Key Trends
The pace of adoption is most certainly accelerating. From a technology perspective, as mentioned earlier, IoT will be a key force in driving technology and adoption in a large way. New technologies like Container Operating Systems, No-SQL databases all have applications in IoT and Big Data.So we’re going to start seeing these platforms becoming much more prolific.
The other change we see is greater adoption of the Software-Defined Datacenter because of the greater flexibility and efficiency it affords in the datacenter. We’ve already made significant strides on this front by having software-defined Network and software-defined Storage, and we’re expecting other datacenters to follow suit.
The laws in many countries bar customer data being hosted in other countries. India too does insist on certain data being local – government data, customer financial data, customer payment data are all examples of data that have to be hosted within Indian borders.
Though personally, I believe that if the data isn’t sensitive or confidential in nature, then the customers should have the freedom to host their data wherever they see fit, local regulation of the countries must be respected.
I believe all industries will take to Cloud. Traditional slow movers like manufacturing and banking will start seeing massive gains to be had by leveraging the Cloud for their IoT, Big Data & Analytics need. The cost of deploying a platform for Big Data and Analytics internally would be much higher than using a quality platform offered by a Cloud service provider for more than 90% of companies out there. We’re already seeing mind-sets in these industries change – more CIOs from these industries have already begun their Cloud journey months ago where they started by moving apps to the Cloud in phases. Some apps, though, will always remain on-premise because they’re not fit for the Cloud – this could be for reasons of Compliance, latency, data sensitivity or just preference.
Finally, with lot of players, large and small in the market, selection of provider will be a key. For example, there are players that are startup-focused and offer a wide marketplace of products to choose from.If you’re a startup without an evolved in-house IT Support ecosystem, that is tremendous advantage.
Netmagic’s focus, on the other hand, is on mission-critical hosting that sees a lot of traction in the mid-market and the enterprise because it hasan enterprise-grade Cloud platform with extremely high availability and performance commitments. Our SLAs are a lot more palatable for large enterprises and we offer a wide suite of managed and professional services for mature customers to choose from.
Being present in the market for some time has also given us unique insights into customer’s requirement and our solutions are catered to meet those requirement in the most effective manner possible.
