The escalation of data and workloads in the cloud calls for continuous intelligence to maintain order. Human awareness is not the only resource organizations can rely on to respond to events with the rise of continuous intelligence to shoulder the work. This real-time analysis of historic and current data is used for decisioning and responding […]
Archives for 2020
New Decade, New You: The Evolution of the CIO
Differentiate your enterprise by going more in-depth with cloud, leveraging data and analytics, embedding AI, and putting security at the center of the business. Image: Worawut – stockadobe.com There is no question — technology is advancing and improving faster than ever before across enterprises, making the chief information officer’s role more critical to the performance […]
Riyadh announces global cybersecurity initiatives that could open collaboration with India
Governor of Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Region Prince Faisal bin Bandar has announced two global initiatives to boost cybersecurity. This is brainchild of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The first is the Crown Prince’s international initiative to protect children in cyberspace and the second is the Crown Prince’s initiative to empower women in the cybersecurity sector. […]
Advancing safe deployment practices
“What is the primary cause of service reliability issues that we see in Azure, other than small but common hardware failures? Change. One of the value propositions of the cloud is that it’s continually improving, delivering new capabilities and features, as well as security and reliability enhancements. But since the platform is continuously evolving, change […]
Backup Explorer now available in preview
As organizations continue to expand their use of IT and the cloud, protecting critical enterprise data becomes extremely important. And if you are a backup admin on Microsoft Azure, being able to efficiently monitor backups on a daily basis is a key requirement to ensuring that your organization has no weaknesses in its last line […]
How is the Internet of Things making our offices more productive?
When most of us are spending approximately 10 hours at work, every day, offices ought to be our second homes. Irrespective of what organisation you work for, every office is getting smart so that the second home feels equally comfortable and secure, says Yash Mehta, an IoT and Big Data Science specialist. As per a report, […]
Quess who’s India’s largest private employer?
Next time you see an Amazon delivery executive in your locality or walk into a Samsung store for after-sales service, you will probably be dealing with an employee of Quess Corp — a company you most probably haven’t heard of. Going by its latest quarterly filing, the Bengaluru-based company, which provides staffing solutions for some […]
Google admits it sent users’ private videos to strangers
Google has admitted it accidently sent private videos of some users of its Google Photos service to strangers, blaming a technical glitch behind the incident. Google alerted the affected users via an email but did not disclose the amount of individual videos that were distributed incorrectly per account, reports 9to5Google. Google fixed the issue, saying […]
Flipkart shuts down Jabong for Myntra push
Over four years after acquiring Jabong for $70 million, Walmart-owned Flipkart has formally closed its operations to shift focus completely on its premium fashion platform Myntra for its apparel business. As part of the move, Jabong’s flagship portal and app are being redirected to Myntra’s shopping window. Experts said the move will help Flipkart consolidate […]
Streaming players sign up to form complaint council
Video on demand players Hotstar, Jio, SonyLIV, Network18 and Eros have signed up to form an independent adjudicatory council to resolve consumer complaints, a step some streaming platforms have termed as increased censorship, regressive and unnecessary. The Digital Content Complaint Council (DCCC) will be led by a retired judge and have representation from government bodies […]