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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.
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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?
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July 2025
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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.
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July 2025
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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.
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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.
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July 2025
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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.
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July 2025
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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.
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July 2025
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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.
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June 2025
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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.
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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.
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June 2025
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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June 2025
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Cyber Warfare and Defence: The Hidden Conflict
Cyber warfare is the new battleground—silent, borderless, and increasingly central to modern conflict.
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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.
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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.
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June 2025
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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.
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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?
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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.
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June 2025
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Rewriting the Rules of HR: Nuvoco's SMART Approach to Workforce Transformation
What happens when a traditionally industrial brand begins to think, act, and scale like a digital native? At Nuvoco, 'SMART' isn't just branding—it's a blueprint for how people, platforms, and performance come together to build what's next in a safer, smarter, and more sustainable way.
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June 2025
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Targeting Threats with Precision
Inside Target's Cybersecurity Strategy: Tackling Fraud Rings and more with AI-Powered Defences.
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June 2025
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Why Real-Time Data Architecture Is the Cornerstone of AI Success
Aerospike Founder and CTO Srini Srinivasan outlines how real-time data architecture empowers CxOs to scale AI, elevate customer experience, and lead in the AI-driven enterprise era.
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June 2025
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AI isn't replacing people— it's empowering them
The future of HR is human and machines. Chief People Officer Agnes Garaba explains how UiPath blends emotional intelligence with agentic AI to create a workplace where people thrive alongside intelligent automation.
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June 2025
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Do glass elevators matter?
In a world where women have to work hard on self-advocacy, face high expectations, manage tight timelines, cruise through a little margin of error, work around corporate politics, handle biased judgments, and battle unequal recognition - how fair and comfortable is the view from the top? Why are second innings and non-linear career paths important for women? Let’s sit besides Purvi Shah, an impactful CIO, with a métier that spans Real Estate, Banking, Telecom, Vehicle Finance, and Paper Stationery Exports). She helps us see this all from a window that is not gilded, not blocked with heavy curtains and bravely adorns a lighthouse.
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June 2025
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Rethinking Finance: Where AI Acts, Explains, and Anticipates
As AI shifts from suggesting to acting—and from automating to anticipating—the finance function is entering a new phase. BlackLine’s CTO, Jeremy Ung, unpacks what it takes for CFOs to lead when decisions are no longer made at month-end, but in milliseconds.
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June 2025
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The 5-second rule: Does it apply to ice-creams?
While the jury is out on that one, with solid resistance from kids and popsicle-lovers, one thing is for sureit surely applies to all the data around your ice-cream today. It cannot be dropped on the floors of ignorance or delays. IT and marketing teams have to eat it in real-time, before it melts. Arvind Ramachandran, Vice President — Marketing, Dairy Day Ice Creams, a leading ice cream brand across South & West India (that has grown to 80,000 outlets across 8 states) gives us a generous scoop on that, and more.
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June 2025
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"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.
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May 2025
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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.
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