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FOR THE CIOs. BY THE CIOs. SEPTEMBER 2018

IS INDIA INC. READY READY FOR FUTURE STORAGE

DEMANDS? Boasting half a billion internet consumers, India is perhaps the sought after market in the world,.... p16

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HOW READY IS INDIA FOR THE RISING CYBEREPIDEMIC? ... p 24

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EDITOR’S LETTER

WITH ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES, COMES A LONG LINE OF CHALLENGES There’s never a better time to address the ongoing and upcoming obstacles than when

gearing up to explore new avenues and deploy new technologies. Every new phase in IT maturity brings a new course for businesses with new opportunities and unforeseen hurdles in the way. On a macro level, India as a country is on the cusp of a similar maturity in its digital transformation. There has been an exponentially increasing online customer base with half a billion internet users. Smartphones have propelled businesses and consumers to a whole new playing field which is changing the mechanics of how business is done and economy moves forward. The growth in data has been unprecedented in the last couple of years. The growing number of netizens is ably complimented by a digital savvy government which is ardent on transforming how the country functions and carry it from the depths of third world struggles to the frontiers of smart and technologically able first world human societies.

Perhaps, the two most critical issues that the country is certain to face in this race to the witch mountain are the demand for exceptional scalability in storage through upgradation of the current data center infrastructure to Hyperscale and the chief strangler of genius and innovation in the information era,

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cyber crimes. As digital penetrates deeper and deeper into cities and organizations, data center infrastructure providers will need to go into dynamite expansion mode to keep up with the demands of businesses with an unhindered supply of raw data that needs to be stored, computed, churned and analyzed for a variety of different purposes. As network speeds keep increasing and smart city projects come to reality, the quantity of data produced in unit time will increase substantially.

This will demand massive data centers to keep the country running. The other aspect to ensure for smooth operations of a Digital India is the need to reinforce the current cyber security infrastructure, which is rather old and full of vulnerabilities that have been time and again exploited by black hats as evident from the recent threat and breach landscape. The issue deals with these two issues, asking necessary questions about the country’s readiness to cater to the data explosion and to tackle the future cyber attacks.

Apart from the industry stories, the issue features exclusive coverage of the fourth and final Security Symposium that took place in Mumbai on the 24th. There are a number of interviews and CIO literature on various issues ranging from Data utilization, RFID in Logistics, AI in Human resources, various cyber security issues like 2FA authentication, end point security and GDPR compliance for critical business verticals. The next issue will feature the list of this year’s top enterprise IT decision makers under the ChangeAgents 2018 banner before the big show scheduled for November 30th. I hope the issue comes across as informative and helps brush up the knowledge of the current landscape as well as gain a better perspective of what’s in store in future.

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CHANGE AGENTS 2018 - THE CHANGE MAKERS OF INDIAN IT

IDENTIFYING INDIA’S TOP PUBLIC CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER

The next issues main feature will be the ChangeAgents 200 2018 which is a list of 200 leading CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision makers in India who have been shortlisted and nominated by the Enterprise IT World Team as the ChangeAgents of 2018. These change makers have added value to their organization with innovative thinking and deployed latest technologies to transform how organizations function. The CIOs and IT leaders will be recognized at the flagship event, Enterprise IT World ChangeAgents 200 Summit scheduled in November.

Enterprise IT World goes into the depths of Indian organizations and their cloud partners to identify which Public Clouds are the choice of the Indian CIOs and IT Heads, through an extensive survey of their capabilities, customer base and CIO perception.

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Indian Organizations frontrunners of IT Maturity in APJM: Dell EMC Study B Y S A N J AY @ A C C E N T I N FO M E D I A . C O M

Results of new research conducted by Dell EMC Enterprise Strategy Group on benefits of IT Transformation validates that it can result in bottom-line benefits that drive business differentiation, innovation and growth.

“Today, Indian organizations not only realize the importance of transforming their IT infrastructure to ensure they have a competitively edge and to reduce costs, but they also now know that it is crucial to turn data into business intelligence.” – Rajesh Janey, MD & President, Enterprise India, Dell EMC 6

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ESG 2018 Maturity Study was designed to provide insight into the state of IT Transformation, business benefits fully transformed companies experience, role critical tech have in an IT Transformation. ESG employed a research-based, data-driven maturity model to identify different stages, determine degree to which global organizations have achieved those stages, based on responses to questions about their adoption of modernized data center technologies, automated IT processes and transformed organizational dynamics.

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Enterprise spending on information security products & services in India in 2018, up 12.5 percent from 2017 Source: Gartner

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Google to expand focus on regional technology proliferation in India

At the fourth edition of its annual ‘Google for India’ event, Google announced plans to bring more access to technology, more relevant product experiences in more languages to users in India. Rajan Anandan, VP, India and Southeast Asia, focused on the role of technology in creating more locally relevant experiences for Indians. When it comes to Internet trends in India, Anandan noted that the big three themes that will define the future of India’s Internet will be “Voice, Video, and Vernacular.” He said, “Voice has been emerging as the preferred mode of use for new internet users. We’re seeing major growth of voice queries in India. Furthermore, online video now accounts for 75% of all mobile traffic. And as for vernacular, the majority of the Internet users today are Indian language users, a number expected to reach 500 million plus in the next two years. 95% of video consumption is in vernacular languages.”

Gayathri Rajan, VP, Geo, announced new features coming to Google Maps that make

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the service relevant to more Indians. Google Maps Go now brings turn-by-turn navigation functionality, while featuring a new home screen with convenient shortcuts. Google Maps is also adding better public transport guidance, which will inform riders of upcoming stops and alerts on when to get off. With partnership with RedBus more than 20,000 routes and 1,500 cities will also be added for intercity bus journey routes.

Caesar Sengupta, VP, Next Billion Users initiative and Payments, Google, reminded the audience that “building for India has often meant Google building for everyone all around the world.” He announced that payments app Tez is becoming Google Pay. At the moment, nothing is changing about the experience in India other than the name.

In coming weeks and months, Google is expanding the places users can pay, expanding services for merchants, and working with the banks to provide instant loans to Google Pay users.”

Gurgaon, India Conference will cover areas like cuttingedge manufacturing, telematics and connected vehicles and how industry 4.0 will change the face of Indian automotive industry.

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Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, announced today its collaboration with Microsoft to create a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-based solution to build a robust ecosystem in line with the regulations issued by TRAI. Based on Blockchain technology and built on Microsoft Azure the solution aims at mitigating the issue of unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) in the country.

TRAI has stated that UCC or spam calls are a major nuisance to telecom subscribers across the country and has been working with stakeholders to curb this menace. TRAI had established a “Do Not Disturb” (DND) registry in 2010, however, while the registry has more than 23 crore subscribers, unregistered telemarketers continue to spam customers, obtaining their consent through fraudulent tactics.

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Chennai, India Conference will promote development of digital infrastructure acting as a platform to discuss and share key trends in the ICT sector that can help draft appropriate policy measures.

New Delhi, India Summit brings together India’s top IT partners and vendors to discuss the challenges of the channel and promote growth of the IT Industry through knowledge sharing and recognition.

Bengaluru, India 3rd edition of India’s largest Platform for Internet of Things devoted to unifying the fragmented ecosystem and bringing an immersive view of the IoT and the future it presents.

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Haier signs MoU with UP Gov to set up second Industrial Park in India

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KAMAL NATH,

CEO, SIFY TECHNOLOGIES ON POWERING 650 BRANCHES OF INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK

“This was not just about bringing banking to millions of underbanked Indians but giving them the same opportunity as everybody else; a crucial enabler of the Prime Minister’s vision for Digital India.”

Announces Rs.3069 crores investment to set up new manufacturing plant in Greater Noida; reaffirms commitment towards Central Government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative Haier signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Government of Uttar Pradesh to set up its second industrial park in India, in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. With this development, Haier has strengthened its commitment towards the central government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative to boost local manufacturing.

The MoU was signed in the presence of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath and other dignitaries from the Government of Uttar Pradesh along with Song Yujun, VP, Global Appliances Haier Group and Managing Director, Haier Appliances India; Eric Braganza, President, Haier Appliances India and Sun, Director SCM Haier Appliances India. Additionally, Satish Mahana, Industrial Development Minster, Government of Uttar Pradesh; Anup Chan-

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dra Pandey, Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh; Alok Sinha, Additional Chief Secretary, IT and Electronics Department and Rajesh Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Department were also present during the MoU signing ceremony.

Under the agreement, Haier will invest Rs.3069cr for setting up its industrial park in the state over the next four years in two phases. With this development, the company is expected to create almost 4000 new direct employment opportunities along with over 10,000 indirect jobs. The expansion will serve as an opportunity for vendors and OEMs, bringing about an expanded business with increased local production and lesser imports of products.

Proposed to be located at IIT- GNL (Integrated Industrial Township Greater Noida Ltd.) the facility is sprawled over an area of 123 acres and is expected to begin operations by 2020.

