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Udit Pahwa - Head-Information Technology - Huhtamaki India Ltd
"The role of a CIO is moving from being an IT Manager to being a
business partner and enabler for the organization. Similarly, it is
expected from a technology partner to own the problem for the
organization and delivers value to the business issues,"
commented Udit Pahwa.

Dr. Deepak Kalambkar - VP-Infosec, Safexpay

The session also saw the panelists sharing their inputs on the major IT
expansion that the CIOs were looking at in the coming year. “As we are
going through the COVID-19 situation, security has become the
biggest priority for all the CIOs. We expect channel partners to suggest

the best SOC, endpoint services, etc., to companies," opined Dr.
Deepak Kalambkar.

Gautam Anand - General Manager,
Information Technology, Blue Star Ltd

Sharing his cloud journey, Gautam Anand stated, “We are currently
moving all our disaster recovery (DR) to cloud along with our all

non-core applications. All our core applications will shortly be
transferred into the cloud too.”

Kushal Varshney - CTO, Virescent Infrastructure
Kushal Varshney stated, “The challenge with traditional industries was

that they were not coming under necessary services. So managing
their data centers or server rooms was a challenging task. It is high

time that such organizations move into the cloud.”

November 2021