ISODA Tech Summit – a Platform For Technology Transformation

With the theme “Transform and Evolve,” ISODA concluded its 5th Tech Summit in Colombo, the city of land and water in Sri Lanka. The summit took place from 5th to 7th February 2015. ISODA organizes its annual summit on technology every year to empower its members about the upcoming technology. With technology taking leaps and bounds in transformation and evolution, the VAR community was in line with it during the summit. ISODA witnessed that the entire IT industry was on the side of transformation and evolution with disruptive technologies like cloud, virtualization, big data, mobility, BYOD introducing new challenges and avenues for the vendors and partners.  

[caption id="attachment_1474337" align="alignleft" width="150"] Adrian De Luca-CTO- Asia Pacific Hitachi Data Systems[/caption]	[caption id="attachment_1474344" align="aligncenter" width="150"] Gaurav Chawla Sales Director - IDA - India, Bangladesh, SriLanka & Nepal, Gemalto Digital Security Pvt Ltd[/caption]	[caption id="attachment_1474345" align="alignright" width="150"] Manish Sheladia Chairman Mindarray Systems Pvt Ltd[/caption]	[caption id="attachment_1474340" align="alignright" width="150"] Debranjan Dasgupta Sr. Manager Alliances - Global System Integrators, Red Hat[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_1474342" align="alignleft" width="150"] Praveen Kulkarni Country Manager, HP[/caption]	[caption id="attachment_1474347" align="aligncenter" width="150"] Amitabh Jacob Director - Channel Sales, India & Sales, Symantec Software[/caption]	[caption id="attachment_1474348" align="aligncenter" width="150"] Rakesh Kharwal Director - Enterprise Sales Mcafee India Sales Pvt Ltd[/caption]	[caption id="attachment_1474350" align="aligncenter" width="150"] Sunil Sharma VP Sales & Operations (India & SAARC) Cyberoam[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1474386" align="alignright" width="150"] Guna Sekaran R
CEO
Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd[/caption] The Tech Summit provides a platform where vendors and ISODA members from pan India join together to know each other in a much better way, renew their relationships, forge new alliances and create an invaluable network of information sharing in the industry. It provides an entertaining and interactive space to meet new people, learn new technologies and lay foundation for new business relationships and everlasting friendship to experience the evolution in multiple avenues and possibilities. [caption id="attachment_1474387" align="alignleft" width="150"] Satyen Vyas President & CEO Summit IT Solutions Pvt Ltd[/caption] Amarnath Shetty, President, ISODA remarked, “At ISODA, we believe that transformation and evolution in our industry will not only help bring about rapid ascension in our businesses, but will also bring about future transformation and evolution to the next generation of Information Technology.” He further added, “Transformation is a change that needs to happen and evolution is an eternal continuum of change and development. At ISODA 2015, we believe that transformation and evolution in our industry will not only help bring about rapid ascension in our businesses, but will also bring about future transformation and evolution to the next generation of Information Technology.” During the Media Round and Panel Discussion at the Tech Summit, there were technology discussions, presentations by various OEMs from the field of Software and security industry. The discussion coverered areas such as SMAC and security. The discussion went deep into these areas and concluded that independently SMAC has got a huge potential in Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud. Not a single industry can perform without it, be it IT or non-IT; they have to ride on these four wheels. It paves an opportunity for the Partners as everyone wants to move online and have their presence in Cloud. Here the channel partners will play a major role as they will remove the gap by providing technology. In SMAC, Security is embedded into it. There is a real issue on security which the partner eco-system needs to understand.

Panel Discussion

[caption id="attachment_1474389" align="alignleft" width="300"] L to R: Media Round Prashant Bhavaraju, Director Marketing, Trianz, Hoshie Ghaswalla, CEO, CyberMedia, L. Subramanyan, Chief Executive Officer, Trivone, Anuj Singhal, Editor, ITPV, Yogesh Gupta, Executive Editor, IDG Media, and Deepak K. Sahu, Chief editor, VARINDIA[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1474391" align="alignleft" width="300"] L to R: Hoshie Ghaswalla, CEO, CyberMedia, Sunil Sharma, VP Sales & Operations, India & SAARC, Cyberoam, Rakesh Kharwal, Director - Enterprise Sales, Mcafee India, Debranjan Dasgupta, Sr. Manager - Redhat and Satyen Vyas, President & CEO, Summit IT Solutions Pvt Ltd[/caption]

The participants also showcased their Technology innovations that include Adweb/Verisign, Cyberoam, Fractalio, Gemalto, HP Software, Hitachi, McAfee, Inflow Technology, Red Hat, Symantec, Summit Software and MindArray. 85 plus ISODA members and all the partners, distributors, vendors joined together to make the transformational journey a success.