Technology

Increased Drivers for CyberSecurity Spending

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big-jump-in-cybersecurity-spendCybersecurity is non-negotiable. Investments in cybersecurity can be split into three key fronts: 1) Technology (advancement of cybersecurity solutions to tackle the ever-growing nature of threats), 2) Operational, and 3) Talent (Lack of talent remains the biggest area of concern in the field of cybersecurity). There is no silver bullet when it comes to cybersecurity and organizations need to invest on all the key fronts.

Big Wall Street Firms spends roughly $500 Mn+ a year on cybersecurity (and has roughly 2,000 people working on this area) and views this as a risk management tool. Advancement in

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Amazon Indian eCommerce + Video/Music Content attract Investments

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amazon-india-investmentsAmazon is accelerating its investment in its retail operations in India. For one, two years after committing $2bn, this Mr. Bezos announced that he was committing an additional $3bn in India. We believe this was likely due not only to the success that Amazon has been seeing and the significant opportunity that it still sees ahead, but may also have been due to the need to continue to investment its logistics in order to address infrastructure issues in India, to take advantage of potential challenges at local competitor Flipkart, and to address new regulations taking hold in India.

The Executive Management’s commentary on the 2Q16 earnings call that it plans to double video content investment in 2H16 likely points to acceleration in spend this year vs. 2015. Moreover,

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How Amazon’s Competitors Rank on Last Mile Delivery ?

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ecommerce-delivery-modelsAmazon’s strategy, with ever-shorter delivery options, has allowed a pure eCommerce player to gain a foothold in Local commerce and an increasingly bigger share of consumers’ wallets. But while Amazon has always been and will remain retailers’ top competitor in many product categories – especially in consumer products – some of these retailers could actually benefit from the company’s growing fulfillment capabilities. Today, Amazon remains the clear leader in fulfillment, based on number of offerings, global fulfillment center footprint, and ability to manage demand elasticity through its digital assets.

Today, however, services such as Google Express, Postmates, or Instacart and new fulfillment models based on real-time driver networks such as Uber, Lyft, and

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Google sets New Trend: Voice Control, Mobile Virtual Reality

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google-virtual-realityGoogle launched new products overnight, notably two flagship smartphones under new brand Pixel, a mobile VR called Daydream View, and a voice controlled smart speaker Google Home (although the product was introduced back in May, and details weren’t available till now). Keys to note: We remain conservative on “Pixel” actual sell-through; the phone seems to be aimed at competing with iPhone (same price as iPhone7), but the iPhone was launched a month earlier.

We note that Google is abandoning “Nexus” brand and no longer co-branding with OEMs; the value-add for OEMs further decreases (HTC is the OEM for “Pixel”). The launch of Google’s mobile VR could accelerate the trend of supporting

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Who are Google Cloud’s Big Corporate Customers and their Applications?

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google-cloud-corporate-customersWe have researched on who are the Big Corporate Customers of Google Cloud, the Best Cloud Computing Platform globally and what Google’s Cloud Services they have been availing during their shift from Traditional Client Server Computing over the past 20 years dominated by Microsoft and IBM.

We list the name of the Company and the Google Cloud Service they have availed for what kind of Application serving their

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Why Google Cloud acquired Apigee API Platform ?

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google-apigee-cloudGoogle Cloud Platform business unit acquired Apigee, a provider of application programming interface. Apigee provides an API platform that can be used by companies to make their services available on multiple mobile devices. Apigee also provides its customers analytics to measure the activity coming from the apps. As an example, Walgreens uses Apigee to manage the Walgreens APIs that developers use to build apps for the Walgreens ecosystem.

This enhances Google’s push into corporate computing as they look to take advantage of the evolving industry dynamics. Google’s head of cloud computing Diane Greene stated as follows

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MakeMyTrip Leveraging Technology for Customer Service & Engagement

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MakeMyTrip - TechnologyTo bring in personalized user experience, MakeMyTrip has added features such as mobile virtual assistant (GIPS) to assist customers while on trip, notifications when fares for searched routes / hotels fall, etc made possible by data mining and use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms. MakeMyTrip has also been continuously upgrading its mobile platform, which has led to reduced latency rate, lower app size, 100% crash-free performance, etc. – enhancing customer experience and hence retention and repeat rates.

MakeMyTrip had 5.2mn monthly active users on its platform in F1Q17 vs. 4.2mn in F4Q16. Downloads of the MakeMyTrip app have exceeded 23mn as of the end of F1Q17. The company’s nationwide TV campaign has resulted in 63% growth in new users acquired and 59% growth in total users. Mobile has been the key driver of

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Advent & Rise of Flash Storage in Enterprise Computing

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Rise of Flash StorageThe advent of multi-core processors has also provided a big boost to deeper penetration of server virtualization in the data center. For example, a 4-core processor based server can now host four virtual machines on the same physical server – one on each core – thus consolidating four workloads that were running on four different physical servers onto one physical server.

The key implication of this development is that each physical server is clearly processing more data and generating orders of magnitude higher network traffic than in the past. Diskbased storage with sequential read-write is inadequate to extract data out of these servers fast enough creating a data supply problem on the server. NAND Flash-based Storage, which allows random read-write and hence offers an order of magnitude improvement in Storage performance in terms of IOPS

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Leading Lenders in China Internet Finance – Part 2

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China Internet LendersThe China Internet Finance market (Part -1) has taken off in a big way due to favorable Government Policies to push the country ahead of the United States. We continue our coverage on the same.

Paipaidaiwas founded in June 2007 as one of the earliest P2P financial service companies in China. It operates under online processes and focuses on P2P small amount loan business. Paipaidai has a total of 2,000 employees nationwide. 50% of them belong to the manual service team. High quality service helps reduce the negative effect generating from non-standardised products and contribute to the final customer conversions. Besides, the users are mainly blue collars from tier-three or tier-four cities, who have limited understanding about financial products. The platform is able to conduct identity authentication after customers have explicit demand of loans. Under this process, users will find it smooth and simplified before making a final decision.

JIMU is a leading domestic financial technology company launched in August 2013. It focuses on middle-class user group, providing comprehensive

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