Dell and CIO Association of India Launch eMavericks for E-commerce

Dell and CIO Association of India (CAI) announced the launch of e-Mavericks, an initiative to nurture the e-commerce ecosystem by providing agile technology and access to angel investors. Dell said, the platform is the first-of-its-kind providing an opportunity for e-commerce companies to meet and discuss business and technology related challenges and opportunity.  The press release did not contain specifics of what eMavericks offers.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Sudharsan R, Commercial Marketing Head, Dell India said: “The quality of technology deployed and management in the datacenter can have a strong overbearing on the efficiency of companies in the e-commerce sectors. Since the entire business model of such companies are based on the internet, customers in the sector need to build their IT solutions to face the growing trends of social, mobility, cloud and analytics which will have a significant impact on the workload demands of organizations. Our past successes with customers in the same space has given us the confidence to launch eMavericks in an effort to support the growing needs of the e-commerce ecosystem.”

Amarinder Singh, Chief Involvement Officer – CIO Association of India said: “eMavericks is a first-of-its kind platform for ecommerce players to engage in technology related discussions related to the sector, the fruitfulness of which will be instrumental to their success in the industry at large.”

The launch event saw the participation by online companies such as JustEat, ThinkVidya and Axis Rooms.