How AI and ML can accelerate decarbonization in the chemical industry?
Industry 4.0 is swiftly making its substantial presence in sectors such as manufacturing, construction, and shipping. Industries and companies are accountable to the environment, to the future generation, and most importantly, to the people of the geography they operate in. With stricter norms for being carbon-neutral, ESG compliant, green process-driven enterprises have turned to new-age... By Maulik Patel
Foundational cloud services to enable digital-first strategies of the future enterprise: IDC
Organizations' use of cloud is moving to the next level of maturity, spurring adoption of a cross-functional set of services to drive innovation in a digital-first economy. These foundational cloud services (FCS) for compute, data, and app frameworks will drive competitive development across the whole cloud market. According to IDC, annual recurring revenue (ARR) derived from FCS will increase... By CIO&Leader
How can green data centers play a pivotal role in future business models?
Data center as an infrastructure platform has come a long way in the past few years. Today, India is seen as the hub of several data center projects, with IT giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon announcing substantial investment projects in the space. Similarly, Indian real-estate companies and infrastructure groups too are leveraging this opportunity to invest in the data center space.... By Ankit Saraiya
Demand for cloud professionals to touch 2 million by 2025: Study
The need for businesses to migrate critical workloads to the Cloud and modernize legacy on-premises IT infrastructure, especially post the pandemic, has been accelerating growth in cloud adoption. According to Gartner, worldwide end-user spending on Public Cloud Services is projected to grow at 20% YoY by 2022 to USD 398 bn. India’s cloud market is estimated to reach USD 5.6 bn by 2022, a 26% YoY... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 winner Samarjeet Singh appointed Business Head - SAP for India, Sri Lanka & Middle East at SoftwareONE
Samarjeet Singh has been appointed as Business Head - SAP for India, Sri Lanka & Middle East at SoftwareONE. Before this, he was with Mindtree as Global Head of SAP on Cloud, Database & Technology for around 6 years. Earlier, he was also associated with Birlasoft. Samarjeet has been a NEXT100 winner in 2020. He completed his Bachelors in Software Systems from Guru Gobind Singh... By CIO&Leader
Global government IT spending to grow 6.5% in 2022: Gartner
Worldwide government IT spending will total USD 557.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 6.5% from 2021, according to Gartner. “Governments will continue to accelerate investments in digital technologies to respond and recover from the continuing evolution of public health uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Irma Fabular, research vice president at Gartner. “The... By CIO&Leader
CPaaS market grows over 40% globally in Q2, 2021: SRG
The CPaaS market continues to demonstrate strong market growth, according to Synergy Research Group’s data. This momentum provides a solid foundation for increased development of communication and software technologies, creating and enhancing new customer interactions and experiences. According to Synergy’s Q2, 2021 market share report, CPaaS market grew over 40% worldwide with Twilio maintaining... By CIO&Leader
Protecting supply chains: The recipe against ransomware
With this uptick in ransomware attacks targeting supply chains, organizations must implement stronger, layered security strategies to protect against lurking vulnerabilities. The fact is, cybercriminals have become much less methodical when launching attacks against organizations, oftentimes casting their nets with no specific target in mind, just to see what they can find. As a result... By Rick Vanover
40% of SaaS data access is unmanaged, creating significant insider and external threats to global organizations: Study
There is a magnitude of SaaS data exposure, with 40% of all SaaS assets unmanaged, providing internal, external and public data access, according to DoControl’s report, titled Quantifying the Immense Risk of Unmanaged SaaS Data Access. The study provides data-driven insights into the growing number of insider and external threats due to vast amounts of unmanageable data in today’s... By CIO&Leader
Key emerging technologies spurring innovation through trust, growth and change
Engineering trust, accelerating growth and sculpting change are the three overarching trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2021 that will drive organizations to explore emerging technologies such as nonfungible tokens (NFT), sovereign cloud, data fabric, generative AI and composable networks to help secure competitive advantage. “Technology innovation is a key... By CIO&Leader
Winning enterprises tap open source, multi-cloud for competitive advantage: Study
Leading data-driven enterprises are leaning into open source software (OSS) — they are four times more likely to have deployed Apache Cassandra, Kubernetes, along with a combination of other select open source tools, with 71% of data leaders believing a robust OSS data stack gives them a big competitive advantage, according to DataStax’s study, tilted The State of the Data Race 2021. Consistent... By CIO&Leader