Business
DataQuest
Role Of Artificial Intelligence In Home Automation
With IoT and AI in home automation, technology will soon virtually control all aspects of our personal and professional lives with advanced features.
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October 2018
DataQuest
Our Comprehensive Managed Security Services And Solutions Help Cover Critical Operational Gaps In Cyber Security
Tata Communications is rapidly occupying customer mindshare as a strong player in innovating and building service platforms to drive managed security services solutions aligned to customer needs. The company has a managed security services and solutions which help cover critical operational and capability gaps in cyber security for customers to deliver measurable and effective protection against attacks and malware. In conversation with Dataquest, Avinash Prasad, Vice President, Managed Security Services, Tata Communications, talks about trends in security space and what is company’s business plan. Excerpts:
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October 2018
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Thriving In A Data-driven World
Data provides incremental opportunities for business. The ones who know how to capitalize on them for achieving strategic business goals are more likely to thrive in this digital era. If you put data at the centre of what you do, you can have a 6X improvement in operational efficiency, a 3X increase in profitability, and customer acquisition among other things. This inspires the customers who want to make a change, and technology solution providers need to work cohesively with these customers to help them in this journey, says Paul van der Lingen, Senior Manager- EBC program, EMEA & APAC, NetApp. Excerpts:
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October 2018
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IT Outsourcing: Don't Force Your Customers To Look For A Change
A few years back, IT Services deal renewals were usually to the incumbents. However, it is now estimated that approximately 2/3rd of multi-year IT Services contracts are opened to competitive bidding by customers and incumbents are losing about 50% of the deals coming up for renewal.
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October 2018
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Riding The Tech Bandwagon
The Computing Conference 2018, offered a sneak peek into Alibaba as a company and how it is innovating itself and addressing the disruptive technology forces.
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October 2018
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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 related skills. Excerpts:
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October 2018
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In Motion Identification - A Novel Biometric Tool
No typing, no swiping, no speaking, no fingerprinting; get authenticated and authorized as you just walk by.
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October 2018
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Back To Growth
Software innovation will be the key to sustain future printer market growth
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August 2018
DataQuest
Build Smartly; Build Sustainably
While building cities according to the new age tech is becoming more and more imperative today, it’s also essential to create eco-friendly spaces. Deepak NG, Founder, Dassault Systèmes shares his views with us.
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July 2019
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Football With Cloud
An experiment of using Google Cloud Analytics for the football team of England.
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July 2019
DataQuest
Innovations In Data
Over the last 50 years, Zebra Technologies has seen many industry inflection points and have been fortunate enough to benefit from each one. The common theme in these inflection points has been the continuous trend of increased mobility that ultimately empowers frontline workers. In an exclusive interview with us on its 50th anniversary, Tom Bianculli, CTO, Zebra Technologies, talks about the main driving force behind the organisation and it tech products.
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July 2019
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Bridging The Chasm
Higher education is taking a new turn as we are advancing into this age of ever-evolving new-age technologies. Organisation leaders are feeling the need to train their own skilled professionals according to their requirements. Hence, industry-academia tie ups are becoming more and more important.
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July 2019
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Switch To Cloud To Save Cost
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.
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July 2019
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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.
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February 2019
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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.
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February 2019
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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.
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February 2019
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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.
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February 2019
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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:
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February 2019
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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
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August 2019
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Mahindra École Centrale (MEC) College of Engineering
Graduates its Second Batch of Engineers
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August 2019
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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
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August 2019
DataQuest
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.
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September 2018
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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:
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September 2018
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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.
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September 2018
DataQuest
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:
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September 2018
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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.
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September 2018
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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:
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February 2019
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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:
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February 2019
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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:
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February 2019
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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.
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