Exclusive Interview: AS Rajgopal, MD and CEO, NxtGen Infinite Datacenter

In an interaction with DQ Channels, AS Rajgopal, MD and CEO, NxtGen Infinite Datacenter shared a journey to become a cloud service provider and shed light on different cloud solutions they offer.

How NxtGen has become a cloud service provider?

Since its inception in 2012, NxtGen’s mission has been to help its customers build & grow their businesses by delivering a differentiated consumer-centric approach helping users of diverse scales with reliable, secure, flexible, simplified IT solutions, through existing, robust infrastructure at a cost-efficient pricing model. To achieve these objectives, NxtGen continuously evaluates and upgrades the technologies that help deliver customer-centric services. NxtGen initially started as a data center company, but a major portion of the revenue was received from cloud services.

We aspired to become one of the most sought after cloud service providers within the first few years of operations. It is thus, that we chose to partner with VMware because of the breadth and quality of their infrastructure offerings. Over the years, NxtGen has built datacenters offering cutting-edge technologies thereby creating the concept of Infinite Datacenter. This approach is a hybrid model of accessing and delivering unlimited IT resources across customers and NxtGen's datacenters as business needs dictate. NxtGen Infinite datacenter takes away the complexities of running infrastructure and allows customers to focus on their applications.

How is NxtGen fulfilling the demands of Indian consumers?

The Indian consumer is demanding and value-conscious. We endeavour to fulfil the demands of the Indian market by providing value and quality to Indian enterprises, by offering solutions that are at par with the international markets. NxtGen’s vision is to be a one-stop-shop for computing, storage and network infrastructure accessible to everyone where customers have elastic IT infrastructure available on-demand, and pay-per-use, resulting in freeing IT budgets to invest in new application rollouts. The key services include a complete/ holistic cloud cover, facilitated by its Infinite datacenter enabling the digital transformation of enterprises with its quality innovation, simplified technology, and cost-efficient IT infrastructure, IT continuity, and IT transformation solution serving our customers as a comprehensive cloud service provider.

What are the cloud solutions/services offered by NxtGen to its customers?

 NxtGen’s Multi-cloud Services integrate an enterprise’s internal and external environments at the data, process management, and security layers to offer a complete data center solution. Whether it is a service from a global cloud service provider, our own cloud offering, or a customer’s private cloud or physical infrastructure, NxtGen provides seamless network integration and single-point manageability across all platforms.

Enterprise Cloud Services

• NxtGen ECS provides the best of both worlds: On-demand scalability and pay-per-use model of a cloud, without moving your data and applications out of premise
• We have a single control panel to enable provisioning of all NxtGen ECS services; Virtual Machines, Storage, Load balancers, Firewall, CDN. It is fully manageable via web/mobile app

SpeedCloud

• An Application Services Platform powered by Open stack for the core and edge. Rapid Application Deployment across Bare Metal, Virtual Machines, and Container-based Deployments.
• Pre-packaged Virtual Instances, Developer Productivity Modules, Web Services, and Advanced Technology SaaS Offerings & Data Management Services at an unbelievable price to performance.
• Ideal for a developer pursuing an idea, an OEM, a SaaS provider, or an entrepreneur of a tech company.

High-Density Data center

• NxtGen HDDC is designed to exceed Tier III specifications with state-of-the-art multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure deployed across 4 data centers in the country - Bangalore, Mumbai, Faridabad, Ahmedabad, to support all critical applications
• We provide reliable support 24/7 all through the year

Infinite Datacenter

• Building a digital enterprise without owning IT infrastructure is now possible with the NxtGen Infinite datacenter. With our datacenter solution, we can focus on core business while we take care of IT infrastructure
• We create additional capacities for new or existing applications

Back up as a service

• We also provide backup as a service that can be extended to existing customers who have subscribed to either colocation/ECS services of NxtGen or can be proposed as a stand-alone service on the premise of the customer
• We have the flexibility of choosing VM Snapshot Backup or data backup

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

• We have a fast recovery with swift data backup and recovery through near synchronous replication
• We have cloud migration and disaster recovery for multi-tier applications, not just virtual machines

Managed Security-as-a-Service

• We offer a broad set of security capabilities such as protection against malware attacks, intrusion detection, monitoring unauthorized or out-of-policy changes, and identifies suspicious events to the server
• We provide detailed security reports, policy compliance status, scanning web application vulnerabilities, and support for internal compliance initiatives

 AI-based Video Analytics

• We have Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is driven correlation engine for multiple feeds with a powerful transcoding engine
• We have a real-time smart dashboard for Data ingestion, Processing, and Visualization
• We have outcome-based use cases such as object detection & classification, traffic management, face detection, identification and recognition, fire & smoke detection, IoT edge gateways, and telemetry

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