NxtGen Solutions big hit amongst Hyderabad partners

NxtGen Datacenter and Cloud Services, one of India's leading data center services solution providers, emphasized on the advantages of an On-Premise Data Center (OPDC) to an audience of more than 20 partners and 80 enterprises during the Smart Infrastructure Forum in Hyderabad. And there seemed to be several takers for this modular data center model.

OPDC is a plug and play self-contained data center on the organization's own premises (coming from a single vendor) without the associated capex. Reduced power consumption and cooling requirements and no AMCs help organizations achieve this and maintain a low opex as well.

PVK Pathanjali, AGM (IT Infrastructure Solutions & Services), CMC was effusive in his praise for the OPDC. "This modular data center model is the future, especially in real estate prices are always moving North. Hardly any room is needed to fit these in, even the balcony will do. That is a real advantage," he feels. Though for the OPDC to be accepted in an industrial environment, he feels some more ruggedization might be required.

CMC which specializes in deployments in public sector institutions, promises to look at NxtGen data center offerings with more interest. In fact, in the upcoming data center projects in defence establishments in Balasore, they might be working with NxtGen. There are projects with Railtel (7 data centers coming up) and IDRBT where too CMC might look at partnering with NxtGen.

While the fact that additional civil construction not being required can be an advantage for NxtGen for public sector projects, there is need to devise some way to bypass the common practice amongst government organizations to look for multiple vendors when releasing specs in their tenders.

KVS Giri of IntermaC, on the other feels that OPDC could be a big hit amongst the SMBs. "It works out especially well on the budget front since the pricing points are comparable to Tie 3 or Tier 4 data centers," he adds. IntermaC boasts of a number of IT companies (natural in Hyderabad) among its clientele and Giri is confident that there will be a growing demand for NxtGen OPDC among them.

NxtGen also elaborated on its offerings of Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS). Private clouds will also be offered along with OPDC for increased capacities for computing and storage. Enterprises could go for a combination of private clouds for their core applications while their non-core applications like HR, payroll could move into a public cloud.

Other Hyderabad partners too agreed that both OPDC and ECS could be big hits amongst their customers. RSN Murthy, Director, Sales & Operations, Externetworks who has more than 50 colleges as clients feels that there could be a keen interest amongst them to deploy these solutions.

Govind Putta, Director, Vainavi too feels the same could happen amongst his clientele in tech labs as well as co-operative banks in rural areas. "What needs to be done is to employ neutral consultants to educate these banks about NxtGen solutions, as the decision makers here are mostly not very IT savvy," adds Putta.

Both NxtGen and its technology partner Emerson exhorted their solution partners to help customers choose from a combination of their Enterprise Cloud Services according to their own business requirements. Anshul Kumar, Senior Manager, Emerson spoke about Emerson's new SmartCabinet and SmartRow offerings and explained to partners on the usage of their products and their power efficiency values.

Ratnakar K, director, Choice Solutions, an existing Emerson partner informed that they are already looking at depolying NxtGen solutions amongst his customers. One of NxtGen customers, Sesanka Pemmaraju - Director IT, Hitachi Consulting, also effusively endorsed OPDC and exhorted his fellow CIOs to go for this solution. "It greatly helped during our phase of infrastructure consolidation," he added.

The business values from OPDC and Enterprise Cloud Services were also emphasized during a panel discussion attended by Satish Vishwanathan, Head Products, NxtGen, Srinivas Kalluri from Intel, Praveen Vijayaraghavan from Microsoft and Pemmaraju - Director IT, Hitachi Consulting.