Need access to data at the right time and right cost

The panel discussion on "The multi-cloud: flexibility, agility and economy"featured Dr. Chander Shekhar Devra, CIO (Speciality Chemicals), SRF Ltd, Kamal Kashyap, Director and Country Manager - Storage Business Unit, HP Enterprise, Samir Mathur, Founder and CEO, SM Consulting, and Sarbani Bhatia, Senior VP-IT, Dainik Jagaran. Anil Chopra, VP, Research & Consulting, Cyber Media Research, was the moderator

- Aanchal Ghatak

Dr. Chander Shekhar Devra, SRF, said there are basic problems of promoters and stakeholders. Most providers look at the security aspect. You either obfuscate the company data or do complete encryption. You can put data on one cloud, and a copy to another cloud. Cloud is now the only choice. We have to find solutions from the IT perspective. We can also go into multi-cloud.

Kamal Kashyap, HP Enterprise, said there should be availability of data to all stakeholders. You need access to the data at the right point in time, and at the right cost. There is also security, irrespective of Edge, core, and cloud. Hosting can be on the sovereign national boundaries, and there is a cost. Sometimes, organizations are paying for the used data and for repatriating it back. A lot of stuff can also be on-prem. We need to ensure agility, flexibility, and economy so that we can have the economic experience of the cloud and operational ease. Any organization can have apps on-prem, cloud, etc.