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Nitin Mishra, Netmagic Interview
“IT heads should
also invest in skills
for cloud such as
how to configure and
manage hypervisors
and hire people who
have experience in
procuring cloud"
–Nitin Mishra,
Senior Vice President & Chief
Product Officer, Netmagic (an NTT
Communications Company)
from co-location dedicated hosting
services, Cloud to Infrastructure
management and security unlike the
other players who only have cloud or
some of hosting.
It seems as though
enterprise IT managers
have become a lot more
comfortable with the idea of
the hybrid and public cloud.
Are CIOs/customers leaning
towards the hybrid cloud
adoption as the hype
suggests?
Definitely. From cost containment to
hybrid strategies, CIOs are getting
more creative in taking advantage of
the latest offerings and the cloud’s
economies of scale. This is being fuelled
by the need for enterprises to scale their
resources to serve their customers better.
The adoption of hybrid cloud has
multiple benefits and serves as an ideal
foundation to build a digital enterprise.
It provides interoperability and helps
a company’s systems become far more
compatible with other systems.
One of the key benefits of a hybrid
cloud is provisioning at a lower cost
and high speed (as and when required
functionality of the public cloud
component). A properly configured
hybrid cloud solution changes the
conversation between IT and the
business as it shortens timeframes and
expands possibilities. Hybrid cloud
helps companies get a combination of
the private and the public model and
enables them to innovate and iterate
faster at a lower cost.
How according to you will
the hybrid cloud markets
evolve in the next few years?
While companies will take some time
to shift their critical workload to the
hybrid cloud environment, future
trends clearly indicate a preference
for hybrid cloud computing. Gartner
predicts that almost 50% of the larger
organizations will have embraced
hybrid cloud models by the end of
2017. Another survey indicates that
IT and business executives about the
importance of digital transformation,
its goals, and how to achieve them, and
found that hybrid cloud computing,
including two or more of a datacenter,
a public cloud, a private cloud and a
managed private cloud, is the future
of enterprise IT. While 83% use or
will use hybrid cloud environments,
88% believe hybrid capabilities are
important or critical to enabling
digital business transformation.
Cloud-dependent technologies, such
as Internet of Things (IoT), real-time
analytics, and collaboration, will
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