Private and Public cloud data Centres in India- lot more to come.
Recently IBM has announced setting up of their first private cloud data centre in India. They would be building around 30,000 sq feet of datacentre facility in outskirts of Mumbai. IBM to target BFSI, Telecom, Government, Retail, SME among other IBM's traditional on-premise set of customers who already use their hardware & in premise products currently. This comes at a time when Gartner had estimated the sector to be $1.3 billion from $ 423 million currently and IBM's move comes a step ahead with commitment of putting up $1.2 billion investment when Microsoft, Amazon web services have announced their local data centres plans for India. However, Google does not looks at this seriously (or would be shortly announcing their cloud set-up plans for India) primarily because of the non-enterprise market focus being largely a consumer centric business organization. Amazon web services and Microsoft Azure are eying the enterprise market for a long now with public c...