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DataQuest
Cognizant CAIO Babak Hodjat explains how Agentic AI will transform enterprises
Cognizant CAIO Babak Hodjat discusses agentic AI, sovereign compute, multilingual models, and Green AI, outlining how India can translate its AI ambitions into scalable enterprise impact and ecosystem growth.
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March 2026
DataQuest
Are You Bleeding While Leading?
The stress is compounded because of global trade tensions and increased volatility in financial markets
6 min |
March 2026
DataQuest
FROM RANK TO READINESS: WHAT DEFINES INDIA'S BEST T-SCHOOLS IN 2026
Dataquest-CMR's 2026 survey shifts from scale to outcomes, measuring placements, research, industry integration, and governance to judge readiness.
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March 2026
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India's test-drive, World's triathlon
Pushing the needle, by threading the AI needle- AWS' top honcho shares how partners matter in bridging the gap between what customers need and what technology solves. And why a pilot in India is as good as a production-scale deployment in any other country.
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March 2026
DataQuest
India's AI moment is not about models alone, but who gets access, trust, and control
At the AI Impact Summit, India’s AI story moved beyond hype to a harder question: can the country build AI that is trusted, inclusive, sovereign, and useful at scale?
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March 2026
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Why India may need a middle-power AI alliance to secure digital sovereignty
India's IndiaAI Mission is bold, but experts argue a middle-power 'CERN for AI' could pool funds and data, to secure sovereign intelligence and public-good outcomes.
3 min |
March 2026
DataQuest
AI slop. Not AI spit. Yet
The shiny flavours of speed and scale with AI can silently burn away deeper and long-term issues like quality, credibility and traceability. AI slop is not just broccoli. It can easily turn into a death-cap mushroom.
8 min |
March 2026
DataQuest
The AI Crayon Box: Where's The Pink?
Bias, under-representation, stereo-types, gender-insensitive UI, Conspicuous gaps on solutions that females need- as we celebrate W-Day; it's a good time to ask, again - Has AI been cognizant of that age-old puzzle that has troubled the best of human brains for centuries: 'What Do Women Want?'
10 min |
March 2026
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Engineering India's Al-First Data Centres at Hyperscale
Rohan Sheth explains how AI and HPC are reshaping India's data centres, from density and cooling to power economics, sustainability, and hyperscale decision criteria.
4 min |
February 2026
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From copilots to colleagues: Why agentic AI is forcing enterprises to rethink control, trust, and culture
As AI agents shift from assisting to acting, enterprises must redesign governance, data controls, and security guardrails so autonomy stays auditable, reversible, and trusted.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Reclaiming Control in the AI Era: A Conversation with Kalyan Kumar, CPO, HCLSoftware
Enterprises are reassessing cloud-first strategies as AI becomes core to operations. HCLSoftware's Kalyan Kumar explains why sovereignty, choice and control now shape decisions.
5 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
When infrastructure learns: The rise of the Al-native core
AI-native infrastructure is moving from concept to operational reality, reshaping how organisations build, govern, and scale intelligence across their digital core.
6 min |
February 2026
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Bridging the gap between connectivity and compute at scale
As AI scales in India, data centres are evolving into high-density, low-latency platforms that unify connectivity, compute, and sustainability at national scale.
4 min |
February 2026
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PUE is not a grapefruit metric, anymore
So what are the new high-hanging fruits for data centre strategists today? And are players going after them?
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Even if Al demand fades, India need not worry - about data centres
For every megawatt (MW) of installed colocation capacity, users here generate approximately 13.2 PB of data monthly- compared to 0.3 PB for Australia and just 0.01 PB for Singapore. India's data centre growth is not dependent on one tech lever. Plus, it is phased and modular and not kneejerk. Manoj Paul explains these contours in detail.
7 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
AI infrastructure and systemic risk
What has been the biggest change in data centre industry-specially after AI workloads? Is Al-bubble a big risk for data centre infra- how much will it affect data centres if something cracks?
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Inside the Shift to High-Density, Al-Ready Data Centres
CtrlS' Vipin Jain discusses what it truly takes to build AI-ready data centres in India, balancing high density, liquid-ready cooling, resilience, and ESG accountability.
4 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Sustainability is now the headline, not a footnote
Sanjay Agrawal, Head Presales and CTO at Hitachi Vantara India and SAARC opines that the conversation is moving beyond headline metrics like PUE toward a broader view of how data lifecycle management and infrastructure efficiency reduce the overall environmental footprint. Let's see why and how- while also touching upon adjacent (or not-so-adjacent) factors like redundancies, availability and AI-readiness
3 min |
February 2026
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Is Al Killing Sustainability?
Six tips for your organization to use AI tools to cut corporate GHG footprint and boost sustainability.
6 min |
February 2026
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Sustainability moves from concept to execution
The transition of sustainability from a conceptual idea to one that is actively being executed.
1 min |
February 2026
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Governing agentic AI when machines begin to decide at scale
As AI agents gain autonomy across enterprise workflows, SAP outlines how accountability, auditability, and human oversight must be engineered by design.
3 min |
February 2026
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Securing the age of autonomous agents at machine speed
As autonomous agents reshape security operations, Zero Trust, and human control are essential to prevent new risks.
3 min |
February 2026
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HPE rewrites the playbook for AI-native infrastructure
By recasting data centres as AI factories, HPE is redefining how enterprises build secure, compliant, and scalable AI-native infrastructure.
7 min |
February 2026
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India's data centre growth and its constraints
What has been the biggest change in the data centre industry in India, and is India echoing global patterns here?
1 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Target's Brad Thompson explains the rise of reliable, responsible agentic AI in retail
Brad Thompson explains how Target is scaling agentic AI across service, data, and operations to boost reliability, strengthen guardrails, and elevate guest experience.
3 min |
February 2026
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Cybersecurity at the Rack: The New Frontline of Data Centre Resilience
For data centre operators supporting BFSI, health-care, emergency services, and AI workloads, such disruption is not just expensive; it can be catastrophic.
3 min |
February 2026
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Why orchestration, not infrastructure, will define the agentic AI enterprise
As AI agents evolve into autonomous digital teammates, enterprises must rethink infrastructure, orchestration, and governance to run agentic workloads at scale.
2 min |
February 2026
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Liquid Cooling is the new 'cool'.
In India, we see the same extreme densification, gigawatt-scale ambitions, and need for utility-independent architectures that define the global AI era- professes Nitin Gavade, Director - IT Solutions, Racks & rPDU, Vertiv while he explains how liquid cooling, high density and modularity are spurring the industry to reimagine data centres.
2 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Power: Not only an environmental call but a financial one!
Scope 2 emissions, renewable power purchase agreements, and PUE no longer stuck in the 1.6 comfort zone. Looks like Sustainability in data centres has moved well beyond optics.
3 min |
February 2026
DataQuest
Inside India's race to build Al-ready data centres at scale
As AI workloads scale, India's data centres are being redefined by power, cooling, sustainability, and trust, transforming them into core infrastructure of the digital economy.
3 min |