Organizations risk going out of business by 2025 on failing to deploy AI: Study
Nearly 80% of C-level executives in India believe if they don’t move beyond experimentation to aggressively deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across their organizations, they risk going out of business by 2025, according to a newly released study from Accenture. The research, titled AI: Built to Scale and produced by Accenture Strategy and Accenture Applied Intelligence,... By CIO&Leader
‘Sanjay’s have been the most prolific winners of NEXT100
Sanjay happens to be the most common first name among the NEXT100 award winners in the ten years, since the awards—the only such awards to identify next generation IT leaders—got instituted in 2010. NEXT100, given by IT NEXT, a 9.9 Group publication, honours 100 future CIOs every year. Today, this exclusive community has 1000 members. There are at least 160 first names (sometimes with slightly... By CIO&Leader
Organizations getting more confident in their cloud security strategies: Study
Organizations are getting more confident in their cloud security strategies, according to a recent Barracuda Networks survey of 850 security professionals. As per the survey, over 44% of respondents believe that public cloud environments are as secure as on-premises platforms, while 35% of respondents feel that on-premises environments were more secure than the public cloud. When it came to... By CIO&Leader
Top 60 CISO Appointments in 2019
The year 2019 witnessed key CISOs moving to different companies or taking up new positions within the same company. Presenting to you a list of 60 such CISOs... December 2019 Amit Jaokar moved to Nkgsb Bank as CDO & CISO from Motilal Oswal Financial Services where he worked as CTO. He has also been NEXT100 Winner in 2016. Jagadish Namboodiri was appointed Director of Cyber... By CIO&Leader
New malware poses the biggest threat impacting mobiles: Study
For the first time in over three years, a mobile trojan has entered the overall top malware listing as well as being the most prevalent mobile threat over the past month, according to Check Point Research’s Global Threat Index for November 2019. The mobile trojan is XHelper, which was first seen in the wild in March 2019. XHelper is a multi-purpose trojan targeting Android users that can... By CIO&Leader
India server market revenue grows in Q3, 2019: IDC
The overall server market in India witnessed a Year-over-Year (YoY) growth of 0.8% in terms of revenue to reach USD 280.1 million in CY 3Q19 versus USD 277.8 million in CY 3Q18, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 3Q19, December 2019 release. This growth is majorly driven by non-x86 server market as it registered big deals from large public and private... By CIO&Leader
2020 FORECAST: Demand for simplicity and customizability will be the number-one factor
2019 was a year of rapid innovation – and disruption – for both the IT industry and the broader business community. With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto architecture for enterprise customers, organizations everywhere are under tremendous pressure to modernize their infrastructure and deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads. As... By Atish Gude
People-centric threats causing the most detrimental cybersecurity breaches: Study
People-centric threats are causing the most detrimental cybersecurity breaches, which include socially-engineered attacks and human errors, rather than failure of technology or process, according to Proofpoint-The Economist Intelligence Unit’s study, entitled Cyber Insecurity: Managing Threats From Within. The study surveyed more than 300 corporate executives, including CIOs and CISOs, from... By CIO&Leader
CPaaS revenues increase in 2019; Twilio leads the market: Study
CPaaS revenues are on track to once again grow by over 40% in 2019, according to Synergy Research Group. With revenues in the first three quarters of the year having already surpassed full-year 2018 levels, Synergy is forecasting that the full-year 2019 market will grow threefold compared with just three years ago. Twilio has been the pioneer in CPaaS and is a clear market leader with a 32%... By CIO&Leader
Indian enterprises not fully prepared to risk-proof their digital transformation journey: Study
The digital transformation journey of Indian organizations’ is getting increasingly hindered by cyberattacks, according to a Forcepoint-Frost & Sullivan Risk & Cybersecurity study. The study reveals that 95% of organizations have embarked on a digital transformation journey, however, 61% of respondents shared that the risk of cyberattacks is stalling their digitalization progress. For... By CIO&Leader
2020 FORECAST: AI & ML to get pervasive, Multi-cloud will be the new norm
Today, we live in a world where technology is redefining the way we work, live and play. Significantly, our future is quickly being reshaped by digital transformation technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and Edge Computing. Indeed, data management is going through profound changes, opening up countless opportunities.... By Ramesh Mamgain