Newsletter November-December 2017

Mandar Marulkar,
CIO & CDO, KPIT Technologies

CIO&Leader “Mandar Marulkar,talks to CIO&Leader, keeping the Vision 2020 in perspective.”IoT infrastructure is taking place at a high pace. When we are talking about 50 billion devices coming by 2020, they are generating a huge amount of data and that’s where professional services are expected to churn that data and come up with relevant business use cases. How they can create a platform that can enable interactions between producers and consumers and the way they monetize the data will be key.
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Data centers of the future – Shifting from the Core to the Edge

The data center, as we know it, has changed. There is a sea change in how organizations are using and valuing technologies such as wearable technology, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) etc. and this is prompting them to shift their thinking in terms of how they plan and build their data centers. Earlier, data centers focused on storage of information and disaster recovery. Now, it has shifted to analyzing and processing data for on-demand access. New technologies like mobility and wearables are demanding increasing latency.
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The Raised vs Slab Floor debate in the data center

Uptimeinstitute Uptime Institute Executive Director Pitt Turner addresses the raised floor versus slab floor debate in the data center. Turner explains the consequences, costs and outcomes of different decisions.


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Asia-Pacific CIOs Leading Adoption of Disruptive Technologies: Gartner

DataQuest CIOs in Asia/Pacific report higher adoption of disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and conversational interfaces than their global peers, according to an annual survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.


  • 451 Research, a research and advisory company estimates that India’s colocation and managed hosting services market would cross 2 billion USD by 2019, up from 1.3 BN USD in 2016
  • pCloudy becomes first Indian company to open its device data center in Australia that will tap the Australian App market and enhance App coverage for customers to ANZ region
  • Bridge data centers gearing up to invest $400 - 500 million in India over the next two years: aims to provide world-class data centre facilities and operations
  • Uttarakhand to have its digital data center by March 2018, to support digital India
(Source: Channel World, BWCIO, ET CIO.com, Times of India)
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