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CISCO: THRIVING ON THE POWER OF ALLIANCES Last month Cisco hosted the 6th edition of Cisco India Summit as a celebration of its ideology behind building partnerships. From unveiling new partnerships to acknowledging the success of the existing partnerships, the summit was dedicated to the spirit of alliances in the evolving market. p-26
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AI VS AI Cyber security is a major concern for the enterprises today. Especially with the growing deployment of Edge Computing and IoT devices, security concerns have really become severe. Vulnerability has become manifold. Today no one really knows where the attacks are coming from. Even Insider Threat is also growing at an alarming rate. The answers to this menace have gone beyond the imagination of cyber experts and despite their best of efforts attacks are happening every year and in every industry. People give example of Cyber security as a game of police and criminals. In the case of police and criminals, the police know who the criminals are but in the case of Cybercrime, the criminals are not known. They are everywhere. Therefore, the best answer is AI based security solution where AI software running on today’s powerful processors can zip through more data in minutes than humans could tackle in months and list problems and anomalies immediately. AI can speed up detection of genuine problems, rapidly cross-referencing different alerts and sources of security data. Human cyber security experts will still make the calls on the priorities of the incidents to be handled but can be further helped by AI systems that automatically suggest plans for optimizing responses. Of course, Cyber criminals are smart enough these days to create weapons against the AI based solution to the problem.
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They do have AI based bots which can penetrate the system with various forms and sit without any buzz to wait for right and opportune moment to attack the system. If we look at the history of Ransomware – from WannaCry to Petya to Meltdown and Spectre, it has become sophisticated. We remember WannaCry which emerged in 2017 and took down 300,000 computers across 150 countries by encrypting business-sensitive information. Unpatched systems were the cause of this cyber nightmare. Similarly, Petya, the successor of WannaCry exploited the same vulnerability as WannaCry and caused chaos for businesses. But later upgraded to be a wiper and deleted encrypted information. But today, Meltdown and Spectre are totally different. They are processor-based vulnerabilities that can be exploited to secretly eavesdrop on business-sensitive data. It requires OS patches with antivirus compatibility to overcome this challenge. So, the message is that enterprises have to be very cautious about cyber security challenges and if possible, engage certified consultants to guide them in creating a secured enterprise architecture.
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Cisco and TCS to Focus on the Hybrid Cloud B Y S A N J AY @ A C C E N T I N FO M E D I A . C O M
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Cisco are coming together to offer a first-of-its-kind softwaredefined approach to help enterprises adopt the Cloud through an easy transformation path by integrating the capability of Cisco ACI. This unique offering provides maximum security of the private Cloud while utilizing Cisco Openstack’s (software that controls large pools of computing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center) core strengths. Through focussed co-innovation and product engineering, Cisco and TCS are helping enterprise customers address fluctuating internal and external workload demands with real-time elasticity and lower TCO. For example, when the platform was deployed for a Large Insurance Customer, it resulted in a 60%
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decrease of east-west firewall traffic as well as high reductions in total ownership costs across multiple regions. “Our Alliance With TCS Is A Long-Standing Relationship Built On Innovation And Trust. Our Goals Are Aligned To Cater To Digital Enterprises Who Need A ‘Virtualized’ Approach For Their Growing And Diverse Business Needs. Through Our Continued Co-Innovation, TCS’s ECP Has Become The De Facto Solution For Enterprises Looking To Transition From Legacy Infrastructure, And We Are Proud Of This Long-Standing Partnership,” said Rajesh Shetty, Managing Director, Enterprise Sales, India & SAARC, Cisco.
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Trend Micro First to Deliver XDR Across Email, Network, Endpoint, Server and Cloud Workloads
Trend Micro becomes the first to offer detection and response capabilities integrated across email, network, endpoint, server and cloud workloads. This is designed to give enterprises broader visibility of a risk posture while connecting minor events from different security silos to detect more complex attacks that otherwise remain unnoticed. Connecting detections, telemetry, process data, and network metadata across email, network, endpoint and cloud workloads minimizes manual work and quickly correlates events that humans are unable to process given the onslaught of daily alerts across individual
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product silos. Trend Micro’s global threat intelligence adds further relevance and context around event data and is enhanced by specific detection rules from the company’s security experts that target the highest priority threats. In Trend Micro’s XDR solution, the “X” refers to the most extensive sets of data from more protection points, which is critical to find hidden threats. The resulting detections are more accurate, are generated faster and provide better context than ever before. Having one version of the security truth and a standardized schema for interpreting alerts also makes life easier for stretched IT security teams.
Mumbai A platform that brings together leading Cyber Security experts & CXOs for interaction on preparedness to overcome future cyber threats. CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT
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Matrix is the first company to get TEC certificate under Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecom Equipment (MTCTE) launched by TEC, Govt. of India. Mr Ganesh Jivani, Managing Director of Matrix was honored with the TEC certificate from Mr. Anshu Prakash, Secretary Telecom, Government of India at an event organized by TEC at Sanchar Bhavan, New Delhi. “Having been a leading provider of IP-PBX, VoIP phones, Media Gateways and other telecom equipment, we recognize the necessity and importance of TEC certification. Matrix Telecom solutions are offered in 50+ countries including India, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, UAE, Africa and others. We invest a significant amount of R&D resources to ensure Matrix products meet the standards enforced in these countries. Compliance is an integral and important dimension of product quality at Matrix,” said Ganesh Jivani, Managing Director of Matrix.
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Matrix Becomes the First Company to Get TEC Certificate under the Newly Launched MTCTE Program
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Mumbai The Summit brings together leaders highlighting the value of collaboration when designing, implementing, operating, measuring and improving information security. INFORMATION SECURITY & ASSURANCE SUMMIT
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Bengaluru A platform for Internet of Things in India for unifying the fragmented IoT ecosystem and for demonstrating business opportunities and outcomes. IOT INDIA CONGRESS
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Bengaluru The Summit will focus on seven technology tracks, Data Science, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Database Administration, Database Development, Cloud, IoT & NoSQL, Big Data and Open Source. DATA PLATFORM SUMMIT
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Dell Technologies and ESDS collaborate on Network Transformation
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“Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.”
Dell Technologies is collaborating with ESDS to help it build a data center fabric in Bangalore, using the Dell Technologies PowerSwitch Open networking solutions. This effort will support ESDS in transforming and modernizing network operations and accelerating data center innovation with simplified, high-capacity network fabrics. The Current Networking Industry Looks Much Like The Proprietary Computing Market Of 40 Years Ago, Where A Small Number Of Industry Players Produced Vertically-Integrated Solutions With Software And Hardware That Were Single-Sourced. This Practice Led To A Proprietary Industry Culture Where Innovations Were Stifled And Operations Were Fragile, Complicated And Expensive. Dell Technologies Open Networking Switch Solutions Are Cost-Effective And
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Easy To Deploy, Providing A Clear Path To Software Defined Networking (SDN),” said Piyush Somani, Founder, CMD & CEO, ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd. The spine-and-leaf fabric design will deliver a high performance network with low latency and is scalable to support 200 server racks. ESDS also required solutions that delivered 1GbE to 25GbE connectivity on leaf switches and 40GbE/100GbE Spines. To address these requirements, Dell Technologies delivered customized solution designs that will help drive innovation and optimization agenda backed by industry-leading open networking solutions for ESDS. It will also help ESDS to optimize costly engineering overhead and help reduce the time and effort required to design, provision and manage networks.
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Phishing Emails Impacted 1 in 2 Indian Organizations That Were Hit By a Cyberattack: Sophos Sophos has announced the findings of its global survey, The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity, which reveals IT managers are inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions and are struggling to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up to date technology. According to the report, 54 percent of those who fell victim to a cyberattack were hit by a phishing email, 39 percent by ransomware and 48 percent said they suffered a data breach. 10 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
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Alibaba Cloud and Fortinet to Secure Cloud Migration
FireEye Expands Cloud Server Protection and Investigation Capabilities FireEye has announced the availability of two new software releases – FireEye Network Security 8.3 and FireEye Endpoint Security 4.8. These new versions allow for enhanced detection and investigation of advanced attacks against servers, whether hosted in the cloud, onpremise or in hybrid environments. “Our new platform capabilities combine detection and visibility across the Network and Endpoint to quickly find threats targeting Windows or Linux based servers. FireEye customers can now more quickly investigate and triage Lateral Threats at the first sign of a
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breach, whether their servers are based on-premise, in the Cloud, or a Hybrid. Web shells are one of the most common pathways into the Network, and we’ve implemented new defenses to protect against these attacks. Through this integration across the network and endpoint, FireEye’s unique approach to detecting Web Shell Activity enables rapid identification of Malicious Activity so Security Practitioners can detect these attacks in minutes and quickly respond by containing the server, Webpage Or App,” said Grady Summers, CTO, FireEye.
