Author: Sairaj Iyer

Sairaj Iyer investigates the fascinating world of non-fungible tokens, and explains why they continue to be a realm filled with potential. The NFT marketplace could have never been so lifeless as it is in 2023. Google search trends have crashed. There’s negligible value of NFTs of popular IPL player. Nansen observed one in three NFT collections last 12 months expiring with negligible trading activity. Besides, Trading volume on OpenSea too seems tepid. If 2021 saw the NFT-market throw astronomical sums lavished to things like Merge, remember the 3 moons on canvas? Then, the 2023 NFT market is getting as boring…

For individuals and enterprises, protecting their digital soul should take precedence over discovering the hidden treasures of ‘data’, states Sairaj Iyer. In 2023, forged documents would score last in the context of frauds. Forging documents has become painstakingly boring in recent years if statistics are to be believed. You may want to watch the recently released thriller Farzi (Shahid Kapoor on Netflix) or Money Heist (Netflix) for some cinematic imagination. In reality, forging currency notes has few takers in the unorganized world. Besides, there is little left in the category of forging except passports, land-records, or cheque-sleeves. Online photo-editing tools…

Sairaj Iyer finds out if ‘gully cricket’ can leverage technology to give IPL a run for its money. The razzmatazz of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is just around the corner. But 50 miles north-east of Mumbai, a league is busy attracting players and fans alike. Unlike popular IPL where the white Kookaburra sails around the park, in the back alleys it is generally the green Goodshot doing the rounds.  However, let there be sufficient warning that this ain’t gully cricket you have experienced – there is play without fear of damaging windowpanes; teams appear in identifiable jerseys; two cameras…

Electricity theft is a severe problem which affects 1.5 per cent of India’s GDP. Sairaj Iyer writes on the digital solution and the need for Indian discoms to leverage from it. Electricity theft reportedly leaves a $96 billion hole in the financial sheets of power producers and distributors across the world. Countries such as India, Pakistan, Turkey, and Brazil observe the world’s largest thefts involving electricity. India alone loses $16 billion or Rs 1.32 lakh crores in power-thefts every year. Countries such as Pakistan, Brazil, and Russia rank among the top five when it comes to power-loss owing from theft.…

These band of innovators from IIT Madras were once struggling to make ends meet. Belief and knowledge of computer vision, a zeal to provide business solutions using Artificial Intelligence, Cricket at the office, and wisdom from Sridhar Vembu enabled them to build world’s leading image-AI stack. Here’s their story Can I use Dad’s creds for a SIM card? Short Answer: Maybe… If you request and Papa relents. Long Answer: Even if Dad allows, your telecom company is bound to reject your application. Most telecom providers in India use a cool tech-stack to prevent identity theft. Want to know how it…

Dhananjay Ganjoo, the India Managing Director at F5 Inc in a conversation with Sairaj Iyer answers how technologies such as distributed API protection and the Zero Trust approach are helping build a secure enterprise Customers need not see safety as a major reason of associating with a brand until they turn victims. This lack of vision by a customer should not be reason for enterprise complacency in tackling aspects of Cybersecurity which has become an intensely discussed enterprise topic in a post Covid era. The threat-matrix has evolved. For instance, India now ranks second only to the US in most…

Teaching jobs are hard to get and nearly difficult to fulfill. Here’s how a startup is enabling job-seekers with the use of AWS Education is a multi-billion industry and forecasts of investments worth $300 billion are only fuelling the excitement. At $220 billion, this industry slightly bigger than Technology and Services has seen unprecedented spurt during the pandemic days. While the potential is lucrative, the sector faces a gap — lack of a single platform to connect institutions with enthusiastic jobseekers wanting to teach. The gap motivated Manav Shah to ditch a cushy job in Corporate Finance to build Eduvacancy. At…

According to a LocalCircles study, Zoom (27%) is the second most preferred video-conferencing app for group video calls in India Does Zoom, the video-conferencing application, need any introduction? In covid days, Zoom, the ubiquitous app has found usage at school, business, and even among policymakers. According to a LocalCircles study, Zoom (27%) is the second most preferred video-conferencing app for group video calls in India. WhatsApp made the honors while Microsoft Teams got 11 percent of votes. Sify.com got a Zoom-in on Zoom’s growth numbers and business plans in an interaction with its India Chief Sameer Raje. Raje is the…

A global leader reveals why CMOs should promote stories than tech jargons Meet FIS, a global tech major that makes close to $9 billions every year. Four years ago, when Bandhan Bank was being setup, FIS was in the news with the bank opting FIS’ systems for its back-end. The deal was a per-transaction basis cost, considered by many bankers as novel and one of a kind in the industry. Ellyn Raftery, the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at FIS wished she had a saree that day while narrating the day of the launch. Raftery looks forward to building stories…

Sify’s Sairaj Iyer in conversation with Aditya Vuchi, Founder & CEO Of Doosra, about the evolution and the potential future of the company and its product line When Moin Khan coined the word Doosra it was of course in reference to the off-spin delivery from Saqlain Mushtaq that swung the other way. Ever since the Sharjah series in the 90s, leading off-spinners such as Muttiah Muralidharan, Saed Ajmal, Harbhajan Singh and Ravichandran Ashwin have used the Doosra effectively. Aditya Vuchi thought of spinning the same trick to tele-marketeers. A few days later he was asked to share his 10 digit…