One-third of financial firms lack clear plan to address privacy risks: Study
One-third of financial services organizations lack a clear plan or the resources to address privacy risks related to customer data in the next 12 months, according to Accenture’s Privacy in Financial Services: Stature and Sustainability in the Information Age. The report focuses on how companies should rethink how they use, store and protect customer data as recently implemented regulations,... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 Winner Kamal Goel appointed EVP - IT & Chief Evangelist at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions
Kamal Goel has been appointed as the EVP - IT & Chief Evangelist at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions. Prior to this, he was SVP - IT at Anand Rathi Financial Services. He has also served in various leadership positions at Financial Technologies India, India Infoline, Asit C. Mehta Investment Intermediates and BLB. He has also been a NEXT100 Winner in 2015. Goel completed his Leadership... By CIO&Leader
How to stay relevant in the digital era?
We all are living in the digital era, which is creating shifts in the workplace creating a disruption which is changing the world of work. This change is not only reshaping any companies’ bottom line but also forcing the employers to think about their workforce and how and what skills do they recruit. We hear many discussions on either ‘digital disruption’ or how to create a ‘meaningful workplace... By Konika Chadha
Data loss turning costly for organizations: Study
Organizations on average are managing almost 40% more data than they were a year ago, according to Dell Technologies’ study, titled Global Data Protection Index 2020 Snapshot. With this surge in data, come inherent challenges. The vast majority (81%) of respondents reported their current data protection solutions will not meet all of their future business needs. The Snapshot, follow-on to the... By CIO&Leader
‘My Father’ gives some competition to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam!
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is the most popular role model for the winners of NEXT100, India’s most coveted award for future IT leaders. As many as 16% winners in 2019 and 14% of winners in 2018 say he is the person they admire the most. The most commonly admired person after Dr. Kalam are their own fathers. As many as 13% of the winners in 2019 and 10% winners in 2018 point to their fathers when asked... By ITNEXT
Only a few organizations highly prepared for coronavirus: Gartner
Just 12% of more than 1,500 respondents believe their businesses are highly prepared for the impact of coronavirus, while 26% believe that the virus will have little or no impact on their business, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In a Gartner business continuity webinar on March 6, Gartner experts asked participants how prepared they are for impact of COVID-19. “This lack... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 Winner Ashok Jade joins Spark Minda Group as Group Chief Information & Technology Officer
Ashok Jade has joined Spark Minda Group as Group Chief Information & Technology Officer. Prior to this, he served as the CIO of Shalimar Paints. He has also worked in companies like Videocon and Tekcare India. He has been a NEXT100 Winner in 2012. Jade completed his MBA in IT from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune and BSc from ETSP College. He is also an Executive Committee... By CIO&Leader
The myths around enterprise IT decision making
We just hosted our NEXT100 award ceremony this year—a little later than the normal time we do it, in November-December. Without any pretension, let me tell you the reason. It is lack of sponsor interest in the event that forced the delay. If we still decided to host it, it is because it is our commitment to the community. NEXT100 is done primarily for the community, with... By Shyamanuja Das
Welcoming the Tenth Batch of NEXT100
The 2019 winners of NEXT100—the 10th batch of this community awards—were formally welcomed to this exclusive club in three separate award ceremonies held in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru between 27th to 29th February 2020. This is the first time the awards were held in three locations, closer to where winners actually are. The format was also significantly different. The... By ITNEXT
India tops in digital transformation adoption among Asia Pacific countries
Many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of increased scale and velocity of application deployment in their businesses, according to F5 Networks’ 2020 State of Application Services: Asia Pacific Edition Report. This value, however, can bring significant complexity as organizations maintain legacy infrastructure while increasingly relying on multiple public and private clouds,... By CIO&Leader
A Cloud Migration Checklist
In the current ecosystem, heterogeneous technology landscapes are becoming more and more prevalent due to partial movement of individual applications to cloud to achieve quick success and due to buzz around cloud as a concept. With applications hosted both on cloud and on-premise, organizations often get into situations where they start struggling with: Flexibility, scalability,... By Feroz Khan & Vineet Mehta