Alibaba Cloud and Fortinet have announced the expansion of the Fortinet Security Fabric offerings and new automation capabilities for Alibaba Cloud to provide streamlined and consistent security for organizations with hybrid cloud infrastructures. The combination of Alibaba Cloud and the Fortinet Security Fabric provide organizations with the ability to extend security visibility and control from the data center to the cloud and the ability to ensure that organizations employ consistent security policies no matter where their applications are deployed. By implementing the Fortinet Security Fabric on Alibaba Cloud, customers can apply consistent security policies throughout their hybrid infrastructures and can realize multi-layer security protection and operational benefits for running applications on Alibaba Cloud. Sodexo and Fung Group are among the global customers leveraging Fortinet’s cloud native integration with Alibaba Cloud to secure its hybrid cloud environment. Sodexo is using Fortinet’s FortiGate-VM to deploy secure VPC on Alibaba Cloud, effectively aggregating and securing its globally distributed infrastructure. Fung Group is also taking advantage of the integration with the deployment of the FortiGate-VM on Alibaba Cloud, which enables consistent visibility and security management across its cloud environments.
MOVEMENT Panasonic India appoints Shirish Agarwal as the Head of Brand and Marketing Communications.
Ritesh Syal joins Nutanix as India Channel Head.
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VMware appoints Pradeep Nair as Vice President and Managing Director, India.
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About The Book IceWarp has released IceWarp 12.2, which brings a plethora of enhanced features aimed at further streamlining teamwork. As a highlight, this release includes TeamChat Mobile App, a companion to the proven TeamChat on the web and desktop enabling in-context collaboration in teams. The enhancements in IceWarp 12.2 include more reliable chat sync across multiple users’ devices through the implementation of XMPP Carbons protocol. This ensures that the user always sees exactly the same chat histories on all of their screens, both in the desktop IceWarp and in the mobile IceChat. To optimize
email handling, IceWarp 12.2 supports email delegation, both in its web-based interface and in Microsoft Outlook 365 through the updated Outlook Sync. Other new features include a redesigned Message Compose window with a streamlined way to add attachments, improved Outlook Sync installer to streamline deployment in enterprise Windows environments, support for screen sharing in Web Meetings under Mozilla Firefox, and audio and video calls in IceChat for Android. In addition, 12.2 marks a cloud-first release with an emphasis on easy migration to the cloud for existing customers.
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Tech Mahindra and BlockApps to Accelerate Blockchain Business Networks Tech Mahindra and BlockApps have announced a partnership to accelerate the adoption of blockchain business networks. BlockApps will be leveraging Tech Mahindra’s extensive experience helping companies with digital transformation and the companies will be sharing resources to assist clients with integrating the BlockApps STRATO blockchain platform product and ensure a seamless experience. BlockApps STRATO provides core enterprise features, such as flexible API (Application Program Interface) integration capabilities, high transaction performance, and the capability to
query and report on blockchain data using a traditional business tools. The new blockchain partnership is in line with Tech Mahindra’s TechMNxt charter, which focuses on leveraging next generation technologies and solutions to disrupt and enable digital transformation, and to build and deliver cuttingedge technology solutions and services to address real world problems to meet the customer’s evolving and dynamic needs. Blockchain has been a key initiative for Tech Mahindra and it is the company’s aspiration is to become one of the most admired blockchain companies in the world. AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD
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IDC Names SAP S/4HANA Cloud as a Global Leader
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SAP SE has been named a Leader in “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Manufacturing ERP Applications 2019 Vendor Assessment”. The report recognizes SAP S/4HANA Cloud as an intelligent ERP solution, which enables various business processes critical to manufacturers, including idea to design, procure to pay, plan to production, order to cash, offer to project, and core finance. Key strengths are listed as the following - SAP S/4HANA Cloud has a single in-memory, columnar data model for transactions and analytics. This eliminates redundant data and provides real-time insight, tied to an AI-powered set of functionalities within ERP to automate routine work and flag exceptions for human action. SAP has made a strong commitment to automating half of all ERP activities in SAP S/4HANA Cloud in the next three years. SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers a hands-free, conversational user experience with SAP® CoPilot, an intelligent digital assistant for the enterprise. SAP has one code line, one data model and one user experience for cloud and on-premise deployments, making it easier and cheaper for companies to manage hybrid scenarios. The latest recognition from IDC follows SAP’s position as a Leader in the “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Operational ERP Applications 2019 Vendor Assessment,” released earlier this year.
EMERGING TECH COULD RESHAPE FUTURE OF WORK WITH HUMANMACHINE PARTNERSHIPS – DELL TECHNOLOGIES REPORT Dell Technologies has recently launched the ‘Future of Work’ report in partnership with the independent futures research group, Institute for the Future (IFTF), to explore how emerging technologies will reshape the work environment over the next decade with the rise of human-machine partnerships. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Extended Reality (XR) and Internet of Things (IoT) continue to underpin the wave of continuous innovation and disruption of traditional business models. These technological advancements are undeniable forces that will impact the future of work, which will promote a more inclusive and equitable work environment in 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2018 by the World Economic Forum found that in 2018, an average of 71% of total task hours were performed by humans, compared to 29% by machines. By 2022, WEF estimates that this average is expected to have shifted to 58% task hours performed by humans and 42% by machines. The Future of Work report by Dell Technologies, in partnership with IFTF, shares insights around how collaborative AI, multimodal interfaces, extended reality (XR), and secure distributed ledgers will intersect with evolving social and economic forces to shape how we prepare for, find and work in 2030. It also highlights the three shifts that could help shape a more inclusive and rewarding work environment over the next decade Inclusive Talent, Empowered Workers and AI Fluency.
Eurotech Technologies Expands A/V Product Line – Launches HDMI Fiber Extenders Eurotech Technologies has expanded its A/V solutions portfolio with the addition of HDMI Fiber Extenders. The BestNet HDMI Fiber Extender set of equipment includes a sender and a receiver and it can extend video, audio, keyboard, mouse through single or dual-core fiber optic cable at real-time, enabling user to control computer far away from the host computer. The BestNet HDMI Fiber Extender is the latest addition to its AV connectivity portfolio and developed for use in defence, security, transportation, government, medical care, commercial presentation and multimedia. The plug and play system is compatible with any operation system and provides a HDMI port on the sender part, allowing user to operate the computer locally.
Mimecast Delivers Tailored Threat Intelligence Mimecast’s Threat Intelligence offers customers a deeper understanding of the cyber threats they face. The new features are designed to give organizations access to threat data and analytics specific to their overall organization, offering a more granular view of the attacks Mimecast has blocked. The Mimecast Threat Intelligence dashboard highlights end-users who are most at-risk, malware detections, malware origin by geo-location, Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and malware forensics 14 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
based on static and behavioral analysis. The data is consolidated into a user-friendly view and is also available for integration into an organization’s security ecosystem through the Threat Feed API. This targeted threat intelligence provides greater visibility and insight to security professionals, enabling them to more easily respond and remediate against threats and malicious files. “Mimecast sees a lot of data, as we process more than 300 million emails every day to help customers block malicious emails. Mimecast Threat Intelligence helps organizations get the deep insights they need to build a more cyber resilient environment,” said Josh Douglas, Vice President, Threat Intelligence, Mimecast.
