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THE INDIAN IT INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET

BACKBONE OF A DIGITAL ECONOMY Accounting for the largest share of 67 percent in World market for IT infra sourcing, India is on a steady path of digitization. ... p20

EXCLUSIVE STORY

CRYING OUT CLOUD BY ORACLE

ORACLE BOSSMAN LARRY ELLISON MADE A SPECTACULAR PRESENTATION....p 29

AN OPINION ON

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DSL AND LTE BONDING: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS...p 19

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ROBOTICS: THE FUTURE IS NOW!

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eDItor’s letter

Infra Growth Is ImmInent India’s growth is visible with the government willingness to make it happen. And

this is likely to happen because there is a huge thrust on the infrastructure growth. Not only the government is stressing on developing the existing infrastructure but also trying to develop new infrastructure.

For example, the creation of smart cities is one of the leading infrastructure building activities. There are a number of new airports setting up in the country because the Modi government has created a mandate to make the smaller cities connected with the bigger ones so that the development happens all across and equally.

BFSI is another sector, which is growing quite rapidly. The central government has again created a mandate to open savings bank account for all the cities.

Similarly, railway platforms are getting connected with wireless connectivity for the travelers to access internet.

The entire government sector is becoming digitized. All the

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documents are turning to digital format. in this situation, one can well imagine what kind of IT consumption it might incur.

There will be a requirement of huge space of data centers.

These data centers would be connected with a good number of storage, networking and security solutions so that the operation becomes seamless and secure.

There will be a consumption of huge number of security and surveillance appliances. Last but not the least, ‘Make in India’ is going to be a huge consumer of technology products and solutions.

In the latest development, defense sector looks to be adopting a lot of modernization in order to make the entire sector defense ready and combat ready. It is obviously for the reason of challenges from the neighboring countries. It will consume a lot of surveillance solutions along with big data and analytics technologies. Because development of events in the country shows that the neighboring countries would inflict financial and physical injury to the country and they would not only take the rout of physical retaliation and onslaught but also cyber warfare. There is possibility that there will be growth of hacking in the country specially targeted on the critical installations.

Towards making the things happen, government is seeking support from the global market and it appears that most of the developing countries are acceding the request and finding this as an opportunity of investment in an alternative location.

So net net…the growth in the infrastructure market in the country is going to be huge in a few years from now. Probably, it will be second largest or at par with China by 2020.

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sDn market Growth

Growth in hospitality sector

The growth India’s infrastructure market has mandated the adoption of futuristic technologies. It has definitely opted for software to be at the core of every infrastructure. So the adoption of SDN is bound to happen otherwise the concepts like big data and analytics, IOT and mobility will not be effectively executed.

With the growth in economy the growth of the hospitality sector is imminent because there will be an influx of global tourists to the country. So the hospitality sector needs to update its infrastructure.

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cxo challenges

The growth in the SDN market will happen at a brisk rate but the true challenge lies in finding right solution and executing it. The CXOs’ role is well cut out now.

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ROUND UP

Artificial Intelligence for All: Microsoft Ignite 2016

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At its annual Microsoft Ignite conference on Monday, Microsoft announced new products and services spanning security, productivity, intelligence and the cloud that will make it easier for IT professionals to drive digital transformation throughout their organizations.

The announcements address some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing technology professionals, such as security amid an increasingly complex and dynamic threat landscape, and the need to balance end-user preferences with technology investments that scale and deliver value. The announcements included security enhancements across Microsoft’s products; including Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security, offer powerful protection against security threats. New AI capabilities span agents, applications; services and infrastructure transform 6

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what’s possible for people and organizations.

Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella outlined the company’s vision of building intelligence across capabilities that span agents, applications, services and infrastructure transform what’s possible for people and organizations. He said, “As we think about the future of technology, it resides in the notion of intelligence. Microsoft has an approach that’s both ambitious and broad, an approach that seeks to democratize Artificial Intelligence (AI), to take it from the ivory towers and make it accessible for all. Core to our mission to empower every person and organization on the planet is democratizing AI for every person and organization to help solve society’s most pressing challenges. To do this, we’re infusing intelligence into everything we deliver — from the agent to applications, services and infrastructure.”

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percent of Indian enterprises have invested in big data in 2016, up 3 percent from 2015.

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Telit and Intel Team up up on JointArchitecture forIIoT

Extreme Networks to Acquire Zebra Tech’s WLAN Biz Extreme Networks is all set to acquire Zebra’s wireless LAN (WLAN) business in an all-cash transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the Q4 of 2016 (which is the Q2 of Fy 2017 for Extreme Networks).

Ed Meyercord, President and CEO of Extreme Networks said, “Combining Zebra’s WLAN technologies and marquee retail, transportation and logistics, and hospitality customers with Extreme Networks’ wired and wireless capabilities, recognized as visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, creates the industry’s number three WLAN enterprise campus powerhouse. WLAN is the fastest growing segment in the networking industry. Our heritage of delivering innovative and pioneering technology is reinforced with today’s announcement, underscoring our commitment to providing customers worldwide with unified visibility and

control across their wired and wireless networks.”

Anders Gustafsson, CEO of Zebra Technologies said, “The WLAN business is an ideal fit with Extreme Networks as a pure play networking company, and we are proud of our WLAN employees for the contributions they have made to Zebra and will make in the future. This transaction enables us to increase our focus on delivering the best Enterprise Asset Intelligence solutions, in collaboration with our partners that give our customers real-time visibility into their operations so they can make smarter decisions.

We continually evaluate our business to ensure we are focusing on the areas which generate the strongest growth and highest return profiles, and today’s announcement exemplifies that commitment to our shareholders.”

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Telit has collaborated with Intel on a jointarchitecture for multiple Intel IoT developer platforms for the Industrial Internet of Things.

The commercially available Intel IoT platform consists of end-to-end reference architectures and products with TelitdeviceWISE edge-intelligence technology, which includes extensive device driver libraries and built-in Cloud-readiness – giving companies an instant onramp to the Industrial IoT. As per the release, the collaboration between Telit and Intel provides far-reaching benefits for remote machine monitoring and control, production diagnostics and predictive maintenance across all markets and industries worldwide. Businesses deploying Intel IoT Platform Technology solutions can quickly establish and future-proof their IoT strategy, connect legacy and new systems, help data flow securely between edge devices and the cloud, and save money for years to come.

With support for multiple operating systems and processor performance levels, solutions based on Intel IoT Gateway Technology with deviceWISE are scalable and able to meet needs for a broad range of applications.

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13th International Conference & Expo Forum on developments and applications of emerging technologies in infrastructure, healthcare, and energy

28th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence Cross-fertilization of these ideas and their transfer into practical tools

European Security Awareness Summit Forum raises issues and spreads awareness around enterprise and user cybersecurity highlighting latest trends

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Securing Cloud Greatest Concern for Indian CIOs

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“While the Central government is working to meet the April 1, 2017 timeline, the level of preparedness of state governments needs to be closely monitored, one sure indicator of which will be timely roll out of State GST laws.”

New Fortinet research identifies cloud and vulnerability in IT systems as the two greatest concerns for IT decision makers; uncovers trend favoring actionable threat intelligence, faster incident response and managed security services.

Patrice Perche, Senior Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Support, Fortinet said, “Our independent study highlights the urgent need among enterprise-scale organizations from all sectors in APAC to prioritize end-to-end cybersecurity protection with actionable, threat intelligence capabilities in the face of new digital business challenges. Enterprises need to respond more rapidly and effectively to security breaches by investing in integrated, adaptive cybersecurity architectures for the borderless network. Fortinet is uniquely equipped to deliver this security without compromise through a seamless, comprehensive security fabric.”

In some sectors, such as healthcare, it took 53 percent of APAC respondents days, months or even years to spot breaches.Such a deficiency in rapid, effective threat identification and response is proven to be highly costly to breached organizations as sensitive data is lost, systems are compromised and brand reputation is damaged.

Indian respondents cited ‘improved information security strategy’ as the greatest value of threat intelligence (61 percent in India and 52 percent in APAC) followed by ‘improved prevention of attacks’ (59 percent in India and 53 percent in APAC) and ‘improved risk management’ (59 percent in India and 55 percent in APAC).

Michael Joseph, Regional Director – System Engineering, India & SAARC, Fortinet said, “IT decision makers understandably want more resources to combat threats from all directions, but the answer doesn’t have to come in the form of spending more or ripping and replacing existing solutions. Fortinet’s open, adaptive security fabric shows how enterprises can achieve true end-to-end protection with security capabilities that share intelligence across the entire attack surface. We are unique in providing the same breadth of capability and performance whether enterprises choose to retain in-house control of their own cybersecurity infrastructure, or use the services of an MSSP partner from our growing global community.”

