NASSCOM appoints Rajesh Nambiar of Cognizant as new chairperson

Rajesh Nambiar becomes chairperson of Nasscom

NASSCOM has announced the appointment of Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman and Managing Director, Cognizant India as its Chairperson. Nambiar takes on the new role from his previous role as Vice Chairperson succeeding Anant Maheshwari, Former President, Microsoft India.

Chairperson Rajesh Nambiar along with President Debjani Ghosh will continue to work with NASSCOM Executive Council, industry, and the government in strengthening India's position as a global technology hub while navigating the current volatile macro environment.

The leadership’s core priorities will focus on accelerating the adoption and widespread impact of cutting-edge emerging and deep technologies, enhancing India’s talent capabilities aligned with evolving job roles and tech acceleration, focusing on integrated industry solutions for scale efficiencies, sustainability and rapid innovation and building a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment for all.

On the appointment, Nambiar said, “The technology-led transformation in this techade offers a lifetime chance to rethink, reengineer and reimagine technology for global impact. As enterprises accelerate their journey towards digitalisation, they will evolve into adaptive entities capable of absorbing volatility and building sustainable growth models with diversity and inclusion as a cornerstone.”

Indian Bank partners with IBM for tech modernisation

IBM has collaborated with Indian Bank, a public sector bank, to accelerate its modernisation path with flexible and secure compute infrastructure for deploying new front-end banking applications while addressing the business growth of the Core Banking Solution (CBS) workloads for the bank.

As part of their Project PARADISE, Indian Bank wanted to consolidate their Front Branch Servers for better manageability and availability at both Data Centres (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) centres, while also running their CBS workloads on the latest generation of IBM Power servers.

To meet the bank’s digital infrastructure needs, IBM proposed a hybrid cloud approach for all AIX workloads to boost agility and introduced a combination of capex and opex models for the consumption of compute resources. Essentially, it provides infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and aims to deliver various capabilities such as additional compute and storage, build a private cloud using the available resources, create a single pool of processors across DC and DR and enable services equivalent to a pay-as-you-grow model.

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Tech Mahindra registers 39% decline in net profit for Q1 FY24

Tech Mahindra partners with Gati

Logistics company Gati Limited has partnered with Tech Mahindra to develop Gati Enterprise Management System (GEMS) 2.0, an operational software system. Tech Mahindra will enable Gati over the next 18-24 months, to custom develop GEMS 2.0, covering the entire first-mile, mid-mile, and last-mile operations. The software will be developed in modules like pickup, delivery, en-route, customer contracts, invoicing, etc.

The partnership is focused on replacing Gati’s legacy application with a digital, scalable, and more agile cloud-based application for operational excellence and enhancing customer experience.

The architecture of GEMS 2.0 will be micro-services-based and event-driven through rule engines, with an infrastructure designed and developed on the cloud, with a mobile and security-first architecture approach aimed at delivering consistent performance across the company’s geography of operations.

CtrlS Datacentres appoints ex-AWS executive as President of Operations

CtrlS Datacenters has appointed Vipin Jain as President-Operations. The company said the appointment will further strengthen its operational expertise in the digital infrastructure sphere.

In his new role at CtrlS, Jain will take charge of establishing a global operational framework, processes, and systems. He will also focus on achieving the operational benchmarks for the company’s data centre facilities in India as well as in emerging markets to achieve operational benchmarks.

Jain has experience working with companies like Amazon Web Services, Reliance Communications, Lucent Technologies, Essar, Motorola, and Siemens.

Netskope unveils new digital experience management solution

Netskope, a cybersecurity company, has launched Proactive Digital Experience Management (DEM) for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), a cloud-based security framework with the aim to elevate the best practice from the current reactive monitoring tools to proactive user experience management.

According to the company, Proactive DEM provides experience management capabilities across the entire SASE architecture, including Netskope Intelligent SSE, Netskope Borderless SD-WAN, and Netskope NewEdge global infrastructure.

Digital Experience Management technology has become increasingly crucial amid digital business transformation, with organisations seeking to enhance customer experiences and improve employee engagement. With hybrid work and cloud infrastructure now the norm globally, organisations have struggled to ensure consistent and optimised experiences alongside stringent security requirements.