#CounterpunchWithSVG E10: IBM To Focus On The Contact Centre And This Time It’s About Data & AI. But Are The Clients Ready?

In the past month, I have spoken to over two dozen contact centre decision-makers on how they have managed the floor during #COVID19 times - all have stated the need to invest in more technology as key for operations hereon…

#CounterpunchWithSVG E09: Despite Its Battles, IBM Is Confident That Its India Business Will Thrive. Will It, Really?

#CounterpunchWithSVG crossed a significant milestone yesterday. In this year so far the series has garnered over 30,000 views from over 100 countries. More than anything else, I see this milestone as the best stamp of approval for this format and…

India’s Data Centre Plan In Anticipation Of Tsunami Of Data In Country

An incentive policy for the private sector companies to set up data center parks in India will make it affordable for firms to store data locally vis-à-vis other locations such as Singapore and also prepare them for the deluge of…

Government To Unveil Policy On Data Center Parks

The government said it will come out with a policy to enable private sector build data center parks in the country at a time the segment is becoming a focus area for commercial real estate players. "It will enable our…

FDI To Increase, Indian IT Firms To Benefit From FM’s Data Centre Plan

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposal in the Union Budget to come up with a policy for setting up data centre parks would benefit tech services companies and attract foreign investments in creating the adequate infrastructure for all industry sectors, said…

FM’s Rs 8,000 Crore Boost Will Help India Bridge Gap In Quantum Computing With US, China

India’s plan to invest Rs 8,000 crore over the next five years in the National Mission on Quantum technology and its applications comes at a time when the world is making bets on the emerging field that has potential impact…

Finance Minister Takes A Rs 8,000 Crore Quantum Leap

CEO of Greyhound Research says that it is the right time for quantum investment as companies like IBM and Google are going to be investing a tonne of money and infrastructure assets towards Asia, in countries like Japan and Singapore.…

Why AWS Announcement Heralds Public Cloud War In India

On 28 June, when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its sixth Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in Mumbai, India, it did nothing short of telling its competitors firmly, especially Microsoft and IBM, that it was stepping up its…

Who Should Be Your Cloud Driver On The Digital Highway?

It’s not an easy task to choose a cloud computing services provider, especially when companies like Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., Oracle Corp. and VMware Inc. are pulling out…

Amazon Opens Data Centres In India

As a part of its commitment to invest $5 billion in India, Amazon on Tuesday launched its first set of India data centres in Mumbai to cater to cloud computing services here unleashing a new race for the top cloud…

Amazon Launches First Cloud Data Centre In Mumbai

As a part of its commitment to invest $5 billion in India, Amazon has launched its first set of India data centres in Mumbai to cater to cloud computing services here unleashing a new race for the top cloud provider position…

Karan Bajwa to join IBM

IT veteran Karan Bajwa, who was the Managing Director of Microsoft, is set to join IBM. Bajwa tweeted that he is a reborn IBMer. He was in charge of sales and marketing operations of Microsoft. According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst…

AWS Announces New Asia Pacific Region – Here’s Why It Matters!

On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of its sixth Asia Pacific (APAC) Region in Mumbai, India. The new AWS Mumbai Region consists of two separate Availability Zones at launch. This news is part of the…

Microsoft India’s cloud updates: 3 data centres launched today

Microsoft has made some significant announcements on its cloud strategy in India. The software giant has shared updates on its local data centres. As part of today's announcements, the company has launched three centres in Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai; and said…

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…

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…

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,…

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Global And Indian Cloud Companies Scale Up Capacity To Meet Demand

With a fledgling cloud computing market in the country, both international and Indian cloud players are ramping up capacity to meet the increasing demand and are expected to spend over Rs 10,000 crore in the next three years. As per…

EMC Redefines Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise

EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Federation Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Edition with VMware available immediately. Microsoft Cloud Platform and OpenStack® Editions to be available in 2015. Solution offers public cloud interoperability with VMware vCloud® AirTM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…

EMC Furthers Its Hybrid Cloud Ambition For Enterprises

Last month IT major EMC announced globally that it is venturing into the hybrid cloud space. At a recent webinar the IT major explains how the company is furthering its hybrid cloud ambition by launching a new solution for enterprises…

EMC Announces Professional Services For Hybrid Cloud

The company has announced four new services under its professional services portfolio to for end-to-end turnkey operational management; to analyze application requirements and workload suitability; for IT transformation and education services According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group…

Catch Sanchit Vir Gogia at HT Mint & Netmagic Cloud Connect

What is the event about? Cloud as a technology has already made the difference to the businesses across India, and yet the debate still continues. On one hand, the cloud promises a reduced cost and increased business agility, while on…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCcorp) Collaborates With CSPs to Address India’s $1 Billion #Cloud Opportunity #Press #Media #ChannelDrive

EMC Corporation has announced collaboration with cloud service providers Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of a larger effort to target the cloud market opportunity in India, which is estimated to be $1 Billion by 2015 according to Greyhound Research.…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCIndia)collaborates with cloud service providers in India to target $1 billion cloud market #Press #Media #BusinessStandard

Information management and storage major EMC has partnered cloud services providers, Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of its efforts to tap the USD 1 billion cloud market opportunity in India. "The addressable Cloud market in India is expected to…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCIndia)collaborates with cloud service providers in India to target $1 billion cloud market #Press #Media #InformationWeek

EMC is enabling hybrid cloud solutions with key cloud service providers in the Indian market. EMC announced collaboration with cloud service providers Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of a larger effort to target the cloud market opportunity in India, which…

#GreyhoundInMedia: EMC (@EMCIndia)partners cloud service providers to tap $1 bn opportunity in India #Press #Media #EconomicTimes

Information management and storage major EMC has partnered cloud services providers, Netmagic and Sungard AS, as part of its efforts to tap the $1 billion cloud markopportunity in India. The addressable Cloud market in India is expected to hit the…