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“The Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) will play a key role in improving the lives of the people of this state. By moving to the Cloud, the Government

has the opportunity to create a digitally empowered society and a growing knowledge economy.

We look forward to making this partnership a success.”

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Oracle Corporation 2017 Q1 GAAP SaaS & PaaS Revenues up 77% & 79% in Constant Currency (CC). NonGAAP SaaS and PaaS Revenues grew 82% in CC. Total Revenues $8.6bn; up 2% in USD and up 3% in CC. Cloud & On-Premise Software Revenues $6.8bn; up 5% in USD & up 6% in CC.

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Axilspot Commences India Journey

Huawei to Make Mobile Device in India Reaffirming its commitment to India, Huawei today announced it will start to manufacture smartphones in India in collaboration with leading Sketch-to-Scale solutions provider, Flex, in October. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister, Information & Technology, Law and Justice made the announcement at Huawei’s ‘Make in India’ inauguration ceremony in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

Starting from first week of October 2016, the Flex manufacturing plant in Chennai will manufacture one of the Honor smartphones models. The plant will have the capacity to make three million units by the end of 2017. In addition, Huawei will be strengthening its after sales services in India with over 200 service

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centers, including more than 30 exclusive Huawei service centers in India.

Announcing the manufacturing facility from Delhi, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister, Information & Technology, Law and Justicesaid,”I would like to congratulate Huawei on their commitment to pursue their ‘Make in India’ vision. The Government of India is pleased to see so much enthusiasm for our “Make in India” initiative. We are working towards making India an electronic manufacturing hub. As India is set to become the second largest smartphone market, our government would like to invite even more businesses to come and manufacture in India. This is an opportune time to start manufacturing from India.

Axilspot commences India operations by launching its entire range of smarter products in India. The beauty of Axilsport WLAN products is that they are engineered to sustain rugged weather of India and designed to save space.

Cognizant about price sensitiveness, these products are competitively priced and addresses indoor and outdoor needs of the entire spectrum of the market including SMEs, Large Enterprises, Education, Hospitality, Smart Cities, Public Hotspots, City Wi-Fi Projects, Airports, Shopping Malls, Government and PSUs. Axilspot smarter wireless solutions come in four series: SMB Series, Enterprise Series, ISP Series and Security Series. With patented Rscan Smart Antenna Array Technology, Axilspot can deliver very high density of 800+ concurrent users with 5.3G capacity.

Bruce Zhou, CEO, Axilspot said, “Our commitment is based on “7S” principle, i.e., Stable, Secure, Smart, Simple, Scalable, Swift and Sensible. And, this underlying principle influences not only our products’ designing and engineering but also reflects during our technology alliances and partner alignments. This ultimately translates into creating satisfied customers.”

MOVEMENT Quick Heal Appoints Vijay Mhaskar as COO He will spearhead both Quick Heal and its enterprise security brand Seqrite

Skillsoft Names Melissa Ries as VP & GM Asia Pacific Will oversee the growth of Skillsoft and SumTotal across the APAC region

Persistent Ropes in Jacqueline White as CCO White will be responsible for all aspects of customer satisfaction and success

Joe Poehls Joins Brocade as Principal Systems Engineer APJ. He will lead technical side of delivery and optimization solutions.

Skybox Security Appoints Tal Sheffer as CTO. He will drive technology strategy and innovations to enrich Skybox Security Suite.

Cognizant Promotes Rajeev Mehta to President Lead market-facing teams for over 2 years as CEO IT Services Biz

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“SME CHANNELS SUMMIT AND AWARDS 2016” is a knowledge forum for the channel partners and the vendors to understand the market trend and chart their course of action. The event brings together industry leaders to speak about future missions and their vision of the Indian channel fraternity to be able to yield more profit and grow healthy. It discusses the ethical practices and growth strategy going forward.

The awards are about felicitation of top 50 solution providers in the partner ecosystem and the best performing IT brands for the year in different categories. So spanning across six hours, from 1.30 PM till 8.30 PM in the evening, the event will see two categories of awards - the Super50 and the Achievers’ Awards. While the Super50 are for the top 50 performers in the partner space, the Achievers’ Awards recognize the top performing vendors.

Besides, there will be panel discussion in the afternoon on “Growth Strategy of Indian Resellers.”

There will be presentations from thought leaders and industry experts to provide necessary knowledge to the channel partners and the vendors to chalk out the right strategy of growth.

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Future Group Selects Cognizant to Digitize Consumer Biz

Cognizant has been selected by Future Group, a leading Indian multi-brand retailer, as a strategic partner to transform Future Consumer Limited, Future Group’s consumer goods business, into a connected enterprise to achieve higher levels of efficiency, agility and business impact.

As part of the engagement, Cognizant will build a platform for FCL to simplify, automate and secure business processes, speed up collaboration, and maximize synergies across all lines of business and corporate functions. To be built using SAP’s S/4HANA business suite, the platform will enable FCL to optimize the supply chain and improve business throughput.

Cognizant will also help FCL harness digital technologies, including mobile and data analytics, for real-time performance and operational insights to accelerate decision-making, innovation and time-to-market.

Saurabh Lal, CEO, Manufacturing and Supply Chain at FCL said, “This initiative is key to our focus on improving operational efficiencies and business agility to align with the changing needs of today’s digitally empowered customers.

In an era where data, insights and supply chain intelligence are crucial ingredients for turning success into market leadership, Cognizant’s deep technology, business process, platform and digital capabilities will help us lay the foundation for more productive business interactions and smarter innovations.”

Rajesh Balaji Ramachandran, Senior Vice President and Global Leader of Enterprise Application Services at Cognizant said, “Creating value in the consumer goods industry is increasingly about turning data into actionable insights and foresights. With faster, more efficient business processes and a tightly aligned value chain underpinned by real-time data, FCL will be able to turn agility into competitive advantage and realize the full potential of enterprise resources.

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Accenture and Google Deliver Enterprise-based Solutions

Accenture today announced an alliance with Google to bring to market industryspecific solutions that will help clients use cloud, mobility, and analytics to advance their digital transformation agenda and improve business performance. Accenture will apply its broad industry expertise and capabilities to help enterprise clients improve the value of Google technologies within their organizations.

Paul Daugherty, CTO, Accenture said, “The Google alliance supports our digital

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and cloud strategy, and will help clients benefit from innovative and industryspecific cloud and mobile solutions built on the full stack of Google technologies.

Whether our clients need to innovate faster, create new services or increase the value from their existing technology investments, cloud should be the starting point for their digital transformations.

With Google, Accenture will help clients take advantage of game changing solutions that help solve real business needs.”

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Vodafone Delivers Office 365 to Enterprise Clients

Siris Capital Group Completes Polycom Acquisition Polycom announced the completion of its acquisition by affiliates of Siris Capital Group (“Siris” or “Siris Capital”) in a transaction reflecting an equity value of approximately $2.0 billion in cash.

Polycom’s stock will cease trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PLCM, effective today.

Daniel Moloney, Executive Partner, Siris Capital said, “We are excited to be a part of Polycom’s next chapter as we jointly work to create sustainable, long-term value for customers and partners. Together, with Mary and her team, we will enhance Polycom’s strategy to lead the market in audio, video and content collaboration solutions and continue to provide customers with the same high level of commitment, focus, innovation and support.”

Mary McDowell, who succeeds Peter Leav as CEO and board member, is a

technology executive who has led global multi-billion dollar businesses in the mobile, consumer and enterprise sectors.

McDowell said, “This is a momentous day for Polycom. I’m honoured and excited to be a part of the Polycom team and to work to accelerate our ability to provide customers with easy-to-use, innovative experiences that help them achieve new levels of teamwork, efficiency and productivity. As an independent private company, we will build on Polycom’s market leading position and make strategic, innovative moves to proactively address changing market dynamics and customer needs.” In connection with the closing of the transaction, the company, which will continue to operate as Polycom, will be wholly owned by affiliates of Siris Capital.

Top Research Institutions Deploy Quantum Petascale Storage Two of Europe’s premier research institutions are using the company’s StorNextworkflow storage as the foundation for managing their growing data and enabling a range of scientific initiatives.

GWDG — the computing

center for the University of Göttingen and computing and IT competence center for the Max Planck Society — deployed StorNext-powered disk and tape systems in a multi-tier solution to meet its performance and

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access requirements for 7PB of data. Separately, the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry also turned to Quantum for an endto-end storage and archive solution that would support greater collaboration and continuous access

Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, has tied up with Microsoft as a Cloud Service Partner. As part of this tie-up, VBS will offer Office 365 to Indian businesses to give them enterprise-grade productivity and collaboration services.

