NEXT100 winner Prasad Patil joins as CTO at NCDEX eMarkets Limited
Prasad Patil has joined as CTO at NCDEX eMarkets Limited. Previously, he was COO at Arya Infosystems and CTO at JM Baxi. Earlier, he was associated with Essar Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, and ICICI Bank. Patil has been a NEXT100 winner in 2012. He holds numerous leadership certifications from IIM-Ahmedabad, IIT-Bombay, and Great Lakes Institute of Management. He completed his Diploma in Cyber... By CIO&Leader
Addressing WFA IT Pain Points with SD-WAN and ZTNA
During the pandemic, transitioning to a work-from-home model required organizations to move critical resources to the cloud, ensure employees had access to essential business applications, and secure communications between the home office and corporate network. And now, instead of moving everyone back into the corporate office, many organizations are transitioning to a work-from-... By Rajesh Maurya
Need for CXOs to move from product to platform mindset for intelligent business solutions
Digital platforms have become an absolute must for any business and are no longer a digital native strategy. According to a popular survey, "platforms are quickly becoming a must for competition and a foundation for creating new value — and companies that fail to embrace them might get left out on the sidelines by watching them." Many digital platforms have become an integral part of the business... By Anupam Kulkarni
What enterprises can learn from the extended Facebook outage
Early this month, social media giant, Facebook, and its associated services Instagram, and WhatsApp, suffered massive outages that halted its services for almost six hours at a stretch and sent many in a frenzy. The users could not send or receive any messages and were unable to make or receive calls either. Facebook had earlier experienced a prolonged outage in 2019 when its services and... By Jatinder Singh
Use of database monitoring tools rises to record high: Survey
Over three quarters (79%) of database professionals are now using either a paid-for or in-house monitoring tool, a survey from Redgate Software has shown. This is an increase of 10 percentage points from the same survey last year and, at the same time, the 86% satisfaction rate with paid-for monitoring tools is also an all-time high, up 18 percentage points on the previous year. The... By CIO&Leader
The urgency of securing evolving workplaces
The acceleration of digital transformation and increased cloud adoption has connected people, businesses, and culture like never before in recent times. In the pandemic-induced work-from-home scenario, companies have invested in data-driven technologies to stabilize their businesses and make their IT environments smarter. The modified state of business priorities has been well-supported through... By Ashok Kumar
Cloud ecosystem revenues leap 25% to USD 235 billion in first half of 2021: SRG
Across four key cloud service and infrastructure market segments, operator and vendor revenues for the first half of 2021 were USD 235 billion, having grown by 25% from the first half of 2020, according to Synergy Research Group. The biggest growth was seen in cloud infrastructure services, comprising IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services. First half revenue from these services grew by 37... By CIO&Leader
Cyberattacks increase 40% globally in 2021: Study
Globally, there are 40% more attacks weekly on organizations in 2021 compared to 2020, according to Check Point Software Technologies. Globally, after a slight decrease in the weeks before March 2020, from March 2020, there was a significant increase in the average weekly number of attacks on each organization over the months including 2021. In September 2021, the average weekly number of... By CIO&Leader
High availability clusters to avoid the real-time clutters
To alleviate system downtime and assure the high availableness of real-time servers, clusters are used. Clusters are groups of various servers that are mapped and worked together and participate in workload management. A cluster can contain number of nodes and other application servers. A node is basically a physical computer system with a different IP address that is running one or more... By Abhinay Deshmukh
Almost 90% of IT decision makers rethinking 2022 IT investments amid market shifts: Study
9 out of 10 IT decision makers look to modernizing cloud architecture and improving data capabilities as top areas of investments, according to a Teradata study. Organizations know that having the right IT in place and leveraging a cloud-first and data-centric mentality is essential in today’s digital economy. However, to advance their digital transformation initiatives and fully realize the... By CIO&Leader
More than 90% malware arrived over encrypted connections in Q2, 2021: Study
An astonishing 91.5% of malware have arrived over HTTPS-encrypted connections, alarming surges across fileless malware threats, dramatic growth in ransomware, a big increase in network attacks, and much more in the first half of 2021. This is as per WatchGuard’s Internet Security Report. “With much of the world still firmly operating in a mobile or hybrid workforce model, the traditional network... By CIO&Leader