OPDC find takers amongst Coimbatore 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 10 partners and 90 enterprises during the Smart Infrastructure Forum in Coimbatore. And there seemed to be several takers for this modular data center model both amongst partners and enterprises.

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.

B Vasanth Chellappa, CEO, Chellsoft Technologies who primarily counts manufacturing and hospitality organizations amongst its customers feels that a modular data center solution can help them bring down their opex. Agrees Suresh Rajaram V, Director, eCaps India, "OPDC can be a viable solution for both corporates and SMBs. There is huge scope for these modular data centers amongst SMBs as they are relatively quick and easy to install."

Adds Ramkumar, CEO, Readylink Communications & Services, "We are primarly catering to BPOs and to popularize these solutions there, we need to focus on highlighting the commercial aspects." A Vinoth Kumar of Frontier Business is counting the engineering industry and educational institutions amongst potential takers. "The MD of an engineering organization in Bengaluru is already interested and we may be talking of some more interests soon." Incidentally, Frontier is already working with NxtGen in Bengaluru.

B Neil Vidyalankar, head, operations, Spectra Systems though presents a contrarian view. "In markets like Coimbatore where the maturity level is pretty low, the acceptance for such solutions is very slow. Most people are reluctant to try out new technologies and the only solution is to go for an aggressive education drive."