“A sophisticated attack surface visualization solution gives CISOs the ability to see all security exposures at once, zoom in on problem areas and identify what’s causing the problem – all in seconds.”

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Faxploit the new malware scare for Enterprise networks New research from Check Point has shown how organizations and individuals could be hacked via their fax machines, using newly discovered vulnerabilities in the communication protocols used in tens of millions of fax devices globally.

A fax number is all an attacker needs to exploit the flaws, and potentially seize control of a company or home network.

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Mandatory data localization might hamper India’s GDP growth: Broadband India Forum

NVIDIA, NITI Aayog combine as Deep Learning Partner for MoveHack NIVIDIA announced its partnership with the NITI Aayog to support MoveHack, the government think tank’s Global Mobility Hackathon.

An integral part of NITI Aayog’s first Move: Global Mobility Summit, the hackathon will be a platform for driven individuals and teams to collaborate and produce ideas, solutions and prototypes to solve some of the most pressing issues impacting urban mobility in the country today.

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MoveHack, NVIDIA will provide participants with GPU and deep learning technologies, as well as remote access to NVIDIA DGX systems, purpose built deep learning supercomputers.

Participants will also have the chance to be mentored by NVIDIA experts, including Mukundhan Srinivasan, Deep Learning Solutions Architect; Bharatkumar Sharma, Senior Solutions Architect; and super- mentor Dr. Simon See, Director of the NVIDIA Technology Center.

Should the final Data Protection Bill relax data localization requirements to sustain our record GDP growth? Does data localization even solve the original intent of the bill – to protect our data? Is the current draft bill lopsided in prescribing penalties for corporations but without checks and balances regarding government surveillance? Will India’s increasingly internet-savvy public be burdened with higher costs due to localization of vast amounts of data?

These were the main topics of discussion at the Broadband India Forum (BIF) panel discussion on the recently released draft Bill on Data Protection. Broadband India Forum (BIF) is a policy forum and think-tank that includes membership of startups, professional entities, Telcos and global technology players. TV Ramachandran, President Broadband India Forum stated, “This meeting was to get a wide range of inputs from stakeholders to finalize the BIF response to be sent shortly.”

BIF and the panel of experts at the meeting welcomed the opportunity for public consultation extended by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) before drafting the final bill. The panel felt that having to store vast amounts of data within the country, whether exclusively or as a copy, would have an adverse socio-economic impact on innovation, information and technology access, and trade. Dr. Kuldip Singh, former member TDSAT, talked about India presently also lacking the infrastructure and capacity needed to set up and maintain large datacenters.

MOVEMENT Pegasystems appoints Jeff Farley as VP Global Sales Operations

Capgemini promotes Aruna Jayanthi to lead APAC and LatAm business

Infogain brings in Kulesh Bansal as new CFO

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[24]7.ai ropes in Paul J. Loftus as Chief Revenue Officer

Subhash Gaitonde joins NASSCOM as Program Director – CoE Data Sciences and AI Ingram Micro India appoints Ramesh Narasimhan as new Enterprise

TCL Corporation appoints Bharadwaj Pudipeddi as new Regional Director of India Software AG appoints Sanjay Brahmawar as Global CEO

Kurt Sievers promoted to President of NXP Semiconductors

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About The Book Nearly a quarter of businesses say it would take them 60 days to detect a breach; a recent analysis of breaches shows that smaller companies are just as vulnerable as larger ones. Frequency of data breaches, like theft, loss or accidental release of private information, is on the rise and this is not just a problem centered around today’s largest companies. Small and midsized businesses with fewer data security resources are particularly vulnerable. Attacks on smaller

businesses can wreak as much damage as the ones making headlines on today’s largest companies.

System patching and vulnerability testing are two proven methods of preventative strategies organizations of every size can utilize in the protection of sensitive data.

Only way to make sure is to test it regularly. “Security and privacy vulnerabilities can expose any organization to tremendous risk,” said Greg Sparrow, VP and GM, CompliancePoint.

Technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial cities of the 19th century to present.

Key Feature Smart Cities considers the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of them all while offering a new civics to guide our efforts as we build the future together, one click at a time.

HP creates VR simulations of Human Societies on Mars

HP and a global community of creators unveiled a groundbreaking VR simulation of what life

on Mars could look like for a human population of one million people. The HP Mars Home Planet

program, led by HP and NVIDIA, is the culmination of a year-long engagement with the creative community to simulate life on the Red Planet. The program attracted over 90,000 professionals, architects, engineers and students from more than 150 countries. The most innovative ideas were brought to life through a VR experience created

by Technicolor that premieres this week at SIGGRAPH, the world’s largest conference on computer

graphics. The experience takes users through a Martian Community Onboarding Center, showing innovations in areas such as architecture, engineering and transportation that enable humans to make the leap to Mars. Technicolor developed the stunning visuals for the experience in Epic’s Unreal Engine, resulting in the first ever six-degrees-of-freedom VR piece built for motion-enabled chairs, using HP Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

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MANAGEMENT

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“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John D. Rockefeller, American Business Magnate

GCR offers enhanced platform to upgrade the Education Vertical

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Alibaba Cloud to support Cloud infrastructure for Andhra Pradesh government

APEDB inked MoU with Alibaba Cloud to adopt cloud-computing frameworks within the state’s governance model in Vijayawada. This MoU was signed

by J Krishna Kishore, CEO, APEDB and Vivek Gupta, Director - Business Development, Alibaba Cloud India in the presence of Dr. Alex Li, GM, Alibaba Cloud India and N Chandrababu Naidu, CMof Andhra Pradesh.

The AP Economic Development Board promotes sustainable economic

growth through trade, investments, partnerships and collaborations. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group, provides cloudcomputing services to business of all sizes globally. Dr. Alex Li called on N Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada and discussed technologies for sustainable farming, integrated traffic management, smart city management, small and medium enterprises, entrepreneurship and skill development.

GCR provides Interactive displays to increase student interaction, School ERP for managing an entire organisation in this case the educational institution; Digital Signage which allows centrally controlled, content distribution platform enabling one to playback digital content on one or many displays or screens as well as LMS, a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses, etc. Every solution which GCR offers for the Education vertical is SaaS connected solutions.

“The Education vertical is the future of our country. When every other vertical is pacing towards digitization, this particular sector should get a fair and square chance to up their game. IoT, is slowly but surely revolutionising the Education Industry globally. We strive to achieve solutions for every sector; such that we are able to do our part for digitization of our country” quoted Amod Phadke, Director – Sales and Marketing, GCR.

Indian Auto OEM Sandhar adopts Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Sandhar has deployed 3DEXPERIENCE platform to accelerate their new product development process.

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product data and components management. This enables multidisciplinary design and engineering and ensures program consistency, visibility and traceability across the company’s manufacturing plants in India.

Sanjay Maindiratta, Head Corporate IT, Sandhar said, “At Sandhar, we believe in

constantly innovating our product development process to meet our customers’ requirements. We adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as our PLM backbone and in a span of three years we have gained significant business benefits. It helps in managing multiple versions of the data and reusing them effectively.”

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TRANSFORMING BORDER OPERATIONS AND IMPROVING PASSENGER EXPERIENCE

SITA has been enabling Governments to accurately identify potential risks as early as possible in the border management process combining passenger data risk assessment and sophisticated tools for processing passengers at the border and for managing nations’ border operations.

“SITA is working closely with Indian Government to support IT roadmap towards secure and efficient borders along with the safety of Indian skies.”

Can you shed some light on the iBorders Border Management solution and the project with Indian Government?

SITA’s iBorders Advanced Solution is an integrated solution that provides governments with a complete set of capabilities to modernize border security through information, intelligence, optimized interactions with travelers and comprehensive insights to enhance every aspect of border operations. iBorders Advanced Solution is capable of transforming border operations and improving the passenger experience. Governments can accurately identify potential risks as early as possible in the border management process – at the point of departure -- while ensuring passengers can be facilitated through the airports quickly.

SITA is working closely with the Indian Government to support the IT roadmap towards secure and efficient borders along with the safety of Indian skies. As a part of the airport Solutions, SITA has also implemented border control gates at the arrival of Mumbai Airport.

Which all stakeholders are involved in this project? Does SITA have similar successful projects deployed in

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VICE PRESIDENT INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, EASTERN & SOUTHERN AFRICA, SITA

other countries?

SITA facilitates airline-to-government interactions and works closely with the Bureau of Immigration to centralize advance passenger information system (APIS) data delivery. SITA has supported the Ministry of Home Affairs in enabling airlines to comply with MHA’s 2008 mandate for outbound APIS. Our border solutions are used by more than 30 governments around the world. This year, three international Mexican airports installed 100 new kiosks that use biometric technology to capture fingerprints to potentially verify the identities of the 8 million arrivals anticipated in the first year of their operation. This process can potentially reduce the time passengers spend in line by 40% based on its experience in other countries.

What are the technologies around which the Solution is built?