CHECK POINT RESEARCH REVEALS MODERN CAMERAS’ CONNECTIVITY TO WI-FI MAKE THEM VULNERABLE TO RANSOMWARE AND MALWARE Check Point Research has revealed that through the USB and connections to WiFi networks, today’s modern cameras are vulnerable to ransomware and malware attacks. Since modern cameras no longer use film to capture and reproduce images, the International Imaging Industry Association devised a standardised protocol known as Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) to transfer digital images from camera to PC. Initially focused on image transfer, this protocol has evolved to include dozens of different commands that support anything from taking a live picture to upgrading the camera’s firmware.
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“Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people…or find a different room.”
RDP exposes PCs in just 84 seconds: Sophos’ study
Michael S. Dell, CEO, Dell Technologies
Qlik (Attunity) Named a Challenger in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
Qlik (Attunity) has been named as a Challenger by Gartner in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Qlik(Attunity) has been thus recognized. Qlik’s agile and real-time data integration capabilities – including Attunity Replicate, a real-time data replication and ingestion software solution, and Attunity Compose for data warehouse and data lake automation – give Qlik a unique platform that perfectly aligns with customers’ pursuit of the frictionless sharing of data through flexible tools that scale and deliver information at the speed business requires. By combining Attunity with Qlik Data Catalyst, Qlik is delivering the platform
customers need to enable modern data architectures and real-time analytics. A modern and agile data integration strategy creates the foundation for an enterprise analytics strategy that drives insights, improves decision-making, accelerates data literacy and transforms organizations. Qlik’s Attunity division partners with global cloud and platform providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, as well as organizations like Snowflake, Databricks and Confluent in delivering data warehouse automation, data lake automation and Kafka/streaming integration, with continued expansion with global systems integrators like Accenture and Cognizant.
Sophos’ new research, ‘RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) Exposed: The Threat That’s Already at your Door’ highlights how attackers are able to find RDP-enabled devices almost as soon as these devices appear on the internet. Sophos deployed 10 geographically dispersed, low-interaction honeypots to measure and quantify RDP-based risks. The honeypots were set-up in California, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Mumbai, Ohio, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Sydney over a 30-day period. On average, the RDP honeypots were hit by 1 attempted attack per six seconds. Sophos has been reporting on cybercriminals exploiting RDP since 2011, and in the past year, cybercriminal gangs behind two of the biggest targeted ransomware attacks, Matrix and SamSam, have almost completely abandoned all other methods of network ingress in favour of using RDP. In the study, 4.3 million login attempts were made at a rate that steadily increased through the 30-day research period. The first honeypot to be discovered, was found in just 1.24 minutes (Paris) and the last one in 15 hours (Singapore).
Google Cloud and VMware Extend Strategic Partnership Google Cloud and VMware have announced Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, a new service that will allow organizations to run their VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), providing customers with choice and flexibility to run VMware workloads on-premises, in a hybrid architecture, or in the cloud. The solution will leverage VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure software, deployed on GCP and designed and operated by CloudSimple. “We’re delighted to partner with VMware to support these workloads, enabling customers to leverage Google Cloud’s core competencies such
as secure, performant, global and highly available infrastructure, AI, ML and analytics,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud. The solution is designed, developed and operated by CloudSimple, and leverages VMware Cloud Foundation. The service includes VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX deployed in GCP and operated by CloudSimple. Google Cloud will provide the first line of support, working with CloudSimple to help enable customers to receive a streamlined product support experience, and their businesscritical applications are supported with SLAs that enterprise customers need. AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD
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Athenta Drives Datacenters for an Improved Infrastructure Management
Athenta DCEYE is a solution which was developed to manage a running Datacenter. It is the only DCIM tool in the world, which helps Datacentres to manage operations, administration and management @ 360°. It starts with assets inventorying, which were stranded in different islands in a large Datacentre, limiting their usability and value. It is a tool that can compute the computational power and electrical power simultaneously to finally address the issue of PUE. DCEYE is known for its business intelligence that guarantees to bring down the PUE in any Datacenter, steadily.
Gopal Joshi, Director Sales, Athenta Technologies stated, “In today’s India, Datacentres are the focal point of their organization. Any kind of interruptions in a Datacenter can lead to a tremendous loss for the organization. It is thereby imperative to have an end to end management of Datacentres by breaking the silos between IT and Facilities, while still managing their interdependencies”. “Athenta DCEYE also helps in setting up a central command that can manage, multiple Datacentres in different locations with multi-tenancy feature.” added Joshi. A good DCIM tool is the one that helps the DC manager to get top information of its Datacenter on multi-faceted dashboards prompting necessary actions to resolve issues, once and for all. Under a single umbrella, Athenta’s DCEYE provides IT Service Management (ITSM) that manages the IT tools and applications, inventory, service lifecycle, and monitoring performance, of all assets in the DC; Datacenter Facility Management (DCFM), managing the Interdependent electrical network along with HVAC, UPS’s, DGSET’s, Rack’s, iPDU’s, etc effortlessly.
Bitdefender 2020 Protects Against Cyberbullying and Online Predators
Bitdefender 2020 is now available and it’s designed to protect your kids from one of the threats you can’t monitor: cyberbullies. A brand new “Detection of
Cyberbullying and Online Predators” feature will scan conversations for inappropriate requests and attempts to obtain personal information and a warning can be sent to a parent if it picks up something inappropriate. The main feature of 2020 is Bitdefender’s fightback against the invasion of privacy online, with websites, hackers and nosy companies attempting to glean as much personal information from us as possible. Bitdefender now includes its own browser anti-tracking feature, listing all the information a website is attempting to store and enabling you to withdraw what you do not want it to store, whilst a new Microphone Monitor module reinforces the existing webcam protection. The multi-device Total Security or Family Pack (Internet Security 2020 is PC-only), has an iOS support to block phishing scams, whatever web browser you are using. Currently there are more than 300,000 users across India using Bitdefender solutions.
Cyber Adversaries up the Ante on Evasion and Anti-analysis to Avoid Detection Fortinet has announced the findings of its latest quarterly Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals that cybercriminals continue to look for new attack opportunities throughout the digital attack surface and are leveraging evasion as well as anti-analysis techniques as they become more sophisticated in their attempts. The Threat Landscape Index crossed a milestone this quarter. It is up nearly 4% from its original opening position year-over-year. The high point during that year-long timeframe is the peak and closing point of Q2 CY2019. The upsurge was driven by increased malware and 16 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
exploit activity. “The ever-widening breadth and sophistication of cyber adversaries’ attack methods is an impor-
tant reminder of how they are attempting to leverage speed and connectivity to their advantage. Therefore, it is important for defenders to do the same and to relentlessly prioritize these important cybersecurity fundamentals, to position organizations to better manage and mitigate cyber risks. A security fabric approach across every security element that embraces segmentation and integration, actionable threat intelligence, and automation combined with machine learning is essential to enable these fundamentals to bear fruit,” said Michael Joseph, Director System Engineering, India & SAARC, Fortinet.
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This Dell Technologies Cloud offering enables organizations to consume infrastructure, like a public cloud service, in data center and edge environments. This allows IT organizations to eliminate the need for basic tasks, such as infrastructure management and maintenance, with subscription-based pricing.
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DELL EMERGES AS A LEADER IN THE DATA STORAGE MARKET The idea of digital transformation starts with IT transformation, which requires customers to modernize their data centers with infrastructure designed to simplify their data landscape, optimize workloads at any scale and secure an organization’s most valuable asset – data.
What are the various Data Storage Solutions offered by Dell Technologies? To aid businesses in their journey of IT transformation, Dell Technologies offers cutting-edge storage portfolio. At Dell Technologies World 2019, Dell revealed new, modern infrastructure solutions for the IT landscape – from the edge to core data centers to public and private clouds. These latest technologies can deliver the foundation customers need to create, process, transport, store, protect and consume data – wherever it lives. Some of the new storage solutions launched were: • Dell Technologies Cloud- A new set of cloud infrastructure solutions to make hybrid cloud environments simpler to deploy and manage. It combines the power of VMware and Dell EMC infrastructure, removing the cloud complexity by offering consistent infrastructure and operations for IT resources, across public and private clouds and the edge, regardless of location • Dell EMC Unity XT- The next generation of Dell EMC Unity Midrange storage solution which offers up to 2X faster than its predecessor and 67% faster than its closest competitor. In addition, Dell EMC Unity can be a building block for the Dell Technologies Cloud as part of a validated design • Dell EMC IsilonOneFS 8.2- A solution for customers to keep pace with the data deluge in AI use cases. It provides massive scalability, enhanced cloud integration and security to support the most demanding file workloads • Dell EMC Cloud Storage Services: It is an expansion of cloud-enabled infrastructure solutions, which aids enterprises of all sizes to extend their on-premises infrastructure to public cloud for a variety of use cases, including disaster recovery (DR), analytics etc.
