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INTERVIEW "Hybrid cloud serves as an ideal foundation to build a digital enterprise" From cost containment to hybrid strategies, CIOs are getting more creative in taking advantage of the cloud’s economies of scale I It is clearly a great time to be a datacenter player in APAC. There's a surge in local data consumption, customers are more inclined towards outsourcing datacenter services and government regulations are being seen as drivers of Asia Pacific’s datacenter services market growth. Can you describe which one of these reasons has been a guiding force for you to build more datacenters in India? Is the company planning to come up with more datacenters? A datacenter helps keep up with the real-time demands of an innovative company. It is also an important building block in the digital journey of an enterprise. Digital transformation and innovation are today, extremely important in winning, serving, and retaining customers. To meet the growing demand from global cloud, social media and telecom VAS companies, we are specifically planning to double our existing datacenter capacity next year. To this end, we are already coming up with two new large datacenters in Mumbai and Bangalore by April 2018. Netmagic currently has nine datacenters. The latest and fifth datacenter in Mumbai is the biggest facility in India and is spread over 3,00,000 square feet. With the two new datacenters, this will expand our overall pan India capacity to 13,00,000 square feet. With great opportunity also comes competition. However, in your case, bigger players such as Microsoft, IBM and Amazon, do not have a single physical building in India. How you are uniquely positioned to make the most of this opportunity? A customer looks for end-to-end managed services. The fact that we have a physical presence is an enabler in this direction. It also reflects in the fact that we are datacenter partners to most of the cloud service providers. We are uniquely positioned as we offer multi-cloud orchestration portal to deploy and manage multiple cloud platforms. Second aspect that makes us unique is the range of services that we can offer right 4 CIO&LEADER | December 2017
Nitin Mishra, Netmagic Interview “IT heads should also invest in skills for cloud such as how to configure and manage hypervisors and hire people who have experience in procuring cloud" –Nitin Mishra, Senior Vice President & Chief Product Officer, Netmagic (an NTT Communications Company) from co-location dedicated hosting services, Cloud to Infrastructure management and security unlike the other players who only have cloud or some of hosting. It seems as though enterprise IT managers have become a lot more comfortable with the idea of the hybrid and public cloud. Are CIOs/customers leaning towards the hybrid cloud adoption as the hype suggests? Definitely. From cost containment to hybrid strategies, CIOs are getting more creative in taking advantage of the latest offerings and the cloud’s economies of scale. This is being fuelled by the need for enterprises to scale their resources to serve their customers better. The adoption of hybrid cloud has multiple benefits and serves as an ideal foundation to build a digital enterprise. It provides interoperability and helps a company’s systems become far more compatible with other systems. One of the key benefits of a hybrid cloud is provisioning at a lower cost and high speed (as and when required functionality of the public cloud component). A properly configured hybrid cloud solution changes the conversation between IT and the business as it shortens timeframes and expands possibilities. Hybrid cloud helps companies get a combination of the private and the public model and enables them to innovate and iterate faster at a lower cost. How according to you will the hybrid cloud markets evolve in the next few years? While companies will take some time to shift their critical workload to the hybrid cloud environment, future trends clearly indicate a preference for hybrid cloud computing. Gartner predicts that almost 50% of the larger organizations will have embraced hybrid cloud models by the end of 2017. Another survey indicates that IT and business executives about the importance of digital transformation, its goals, and how to achieve them, and found that hybrid cloud computing, including two or more of a datacenter, a public cloud, a private cloud and a managed private cloud, is the future of enterprise IT. While 83% use or will use hybrid cloud environments, 88% believe hybrid capabilities are important or critical to enabling digital business transformation. Cloud-dependent technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), real-time analytics, and collaboration, will December 2017 | CIO&LEADER 5
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