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Do you see the market starting to move towards cloud computing in India?
The idea of delivering computing services through a network is not something
new. Though this market has now matured as customers want to see how they can
use IT better and the value it is adding. Traditionally, we had organizations
supporting their own IT infrastructure (equipments) inside the organization;
to manage that they would look for partners; and we would use this
infrastructure to deliver services. We call this model adaptive
infrastructure. Everything would fall between systems management, automation,
and virtualization. This is where players like HP come into the picture. The
second model is managed services and outsourcing, and we are in this domain too.
And third is the cloud service, which is an extension of adaptive service. As of
now, there is little movement around cloud services, some SMBs are slowly
getting there, but among large enterprises (LE) the adaptive infrastructure
has been well taken.
What kind of traction do you notice among SMBs?
Most of it is consumer driven. In fact cloud is extremely popular among the
SMBs. For instance, within HP, we have seen how popular Snapfish is. Other
examples include Google mail and there are many others like them as well. Now
within SMBs, they have started to experiment with cloud, because they just need
to pay as they use. Having said that I do feel it is an expensive option in the
long-run. From our side, we are doing a lot to cap the SMB segment; we hold
cloud workshops, from where they can pick products that suit them.
How is HP geared to capitalize the cloud apps market?
We have a range of services and products in cloud, which are mostly covered
under mission critical applications and infrastructure. We also plan to launch
our integrated product portfolio in a months time from now (which is globally
available). Essentially it is an extension of HPs blade systems products with
large integration and management.
How do you see this market evolving in India?
If we go by market projections, the worldwide IDC numbers estimate it to be
at $42 bn by 2012. We believe that at least a percentage of this would be the
India market. Already a big push is being given by verticals like government,
travel, retail, manufacturing, and so on. So the future does seem very bright.
Urvashi Kaul
urvashik@cybermedia.co.in Page(s) 1
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