Can you brief us about the new Cloud Infrastructure Solutions that Dell Technologies is offering in association with VMware? VMware Cloud on Dell EMC combines Dell EMC VxRail with core technology from VMware, previewed as Project Dimension at VMworld 2018 US. This Dell Technologies Cloud offering enables organizations to consume infrastructure, like a public cloud service, in data center and edge environments. This allows IT organizations to eliminate the need for basic tasks, such as infrastructure management and maintenance, with subscription-based pricing. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC also offers a bi-directional connection to public clouds for application and data portability via a hybrid cloud control plane.Delivered in a Data Center-as-a-Service model for their on-premises environments, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is co-engineered and delivered by Dell Technologies with the ongoing service fully managed by VMware. This means organizations can leave infrastructure management, troubleshooting and maintenance to VMware, and instead focus on differentiating their business by building innovative applications. They also can take advantage of enterprise-grade data services, security and resiliency, built into the solution, and provision add-on services such as backup, disaster-recovery and bursting capabilities. Remember VMware is “First & Best” when deployed with Dell Technologies. What are the USPs of these solutions? How does it differ from those offered by your competitors? Organizations deploying Dell Technologies Cloud can:
• Increase agility – Employ familiar VMware tools to provision, govern, automate and orchestrate applications across multiple cloud deployment options. This gives organizations workload placement flexibility through a single operational hub across public, private and edge clouds, backed by a broad, global network of cloud service providers. • Accelerate innovation – Adopt the simple and quick path to deploy hybrid cloud. With VMware Cloud Foundation now available natively on Dell EMC VxRail, Dell Technologies Cloud Platforms offer the industry’s first jointly engineered, hybrid cloud infrastructure stack tightly integrated with VMware’s flexible, full stack HCI architecture. Customers also can opt to extend the cloud experience on-premises by deploying Dell EMC VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure and Dell Technologies validated storage, compute and networking options. • Improve cloud economics – Manage applications seamlessly across various clouds while saving time and cost by eliminating unnecessary application re-platforming. Organizations also can align how they pay for IT with how they do business through a range of options to buy, rent or consume IT as a service through Dell Financial Services.6 IDC research found that Dell Technologies Cloud can reduce total cost of ownership by up to 47% compared to native public cloud.1 • Help reduce business risk – Enhance confidence in operations through the delivery of IT services backed by built-in security and automated lifecycle management from the cloud vendor enterprises trust with their most critical workloads. Organizations benefit from the experience and trusted solutions of the industry’s top cloud IT infrastructure provider to improve service levels and deliver on business requirements. What market share does Dell Technologies occupy in the Cloud market? According to IDC, Dell EMC ranked #1 with a 27.4% industry share in 2018. In the external storage market, Dell Inc. ranked No.1 in all quarters in 2018, with 24.7% industry share by vendor revenue in Q4. Dell EMC maintained its undisputed leadership in India’s external storage industry by vendor revenue, i.e. nearly 1.5x the nearest competitor. The Indian cloud computing market currently stands at $2.2 billion and is expected to grow to $4 billion by 2020 with an annual growth rate of more than 30%. To access the complete article log on to: www.enterpriseitworld.com
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INTERVIEW // LOGINRADIUS
LOGINRADIUS SIMPLIFIES CUSTOMER IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
Today, with the increasing market size of Customer Identity management, the number of players in the CIAM has also grown exponentially. CIAM market provides mature data management solutions with standard and deluxe features to support millions of users across every industrial sector.
What is LoginRadius’ position in the CIAM market space in India and overseas? Customer identity startup, LoginRadius is an industry leader in the CIAM space. The company has been highly recognized by organizations like Gartner, Forrester, KuppingerCole and Computer Weekly. Today, with the increasing market size of Customer Identity management, the number of players in the CIAM has also grown exponentially. CIAM market provides mature data management solutions with standard and deluxe features to support millions of users across every industrial sector. LoginRadius, a world-leading platform in this space serves more than 3,000 businesses with a monthly reach of 1.17 billion users worldwide and over 7.6 billion API calls per month. To mention a few esteemed clients working on their platform are Conde Nast, Viacom, Vogue India, Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC), Weather Network, 21st Century Fox, Hydro Ottawa and more. The company has a strong presence in the US and Europe with multiple data support centres. What are the key CIAM solutions and products that LoginRadius offers? How do they set you apart from the competitors? 20 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
LoginRadius’ key platform features are registration services, adaptive security, integration with third-party applications and customer insights. LoginRadius supports OIDC and thus allows social logins from any conformant provider. Other authentication mechanisms support includes Google Authenticator, mobile apps, mobile biometrics, mobile push, and SMS OTP. LoginRadius features IoT device linking through a REST API, which allows user-to-device permission mapping. The service also supports OAuth2 Device Flow. LoginRadius’ target customers are in industries with low authentication assurance requirements. Supporting additional authentication methods would make the service stronger. LoginRadius’ service is highly scalable. Overall, the LoginRadius offering is up-and-coming in the CIAM market and deserves evaluation in CIAM RFPs, particularly for those organizations without highsecurity requirements, such as apparel, fashion, retail, and media. How does LoginRadius deal with the Storage and Security concerns of CIOs? Cybersecurity is no longer just a technical issue, but an existential threat, and organizations want CIOs to manage this major category of business risk. Today, as global cyberattacks increase, Indian
RAKESH SONI, CEO & CO-FOUNDER,
LOGINRADIUS
As a provider of a fully managed cloud CIAM solution, LoginRadius prioritizes guaranteed system performance. Most of our clients are growing, especially those in the media and publications, retail and consumer, and travel and hospitality sectors, and LoginRadius recognizes the need for a highly scalable and adaptable platform that can grow with them.
companies are aware of the damage that a data breach can do. But India still has a long way to go, especially as it is at the forefront of digital
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how it is used, and how it is protected. LoginRadius’s CIAM solution currently hosts and approves all of the most commonly used compliance. Our CIAM platform has built-in security features that protect end-user data, accounts, and digital identities. These security features include encryption in transit, encryption at rest, brute force prevention, multi-factor authentication, risk-based authentication, fraud prevention, and threat detection. What are your plans to expand LoginRadius’ market presence in India? LoginRadius has planned to set up its India operations by hiring over 200 technocrats for their Jaipur office by 2020 to capture a $20 billion global market opportunity. Having an ambitious long-term vision to secure the identity of every person on the internet, which is 4.2 billion users and counting, with increasing cybersecurity threats and the need to deliver a modern customer experience, the demand for a cloud-based customer identity platform is growing, to keep up with that growth the brand plan to double headcount in the next 12 months.
