After IBM and Microsoft, Amazon plans to set up data centre in India next year

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it will open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016. "Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS's eleven global infrastructure regions outside…

ONTrigger with Duncan Hewett, IBM Asia Pacific – Part 3 of 3

Catch Duncan Hewett, VP - Software, IBM Asia Pacific in a conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on Greyhound Research's knowledge sharing series ONTrigger. Don’t have enough bandwidth to stream a video? No worries! Hear…

ONTrigger with Duncan Hewett, IBM Asia Pacific – Part 2 of 3

Catch Duncan Hewett, VP - Software, IBM Asia Pacific in a conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on Greyhound Research's knowledge sharing series ONTrigger. Don’t have enough bandwidth to stream a video? No worries! Hear…

ONTrigger with Duncan Hewett, IBM Asia Pacific – Part 1 of 3

Catch Duncan Hewett, VP - Software, IBM Asia Pacific in a conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on Greyhound Research's knowledge sharing series ONTrigger. Don’t have enough bandwidth to stream a video? No worries! Hear…

Greyhound Radio with Duncan Hewett, IBM Asia Pacific – Part 3 of 3

Catch Duncan Hewett, VP - Software, IBM Asia Pacific in a conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on Greyhound Research's knowledge sharing series ONTrigger. Listen to the podcast here or on iTunes / SoundCloud: Can't hear…

Greyhound Radio with Duncan Hewett, IBM Asia Pacific – Part 2 of 3

Catch Duncan Hewett, VP - Software, IBM Asia Pacific in a conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on Greyhound Research's knowledge sharing series ONTrigger. Listen to the podcast here or on iTunes / SoundCloud: Can't hear…

Greyhound Radio with Duncan Hewett, IBM Asia Pacific – Part 1 of 3

Catch Duncan Hewett, VP - Software, IBM Asia Pacific in a conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on Greyhound Research's knowledge sharing series ONTrigger. Listen to the podcast here or on iTunes / SoundCloud: Can't hear…

After IBM and Microsoft, Amazon plans to set up data centre in India next year @firstpost

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it will open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016. "Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS's eleven global infrastructure regions outside…

Avoid BI failure: Dispel myths for risk-free solution deployment

While Business Intelligence (BI) is fast becoming a top priority for most businesses, achieving Return on Investment (RoI) through BI implementation still remains a big challenge for CIOs. Though many CIOs plan to invest in BI going forward, most of…

What Indian CIOs make of outsourcing price wars?

If you were to come up an apt phrase to describe the outsourcing market, what would it be? Not too tough a guessing game! But just in case you haven't been able to guess it right, don't cudgel your brains.…

Amazon’s $5 billion cloud saga: What’s in it for India

Amazon amazed everyone by breaking out financial details of its secretive cloud computing business. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, during first quarter earnings call, revealed that Amazon Web Services is “a $5 billion business and its growth is accelerating.” For the quarter,…

Capgemini To Become No. 3 MNC IT Employer In India

The Capgemini-IGATE merger will make the French company a leading employer of Indian engineers, thereby enabling it to better compete with domestic vendors for price-sensitive IT engagements, industry insiders feel. “Our estimate is that Capgemini-IGATE would currently employ 83,000 people…

Capgemini – IGATE Corp Deal: More MAs In India, Scramble For Clients In The Offing

Capgemini’s $4 billion offer to acquire iGATE–the largest buyout of an India-related IT services firm–could well be a harbinger of a clutch of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving mid-size firms, say industry watchers. “There are lots of such players…

Capgemini Acquires IGATE Corp For $4 Billion

French IT-services major Capgemini on Monday announced the acquisition of US-based IGATE for $4.04 billion in a combination of cash, stock and debt deal. With this acquisition, Capgemini expects to boost its presence in North America, the largest IT-services market…

Capgemini To Buy IGATE Corp For About 4 Billion

Cloud specialists: IBM, Oracle looking for you

As Indian corporates and governments embrace cloud in a bigger way, technology firms operating in India are looking to build armies of cloud sales professionals to tap into the demand.From large firms like IBM and Oracle to more specialized players…

IT Giants IBM, Oracle, RedHat And Others Racing For Cloud Sales Specialists To Tap Rising Demand

As Indian corporates and governments embrace cloud in a bigger way, technology firms operating in India are looking to build armies of cloud sales professionals to tap into the demand.From large firms like IBM and Oracle to more specialized players…

Top Trends Fuelling Data Center Transformation

The server market in India has always been dynamic and brewing with changes prompted by the emergence of new technologies. In 2014, there has been a greater need for integration, efficiency, automation, consolidation and reduced costs across verticals. Due to…

Sorry Mr Jaitley, Your Budget 2015 Has Left The IT Sector In The Lurch

Amid high expectations from the IT industry, Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented his first full-year Union Budget 2015 in the Lok Sabha on Saturday. This time the expectations were much higher, given the fact that technology was a focus area…

Putting EMM Vendors Through Poodleattack Check: All But One Pass The Ring Of Fire

Earlier this morning I was chatting with a CIO of a large manufacturing organization with presence across multiple continents. They are currently benchmarking Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors to help secure their mobile environment and we are helping them with…

Putting EMM Vendors Through Poodle Attack Check: All But One Pass Ring of Fire

Earlier this morning I was chatting with a CIO of a large manufacturing organization with presence across multiple continents. They are currently benchmarking Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors to help secure their mobile environment and we are helping them with this…

Microsoft Office365 Impacted With Poodle Attack: Case Of Cloud Security Fallen Short

On a call earlier today (with an end-user client) I was discussing enterprise security norms around cloud-based productivity suite offerings. Like many IT Decision Makers who are taking the leap to the cloud, our client (based in the APJ region)…

With IT Companies The King Of Good Times, Clients Want To Be Prince

Indian companies are asking their information technology vendors to pass on the benefits of automation and improving technology in the form of rate cuts and outcome-based pricing, highlighting the need for Indian IT players to speed their move away from…

Big Local Tech Buyers Push IT Vendors For Rate Cuts

Indian companies are asking their information technology vendors to pass on the benefits of automation and improving technology in the form of rate cuts and outcome-based pricing, highlighting the need for Indian IT players to speed their move away from…

Eyeing The Smart City Pie

A smart city is definitely much more than the ICT deployed in it but at the same time there is no doubt that it is the ICT solutions that go into making of the city and turning it smart for…

What Satya Nadella’s Year In Charge Meant For Microsoft’s India Unit

When Satya Nadella was named to head Microsoft Corp. on 4 February last year, there were expectations that he would boost its already strong enterprise business and research and development units in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, given his Indian roots and…

Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations

Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…

Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations

Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…

Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations

Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…

Infosys Q3 Net Profit Up 13%, Beats Expectations

Beating expectations, Infosys today reported 13 per cent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…