
AI in banking is as much about privacy, transparency and explainability as it is about higher wallet-share and personalisation. Rajashekara V. Maiya, VP and Global Head of Business Consulting, Infosys Finacle, explains why, and how carefully, banks are embracing AI while he also assesses the prospects of microservices, APIs, open banking, embedded finance, decentralised financing, capital markets, wealth management in this shift to AI-assisted and AI-driven banking.
4 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
If IT is the curate's egg, can the right open source wipe away all the egg-shells?
We are not No.1, says this CTO.
10+ min |
May 2025
DataQuest
How Oberoi Realty is Redefining Luxury Real Estate Through Digital Transformation
In an exclusive interview, Pankaj Pandit, CIO of Oberoi Realty, discusses how the company is leveraging digital transformation—from AI and IoT to cloud computing and BIM—to redefine customer experiences and operational excellence in luxury real estate.
6 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Liquid Cooling is ideal today, essential tomorrow, says HPE CTO
Ranganath Sadasiva, CTO of HPE India, discusses how generative AI is reshaping enterprise IT, the urgent sustainability challenges facing data centres, and why liquid cooling is the future of high- performance computing.
7 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Red Herrings, where Red Flags should be!
AI-washing is serious, but AI Safety-washing is worth an extra furrow over the eyebrows. When hats are packaged as helmets, the furrow leads to a deeper and darker rabbit-burrow.
7 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
The Identity Illusion: Open-Source Trust in a Post-Perimeter World
Attackers no longer breach networks—they breach assumptions. With federated identity systems powered by open-source code and 80+ machine identities for every human user, security teams face a growing, ungoverned surface. CyberArk's Lavi Lazarovitz lays out why defence-in-depth must now start at the identity layer—and where most stacks fall short.
3 min |
May 2025
DataQuest
Dual role of AI in security-both as a tool for protection & a vulnerability
The DQ Digital Leadership Conclave 2025, themed “India and the AI Revolution,” brought together industry experts to discuss the role of AI in enterprise transformation. A look at the panel on “How Indian IT Services Can Lead in the AI Revolution “
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
The New Bert for a new Mary Poppins - in an AI opera
Would AI be a Shepard tone always — sounding all higher and higher but creating more stress than melody? Or would it be new-world Theremin that we would need to learn with precision, complexity and invisibility? An AI Opera Maestro shares some notes.
10 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Hoodies taking over lab coats
From vector databases to hallucinations, to the purity of open source, to how hyper-personalisation and real-time delights are redefining the afternoon shift of databases – this CTO reorganises a lot of shelves. And in a fun way!
7 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Trump's 26% Tariffs: A Setback or a Strategic Opportunity for India's ICT Industry?
The global tech sector, already dealing with supply chain disruptions and semiconductor shortages, now faces the prospect of steeper import taxes that could reshape the competitive landscape.
4 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
We must move from data collection to strategic data utilization
The Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave provided an engaging discussion on the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in India. Key industry experts in AI and data analytics were brought to a panel discussion.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Is Cheaper Also Weaker?
DeepSeek, with a new frontier reasoning model, came like a storm and shook up the AI and LLM space in an abrupt and big way. Now that the dust is settling, it's a good time to understand its security specs. Many experts and reports have pointed out some new question marks around hardcoded keys, data control, weak encryption, SQL risks, information exposure and jail-breaks.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Changing Red Flags to Red Teams
Do not punish or embarrass employees for poor security behaviour. Reward them for positive steps and reinforce safe behaviour. Humans may look like your weakest links, but they can also be knock-out moves.
4 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Strengthening Academia-Industry Collaboration: Vaishnaw's Vision for AI Research in India
India aims to be an AI superpower by 2047, with academia playing a key role. Vaishnaw urges universities to scale AI research, labs, and industry collaboration.
2 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
India might see its first 'Made in India Chip' soon this year: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Ashwini Vaishnaw receives IT Person of the Year Award, highlights India's first 'Made in India' chip, AI advancements, and the nation's push toward tech leadership.
2 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Agentic AI set to revolutionize enterprise security strategies
In Dataquest conclave, a heated panel discussion about reshaping the cyber resilience landscape, enabling enterprises to detect, analyze, and respond to threats in real-time.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Lessons from forest fires and other disasters: Insurance gap and underinsurance
Technology failures, earthquakes, cyberattacks, data breaches, power failures, cooling system breakdowns, natural disasters, fires, business interruption losses, and regulatory penalties for downtime or data loss – is the insurance industry looking at technology from the other side of the table also now while it taps it for fraud control, real-time policy personalisation and sharper underwriting? Irfan Shirwani, MD of Placement & Claims, Lockton India, takes us through these new riders and bets. He also highlights why economic loss in most of the disasters is multiple folds of the insured losses- and more so in India.
4 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Keynote Highlights from Jury Chair Raman Roy
At the Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave & 32nd ICT Business Awards, Raman Roy, CMD of Quatrro BPO Solutions, delivered an engaging and insightful Keynote as the Jury Chair.
1 min |