Under the tie-up, Vodafone Business Services will enable Indian businesses of all sizes to access Microsoft Office 365 comprising the familiar Office applications suite from the cloud, along with business-class collaboration tools and services to help them work easier and collaborate better from anywhere. The Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite offered on a payper-use Software as a Service (SaaS) model works across multiple devices, provides built-in, enterprisegrade security features, tools for teamwork and increased productivity as well as extensive privacy and compliance controls.

With the service delivery and support entirely managed by Vodafone, Office 365 is easy to deploy and manage, delivering ease of doing business and enhanced productivity to enterprises of all sizes.

to an ever-expanding volume of data.

As per the release, GWDG supports more than 40,000 users and needed a high-performance storage system that could handle billions of files and — with data volumes nearly doubling annually — scale to meet rapidly rising demand.

In addition, the storage

platform had to support a multi-tier storage environment, including making 2.5PB of data on disk and 4.5PB on tape accessible from a single file system.

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62% APeJ Organizations See IoT as Strategic to Business Initial results from the IDC 2016 Global IoT Decision Maker Survey highlights that 25.2% of Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) organizations have launched IoT solutions and expects an additional 46% to deploy in the next 12 months.

Furthermore, the survey reveals 62% of organizations see IoT as strategic to their business in order to effectively compete in the market.

The survey, now in its third year, serves as a way to gain insights from enterprise IT and business decision makers about their perception of IoT as well as their early deployments or plans for deployment of IoT solutions. Topics covered in the survey include: levels of enterprise awareness of IoT; deployment plans; IoT adoption drivers and inhibitors; perceptions of IoT vendors and vendor selection criteria; organizational factors; and security, cloud, and analytics requirements.

Hugh Ujhazy Associate Vice President of IOT and Telecoms for APeJ, IDC Asia/ Pacific said, “Setting strategies, finding budgets, and supporting IoT solutions have contributed to an ongoing tussle between a line of business executives (LOBs) and

CIOs. In APeJ, the IT department still leads the charge, but line of business and the C-Suite are increasingly influencing or deciding the IOT direction.”

Shaily Shah, Research Manager, Internet of Things said, “This year we see confirmation that vendors who lead with an integrated cloud and analytics solution are the ones who will be considered as critical partners in an organization’s IoT investment. We also note that network and traditional IT hardware vendors are slipping down the charts, as analytics and software vendors makes strides in customers’ minds.”

The purpose of the survey is to gain insights from enterprise IT and business decision makers about their perception of IoT as well as their early deployments or plans for deployment of IoT solutions. The survey covered responses from enterprises where respondents were moderately to very familiar with the term ‘Internet of things’ and managed a minimum of 100 employees. Respondents are required to be involved in IT and/or business decisions at their company.

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SAP Completes 12 Years of TechEd Bangalore

SAP TechEd Bangalore, the annual, premier technology, education, and training conference, created expressly for developers, engineers, and

technologists was hosted at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre from Oct. 05–07.

According to the press release, this year,

attendees connected with experts from SAP and the community around topics of mutual interest, including simplification of analytic solutions, Big Data, Hybrid-Cloud Landscape, Digital Business Framework, Platform-as-a-Service, Internet of Things, SAP S/4HANA, SAP security solutions and user experience. Bernd Leukert, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE Products and Innovation, delivered the keynote address on October 05. The three-days event featured strategic talks with updates on strategy and future product direction, from senior SAP leaderships.

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MANAGEMENT

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“If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”

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HCL Infotech Deploys e-PDS in Andaman Islands

HCL Infotech has implemented electronic public distribution system (e-PDS), ensuring greater transparency and efficient distribution of commodities to beneficiaries. The e-PDS has been implemented as a pilot project in Andaman & Nicobar Isles, wherein beneficiaries of the digital PDS will be issued smart ration cards covering entire South Andaman, excluding little Andaman.

Raj Malik, Chief Delivery Officer, HCL Infotech commented, “HCL Infosystems is proud to partner with the Andaman & Nicobar Administration toimplement the e-Public Distribution System. This is an important step in ensuring greater transparency and efficiency in this critical public benefit area. This is yet another endeavour

by HCL Infosystems to use ICT solutions for enabling better e-Governance.”

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their unique PIN for making transactions at the Fair Price Shops (FPS). More than 59,000 Ration cards have been converted into Smart cards, and 6,000 bogus cards have been struck off. Beneficiaries can now make transactions at the 275 FPS in the Union Territory.

The System Integration Solution devised

by HCL will enable beneficiaries to directly avail the benefits, and help the departments in digitally monitoring the movement of commodities’ in the different stages of the public distribution cycle – starting from stock received from Food Corporation of India Godown to the department Godown, to individual FPS and lastly to the direct beneficiaries.

Over the past four decades, HCL Infosystems has leveraged its unmatched competencies in IT solutions and services to execute many projects of national importance, including the prestigious UIDAI project.

Pegasystem DebutsEndTo-End Robotic Automation Pega Robotic Automation is now fully unified and available within the Pega 7 Platform for Case and Business Process Management (BPM) and its portfolio of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications. For the first time, organizations can intelligently optimize how work gets done – by both humans and robots – across the enterprise from a central end-to-end platform.

Pega amplifies the power of robotic process automation (RPA) with proven BPM and CRM to expand the potential of robotics in new ways. Businesses now have the flexibility to seamlessly use both RPA and BPM together across the organization in any combination that works best for them. By uniting these capabilities on one platform, organizations can quickly deploy robotic automation to handle routine tasks and then manage those tasks within the overall business processes to ensure optimal outcomes for customers.

In addition, Pega Robotic Automation includes an enhanced management console that enables organizations to manage all of their robotic processes from a single location. When combined with Pega 7’s BPM and case management capabilities, businesses can seamlessly manage the intersection of humans with robotic automation to ensure optimal workflows between them. Pega Robotic Automation is fully unified within Pega 7 and Pega applications.

Don Schuerman, CTO and vice president product marketing, Pegasystems said, “On its own, robotic automation has proven that it can deliver significant productivity gains for employees and organizations that transform customer engagement. But its true power results when it’s combined with other technologies to raise automation to an entirely new level, automating both core business functions and the ‘long tail’ of hard-toautomate tasks. With our market leading BPM and CRM solutions, Pega is in a unique position to realize this untapped potential to change the way our clients work and engage with their customers.”

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GOPAL JOSHI, VICE PRESIDENT SALES (INDIA & SAARC)

DSL AND LTE BONDING: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

The arrival of 4G LTE has provided some hope to rural customers; however, even this has its flaws. Although it provides much quicker download speeds, typically around 14Mbps, as opposed to DSL, the signal is easily influenced by factors such as weather and the environment, meaning its reliability is less controllable than a fixed-line option.

BY SANJAY@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

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hile the majority of city dwellers have reaped the benefits of increasingly fast broadband networks, rural customers have been left to make do with sluggish progress and sub-standard networks. For residents in these areas, the situation is becoming increasingly problematic, with the DSL networks they rely on, being unable to handle demanding new services such as video streaming and large

uploads.

For example, if we compare the average speeds of DSL, which hovers around 6Mbps, against an average broadband speed of 28.9Mbps, it is clear there is a huge discrepancy in the level of service.

As online (Value Added Services)VAS companies are now adding services catered to higher network speeds, such as HD streaming, customers on slower bandwidths are essentially being cut off from certain areas of the web, including add-on

services provided by CSPs. Unfortunately, where fixed line broadband is concerned, this is unlikely to change any time soon. Fast connections require expensive infrastructure along with significant labour costs, meaning for rural areas, where there are a limited number of subscribers, there is no return on investment for CSPs. When this is considered along with the regulations that prevent damage to the countryside, it is understandable why telcos are reluctant to extend fixed-line services to these areas. Unfortunately, as older copper wires slow down the broadband signal as it travels further away from the telephone exchange, it is those that are hardest to reach, that are suffering most.

The arrival of 4G LTE has provided some hope to rural customers; however, even this has its flaws. Although it provides much quicker download speeds, typically around 14Mbps, as opposed to DSL, the signal is easily influenced by factors such as weather and the environment, meaning its reliability is less controllable than a fixed-line option. As a result, there is a huge gap in the market for CSPs that can effectively cater to these areas. With single play DSL and mobile networks still unable to meet consumers’ needs, a solution that combines the benefits of both of these methods of delivery provides a more practical solution.

