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Trend Micro incorporated through their advanced ‘Deep Security’ offering helped Capillary Technologies achieve seamless interoperability across their vast infrastructure. Trend Micro Deep Security, which provides a complete suite of cloud security solutions helped secure their workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments.
As a leading provider of consumer analytics and e-commerce platforms to more than 300 brands in more than 30 countries, Capillary Technologies was looking for a security solution that could scale with the growing infrastructure and help achieve compliance for the multi-cloud environments. The solution also needed to protect cloud workloads against data breaches and business disruptions with around-the-clock alerting. They selected Trend Micro’s Deep Security, a state-of-the-art security solution with its multitenant architecture which includes anti-malware, web reputation, firewall, intrusion prevention, integrity monitoring, …

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), with Kantar IMRB, recently released a report titled ‘The Power of Mobile Gaming in India’, offering the latest data and insights on mobile gaming trends in the country. With India’s mobile app market growing at breakneck speed, mobile gaming platforms are increasingly commanding a substantial share of the advertising pie. The report was released in association with POKKT, a smart phone advertising platform for mobile games.
According to the report, three out of four Indian gamers play mobile games at least a twice a day, for an average of 60+ minutes, each day. Mobile gaming is also quite prevalent in tier 2 and tier 3 cities, with similar amounts of time spent on gaming by users in these regions. With over 250 million mobile gamers, India has emerged as one of the top 5 gaming countries, globally. With so much time spent on mobile devices, there lies a huge opportunity for marketers to tap into the space. Gaming is not just limited to the youn…

On September 28, Morden Chen, General Manager of Alibaba UC Ads, will reveal their short video ads platform at The MMA Forum being held at Taj Santa Cruz in Mumbai. This is an initiative by Alibaba UC Ads to start the revolution of short video ads in India and strive to become the largest one-stop content marketing platform. It is reported that UC Ads has maintained long-term co-operations with Amazon, Flipkart, PayTM Mall, Tokopedia, Lazada and other top e-commerce platforms in India and Indonesia. Other important partners include mobile phone brands, operators and FMCG brands, etc.
UC Ads will launch a revolution of short video ads in the Indian market. "We've noticed that people in India were used to watching TV together with their families while more and more young people prefer to be with their phones and browse what they like, no longer confined to TV programs," Morden said. “With the popularity of mobile devices and declining mobile internet service charges, peop…

India's largest cafe chain Cafe Coffee Day has partnered with one of the leading wireless power solutions provider in the world PowerSquareto unveil India’s biggest wireless charging network for cafes across the country. The network has installed 300+ wireless charging spots across 100+ cafes in leading metros like Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. Café Coffee Day is the youth’s favourite hangout destination. With mobile being an integral part of its young consumers’ lives, India’s largest café network is strengthening its digital technology to keep its customers connected at all times. After making free Wi-Fi available nationally at several cafes it is launching wireless charging, another category first, in partnership with PowerSquare. Customers visiting Café Coffee Day can now place their Qi-enabled smartphones on the surface and wirelessly charge their phones. This eliminates the constant hassle of carrying charging cables. This smart wireless charging modules designed and …

Palo Alto Networks and Alibaba Cloud announced their technology partnership at the Computing Conference 2018 hosted by Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, China.

Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power its international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. The collaboration between the two parties will allow organizations to protect their business critical applications and data with Palo Alto Networks world-class security, as they migrate to Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba Cloud’s international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore; and the company has international teams stationed in cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore, Jakarta, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, San Mateo, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.

IIIT-Hyderabad Machine Learning Lab have entered into an agreement with NASSCOM’s Centre of Excellence for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (CoE-DSAI) based in Bengaluru as an ecosystem knowledge partner. This association will support NASSCOM’s initiative of creating AI/ML expertise among Indian IT Professionals.
As traditional IT roles vanish, companies are betting big on AI and other deep tech areas to further growth. By 2021, approximately 75% of enterprise applications will use AI according to a report by IDC. Currently only 1% of the IT workforce has AI Expertise.
The Advanced Certification Program by IIIT-Hyderabad and TalentSprint has an objective to build AI/ML expertise in 10,000 IT Professionals in India. Over 1000 tech professionals from Hyderabad and Bengaluru have enrolled into the Program in the first 8 months of the launch. 10% of these participants are from top leadership roles, 35% are from startups and mid-sized companies, and remaining from large companie…