SITA iBorders Border Management transforms border operations and improves the passenger experience through its solutions such as Automatic Border Control (e-Gates), Advance Passenger Processing System (APP) and Innovative border management capabilities. The solution provides efficiency and improves passenger security at the airportsby identifying various risk patterns.

iBorders is supported by SITA Global Services (SGS) which provides global business continuity through a flexible service model. Our monitoring service ensures IT systems are reliable and available, around the clock, around the world.

Our experts proactively monitor infrastructure, identifying and resolving problems often before they impact services.

What major transformations do you see the aviation industry undergoing?

With several government schemes such as DigiYatra on the rise, Biometrics is key to a truly walkthrough experience at the airport in a seamless and secured manner. Identity management falls under the advanced processing technology part of the New Experience in Travel and Technologies (NEXXT) program which is an initiative

by IATA and ACI.As passenger acceptance of biometric recognition grows, biometric solutions are set to simplify and speed up the airport journey. With the IATA Resolution 753 coming into effect from June 1, 2018, the industry is set to increase baggage tracking.

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IS INDIA INC. READY READY FOR FUTURE STORAGE

DEMANDS? Boasting half a billion internet consumers, India is perhaps the sought after market in the world, already generating massive volumes of data for global businesses.

With infrastructure investment steadily on the rise, and prospects of exponential future growth, India is set to enter a phase of gigantic expansion in its data center infrastructure.

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ith more than 460 million internet users, India today is the second largest e-commerce market in the world, a market that no global business can ignore. Organizations from around the world have been eyeing opportunity in the prospective Indian geography, be it ecommerce players, technology services or product companies.

The data explosion in India till now can be marked down to the internet and smart phone proliferation around the country which has enabled the almost half of the billion strong population to have a presence online. The next wave will come from the use of Sensor technologies, IOT devices, AI-enabled data collation and cloud adoption by business large and small alike. This means that storage requirements will keep increasing year on year.

It is reported that 90% of world’s internet data was generated in the last thirty six months.

Digital is the underlying fuel beneath the next wave of development in India with a certain promise to lift the entire country from third world struggles and put it at par with the global first world superpowers. This is where the role of Storage Infrastructure providers and Data Centers is paramount. A rapidly digitizing country with massive wireless connectivity and smart city projects in pipeline needs a scalable storage infrastructure that also recognizes and readies itself for the increasing data storage demands in the years to come.

CURRENT STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE SCENARIO IN INDIA India’s data center infrastructure has been on a purple path in terms of continued expansion and facility development. Gartner reported data center infrastructure hardware spending by enterprises in India to touch $2.7 billion in 2018, a 2.6 per cent increase from 2017.

This growth is supported by the spending on data center infrastructure software which is projected to rise to $3.6 billion with a 10 percent hike by the end of 2018.

Most large organizations today have a Cloud-first strategy. New business applications are most likely to be developed and hosted using Public Cloud services. This has racked up the spending on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in India which is set to reach $1 billion in 2018, a startling 45.5 per cent increase rate year-over-year. This is further to be fuelled by the availability of hyperscale data centers as well as local providers ramping up to provide public cloud services. As per Gartner, an increase in the number of migrations of on-premises

VILAS PUJARI, CIO, ACG WORLDWIDE

“The growing numbers of solution providers have begun concentrating concentrating their business models to pursue larger deals, thus creating a strong demand for data center space.”

office suites to software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based offerings like Google G suite and Microsoft Office 365 is a notable trend among Indian businesses as they are expected to spend close to $275 million on Cloud office suites in 2018 - a 37 per cent increase year-over-year.

From the CIO perspective, the remarks on the current state of storage infrastructure in the country are a mixed bag. A number of IT decision makers feel that the infrastructure is growing at a steady pace but is far from adequate to match the future demands. These numbers are not just mind-boggling but unprecedented anywhere in the world. The demand for storage is estimated to reach 14,800 Exabyte exceeding the worlds storage output by some 4000 Exabyte.

The cloud market t is predicted to reach over USD 3 Billion by next year in India. This presents a sizable challenge for the country is the Data Center infrastructure growth isn’t at par with the exponentially growing data.

A GLOBAL COMPARISON OF DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE India’s data centers may not boast the same massive storage capabilities as some of the western counterparts they are at par with the world’s best data centers in terms of quality and facilities. Currently, India shares around 1.8% of the global data center space and 8.6% of that in APAC. India is the second largest market for data center in APAC after China.

The cloud computing market in India is expected to reach USD 4.5 Billion by year end.

This would demand that India’s Data center Infrastructure needs to be augmented and improved as compared to other major economies of the world where cloud computing has already gathered massive traction. From the CIO perspective, India is miles away from becoming a global data center hub even though the country has been the world’s backyard for IT and back-office services for many years. The main obstacles in forming a continued growth momentum for India’s Data Center Infrastructure revolve around infrastructure bottlenecks, the precarious power situation still almost omnipresent in the country and outdated telecom policies which have resulted in the country losing out business to smaller rivals such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

FACTORS AND SECTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DATA EXPLOSION The current explosion of data has been lead by the internet economy as more and more customers leave their digital footprints for companies to SEPTEMBER 2018 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD

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SR MUPPANENI, CIO, THE AP AND TELANGANA STATE CO-OP BANKS

“Government should support the growth and expansion of Data Center infrastructure in India by providing incentives in

Infrastructure and Tax sops.”

AJAY YADAV, HEAD IT (NORTH), ARSHIYA RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE

“Infrastructure bottlenecks, the precarious power situation and outdated telecom policies have resulted in

the country losing out data center business to smaller rivals such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan”

leverage and exploit. Banking institutions and mainstay Industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Telcos, Entertainment, Logistics/SCM and Retail have been the main sponsors of this growth. With the now available trove of customer Big Data, analytics, security and proper utilization of the data is crucial to maintaining competitiveness and viability in an increasingly customer-driven and volatile market. Outsourcing requirement of BFSI and Government services, social media consumption, and the Telecom transition to 4G can be said to be the latest factors driving the explosion of data in the country.

It is expected that by 2021, there will be about 635.8 million internet users in India. This substantial increase in Internet usage is coupled with the increase in smart phone usage, the entire country embracing social media platforms and increasing affinity towards smart devices for home and offices are the major contributors to the growth of Data in the country. With the sheer rate of transformation it is safe to say that the combined influence of third platform 18 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD SEPTEMBER 2018

technologies like social, mobile, cloud and big data is transforming IT much faster than the first (mainframe), or second (client/server) platforms ever did. Other factors for this data explosion are the increasing movement of businesses to a multivendor strategy, growing budgets for enterprise security, globalization, managed hosting services and new IT investment from organizations.

TYPICAL STORAGE RELATED HEADACHES FOR IT TEAMS There have been some typical challenges that have engulfed IT teams when it comes to managing their storage infrastructures. This consists of limitations of already on-premise traditional data storage infrastructure and the pricing issues to deal with. This has been added to by Cloud migration challenges, Regulatory technologies and Services. Massive increase in data computing means that storage has become costlier with added functionalities. The growth of data is exponential hence resulting in assessment of hardware sizing and its management.

Redefining scalability in big data analytics with infrastructure choice has been another main concern for CIOs. A typical problem in managing consumer data is in purchasing the capacity, managing the enhanced capacity and taking backups as this requires huge Capex in terms of augmenting the storage setup.

THE GOVERNMENT’S INTEREST AND NEW REGULATORY REGIME The growing compliance demands will no doubt have a big influence on how things shape up for Indian businesses in future. With the European Union coming out with the GDPR to safeguard its citizen’s data, Indian organizations will also have to comply with the new rules and regulations if they have business interests in Europe.

The Indian government too has shown

increasing interest in the data privacy of citizens in the hands of business. The recently formed Shrikrishna Panel submitted a report to the government and its recommendations for a free and fair digital economy in the country. With the government being an active stakeholder in a number of digital projects with smart cities, digital India and wireless connectivity proliferation, it was a matter of time that India gets its own set of regulatory compliances for data safety at organizations.

It can be argued that growing compliance is productive for businesses as this gives proper guidelines to them on how to store and leverage data. Parallely, this is also a welcome step from consumer standpoint as compliances will bring confidence in the customer base, strengthening the business ties. Failure to comply however, can be disastrous for businesses who might just suffer monetary loses and penalties, but a might hit to the brand image and customer faith that might be an irretrievable loss moving forward in an increasingly competitive market.

Data centers are power-hungry units that are heavily dependent on uninterrupted supply. Some large centers consume as much electricity as a small town i.e. Infrastructure, power bandwidth and cost. The Bandwidth costs in India have remarkably reduced in recent years but are still higher than most western countries. Telecom policy needs to be revised to help the expansion of such data centers in the country.

