ZEE5 establishes global footprint with Microsoft Azure as its chosen cloud service partner
ZEE5, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.’s globally launched digital entertainment platform has chosen to take its unrivalled library of multi-genre and multi-language content to the world with Microsoft Azure. Through this continued partnership, ZEE5 plans to leverage Microsoft Azure solutions to further empower its platform on an international stage. ZEE5 went live in 190+ markets worldwide... By CIO&Leader
IBM’s Red Hat deal – What changes for the CIO?
The analyst community has already given a thumbs-down to the IBM-Red Hat deal. One analyst has famously called it a ‘desperate deal’. After falling behind Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the public cloud race, IBM needed to do something to keep itself relevant. While championing ‘hybrid’ was the logical position to take for IBM, there was very little to show. Theoretically, it either had to do... By CIO&Leader
Enabling employees to change jobs within their organization can increase their likelihood to stay: Gartner
Increased competition in the external labor market is making it harder for organizations to attract new candidates and retain their best talent, according to Gartner. This is compounded by today’s historically low unemployment rates, which have put pressure on traditional talent management strategies, and mean that it is taking longer and costing more to hire critical talent. To combat this... By CIO&Leader
Securing e-procurements through digital signatures
In today’s times, technology evolves real fast…the flip side, so do hackers. Armed with a deviously brilliant mind and superior knowledge of the latest technologies, hackers are breaching organization’s cybersecurity with such surprising ease that’s its worrisome. The latest victim of a sophisticated cyber fraud has been the Madhya Pradesh (MP) government. Dubbed as the ‘e-tender scam’, the... By Ved Prakash
Majority of Indian organizations still in early stages of cloud maturity: Study
More than 93% of the Indian organizations are still in the early stages of maturity, according to IDC India’s latest study, titled IDC MaturityScape Benchmark: Cloud in India, 2018. This in IDC MaturityScape’s model are referred to as ad hoc and opportunistic stages. Compared to the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) markets, with more than 14% of the organizations in the latter stages of... By CIO&Leader
SD-WAN deployments increase but networking and security challenges remain
A new global research report by Barracuda Networks, “Security, Connectivity, and Control: The Challenges and Opportunities of SD-WAN” surveyed IT leaders and networking and security professionals to learn how widespread SD-WAN deployments are, how organizations are deploying them, and what benefits and challenges they’re seeing. Overall, the study indicates that SD-WAN deployments are increasing... By CIO&Leader
APAC ahead of US and EMEA in security policy automation: Study
APAC is ahead of the US and EMEA in terms of automation for processes involved in the management of firewall rules and security policy, according to the results of a global survey conducted by Osterman Research, Understanding Security Processes and the Need to Automate. The survey, which includes responses from 465 senior security leaders at large enterprises in the US, EMEA and APAC, reveals... By CIO&Leader
Security solution revenues in APeJ to rise in 2022: IDC
Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) spending on security related hardware, software and services will reach USD 28.76 billion in 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.7% over the forecast period 2017-22, according to IDC Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide. Security spending is estimated to reach USD 13.41 billion this year, an increase of 19.6% against 2017.... By CIO&Leader
Dell Technologies secures hyper-converged infrastructure certification for SAP HANA production environments
Dell Technologies recently announced that Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances, powered by VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN software, are certified by SAP for SAP HANA production environments. The certifications, for both VxRail and VMware software, reflect VMware and Dell EMC’s continued leadership in the rapidly growing HCI industry. According to the latest research from IDC... By CIO&Leader
Global IT spending to rise in 2019: Gartner
Worldwide IT spending will total USD 3.8 trillion in 2019, an increase of 3.2% from expected spending of USD 3.7 trillion in 2018, according to Gartner. Enterprise software spending is forecast to experience the highest growth with an 8.3% increase in 2019 (see Table 1). Software as a service (SaaS) is driving growth in almost all software segments, particularly customer relationship management... By CIO&Leader
Be open!
In the past two years, I must have pointed this out several times in my stories, editorials and columns – the CIO’s job is changing from an inside-out profile to outside-in profile. As organizations proactively embrace digital, the expectations are very high. But as you have probably read in many research reports of late, a lot of digital journeys fail completely. While some reports try to... By Shyamanuja Das