DEEPAK GUPTA, CTO & CO-FOUNDER,
LOGINRADIUS
The LoginRadius CIAM platform is designed with security as the highest priority, ensuring that customer
data and identity are protected without sacrificing performance, availability, or scalability.
transformation. The challenge is to better inform and balance long-term security and current longterm investments. As digital transformation rapidly transforms the business landscape, customers demand a more personalized experience without increasing the security risks to personal information. This requires more transparency in the data collected,
What challenges has LoginRadius faced in the market as a young startup? Rakesh Soni describes his initial days of the startup as “just an idea and a couple of guys”. LoginRadius soon became a full-fledged Indian project based out of Canada “Once we realized that login is a big problem on the internet we needed to develop a proper product. We developed it, coded and went through multiple rounds of testing which included family and friends as subjects”. In the initial time period, it was very hard for the company to get to consumers because it required massive amounts of trust since it was, in the end, a security management company. They started off by developing plugins for content management systems like Joomla and WordPress. These micro websites are where they started getting onto businesses. Once 7 to 8 thousand micro websites had started using the LoginRadius service they decided to directly approach consumers. This is when they knew that their idea was going to be something with massive potential. How did LoginRadius overcome those challenges? Today, with an increase in cyber-attacks globally, Indian enterprises have become aware of the
damages data leaks can cause. But India still has a long way to go, especially as the country is on the cusp of digital transformation. The challenge lies in making customers more aware and balancing long term security with present term investment. There is immense potential and LoginRadius is keen to be a part of the journey. With the advanced tools and mechanisms, we are ensuring that we are always on the top of our competitions. As a provider of a fully managed cloud CIAM solution, LoginRadius prioritizes guaranteed system performance. Most of our clients are growing, especially those in the media and publications, retail and consumer, and travel and hospitality sectors, and LoginRadius recognizes the need for a highly scalable and adaptable platform that can grow with them. The LoginRadius CIAM platform is designed with security as the highest priority, ensuring that customer data and identity are protected without sacrificing performance, availability, or scalability. With digital transformation rapidly changing the business landscape, customers are demanding more personalized experiences without increasing security risks to their personal information. This requires CIAM platforms to be more transparent about the data they collect, how it is being used, and how it is being protected. LoginRadius’ CIAM solution currently holds hosting and data security approval for all of the most commonly used compliances. What is the roadmap for the next year? A few years ago, companies were hesitant towards moving to the cloud, experimenting with smaller applications at first. But in the last few years, it has witnessed a dramatic change. Today, as part of digital transformation, companies are moving most of their IT workload to the cloud. This will create a need for effective customer management platforms that are available on the cloud such as LoginRadius. Awareness about data security and privacy among the general public will also pave the way for companies to adopt state of the art CIAM solutions that not only provides them a competitive edge but is also provides the best in class security and privacy features. We plan to strengthen our research and development (R&D) and business operations team in India by hiring around 200 people in the country by 2020. We are primarily focusing on companies that have demonstrated the adoption of enterprise cloud technologies and care of customer experience and security. AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD
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ROUND ABOUT // SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC EVENT
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC CONDUCTS ITS INNOVATION DAY WORKSHOPS FOR MORE THAN 500 PARTNERS BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
July saw Schneider Electric conducting workshops in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai to assist its partners in understanding the deeper technical aspects of its products and services, to help channel partners achieve maximum profitability.
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chneider Electric organized a two-day workshop session across three cities – Bangalore (23rd-24th July), Delhi (24th25th July) & Mumbai (25th-26th July). The focus of this workshop was to impart deep technical information, provide structured training for the 22 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
use of configurators on mySchneider Partner Portal, share case studies and best practices in the industry that can help Schneider Electric’s partners and their sales reps generate more business and earn better profits. It was an excellent event to build peer network as well as industry experts from Schneider Electric and get any kind
of support that was required. .
THE IDEA BEHIND THE INITIATIVE Schneider Electric has always had the philosophy of keeping its partners’ needs and problems as the top priority and provide support at each touch
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC EVENT // ROUND ABOUT
JAYALAKSHMI MAHADEVAN Director - Channels, Distribution and Alliances.
Schneider Electric’s Innovation Day Workshops have been a huge success. The workshops conducted in Bangalore,
Delhi and Mumbai witnessed grand turnouts. It was exhilarating to see the energy and support. Our partners turned out in full strength and participated and made our effort successful. We have gone through the feedback and are implementing most of them. You will see the actions in the months to come. My team and I are committed to bringing world class support to you to grow your business with us.
point with the end customers. This event was specially organized for the partners and their sales & technical team, to provide technical knowledge on Schneider’s existing product lines and training for new products that the company has launched. The two solutions which were the talk of the event were Edge Computing and Ecostruxure. Cloud Computing has revolutionized how
people store and use their data. However, there are some areas where Cloud is limited. Latency, bandwidth, security, and a lack of offline access can be problematic. To solve this problem, APC by Schneider Electric’s Edge Computing enables users to have a robust, secure and intelligent on-premise infrastructure. When data is physically located closer
to the users who connect to it, information can be shared quickly, securely, and without latency. In financial services, gaming, healthcare and retail, low levels of latency are vital for a great customer digital experience. To improve reliability and faster response times, combine cloud with edge infrastructure from APC by Schneider Electric. The EcoStruxure Architecture is designed AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 23
ROUND ABOUT // SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC EVENT
to enable a consistent approach to create a connected world for customers and partners, which deliver value outcomes from the shop-floor to the top-floor.The architecture comprises an end-to-end cybersecurity platform with software, analytics and services solutions which can be deployed in either on-premise or on the cloud. In today’s dynamic business environment, interoperability is imperative to supporting the diverse hardware and system in building, data center, industry and grid end markets. EcoStruxure enables a breadth of agnostic applications, analytics and services for seamless enterprise 24 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
integration. The workshop provided a product demo zone which displayed Easy UPS Online, Back UPS, Smart UPS and Micro Data Centre. The partners appreciated this display as they were able to understand the product benefits and clear doubts from Schneider sales reps in order to provide better solutions to their customers.
MYSCHNEIDER PARTNER PORTAL There was also an experience zone where partners could firsthand experience and understand
mySchneider Partner Portal and get a deeper understanding of accessibility of product information, training, business tools and configurators on the portal. MySchneider Partner Portal is a comprehensive portal designed especially for the benefit of the company’s partners. The portal consists of various product trainings, have webinars to develop individual soft skills, tools and services that helps in generating more business, various online events such as quiz, rewards program etc. to incentive the partners on their achievements. The partners have not only appreciated the quality of content on the portal but they believe it has
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made the communication easier as well as more interactive.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EVENT The main highlight of the event was extremely informative and interactive presentations given by various industry experts on different topics such Field Services, Ecostruxure, IT trends and Data center challenges, LEC configurators, Easy UPS, Schneider Rack Solutions and so much more! In the two days partners were provided with basket of information that will help them upskill their product knowledge and leverage product
features to provide maximum satisfaction to their customers. An exciting program called APC Champions Club Program was launched during the event. APC Champions is an exclusive program for the Partner’s Salesforce where they can earn reward points by selling the products to end markets. This program is specially designed for APC Champions, the elite Sales Reps of the Elite & Premiere partners, where they will earn iRewards points on each sale made to the end consumer. APC Champions can further accumulate those iRewards which can be redeemed as PayTM Cash
Reward or amazing gift options. Jayalakshi Mahadevan, Channel & Alliance, Director, Schneider Electric, has been closely working with United Nations to spread awareness and promote HeforShe campaign. For this event she had a brilliant vision of celebrating equality in the partners’ workplace and encouraged them to share stories and pictures of how their company is promoting gender equality. She was overwhelmed by the responses she got from the partners and few selected pictures were showcased during the event in all the three cities.
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FEATURE // CISCO
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CISCO // FEATURE
CISCO:
THRIVING ON THE POWER OF
ALLIANCES
Last month Cisco hosted the 6th edition of Cisco India Summit as a celebration of its ideology behind building partnerships. From unveiling new partnerships to acknowledging the success of the existing partnerships, the summit was dedicated to the spirit of alliances in the evolving market. BY POOJA JAIN POOJA@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
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he point of inception for the organization that Cisco has become today, was in 1984 when Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner of Stanford University, California, figured out a way to connect their respective computer networks with each other over a local area network within the university campus. The solution that they devised was to find a way for two computer systems with different mediums and language protocols to talk to each other. They developed a router that went on to become Cisco’s initial product. What started in 1984 as a desire to connect different systems, twelve years later turned into a commitment to the channels as a strategic route to the market. By 2001, Cisco had introduced its value based partner program that was supplemented by its profitability programs VIP/OIP/SIP three years later. It took Cisco 26 years of perseverance to venture into the collaborative channels and create its own worldwide partner organization. Since 2015, Cisco has been consistently working on enhancing its partner ecosystem, and now in 2019, it is a force to reckon with in the Digital Transformation journey that is centred on the expansion of the role of its partners. Today, Cisco has over 2300 partners nationwide that range from
Industry Partners, Integrators, Distributors, Service Providers and Consultants to ISVs, MSI/EPCs and Technology. What lies for the organization ahead is an unimpeded expansion of the playing field, wherein Cisco extends its incessant support to its partners in building their transformational capabilities.