THE WAY FORWARD FOR INDIA’S STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE With the entire country engulfed in the digitization drive, there is no debating the fact that IT will be on top moving forward at all levels. As consumers become more dependent upon IoT devices, the demand for 24x7 up time will become an expectation across verticals. Certification

COVER STORY

VIVEK DHARIA, CIO, KNP SECURITIES

“Infrastructureas-a-service (IaaS) cloud is for every organization,but not for every application.

One should carefully consider the purpose before deciding the workload to move to the cloud.”

PARVEEN KUMAR SHARMA, CTO, ICAI

“Government should bring legislation on Data sovereignty.

This will force MNCs to open local facilities. Program such as

‘Digital India and ‘Make in India’ shall help growth of data centers in India.”

from uptime institute will have to be upheld by the service providers. Security for physical and network infrastructure will also become a growing concern with growing data transactions.

Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) will help businesses optimize their existing resources and

as a result will reduce overall spend on compute and storage resources. The technology infrastructure in India combined with the anticipated data privacy law will mandate financial services, ecommerce, services players to host their applications in India requiring large storage capacities to address the foreseeable demand. Growing number of solution providers are following the trend of concentrating their business models to pursue large deals. This will further create strong demand for data center space.

With surge in cloud computing there has been an increase in demand of data centers. Terabytes of data is stored in vast warehouses that are taking up a growing amount of physical space. In North America the investment is at staggering $20 billion and the same trend is going to consume the India space soon. Cloud will play a key role in building up Data Center infrastructure as cloud

SHALABH GARG, VICE PRESIDENT IT, RELIGARE ENTERPRISES

“Quick approvals, clear compliance guidelines and the government’s support to Data Center service providers in setting up business in India will help drive the Infrastructure growth in the country.”

gives flexibility of pay as you use and helps not to incur Capex immediately in case of any immediate demand of storage.

On the Government front, the industry has high hopes from a tech savvy government. The Government should support the infrastructure growth by providing incentives in Infrastructure and Tax sops. It should push towards more renewable and green energy solutions, and waste recycling. This is an area where India will become one of the largest markets for data center infrastructure in the world. Quick approvals, clear compliance guidelines will help Data Center service providers in setting up footprint in India will help Data Center Infrastructure growth in the country. The government should also subsidize Cloud vendors which will help in popularizing cloud computing across the geography. The government should bring legislation on Data sovereignty forcing MNCs to open local facilities.

Program such as ‘Digital India and ‘Make in India’ are contributing to the growth of data centers in India. Other general concerns around enforceability of contracts, law and order need to be simplified by the government to ensure smooth operation and expansion.

India is set to enter an unprecedented stage of digital expansion on all ends of the spectrum, a clear policy and regulatory environment, push from the government, and further proliferation of internet and connected devices will surely take a huge toll on the current storage infrastructure in the country. The answer is plan words in Hyperscale data centers with massive storage capabilities and with the current trend followed by the Data center service providers in the country, it is but a matter of time when India starts boasting of never before scale and size in storage infrastructures bringing in the era of Hyperscale Data Centers.

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SPECIAL FEATURE // CISO EVENT MUMBAI

4 CITY

SECURITY SYMPOSIUM 2018

SERIES WRAPS UP WITH MUMBAI

With a single focus on reinforcing the Cyber Security framework for a rapidly digitizing Indian economy, Enterprise IT World and InfoSec Foundation wrapped up the four city Security Symposium series with Mumbai where it engaged leading CISOs and Security stakeholders in tech talks and panel discussions which touched base with diverse topic related to information security and privacy in the country today.

BY CHITRESH SEHGAL CSEHGAL@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

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ealizing the immediate need to spread awareness around information security in the country, and the continuous struggles that have engulfed enterprise CIOs and CISOs of late, Enterprise IT World in association with InfoSec Foundation hosted a four city initiative to engage

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Enterprise India’s security stakeholders and address their challenges on a niche platform ending the 2018 initiative with Mumbai on the 24th of August 2018. The idea behind the Security Symposiums was to reinforce the cybersecurity infrastructure of the country as India sets itself on the path of massive digitization and a flourishing internet economy comprising

of close to a billion netizens.

The events were crafted keeping in mind the scale of the issue, the number of people directly involved and the vast geography of the country. This demanded engagement across various parts which have their own large communities of CISOs and CIOs. With this thought, the Enterprise IT World Security Symposium became reality as a 4

CISO EVENT MUMBAI // SPECIAL FEATURE

SENIOR CYBERSECURITY LEADERS TAKE PART IN PANEL DISCUSSION IN MUMBAI

THE EVENT WITNESSED OVERWHELMING ATTENDANCE WITH TOP CISOS AND CIOS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS BRIJESH SINGH, DANA NAHARI, INFOSEC AND ENTERPRISE IT WORLD TEAM PERFORM THE INAUGURAL LAMP LIGHTING CEREMONY

TERRY HIRSCH, CEO, SECURITY WEAVER SPEAKS ON GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE

CYBERCRIME EXPERT RITESH BHATIA SPEAKS ON RISING THREATS OF DARKNET

City initiative, covering India’s biggest financial and business hubs of Bengaluru, Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai. The daylong events comprise of Knowledge Sessions including Keynotes, Tech Talks and Panel Discussions; and Industry recognitions titled Enterprise IT World Cyber Sentinels Awards.

The final jewel in the crown, the Mumbai event was a major hit keeping up with the successes of the other three cities. The Mumbai Symposium

BRIJESH SINGH, IG (CYBER) AND CISO MAHARASHTRA GOV PERFORMS KEYNOTE DUTIES

kicked off with keynotes from influential stakeholders Mr. Brijesh Singh, Inspector General of Police (Cyber) and CISO, Maharashtra Government and Ms. Dana Nahari, Consul for Trade & Economic Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in Mumbai. This was followed by interesting and interaction presentations and sessions from Advocate Prashant Mali, Bombay High Court Lawyer, Cyber security & Cyber Law Expert, President - Cyber Law Consulting on India’s New

DANA NAHARI, CONSUL FOR TRADE, CONSULATE GENERAL OF ISRAEL IN MUMBAI GIVES KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Data Protection Law; Mr. Ritesh Bhatia, Director, Cybercrime Investigations, V4WEB Cybersecurity on Rising Threats of Darknet; and Mr. Pankaj Mittal, CIO, 5AM Ventures on Demystify Cryptocurrency and Blockchain.

The Panel Discussions on the day discussed a variety of topics like Cyber Security Roadmap for Financial Sector, Agility & Flexibility on adopting Cyber Security in Telecom/Cloud/Infra Providers and Enterprise Security Challenges & Increasing SEPTEMBER 2018 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD

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SPECIAL FEATURE // CISO EVENT MUMBAI

RITU MADBHAVI, DRAFT FCBULKA

VIVEK DHARIA, KNP SECURITIES

MEHERIAR PATEL, JEENA & COMPANY

SANJEEV JAIN, INTEGREON MANAGED SOLUTIONS

SATYANARAYANA KASTURI, ASHOK PIRAMAL GROUP

ANAND SINHA, BARC INDIA

DEEPAK KALAMBKAR, MARVEL DATA SERVICES

KRANTIKUMAR SHERKHANE, ADITYA BIRLA HEALTH INSURANCE

VISHAL SINHA, TRANZLEASE HOLDINGS

DHANANJAY ROKDE, DDECOR HOME FABRICS

MANOJ SAWANT, DMITRY TECHNOLOGIES

AMIT JAOKAR, CHOICE INTERNATIONAL

RAJESH PANDITA, THYSSENKRUPP INDIA

DIPAK ROUT, ARIHANT CAPITAL MARKETS

ANIS PANKHANIA, VODAFONE INDIA

HARMIT MALHOTRA, REPUBLIC WORLD

AMEY LAKESHRI, CYNERGIS INFOTECH

SHASHANK BAJPAI, ACKO GENERAL INSURANCE

SOURABH TIWARI, OVERSEAS INFRASTRUCTURE ALLIANCE

ADITYA MUKHERJEE, ACCENTURE

VIVEK JADHAV, VFS GLOBAL

PRAGNESH MISTRY, RPG ENTERPRISES

HARISH MENON, RAYCHEM RPG

MUKESH MEHTA, B&K SECURITIES

SHIV KUMAR PANDEY, BSE (ON BEHALF OF KERSI TEVADIA)

Role of CISOs in Board Room.

The highlight of the evening was the final round of Cyber Sentinels Awards 2018 which recognized the work of leading CISOs and Security Leaders from Mumbai for being able custodians to their organization’s data by implementing the right security tools and policies. The award winners are finalized by a Jury consisting of Eminent Cyber Security Experts, Veteran CISOs, and Information 22 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD SEPTEMBER 2018

Security Journalists.

Sanjib Mohapatra, Publisher, Accent Infomedia Group concluded the event series, “It is a matter of pride to see the large amount of Cyber Security leaders that formed a part of the event. The events were designed to address the challenges faced by India’s Cyber Security community today and reinforce the infrastructure and domain knowledge through insightful tech talks and panel discussions

featuring renowned Enterprise CISOs and Security Experts.”

