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IN CONVERSATION WITH

Cloud Cryptography by Sai Srivani Mandapaka

SANJAY VYAS CEO and Co-founder, Diyotta

Hubble’s Remarkable Secret Google Tools for p.04 31 Year Journey p.22 Your Business | Barkha Sheth | Ragini Agarwal

Contents

How These Secret Google Tools Will Take Your Business to a Next Level | Ragini Agarwal | P.22 In conversation with: Sanjay Vyas, CEO and Co-founder, Diyotta | P.47

10 B2B Marketing Trends that you Cannot Miss |Toulika Das | P.35

NFT’s – A 101 On Non-Fungible Tokens | Barkha Sheth | P.58 Cloud Cryptography –The Solution to your Cloud Security | Sai Srivani Mandapaka | P.74

Editor’s note

ryptocurrencies have gained a lot of popularity since Elon Musk’s recent tweet. This issue would talk about two cryptocurrencies that have been most talked about in the crypto world. $StopElon is the new cryptocurrency being created on the blockchain Binance Smart Chain which is currently trading at around 0.00005600 with a market capitalization of approximately $30 million. If you belong to the group of uninitiated who have been left scratching their heads on the latest cryptocurrency phenomenon, then this space is for you. Here is a complete 101 rundown of everything you need to know about this new trend in intellectual ownership, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

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Cyber-attacks have become the biggest social menace for many corporations. It can cost millions to big companies and harm their reputation in the corporate world. Not only large organizations, but it has also affected many individuals. We have provided you with a guide on cyber-attacks and how you can protect yourself and your organizations. In another article, we talked about Cryptographic security measures. Cloud cryptography utilizes encryption methods to safeguard data that is stored in a cloud environment. They offer security measures that best cover information in motion and information at rest.

The Fourth Technological Revolution: Why that Matters to Businesses

In our interview series, we spoke with Sanjay Vyas, CEO and Co-founder, Diyotta Inc. Mr Vyas spoke about his journey of launching a successful startup and how it got acquired by ThoughSpot recently. He also spoke about Diyotta’s products and how technology empowers them. During the interview he also gave some tips for young entrepreneurs and shared his thoughts on cryptocurrencies. We bring you the story of the Hubble Telescope, ‘Hubble’s Remarkable 31 Year Journey: Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. (Edwin Powell Hubble)’ in our ‘Story of Machine’ series.

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Hubble’s Remarkable 31 Year Journey Barkha Sheth

From supernovas to charting the effects of dark energy on the universe’s growth, and from capturing the distant moons to photographing thousands of galaxies to reveal galactic evolution; The Hubble Space Telescope is, as NASA terms, “the most important advance in astronomy since Galileo”. Techfastly | July 2021 | P- 4

Amidst a plethora of galaxies and distant stars, Hubble makes its quiet orbit around the Earth. Even today, as it speeds its way, at 17,000 miles an hour, the first major optical telescope to be placed in space is expanding scientific vision day after day. Since its launch in the 1990s, Hubble has consistently lifted a shutter from our view of the universe. In fact, it has changed our perception so profoundly that humans have never been able to look at the stars in the same way again. But as many, who were initially tasked with getting this scientific wizardry to the skies, would agree - the going was not easy.

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The life source of the planet, our atmosphere, acts as a translucent veil blurring our vision of the skies. Moreover, it does not help that the atmosphere is in constant flux, causing the light from the heavens to shift and wiggle as it reaches the naked eye. Did you know it’s this wobble that causes the twinkling of the stars? But on a photographic plate, this twinkling, in turn, causes the accumulated light to spread out so that a genuinely sharp image is just not possible. Trapped underneath the Earth’s

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Murky Sight – Glasses, Anyone?

unsteady atmosphere, early astronomers had to contend with looking up at the skies as if they had a terrible vision and were forbidden to wear glasses. In effect, up until man conquered parts of space, both professional and amateur astronomers were never sure of what they saw. A determined lot that astronomers are, they built more gigantic telescopes, some even perched on mountain tops, where the atmosphere is thinner. But even then, our brains refused to comprehend the fuzzy and distant images it perceived from the comforts of the ground. As a result, our theories on the universe’s expansion, its birth and its evolution were sound, but the data to support it was not good enough. But as fate would have it, one man would take the first steps in what would become an ambitious half-century-long saga to solve the age-old dilemma that astronomers had been facing. This man was about to propose that the United States build the first optical telescope – in space.

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Journey Sanjay and his co-founders were project managers and solution architects at a global communications company in the heyday of the data warehousing appliance, when they finally said enough is enough. In 2011, they started Diyotta as a side project to develop a new data integration architecture that could easily connect to data sources, leverage the processing power of modern data lakes and data warehouses, and adapt to new and changing technologies. Their startup story is not unlike many we’ve heard. After several months of coffee shop meetings, late-night deliberations, and successful prototypes, they finally left their day jobs and focused full-time on building their company. Their initial team included 15 developers working in a rented space in a gym. After 11,000 collective hours, Techfastly | July 2021 | P- 48

they launched Diyotta 1.0 and sold their first license in October 2011. Today, Diyotta has been successfully acquired by ThoughSpot. I am happy to be a part of a company that is changing that. Diyotta is a data integration technology that captures and moves enormous volumes of data from the many systems and applications that create it to the systems where it all comes together to be manipulated and analyzed by people and machines.

Q| Tell us a little bit about your past before you started Diyotta and what made you start this successful entrepreneurial journey? Right from a young age, I wanted to be independent and start an enterprise. Becoming an entrepreneur doesn’t happen overnight. One must have a zeal and passion for succeeding — which one may acquire overtime or be born with it. In my case, I believe I had that attitude right when I was young. I was not that normal kid who did things as expected. I was a risk-taker, and if 100 people took a left turn, I took a right. Even today, I like challenging the status quo. It was almost like an epiphany when I met the other two founders who incidentally were in the same situation as mine. That’s when our energies collided, and we conceptualized what soon became Diyotta. The timing of our collaboration was perfect because the industry witnessed a paradigm shift — moving from traditional data storage and processing to a more modern outlook with Hado and BI Data. So, we wanted to go all out. We discussed with our families about quitting our jobs and commencing this new journey.

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