IT Firms’ Margins Hit A Three Year Low In FY24

As economic troubles starting with the war in Ukraine spelled trouble for Western markets like Europe, firms have largely been reporting declining margins in every financial year. The risk of recession in the 2024 fiscal along with necessary investments into generative AI…

Vi To Renew Tech Outsourcing Deal With IBM For About $1 Billion

Renewal of the tech outsourcing deal comes even as Vi's board meets Saturday to consider raising Rs 20,000 crore via a preferential share issue. Earlier this week, Vi's shareholders approved a proposal to raise this capital through equity and equity-linked…

HPE’s Acquisition Of Juniper Will Propel Its Position In The Global AI Race

Juniper's Mist AI is of strategic importance to HPE. This is due to HPE's shift in computing strategy, which is increasingly focused on enabling a broad spectrum of AI applications. “HPE is experiencing a plateau in growth within its established…

Questions Raised As Amazon Q Reportedly Starts To Hallucinate And Leak Confidential Data

As Amazon's next big bet in generative AI starts to hallucinate, experts question if the new generative AI assistant is ready for prime time. Reports of hallucinations raise concerns about the need for regulations and the severity of rules that…

Around 79% Of ChatGPT’s Enterprise Customers Come From Microsoft Azure-OpenAI Partnership

Most of the customers are still exploring the technology at proof-of-concept stages and the real picture will only emerge once it completes a year and yearly subscription renewals happen, say analysts. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, founder and CEO of…

Google’s ‘Multimodal’ AI Model Gemini: What It Means For Enterprises?

Google’s Gemini has already got enterprises and start-ups excited as they find a worthy alternate to OpenAI’s GPT-4, said industry experts, coming few days after the technology giant unveiled its largest and most advanced AI model to date. While Gemini is…

Tata Motors, Air India To Be Brought On-Board Tata Neu

Eighteen months after the launch of its digital super app, Tata Neu will expand its portfolio by bringing Air India and Tata Motors on the platform. Both these businesses are among the largest brands of the Tata Group. Tata Motors was founded in…

IBM’s Q3 2023 Results – Evidence Enough That The New IBM Has Arrived

IBM announced its Q3 2023 results on October 25, 2023. As a normal course, we started to pen a research note to document our observations from the quarterly announcement. But something stopped us in our tracks. The timing of the…

E12: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Roger Premo, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Ventures, IBM

Catch Roger Premo, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Ventures, IBM in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research, on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. In this exchange, Sanchit spoke with Roger about a…

Product Spotlight E05: Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM)

In this 5th exchange (E05) of Product Spotlight, we host Shaakun Khanna, Vice President and Head for SaaS & HCM Applications Alliances for Asia Pacific, at Oracle Corporation. In his current role, Shaakun is responsible for the overall go-to-market strategy and…

E11: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Robert Oh, EVP, Head of Digital Strategy, Doosan Group & COO, DDI

Catch Robert Oh, Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Digital Strategy, Doosan Group & COO, Doosan Digital Innovation (DDI) in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research, on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series.…

Accenture Cuts 19,000 Jobs, Slashes FY23 Revenue Growth Forecast

In an indication of worsening macroeconomic conditions and its impact on the IT sector, Accenture Plc on Thursday announced that it would cut about 19,000 jobs or 2.5 percent of its workforce over 18 months and lowered its annual revenue projections for…

TCS Needs To Reinvent Under New Leadership Of Krithivasan: Experts

As K Krithivasan is set to take the helm of Tata Consultancy Services from the outgoing CEO, Rajesh Gopinathan, experts argue that the incoming CEO will need to rethink the growth strategy for the IT giant yet again.  Sanchit Vir…

E10: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Anant Adya, Executive Vice President, Infosys

Catch Anant Adya, Executive Vice President, Infosys, in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research, on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. In this exchange that lasted well over an hour, Sanchit spoke with Anant…

Product Spotlight E03: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Over the past months, we at Greyhound Research have received a ton of requests from our end-user clients to offer more product deep dives. Essentially, share insights that go beyond the usual 30,000 feet conversations and focus on products/suites that…