Combining the LTE and DSL The development of new hybrid routers, which are able to combine DSL and LTE networks are sparking a new approach to the way broadband is delivered to rural areas. These devices are able to pick up a mobile data network and combine this with the DSL connection through the use of intelligent software. This allows the high bandwidth of the LTE network to boost speeds for DSL customers in areas where more advanced fixedline services are not an option. Whereas the DSL bandwidth can be used for less intensive tasks, and forms the primary method of connectivity, the LTE connectivity can be activated when more demanding tasks such as video streaming are underway. In this way, customers can reap the reliability benefits of their DSL connection, while experiencing the high bandwidth benefits of 4G as and when they need it.

However, it is not just customers that will benefit from this new method of delivery. Instead of having to upgrade old DSL connections, CSPs can now use telephone masts to boost these networks, allowing them to get the most out of their old copper infrastructure. This has meant to read the complete article Pls. log on to www.enterpriseitworld.com

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BACKBONE THE INDIAN IT INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET

OF A DIGITAL ECONOMY Accounting for the largest share of 67 percent in World market for IT infra sourcing, India is on a steady path of digitization. As mobile and internet penetrates into virtually every organization, the trend represents a huge opportunity for both the vendors and enterprises endorsing and adopting on premise, cloud or hybrid IT.

BY CHITRESH SEHGAL CSEHGAL@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

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omputing has changed the face of the planet in a short period of time.

In a matter of a few decades, man has been able to make remarkable technological advancements from industrial automation and more efficient processes to new channels of business and more personalized experiences. Now, with further innovation cognitive computing has emerged as the next step in this technological advancement. The concept of cognitive computing is a range among the planet’s leading tech giants who have all been infusing gigantic quantum of money is R&D of their own cognitive capabilities. Technology has forever help strong the promise unto delivering more personalized experiences to its users. The concept of Cognitive computing is, as industry vibrantly puts it, homecoming of this promise.

IT Infrastructure has redefined how businesses opera-

tions are conducted in today’s enterprises. In fact, so important it is to enterprise businesses that IT Infrastructure Services has emerged as the fastest growing sector today. So much so that as per Gartner, the Indian IT infrastructure market is expected to reach $1.93Bn this year with a projected sum of $2.13Bn for 2020.

The Indian enterprise sector has been gaining rapid momentum of late as the focus on optimizing infrastructure and operational costs been rapidly increasing. Organizations have started to bring in next-gen data centers to process the heavy data transfer requirements of operations day in day out. The networking requirements have escalated network speeds and in turn made way for more efficient infrastructure hardware and software.

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IT INFRASTRUCTURE SKILLS FOR THE CIOs/ITDMs

MALWARE SANDBOXING

APPLICATION CONTAINERS

CLOUD MANAGED NETWORKING MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT

COLLABORATION

CLOUD SERVICE BROKER

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SOFTWARE DEFINED WANS

for approximately 67 per cent of the $124-130 billion market. Additionally, public cloud services revenue in India is expected to reach $1.26 billion in 2016, with a growth of 30.4 percent YoY. The public cloud market alone in the country was estimated to staggeringly treble to US$ 1.9 billion by 2018 from US$ 638 million in 2014. The main drivers for continued growth of data center colocation and hosting market in India are increased penetration of internet (including in rural areas) and rapid emergence of e-commerce.

IT Infrastructure in Enterprises Today The rise of technology trends like Cloud and BYOD have transformed the face of IT infrastructure. Traditionally infrastructure involving an intricate system of servers, storage devices and networking equipment has now been replaced by the dynamic phenomenon of IaaS: Infrastructure as a service. Large installations have been replaced by small datacenters and public clouds. Enterprises no longer have to invest on infrastructure before using new software licenses as this can now 22 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD OCTOBER 2016

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be done through a cloud with the infrastructure delivered as a service from the vendor.

In one of the most recent corporate stories, the founder of one of the world’s biggest on premise IT services vendor Oracle quite famously turned its approach to Cloud and literally urged its customers to move to the cloud with Oracle. This development and massive new offering from Oracle comes on the back of an indirect reversal from the way the company denounced the cloud business just a few years back. The cloud based IT infrastructure has taken the enterprise world by storm as corporations have been widely embracing concepts like IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. However, though impactful, not all functions of an enterprise are suited for Cloud. Many organizations have started using IaaS balanced with modernized robust infrastructure to deliver agility, cost and quality of service. This brought around a new concept of Hybrid IT. According to research firm Gartner, the emergence of bimodal IT has led to lot of investments in Mode 1, and is an increasing focus on building Mode 2 infrastructure.

DATA CENTER SWITCHING

The traditional IT infrastructure market includes server, storage and enterprise networking equipment. Aman Munglani of Gartner says, “In 2016, data center modernization will continue to be key driver for infrastructure spending in India. Automation and orchestration are becoming high priorities for Indian leaders as well. Software defined infrastructures, and an increased focus on disaster recovery and business continuity, will also lead to an increased spend on infrastructure.”

However, recent happening show that areas such as cloud, software defined storage, software defined network together with integrated systems have been the areas of investment for enterprises.

Gartner’s research experts also say that the public cloud is increasingly becoming relevant for data center managers and IT leaders in India. Additionally, although it is still relatively small, DevOps is another space which has gained momentum within IT operations teams in India. As part of the IT infrastructure, enterprise networking was the biggest segment for investment within the Indian IT infrastructure market in 2016 with the revenue

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expected to top $848 million. On the other hand, revenue from storage part of the IT infrastructure is on the downside, and expected to dip from $262 million in 2016 to $253 million this year.

The decline is being suggested to be impacted by improved price performance. Going further, it has been observed that enterprises investments in software defined storage has been on the upside as they evaluate alternate, cheaper devices, such as flash storage.

Changing face of IT Infra Business: IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service or IaaS is a seamless way of delivering cloud computing services (including storage devices, networks and servers) on demand. The concept is witnessing massive growth backed by the rising demand to reduce capex on IT hardware to store data, generated through various smart devices by individuals and enterprises. As Fujitsu’s Andy Stevenson says, “It’s the perfect service for organizations that have a greater need for cloud than hardware. IaaS will exhibit significant growth of around 35-40%, and be one of the largest growth areas of overall public cloud services, worldwide.”

With the influx on IaaS, the market dynamics

too have altered. Old stalwarts like IBM, VMware and Cisco have been replaced by new entrants like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google as leading players in this space. This has led to further proliferation of IaaS as a mainstream choice for organizations. Easily available low-cost infrastructure, transparency in utilizing the services and their costs, with high scalability and instant implementation along with pay per use model are some of the key drivers for this market. As Stevenson puts it, “Many large enterprises have chosen to use these public cloud services for new, often digital, initiatives while using private cloud for their more traditional, core application workloads.”

One trend that is expected to gain prominence is the adoption of the Hybrid IT model. The challenge of adopting Hybrid IT will be experienced by larger commercial and public sector bodies that previously invested in on premise existing IT. The hybrid model is appealing to enterprises because of its combination of legacy IT along with Public, Private and managed cloud services. Stevenson continues, “Organizations will recognize that a Hybrid IT approach will allow them to achieve maximum gain from the existing IT while being prepared to expand into new areas. We believe

in future, more and more enterprises will go the private route, and subsequently hybrid.”

The Market – Global and Domestic IaaS market at the global level is estimated to be around $22.4Bn and has been experiencing rapid growth recently. The Infrastructure as a Service market worldwide is majorly dominated by players such as Amazon, Microsoft, Netmagic, Google & Rackspace. However, there has been a steady influx of a number of new players offering low-cost infrastructure support in terms of storage devices, servers and network equipment. The sector has had high traction due to continuous innovation in centralized data storage capacities, servers and applications to increase operational efficiency with no additional capital outlay for enterprises infrastructure.

With the exponentially increasing number of connected users, over 200 million, IaaS adoption in India is gradually gaining momentum. With greater connectivity comes a greater need to store the data generated every minute through the multiple smart devices used by enterprises and individuals alike. This is catalysing India into one of the foremost markets for IaaS. Fujitsu’s Steven-

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SRIKANT ATTRAVANAM, DIRECTOR - PLATFORM SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES, HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS, INDIA

“Enterprises require mobilization of data and content to be delivered securely, where cloud

plays a major role.”

ANDY STEVENSON, HEAD OF MIDDLE EAST AND INDIA, MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR INDIA, FUJITSU

“Enterprises have chosen to use public cloud services for new digital,

initiatives while using private cloud for more traditional, core application workloads.”

son says, “The dynamic business environment found in India is a great match for IaaS adoption.

