Innovation should not be for the heck of it, or merely to appear good in front of other organisations. It should serve a purpose.
That’s a point made strongly in the recent ER&D Quarterly Immersive Series produced by the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).
“When we look at the business benefits of innovation, the key differentiators could be lowering the cost of R&D,” said Gopinath Balakrishana, senior director, systems design engineering at Western Digital. “Innovation in the Indian context brings to mind upcoming connectivity for five billion endpoint devices. Only 10 per cent of it is likely to be stored. So then the concern is to create more storage devices.”
Innovation should enable much more storage as data from many more devices needs to be stored. With this, comes concerns of security. This in itself gives scope for new ideas for secure solutions. Another aspect is that the performance requirements of endpoint...