Service providers are in a unique position to assist a business’s growth; optimisation initiatives and digital transformation needs”

With a vision to manage IT infrastructure in simple ways, Nutanix brings together compute, storage, networking, and virtualization in one invisible stack. Nutanix’s industry-leading Enterprise Cloud platform is enabling thousands of companies to run their apps and workloads with unparalleled performance. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app at any location at any scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In a chat with VARINDIA, RITESH SYAL, HEAD & DIRECTOR, CHANNELS & ALLIANCES, INDIA, NUTANIX reckoning the halcyon days before pandemic and the…

A10 Networks committed to deliver secure application services for on-premises, multi-cloud and edge-cloud environments at hyperscale

n a chat with VARINDIA, Sanjai Gangadharan, Area Vice President, South ASEAN, A10 Networks discusses the security challenges faced by businesses during the pandemic, how the company is addressing Malware and DDoS threat challenges, concept of Secure on-demand Education etc.     How A10 Networks is addressing the business challenges during these difficult times, where security is the major concern of everyone?   Since the onset of the pandemic, employees have been working remotely at a scale most companies have never seen before. Owing to this, cybersecurity has become the biggest and constant threat for businesses.…

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

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

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…

States need to allow MSMEs to do home delivery to sustain livelihood and economy: FISME

India is home to approximately 6.3 crore MSMEs which forms the backbone of the economy and the second wave of COVID-19 crisis has adversely impacted this community also. Unlike during the first wave, the current situation is dire as there is higher loss of lives across the country. In a time like this, we request the central and state governments to announce guidelines that will help sustain the livelihood of MSMEs and lives of the fellow countrymen.   Recommended guidelines: Home delivery of products during the lockdown hours: In order to…

VPN and privileged access management : The key technologies

Sandeep Sengupta, MD, ISOAH Data Securities Educating customers & employees  Over the last 10 years, our “Indian School of Anti Hacking” has conducted several in-house training at top companies like Deshaw, Mjunction, CESC, National Power Grid, Banks; where our ethical hackers have shown LIVE demos of Hacking. This is the new form of training where you not only read and hear, but see practical demonstrations of the consequences of cyber security mistakes. This gives the best awareness. What you see is what you believe. Mitigating threat situation Organisations have always…

Strengthening remote protocols with multiple interfaces and set up of strong local security policies within laptops can mitigate risk

Dr. Harsha E Thennarasu Chief IT & Cyber Security Advisor, HKIT Security Solutions   Measures adopted for combatting threat  Customers must ensure, are there any vulnerabilities that are residing in their laptops, those are major challenges for customers.  Their laptops might consist of hidden BOTs and malware, spyware, etc., employee safety depends on the customers, IT and security guys to ensure patches and updates, etc. Educating customers & employees   Regular webinars and video conferences are being used to bring continuous awareness. Increased the frequency of training from quarterly to monthly…

Mohan Bhagwat blames negligence after first wave for explosive rise in cases

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has blamed a general complacency- on – on part of the government, administration and the public at large- for the explosive second wave of coronavirus infections in India. The RSS Sarsanghchalak, however, urged citizens to stay united and work as a team, instead of pointing fingers at each other.   Bhagwat further said, We are facing this situation as government, administration and public-all became negligent after the first Covid Wave. He further said that advice from doctors and medical practitioners were ignored once the first wave seemed…

Truth and good science key to confront crisis: Azim Premji

Arguing that the country needs to create a more equal society, he stated that as the nation comes out of this crisis. said Industrialist and philanthropist Azim Premji at the RSS lecture. We need to restructure our society and economy such that our country does not have this kind of inequity and injustice. Azim Premji said science and truth have to be the foundations to tackle the Covid-19 crisis, and the scale and spread of the pandemic need to be accepted truthfully.   Speaking during the ‘Positivity Unlimited’ series of lectures organised…

Setting trends in Indian Politics

India’s Muslim population is rising. In 2015, their number stood at 195 million, which, due to high birth rates, has almost doubled since 1991, according to the Pew Research Center. Their share has increased from 12% to 15% in this time period. By 2060, Pew estimates, there will be more Muslims in India than anywhere else in the world (Indonesia has more today), and they will constitute 19% of Indians.At the same time, the share of Muslims in the Lok Sabha, India’s 545-seat lower house of parliament, is in decline.…