Whether a new start-up or a rapidly growing business looking for IT infrastructure with low overheads matched to their business levels – IaaS delivers. Organizations of all sizes can benefit from the fact that IaaS services are delivered from datacentre locations that would generally be of a quality higher than may achieved from locally hosted infrastructure. The rapid adoption of mobile also means that users of IaaS hosted applications could also remove one of the potential barriers cloud services – indeed actually making cloud service more suitable.”

Quite literally, India has been bouncing ahead of most economies in the widespread adoption of mobile in all aspect of community and business life. As mobile and cloud services are complimentary in nature, therefore use of all types of cloud service, i.e. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are expected to accelerate in the near future. However, Gartner also forecaster that the growth of IT infrastructure initially would be slow till say 2020, climbing at a pace similar to the 1% hike from 2015 to 2016.

The deterrent forecast to the growth in the Indian IT infrastructure market might initially pose significant challenges to the players in the space including Cisco, HPE, Juniper Networks, Huawei, 24 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD OCTOBER 2016

Lenovo, Oracle, IBM and Dell-EMC among others but once proliferation occurs the market is expected to gain traction. Gartner Research Director Naveen Mishra believes, “Public Cloud is increasingly becoming relevant for Datacenters and IT leaders in India. This is an area where enterprises are focusing heavily in terms of their optimization efforts and evaluating software defined networking as this is becoming a barrier for seamless digital experience.”

On Premise to Cloud: Organizational Challenges With the recent developments in the space, Cloud-based IT infrastructure has taken momentum due to a number of pros like costeffectiveness, ease of installation, scalability and mobility. Stevenson continues, “This has led to the rise of Hybrid Cloud where organizations leverage different cloud models depending on considerations such as the application, their attitude to risk, or maybe restrictions they may have on data location and residency.”

For organizations already using o premise IT services, the biggest issue when transitioning to cloud is the cost aspect. “There is the big challenge of expenditure for enterprise’s migration from premise infrastructure to cloud. Along with the

existing investment poured into the infrastructure, the cost of moving the workload to loud can be a major concern in terms of skills as well as management tools,” adds Stevenson. Additionally, the data carried by the infrastructure is sensitive and confidential. Therefore multiple red tapes and authorizations have to be surpassed in order to complete the process. The next challenge comes in finding the right and skilled resources to handle the transition, and ensure that the work carries on.

Hitachi Data Systems’ Srikant Attravanam gives an overview of the current scenario, “Organizations are adopting different cloud models to support their business effectively. Enterprises require mobilization of data and content to be delivered securely, where cloud plays a major role. According to the 2015 Economist Study conducted by Hitachi, about 70 percent of organizations use private clouds for file storage, archive, big data repository, collaboration and productivity. Cloud Products, Solutions and Services are designed to help customers reduce risk as they enable shift to cloud elasticity and pay-as-you-go efficiency without compromising business-critical services and service levels.’’

Industry Advice to CXOs When adopting cloud-based services in their enterprise’s IT infrastructure, it is crucial for the CXOs handling the IT end to be fully aware of the dynamics of the technologies in use. There need to be a well administered strategy with clarity on what the implementations bring to the organization. For a cloud based IT infrastructure to be successfully implemented, a CIO should be well aware of the industry and should only choose an IaaS vendor, the offerings of which are in line with the IaaS expectations of the enterprise. Fujitsu’s Andy Stevenson says, “IaaS has brought about a

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GROWTH DRIVERS FOR HYBRID LOW-COST INFRASTRUCTURE

TRANSPARENCY IN SERVICE UTILIZATION

radical change in the manner we purchase and manage our IT infrastructure. There are certain things that CXOs should be mindful of while selecting their IaaS vendor. Firstly, the CXO as well the vendor should have clarity about the business objective, as to what they hope to achieve with this service. Secondly, the CXO should ensure that he has all the levels of access required to along with the knowledge of possible modifications that the software might require.”

A CIO is responsible for the relationship between the enterprise and the vendor. It is he who needs to have all aspects of the technology transfer under his nose. IT decision makers should have a thorough understanding of the processes and aspects like security, maintenance and overheads, cost effectiveness and ROI. “Security and cost are other important factors to be kept on priority.

Vendors often repackage and resell from various parties, therefore the CXO should know who

HIGH SCALABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY

INSTANT IMPLEMENTATION

exactly owns the infrastructure that he is purchasing while being aware of the vendor’s support and monitoring system,” adds Andy Stevenson.

It is but unavoidable that some parts of their organizations IT infrastructure needs to be on cloud. The concept of Hybrid IT is not just the next step in IT infrastructure but the way forward for organizations seeking to scale business operations and grow at a rapid pace. “To remain relevant, Indian IT organizations need to shift rapidly to a new paradigm that supports the rapid pace and new technologies of the digital enterprise that also incorporates traditional, mission-critical IT systems and applications,” opines HDS’ Srikant Attravanam, “Diversified products and solutions with proficiency in Data Analytics, Internet of Things, and connected intelligence help organizations to design, deploy and leverage economically superior storage architecture.”

NAVEEN MISHRA, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, GARTNER

“Public Cloud is increasingly becoming relevant for

Datacenters and IT leaders in India.”

COST-EFFECTIVE PAY AS YOU GO MODELS

As Enterprises Mature It is predicted that in the next 5 years, the IT infrastructure will become fairly commoditized and price competitive – with the small but well equipped and resourceful pool of major global players and with them a mix of local application specific players addressing challenges around specific areas in conjunction with the local target markets. Stevenson further adds, “A lot of the infrastructure will be subsumed as an element of a broader service as organizations buy SaaS and use PaaS for building their apps. IT infrastructure is crucial for the success of an organization.”

Concepts empowered by Cloud technology like mobility, BYOD, IoT and Big Data have given organizations new avenues to amplify productivity and efficiency by seamlessly streamlining the operations and the workforce. Having a hybrid infrastructure lets organizations push the consuming and scalable tasks to the cloud-based IaaS, keeping the core applications on the on premise IT infrastructure.

The idea of cloud should not be to move forward choosing it as the better option over the traditional server, storage and networking equipment combinations but rather CIOs and IT Decision Makers should carefully understand the capabilities of the offerings and how they would benefit the specific applications or operations of the enterprise. Only then will it be possible to be sure which aspects of the business are better served on premise and which needs the scalability and accessibility of the cloud. The key for having a seamlessly productive IT infrastructure is having a well-planned Hybrid IT Infrastructure where an organization uses a mix of the on premise, public cloud and the private cloud in a way that each specific task or application uses the apt infrastructure to enable it to better solve the purposes of the organization.

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FEATURE // ROBOTICS

ROBOTICS:

THE FUTURE

IS NOW!

With 20 trillion terabytes of data, 1.5 million connected things, and a 7.4 billion population to cater to, the numbers are mind-boggling for the Robotics Industry. Robots and automation is becoming a part of everything productive and efficient. For enterprises, the technology is not just interesting, it is essential.

BY CHITRESH SEHGAL CSEHGAL@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

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n today’s business, precision and efficiency are two most crucial targets any organization strives to achieve. In fact, it can be conveniently said that this has been the basis of almost all the technological innovation in recent times. On this front, Robotics has been at the core of many recent developments in enterprise as well as consumer space.

Integrating robots and automation in mechanical processes has had market improvements in profits for corporations across verticals.

As per credible industry report, one of the biggest pioneers of the Computing Era, Apple Godfather Steve Jobs used to believe that only machines could handle machines perfectly. After parting with Apple, Jobs employed a robot dominated workforce in his company NeXT Computers wherein the number of robots dominated the 26 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD OCTOBER 2016

humans at thirteen to five. The result was that the California factory of NeXT could roll out a complete workstation in under twenty minutes.

The robotics industry has started to gain incomparable momentum with recent advancements in technologies like computing power and artificial intelligence. The global robotics market is currently estimated to be around USD 36Bn with robots making inroads into sectors like consumer goods, services and healthcare apart from its dominant deployments in Industrial space.

TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW As a technology, robotics has growing in leaps and bound over a period of time. The recent frightening speed at which human innovation has taken place, has paved way for robotic innovations like AI-powered Industrial bots, social robots helping

in houses and supporting disables, more efficient automation processes across corporations and state of the art precise medical surgeries among others.

Traditionally mechanical bots programmed to do specific tasks; robots today are getting more intelligent and autonomous with the availability of technologies like Big Data, analytics, cloud and virtualization. The market itself has been gaining good traction with a number of IT giants like Google and Amazon foraying heavily into the robotics market. Even venture capitalists that had till now ignored the space have started taking robotics seriously with a number of robotics startups receiving big time funding.

