Business Opportunities in Virtualization & Cloud Computing

In today’s technological world, there has been a better understanding and acceptance of virtualization as well as cloud computing among enterprises with many of them already planned and switched their next step to big data centers. As per the Managing Director of SAARC and VMware India, T Srinivasan “New and emerging trends including enterprise mobility and software defined data centers will play a significant role in ascertaining the next step of the virtualization and cloud excursion.” While managing and contending a large number of ambiguities and confusion over the last few years, the IT industry showed great flexibility and compliance including a considerate globalized business environment those swift companies timely to hold off their investments and Indian currency that in real affected the IT decisions of several enterprises. Though, with time we have seen a growing and spreading adoption of virtualization and cloud computing technology over the period of time as there has been a better maturity, responsiveness and understanding among consumers on the business advantages and positives of cloud computing services.      

Our recent discussions with the customers are also about how fast and speedily they want to move to the cloud. The discussion is no more about the fact that how long will it take for them to virtualize, but how fast they can do it. According to the findings of annual third VMware Cloud Index 2012 and a legal study supervised by Forrester Consulting apprehended that approximate 81% of the appellants agree that virtualization is extremely critical to enable cloud computing and about 94% have planned already to take a next step of leveraging virtualization in their companies and organizations. The study also revealed the fact that there has been a rush going on in the cloud usage in India where more than 50% of the defendants have already adopted cloud computing solutions and there has been a remarkable growth hike of 25% as compared to year 2011. About 30% of the prospects have confirmed that they are planning to devise cloud computing solutions within next 18 to 24 months of time period, highlighting the attributes and features of growing and emerging cloud computing in India.

In simple words, the market has been flourished and matured with a better idea and conceptualization of virtualization and cloud computing among firms and many of them have already planned to take their next big step for their business data centers. Based on our knowledge and understanding, they believe the evolving trends such as enterprise mobility and software defined data centers will play a magnificent role in the long run.   

Software Defined Data Centers – Such data centers provide sound and effectual cloud computing solutions for agile, robust and trustworthy IT applications by extending the virtualization positives to each and every domain in the data center including storage, compute, networking and the associated security solutions. In addition, these data centers isolate the essential hardware resources and splash them into aggregate capacity, enabling the process of automation to effectively and securely trifle it out as required for applications. Moreover, the customers making use of such data centers can have their own virtual centers too with a separate collection of all virtual storage, compute, security and networking resources they are used to. Apart from covering the inherent flexibility cum rigidity of the system under a bundle of scripts, such constraints actually alter the way in which data centers are delivered. The final outcome for enterprises will be promising and transformative – turning software defined data centers to render strategic and imperative advantages to the business by delivering the same advantages for IT as a whole that virtualization provided for memory as well as computing.

IT industry is no longer just a game, it has competition. Users have become more competitive and challenging. They make use of latest tools and technologies to woe different organizations and not only to provide easy access and business compliant technologies but also to enable a productive and dynamic workforce. The coming period is seen by many of them as an era of multi device mobile computing workspace, BYOD, along with the consumerization of IT. The leading and emerging service providers catering infrastructure management, enterprise computing services, virtualization and cloud computing solutions, information security services and network management are IB Technology , IBM, HCL, Cisco, Cognizant, Unisys and Infosys.