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Sanjeev Mehtani, Country Manager, Sales, Acer India Acer Day 2021 marks the fifth edition of our annual sale and customer engagement event, to be held across 10 Asia Pacific regions, during the month of August. The sale event which features fabulous rewards, promotions, and gifts has been themed ‘Live Your World’ to encourage everybody to make the best of whatever situation they are in.   Acer Day grand prize included laptop at half price along with premium trolley bag worth Rs 7800, Acer True Wirerless Earbuds Worth Rs 2499 and discount coupons…

Mohit Arora, Senior Director – Commercial Business, VMware India   Building a Resilient & Agile Brand VMware is well-positioned to accelerate its strategy and continue driving success into FY22 and beyond by building a strong business and with its vision and strategy resonating with customers. It is shifting its focus towards consumption-based licensing or subscription-based licensing that can address the problem of liquidity as well for its customers. VMware has been successfully helping its customers in delivering Modern Apps, Multi cloud and Anywhere workspace solutions. These solution areas are perfectly aligned…

Bobby Gupta, SVP & MD-International Business, Virsec   Measures to be taken for Cyber threats   Fundamentally, conventional security tries to solve yesterday’s problem such as protecting the perimeter, identifying known attacks, and relying on patching to cure all ills. With the explosion of cloud deployments, mobile apps, and virtual infrastructure, a mindset focused on the perimeter and the user remains dangerously obsolete. Proficient attackers are increasingly finding it easier to bypass conventional security tools to target undefended blind spots, attacking critical application runtime elements, and at the memory level. Runtime has become…

Gaurav Chawla, Business Development Manager – APAC, VMRay   Measures to be taken for Cyber threats   Clearly understanding where the enterprise is most vulnerable is key to preventing cyber incidents and staying ahead of attackers. Cybersecurity is not static – organizations need to conduct regular security audits, assess the discovered risks to provide the appropriate level of protection, and fine-tune their security programs accordingly. Having a multi-layered security approach is more important than ever. You will need to put in place the right balance of defensive, detection and responsive measures. Integrate the security…

ROHAN VAIDYA, Regional Director – India, CyberArk   CLOUD TECHNOLOGY & WFH   We are already seeing widespread cloud adoption, driven by the events of the past year, and the nature of the change that this has wrought means we would expect it to only increase. For many organizations, using the cloud to – for instance – flexibly serve their customers, interact with their partner and supplier ecosystem, and to run their business-critical applications is something that is attractive on many levels.   ADOPTION OF HYBRID MULTICLOUD AS OPERATING MODELS…

PRAVEEN JAISWAL Founder and Director, Vehere   CLOUD TECHNOLOGY & WFH   Let’s be honest. WFH may stay for a while but eventually, people will flock back to their workplace. When that happens, some zealots might be scrambling to evaluate their spending. Investment decisions based on long-term viability of a technology adoption is always a better way forward.   ADOPTION OF HYBRID MULTICLOUD   AS OPERATING MODELS It will again depend on how the postpandemic world shapes up when normalcy returns. Based on the early trends we see; it is unlikely that…

Organisations Name : State Bank of India (SBI) Head of the Organisation: Dinesh Kumar Khara  Designation: Chairman     Services Offered: Accounts, Investments & Deposits, Loans, Cards, Digital Banking, Information & Services   The largest bank of India, SBI is a multinational, public sector banking and financial services statutory body and serves over 44 crore customers through its vast network of over 22,000 branches, 58,500 ATMs, 66,000 BC outlets. It is focused on innovation, and customer centricity, which stems from the core values of the Bank – Service, Transparency, Ethics, Politeness and Sustainability. The…

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…

Lt. Gen. Dr. SP Kochhar, DG, COAI     “We welcome the implementation of the PLI scheme on telecom equipment. Telecom is the backbone of a digitally connected India and this initiative will further boost local manufacturing and create employment opportunities. India is already the second largest telecom market globally and this will go a long way in making the country a global hub for telecom innovation.”   Though nearly half of the Rs 7325-crore budget allocated for the PLI scheme for IT hardware, it is likely to go unused with the applicant companies…

After re-joining Dell 10 months ago Rola Dagher, Global Channel Chief, Dell Technologies feels it is an honour for her to lead the entire global channel organisation as an amazing team across the globe. In Q1 Dell’s revenue through the channel was up by 14% year over year globally. The revenue for the channel through the client business was up by 21% year over year and it is across all regions in all partner tiers. The server business was up by 12% year on year. The growth across all partner tiers and especially…