Elastic and CNBC-Tv18 presents lead with data solve with search
We live in an era where data is pervasive, ubiquitous and growing at an unfathomable rate. In 2020, humans were producing 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day and by 2022, the world was expected to produce and consume 94 zettabytes. Within this deluge, businesses seek to convert data into meaningful information that can facilitate informed business decisions.
Today’s enterprise leaders are investing time and resources in technologies that allow for the search of data from multiple sources to increase productivity, reduce cyber-security risks and save money. To explore how they can leverage data to gain faster insights, detect anomalies in infrastructure and protect mission-critical systems, CNBC TV18 and Elastic hosted ‘Lead with Data, solve with Search’. This special event highlighted how government organisations use data to accelerate outcomes that are important to citizens, in terms of delivering efficient services and ushering in democratization of access to information.
While delivering the welcome address, Ashutosh Kulkarni, Elastic’s CEO, explained how the company provided a suite of solutions that help businesses overcome problems with unstructured and semi-structured data. “Being able to correlate and analyze data, to get value quickly, in real time, is the difference between success and serious issues for a business,” he said, adding, “We have a large community of Elasticsearch users in India and continue to expand our presence here. We have grown very rapidly, both in terms of technical employees based out of Bengaluru and other parts of India, as well as teams that work with customers to help their security, observability and data insight initiatives are successful.”
As technology has been a great enabler for governance and service delivery to citizens and businesses in India, the sessions that followed showcased experts narrating how India is leveraging its data to materialize pioneering achievements.
The maiden session for the evening, themed ‘Driving the Success of Digital India and e-governance with Data’, put a spotlight on how this decade is going to enhance India’s capabilities in digital technology, which in turn can bridge the distance between the government and citizens and ensure better delivery of services to them. In a fireside chat, Paromita Chatterjee, the moderator for the interactions of the evening, initiated an engaging discussion with Abhishek Singh (IAS), MD & CEO, Digital India Corporation, Additional Charge, President & CEO, NeGD & CEO, MyGov, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
Abishek elaborated on how the Digital India mission seeks to leverage technology to bridge the gap between the government and citizens, to ensure that the needs of the latter are better met. With initiatives like Aadhaar and the digital payments system, India has not just paved the way for economic empowerment of its citizens, it has also become the envy of the world, with other mammoth digital initiatives, like the vaccination drive.