INDIA CAN BE A GLOBAL TECH TRANSFORMATION LEADER

India can become the tech capital of the decade or even the century. R. Venkatesh, President, Enterprise Business Group at Redington Ltd, looks at India’s place on the global stage and other trends. Edited excerpts from a video interview.

- Sunil Rajguru

R. VENKATESH
President, Enterprise Business Group, Redington Ltd

How the pandemic changed the industry

The pandemic had an impact on all of our personal and professional lives to a large extent. Specific to enterprises, digital transformation became a top priority for organizations. While this was always talked about in the past, the acceleration that we have seen in digital adoption and transformation across sectors, across industries and across enterprises was possibly unmatched post-pandemic.

The second aspect is hybrid work became a standard practice. To a large extent the IT services sector is struggling to get back people into the office.

Thirdly, in the past infrastructure used to be more consolidated. From: How do I keep it centralized in my premise, it became more distributed. It became a hybrid environment. I have something on prem, I have co-located something and I have moved something into public cloud.

Cloud has almost become mainstream today. Cloud has been one of our fastest growing businesses in the last few years and especially post-pandemic it has continued that momentum.

Is cloud real? Is there a role for organizations like Redington to play? Will it even solve any of our challenges? These were all the questions in the customer's mind a few years ago. Today if customers don't adopt cloud even for some of the workloads, then it feels that there is something wrong with that organization.