E9: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Lula Mohanty, Managing Partner, IBM Consulting, Asia Pacific

Catch Lula Mohanty, Managing Partner, IBM Consulting, Asia Pacific in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. https://youtu.be/EVzfc8IbIKY Disclaimer. This video is brought to you by Greyhound…

E8: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Abhishek Biswal, Business Head – Airtel IQ, Airtel Digital

Catch Abhishek Biswal, Business Head - Airtel IQ, Airtel Digital in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dTXKeW-Y8 Disclaimer. This video is brought to you by…

E7: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Paul Burton, General Manager, IBM Asia Pacific

Catch Paul Burton, General Manager, IBM Asia Pacific in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. https://youtu.be/JK5DIn-8roc Disclaimer. This video is brought to you by Greyhound Studios,…

E6: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Chris Hockings, CTO, IBM Security, Asia Pacific

Catch Chris Hockings, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Security, Asia Pacific in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research on #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. https://youtu.be/WmKpqnKTaQg Disclaimer. This video is brought to you by…

E5: #GreyhoundTV #ONTrigger with Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, CEO Enterprise & Head Cloud, Airtel Business

Catch Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, CEO Enterprise Business & Head Cloud Practice, Airtel Business in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research on GreyhoundTV ONTrigger, our peer-to-peer dialogue series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV7FEWgA6E0 Disclaimer. This video is brought to…

Product Spotlight E02: IBM z16

Over the past months, we at Greyhound Research have received a ton of requests from our end-user clients to offer more product deep-dives. Essentially, share insights that go beyond the usual 30,000 feet conversations and focus on products/suites that IT…

PE Investments In Data Centres Grow Fivefold YoY, Reach $2.2 Bn

An increase in digitization of businesses coupled with rising demand for localization of data has catapulted the quantum of private equity investments in Indian data centres by more than 5 times.   Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief executive of Greyhound Research, explained that data centre colocation…

Broadcom Acquires VMware For $61 Billion In Second-Biggest Deal Of 2022

Semiconductor major Broadcom Inc will acquire cloud and virtualization company VMware in a cash and stock deal valued at $61 billion. Broadcom’s Software Group, which offers infrastructure and security solutions, will also be rebranded and merged within VMware. With this…

Apple Rings In The Closing Notes On Its Iconic iPod

Two decades after it disrupted the way people listened to music, Apple has rung in the closing notes on the production of the iPod. Introduced in 2001, the first iPod was launched by Steve Jobs as the “quantum leap” for…

Buyer Spotlight E01: Bharat Gas, LPG Business Unit of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

For us at Greyhound Research, IT Decision Makers are the most important stakeholders. For it's a set of stakeholders we work the most closely with. To put this in perspective, nearly 70% of our business comes from these stakeholders and…

Will Tata’s Super App Bet Pay Off?

While the Tata Neu app by itself looked promising, industry experts remained divided on the scope of the super app model in India as complications related to draft e-commerce rules, data privacy and app stickiness comes to the surface. “If…

Microsoft Plans To Establish Its Largest India Data Centre Region In Hyderabad

Tech giant Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it plans to establish its largest India data centre region in Hyderabad, Telangana. The first phase is expected to be operational by 2025. It's a well-established fact that the pandemic has forced orgs…

SAP Counts On Small, Medium Firms To Drive Cloud Business

German software firm SAP expects strong cloud adoption this year, driven by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that have accelerated their investments in a multi-cloud strategy. It's a well-established fact that the pandemic has forced orgs to invest in digital…

N Chandrasekaran Reappointed As Tata Sons Executive Chairman

N Chandrasekaran has been reappointed by Tata Sons to continue as the Chairman for the second term of five years following Tata Group patriarch Ratan Tata expressing satisfaction on the progress and performance of the diversified conglomerate. “He was an…

Apple Sees Flat Quarter In India, Even As Global Growth Breaks Records

Despite Apple’s record-breaking results globally for the quarter ending on December 25, the iPhone maker saw flat quarterly growth in the Indian market. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Founder of Greyhound Research, “During the December quarter for…