Business
DataQuest
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.
5 min |
February 2019
DataQuest
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.
3 min |
February 2019
DataQuest
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.
3 min |
February 2019
DataQuest
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.
3 min |
February 2019
DataQuest
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:
4 min |
February 2019
DataQuest
Grab's R&d In India Aligns Efforts With Strategic Focus Areas
Southeast Asia’s ridehailing major and Online to Offline (O2O) mobile platform, Grab has an ambitious mission of enabling 100 million micro-entrepreneurs in South-East Asia within the next two years. Grab’s Bangalore R&D center, which played a crucial role in building the payment and financial services solutions for the platform is now expanding its scopes to newer areas such as mapping, transport, security and data engineering etc. and building strong teams to work on those areas as well. Vikas Agrawal, CTO, and Head of Engineering at Grab Financial Group shares more details on the work being done by the India R&D teams, and the tech talents they are looking to tap for further expansion.
3 min |
March 2019
DataQuest
Multimodal Biometrics: The Way Ahead
The Japanese tech major, NEC has proven its mettle in the field of biometric identification and has made a significant contribution to India’s national identification system too by developing a largescale biometrics system which is the centerpiece of Aadhaar. Katsumi Emura, Chief Technology Officer, NEC Corporation talks about the new tech offerings from the company and discusses some of the opportunities lying ahead for the company in India. Excerpt:
3 min |
March 2019
DataQuest
CIOs: The Captain to Direct and Steer the “ai Ship” for the future
A basic understanding of the organizations’ current or proposed AI ecosystem, and the support it can provide to the overall organizational goals can be obtained by engaging with all lines of business by kick-starting and ensuring constant conversations and pre-empting discussions with all leaders on their AI needs and wants
3 min |
March 2019
DataQuest
Artificial Intelligence In CPG: What To Expect?
The AI techniques have seen the potential to transform the different aspects of the industry in the future, provided CPG brands have resources and governance in place
3 min |
March 2019
DataQuest
How To Create A Digital Ecosystem
A practical approach to Digital Transformation and best practices by leading CIOs
10 min |
July 2018
DataQuest
The Digital Divide
Global study reveals gap between CEO expectations for Digital Transformation and IT organization readiness. A poll of 1,200 it executives and it personnel shows significant gap between business expectations and digital transformation readiness.
3 min |
July 2018
DataQuest
The Iot Disruption
The information technology landscape is not new to disruptions. One such disruption that is billed as the true ‘new normal technology’ is Internet of Things (IoT).
8 min |
July 2018
DataQuest
Hyperscale: Redefining The Economics Of Datacenters
Over the years, businesses have relied on datacenters to manage their applications and data cost effectively. However with changing business needs, these traditional datacenters often end-up becoming siloed in the way they manage workloads.
4 min |
July 2018
DataQuest
Securing Your It Organization For The New Normal
As enterprises transition to the new normal digital economy calls for a radical and fresh new approach to managing the security challenges IT organizations face today.
5 min |
July 2018
DataQuest
We Help Developers Work Faster By Automating Repetitive Tasks
JetBrains is an international company with headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic., which has been creating award-winning tools for software developers over the last 18 years. The company strives to create the best software tools and solutions in the market; to enable developers to focus on creating and writing cutting-edge code. In an exclusive conversation with Dataquest, Javed Mohamed, Country Head, JetBrains India, talks about the major trends in the Indian IT industry, the role of developers in digital transformation and how JetBrains’ solutions help boost this further. Excerpts:
3 min |
July 2018
DataQuest
What Artificial Intelligence Means To Businesses In Terms Of Cost Optimization, Efficiency And HR
Artificial Intelligence magnifies the role of Hr professionals into a much broader and strategic role, which is backed with data analytics and AI-driven insights
3 min |
November 2018
DataQuest
Listening – Key To Understanding Your Customer
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close, in fact, that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves. - Steve jobs
2 min |
November 2018
DataQuest
Outlook & Priorities 2019
As we sign out of this year and step into 2019, what is in store for supply and demand side of IT? Here we present insights from prominent leaders from the tech industry who share their strategy and roadmap for 2019
10+ min |
November 2018
DataQuest
The Digital Tipping Point
Digital has been a talking point for some time, where are we in terms of this transformation? Is enterprise IT organizations embracing digital in a big way?
7 min |
November 2018
DataQuest
A Panacea Called Devops
A radical intervention is needed to uplift the ailing current software development practices and why is DevOps being touted as the key to better software and touted as the panacea
7 min |
November 2018
DataQuest
Are You A New Age CIO?
With disruptive tech forces changing the enterprsie computing dynamcis, as a CIO are you reinventing your IT organization to stay relevant in the market place?
7 min |
November 2018
DataQuest
Nutanix Mine With Veeam Simplifies Secondary Storage
Nutanix and Veeam announced Nutanix Mine with Veeam.
1 min |
May 2019
DataQuest
Government of Telangana Aims to Extend its Government Services Platform on Mobile
After successfully delivering citizen services over MeeSeva platform for 5 years, Telangana govt. is busy setting up T-Folio to extend the same over smartphones
4 min |
April 2018
DataQuest
Time Is Now For A Digital Capability Maturity Model
Digital disruption is testing the glory days of the IT Organization and how truly the CIO is also doubling as a business leader. So, are CIOs ready to embrace Digital and take their enterprises to next orbit of growth?
7 min |
April 2018
DataQuest
How to Recharge Manufacturing with IoT
IoT holds immense potential and promise throughout the value chain across multiple segments of the manufacturing and logistics industries. But there are numerous challenges that must be addressed before exploiting the full potential of IoT
3 min |
September 2016
DataQuest
Preparing IT for GST Era
GST deployment is being seen as a transformation opportunity for the taxation and supply chain teams but the critical role of the CIO is being missed
4 min |
September 2016
DataQuest
IT Industry Becomes Obsolete Every Three Years
Vineet Nayar was recently chosen for the Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the Indian IT industry specifically in organizing and building the Indian software industry. Nayar has now shifted his focus from the IT industry and paying full attention to the education of rural kids through his NGO - Sampark Foundation.
4 min |
May 2017
DataQuest
Digitization Creates Jobs And Efficiency In The System
Digital transformation requires changes, to both processes and IT systems that are more challenging to implement in the public sector than in the private sector. In a conversation with Dataquest, Smt. Kiran Soni Gupta, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, talks on how digitization of Government Departments play a significant role in propelling the digital drive in the country. —KIRAN SONI GUPTA Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports & Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India
6 min |
May 2017
DataQuest
6 Crore Rural Citizens To Become Digitally Literate In 3 Years
As the Indian Government took the path towards a more tech savvy India, it became one of the biggest adopters of IT. To step a notch ahead of others, many actions were taken in a bid to develop the rural areas as well. To comprehend the government’s IT initiatives in villages, Dataquest delved into a conversation with Dr. Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, CEO, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited to get a better understanding on the various IT services implemented under the Common Services Centres scheme
5 min |
May 2017
DataQuest
A Cloud Database Solution Cuts A Pharma Company's CapEx by $25,000
By migrating to a high-performing, secure, reliable and scalable PaaS solution, Mankind Pharma has reduced capital expenditure by $25,000 and storage costs by $6,000. now, the company claims to create reports 11x faster and deliver training to global users 5x faster by launching training environment in just two days
2 min |