by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Corporate, Large Enterprise, Markets, Technology
San Francisco : Apple has roped in a new partner, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), to expand its enterprise-related operations, the media reported.
The Cupertino, California-headquartered company is known for keeping secrets within its own company and also with those that it works closely with.
The partnership between the iPhone maker and HPE came to light after the The Register spotted a LinkedIn job notice indicating Apple was looking for an “Enterprise Strategic Partner Manager” for HPE, Dimension Data, and the General Electric Company (GE).
The job title’s inclusion of HPE points to HPE joining the existing list of firms Apple works with for corporate services, AppleInsider reported on Wednesday.
The description for the role, based in London, advises the candidate will work with global partners, as well as regional sales, channel marketing, and system engineering teams both inside and outside Apple.
The tasks listed for the successful candidate include creating and executing sales plans, covering industries, and “other end-customer focus areas”.
The job also includes work in new business development, partner management and Apple’s enterprise sales programmes, according to the report.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Large Enterprise, Markets, Technology
By Nishant Arora,
New Delhi : With mobility on the rise amid enterprises aspiring to create modern, connected workplaces, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)-owned wireless networking major Aruba is looking for double-digit growth in India, top company executives have reiterated.
Aruba saw its business growing rapidly last year — with over 67 per cent growth — and India has become one of its fastest-growing markets.
The company, acquired by HPE in 2015 for $3 billion, is today the leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise.
“Mobility is one factor that is on the rise in India, with more and more devices being connected. Aruba is targeting double-digit growth in the country in 2018. We are seeing more and more customers using our wireless networks that come with valuable insights for businesses to drive growth,” Steve Wood, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Aruba, told IANS.
When it comes to R&D, core research is under way at Aruba’s Bengaluru facility.
“We are living in an era where sensors are everywhere — be it home appliances, IoT devices or consumer devices — and we need to help those units connect to the edge of the network. At Aruba, we are focused towards achieving that ‘intelligent edge’ for sectors like education, health care, hospitality, retail and manufacturing,” Wood emphasised.
Aruba has just bagged a big contract with an Indian bank with 5,000 branches to provide it with secure wireless networking solutions.
“It is still in the implementation stage so I can’t reveal the name of the bank now. Last year, the government business was 48 per cent of our revenue stream in the country,” Santanu Ghose, Country Manager, HPE Aruba, told IANS.
“Small and Medium Business (SMB) is the fasted-growing market segment for us. We have been receiving almost 30 new customers every quarter. We had nearly 130 new customers in 2017,” Ghose added.
Aruba’s distributors and their partners — as well as its own partners — are helping the company reach more enterprises with its wireless offerings. It is also leveraging HPE partner framework to reach more businesses.
“Wireless network adoption is happening very fast in the country. Rural Internet penetration, which is 17 per cent at the moment, needs to go up to 50 per cent with Wi-Fi and end-point connectivity. We have the strength to help the stakeholders achieve that,” Ghose added.
Within SMBs, Aruba is looking at micro-verticals like health care, mobile campuses and co-working offices.
“Wireless is becoming an infrastructure. Co-working offices and mobile campuses are triggering innovations beyond the concrete walls. New design campuses are coming up. Going wireless today is the key,” Ghose told IANS, adding that small-scale manufacturing firms are also coming back into life.
When it comes to connecting governments and enterprises to the edge of the network, a secure, robust and agile wireless network is the need of the hour.
To address this, the company recently launched “Aruba 360 Secure Fabric” — a security framework that provides 360 degrees of analytics-driven attack detection and response to help organisations reduce risk in the changing threat landscape.
“To prevent attacks, we have integrated User and Entity Behavioural Analytics (UEBA) into our central security piece called ‘Clearpass’. This is now called ‘Aruba IntroSpect’ that will introspect behavioural anomalies — be it a person or a device — to gauge possible threats and mitigate those,” Ghose informed.
Aruba is also innovating in UEBA by expanding the “Aruba IntroSpect” product family, enabling businesses to easily and rapidly scale machine-learned behaviour detection from small projects to full enterprise deployments.
