Business
DataQuest
How India’s MSMEs Are Embracing Tech and What’s Holding Them Back
On World MSME Day 2025, India’s small businesses show rising digital adoption, but face barriers in integration, skills, and access to strategic support.
8 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
GenAI doing the heavy lifting for fraudsters
Praveen Kulkarni, Director-Security, Risk & Governance at OpenText India unpacks the flip side of GenAI—what happens when AI takes a walk in the dark alleys of our business cities. Why is there a FraudGPT and WormGPT after every ChatGPT?
4 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
AI is foundational to how modern EdTech and Skilltech platforms operate
From driving hyper-personalised learning journeys to real-time doubt resolution and adaptive content delivery, AI is helping platforms deliver scalable, high-impact education across diverse learner segments, says Ankur Dhawan, Chief Product & Technology Officer, upGrad.
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July 2025
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CISOS, Boards, CIOS: Not dancing Tango. But Boxing.
What happens when parents in the house talk to each other in different languages? What happens when one greets whistleblowers and one shuts the door on them? What makes it easy for burglars - a house with not-enough locks or constant dinner-table arguments on which doors to lock? What happens when Good Cop-Bad Cop start fighting themselves?
8 min |
July 2025
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The Future of Data Center Cooling: Embracing Liquid Cooling for High-Density AI Workloads
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms the digital universe, data centers are laying the foundation for a new era of computing on a massive scale. However, the rapidly increasing demand for AI-driven workloads—such as training large language models, generative AI, and deep learning—requires substantial power, leading to a new generation of high-density computing infrastructure.
3 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Our target audience does not watch content thrown at it randomly
Working in the background, it drives the platform’s content management strategy as well as its advertising programming so neatly that it shines even when it is not visible. That’s data in the hands of smart databases and architectures at Sony LIV. And here’s how it plays out.
5 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Guardians of the Grid
Tata Motors has transformed its cybersecurity strategy to match the increasing complexity of connected vehicles and digital manufacturing. Security is now being woven into the organizational DNA, into every layer of the vehicles (design, supply chain, operation and interoperability), cloud platforms, regulations, etc. The company is now seeking cyber resilience as a business obligation rather than a regulatory cost of compliance.
4 min |
July 2025
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The ketchup you get by growing tomatoes for others
Synthetic data, RAG, crunching fruits from the shells of data patterns, cracking the Moravec's paradox, executing Computer Vision on the ground and a lot more—even when you invest tech seeds in someone's else's land, the fruits can fall in your backyard. Who better than a wealth-management firm to show that!
6 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Cybersecurity must enable business, not hinder it
Generative AI is a double-edged sword. In addition to strengthening a defender's capabilities it also enables attackers to produce incredibly real emails and phishing materials, deepfakes, and automated tools for exploitation.
4 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Al can't act as a replacement of physical manpower in DCs
We are moving towards smart data centres. Major vendors of IT and non-IT equipment have adopted AI, driven by market demand from customers and service providers. Basic specifications of all major IT and non-IT equipment come with AI-operated predictive control.
7 min |
July 2025
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Al Cybersecurity: Getting sea legs, are we?
It's a new deck altogether and there's so much that can cause sea- sickness in these new, vast and unfamiliar oceans. What should enterprises remember before onboarding AI?
5 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Al-fuelled attacks are here — and so is Al-driven defence
As AI becomes the preferred tool for both hackers and defenders, the cybersecurity battlefield is starting to look more like an AI chess match— except both sides are playing blindfold, and the rules keep changing. Huzefa Motiwala of Palo Alto Networks unpacks the curious case of “AI versus AI” and why the future of cyber defence might depend less on muscle and more on machine learning.
5 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Prefab is now fab
From modular data centres to nuclear infra to DCaaS to AI inferencing workloads to AI data centre rollbacks and power guzzlers—Anjani Kumar Kommisetti, Head of Business, Rhine XCircle covers a lot of corners of today’s and upcoming data centres. Let’s untangle some wires here.
8 min |
July 2025
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Identity is the new perimeter
As attackers evolve like swiftly agile startups, and AI enhances both the attack surface and our defence capabilities, Group CISO Dr. Yusuf Hashmi of the Jubilant Bhartia Group explains how the conglomerate embraced behavioural analytics, Zero Trust and machine-speed SOC responses to not just keep up, but stay ahead.
2 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Securing the future of the digital ecosystem
In this in-depth conversation, Fabio Fratucello, Field CTТО Worldwide, Crowdstrike, shares his perspective on the global threat landscape, the rise of industrialised cybercrime, and why a platform based, Zero Trust strategy is essential in the age of sophisticated adversaries.
6 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Intelligence in America—With Al's grey cells and AWS's synapses
Can bureaucracy be strengthened or diluted with IT? Can classified areas, document filtering and secret departments find new allies in AI and Cloud? At the 15th annual AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC, AWS shared its support for national security and defence, as well as updates on AWS's custom chips and other announcements.