Sushobhan Mukherjee, Chairman, InfoSec Foundation said, “The events aimed at addressing the challenges faced by India’s Cyber Security community today and reinforcing the infrastructure and domain knowledge through insightful tech talks and panel discussions featuring renowned Enterprise CISOs and Security Experts”

F-SECURE // INTERVIEW

IF SOMETHING IS SMART, IT IS VULNERABLE

With the gradually increasing influx of technology, the entire nation is making itself prone to vulnerabilities, there is a need to protect individual layers of IT systems in our smart cities at the same time analysing the risks that they’re prone to individually, and vis-à-vis, their role as part of a broader network arrangement.

“Businesses are displaying more interest in understanding network vulnerabilities and how individual network elements, including surveillance devices, change the network

KEITH MARTIN,

CORPORATE BUSINESS HEAD APJ, F-SECURE

arrangement and contribute to the overall threat.”

How big is cybersecurity market in India?

India is a fast-digitizing country where the digital infrastructure is booming and its adoption is rapid. But, as more people go online, their limited awareness about the dangers that they’re vulnerable to puts them at considerable risk. Fresh entrants to the digital domain are not aware of even the most basic cyberattacks, including phishing and credential theft, which increases the onus on cybersecurity players to protect them. This makes the Indian cybersecurity market, which is yet to reach its true potential, a growth-intensive industry. At present, it is pegged to be worth$1.5 billion and is expected to grow with a CAGR of19percent till 2023 . However, the true figure could fall well-short of the current estimates as new dynamics get introduced to the cybersecurity domain and contribute to the market growth.

How is it different from other developing markets in the world?

India is actively applying digital technologies across all walks of life. We are on a mission to build smart cities where state-of-the-art technologies will play a pivotal role in making us, as a nation, more efficient. We are simultaneously increasing the reach of digital technologies by not only using and promoting smart devices and

solutions, but also by integrating them into our daily lives. The Aadhaar-based digital payment system is one such example.

However, with the gradually increasing influx of technology, the entire nation is making itself prone to vulnerabilities in technology. For instance, if you’d ask any cybersecurity professional, he or she would inform you that there is no IT system that is impenetrable. With the right approach and resources, any system can be breached. The only way to keep our systems intact is by constantly looking for and fixing weaknesses.

What are the major trends?

Businesses are quite apprehensive after last year’s global ransomware attacks and have increased their focus on cybersecurity as a result.

They’re displaying more interest in understanding their network vulnerabilities and how individual network elements. We are observing a strong demand for advanced AI and big data-driven solutions and believe they will observe wider deployments in the near future.

What is the relevance of endpoint protection?

Today, a majority of companies have a BYOD mandate for their working professionals. You can

protect your critical IT infrastructure with state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions, but endpoints can still be compromised and used to penetrate crucial parts of a network.

The network endpoints are prone to a range of susceptibilities, including CVEs, human errors, and malicious insiders. Critical IT infrastructure, however important it is, isn’t the first line that needs to be protected, as they are seldom targeted directly by attackers. So securing that first line of defence – the vulnerable endpoints – needs to be as big a priority as critical IT infrastructure.Businesses are also introducing IoT technology for across-the-board applications. According to Hypponen’s Law, if something is smart, it is vulnerable.

How do you see the attack landscape shaping up in future?

The cost of cyberattacks in India, at present, is estimated to be greater than Rs. 25,000 Crore ($4 billion). The figure is expected to become four to five times larger, or about Rs. 1.25 trillion ($20 billion), within a decade.

In the future, we’re going to start dealing with big data and AI-based attacks that will render current cybersecurity infrastructure less effective.

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FEATURE STORY

HOW READY IS

INDIA FOR THE RISING

CYBEREPIDEMIC?

With each passing day, we see Cyber Threats and Attacks rising in number and causing damage more potent than before. With threat looming large on the privacy of the citizens of the country, the government has started actively working towards the counteractive measures to deal with the same.

BY PRASHASTI BHATT INFO@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

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ith increasing digitization, our lives are now intertwined with the virtual world. Every minute, information is being exchanged on these internet-based platforms risking personal security. Indian Enterprises too, are rapidly giving in to this digitization which has in turn made the consumer extremely vulnerable to some major cyber attacks and threats.

In 2017, the average cost of a data breach in the country rose nearly 8% year-on-year to Rs. 11.9 Crore ($ 1.7 million), as per a study conducted by IBM Security and Ponemon Institute. A survey

by Defense-grade technology maker Thales concluded that data breach incidents in India are higher as compared to the global average. The report noted that around 52 per cent of Indian respondents reported a data breach in 2017, while the global average was 36 per cent. A digital security firm Gemalto, in its Breach level Index Study revealed that there has been a theft of some 3.24 million records in India in a year.

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THE GROWING THREAT LANDSCAPE Cybersecurity has become a never ending challenge and concern for organizations globally as cyber threats increase simultaneously with the proliferation and sophistication of technology.

Despite continuous efforts towards the advancement in security technologies by companies, there has been a steady increase in the cyber attacks with a number of global attacks like WannaCry, Petya, BadRabbit and Ransomware. In August 2018, Pune-based Cosmos Bank, encountered a malware attack on its server, where hackers managed to flush out Rs. 94 Crore from the bank and cloned thousands of the bank’s debit cards over a period of two days. The attacks left the entire country in a daze; these attacks did not just stop with Cosmos Bank, just as they didn’t start with it. In the private sector, most of the big firms and names have already been targeted. Zomato saw the data of 17Million of its user’s stolen and put on the dark net for sale. Electra card lost $45 Million to Fraudsters from ATM’s worldwide. A number of Indian Banks including State Bank of India, Axis Bank, YES Bank, and ICICI Bank

saw ATM debit card breaches as 3.2 Million Indian debit card details were leaked online. In the Government Sector too, cyber security has become a major concern as hackers got hold of data from the sites of The Indian Army, ISRO, TRAI, and CBI amongst others.

If 2017 was the year of ransomware, 2018 looks likely to go down as the year of cryptominers.

Malicious cryptomining made up nearly a third of attacks in the first half of 2018 — a statistic held by ransomware in the last half of 2017. Skybox Security, in its Vulnerability And Threat Trends 2018 Mid-Year Report, remarked the large number of open platforms available as the major reason as to why we face difficulties in preventing cyber attacks in today’s data driven ecosystem. There are many sophisticated malware creators and cyber attackers who have a variety of opportunities to penetrate the high-end enterprise systems, including those of Cisco, Microsoft and Google which we have seen in earlier months.

THE GOVERNMENT’S PUSH TOWARDS DATA PRIVACY Government has taken up this issue very seriously

FEATURE STORY

CDR. SUBHASH DUTTA

RAHUL ARORA,

REGIONAL DIRECTOR, INDIA & SAARC SKYBOX SECURITY

“Rather than focusing on building a stronger gate, it makes sense to have an outside-in approach to

PROF. TRIVENI SINGH,

(RETD.) - HEAD- R&D AND MALWARE RESEARCH, SEQURETEK IT

IPS, ASST. SP, STF(CYBER CRIME), UP POLICE

“The more we use IT, more are the chances that something will go wrong and with the large number

“We are focusing on capacity building, resource building and then the entire ecosystem, so as to fight

security incident detection and response.”

of transactions and business activities, it is paramount that we take security seriously.”

and is working towards protecting the citizens from it, as Prof Triveni Singh, IPS Officer, UP police, remarks, “Last year only, we had recorded around 3000 cases in cyber crime in UP alone.

We have created two cyber crime police stations whose jurisdiction area is the entire state; we have created 23 cyber labs as well. Furthermore, we are even training people in cyber crime investigations with the help of experts from CBI, BPRD etc.”

As a counteractive measure to this ever growing concern and to ensure the privacy and safety of citizen data, a specialized committee

was formed, headed by Supreme Court veteran Justice BN Srikrishna. Data privacy is a burning issue and there are three parts to the triangle; the citizen’s rights have to be protected, the responsibilities of the states have to be defined and the data protection should not occur at the cost of trade and industry. The report has mandated penalties for violations, criminal proceedings, setting up of a data authority, provision of withdrawal of consent and concept of consent fatigue. The report has seen acceptance from a wide range of public. On the lines of GDPR, the

COL. INDRAJEET SINGH,

CHIEF CYBER SECURITY OFFICER, VARA UNITED

“There’s an immediate requirement of having a very robust cyber security policy, which helps each and every individual and organization in identifying

their roles and responsibility in tackling these attacks.”

with cyber crime in an effective manner.”

committee has also recommended in terms of penalties. The committee recommends that 2-4% of company’s worldwide turnover or fine between Rs. 5 Crore to Rs. 15 Crore, whichever is higher to be applied in case of the company found not to have compliant.

