Cloud

This comes at a time when pace of cloud adoption accelerated as companies migrated to ensure business continuity. Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer, IBM, said during IBM Think event in May that the company has witnessed cloud being adopted at a much faster pace amid the COVID-19 pandemic. … [Read more...] about Indian enterprises to spend half their IT budget on hybrid cloud: IBM report

“We don’t want to just check the box and hire a person of color. I’m going to find superstars who happen to be persons of color. People who are going to add to our team, who are going to move with our team, who share our ethos, but who have a little bit of a different point of view. Not only people of color but women. Essentially, our goal is to make our company look on the inside and feel on the inside and most importantly be on the inside, what we’re talking about” with the Wayfarer brand. … [Read more...] about Wayfarer Studios, the company behind Disney Plus’s ‘Clouds,’ makes social justice the star

Vaccine development is a long, complex process. Unlike drugs that are given to people with a diseased, vaccines are given to healthy people and also vulnerable sections such as children, pregnant women and the elderly. So rigorous tests are compulsory. History says that the fastest time it took to develop a vaccine is five years, but it usually takes double or sometimes triple that time. … [Read more...] about OTTs become go-to platform for Indian youth amid COVID-19; Netflix, Amazon Prime lead list

Indian financial services sector lagged behind global peers when it comes to digital transformation, said a  2017 Gartner report. However, the exercise gained momentum and banks’ investments increased with Gartner predicting that the total spending in IT would be $11 billion in 2020, a 9 percent increase compared to 2019. … [Read more...] about IBM India in talks with more banks to develop digital platforms as more tech giants foray into banking sector

These employees are not skilled in new age technologies and have to be reskilled before they are deployed to projects. In addition, as many hiring executives pointed out, for the skills that are high in demand such as cloud and cybersecurity, there is a huge shortage and the only way to fill the gap is through lateral hiring or reskilling the employees. … [Read more...] about Reskilling is probably the biggest challenge for the IT companies amid the pandemic