AI-Ready Data Centers: Powering Future Innovations For Media & IT/ITeS Industries
SPEAKERS:
Shipra Malhotra, Managing Editor, ISMG (Moderator)
Gitesh Mahajan, Business Head, Data Center Services, Sify Technologies Ltd.
Prashant Anthony Pereira, Vice President, Data Center Services, Sify Technologies Ltd.
Kapil Mahajan, Senior Principal, Accenture (BFW)
Naushath Raja Mohammed, Associate Vice President, Sutherland
DATE:
June 21, 2024 | 3:00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
The digital disruption in the media and IT/ITeS industries is driving the companies in these sectors accelerate their IT infrastructure modernization efforts. For media companies, the rise in streaming services and innovative business models and a strong focus on personalized content and omnichannel user experience are among the primary drivers. For IT and ITeS companies, the primary driver is the need for a robust and secure backbone to support their customersβ digital business models.
But are the data centers adequately prepared to handle the advanced computing, networking, AI and data-centric demands of todayβs modern media and technology enterprises?
The infrastructure and network connectivity scale dynamically to accommodate future technological advancements. Equipped with intelligent management, it also supports advanced data analytics and AI-driven optimization for building new revenue streams and enhancing personalization, audience engagement and user experience. Moving the IT infrastructure to a scalable, reliable, secure and managed AI-ready data center can ensure efficient operations and intelligent insights, enabling it to move to fully digital business models.
For IT leaders in the media and technology sector investing in colocation services, hybrid IT with digital-ready networks is strategically imperative to position themselves at the forefront of technological innovation and to seize the opportunities of the digital era.
AI-Ready Data Centers: Modernizing Manufacturing To Drive Innovation & Optimize Costs
SPEAKERS:
Shipra Malhotra, Managing Editor, ISMG (Moderator)
Girish Dhavale, CTO β Data Center Services, Sify Technologies Ltd.
Gautam Bakhru, Vice President, LOB Head Data Center Services, Sify Technologies Ltd.
Vijayakrishna Iyengar, Associate Vice President β IT, Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd. (BFW)
Neelesh Srivastava, Vice President – IT Operation / Compliance & Projects, Gati / Allcargo
DATE:
June 19, 2024 | 3:00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
The manufacturing industry is witnessing a seismic shift with the adoption of Industry 4.0, and in some cases even Industry 5.0, driving the modernization of manufacturing processes. The integration of cyber-physical systems, along with advancements in AI and advanced robotics, is facilitating real-time decision-making, agile operations, and the management of extensive data volumes while ensuring security.
But how equipped are data centers to accommodate the advanced computing and data centric infrastructure to support the advanced data analytics and AI-driven demands of modern manufacturing environments? Managing extensive volumes of data to enable real-time decision-making and adaptive operations requires advanced capabilities, making an efficient, scalable, secure, and interconnected datacenter design indispensable.
With AI-ready data centers at the core, the hybrid IT infrastructure must scale dynamically to accommodate production variations and new techniques, such as additive manufacturing, and IoT integration. Additionally, it should support advanced data analytics and AI-driven optimization of production lines and predictive maintenance. At the same time, it should minimize costs, enhance security for IT and OT systems, and reduce the carbon footprint of manufacturing operations.
This requires reimagining the data center architecture to support dynamic scaling, highly reliable network connectivity, robust business continuity, and stringent security and sustainability practices. Investing in a future-ready data center is a strategy imperative for manufacturing companies to stay competitive and innovative. This modernization is critical for a seamless transition into the future, positioning companies to capitalize on the opportunities presented by Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0.
But how equipped are data centers to accommodate the advanced computing, data-centric and AI-ready infrastructure requirements of todayβs modern BFSI workload? Managing vast data volumes to support real-time decision-making and agile operations demands advanced capabilities that accommodate fluctuating market demands, innovations, rapid expansion and flexibility while safeguarding sensitive data.
An efficient, scalable, secure, sustainable, and interconnected data center design necessitates dynamic scaling, highly reliable network and connectivity, robust business continuity, and strong security and governance mechanisms. For IT leaders in the BFSI industry, investing in future-ready data centers is not merely a technological upgrade but a strategic imperative to position themselves at the forefront of innovation, ready to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the digital age.
Cloud Transformation with Agility, Flexibility & Choices
SPEAKERS:
Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies
Ravi Maguluri, CTO β Cloud & Managed Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
September 9, 2020 | 6.00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
The constraints on conducting business amidst the lockdowns have driven organizations to use technology for immediate cost reductions even as they continue to grapple with the usual budget contenders for tactical and medium term to strategic and long-term objectives.
The need of the hour for enterprise technology leaders is to adopt scalable and flexible IT infrastructures that can be consumed on demand to ease their capex cost and cash flow. Cloud has become even more relevant than ever for IT leaders to achieve their twin objectives of Digital Optimization during their recovery phase and Digital Transformation to be ready for the return of growth. These objectives are best achieved by means of Agility, Flexibility and Choices offered by Sifyβs Cloud@Core products and services.
