Month: July 2021

HCL Technologies ropes in Vanitha Narayanan to the Board of Directors

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HCL Technologies (HCL) announced the appointment of Vanitha Narayanan as an Additional Director on its Board who shall hold office as an Independent Director of the Company. With the addition of Narayanan, the Board of the Company includes four women Directors. Narayanan’s appointment is effective July 19, 2021.   Welcoming Vanitha Narayanan to the Board, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Technologies said, “I am pleased to welcome Vanitha to the Board of HCL and appreciate her decision to become a part of the HCL family. She brings rich and diverse experience of navigating organizations…

Citrix promotes Safi Obeidullah as the Global Head of Value Advisory

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Citrix announces that Safi Obeidullah has been promoted to Global Head of Value Advisory. Based in Sydney, Australia, Obeidullah will report to Carle Quinn, Vice President of Customer Value and Workforce Transformation at Citrix.   Responsible for supporting and accelerating customers’ digital transformational experiences, Obeidullah will lead business strategy advisory on behalf of Citrix. He will help to ensure our customers can harness the power of Citrix solutions and services and partner offerings to achieve the best business outcomes.   Obeidullah has over 20 years’ experience in the sector, where his primary focus has…

DigitalOcean ensures data center footprint to safeguard the regulations and needs of local

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Prabhakar Jayakumar Sr. Director & Global Head, DigitalOcean   How is the data center industry bringing it across the wire and what kind of opportunity DigitalOcean is foreseeing in India?  A lot of the businesses that are coming up, could predominantly have been offline businesses and are trying to have a digital presence. Digital transformation is no longer something that only enterprises are focused on. Everybody wants to have a footprint in the digital world and the cloud makes that easy for them. If you could be a local offline…

NSDL ensures safety and soundness of Indian marketplaces

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Organisations Name : National Securities Depository Ltd.   Head of the Organisation:  G V Nageswara Rao  Designation: MD & CEO Services Offered: Basic Services, Value Added Services, NSDL CAS   NSDL is one of the largest depositories which handles most of the securities held and settled in dematerialized form in the Indian capital market. The enactment of Depositories Act in August 1996 paved the way for establishment of NSDL. Using innovative and flexible technology systems, NSDL works to support the investors and brokers in the capital market of the country. NSDL aims at ensuring the…

Remote working gradually becoming widespread and a new normal

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Sanjay Patodia CEO & Director, Galaxy Office Automation   As a Leading Player Focusing around technology sales & coverage sales. In technology sales we focused on investing in skills, certification & resources. In coverage our focus was to increase specific customer verticals around BFSI, health care, manufacturing and service sectors across private, public and Government enterprises. We successfully leveraged our skills and resources of our well-established security, mobile and cloud computing units and managed to close quite a few of those opportunities. We created “Work from Anywhere” offerings that enabled employees to…

WFH concept needed stronger logistics system

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Vipul Datta CEO, FutureSoft Solutions   Expanding Service Offerings  Last mile enablement or WFH concept needed a stronger logistics system in place to ensure multi location delivery however making these devices access the work is managed via process driven centralised system of technology associates. We partnered with multiple logistics companies to expand our reach to deliver on multiple locations and invested in a dedicated backend remote enablement process to ensure timely onboarding of new devices / employees based on role based access to the business application and information to achieve high productivity for each…

Pegasus become a global headache, targets thousands of people around the world

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Pegasus is a spying software developed by Israel’s NSO. Reports claim that phones of over 40 Indian journalists were hacked. The Chairperson of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, Dr. Shashi Tharoor has demanded an independent probe into the matter.   It is becoming clear that perhaps there is a need for an independent enquiry headed by a Supreme Court judge who would have the power not just to summon witnesses, but also to weigh the evidence in a judicial manner. The spyware is developed by the Israeli firm NSO Group and it…

Centre for Indian Classical Dances to conduct first ever Virtual Indian Classical Dance Competition; partners with Almond Virtex

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Revolutionising performing arts amidst COVID times, Centre for Indian Classical Dance (CICD) has announced India’s first ever virtual classical dance competition – Dance of India@75. CICD has collaborated with Almond Virtex, one of India’s leading virtual event platforms to build a unique talent showcase platform to bring the art and the artists together on the virtual stage. As the tech enablement partner of CICD, Almond Virtex will provide end-to-end virtual event solution for participants, judges, promoters and audience.   Founded by Dr. Sonal Mansingh, Padma Vibhushan, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and a cultural icon…

HONEYWELL REWARDED AT THE CSR HEALTH IMPACT AWARDS

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BENGALURU – Honeywell won the CSR Heath Impact Awards, COVID-19 edition a Bronze Award. The award recognizes Honeywell’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts in response to the coronavirus pandemic.   Honeywell received the award in th “COVID Indigenous Response Project” category.   “Since the start of the pandemic, Honeywell has committed more than US$3 million towards COVID relief for India,” said Ashish Gaikwad, Managing Director, Honeywell Automation India Limited and President (Interim), Honeywell India.   “Realizing the immediate need of communities and the Government to address the challenges of this pandemic, Honeywell…

Ravi Shankar Prasad rejects Congress’ allegations on PM Modi, Amit Shah of snooping on Opposition leaders

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Congress has alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were involved in snooping on the opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi, journalists and other citizens. The party even demanded resignation of Shah.   Countering the criticism by the Opposition Monday over a report on the use of Israeli Pegasus spyware, Union Home Minister Amit Shah questioned ‘the timing of the selective leaks’ ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament and called the findings of the collaborative project a “report by the disrupters for the obstructers”.   Alleging…