Just In Time Group and EMC focus on driving ICT innovation and big data analytics in Sri Lanka
Friday, 19 December 2014 11:31
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Just In Time Group (JIT), along with our principal partner EMC Corporation (EMC2), strives towards bridging the gap between today and tomorrow with the transformed roadmap from hardware to business for the customer, that requires more innovation to support this transformation.
To bring this into focus for our valued customers in the BFSI and government sectors in Sri Lanka, JIT along with EMC2 held a knowledge-sharing forum on 8 and 9 November at Citrus Waskaduwa.
Our principal partner EMC2 assists customers bridge the gaps between the two platforms - enabling them to run existing applications more efficiently and reliably while paving the way for the third platform applications specifically for the BFSI and government sectors. EMC2 along with the federation partners – VMware, Pivotal and RSA, can bridge the gap and help them position customers for today and at the same time also help them with their needs of tomorrow.
E-Commerce giants such as Yahoo, Amazon and eBay operate millions of transactions a day. Key Social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter do the equivalent with their user information and images. Big Data Analytics played an essential role with President Barak Obama’s re-election in 2012 and India’s BJP’s landslide victory in the 2014 elections. Overall we can say that the businesses that exploit Big Data improve strategy and execution whilst gaining the competitive edge.
‘Big Data’ analytics was another hot topic that was discussed, which has now evolved into a different flavour of ‘Security Analytics’ in the course of discussions around emerging trends within the space of cyber-attacks. Viruses, Trojans and Worms are merely resource-consuming scripts while more radical and sophisticated attacks have come into play with precise targets, intentions and timelines. Attacks like Advance Persistent Attacks (APT), advanced volatile threat (AVT) and state-backed cyber espionage, do make headlines as being a major risk for businesses. Therefore we need to discover these attacks which are missed by the outdated Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and signature-based tools by correlating network packets, netflow, endpoints, logs etc. Therefore it’s crucial to identify the high-risk indicators that are compromised by harnessing the power of Big Data and Data Science techniques. Simultaneously, there is a need to prioritise investigations and streamlining multiple analyst workflows into one which will facilitate instantly and pivot from negative incidents into deep endpoint and network packet detail to recognise the true nature of the issue and scope of what the solutions has to offer.
The Big Data solution from EMC2 and RSA (fully owned by EMC2) provides market-leading, scale-out storage, a unified analytics platform, and business process and application development tools. Together, these technologies and solutions allow organisations to draw deeper insights and become more predictive organisations. RSA Security Analytics eliminates blind spots with visibility across logs, networks, and endpoints.
Just in Time Group, a wholly Sri Lankan owned ICT company was proud to host such a forum with such a significant impact towards the country’s transforming roadmap and this session was the first among a series planned by JIT and EMC2, targeting specific industry verticals.
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyse their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
Just In Time Group, with many leading specialised industry-related principal relationships in place, is focused on the areas of strategic ICT solutions, core ERP, CRM and ECM solutions, systems integration services, infrastructure solutions, and strategic ICT investments, with a focus on telecommunications, banking & finance, government & defence and commercial enterprise sectors.
