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The Association of System Integrators and Retailers in Technology (ASIRT) recently concluded its 93rd Techday, which coincided with the regional association achieving a new milestone of 200 memberships. The event began with Tushar Shah, President, ASIRT, announcing the milestone and promising to attract more entrepreneurs with varied and unique activities under its umbrella. In his keynote address, Nandak Pandya, Business …

Microsoft has reportedly warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases. According to the reports, the vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure’s flagship Cosmos DB database. A research team at security company Wiz discovered it was able to access keys …

While many long term plans were put off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, executive leaders should act now in implementing a strategic planning process for future revenue growth, according to Gartner. Organizations must actively prepare to respond to future disruptions and anticipate change. Executive leaders should evaluate the use of technological, political, economical, social/cultural, trust/ethics, regulatory/legal, and environmental (TPESTRE) — …

Rackspace Technology, a multi-cloud technology solutions company, has launched Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security. The security offering transforms cloud security operations by providing customers access to a pod of experts who work as an extension of internal staff to address complex cybersecurity and compliance challenges. The company claims to be the only provider in the market offering a cloud-like way …

Ninety six percent of enterprises have increased their budget investment in security operations during the Covid-19 pandemic, 86 percent have increased their staffing and 91 percent have increased their adoption of advanced security technologies, according to the annual State of Security Operations report from CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business. The key reason cited for the increased investment was …

Nearly 80 percent of workers are using collaboration tools for work in 2021, up from just over half of workers in 2019, according to the Gartner Digital Worker Experience Survey. This is an increase of 44 percent since the pandemic began. “Collaboration tools found renewed importance during Covid-19 for their role in ensuring the productivity of suddenly remote teams,” said …

IBM is working to set up a Software Lab in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. IBM Software Labs are the global innovation centers that develop and deliver next-generation software portfolio and cloud offerings. In a meeting, Vijay Rupani, Chief Minister, Gujarat; Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India and Gaurav Sharma, Vice President, IBM India Software Labs discussed the role of technology …

Strengthening its leadership position in the projector market, Optoma Corporation, has announced that it has become number one projector brand in DLP and 4K UHD segments in India for Q2, 2021 as per the latest PMA report. Optoma is a designer and manufacturer of projection and Interactive Flat Panel for corporate, education, professional video and home entertainment segments. Continuing its …

Hitachi Vantara has launched the next generation Lumada DataOps Suite. The portfolio of data management and analytics software is designed to help businesses rapidly identify and utilize data to enhance customer experiences and provide a source of competitive advantage – from customer, operational and product intelligence to compliance and fraud management. The Lumada DataOps Suite helps lower the cost of …

Bharti AXA Life has completely digitized its sales operation to meet the demands of an evolving customer with 100 percent adoption amongst Front Line Sales Executives. Bharti AXA Life Insurance unveiled its revamped website recently with an enhanced and intuitive customer experience. The company which completes 15 years of operations this month, embarked on an ambitious journey of digital transformation …