Cloud-edge and 5G set to propel post-COVID-19 value creation: Study
More than ever, cloud compute and intelligence platforms should be as close to the source of data at the outer ‘edges’ as possible. The importance of cloud-edges is further highlighted in their relationship with 5G, which forms a symbiotic association with cloud-edge as a technological evolution of the cloud. Cloud-edge implementations promise new growth for the telecom industry. Revenue from... By CIO&Leader
All you wanted to know about hyperscale cloud providers in India
Oracle became the second of the large cloud providers to launch multiple cloud regions in India, when it announced launching of its second cloud region in Hyderabad yesterday. Microsoft already has three cloud regions in India. With this announcement, all the six major infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers—Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM, Alibaba, and Oracle—have... By CIO&Leader
Organizations incurring high costs because of missing risks in their strategic initiatives: Gartner
Organizations are incurring high costs because of missing risks in their strategic initiatives, according to Gartner’s survey of more than 382 strategic initiative leaders. For an average USD 5 billion revenue company, it amounts to USD 99 million annually in opportunity cost from delayed new product launches alone. Initiatives where risks are not surfaced and mitigated in a timely fashion are... By CIO&Leader
Nearly one-third of organizations are just starting CCPA planning: Survey
Nearly one-third of organizations are just starting CCPA planning, according to TrustArc’s Global Privacy Benchmark survey on how organizations are protecting and leveraging data, their most valuable asset. One of the most extensive surveys ever conducted on data privacy, it polled more than 1,500 respondents from around the world at all levels of the organization. Survey results examined a wide... By CIO&Leader
India's enterprise software market growth to go down in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic: IDC
The Indian software market grew by 16.0% year over year (YoY) in 2H19 compared to 2H18, according to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, 2H19 (July-December). For 2019, the India software market achieved a revenue of USD 6.48 billion. However, as per IDC forecasts, India’s software market growth will go down in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will lead to enterprises having a... By CIO&Leader
DDoS attack length increases, despite popularity of short-term attacks: Study
Seven major application DDoS attacks have taken place over the previous month — two of which lasted 5-6 days, according to Imperva’s May 2020 Cyber Threat Index Report. Additionally, the study found that 47% of account takeover (ATO) attacks were aimed at loyalty programs and streaming services, where bad actors attempted to use stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to online accounts to... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 Winner Amit Waghmare joins DB Corp as CIO
Amit Waghmare has joined DB Corp as CIO. Immediately prior to this, he was Head - IT at Page Industries. Earlier, he served as the Head - IT in companies like VIP Industries, Inorbit Malls (India) and Encore Healthcare Corporation. He has been a NEXT100 winner in 2014. Waghmare completed his Masters in Computer Science from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University and Diploma in Computer... By CIO&Leader
Cloud IT infra spending grows in Q1, 2020; non-cloud spending declines: IDC
Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, increased 2.2% in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) while investments in traditional, non-cloud, infrastructure plunged 16.3% year over year, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. The broadening... By CIO&Leader
69% of Indian consumers believe their data is valuable to businesses: Study
Consumers seem to have a heightened awareness about the value of their information with about 69% of Indian consumers saying they like the changes being made to the customer experience as a result of their data being used, according to Experian’s 2020 Global Identity & Fraud Report. Another significant finding is that the key factors to meaningful online customer engagement are... By CIO&Leader
Majority of organizations to accelerate their cloud migration in a post-COVID world: Study
COVID-19 has become a powerful catalyst for rapid cloud migration, according to LogicMonitor’s Cloud 2025 study of 500 global IT decision makers, which examines the future of cloud workloads and the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on IT organizations in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The study, fielded during May – June 2020, found that 87% of global IT decision... By CIO&Leader
Cybersecurity alterations in COVID-19 scenario
In recent months, an invisible virus has changed the world; working from home and remote interactions with services have become the new norm and the way we work, interact and live have shifted significantly. What a year 2020 has been! Within a few months, we’ve learned many lessons about cybersecurity as well. Just like our day-to-day lives, the attack landscape has changed and it is essential... By Nikhil Taneja