POWER OF ALLIANCES The 65 years of Independence have seen the growth of the Indian economy to a $2 Trillion economy. With the rate at which the enterprises are currently progressing, the next ten years hold the promise of turning Indian into a $5 Trillion digital economy. As the enterprises embrace the new world order of Technology, what we are looking forward to, is a steep increase in the digital economic impact from six percent to approximately twenty percent of the GDP in just a period of five years. The question that arises in the face of these statistics is -by what forces will such a monumental growth be driven in the Indian Economy? To address this, Cisco celebrated the ethos of Partnerships in the Cisco India Summit 2019, conducted on 29th – 30th July in Kochi. The theme for the two day conference was ‘Power of Alliances’. From AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 27
FEATURE // CISCO
SAMEER GARDE PRESIDENT, CISCO INDIA & SAARC
“We are excited to partner with Google to bring free, open, highquality internet access to everyone in India.
CHUCK ROBBINS CEO,CISCO
“In today’s world, innovative solutions can be developed by anyone, anywhere— and then scaled
to help people around the world. This is the power of connection, and no one connects better than Cisco.”
looking back to and celebrating the partnerships that Cisco has had for decades, to establishing new enterprise relationships, Cisco continued on its journey of exploring the power of partnerships. “The way forward if you want to grow and keep pace with the innovation on the business side, it is no more about serving old and new customers with existing business models. It is about serving new customers with new business models. That is the change that Cisco wants to bring,” said Sameer Garde, President, India & SAARC. Garde kickstarted the event with a discussion of the three pillar model for market creation that has guided Cisco in all its operations. The three pillars are Programmability of businesses, New GTM and business models and Collaboration &Co-innovation. It is this proactive approach of going the extra mile to reach the customers you thought you could never acquire, that has led Cisco to becoming the market leader that it is today. The event saw a series of groundbreaking announcements being made by the Cisco leaders. The highlight of the Summit though was unveiling of the Cisco-Google alliance to offer high-speed public Wifi in India. Cisco will work with Google’s gStation platform to provide communities around the country, access to a free, open, high-quality public Wi-Fi. 28 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
In line with Google and Cisco’s shared vision of connecting 1.3 billion Indians to the digital economy, the project has already begun its first phase of implementation in Bengaluru. By September 2019, 200 locations in Bengaluru will be Wi-Fi enabled, followed by another 300 in the second phase.With this initiative, Google and Cisco are looking forward to engaging over 1,750,000,000 new internet users by 2025. “According to a TRAI report, globally there is 1 WiFi hotspot for every 150 people, and in India, 8 million additional hotspots must be installed to achieve the same ratio, creating new market opportunities for infrastructure providers and internet service providers. India has only 52,000 Wi-Fi hotspots today, necessitating a proactive strategy to make high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots ubiquitous across the country,” states Cisco. Google identifies the challenges faced by the Next Billion Users globally, who are majorly a generation of mobile only users. These challenges include high device prices, lack of storage, mobile data constraints and the paucity of locallyrelevant content, apps and services. Google-Cisco alliance proposes to address these challenges by offering Access, Platforms and Products to the next billion users. Commenting on this, Sajith Sivanandan, Managing Director and Business Head, Google
This also represents a significant growth opportunity, the demand for public Wi-Fi hotspots is expected to go up by 100X over the next 3 years, creating new markets for Cisco and our partners.”
Pay and Next Billion User Initiatives, India, said “Solving for access is one of the core pillars of our Next Billion Users strategy, and with gStation we have developed a best in class public WiFi solution that provides a seamless, high-quality broadband experience to users.” In addition to this, VC Gopalratnam, SVP, IT and CIO International, Cisco India and SAARC, announced that only Cisco is building a multi-domain architecture that securely connects any user, on any device, on any network to any application. When asked about the evolving role of CISOs and the CISOs potentially replacing the CIOs in the boardroom discussions, Daisy Chittilapilly, Managing Director, DTO, Cisco India & SAARC, said “Though CISOs are traditionally into compliance and policy work, while the CIOs are the enablers, the synergist relationship between CISOs and CIOs is increasingly becoming more important. CISOs have moved away from being a sub-category and are steadily becoming equivalent to other departments.” Referring to the business strategy for Cisco with the changing market dynamics of emerging technologies, Rakesh Shetty, Managing Director, Enterprise, Cisco India & SAARC, said “For Automation, we would be leveraging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to see how the devices are talking to each other and draw patterns out of it. Other significant trends in the market are around Business Intelligence and Customer Experience. The programmable economy
CISCO // FEATURE
VC GOPALRATNAM SVP-IT AND CIO-INTERNATIONAL, CISCO INDIA & SAARC
“Through strategic collaboration between governments, businesses, and NGO’s, we extend our
RAJESH SHETTY MANAGING DIRECTOR SALES - ENTERPRISE, CISCO INDIA & SAARC
“Everybody is reaching out to their end consumers trying to figure out a way to build
a better connect. So, every discussion at the board level and the CIO level, is centred on how to use Business Intelligence to better the customer experience.”
is the most relevant factor. All organizations are looking at how they can improve their customer experience whether through internal apps or through apps for their customers. Everybody is reaching out to their end consumers trying to figure out a way to build a better connect. So, every discussion at the board level and the CIO level, is centred on how to use Business Intelligence to better the customer experience.” “Being an end-to-end company, Cisco plays an important role in a number of fields from Data Centre, Security and Infrastructure to Applications, Networking and the IT-OT Integration. A lot of the solutions for these come from Cisco’s Cloud managed wireless solutions. This end-toend role is the strength of the Cisco Solutions. You don’t have to go to multiple vendors and try to put a solution together. Cisco offers a tried and tested solution which can be deployed very easily. With more Digitization happening, Cisco’s role is, in fact, increasing. And with the more acquisitions we are doing, we are getting more relevant end-toend solutions,” Shetty added. Anand Patil, Director, Systems Engineering, Cisco India and SAARC, discussed the next 5 big transitions in the market, namely, Intent-Based
Networking, Multicloud, Wifi 6, 5G and Security. In his discussion on ‘Tech for Good – Partnerships with a Purpose’, VC Gopalratnam, SVP IT & CIO International, Cisco India and SAARC, stated the Cisco India focus areas to be Critical Human Needs, Education and Economic Empowerment. Following these focus areas, Cisco’s goal is to positively impact 50 million people in India by 2025. For this, Cisco will expand its Networking Academy program to train one million students in India by 2025. The aim of this endeavour is to create a pool of highly-skilled technology professionals who will accelerate India’s digital transformation. “The digital economy is a growth enabler and holds massive potential for India. While it has been widely discussed that digital adoption is forecasted at $1 trillion monetary opportunities for organizations, it is the quality of benefits that it brings that is most significant,” commented VC Gopalratnam, SVP IT & CIO International, Cisco India and SAARC. Cisco has been consistently supporting its partners in enhancing their resources and transforming their capabilities. It is a partnership of mutual growth and development. As a testimony
experience in networking technology to elevate the standards of living and foster sustainable economic development.”
to Cisco’s unwavering commitment towards its partner’s growth, Cisco partner, Velocis presented its Digital Transformation Journey in this Software Defined, Multi Platform, Multi Cloud Era with future-ready technologies aided by Cisco. Cisco offers its partners the technological training and expertise required for them to enhance their portfolio, as well as provides them the global exposure needed to create an ever increasing market for its products and services. Atul Bansal, Managing Director, Velocis, talked about how a stronger partner connection to Cisco is enabling partners to scale new technologies faster and that the early and deeper understanding of CX Portfolio and Partner model is emblematic of unflinching support from Cisco. The Power of Alliances has led Cisco on its way to fulfilling its CSR projects and creating a positive social impact. Shridhar Venkat from Akshaya Patra Foundation, Suzzane Singh from Pratham Books and Sapna Moudgil from NIIT Foundation offered testimonies to Cisco’s capabilities in bridging the gap to possibilities.
