Forrester's 2017 India predictions
Research firm, Forrester, announced India forecasts in Delhi recently. Forrester’s predictions, which provide more insights than big buzzwords, are often relied upon to draw actual strategy by vendors and users, rather than being used to create marketing communication. In short, they are more realistic and hence, often balanced. For the year 2017, Forrester identified four underlying trends... By CIO&Leader
Book Talk
In the good old days, when the enterprise IT was full of techies, there was a fair amount of book talk; albeit books often meant thick guides on new technologies, protocols and standards—often written specifically to help clear various industry certifications. Times have changed and most CIOs and IT managers want to be seen as business managers than techies. Yet, it is their tech expertise that... By
Bot-generated website traffic rises, again
After showing a downward trend for three consecutive years, website traffic generated by bots showed an upward trend in 2016, overtaking the human generated traffic once again in 2016, according to the Imperva Incapsula Bot Traffic Report, an annual study of bot traffic landscape. In 2015, for the first time in recent years, human generated traffic had overtaken bot generated website traffic,... By CIO&Leader
IT Leaders vote for a completely new security regime in 2017
What will be the top priorities for Indian businesses in 2017 when it comes to IT strategy and investment? What new technologies will make their mark? And where will the actual spend go to? How will the buzzword ‘digital transformation’ span out? As analysts and companies publish their own forecasts, we thought of asking the IT leaders themselves. But for a change, we skipped the CIOs, who are... By IT Next
What the Indian CIOs said about the top tech trends for 2017
"Cloud, mobility, IoT and analytics would be the main drivers for 2017, 2018 and 2019. For mobility, we have thousand of applications which are desktop based. We have started converting them into mobile applications. Similarly, for dealers and vendors, we are also converting them into mobile applications." - Avnesh Jain, General Manager-Information Systems, Hero MotoCorp "Most... By CIO&Leader
IT Next Survey 2017: Top Enterprise Tech Trends
What will be the top priorities for Indian businesses in 2017 when it comes to IT strategy and investment? What new technologies will make their mark? And where will the actual spend go to? How will the buzzword ‘digital transformation’ span out? As analysts and companies publish their own forecasts, we thought of asking the IT leaders themselves. But for a change, we skipped the CIOs, who are... By IT Next
Will we see India’s own Blockchain consortium?
With the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), the nodal technology research centre set up by RBI announcing a successful trial of blockchain technology involving a number of Indian banks, the possibility of an Indian blockchain consortium seems more real. Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin that has been embraced by a number of financial institutions and... By
'More than four in 10 enterprises lack a mechanism to track which mobile devices have access to corporate data'
VMware announced the findings from a joint study with Frost & Sullivan. As the demand for real-time access to information increases, a mobile environment is fast becoming a business imperative to support more agile ways of working and accelerating the digital transformation of Indian companies. The study assesses the maturity of mobility adoption within Indian organizations and unveils... By CIO&Leader
These are the 7 key technologies for digital transformation: WEF
How exactly does digital add value to businesses? What should be the digital transformation agenda? Now, world’s leading think tank, World Economic Forum, has released its version based on a collaborative research with Accenture. When it comes to changing nature of digital consumption, the research identifies three fronts of change, which it calls the “battlegrounds for the digital customer... By CIO&Leader
Three DevOps Predictions for 2017
CA Technologies has announced three trends in DevOps it expects will come under the organizational spotlight in 2017. DevOps removes the silos between the development and operations teams, advocating better communication and collaboration between the two units so organizations can achieve greater digital agility. Interestingly, the key trends surrounding DevOps this year are... By CIO&Leader
Why HPE’s Simplivity acquisition is a booster for the hybrid narrative?
The acquisition of Simplivity by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), speculation about which has been there since long, is important for several reasons. For one, Simplivity was one of the very few unicorns in the enterprise tech space and among the fewer that had a core infrastructure technology story to tell. For the more tuned, this is clearly the most important seal of approval on the future... By CIO&Leader