On Cloud Nine

As ‘On Prem’ IT is on the ebb - a nexus of forces driven by cloud is increasing the demand for state-of-the-art data centers and Indian market is opening up to this reality.

- Shrikanth G

The data center market has come a long way. Just from rows of servers and computing resource processing islands of information, it has become the center of all things IT. The evolution of the data center from its rudimentary origins to what it is today defines the massive infusion of technologies that has changed the very personality of the IT infrastructure market. Thanks to virtualization and cloud which have ushered in this revolution.

As Srinivasan CR, Senior Vice President, Global Product Management & Data Centre Services, Tata Communications puts it, “With the rise of digital transformation, enterprises are looking for an IT infrastructure that can deliver flexibility and agility alongside fail-safe security. The cloud is the new IT architecture for enterprises and will continue to be a game changer for the information and technology industry. Enterprises will invest more in cloud services, boosting demand for network services and data centers. With cloud services, enterprises don’t need to make huge investments in infrastructure to use a huge infrastructure.

Let’s try and decode what has driven this change and why IT infrastructure companies of all hues focus their time, energy and investments on creating state-of-the-art data centers.

THE MARKET DYNAMICS

“India is currently the fastest-growing start-up ecosystem in the world and will also be the largest developer market by 2020 with over five million developers. This region is poised to unleash a tremendous amount of innovation in the next decade and the next generation businesses are going to be built on the cloud,” says Prabhakar Jayakumar, Country Manager, Digital Ocean.