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A Panacea Called Devops

A radical intervention is needed to uplift the ailing current software development practices and why is DevOps being touted as the key to better software and touted as the panacea

How Western Digital Created A Proactive Storage Backbone For Matrimony.com

Data is very critical to enterprises and they are constantly looking at competent solutions to store their data.

Overcoming Bias And Meeting The Challenges Of talent Acquisition And Retention

Workplace diversity and inclusion is more of a necessity than a choice because global workforce demographics are changing.

How We Ranked The T-Schools

The methodology of the Dataquest-CMR “Best Tech School Survey 2018”

Managing HR Challenges

The future of learning and work is already here. Now, we all have to constantly learn a variety of skills.

We Look At Hiring Top Talent From Technology Institutions In Tier II Cities

Shanmugam Nagarajan, Co-Founder & Chief People Officer, [24]7.ai in an interview to Dataquest talks about the state of ICT skills, his company’s HR sourcing strategy and ways and means of fostering skill development in the ICT space. Excerpts:

The Industry-Academia Interactions Offers Us Opportunity To Engage With Faculty And Influence Curriculum Design Of Institutions Whom We Engage With

Anshuman Ray, Senior Director, HR, Synopsys India gives his perspective on the HR challenges in an interview to Dataquest. Excerpts:

We Have To Transform Talent And Encourage Life-Long Learning

Ajoy Mukherjee, EVP and Head, Global HR, TCS shares his insights on the digital disruption and how TCS is aligning its competencies in an interview to Dataquest. Excerpts:

How Sify's ‘Cloud At The Core' Is Enabling Digital Transformation

Cloud at the Core is not only a technological advancement today; it’s a cultural shift towards business transformation.

Virtual Reality Is The New Reality

VR has finally broken the jinx and is changing all norms in the tech space. It is likely to grow exponentially as it promises a whole new dimension to customer experience.

Cloud Is A Key Growth Market For Seagate In India

While the PC market might have declined, there are lots of new opportunities cropping up, both for hard drives and solid state drives in India. We had a face to face interview with Seagate’s Global Sales Head, BS Teh to understand the company’s plans for the Indian market, key target industries and future plans around SSDs and HDDs. Here’s the full interview.

DQ Digital Economy Conclave Drawns More Than 200 CIOs

The overall focus of the DQ Conclave remained centered on ICT business, Digital Enterprise 2.0, smart cities and cashless economy

How to Recharge Manufacturing with IoT

IoT holds immense potential and promise throughout the value chain across multiple segments of the manufacturing and logistics industries. But there are numerous challenges that must be addressed before exploiting the full potential of IoT

Preparing IT for GST Era

GST deployment is being seen as a transformation opportunity for the taxation and supply chain teams but the critical role of the CIO is being missed

IT Industry Becomes Obsolete Every Three Years

Vineet Nayar was recently chosen for the Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the Indian IT industry specifically in organizing and building the Indian software industry. Nayar has now shifted his focus from the IT industry and paying full attention to the education of rural kids through his NGO - Sampark Foundation. 

Digitization Creates Jobs And Efficiency In The System

Digital transformation requires changes, to both processes and IT systems that are more challenging to implement in the public sector than in the private sector. In a conversation with Dataquest, Smt. Kiran Soni Gupta, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, talks on how digitization of Government Departments play a significant role in propelling the digital drive in the country. —KIRAN SONI GUPTA Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports & Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India

6 Crore Rural Citizens To Become Digitally Literate In 3 Years

As the Indian Government took the path towards a more tech savvy India, it became one of the biggest adopters of IT. To step a notch ahead of others, many actions were taken in a bid to develop the rural areas as well. To comprehend the government’s IT initiatives in villages, Dataquest delved into a conversation with Dr. Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, CEO, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited to get a better understanding on the various IT services implemented under the Common Services Centres scheme

A Cloud Database Solution Cuts A Pharma Company's CapEx by $25,000

By migrating to a high-performing, secure, reliable and scalable PaaS solution, Mankind Pharma has reduced capital expenditure by $25,000 and storage costs by $6,000. now, the company claims to create reports 11x faster and deliver training to global users 5x faster by launching training environment in just two days

A Start-Up Aiming To Improve Efficiency And Productivity

Currently, Flock claims to be used by enterprises, tech companies, and start-ups to improve their efficiency and productivity 

Indian Version Of OpenWorld To Focus On Digital India And Smart Cities

Oracle has for the first time brought its most popular event to India in the hope to boost its prospects in the economy which has seen a number of quick changes in the past few years

Dell EMC — Would It Be Able To Deliver Big?

Dell EMC has lined up a portfolio comprising the building blocks of modern IT. There are early signs of success, but there are many threats as well. Will Dell EMC be able to outpace them?

Autonomous Cars Need To Overcome Major Hurdles Before They Become Mainstream

In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest, Ram Ramaseshan, Senior VP and Head, Automotive and Industrials BUs, Sasken Technologies, talks about the challenges faced by autonomous cars in India and how can India speed up towards Autonomous driving. Excerpts:

Here's What Makes AWS A Growing Force In Enterprise IT

Beyond the prospect of moving all IT assets to the cloud, AWS is beckoning enterprises with possibilities in serverless computing, AI, and machine language

Intel India Eyes Al Opportunities, Plans To Develop Ecosystem

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the cutting edge in technology. It is fast getting mainstream and coming out of the confines of science fiction. The onset of AI-based technology in India is evident in the sectors of e-commerce and research, where entities that are already using data analytics, are now looking to explore AI

How AI Is Shaping Organizations?

Indian companies and start-ups are focusing on developing conversational bots, speech recognition tools, intelligent digital assistants and conversational services to be built over social media channels

Scary! 95% Engineers In India Are Not Employable

Aspiring Minds’ new study “Automata National Programming Report’, conducted across 500+ colleges and exclusively shared with Dataquest, claims that over 2/3rd couldn’t even write code and hence 95% engineers are not employable

Riding The Cloud Bandwagon

Freeing from CAPEX driven on-premise models, IT organizations in India are finding the much needed Digital nirvana by taking the Cloud plunge

Chatbots And Agents: The New Co-workers

Humans are, and will remain unequivocally crucial to the customer service and support paradigm, albeit, in a different role

Country Digitization-Inside The Playbook

For tech companies, country digitization projects mean millions or even billions of dollars in business, but they are high-risk and complex endeavors

Protecting Privacy - Ensuring Your Organisation Is Ready For Regulation

With personal data likely being used by many parts of your organisation, a first step towards compliance is conducting a study of where that personal data is held, who holds it and who is responsible for it