Companies across EMEA are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to revolutionise customer service as more and more consumers show high acceptance of AI-driven experiences, reveals a new research report from ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) and Devoteam (DVTM.PA).
The report, “The AI revolution: creating a new customer service paradigm”, explores how AI is driving a new revolution in service delivery, drawing on research carried out with 770 IT professionals responsible for the customer service function in 10 EMEA countries. 
It reveals that nearly a third (30%) of EMEA organisations have introduced AI technologies to customer service and 72% of those are already seeing benefits that include freeing up agents’ time, more efficient processing of high-volume tasks and providing always-on customer support.
“The majority of organisations are offering omnichannel experiences to customers, but many are struggling to keep up with increasing consumer demand for service across these channe…

As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, and an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need a both a new approach and powerful new tools. Increasingly, they are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a key weapon to win the battle against stealthy threats inside their IT infrastructures, according to a new global research study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Aruba.
The Ponemon Institute study, entitled “Closing the IT Security Gap with Automation & AI in the Era of IoT,” surveyed 4,000 security and IT professionals across the Americas, Europe and Asia, to understand what makes security deficiencies so hard to fix, and what types of technologies and processes are needed to stay a step ahead of bad actors within the new threat landscape.
The research revealed that in the quest to protect d…

Epicor Software Corporation, a provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, today announced that Dolphin Group, a leading manufacturer of high performance industrial and automotive thermal products in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has implemented the global enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, Epicor ERP. Dolphin Group has deployed Epicor ERP across the company’s seven business units and eleven facilities in the UAE.
By breaking down data siloes and facilitating visibility and transparency across departments, Epicor ERP is enabling Dolphin Group’s employees to be more efficient, and make better, faster, day-to-day business critical decisions. Particularly for the operations team, modules such as planning and scheduling, production management, service management, warehouse management, and manufacturing execution system (MES) have allowed them to deploy several industry best practices across the shop floor. This has resulted in lower material w…

Twenty-eight percent of spending within key enterprise IT markets will shift to the cloud by 2022, up from 19 percent in 2018, according to Gartner, Inc. Growth in enterprise IT spending on cloud-based offerings will be faster than growth in traditional, non-cloud IT offerings. Despite this growth, traditional offerings will still constitute 72 percent of the addressable revenue for enterprise IT markets in 2022, according to Gartner forecasts.
“The shift of enterprise IT spending to new, cloud-based alternatives is relentless, although it’s occurring over the course of many years due to the nature of traditional enterprise IT,” said Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner. “Cloud shift highlights the appeal of greater flexibility and agility, which is perceived as a benefit of on-demand capacity and pay-as-you-go pricing in cloud.”
More than $1.3 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud by 2022, according to Gartner (see Table 1…

In a bid to reach out and empower 70 million merchants across India, Mastercard in association with South Indian Bank claimed to launch ‘Merchant in a Box’ solution. A ready-to-use bundled tool kit, ‘Merchant in a Box’ is designed to ease payment acceptance amongst merchants and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Being the first of its kind offering in India, this product provides customers with a payment cum acceptance solution in the form of Mastercard business debit card and Bharat QR respectively. 
Conceptualized and designed by Mastercard, the unique ready-to-use ‘card accepting’ tool kit allows South Indian Bank to address the needs of its merchant base. This bundled solution seamlessly enables both bank and its merchants to instantly access the bank account, Mastercard business debit card and accept digital payments. It allows the bank to provide an instant solution to its SME customers wherein they can not only make payments in a safe, quick and easy way, but also can start …

By: Oliver Horn, senior solutions architect alliances, Red Hat 1. Ability to work in a team / listen and cooperate  The Internet of Things (IoT) requires a very broad set of skills, ranging from electronics for sensors, actors and SOCs, to wireless transmission, field bus protocols, messaging and networking, to data center technologies including data storage, AI, machine learning, API management, mobile/web UIs and legacy application integration and to other areas including end-to-end security, OTA, CI, CD. No one person can have all these skills at once, so be ready to collaborate with others. 
2. Being open to innovation and change Large data volumes, infrastructure management, scalability, performance, security and so forth - IoT is a complex beast, and a very fast running one as well. Plan for changes wherever you can, what is impossible today might be the new de facto standard tomorrow. On the subject of standards: have a look at existing and emerging standards in all IoT areas (se…

By: Andy Coussins, senior vice president and head of international, Epicor Software 
It has been suggested that over one third of skills considered important in today’s workforce are likely to no longer be relevant in the near future. Manufacturers will soon require quite different expertise from their workforce to master new technology. In fact, according to a 2018 report by Accenture Strategy, businesses that fail to upskill their workforces, so they can effectively collaborate with modern machines and technology, face the risk of missing out on revenue and growth.
Challenging and training employees to acquire new expertise can be a cost-effective way to manage staff resourcing, provide a boost to employee engagement, and ultimately have a positive impact on a company’s productivity. To this end, there are several areas manufacturers should consider when reviewing the training needs of their workforce and providing opportunities for upskilling.
Breaking down barriers between departme…