100 million consumers will shop in AR online and in-store by 2020: Gartner
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have the potential to shake up the customer experience by individualizing retailers’ offers and enabling customers to visualize products in different settings. By 2020, 100 million consumers will shop in AR online and in-store, according to Gartner. “Retailers are under increasing pressure to explain the purpose of physical stores,... By CIO&Leader
Transforming data management with cloud
Organizations across the world have been accelerating their digital transformation efforts by adopting new technologies, implementing more automation, enhancing networks, and adding new kinds of endpoints to the enterprise IT. The result is unmanageable amount of data volumes. But data is the lifeblood of any business. In fact, data provides the intrinsic value to a business – it can be its... By CIO&Leader
Organizations not protecting their cloud and SaaS data effectively: Study
A recent research by Barracuda’s study, titled Closing Backup and Recovery Gaps reveals new details about the attitudes and approaches SMBs have when it comes to backing up and recovering data, the impact that cloud and SaaS solutions are having on data protection strategies, and confusion that is exposing firms to significant risk. Barracuda surveyed more than 1,000 IT professionals, business... By CIO&Leader
Majority of Indian businesses struggle with adequate data protection: Study
There is an increasing growth rate of data of 130% in Indian organizations (vis-à-vis Globally: 569%) and an impressive jump in data protection “adopters” of nearly 50 percentage points (48%) since 2016, according to Dell EMC’s third Global Data Protection Index. The research, which surveyed 2,200 IT decision makers from both public and private organizations with 250+ employees across 18... By CIO&Leader
Gender diversity is not charity!
After two decades of discussion, gender diversity is still not a ‘business’ agenda item for Indian corporates. At best, it is considered a ‘social’ responsibility; at the worst, it is not even on the radar. We still get to hear the same arguments that we heard then — why do we need to specially ‘do’ something? Is non-discrimination—itself highly debatable—enough? No sir, it is not. Men and... By Shyamanuja Das
Nutanix ramps up India investment with new customer support center
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced the opening of a new customer support center in Pune in another sign of the enterprise cloud leader’s continued commitment and investment in India and the wider Asia Pacific. The new support center will be part of the Nutanix global service and support function, helping enable 24-hour support to customers worldwide as part of Nutanix... By CIO&Leader
Accelerating business through customer centricity
Customer centricity is a reflection of our culture, process, customer experience, customer friendliness and customer satisfaction surveys. It is also an association of our product and quality services offered to our long-standing customers. According to a recent research, 89% of businesses are soon to be expected to compete mainly on customer experience. This approach will surely lead to the end... By Susheel Sharma
Majority of today's project management tasks to be eliminated by 2030 with AI's impact: Gartner
By 2030, 80% of the work of today’s project management (PM) discipline will be eliminated as artificial intelligence (AI) takes on traditional PM functions such as data collection, tracking and reporting, according to Gartner. “AI is going to revolutionize how program and portfolio management (PPM) leaders leverage technology to support their business goals,” said Daniel Stang,... By CIO&Leader
Zoho's Site24x7 launches cost analytics solution for public cloud platforms
Site24x7, the cloud-based performance monitoring solution for DevOps and IT operations from Zoho Corporation, announced the launch of Site24x7 CloudSpend, its cost analytics solution for public cloud platforms. The new solution is aimed at bridging the gap between capacity planning and cost optimization for resources running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. CloudSpend’s business... By CIO&Leader
An automated response to endless zero-days
The number of vulnerabilities available to cybercriminals continues to accelerate. But according to one recent report, of the over 100,000 vulnerabilities published to the CVE list, less than 6% were actually exploited in the wild. The challenge is that predicting which vulnerability will be targeted next, and which exploit will be used, requires advanced strategies, such as leveraging... By Rajesh Maurya
Plantronics and Polycom relaunches as 'Poly' to boost communication and collaboration in modern workspace
Plantronics announced that the company will transform into Poly, a technology company focused on the human experience of communications and collaboration, aiming to make communication as rich and natural as in-person. Poly, which means “many”, leverages the legendary audio and video expertise of Plantronics and Polycom and its breadth of smart endpoints that connect across and between unified... By CIO&Leader