Schneider Electric has completed its ‘5 City SME Connect’ with the Bangalore event. The city event was manily to interpret the SMEs’ technology challenges and mitigate those challenges with a systematic approach.

During the meet, decision makers from various SME organisations participated and sought solutions to their challenges and tried to understand the technology approaches from the resource persons of Schneider Electric's IT division and senior CIOs.

Power, cooling, racking and stacking, being important aspects of any data centre and often being undermined during the decision-making, the IT decision makers were keen to know about the criticality of these components.

With Bangalore being the IT hub of India, the panel discussion was an engaging one on optimising infrastructure to cater to the applications like IOT, Cloud Computing, Social Media Management, etc.

The key panelists included Shibu V Kurian, CIO, 10kInfo Data Solutions, Mayank Bedi, Head - IT, VST Tillers and Tractors, Amod Ranade - General Manager Data Center Business, Schneider Electric, Subbarao Hegde, CIO, ApOn Solutions, and Sanjay Mohapatra, Editor, SME Channels. being the moderator.

‘5 City SME Connect’ started on June 7 from Ahmedabad and covered cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi.