Cloud, Datacenter

Data Center and Cloud Computing in India

Data Center and Cloud Computing in India

Opportunities & Challenges

The rapid growth in the Datacenter and cloud solutions and services in India there is an expected high demand for the cloud based solutions. “A report published by IT research and advisory firm Gartner estimates that in India alone the market for cloud-based services will rise by a third to $557 million this year, and more than triple by 2018. “

Gartner Says India IT Infrastructure Spending to Reach $2 Billion in 2015 and India Will Be The Second Largest Market For Data Center Infrastructure In Asia/Pacific

Focusing growing IT Infrastructure requirements in India, it makes sense to provide solutions and consultancy on the challenges coming through. This spans through

  • Data Center Services
  • Introducing Cloud Computing Solutions to small, mid and enterprise scale IT Infrastructure requirements.

It is not very encouraging though that India stands 29th, as per 2013 Datacenter Risk Index used for Global Investment Decisions created by Cushman & Wakefield LLP, Hurleypalmerflatt and Source8 based research study. This index was created against multiple factors attributing to Datacenter Uptime. Some of these areas are Energy Costs, Internet Bandwidth, Water Supply, Natural Disasters, Education ( specific to IT Education), Energy Security, GDP PER CAPITA and Inflation. “The retail data centre market has continued to grow with operators beginning to build out larger Tier-III facilities. The opportunities for growth are substantial but the ease of doing business is still a barrier. Power security still remains a significant risk stemming from the lack of diversity of energy imports and increasing reliance on imported oil making it still the highest risk country in the APAC region. However despite these challenges, the perspective remains that long-term India will be an attractive investment opportunity.” Says the research. When it comes to Cloud Adoptions, like any country Cloud Computing, the terminology is becoming popular in India as well, although in the real life, this has not yet been well adopted in India. As per the study, even with the growing demands, so far only 2-5% of IT requirements in India have been fulfilled through cloud computing solutions. Since the inception of Cloud Computing, specially for Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), IT requirements have taken a completely different shape of looking at IT Infrastructure as a service.  SAAS form of cloud has been there since the birth of email services over the public network. As a last note in this Blog is to know the beneficiaries of the public based Cloud Infrastructure offerings. A mid or small scale startup, vendors or ISVs who

  • Are not sure about the scale of their business growth and would like to use the cloud capabilities.
  • Are not sure about the life of a particular product and unable to define infrastructure reusable capabilities, so use cloud.
  • Need elasticity of the Infrastructure resources as and when needed, which allows them to take a call on infrastructure design
  • Need cheaper and “Pay as you go” model allowing customers to only pay for required operational IT infrastructure resources for a given capacity and time.
  • Need to reduce the time to procure Infrastructure resources from days to hours.
  • Need to reclaim the unused capacity or due to the end of product lifecycle

Till date not many Data-centers based in India, are providing services for public hosting and cloud solutions. Some of the Data-center Hosting and Co-Location Services providers listed below.

Company

Website

Offerings 

CtrlS

 http://www.ctrls.in Datacenter Hosting and Public Cloud Offerings. All datacenters are Tier IV certified

BSNL

 http://www.bsnlcloud.com/pages/index.asp Datacenter Hosting and Public Cloud Offerings

Netmagic Solutions

 http://www.netmagicsolutions.com Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud, Pre-Provisioned Servers, Colocation and Hosting solutions. SAP Certified

Reliance

 http://www.relianceidc.com/HTML/index.html Colocation, Hosting and Cloud Computing.

Go4hosting

 http://www.go4hosting.in/ Dedicated Hosting, Cloud Computing, VPS Hosting, Colocation, Disaster Recovery Services,

Net4

 http://www.net4.in/aspx/general/company-info.aspx Data Centre & Cloud Hosting Solutions, Enterprise Internet Services, VoIP Solutions, Enterprise Messaging & Hosting Solutions and Domain name registration

Airtel

 http://www.airtel.in/aes/home/Data+Center+Services Managed Hosting, Storage  and Colocation

Tata Telecommunications

 http://microsites.tatacommunications.com/providers/datacenter/ Colocation, Managed Hosting and Storage

Micronova

 http://micronova.in/ Colocation, Cloud VPS, Dedicated Servers and Hosting Solutions. ISO 27001 Certified

Ricoh

 https://www.ricohidc.com/about-ricoh.html Dedicate Server, Virtual Private Server, Cloud Server, Managed Service, Co-Location Service, Email Hosting And Disaster Recovery. ISO 27001

WebWerks

 http://www.web-werks.com/ Dedicated Servers, Cloud Hosting, VPS and Co-location Services.

Sify

 http://datacentre.sify.com/datacentre-home.html Hosting and Colocation, Tier III Datacenter Certified by “Uptime Institute”

Strad Solutions

 http://www.stradsolutions.com/ Dedicated, VPS and CO-LOCATION Web Hosting Solutions