The “Aruba 360 Secure Fabric” offers security and IT teams an integrated way to quickly detect and respond to advanced cyber attacks — from pre-authorisation to post-authorisation across multi-vendor infrastructures, supporting enterprises of all sizes.
“At the centre of our security are Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) which are integrated into our security network for a seamless, wireless connectivity,” Ghose said.
According to Ghose, they haven’t seen any known impact so far after the news of two security flaws in Intel and other chips shocked the tech world recently.
“We have not seen any known impact as of now. We also use chips other than Intel but there has been no impact on our operations,” Ghose noted.
(Nishant Arora can be contacted at nishant.a@ians.in)
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Corporate, Corporate Buzz, Large Enterprise
Technocrat Vishal Sikka
Bengaluru : Technocrat Vishal Sikka, who logged out of software major Infosys on Thursday after quitting as its first non-founder CEO on August 18, denied joining the US IT major Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), said an Indian business news channel on Saturday.
“Reports of me joining HPE are false. Someone is trying keenly to put me in a box,” Sikka told CNBC-TV18 in a video interview from the US.
Sikka, 50, remarked in the light of reports that Infosys Founder N.R. Narayana Murthy had written to his advisers that “he (Sikka) was more a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) material than a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) material”.
Terming the return of Nandan Nilekani as Infosys’ Board Chairman an excellent idea, Sikka said the latter was an extraordinary leader and an iconic man.
“I offered to quit as Executive Vice-Chairman because I felt it was in the best interests of all concerned so that Nilekani could have a free hand. It also meant that the succession process would be complete,” he noted.
Accepting Sikka’s resignation as CEO, the Infosys Board appointed him as the Executive Vice-Chairman on the same day (August 18) till the new CEO took over by March 31, 2018 and elevated Chief Operating Officer (COO) U.B. Pravin Rao as the interim CEO and Managing Director (MD).
“I wanted to leave Infosys altogether after resigning as CEO last week, but the Board had insisted I stay on for the sake of continuity,” he pointed out.
A huge proponent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its application to make a positive difference in the world, Sikka said he was excited to spend more time with his family at his Palo Alto home in the Silicon Valley of California.
Asked if he would agree to Infosys making the investigative report on the acquisition of the Israeli software firm Panaya Inc public, Sikka said it was up to the Board and he would have gone along with its decision.
Infosys acquired the US-based automation technology firm Panaya for $200 million in February 2015 to offer large-scale enterprise software management as a service to its global clients.
The Panaya buyout became a bone of contention between the co-founders and the Board due to alleged irregularities in its deal value and allegations by an anonymous whistleblower that company executives like Sikka had a personal interest in buying it.
One of the charges was that $20 million invested in Panaya before the deal were distributed to the shareholders, a charge Infosys denied claiming it (Panaya) had $18.6 million cash balance when bought.
“Panaya was looked at as an acquisition candidate based on its strategic fit. There was no conflict of interest due to Sikka’s association with its investor Hasso Plattner, who was his boss in his previous job at the German software major SAP AG,” said Infosys in a statement on February 20.
Though three investigations looked into the claims and found nothing, Murthy kept raising corporate governance issues at the company and asked the Board to consider making the Panaya report public.
“The allegations were baseless, false, wrong. It is a completely nonsensical detour,” claimed Sikka in the television interview.
On the hefty severance package paid to Infosys former Chief Financial Officer Rajiv Bansal, Sikka said he had answered questions on it a thousand times.
Declining to share lessons he learnt at Infosys and if he could have done differently, Sikka hoped the outsourcing firm would move forward and get back to its business.
Asked if his being based out of the US and not Bengaluru was a problem, Sikka said as business was outside India, it was a complex balance of spending time, mostly in airplanes.
Admitting that his stint at Infosys from August 1, 2014 was an incredibly challenging job, Sikka said he was proud of the three years he spent in the iconic firm and was overwhelmed by the thousands of emails and communications he received from employees and clients.
