"Our Infinite Datacenter vision is to create a fog of computing, storage & network infrastructure reaching every one"

A S RAJGOPAL
Managing Director & CEO, NxtGen

Data center growth in India: As we all are aware that each of the computing models, public or private serve specific purposes. Enterprises have been investing in private clouds for over 5 - 7 years and now there has been a big ramp up of the public cloud infrastructure. This works well for traditional application models where data lives in the data center. It is time for applications to move closer to Data, consumers.

India is a very large country with a developing network infrastructure, to serve this country it is not enough to invest in centralised data center facilities, but to enable distributed computing models enabled by the Edge. We import most of the data that we consume and the public policy will push the data to be hosted within the country so that laws of the land can be applied within their jurisdictions. In the next couple of years we will see a big influx of big tech companies into India, seeking whole-sale collocation space, beyond the current thought process of serving the hyper-scalers.

We also note that the enterprises are shy of investing, there will be many who will opt for hosted private clouds along with public clouds for specific applications. In summary, the market is underserved for whole-sale, enterprise co-location for hosted private clouds and the Edge.

Security & Data center: Our first and foremost responsibility is to secure our infrastructure including the electrical, HVAC and surveillance & access control systems. We are using Artificial Intelligence to secure the facilities and prepare them to be human-free datacenters. In parallel, we are using machine learning algorithms to predict and avoid outages. 

Our future is AIOps and SecOps, to ensure our datacenters are human-free.

  
Readiness to meet the demand: As 5G is rolled-out our terrestrial networks will require big upgrade or they will choke. The immediate future is applications moving nearer to the data/consumer and the Edge is the big enabler. We have identified 236 locations where we will take our Edge and compliment it with a software defined network from multiple service providers. Our Infinite Datacenter vision is to create a fog of computing, storage & network infrastructure reaching every one of the 644 districts in the country.

To enable applications leverage the Edge, we are now offering managed kubernates service. The Infinite Datacenter will be smart enough, to automatically take the web-service to the Edge closer to where the consumer is. 

It is not enough to deploy the infrastructure, India is a very large country and it can only be served by a strong channel partner network, not just to resell services, but understand the local customer needs and provide them with host of services above the infrastructure layer. We are embarking on a mission to empower a large partner base in excess of 2,000+ Partners with new capabilities and a powerful service offering. We expect to launch that early April ‘21.