Hyperscale providers will account for 80% cloud market share, will lead in equipment spend

Hyperscale cloud providers will soon account for over 80% of all cloud and SaaS service revenues and almost 40% of spend on all public and private data center equipment, according to latest research by Synergy Research Group. Today, 24 hyperscale companies have a global footprint comprising over 360 large datacenters and this figure will continue to grow by almost 20% per year, the research... By CIO&Leader

Onymos and Risan partners to bring disruptive mobile apps development technologies to Asia-Pacific region

Onymos has tied up with Risan to provide a holistic market expansion strategy and means for taking the revolutionary mobile apps development platform to software developers, numbering in thousands, operating throughout the APAC region. Onymos has transformed the art of mobile apps development, where open standards HTML, JavaScript and CSS technologies are made use of, which in turn, cuts... By IT Next

Global IT spending to rise in 2017: Gartner

Global IT spending will total USD 3.5 trillion in 2017, a 2.4% increase from 2016, according to Gartner. This growth rate is up from the previous quarter’s forecast of 1.4%, due to the U.S. dollar decline against many foreign currencies (see Table 1.) “Digital business is having a profound effect on the way business is done and how it is supported,” said John-David Lovelock, vice... By IT Next

Cloud security is not a pushover; Not yet

In public forums, any question regarding cloud security is summarily dismissed by vendors—and some enterprise IT managers—as being too 2012-ish. While vendors do maintain that stance during private conversations too, trying their best to convince you—many CIOs and CISOs do open up. Cloud security is still a significant issue in their minds but expressing any doubts about it is seen as... By Shyamanuja Das

HCL Infosystems and Parablu jointly offers cloud data protection solutions

HCL Infosystems, announces a strategic partnership with Parablu, under which HCL Infosystems will offer Parablu's products and solutions including BluVault, a powerful data backup solution that protects on-premise data by backing it up to the cloud. This technology enables enterprises to store business assets in the cloud while maintaining privacy, security and confidentiality of... By CIO&Leader

NEXT100 Winner Priya Dar gets promoted as CIO of Godfrey Phillips India

Priya Dar, Head of IT Applications at Godfrey Phillips has been appointed to serve as CIO at the company. Dar, who is a 2016 NEXT100 Winner and was among the 7 women IT leaders felicitated at the NEXT100 Awards in December 2016.   She was promoted to the new position in June this year.    Dar served as the Head of IT Applications at Godfrey Phillips India from... By CIO&Leader

Webinar - Augmenting DNS Security in the Digital Era

Domain Name System (DNS) services are frequently becoming an organization's Achilles' heel. DNS (UDP) is the 2nd most attacked protocol in the network today after http. As a result, cyber security or specifically, DNS Security is a growing concern for enterprises and CISOs seeking to digitally transform their organizations.  Hear Nikhil Singh - Business Head -Telecom at F5 Networks in... By CIO&Leader

Global cloud IT infrastructure revenues rise in Q1 2017: IDC

Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 14.9% year over year in the first quarter of 2017, reaching USD 8 billion, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. Cloud IT infrastructure sales as a share of overall worldwide IT... By IT Next

From the other side: Lessons of WannaCry

73: The percentage of the respondents in India who estimated their organization’s losses due to economic crime to be up to USD 1 million in 2016, according to PwC’s Global Economic Crime Survey 2016. Note that  “economic crime” is the keyword here. In the past, information security officers have rated identity breaches and insider threats greater than crimes due to ransomware or IoT. Some... By Shubhra Rishi

Why WannaCry is the best thing that could have happened to Enterprise IS

The ransomware WannaCry made to the headlines globally as the most widespread malware attack ever witnessed, with more than 100 countries reportedly suffering from the attack. With WannaCry trending for days in social media, it made its way into common vocabulary. Suddenly, people at the board level in small and medium enterprise were getting convinced that there is something called ransomware... By Shyamanuja Das

Jindal Power and Steel is becoming steel smart with IoT

Angul in Orissa is 'rich' in every sense of the word. Not only does it have an average literacy rate of 80 %( higher than the national average of 59.5%), it has abundant mineral reserves and is home to over 12 steel and power plants.   The plate mill manufacturing plant that belongs to the USD 11 billion Jindal Steel and Power Ltd is – “fully IoT driven duly interfaced with the SAP... By Shubhra Rishi

From the Editor: Tackling the transformation pangs

Internet of Things (IoT) is the foundational technology of what is called The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)—the fusion of the physical, the virtual and the biological.   Even as we discuss the possible impact of robots replacing human workers and machine intelligence overtaking human intelligence—we are almost ignoring a more immediate challenge—the instant disruption that 360 degree... By Shyamanuja Das