THE WAY FORWARD FOR INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS Organizations must keep up with the threat landscape as it evolves. The defence strategies must change as trends in vulnerabilities, exploits are changing as well. Even though, India seems to be taking its own set of security measures, it still seems to be far from ready to deal with these cyber attacks. There are many factors to be kept in mind when we talk of how ready our country is for this rising epidemic. The firms, small or large must have a budget for the technological advancements and have a strategically driven approach towards the rising risk of cyber attacks in this era. Keeping up with the latest threat intelligence and taking proactive measures based on that intelligence can make the difference between an intrusion and a damaging cyber attack or data breach. Systematically incorporating threat intelligence in your vulnerability management and overall security management program is the key to directing efforts in the right place.

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INDUSTRY INSIGHT

VISHAL BHAT, VP SME OPERATIONS (NORTH), TATA TELE BUSINESS SERVICES

“For SMEs, Cloud Computing provides access to technology that was previously out of their reach offering poffering them

instant access, flexibility, option to scale up and robust security at an affordable cost.’’

CLOUD COMPUTING EMPOWERING SMES TOWARDS A BRIGHTER FUTURE

Not only big companies but India’s thriving SME sector is warming up to Cloud as it provides affordable IT services on a monthly basis and with the added advantage of technologies like Artificial Intelligence and IoT, Cloud is all set to play a critical role in driving profitability and boosting margins for SMEs.

I

ndian businesses are rapidly moving to Cloud Computing as myriad advantages flowing from network of remote servers override the capital cost and regular maintenance of on-site IT infrastructure. However, it is not only big companies that are adopting Cloud for flexibility and reducing costs. The country’s thriving SME sector, considered to be the backbone of the Indian economy, is warming up to Cloud as it provides affordable IT services on a monthly basis.

Essentially, Cloud enables companies to store, manage and process data. As the data and applications are hosted remotely, Cloud Computing offers four key advantages for SMEs: flexibility, scalability, easy accessibility and pay-per-use models. Since only internet access is needed to

access cloud services, it is platform independent, and cloud services can be accessed anywhere, and on any device - smart phones, desktops, laptops or other mobility devices. Further, Cloud based services are scalable on demand and are priced on a pay-per-use basis, which essentially means that companies only pay for the services they consume. The pay-per-use model holds significant advantage for SMEs, start-ups and companies with limited budgets as they only need to pay for the services they require. The same can be scaled up easily by paying for more users or additional services as and when the business expands.

Thus, with the advent of Cloud Computing, the companies including SMEs do not need to install application programs on desktops. This in turn translates into huge cost savings as there is no need for storage and processing capabilities. By

removing the need for on-premise infrastructure, SMEs can do away with related operational costs such as power and air conditioning, which eventually translate into substantial savings.

In fact, Cloud Computing has now moved beyond the basic and traditional services of email and data storage, backup, and file sharing.

Today, future technologies like AI can equip CC with tremendous power as it enables machines to learn, think, act and make real time decisions.

On the other hand, CC makes AI more accessible because most type of hardware people use including laptops and smartphones lack the computing power to run many AI applications proficiently and efficiently.

Similarly, both Cloud Computing and IoT work towards increasing efficiency in our day to day tasks. While the IoT generates massive amounts of data, Cloud Computing facilitates storing this data remotely where it can be accessed immediately. While Cloud is the panacea for most IT related requirements of the SME sector and it is available at fraction of the cost of an elaborate IT infrastructure, the safety of data remains a prime concern. It is here that tools like Secure Connect come in handy and ensure safety of all information and data stored with the Cloud. Secure Connect privatizes Public Cloud network, thereby providing security of a private network with faster data transfers that help data-heavy Enterprise applications operate with ease. For SMEs, Cloud Computing provides access to technology that was previously out of their reach and allows them to compete with both small and large businesses by increasing efficiency and improving the cash flow. With the added advantage of technologies like Artificial Intelligence and IoT, Cloud is all set to play a critical role in driving profitability and boosting margins for SMEs. SEPTEMBER 2018 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 26

WINMAGIC // INTERVIEW

WITH OR WITHOUT COMPLIANCE, BANKS FACE BUSINESS RISK

Data being at the core of business development, service and support functions for financial institutions and external vendor outsourcing means GDPR is a major risk factor.

“With heightened focus on executive accountability, athe BFSI sector is undergoing maximum change re-evaluating business models,

transforming units, and redefining both their role and value within the organization.”

RAHUL KUMAR,

COUNTRY MANAGER, WINMAGIC INDIA

How has been the general reaction of the Indian BFSI sector to the implementation of EUGDPR, positive or negative? Are they geared up for the DPR era?

For financial institutions, data is at the very core of their business development, service and support functions. With these institutions outsourcing much of the work to external vendors, GDPR is a major risk factor! What’s more, the vendors cannot disassociate themselves from the GDPR obligations, irrespective of the clear process and procedure laid out by the organizations. This, in a way, makes the BFSI sector an important one for GDPR if they are doing business in the EU – the global players in India. In any case, the Indian banking sector is on a roll and is poised to become the third largest domestic banking sector by 2050. They are comfortably placed to comply with the DPR regime, but to my mind, this will be driven mostly from local regulations – more than EUGDPR. Trends show that the BFSI sector and its ancillaries have geared up already. For instance, the market for BFSI security solutions is expected to grow the highest in this region.

These are all pointers that show where we are headed.

Has compliance demanded a major overhaul in the security procedures of banking organizations?

Has there been a marked increase in the security budgets?

With or without compliance, banks face business risk if they do not align business strategy with regulatory compliance. Regulations have only heightened the expectations by giving the due powers to the customer. This has ushered in change at the individual business level and enterprise level. It makes business sense to automate compliance processes for the benefit of accountability, analysis, reporting, etc. Of course, spending on information security products and services is showing healthy signs of growth. It is expected that the global spending will grow by 8.7 per cent to $124 billion in 2019.

How has this changed the outlook of the board and other CXOs apart from ITDMs, now that penalties are involved?

With heightened focus on executive accountability, the BFSI sector is undergoing maximum change to address regulatory challenges and demands. This involves re-evaluation of business models, transforming units, and redefining both their role and value within the organization. Of course, this would involve breaking institutional barriers, but then that is the future of business.

With India becoming a prime target for cyber criminals like

never before, how does this coupled with the regulatory landscape alter the playing field for banking CIOs and CISOs? Privacy concerns, data security, and compliance are the key market drivers. Staying ahead of changing business needs and addressing threats remain the top concerns of banking CIOs and CISOs. The threat of penalties has pushed the security mechanism into the spotlight. Both the CIO & CISO have a demanding task of building a robust culture of compliance and transparency across the organization, ensuring that security is the key consideration in the design of business processes, strategy, and innovation. There is a renewed sense of urgency and maturity within the teams, greater cooperation, and openness when sharing information and best practices.

What are some simple security practices which will help BFSI CIOs and CISOs to maintain compliance in the long run?

Encryption and compliance controls are the two keywords that determine the security of banking and financial organizations. This industry faces almost three times more cyber-attacks than any other does. The threat landscape is evolving, and so is the security ecosystem. We are talking about a very vast landscape here. It is critical that customers make strides towards building fundamental layers of security and build on from there.

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INTERVIEW // ROCKET SOFTWARE

KEY TO MAINFRAME LONGEVITY IS CONTINUOUS MODERNIZATION

Nearly three decades old, Rocket Software has kept its focus on mainframes helping businesses with applications and tools that modernize the mainframe to cater to today’s enterprise demands of mobile, cloud, BYOD, and new approaches to computing.

“Our entire engineering structure is global, so our teams in India are focused on the big picture. We’re not looking at the India offices to develop products just for India – they’re going to be used all over the world.”

Tell us about Rocket Software’s journey in the mainframes industry?

Rocket Software was founded 28 years ago in Boston and has been focused on mainframes for our entire history. Mainframes continue to be the workhorse of the technology world – they’re used by just about every bank, government and hospital in the world because they are a combination of fast and secure. The key to the mainframe’s longevity is that it is continuously being modernized, and that’s the role that Rocket plays in the big iron ecosystem. When mainframes were invented there was no such thing as the cloud or mobile – email didn’t even exist. What Rocket does is build applications and tools that modernize the mainframe. Today’s mainframes support mobile, cloud, BYOD, and all of the current approaches to computing. We also build tools that let people program mainframes in any language. This ensures that anyone can use a mainframe, which extends the value of these systems even more.

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SHANTANU GHOSH,

MANAGING DIRECTOR AND VP OF ROCKET SOFTWARE’S COE IN INDIA AND CHINA

How has been your journey in India so far?

Rocket started in the US and has slowly expanded its footprint around the world. India is our newest location, and the company is very excited about the opportunities here. We opened our first office in Bengaluru in early 2018, and we now have a second location in Pune, which is where I’m based. In fact, we’ve named India a Centre of Excellence for the whole company because our leadership team sees our labs in Bengaluru and Pune as critical to our overall success. A lot of global companies open offices in India because of our engineering talent, but Rocket actually sees us as a source of business leadership. There are already a number of Indians in senior roles within the company.

Can you shed light on your India Centre of Excellence?

Rocket started off with two engineers (the cofounders, including CEO Andy Youniss), and for

many years the company only had one location.

About 15 years ago Rocket started acquiring companies all around the world and build up a “lab” structure based on the specific products that were being built in each region. We’ve hit a size where that no longer made sense, so the entire engineering organization has been rebuilt to reflect the much broader mission of Rocket. There are now six global Centres of Excellence, and I’m proud to say that India is one of them.

What will be the focus of India team in terms of target customers?

Our entire engineering structure is global, so our teams in India (not to mention the US, Russia, Australia, China, and other countries) are focused on the big picture. We’re not looking at the India offices to develop products just for India – they’re going to be used all over the world. And we’re not just a satellite office. That’s why we are hiring at every level, from recent university graduates to senior executives with decades of experience.

TECH INSIGHT

SOURABH TIWARI, CIO, OVERSEAS INFRASTRUCTURE ALLIANCE

“AI will help HRD have personalized dialogues with employees,create development plans, do succession

planning,mentor them and develop workforce in the truest sense.Due to human factor, HR and new age technologies must co-exist to do better for organizations.”

REINVENTING HRD WITH THE USE OF AI

Human Resources have been experiencing significant changes thanks to the evolution of IT in the last two decades. The use of new-age technologies such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence are finding their way into the HR departments of organisations.

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rtificial intelligence has become a part of how people operate on a daily basis. More than two-thirds of consumers use AI today without even really noticing — usually in the form of navigation, virtual assistants and that annoying yet entertaining feature on your smart phone that auto-fills your text messages. The benefits of AI from the business perspective are clear in the forms of increased efficiencies, robust data mining and analytics and improved customer relationship management.

Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way that companies manage their workforce and make HR plans, which increases productivity and employee engagement in general. The HR department can certainly leverage the power of AI with ML based technology implementations in various areas like pre-boarding, on-boarding, induction, training, engagement, PMS, Succession & workforce planning survey, help desk and more.

AI powered HR chat BOT can help enterprises to deliver instant ROI. When deployed in popular business communication channels like SMS, mobile, web, messaging platforms, and more, such BOTS add instant value by improving efficiency, productivity, and system integration (especially for API or service calls to enterprise systems). AI has multiple uses in the HRD Landscape.

Alerts / Notifications: An employee is communicating with BOT. BOTs can acknowledge such requests and send automatic alerts along with status to an employee once his/her manager acts on a particular request. BOTs can also generate reminders or escalations for manager.

Patternization: AI can be used to predict the outcomes (predictive behaviour based on past data patterns) within various aspects of an organisation’s functioning like Attrition, Resume selection, Performance assessment, Salary increments, Rewards distribution, etc. AI powered HRMIS can detect the most typical reasons

contributing to employee attrition with the use of predictive model.

Action Oriented: With smart BOT implementation, it first responds to an employee asking details of his/her project (task / activities) and that too by giving available choices upfront to an employee.

AI Recruiters: In today’s world; full of millennial, applicants and employees expect custom experiences tailored to their unique needs as they apply for a new job, choose the right benefits or explore career growth opportunities. Companies can leverage AI based technology implementations like “AI recruiters” to automate scheduling interviews, provide ongoing feedback to candidates and answer their questions in real time.

Policy Knowledge Base: BOT responds with the valid information by interfacing with public holiday configuration in HRIS. Complex Dialogues: During an employee on-boarding process; BOT can help newly joined employee to set up various things. Based on conversation over chat with BOT an employee is able to select and setup.

People working in HR don’t have to worry about all such automation. So this doesn’t mean that HR departments will be completely replaced with the use of new age technological implementations. That automation is definitely going to take away jobs of support functions. Every organization has to consider HR department as one of strategic business unit and not only a support function. Machines cannot do Human work at its best.

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CISO SPEAKS

ARCHIE JACKSON, AVP - Technology/Information Security, Genpact

“U2F is an open authentication standard that enables internet users to securely access any number of online services with one single security key

key instantly and with no drivers or client software needed.”

FIDO’S U2FA: SAFEST WAY TO AUTHENTICATE?

In my previous article, we talked about SMS based 2FAs and how this method is not a safe method to authenticate. Universal 2nd Factor, also abbreviated to U2F, the safest method to date provides good protection against phishing attacks, because the URL is also checked during the login process.’

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his topic of concern has been in debate for quite some time now.

SMS isn’t a secure way to use 2FA. It has two key vulnerabilities.

Firstly, the technology is susceptible to SIM Swap attacks.

Secondly, hackers can intercept SMS messages by intercepting the Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) phone routing system. The methodology was designed back in 1975 but is still used almost globally to connect and disconnect calls. It also handles number translations, prepaid billing, and crucially, SMS messages.

The other common way to use 2FA codes is to install a dedicated smartphone app. There are lots to choose from. But how secure are specialist 2FA apps? Their biggest weakness is their reliance on a secret key.

When you access a site, the code the app creates is based on a combination of your key and the

current time. At the same moment, the server is generating a code using the same information. The two codes need to match for access to be granted.

If a cyber-criminal manages to gain access to a company’s password and secrets database? Every account would be vulnerable.

Secondly, the secret is either displayed in plain text or as a QR code; it cannot be hashed or used with a salt. It must probably also be in plain text on the company’s servers.The secret key is the fundamental flaw in the Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) that specialist apps use.

The FIDO (“Fast IDentity Online”) Alliance is an industry consortium launched to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.

The FIDO protocols use standard public key cryptography techniques to provide stronger

authentication. During registration with an online service, the user’s client device creates a new key pair. It retains the private key and registers the public key with the online service. Authentication is done by the client device proving possession of the private key to the service by signing a challenge. The client’s private keys can be used only after they are unlocked locally on the device by the user. The local unlock is accomplished by a user–friendly and secure action such as swiping a finger, entering a PIN, speaking into a microphone, inserting a second–factor device or pressing a button.

The FIDO protocols are designed from the ground up to protect user privacy. The protocols do not provide information that can be used by different online services to collaborate and track a user across the services. Biometric information, if used, never leaves the user’s device

FIDO U2F: Universal 2nd Factor, also abbreviated to U2F, the safest method to date. ‘’This authentication method provides good protection against phishing attacks, because the URL is also checked during the login process.’

U2F is an open authentication standard that enables internet users to securely access any number of online services with one single security key instantly and with no drivers or client software needed.

U2F was created by Google and Yubico, and support from NXP, with the vision to take strong public key crypto to the mass market. Today, the technical specifications are hosted by the open-authentication industry consortium, the FIDO Alliance.

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SECURITY WATCH

NAVDEEP SINGH AHLUWALIA, HEAD NETWORK AND INFORMATION SECURITY, DALMIA BHARAT GROUP

“EU GDPR presents a golden opportunity to Indian data processing companies to revisit their data protection, information security and confidentiality policies and ensure compliance as per global standards.”

LIFE IN GDPR ERA FOR INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS A degree of uncertainty looms amongst Indian companies which are engaged in outsourced data processing activities mainly due to the applicability of GDPR and its implications on their businesses. Companies need to revisit their policies and procedures with respect to data privacy and protection.

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he European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) is effective 25 May 2018 and is related to data privacy and protection. It aims to bring all the EU member states under one umbrella by enforcing a single data protection law and is intended to put guidelines and regulations on how data is processed, used, stored or exchanged. It applies to all the organizations that are registered in EU or have an establishment or subsidiary in EU. It also applies to organizations selling goods or services to citizens of the EU. A degree of uncertainty looms amongst Indian companies which are engaged in outsourced data processing activities. This uncertainty is mainly due to the applicability of GDPR and its implications on their businesses. The penalty scheme mentioned in the GDPR is also a major concern for such companies since GDPR permits enforceability against a data processor directly. Companies need to revisit their policies and procedures

with respect to data privacy and protection.

Indian organizations need to ensure that they have explicit and active consent of all data subjects prior to collecting, storing and/or using any of their personally identifiable information (“PII”). Companies have altered their terms and privacy policy to ensure compliance with GDPR. It contains some extremely strict and robust stipulations but there are multiple interpretations of this regulation and organization globally are finding ways to read, interpret, and implement the law in different ways. Indian organizations need to take a strict view of the stipulations under the GDPR and set a precedent that pushes other companies to ramp up their compliance activities.

Article 3 (territorial scope) of GDPR will be applicable irrespective of the location whether processing happens in EU or outside and includes the operation performed on personal data such as collecting, recording, structuring, storing, using, disclosing by transmission and even includes erasing and destroying. So any Indian company

processing the data will fall under the ambit of GDPR. Indian companies are required to enter into a contract with the customer before undertaking any processing activity and following measures need to be implemented at the organization level l Pseudonymization and encryption of personal data l Confidentiality and integrity of processing systems l Restoration of availability and access to personal data after a physical or technical incident Organizations need to notify the customer in the event of a personal data breach and need to do a data protection impact assessment immediately.

