Business
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 |
April 2025
DataQuest
AI agents will totally change teamwork and collaboration in ops
AI has made such a difference to learning and skill development. Know the growing importance of small language models (SLMs) that are industry specific at the Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
New Snellen charts for new blind spots
LLM-generated malware, customised malware, bloated data lakes, slow queries and too many point solutions- here's a quick myopia-test on security.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
A great evening spanning decades of innovation
We have an IT legacy that goes back to the 1970s. We have built up all the foundation stones in the last decade or so. There's nothing stopping us from being an AI superpower by 2047. Sunil Rajguru looks into an evening that featured the stalwarts of the game.
7 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Blockchain benefits can lead to reliable AI driven decision making
Blockchain can offer the much needed transparency and security needed for the reliable AI driven decision making. Know more about The AI Revolution on how blockchain is going to change how Enterprises make decisions.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
India gearing to lead global AI revolution much sooner than 2047
India is accelerating towards AI dominance with plans for 14,000 GPUs, AI democratization, and its first indigenous AI chip in four years. Can it lead the AI revolution?
4 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Robust reasoning, multi-modality, and collaborative agent systems are the key advancements shaping the future of AI agents
On the sidelines of the TrailblazerDX 2025 event, San Fransisco, Shipra Sinha, Lead Analyst - Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR) sat down with Jayesh Govindarajan, EVP Software Engineering at Salesforce. Jayesh leads the Salesforce AI org and his team is tasked with setting strategy, designing, building and operating Predictive, Generative and Agentic AI systems.
5 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
GCC-startup collaboration with academia will drive AI adoption
In an engaging session at the Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave & 32nd ICT Business Awards Jaspreet Singh, delivered a thought-provoking keynote address on India and the AI Revolution.
4 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Vaishnaw challenges Big Tech-TCS, Infosys & Wipro-to build India's own OS
He added that the government is prepared to provide the necessary support, resources, and policies to facilitate this vision.
1 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Women in AI leadership could be the key to responsible AI use
The Dataquest conclave witnessed vocal conversation on Reimagining AI through the lens of women leaders — driving innovation, equity, and impact for all.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
It's not just about the tech, AI + human will be the new "human"
Jaspreet Bindra explores AI's rapid evolution, from generative AI and autonomous agents to ethical challenges, emphasizing AI literacy as the new essential skill.
3 min |
April 2025
DataQuest
Vinod Dham stresses the strategic role of semiconductors in India's tech future
At the Dataquest Digital Leadership Conclave in New Delhi, Guest of Honour Vinod Dham, Padma Bhushan, Father of Pentium addressed the audience. The Keynote address highlights unsung heroes and a call to embrace hardware innovation.
2 min |