DEPLOYMENTS AROUND THE WORLD It is perhaps an irrefutable fact that robotics is transforming the way organizations are being run today. The commercial sector has taken significant strides investing in robotics. IT Giants like Google, Amazon and Qualcomm have bought robotics companies. Toyota recently announced a big push into AI and robotics. Krishnamoorthy R, the Group Head; Building Automation & Machinery atL&T Technology Services which recently set up a robotics lab in our Bangalore campus aimed at optimizing industrial processes and solutions for medical and surgical robots opines, “Hopefully, these will lead to the adoption of robotics in new applications and accelerate key technology developments, perhaps even propelling the field into what could become a ‘virtuous cycle of explosive growth’.”

At present, North America and Europe are key geographical markets where the acceptance of robotics technologies is significantly higher.

Asia Pacific markets however are expected to witness high growth with India predicted to lead in robotics process automation. Tejinderpal Singh Miglani, CEO, Incedostates, “We had the PC revolution and then the mobile, now robotics is set to take over and become an integral part of our lives. As with the usual technology trend, adoption in India is usually slow, however, once it picks up, it follows a steep growth trajectory.”

IOT AS THE ACCELERATOR As per a recent report from Cisco, more than 1.5 Trillion Users/Things will get connected by 2020 and this would give rise to Human Centric IoT amplifying the need for humans and machines to do more and collaborate together. Innovations in robotics and AI will turbocharge industries which are generating massive amounts of data as it is expected that close to 20 billion terabytes of industrial sensor data will be generated annually by 2020. Tejinderpal Singh believes than advances

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in robotics, AI, Natural Interfaces, Wearable devices, and smart machines will present new opportunities for companies to empower their workers through technology, “Future of IoT would be led by AI & Robotics and the most paramount impacts would be seen in Customer Services, Healthcare and Industrial domains where Collaborative Robots would play dominant role.”

In social applications and consumer space too, with enormous data available through social media like Facebook, Google maps and other sources, Robot can also have information available from these clouds. Krishnamoorthy R ofL&T Tech remarks, “Cloud robotics has the potential of freeing robots from computing constraints. The concept of adaptive robotics is becoming popular as the IIOT matures. This will enable the robotic

applications to take a new turn and will enter into applications like rescuing people and assetsfrom fire, flood, earthquake and other natural calamities.The advancement of energy storage, IoT and analytics has given the development of robotics its edge to get into disruptive technologies and penetrate into different markets.”

WELL-KNOWN GLOBAL ROBOTIC IMPLEMENTATIONS

Technical Challenges to be addressed for Global Penetration of Robotics

• Amazon’s Kiva Robots • iRobot Romba • RoboHon • Japan’s Henn-na Hotel • Self-Drive Cars • Letvision’s BMW Letron Robot • Augury Intelligent Machines • Sentian Disease Modeling Systems

ROBOTICS PROCESS AUTOMATION Robotics in business process is crucial as automation has presented organizations with marked improvements in efficiency. L&T’s Krishnamoorthy R comments, “With advent of social, robotics automation of business processes are becoming a reality and any repetitive process can be automated with social robots by programming and using the AI techniques. This can achieve ‘zero’

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Interoperability Security Safety Autonomy Open Architecture Collaborative Robotics

error in our repetitive business operations and the productivity can be increased.”

While organizations have resorted to outsourcing and offshoring to avail cost efficiencies, RPA is the right solution according to Incedo Boss Tejinderpal Singh, “RPA is very effective in business operations where processes are largely structured, rules driven and repetitive like invoice processing, receivables processing, claim filing, HR onboarding, client onboarding and pharmacovigilance. In today’s competitive and over regulated era where profitability is under severe pressure, organizations can turn to RPA to provide a fresh set of lever to further optimize their operations.”

BENEFITS OUTDO THE RISKS Robots and automation processes are typically deployed behind firewalls and intrusion detection systems as they operate on the same internal network as any other internal mission critical enterprise systems. Unlike humans, robots are programmed pieces of code which cannot be tricked into divulging information or downloading unauthorized software, and lack any motive to violate existing policies. “As such only a change of access by an administrator could only provide unauthorized use,” remarks Tejinderpal Singh, “Organizations should take care to not RPA any system admin level tasks/processes that can allow for such access.”

Since the implementation of robotics, the major challenges faced by the industries were to adopt workflow which was compliant with safety and flexibility in the assembly operations. Robotic end effectors and tools need modifications and changes based on the specific assembly process

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Key areas within enterprises for Robotics innovations 1) Customer Services 2) Supply Chain and Operations Efficiency 3) Human Safety

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TEJINDERPAL SINGH MIGLANI, CEO, INCEDO

THE GROUP HEAD; BUILDING AUTOMATION & MACHINERY ATL&T TECH SERVICES

“Most paramount impacts would be seen in, Customer Services, Healthcare and

“Adoption of robotics in new applications and key technology developments can

propel the field into what could become a virtuous cycle of explosive growth.”

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adoption of Tools and end effectors are now common in the manufacturing robots.”

Thus, keeping an eye at the potential growth of robotic implementations across sectors, it can be firmly opined that robotics is a technology,

the gains from which virtually outnumber any challenges involved.

MOVING TOWARDS A MORE EFFICIENT FUTURE The technology is making serious impacts across vertical with recent developments. In India too, a number of new start-ups have come up working in areas like drones, healthcare sector, RPA for enterprises. The Industrial Automation sector shows a steady growth of using Robotics to improve the quality and productivity of manufacturing processes. Krishnamoorthy R. whose organization is currently undertaking a joint industrial R&D project with Dept. of Science and Technology named ‘Robotics Endotrainer’, a medical bot foresees, “The use of Robotics in Healthcare and Social sector will see an exponential growth in the coming decade. As the economy grows and the technology becomes safer and affordable we see lots of penetration of Home Robotics,Security and Surveillance implements being used even in India.There will be a steady increase in Industrial Automation Sector.”

Recent developments like intelligent machines such as Augury, disease modeling systems from Sentian, Incedo’s Personal Chat Assistant for Banking Framework, Amazon Echo, Japan’s Henn-na Hotel or Self Driving Cars and Microsoft’s cognition based motion sensor Kinect are some very good examples of how robotics is making inroads to consumers and enterprises alike.

The global robotics market is projected to grow at a CAGR of roughly 11 percent and summit around the 80 Billion USD mark in the next five years. Robots are making entries into our houses, our professional work, our well-being and even our governance. It is crucial for organizations to understand the technology and have a strategic approach, towards deployment of robots and automation processes. It is a no-brainer that humans or machines alone won’t be enough to drive businesses in the coming decades. Tomorrow’s leading enterprises will be the ones who will be able to blend the two seamlessly together.

ORACLE OPENWORLD 2016 // SPECIAL

“We are in the middle of a generational shift in computing.”

“Amazon’s lead is over; it is going to have serious competition going forward.”

LARRY ELLISON

CRYING OUT CLOUD

Oracle Bossman Larry Ellison made a spectacular presentation in his keynote address at OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco, signaling a shift Oracle’s business strategies as well as competition in the market as the company introduces a range of cloud offerings, hoping to give serious competition to Amazon which is leading the space.

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n arguably one of the biggest parties of the year, more than 60,000 attendees from over 145 countries congregated in San Francisco to hear one of the world biggest IT giants change its course of business much averse to past claims. Oracle top boss Larry Ellison in his own brash yet convincing style announced the recent developments at the world’s leading enterprise solution provider’s end, signaling a remarkable shift in business offerings, endorsing cloud and hybrid architecture as the future of enterprise business for the first time.

Finally endorsing the Cloud In one of the biggest homecoming statements on cloud yet, Ellison asked the Oracle faithful to brace up for one of the biggest technology shifts in the IT industry as Oracle finally takes the Cloud business seriously. “We are in the middle of a generational shift in computing that is no less important than our shift to personal computing, when mainframes and minicomputers dominated our industry.” Ellison wasn’t just talking about going full throttle forward in the cloud business.

This also marked a gigantic shift in the Oracle

thought process and business ideologies. Only a few years ago, top Oracle faces like Ellison and CEO Mark Hurd were so averse the whole idea and believed that cloud computing wasn’t the obvious technology dive in future. Ellison firmly stated that the cloud wasn’t a worry for Oracle with a witty pun, “Salesforce and Netsuite have been around almost ten years, and Oracle’s world hasn’t come to an end.” This was a bold statement which clearly emphasized that Cloud wasn’t a mainstream prospect for Oracle.