6 min |
July 2025
DataQuest
Shantha Maheshwari: Leading with Grit and Grace in Tech's Male-Dominated World
Shantha openly discusses the challenges women face in tech's C-suite and provides valuable insight into creating inclusion, building healthy pipelines for female leaders and inspiring a new generation to lead intentionally and authentically.
3 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Assertive men — strong! Assertive women — aggressive!
We're often expected to ‘carry the culture’ while also driving business results. Men are often assessed on both their current performance and their potential, whereas women are evaluated primarily on their output. Labels, sisterhood, succession planning, broken rungs—there’s so much that women should boldly address. Kavita Mehra, General Manager of Dell Technologies’ India Centre of Excellence, unravels all these nuanced constraints and biases that women leaders have been facing, but are now bravely conquering. And she urges women leaders to be unapologetic because they have earned their seats, and to raise their voice, sometimes literally.
7 min |
June 2025
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LinkedIn's Nithya Rajagopalan on growing and backing women tech leaders
\"You don't have to play by someone else's rules.\"- to Nithya Rajagopalan, LMS Lead and Director of Talent Enterprise Products at LinkedIn India, these words are not just a statement, they are a way to rethink the practice of leadership in technology.
5 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
NOT A TRIBUTE, BUT A MIRROR AND A MEGAPHONE
In May, the daily briefings of Operation Sindoor—India’s resolute answer to cross-border terrorism—were fronted by two women: Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh.
2 min |
June 2025
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If you've ever been called too much, too emotional, too bold — that's your badge of honour.
She does not believe in talking about corporate ladders but about building bridges. She confronts the tough dilemma of being a juggler and a sniper at the same time. She bravely points out the struggle of internalised shame of balancing work success with personal life.
10 min |
June 2025
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Defying gravity: What it takes to build women leaders in tech
In a candid discussion with Dataquest, three trailblazers - Sharda Tickoo (Country Manager, Trend Micro), Hemapriya Dharshini (SVP, Agilisium Consulting), and Hardika Shah (Founder & CEO, Kinara Capital) - speak about their journeys, the barriers they broke, and the legacy they want to leave for the next generation.
5 min |
June 2025
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Green, Fast, and Al-Ready: The Data Centre Formula Digital Connexion Is Betting On
Where Performance Meets Planet: How Digital Connexion Is Building India's AI-Ready, Sustainable, Ultra-Connected Data Centres.
3 min |
June 2025
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Why MAGA will automatically lead to MIGA
One never knows when the law of unintended consequences will kick in. US President Donald Trump wants to Make America Great Again. But many of his actions could well end up weakening some aspects of American trade and internal supply chains. India, on the other hand, has a golden opportunity to strive for a new kind of greatness.
4 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
Cyber Warfare and Defence: The Hidden Conflict
Cyber warfare is the new battleground—silent, borderless, and increasingly central to modern conflict.
5 min |
June 2025
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Cars24. Not Cars......24. Here’s how data crosses that distance
Selling or buying a car is different from selling or buying a burger. But can it be made that easy, and that fun? By changing the wheels of speed, transparency, immersive experience and ecosystem-trust? Abhishek Gupta, AVP - BI & Strategy at Cars24 shows us some of those spins and helps us steal a peek at what's inside the trunkand it’s not just AI-video-tours or a swipe-that-app experience but also the data pistons and analytics engine oil busy at work inside.
5 min |
June 2025
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When Grit Meets Code
Technology’s future is being shaped by women who refuse to be sidelined. Against entrenched biases and systemic hurdles, these leaders are advancing the frontier of innovation while redefining what leadership looks like in tech. Their journeys reveal a powerful blend of technical skill, strategic vision, and human empathy that challenges conventions and drives meaningful change.
6 min |
June 2025
DataQuest
The world is Black and White. No Blues here.
And definitely, and imprimis, no pink prisms, as we discover in this quick, but deep and ruthlessly-honest, chat with Charu Bhargava, Senior Vice President, Sheela Foam.
3 min |
June 2025
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When men hit a rough patch, they recalibrate. For women, it's the Exit Door.
Tricky board-rooms, Golf, Cigar rooms, Whisky tastings - what do women leaders navigate apart from all the other challenges, red velvet ropes and gate-keepers as they ascend the leadership mountain? Do they hold themselves back? Do they internalise their difference instead of using it as a differentiator? Are their ideas overlooked until someone else repeats them?
8 min |
June 2025
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Not Just a Seat at the Table: Supriya Patil on Redefining the Tech C-Suite for Women
When Supriya Patil began her career in technology, she wasn't chasing titles—she was chasing solutions. With a natural sense of curiosity and a desire to step outside of 'normal' convention, she quickly stepped outside of conventional boundaries in a fashion that redefined not only the problem she solved, but how she even thought of and approached that problem.
6 min |