FINALLY… The two-day summit duly paid a tribute to the increasing necessity of partnerships and alliances among the enterprises in the current industrial scenario. With technology evolving at a pace faster than is humanly possible to catch on with, it is tie ups with other enterprises that will pave the way for mutual growth by creating the space for all partners to capitalize on each other’s capabilities, while simultaneously contributing to it. AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 29
INTERVIEW // MILAN KUMAR
VISITING THE SMART FACTORY WITH MILAN KUMAR From an interaction with Milan Kumar, Global CIO for WABCO Automotive and author of the Smart Factory. Kumar places the concept of Smart Factories in the Indian context and makes it approachable for the Indian manufacturers.
After reading the book, readers will be able to imbibe the concepts of industry 4.0/smart factory clearly in their minds
BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
and see the difference between conventional manufacturing and the smart factory-oriented manufacturing approach.
What are the core ideas of your book? The Smart factory concept is based on certain core ideas that make my book different from others: • Human-centred yet automated manufacturing • Open Value Chain • Product and Service digitization across the board • Flexible Production • Better Business Models and Customer interaction These core ideas are explained in a lucid manner keeping a layman in mind; readers will be able to communicate strongly with them readily and gain meaningful insights into their importance and applicability to their professional areas. What makes your book unique? There have been a few books around published on the smart factory concept. But most of them were written from the European or American manufacturing industry perspective. My book emphasises more on the Asian and Indian perspective of implementing the smart factory concept. It is time that the traditional manufacturing industry in India and Asia sheds 30 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
MILAN KUMAR, author of Smart Factory
its conventional focus and shifts to advanced concepts of manufacturing to reap benefits of Automation and Technology. The book has visual images with lucid, understandable text that would help the reader understand the ideas of the book better than ever before. Why should people read your book? The smart factory concept is fast catching up with the entire world. US, Germany, Singapore and China have been strongly advocating this concept in their manufacturing industries. In fact, these countries have started to reap the benefits of implementing this concept already. It is high time India embraces this concept to revolutionize its vast manufacturing sector. As a head-start, readers of this book will be able to gain a clear understanding of the concepts of smart factory / industry 4.0 apart from the advantages accruing from it. Who is the target audience for your book? The book primarily aims at the manufacturing sector due to its technical/technological flavour. Engineers, production managers, manufacturing process architects, automation experts and
integration firms will find a lot of value from this book that can be readily implemented in their respective areas of service. Apart from this, the book also aims at giving valuable consultation to the C-suite members of manufacturing organizations about their involvements and contributions to their respective organizations and industry as a whole in implementing this powerful concept. What will the readers take away from your book? After reading the book, readers will be able to imbibe the concepts of industry 4.0/smart factory clearly in their minds and see the difference between conventional manufacturing and the smart factory-oriented manufacturing approach. The benefits accruing from this powerful concept, the technologies influencing the working and market readiness would be explored in detail by way of this book. This handbook will discuss the exact strategies, plans, requirements, benefits and groundwork required for implementing this concept in the manufacturing sector. It will also analyse and assess market readiness and existing business vis-à-vis related technologies. For more information regarding the book, or to place your order, reach out to Milan Kumar on LinkedIn.
SAS // GUEST COLUMN
MOVING FORWARD WITH ADVANCED ANALYTICS IN OIL & GAS The digitization of oil and gas pipelines, refineries, infrastructure, field and exploration sites shall bring all the related data on a single platform. This can detect and convey data such as movements, vibrations, leakages, corrosion, and others.
NAVEEN SIKKA Principal Industry Consultant - Oil & Gas, SAS India
BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
“If you see a pattern in your data, be it in structured format or unstructured format, these emerging technologies help you in performing the most optimized action within your operations. With AI and ML, the action is not learnt; it is predetermined!”
Companies today are vehemently talking about AI and ML technologies and IT companies, be it a start-up or super majors, are already providing specialized offerings around these technologies. However, the extent and complexity these new age technologies address vary from individual companies’ outlook. Over the years, the inherent expectations from the oil and gas business is to build an error free application which requires good amount of feature engineering considering multiple variable factors that affect the expected output. This requires large amount of interaction between
the business domain and technology domain. The resources involved from each domain should be well versed with the boundaries within which the solutions need to be developed and should focus on providing the relevant data required for doing deep learning. The variety and veracity of data considered for the error-free solutions need considerable time as well as resources. Since the oil and gas industry is deeply interconnected right from the exploration, drilling and production of oil and gas to transportation, refining and distribution of oil therefore data exchanges or data collection and management becomes the most import factor to forecast, predict and optimize the output variables that need business attention in times to come. The need of the hour is to build AI and ML applications solving real life business issues. The issues faced within oil and gas industry could range from compliance, emissions, supplydemand fluctuations, price volatility, material availability, energy efficiencies, production efficiencies, supply chain etc. A wrong decision can prove to be very costly, but a correct decision is highly valuable.Therefore, it is imperative that emerging technologies in predictive analytics, drones, sensors, cloud-based systems, AI, IoT, robotics, software, and hardware automation need to collaborate to improve operations by reducing costs, and increasing safety, efficiency, and speed of the processes. The digitization of oil and gas pipelines, refineries, infrastructure, field and exploration sites shall bring all the related data on a single platform. This can detect and convey data such as movements, vibrations, leakages, corrosion, and others. Using advanced data analytics tools shall help in converting field/
market data into actionable data within the oil and gas companies that can detect patterns and get insights into potential defects or failures. Most of the oil and gas companies either in Upstream, Midstream and Downstream domain have been in operation for quite many decades. As industry norms can have it and due to its inherent nature of operations, over the years these companies have invested heavily on system of records. With skilled manpower availability within the oil and gas industry, in the past complex decision making has been fairly achieved. However over a period, with the ageing manpower, the decision-making trend is shifting towards data backed decisions. Companies use analytical and artificial intelligence solutions to process the data which gives them the ability to make decisions much faster than humans do manually. Advanced data technologies such as AI and ML offer oil and gas companies a means to solve this. To cope with this need it becomes critical for oil and gas companies to invest in emerging technologies for reducing risks, increasing productivity and optimizing costs which are of prime concern - be it Upstream, Midstream or Downstream domain. Modelling and simulation enable the analyst to assess millions of possible scenarios to decide whether the E&P, Transportation, Refining, Distribution and Retail operation can be performed in an efficient and cost effective manner. If you see a pattern in your data, be it in structured format or unstructured format, these emerging technologies help you in performing the most optimized action within your operations. With AI and ML, the action is not learnt; it is predetermined!
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GUEST ARTICLE // LIFERAY
EXPERIENCE LED TRANSFORMATION WITH DIGITAL EXPERIENCE PLATFORM
BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
The increasing significance of a comprehensive Digital Experience Platform (DXP) cannot be sidelined today. It is crucial for the companies undergoing digital transformation to pay heed to this particular aspect of the said process. Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is an emerging category of enterprise software seeking to meet the needs of companies undergoing digital transformation, with the ultimate goal of providing better customer experiences. DXPs can be a single product, but are often a suite of products that work together. DXPs provide an architecture for companies to digitize business operations, deliver connected customer experiences, and gather actionable customer insight. Gartner defines the DXP as “an integrated set of core technologies that support the composition, management, delivery and optimisation of contextualised digital experiences. DXPs entail a high degree of emphasis on interoperability and cross-channel continuity across the entire customer journey.” A confluence of factors has led many companies to start radically reengineering their business practices to be extremely experience oriented: • Digital channels (web, mobile, and social media) have become the dominant ways customers interact with companies. • Customers expect great experiences like Google, Apple, and Facebook. • Social media in particular provides unstructured ways for customers to engage with and influence public sentiment for companies. • Mobile devices provide location and immediacy, giving companies more ways to keep in touch with customers. • Data insight is making it possible to target an audience segment of one person with a highly personalized experience. 32 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
• Digital technology makes it possible for startups to disrupt traditional industries: For example WealthFront for wealth management, LendingClub for financial products, and the oft-cited Uber and Airbnb in transportation and lodging—and all deliver a much better customer experience. However, in this journey of experience led transformation, most companies are faced with hurdles like: • Existing organizational systems are incapable of scaling on demand. • Existing applications are tightly coupled restricting ability to enhance their capabilities quickly • Data normalization across multiple sources is a huge challenge in delivering seamless customer experience. • Organizations have low visibility of their customer behaviours across touchpoints. • Real-time insights and mashup of data & behaviours across channels are necessary to deliver personalized experiences. • There is lack of automation and outdated processes • There is very low visibility of content across the organisation • Inability to understand customers preferences and interests To address these challenges, companies typically rely on various digital products: portals for content aggregation and personalisation, CMS for content management, search for information discovery, analytics for tracking, campaign
ABHIJIT PAL
Business Head, India, and South Asia, Liferay India.
“Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is an emerging category of enterprise software seeking to
meet the needs of companies undergoing digital transformation, with the ultimate goal of providing better customer experiences.”
management for targeted campaigns, and so on. Digital experience platforms (DXP) combine all these core digital technologies into a single unified platform, that can be the foundation for building omni-channel experience rich applications. A DXP provides a platform to develop and manage personalised user experiences across all channels, devices, and touchpoints throughout the user journey. It provides an integrated and unified view to all its users across various applications and enables a seamless flow of business processes for its users. It enables developers to use modern web technologies to develop rich, interactive, and responsive web experiences. To access the complete article log on to: www.enterpriseitworld.com
KANAKIA GROUP // GUEST ARTICLE
FOR CIOS, FREEDOM MEANS TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN FREEDOM
BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
A special write up for the 73rd Independence Day of India, written at the cusp of dawn..
As decision makers of our companies, every time we check our mobile phones, we check if our servers are working or not, our core application is working or not. This is the date we fixed for some activity in our company for technology upgradation, application update, test run, trial, etc. I personally feel that this is the day we ought to upgrade our technology. With competition coming from completely unrelated sectors, we as leaders are under immense pressure to not only stay ahead of the competition but also to open up new revenue streams and create some bench marks for cost saving. Almost all enterprises are undertaking Digital Transformation, especially in Real Estate, Banking, Insurance, Pharma, etc. Overall, it makes the job of IT leaders tough as they have to be constantly prepared for new technology initiatives, upgrades for cyber security, etc. Real Freedom for a technology leader is to enable robust and efficient solutions for clients and industry to manage cyber risk appropriately. Cyber Security creates lots of Havoc for CIO’s globally, In the world of Information Security, the independence of building holistic solutions is one of the key aspects which gives leaders the liberty to perform at their optimum efficiency and encourages them to keep the doors open to exploring new ideas. CIOs want technology upgrades easily, without any downtime and easy to revert if anything goes wrong with the new
updates. From the business owners’ point of view, they want a seamless transformation of People, Process and Technology. In real world companies want seamless transformation like mobile phone, mobile apps, no training required, no IT person help is required. Here in this world we still want an IT person to connect our Video Conferencing. A seamless transformation of different technology to talk to each one is the need of the hour, this is called real Freedom. CIOs today need the Freedom to do away with the day-to-day mundane tasks which take lots of energy and time on the part of the top management for simple connectivity of VC, etc. CIOs of 2020 want some automation called RPA, AI, ML, etc. to smooth the complete process on technology, where they can update and upgrade the servers from home. I appreciate some technology on Hyper Converged Infrastructure, where we can upgrade our VM’s from anywhere. Actual Freedom for CIOs is to be able to save some cost on technology implementation, CIO, CFO relationship. CFO’s believe in technology and some investment in technology. A Government initiative for storage of data in India is also a good shift towards CIOs acquiring some freedom for storage and controls of data in Indian sub-continent. Government can support organizations by defining appropriate policies
CHITRANJAN KESARI
Head IT, Kanakia Group.
“Actual Freedom for CIOs is to be able to save some cost on Technology Implementation.”
and frameworks. A collaboration of Reliance JIO with Microsoft and creation of new data center by Hiranandani Group, called Yotta, is easing the pricing and policy for storage etc in India. The CIOs’ Digital Revolution and 24/7 work are deeply affecting the way we live, consume, work and interact with one another. Not only do companies have to revamp their operating models and adapt to a changing market environment; CIOs must also upgrade their arsenals and come up with new strategies, tactics and tools that help them build a purposeful digital enterprise, and this is what will give them True Freedom.
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SECURITY // ENTERPRISE IT WORLD SECURITY SYMPOSIUM
LT GEN RAJESH PANT (RETD.) NATIONAL CYBER COORDINATION CENTRE CHIEF
Cyber Crime is taking away 2.5 per cent of the GDP. In a tight micro economic situation,
the impact of cyber crime on the nation in very serious, this makes cyber security so crucial.
BY POOJA JAIN POOJA@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
4 CITY CISO SECURITY SYMPOSIUM: INITIATING PAN INDIA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON CYBER SECURITY
Enterprise IT World and InfoSec Foundation have successfully conducted the third chapter of its 4 City CISO Security Symposium. Starting from Bengaluru, and moving on to Kolkata and Delhi, the next event in scheduled in Mumbai. The Security Symposium seeks to bring together IT leaders from the enterprise market and let the discussions on cyber security flow freely.
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he Delhi chapter of the Enterprise IT World and Infosec Foundation’s Security Symposium and Awards 2019 has been successfully concluded. The event is a series of 4 City CISO Events aimed at initiating discussions on the security question among the 34 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD AUGUST 2019
security leaders in the metro cities. After engaging the CISO community in Bangalore, Kolkata and Delhi, the next event is due in Mumbai on 30th August 2019. The theme for this year’s Security Symposium is ‘Zero Trust Security: Capitalizing on the Adoption Wave’. At a time when cyber security breaches
have become a contributor to the economic crisis in India, a platform like this allows the stakeholders to come together and discuss ways to control and mitigate the economic impact of cyber crime. The series of events saw a huge turnout wherein the security leaders came in and participated in panel discussions on topics like, ‘Protecting
ENTERPRISE IT WORLD SECURITY SYMPOSIUM // SECURITY
Your Company and Your Customers from Cyber Attacks’ and ‘Why a Zero-Trust Approach Can Make the Cloud More Secure’. The Delhi chapter, held at Hotel Le Meridian on 9th August, was inaugurated by Lt. Gen Rajesh Pant (retd.), National Cyber Coordination Centre chief; Dr. Pawan Duggal, Advocate,
Supreme Court; Ms Orly Naomi Goldschmidt Gartner, First Secretary (Public Diplomacy), Israel Embassy; Mr Sanjay Mohapatra, Group Editor, Enterprise IT World and Mr. Sushobhan Mukherjee, Chairman, InfoSec Foundation, CEO – Prime Infoserv. In his inaugural address in the Delhi Security
Symposium, Lt Gen Rajesh Pant (retd.) National Cyber Coordination Centre Chief, said “Cyber Crime is taking away 2.5 per cent of the GDP. In a tight micro economic situation, the impact of cyber crime on the nation in very serious, this makes cyber security so crucial.” Emphasising the government’s stake in the AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 35
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issue, Pant said that the centre is working on a new strategy for cyber security that will be released early next year and will take into account the newly emerging technological threats with regards to 5G, IoT and the likes. This new cyber security strategy is expected to set norms and standards that would help the enterprises to navigate towards a secure digital transformation. Dr. Pawan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court, elaborated on the legal aspect of Cyber security as prevalent in countries across the world and highlighted the areas where India’s own legal framework is lacking with respect to a comprehensive cyber security strategy. In addition to the keynote sessions and
discussions, the leading CIOs and CISOs in the enterprise market were recognized with the Cyber Sentinel Awards 2019. The event also saw the inauguration of the InfoQuest Magazine, the cyber security journal. The 4 City CISO Security Symposium and Awards have been powered by the Silver partners – A10 and FireEye; Knowledge Partner, EY; Technology Partners – TeamViewer, Tata Tele Business Services, Klassify, XcellHost, RAH Infotech, Endpoint Protector, Maple Cloud and ProTechmanize; Community Partners – CyberFrat and CISO Platform; Cloud Security Partners – InstaSafe and AWS and Academic Partner – Praxis. AUGUST 2019 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 37
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