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SPECIAL // ORACLE OPENWORLD 2016

Oracle’s Ghost from the past Oracle and Ellison’s past comments were but obvious as the vast array of Amazon and Google applications running in the cloud on top of a platform that is not Oracle, would undeniably be the biggest long-term threat to Oracle’s enterprise business. Oracle has been a fairly forward company which makes most of its money selling hefty programmed solutions and costly one time licenses to its clients with a 22% annual maintenance fee to top it all.

With cloud platforms and mainly with Amazon Web Services, scaling up is never an issue and much easier than before. On the other hand, scaling up with Oracle meant installing new hardware and purchasing new licenses. This is a dynamic change in how businesses are moving forward today, much averse to Oracle strategy.

This is a hardline for Oracle and demands a strong restructuring for the company to stay on top of the business and avoid losing clients.

The shift in Industry dynamics Ellsion referred to his company’s Cloud services as the World’s most complete, open and integrated Cloud computing platform in his keynote presentation. It was predicted earlier that legacy enterprise IT providers who did not have cloud services would face the reality hard. Since then, EMC tumbled into the arms of Michael Dell, HP called off its public cloud, VMware was criticized by financial analysts for having its business “eaten alive” by the public cloud, and Citrix split apart at its shareholder’s call, much like Symantec.

It is commendable that Oracle has been able to indulge in cloud and successfully enrich its portfolio while its legacy competition in VWware, EMC, IBM and SAP struggle to keep up with the new generation of IT service providers. Only one of Oracle’s competitors, Microsoft, as Ellison rightly had been able to cross ‘the chasm’ and now competes on all three levels IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. These dynamic alterations in the industry have resulted in new players being at the forefront of enterprise business. Larry explained the change in competition that Oracle has today as now it vies for the applications market against Workday and Salesforce instead of SAP, Amazon and Microsoft instead of IBM in the platform market and its biggest nemesis of the day Amazon in infrastructure instead of IBM and EMC. What’s in store in Oracle Cloud Portfolio?

Oracle has dived deep into the Cloud business and boasts an impressive portfolio and competes on all three tiers of Cloud. The globally endorsed Oracle database, Oracle Database 12c Release 2, comes first in the Cloud, marking a new era for 30 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD OCTOBER 2016

SHAILENDER KUMAR, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ORACLE INDIA

“We are confident that the participants who attended our conference this year

benefited from our unique perspective on how cloud can lead them to the future at a global level.”

the enterprise. Ellison declared emphatically that with its unique multi-tenant architecture and inmemory technology, “Oracle’s flagship database drives robust enterprise workloads faster than the nearest competitor.”

Apart from the Oracle Database 12c Release 2, Ellison introduced more than 20 new Oracle Cloud Platform and Application services.

Industry-first innovations highlighted in his keynote were a new faster and more scalable Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) and new Adaptive Intelligence Applications that use machine learning to power the next generation of Cloud applications. Ellison exclaimed, “We have more SaaS applications by a huge margin than any other cloud services provider. We have HCM suite, CRM Suite, Customer Experience Suite plus lots and lots of industry suites as well. And we’re constantly, constantly adding to our footprint.”

Being sighted as the most remarkable of the new Oracle announcements is a new family of offerings named ‘Oracle Cloud at Customer’.

These offerings provide CIOs with choices for enterprise software deployment making it easier for organizations to move to the cloud and reap the benefits of the Oracle Public Cloud Services

CHAD ESCHINGER, VP, RESEARCH AT GARTNER

“Oracle surely appears more focused than it has been in the past and wants to acquire solutions that are filling white space in industry specific verticals.”

from the Oracle Cloud or their own datacenter.

While being available on-premises, the new service is still completely compatible with Oracle Cloud, providing the same services in terms of performance, scaling, and pricing.

Knocking AWS off its Perch It can be conveniently said that the theme of Larry Ellison’s keynote was based on giving Oracle a competitive edge and affinity against Amazon, its biggest competitor in the cloud space. In his signature ‘in your face’ style, Larry said, “Our new second-generation datacenters offer twice as many cores as Amazon, twice as much memory as Amazon, four times as much storage as Amazon, and more than 10 times the I/O capacity of Amazon. But you have to be willing to pay less. If you’re not willing to pay less, you can’t place the order.”

These are bold industry claims to make and though it might be debated that Ellison went a bit too far, it was important for him to set a standard in terms of the technology before Oracle can even dream of dethroning Amazon which has a market share eight times that of Oracle. Ellison and Oracle understood pretty early that for them to be

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the face of cloud computing, almost all of Oracle’s offerings would have to be rewritten for the cloud.

In the meantime, Amazon Web Services took the IT industry by storm and created a 2.8 Billion dollar cloud computing market for itself in less than ten years.

Amazon has been comfortably sitting at the top of the cloud market with an attractive pricing and margins due to its highly automated and constantly improving offerings. Oracle on the other hand with its endless resources and globe consuming infrastructure, is just gearing up for the fight. Ellison knows that to compete with Amazon, Oracle would have to welcome a shift in the mindset, “People pay a lot of attention to cost and we have to be lower cost and higher performance against our number one infrastructure competition Amazon.” That being said, he is confident that Oracle will come out as worthy competitors and give Amazon a run for their money eventually, “We’re very proud of our second generation of IaaS. We’re going to be focusing on it and aggressively featuring it not only during Oracle OpenWorld but for the remainder of this fiscal year and next fiscal year and the year after that. Amazon’s lead is over; it is going to have serious competition going forward.”

Will Oracle succeed in its claims?

Oracle has gone all in with its promise of delivering the best cloud. It has more than 8,000 customers in its pipeline which is excluding

NetSuite. While Oracle is basing its plans on the already strong On-premise customer base, when Ellison urged them to endorse the cloud, the cloud he meant was Oracle. This signifies the frailty of Oracle’s ambitions at this moment as it aims to expand its large customer back and not lose the loyal ones to other cloud platforms.

Oracle’s cloud strategy is spurred by a number of acquisitions sing 2011 apart from boosting internal R&D. Oracle has acquired a number of cloud companies in RightNow, Eloqua, BigMachines, BlueKai, TOA Technologies, DataLogix, Textura , OPower and most recently NetSuite.

This shows that it intends to build a whole new cloud workforce in tandem with its on premise business. “Oracle surely appears more focused than it has been in the past,” as Gartner Analyst Chad Eschinger believes, “They obviously want to acquire solutions that are filling white space in industry specific verticals.”

From the Indian front, Shailender Kumar, Managing Director, Oracle India believes that the Oracle cloud will gradually catch momentum in both enterprises and government deployments.

He remarks, “We are confident that the participants who attended our conference this year benefited from our unique perspective on how cloud can lead them to the future at a global level.

Specifically for India, Oracle and the Government of Maharashtra signed a MoU intended to accelerate the state’s digital transformation initiatives.

Leveraging Oracle Cloud solutions, Oracle and

the Government of Maharashtra will develop the State’s smart city program, with the goal of making the State’s urban landscape more livable and inclusive, while driving economic growth.”

As per Ellison, the Oracle business has seen a lot of shifts and now is a complete end to end IT provider with offerings in all three tiers of the cloud. At the OpenWorld, he said, “So here’s the irony of it all. We went into the SaaS business and came to understand that required us to be in the platform business. And we went into the platform business and came to understand we had to be in the infrastructure-as-a-service business. That’s how we got to where we are today.”

The IT industry has seen a massive shake up where the original kings, the IT hardware and software providers are being taken over

by Internet based companies. The shift has demanded changes in strategy as well as business offerings. Oracle, though late, has been able to introduce Cloud in its mainstream business.

Some argue that it might be too late for Oracle to snatch away the pole position from Amazon but it is just in time to save its business from stagnancy, a fate suffered by giants like SAP. Talking of a real possibility of Oracle staking its claim and coming out with it, it is still early days for the world’s leading solution provider, but this latest development has finally confirms the new direction of the global enterprise IT industry. Will Oracle be able to knock Amazon off its perch? It remains to be seen.

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INTERVIEW // MELLANOX

IF YOU USE MELLANOX, YOU STAY COMPETITIVE

Mellanox Technologies is a leading global supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for enterprise data center. The company has had its footprint in India for a long time but now plans to spread its wings further in the country but establishing a direct base here. CEO Eyal Waldman talks about the company’s capabilities, developments and plans as Mellanox makes inroads into the Indian market.

