COVER STORY
George Chacko Principal Systems Engineer & Lead Technical Consultant, Brocade India of Things (IoT) and Big Data which are expected to grow exponentially in the next 20 years, will drive Cloud usage to a large extent,” says Rajesh Dhar, Senior Director, Technology Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India. “The IT industry is observing a paradigm shift in the technology space today. The cloud phenomenon, which enables an automated and optimized performance, is majorly driving the shift. The growing cloud market in India with an estimated CAGR of 32% over the years 2013-18 stands as a proof for the same. Gartner’s Cloud Adoption Survey in January 2015 revealed 53% of organizations were already using Cloud services and another 43% in the same survey indicated planned adoption by the end of the year. It also states that by 2018 public Cloud spending in India will reach nearly $2 billion, from $638 million in 2014,” explains Debmalya Dey Roy, Vice-President – Sales & Marketing, Pi Datacenters. Ashok Shenoy, Director, Datacenter Sales, Cisco India & SAARC, observes, “Indian enterprises are now harnessing the Cloud for better agility and integration with global supply chains and markets. The Cisco Global Cloud Index projects that 83% of the global data- center traffic would move through Cloud services with yearly traffic amounting to 10.4 zettabytes by 2019. Industry trends point to increased infrastructure spends that would have an impact on new technologies, products, operations, organizational cultures and markets. The arrival of mobility and big data has further increased India’s appetite for Cloud. With digitization of businesses and processes, we expect Cloud adoption in India would continue to grow. Businesses are also looking for smart data centers that deliver virtualization, storage, automation, visibility and lower energy footprints to ensure flexibility and cost- effectiveness.”
Data Center Planning & Modernization
CIOs and organizations today are constantly looking at building data centers from a long- term standpoint. This can sometimes become challenging for a
Jim Simon Senior Director – Marketing, Asia-Pacific, Quantum
Indian enterprises are now harnessing the Cloud for better agility and integration with global supply chains and markets. The Cisco Global Cloud Index projects that 83% of the global data- center traffic would move through Cloud services with yearly traffic amounting to 10.4 zettabytes by 2019. Industry trends point to increased infrastructure spends that would have an impact on new technologies, products, operations, organizational cultures and markets. The arrival of mobility and big data has further increased India’s appetite for Cloud. With digitization of businesses and processes, we expect Cloud adoption in India would continue to grow. Businesses are also looking for smart data centers that deliver virtualization, storage, automation, visibility and lower energy footprints to ensure flexibility and cost- effectiveness.
Rakesh Kumar Singh Tech Lead, Datacenter Technologies, Juniper Networks – India & SAARC CIO, considering business pressures and technology viabilities can end up exerting pressure on the IT Infrastructure of an organization. “A majority of organizations today are looking at scalable and modular data center solutions. Scalable and modular data centers are an option a lot of organizations today looking at as they can be built and customized according to requirements,” says Shrirang. Srinivas, on his part, suggests a few points that should be assessed while planning for a basic data center blueprint – Power planning: Efficient optimization of power usage is of vital importance while planning for a data center. While monitoring the consumption of power by a data center, one also needs to consider the cooling infrastructure in which the system operates. Adaptability: Data centers should be adaptable to absorb technological changes and act as enablers in providing faster processing result. Space optimization: Opting for a modular design facilitates simplicity and flexibility, allowing enterprise IT architects to add or remove building blocks, as needed. Enterprises are also opting for converged data center infrastructure where one can have computing and storage functions in one appliance, thus improving scalability without additional expenditure on hardware, etc. Security: With cyber-attacks and threats becoming a hot topic in the connected devices space, data centers need to focus on security. Going hybrid: A mix of both public and private Cloud can be adopted, the former providing resource sharing over multiple users and the latter allow more control over of security, performance and service-level agreements offer best of both worlds. George states that organizations should embrace software-defined data centers (SDDCs) which are the next step in the evolution of virtualization and Cloud computing as it provides a solution to support both legacy enterprise applications and new Cloud computing services. “Software is what implements incredibly
www.varindia.com
June 2016
39