C&L_December 2017 (1)
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INTERVIEW<br />
"Hybrid cloud serves<br />
as an ideal foundation<br />
to build a digital<br />
enterprise"<br />
From cost containment to hybrid strategies, CIOs are<br />
getting more creative in taking advantage of the cloud’s<br />
economies of scale<br />
I<br />
It is clearly a great time to be a datacenter player<br />
in APAC. There's a surge in local data consumption,<br />
customers are more inclined towards outsourcing<br />
datacenter services and government<br />
regulations are being seen as drivers of Asia<br />
Pacific’s datacenter services market growth. Can<br />
you describe which one of these reasons has been<br />
a guiding force for you to build more datacenters<br />
in India? Is the company planning to come up<br />
with more datacenters?<br />
A datacenter helps keep up with the real-time<br />
demands of an innovative company. It is also<br />
an important building block in the digital journey<br />
of an enterprise. Digital transformation and<br />
innovation are today, extremely important in<br />
winning, serving, and retaining customers. To<br />
meet the growing demand from global cloud,<br />
social media and telecom VAS companies, we<br />
are specifically planning to double our existing<br />
datacenter capacity next year. To this end, we<br />
are already coming up with two new large<br />
datacenters in Mumbai and Bangalore by<br />
April 2018.<br />
Netmagic currently has nine datacenters.<br />
The latest and fifth datacenter in Mumbai<br />
is the biggest facility in India and is spread<br />
over 3,00,000 square feet. With the two new<br />
datacenters, this will expand our overall pan<br />
India capacity to 13,00,000 square feet.<br />
With great opportunity also comes<br />
competition. However, in your<br />
case, bigger players such as Microsoft,<br />
IBM and Amazon, do not have a single<br />
physical building in India. How you are<br />
uniquely positioned to make the most<br />
of this opportunity?<br />
A customer looks for end-to-end managed<br />
services. The fact that we have a physical presence<br />
is an enabler in this direction. It also reflects in the<br />
fact that we are datacenter partners to most of the<br />
cloud service providers. We are uniquely<br />
positioned as we offer multi-cloud orchestration<br />
portal to deploy and manage multiple cloud<br />
platforms. Second aspect that makes us unique<br />
is the range of services that we can offer right<br />
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