Data on Cloud

Fast forward to Smart Datacentres and Clouds

- Pradeep Chakraborty

There was a Datacentre and Cloud Infrastructure Summit organised recently by ASSOCHAM. Speaking about the propellers for data centre growth, Kundan Ghodke, DGM, Sales & Marketing, GPX Global Systems, listed some factors:

Robust domestic data consumption

Government push for digital economy

Data localization

Migration to cloud-based business operations

Big Data and IoT to increase data center investment

Increased adoption of converged and hyper-converged infrastructure platforms

5G deployment

Pandemic effect.

CIOs and CTOs are looking for some hybrid solutions. There is some specific need. There is a requirement for hyper-scale large datacentres. Edge datacentres are needed. They have key attributes of being carrier-neutral and service-neutral. They are connected to multiple cloud providers.

GPX datacentre campus offers carrier content cloud rich neutral ecosystem. This comprises of 12 carriers and 140+ ISPs, 8 CSPs, 9 CDNs, 4 IXPs and leading content providers with geographic proximity to subsea cables.

Jitesh Nair, Country Lead, Hybrid IT Services, HPE, said the next wave of digital transformation will be fuelled by apps and data everywhere. The HPE GreenLake is the cloud comes to you. HPE GreenLake Central has containers, virtual machines, ML, Big Data, private cloud, data protection, networking, storage, compute etc.