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ellanox has been in India indirectly through its technology partners since the last 10 years, mainly in the high performance computing space. They have had successful long-term deployments with large organizations like the Tata Group; top Government agencies, National Stock Exchanges, Meteorological Department and top Universitiesfor supercomputers in Infini band. Now, the Israel-based 32 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD OCTOBER 2016

networking pros plan to expand in the county and take its business from this Beachhead into commercial and enterprise entities like it has done in other major markets like United States and China.

Eyal Waldman who co-founded the company back in 1999 and is also the President and CEO says, “If you look at where Mellanox is today, the

MELLANOX // INTERVIEW

EYAL WALDMAN,

FOUNDER & CEO, MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES

“What we bring to the Indian Market is the ability to analyze and process much more data”

BY CHITRESH SEHGAL CSEHGAL@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

larger share of our business comes from supercomputers, the next is Web2 and Cloud. We have 4 out of the 5 Web2 big guns (Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft) in the US as our clients.”

Mellanox is a leader in terms of capabilities likesurveillance, cyber protection capabilities, financial services, fraud detection and electronic transactions. In the media and entertainment space where there are large files with very high resolution to render, process and manipulate;Mellanoxhas a strong presence in the US. Importance of Faster Data Processing New innovative technologies like AI and Cognitive computing and their deployments have made it mandatory to have extremely efficient processing and analyzing of data today.Eyal states, “AI is another example where we are seeing machine learning capabilities, for example, Baidu, how we help them with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Cars like Tesla too produce a lot of dataabout 20MB every minute. This data in order to be processed needs to go to the data center and in real time, manipulated, stored, retrieved and processed, and then it goes back to the car with answers or conclusion. As we see more people with autonomous driving, it will create more data and require more data in very real time.”

In other industries like smart cities and surveillance, there is a lot of video data. Eyal believes that a major amount of video produced by cameras in India isn’t processed, and less than 20% of the data is being utilized currently. We can improve this significantly because we move much more data. “Paypal, just for an example, is using us for fraud detection, and they can do over 4 billion data insertions in real time in order to analyze frauds. Without Mellanox, the amount of data being moved would be much less and so the fraud detection would be lower.” He adds, “In cyberse-

curity or terrorist threat detection, you need to intercept and analyze data, whether its video or audio in real time. We are helping agencies in the US, China and in other places of the world and using our Interconnect they can analyze videos, still pictures, and prevent things or analyze and find the culprits post attacks.”

Eyal believes that India has a lot of potential, “We are talking to multiple enterprises and e-commerce companies. We want to bring the technology that is embedded and utilized all over the world, to the Indian enterprises.What we do is we make datacenters more efficient, so that the ROI is higher from compute and storage platforms.”He adds on Indian enterprise cloud infrastructure, “Today, most of the data produced in India, resides abroad, mainly in the US. In Europe we have seen a transition where European companies are opening their own clouds to manage and take responsibility of the data, because data is the next big resource. It is the gold of the future. So building clouds in India and storage capabilities for the data to reside in India will be very important and empowering for India.” For Cloud, Mellanox has an appliance and a blueprint of a very efficient cloud infrastructure calledCloudX and Eyal believesthis cloud appliance can be brought to Indian enterprises.

Targeting the Indian Market Mellanox plans to commence operations before the end of the year with technology engagement capability in the country through local management. In terms of support, Mellanox is working with Wipro. Currently the company has Avnet as one of the channel partners in India, and two more distributors going to the lower markets.

Mellanox products are sold across the country with more than 1000 plus installations. Eyal adds, “We will have a direct technology engagement within Mellanox and fulfillment mostly through

partners. We go through multiple OEMs like IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Lenovo, NetApp and EMC.” To increase penetration in India, Mellanox will be opening up a subsidiary and putting more resources on the ground. “Once we start seeing more traction, we might have a design center here for software support and development to help our customers in India to tune and customize some of the products for the Indian enterprises.”

Mellanox also has plans for manufacturing in India for which it employs Flextronics’ services.

Eyal elaborates, “We use Flex for manufacturing and they have plants here in India. We can open some production lines in India, once we see more revenue here. We use contract manufacturing and have tie-ups with USI in Taiwan, Sony in Japan and STMicro in France and Flex and USI China for board manufacturing.”

“We have capabilities in India and we might bring resources from Israel to help build the infrastructure in India, as we’ve done in Europe, Africa, US, Asia and China. You want to build the cloud, we make it very easy. Within a day we can completely build a cloud of 10 or even 100 servers.” In the HCI space, Mellanox has partners such as HP, Nutanix and IBM. Future Roadmap Eyal believes that Mellanox’s offering cater directly to the cost aspect of businesses through better utilization of the datacenter. Mellanox presently plans to bring 25, 50 and 100 gigabit capabilities this year followed by 200 gigabit in 2017-18 and continue to increase the capabilities of analyzing, provisions and making it more cost effective to manage and run data centers and clouds. “Right now we move the data, we will come with processing capabilities in 2017 and help more entities analyze the data going through the pipes that we have in the data center,” addsEyal Hopeful of making it big in India, Eyal remarks, “We expect to sell more than 800Mn USD this year and India is a single digit out of that. Indian datacenter performance is lagging 2-3 years behind the global standards today but India has the potential to leapfrog the West and China.” He continues, “We have the ability to analyze and process much more data. We expect more customers as what we bring to the Indian Market is the ability to analyze and process much more data and data is growing very fast all over the world, it is the new gold. In India, with more than a billion in population, there is a lot of data to be processed. If you use Mellanox, you stay competitive, else you stay behind.”

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THE STUFF // PRODUCTS & SERVICES

DELL EMC

DELL WYSE

DELL EMC’s Next-Gen Data Domain Protection Storage Dell Wyse ThinOS 8.3.

DELL EMCs new software and a new generation of DELL EMC Data Domain protection storage systems are flashenabled to deliver industry-leading speed and scalability as well as enhanced protection for virtual environments. These new systems also provide the ultimate in efficiency for tiering long-term retention data to the cloud.

New capabilities featuring intelligent inline compression and support for the latest flash drives, are designed to enable substantial gains in storage capacity and efficiency for all-flash configurations.

Expanding Unity capabilities for the modern data center, DELL EMC also introduced integrated file tiering to the public cloud (including

Virtustream), along with intelligent and predictive analytics through the new CloudIQ cloud-based storage analytics platform.

Dell EMC Data Domain systems reduce the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater. Scale up to 150 PB of logical capacity managed by a single system with DD Cloud

Tier. With throughput up to 68 TB/hour, Data Domain systems make it possible to complete more backups in less time and provide faster, more reliable restores. The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence behind Data Domain systems that makes them the industry’s most reliable and cloud-enabled protection storage.

CAPABILITIES… • Achieves up to 58.7 TB/hr 1.5 times faster than the closest competitor • Achieve the performance of snapshots and the functionality of full backups with revolutionary primary storage array integration • Reduce tape infrastructure power, cooling, tape media and back up application licensing costs • Eliminate tape cartridges and with systems that scale up to 1.7 PB usage you’ll have less storage devices to manage • Protect 43 PB of logical backups in the footprint of just 2 floor tiles

Dell’s most virus-resistant, thin client operating system - Wyse ThinOS 8.3 comes with integrated the Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack for increased unified communications capability.

ThinOS adds support for Skype for Business in addition to Lync 2010 and Lync 2013. ThinOS 8.3 supports a set of updated protocol features from Citrix, VMware, Teradici, and RDP, as well as Windows 10 virtual machines.

It also supports Amazon Web Services connections over PCoIP, and is compatible with the latest Wyse management options, including Wyse Device Manager 5.7. For healthcare customers, it also supports Imprivata’s biometric fingerprint authentication solution so clinicians can quickly and securely access patient data throughout a healthcare facility.

ThinOS has a nun-published API and zero attack surface. Supports a robust 802.1x wired and wireless authentication security protocol set.

CAPABILITIES… • More secure • Easier-to-manage • Better connected experience

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MICROCHIP

MICROCHIP’S NEW DIGITALLY ENHANCED POWER ANALOG CONTROLLERS The MCP19124/5 A fromMicrochip Technology is a new digitally enhanced power analog (DEPA) controller designed to regulate current, regulate voltage, and monitor temperature. The device improves digital support for battery charging and is ideal for DC-DC conversion in server, consumer, industrial and automotive applications.

The MCP19124/5 handles configurable

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charging algorithms for any chemistry, with capabilities for cell balancing and super capacitor charging. No other single-chip battery charging solution can be configured with any desired charging profile, for any battery chemistry, voltage, or cell arrangement. Users may develop their own unique charging methods and implement them as well.

CAPABILITIES… • A unique combination of independent voltage and current control loops • 8-bit PIC microcontroller core, analog to digital converter

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