Indian companies doing data processing for EU have to allow the customer to conduct an audit and inspection of its systems to be compliant.

The right of a data processor to subcontract their responsibility has been curtailed and made conditional. The ability of an Indian process outsourcing company to refuse flow-down of contractual obligations has been severely impacted.

Indian organizations engaged in data processing have gained access to the data of EU citizens which has brought them within the ambit of GDPR. Indian companies need to meet the adequacy requirements and privacy judgment which has presented several anecdotes for the consideration of the Legislature. This presents a golden opportunity to Indian data processing companies to revisit their data protection, information security and confidentiality policies and ensure compliance as per global standards.

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DIGITAL DIARY

AJAY YADAV, HEAD IT (NORTH), ARSHIYA RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE

“If RFID technology closely integrated into every process of supply chain,it may replace bar code technology in very pvery near future and take revolutionary changes to logistics.”

RFID-POWERED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN LOGISTICS INDUSTRY RFID industry can help enterprises increase the exchange quantity and accelerate the flowing speed of information to promote the efficiency and save the cost. It can provide the strategic significant incremental benefit to the supply chain of manufacture, logistics, wholesale and retail industry.

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n RFID system is comprised of electromagnetically responsive RFID tags and RFID readers.

Embedded within each RFID tag is unique information.

Attaching an RFID tag to an object such as inventory or goods makes it possible to track and monitor placement and movement, making it traceable throughout transport. This has made RFID useful in supply chain logistics, especially for tracking shipping containers, components used in the manufacturing process and for other similar purposes Logistics & Transportation is a major area of implementation for RFID technology.

For example, Warehouse management, Yard Management, Shipping & Freight and Distribution Centers are some areas where RFID tracking technology is used. Logistics/Transportation

companies value RFID technology due to its impact on the business value and efficiency.

Most Logistics and SCM companies believe that RFID can make their operations more efficient and build a competitive edge in their market. The RFID technology is a flow control technology. It can provide the strategic significant incremental benefit to the supply chain of manufacture, logistics, wholesale and retail industry.

RFID industry can help enterprises increase the exchange quantity and accelerate the flowing speed of information to promote the efficiency and save the cost. It can integrate all supply activity supplier, deliverer, transporter, and third-party logistics company and information supplier. The typical application of RFID in logistics management is tracking. Technically, we can stick tags on the plate, packing box or equipment to automatically save and transmit the style of the equipment,

sequence number and other information. The tag can transmit the information to read-write equipment distance away, so the equipment and endproduct don’t need to be scanned by the handset to read bar code in warehouse and workshop.

This can reduce omission, promote efficiency greatly. This application model can reduce the cost and clean up barriers in supply chain. By the close integration into supply chains, RFID may replace the bar code technology in future. The key of the modem logistics management is the automatically identification of product container, vehicles and staff. Some information need to be transmitted and reflected real-time in MIS system and ERP system in the company. RFID can totally accomplish these functions, thus, it can be applied universally in the logistics management.

In cases where read-write equipment is placed within the warehouse, all in-house movements are additionally registered in the system. This allows for strategic planning of product locations within the warehouse.

The information that is gathered with RFID can lead to significant improvements as the tracking and handling of the products can be done in real-time and with great accuracy. In the warehouse, products are easily located as all product movements are tracked and this information is automatically registered in the system. Whilst stock is accurately tracked valuable information concerning losses is also recorded.

Around the world, the most popular way to transport large amounts of cargo is to use shipping containers. Container transports are oftentimes chosen as they ensure safe and secured transportation, low costs, standard packaging and high transport density.

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CIO TALK

D V SESHU KUMAR,

ASST VICE PRESIDENT – IT HEAD, ORIENT CEMENT

“The volume of data created to meet the requirements has exploded in recent years. This has coincided with the

the rapid pace of innovation in the information technology.”

DATA EXPLOSION AND STORAGE DEMANDS

Data is tremendously valuable asset, and also businesses are creating more opportunities out of it, faster than ever before. The recent past saw an explosion of analytics technology as businesses demanded tools to unlock insights from their vast and growing sets of data.

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he challenge for businesses is no longer just capturing data; it is putting that data to effective use. Data analysis is a key to understanding the performance of a business and can be used for numerous tasks.

A business’ success absolutely depends on insight into the key factors that affect it, in as close to realtime as possible. Analysing performance based on real time data, consolidated views of operations and respond proactively, troubleshooting and gaining business opportunities. Data is the core of technology driven world.

It is probable that there will be an increase in taking advantage of object storage for structured data and it is going to be that object storage may create structured data from unstructured data.

Metadata is going to be used to dig out from the avalanche of generated data by different methods of analysis, and data explosion is at the centre of our technology-driven world. Experiencing and expected to generate vast amount of disparate

data in the form of transactions, structure data, and a myriad of content includes visuals and videos etc. In order to be useful, this data needs to be stored, catalogued and analysed, and this process has begun to generate innovative ways of analysis and using this data, through Artificial intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning and Augmented Reality. The volume of data is flipping the economic formula. Companies are exploring new economically-friendly storage systems. Storage prices that once seemed negligible are now looking like less of a bargain since the amount of data stored is so enormous.

Now that those tools are available, the pendulum will swing back to the demand side of the equation and force businesses to pay more attention to collection, management and storage of that increasingly valuable data. This is forcing that businesses must invest in new strategies for safeguarding and protecting data and at the same time storage of data in an economically feasible way and should also meet the corporate

IT policies. Data policies can define the durability, cost, availability, and other dynamic optimization criteria.

This is the digital era. Analysis says it is growing 40% a year into the next decade, expanding to include not only the increasing number of people and enterprises doing everything online, but also all the smart devices etc., connected to the Internet, unleashing a new wave of opportunities for businesses and people around the world. The cloud IaaS platforms have created an efficient and scalable way for organisations to procure compute and storage capacity, and achieve desired results by using sophisticated technology solutions available. Organizations can leverage these offerings for specific applications and retain their own environments for primary applications thereby achieving scale instantly or in a scheduled fashion, as the demand for their products and services or scale within the required parameters.

Though cloud is going to be the future, many organizations are still going on the traditional data centres at their locations. This kind of approach is adopting mainly keeping security point of view and also important point is increasing the OPEX. Cloud solutions and third party data centres are having higher end security layers then in-house data centres. Coming to CAPEX vs OPEX, still it depends on the business model which they are in otherwise Capex works out much lesser than OPEX – cloud solutions. Cloud players needs to work on to narrow down the gap between CAPEX and OPEX. Albert Einstein said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” Statement well fit in the current scenario.

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THE STUFF // PRODUCTS & SERVICES

CIO TOYS BARCO UNISEE: GROUNDBREAKING BEZEL-LESS LCD VIDEO WALL

Barco recently launched UniSee for India Market, a completely redesigned and optimized LCD video wall solution based on a modular platform, with individual LCD panels fitted onto an innovative mounting system. The platform consists of three modules UniSee View, UniSee Mount and UniSee Connect which aim to redefine large screen visualization. UniSee provides top performance across applications like control rooms, experience centers, highend meeting rooms, lobby, broadcast backdrops among others. The video wall is entirely bezel-

less and provides a seamless viewing experience.

Barco’s patented NoGap technology enables UniSee to spread content over multiple video wall tiles without the disturbance of a bezel.

Key features of the Barco UniSee platform include uninterrupted viewing experience with NoGap technology, perfectly balanced total image, modular, future-proof system that grows with your needs, faster installation and maintenance with front serviceability, and more reliability with remote or integrated redundant power supply.

MANN+HUMMEL OURAIR: IOTBASED INDOOR AIR QUALITY SOLUTIONS OurAir recently launched in the Indian market combines MANN+HUMMEL’s deep expertise in air filtration with advanced digital technologies. It manages the indoor air quality with the help of IoT providing clean air at optimized energy costs through real-time air quality monitoring, and digital platforms to analyze, predict and manage the optimization end-to-end.

SYNOLOGY DISKSTATION DS1618+: HIGH-PERFORMANCE 6-BAY NAS FOR ADDRESSING MULTI-TASKING CHALLENGES DiskStationDS1618+ is a 6-bay NAS boasting ample storage scalability ideal for handling SMB workloads effortlessly. DS1618+ comes with PCIe expansion slot to support add-in cards for high-IOPS system caching and ultra-fast data transmission.

DS1618+ is backed by Synology’s three-year hardware warranty.

DS1618+ relies on File Station which is a web-based management tool for ease of operation and features advanced search and filtering tools. The NAS device supports SMB, FTP, AFP, NFS,

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WebDAV, compatible with any environment.

The add-on features include Office which is a collaboration package combining the usability of public clouds with security guaranteed by private clouds allowing you to seamlessly col-

laborate in a protected environment. DS1618+ integrates various backup applications to safeguard your important data on any device including Active Backup for Server, Hyper Backup, Desktop Backup and Active Backup for Office 365/ G Suite.

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