Where do we start? And what to do next? In your pursuit of cloud adoption, there are many decisions that need to be made with respect to the architecture to be devised, process to be followed, the selection of technologies and services necessary.
To enable IT decision makers in maximizing cloud by throwing light on its various business-technology aspects, ETCIO and Sify are organizing a topical webinar.
Security For The New Normal
SPEAKERS:
Ravi Maguluri, CTO Cloud & Managed Services, Sify Technologies
Arvind Gautam, EVP & Business Head Technology Integration Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
November 20, 2020 | 6.00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
Globally, the pandemic has created challenges for businesses and enterprises are struggling to efficiently operate in an altered world. As a result, there is a sudden increase in digital technology adoption, and enterprises are forced to shift their workloads to the cloud. Enterprises are apprehensive about the overall security associated with the cloud.
Understanding the gravity of a secure workplace to drive a secure future, ETCIO in association with Sify is hosting a webinar titled βSecurity For The New Normalβ. Gain the best practices from the industry experts on security and privacy challenges relevant to cloud computing.
Key Takeaways
- Understanding the new threat landscape and designing a detailed strategic roadmap
- Data-centric view of business while migrating to the cloud
- Building a robust Cloud Security Posture for an effective security framework
- Analyzing comprehensive and proven Cloud Access Security
- Identifying security and risk management roles and responsibilities
- Cloud Workload Protection: Better control over assets and build enhanced cloud security and resiliency
Has your vision gone clouded with Cloud Adoption?
SPEAKERS:
Ravi Maguluri, CTO Cloud & Managed Services, Sify Technologies
Anirban Dasgupta, AVP, Data Center Centric Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
October 29, 2020 | 6.00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
Enterprises are constantly grappling with the decisions surrounding cloud adoption strategy, how to manage the migration, which workloads to be moved, how to start application modernization, all while ensuring cost optimisation. Often our vision gets clouded with a relentless barrage of questions around cloud adoption.
Sifyβs Cloudinfinit cloud management platform provides comprehensive visibility, insights, and control over cloud resources from multiple clouds. This helps to make informed decisions to address various scenarios.
In this context, ETCIO.com in association with Sify is hosting a webinar titled βHas your vision gone clouded with Cloud Adoption? Explore Infinite possibilities with Sifyβs Cloudinfinitβ. Join us for this session to learn how to unclutter your thoughts around Cloud adoption.
Gain best practices from the industry experts on creating good visibility on various aspects of cloud management and insights that can be gleaned from such visibility.
Key Discussion Points
- Analyse the Cloud adoption journey- strategy & roadmap
- Enable operational excellence and cost optimization with cloud
- Challenges and vulnerabilities associated with the cloud adoption
Best Practices for Successful Migration to SAP S/4HANA (On-prem or Cloud)
SPEAKERS:
Prashant Pimpalekar, Sr. VP SAP Practice, Sify Technologies,Β will be the key speaker along with a SAP Cloud SpecialistΒ Shagun Maheshwari, Customer Solution Architect for Cloud ERP, SAP.
DATE:
17th September, 2019
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Any customer evaluating SAP S4/HANA or Cloud Migration services.
DESCRIPTION:
SAP S4/HANA brings in the agility & flexibility to leverage OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) along with the traditional OLTP (On Line Transaction Processing), reducing data footprint by more than 1/10th.
The webinar will cover both migration options, on-premise and cloud, in detail.
WAN Transformation for Your Enterprise
SPEAKERS:
Daniel Alex, President β Telecom Business, Sify Technologies Ltd
DATE:
Thursday, August 13, 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Organizations need to move from using widely disparate and hybrid networks to integrated cloud-enabled networking platforms that can provide seamless manageability, high performance and high degrees of resilience and security. In this insightful webinar you will learn how to justify the transformation to stakeholders and plan for the transformation.
How Data Center forms the epicenter of IT infrastructure
SPEAKERS:
Kirtikar Ojha, Business Head β Data Center Services, Sify Technologies
DATE:
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Businesses are becoming more and more Information-driven. As data becomes the most important organizational asset; Data Centers need to be reliable, safe, optimized, efficient and manageable and de-risked, because any risk to data would have a seismic impact on the entire business. How to formulate a comprehensive Data Center strategy? Find out in this webinar
Benefits of Infrastructure Transformation
SPEAKERS:
Hirak Mukherjee, Managing Consultant β Technology Transformation
DATE:
Thursday, November 19, 2015
DESCRIPTION:
IT infrastructure such as Data Centers are extremely critical for business; yet, they create little additional business value and take up management time. How do you embark on a journey of successful IT infrastructure transformation and free up valuable management resource and ensure business continuity? Find out in this webinar.
Performance Matters
SPEAKERS:
Srinivas Padmanabharao, Director of Product Marketing APJ β Akamai
DATE:
Thursday, November 26, 2015
DESCRIPTION:
The ubiquity of mobile devices and proliferation of WiFi has radically transformed customer behavior. Do you understand what customers expect from their online experiences? Do you know what the challenges in delivering to this expectation are and how organizations around the world are dealing with this challenge? Find out in this webinar.
