Logarhythm Consultancy organizes Cloud Azure-Ance to encourage cloud adoption among SMEs

Logarhythm Consultancy in association with Microsoft and Redington has organized Cloud Azure-Ance at Hotel Hindusthan International, Kolkata on 21st September. The event was focused towards the flourishing SMEs segment and witnessed the presence of many eminent CIOs and CISOs of the industry. Discussions regarding Microsoft Azure, Effect of Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 and Importance of Azure took place at the event. 

While delivering the welcome note, Satya Priya Das, Director, Logarhythm Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. said, “The concept of Logarhythm started in 2013 and after that in 2017 we converted into a private limited company. In 2014 we first got a Cloud project with one of the major corporate in Kolkata with 700 user Microsoft Office 365 migration from Google. Our USP is Managed Services and migration. Also, we are trying to get involved in the security market and trying to develop our security team. To some extent we have built our expertise and we are providing a lot of support to enterprise customers.”

Mithun Kumar M, Group Business Manager, Redington

Redington is a brand behind the brands like channel partners. We are supporting 33,000 channel partners in India. We are supporting our partners with all the OEMs in every category. Our relationship with Microsoft started in 1994 and offers all its products and services. Today, all our partners are interacting with you, whatever the jargon and the support, we are behind the scenes supporting them - be it managed services, any kind of implementation or technology support. All kinds of support are given by us to our partners.        

Debashis Datta, Senior Territory Channel Manager, East & North, Microsoft

Microsoft Cloud is empowering organizations of every scale and size across industries. Our industry-specific solutions help ensure business resiliency and accelerated growth, along with flexibility, ease-of-use, and scalability that are so important to any small business. 

Panel I - Effect of Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023

Sandeep Sengupta, MD,  ISOAH Data Securities

Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) is not new into this corporate world. Before this DPDP there was GDPR for Europe. So, companies who had clients in Europe or having business there, they already were compliant to the GDPR. Prior to this there was PIMS and it was there for almost 10 years and a lot of companies were getting audited because they wanted to know whether the data protection privacy is getting maintained properly.  

Dr. Pallab Ganguly, CISO Generation & Alt CISO Distribution, CESC

CESC has 33 million customers across Kolkata and Howrah. In today’s world there are so many rules and regulations like the CA guidelines, NCIIPC directives and also the power utilities are critical information infrastructure and a mandate from the Ministry of Power. Earlier, we had IT Act 2000, with that we had SPDI (Sensitive Personal Data or Information) and it was rules at that point of time and now 50% of it has become an ACT after 23 years as DPDP.

Prasun Banerjee, General Manager – Legal & Compliance, Vision RX Lab

From a legal point of view, the major challenge that DPDP will bring in every working environment is awareness. The main challenge that we are facing in India is to create awareness and to make people understand how to deal with the data. So, this entire sensitization requires some time and meticulous exercise to be given to each employee who is actually dealing with personal data of a person.   

Prakash Sharma, CIO, Kredent Group

It is a good opportunity for all the CIOs and CISOs to talk to their management about the IT budget. We need to create data capturing managements, strengthen our security to protect this data from breaching.  

  

Sourav Das, Group Chief of Digital & IT, Rupa & Company

The biggest challenge that a CIO is facing is change management. DPDP comes with a RS 250 crores fine. It calls for an extreme level of discipline, one you have to take consent, second, you have to get the data off when you are not using it.  

Sangram Pattanayak, Head - IT, Indorama India

We are in the process of implementing a standardized ERP. We were on SAP platform and our group was thinking of implementing it across the globe for our fertilizer division. So, we were thinking about SAP as well as Oracle Fusion at that time. We had a discussion with both the companies regarding the data center outside India as the DPDP compliance will not be fulfilled. They also advised to have the database in India only. That is why we have gone for the India data center. 
 

Panel II - Why Cloud Azurance?

Arijit Dasgupta, Head IT, Rupa & Company

Maintenance is the major challenge in on-prem stacks. You have to keep updating databases, operating systems, virtualization etc. Maintaining a data center along with DR is a big deal. You have to take care of security, infrastructure, networking etc.   

Subrata Roy, Senior GM - IT, Skipper

We have migrated to SAP Hana, that is also a migration as the compute has changed and with the Cloud coming in these flexibilities are coming. Cloud is also scalable and you do not have to have your own resources.
 

Arup Majumder, Global DBA, OnProcess Technology

From the very beginning we had a complete Microsoft licensing specially to get the hybrid benefits. We had the core licensing with Software Assurance. We were also thinking of shifting to cloud computing so that administering IT infrastructure, the regular maintenance etc. becomes simple, cost-effective and work-effective.