"Our priority is to transform the entire country digitally"

Mr. Piyush Somani (Founder, CMD & CEO)
ESDS Software Solution Pvt. Ltd.

Data center growth in India: The demand for data centers is rising since; digital transformation is the next big thing. Post COVID-19 digital transformation speed has been accelerated and the change will be seen in the upcoming 5 years instead of 10 years. Currently, people are not aware of the data center computing size required for next-generation technologies. World’s largest IoT project, which is India’s number one smart metering project, is going live phase by phase from ESDS intelligent cloud platform. 

Therefore, we know the amount of compute required for IoT. The amount of computing deployed in our data centers is humongous, where only 10 million Smart Meters have gone live. With 250 million smart meters going live, the compute consumed by data centers cannot be imagined.

AI and ML involve GPU computing which will consume power equivalent to 10 racks of today. In other words, each rack will consume 10 times the power of the rack consumed today. Similarly, blockchain initiatives and quantum computing which will be an emerging technology in the next 3 years will consume a massive amount of compute. Augmented reality and virtual reality too are compute-intensive. Thus, it can be clearly stated the next-generation technologies will be compute-intensive.

The data centers being implemented in the country will be occupied within no time since the massive amount of data centers will be required with the rise in technologies. With the rise of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan and post-COVID realization country will see a massive transformation with new data centers. 

Security & Data center: In the present scenario, security has turned out to be the biggest challenge. During COVID-19 induced lockdown, business organizations across the world have experienced ransomware attacks. Thus, security is crucial for cloud and data center offerings. The data center not offering security services will create a disaster for digital aspirants in the long run. If you have a data center then practicing SOC services is extremely important.

Post COVID-19 where people are working from home, there needs to be a strong security policy for the edge devices. Besides, an edge security solution should be installed on the devices transferring data to your cloud and data center ensuring the data is filtered. To ensure the customer data is digitally encrypted, it is vital to offer multiple encryption solutions within the cloud services.

ESDS enables its customers to secure the data with their encryption. So our customers are allowed to bring their encryption and ESDS too offers its encryption to some of our customers. We provide double encryption, where the database and applicationsare encrypted differently. A wide range of solutions are available in the market and SOC services have become important for the digital era.  

Readiness to meet the demand: Currently, the hyper-scale data center is the need of the hour. In the future, it is not just centralized hyper-scale data centers playing a crucial role but we will require high-quality data centers and compute at the edge data centers. Processing entire data at the centralized data center and sending it back is a tedious task. ESDS is ready to invest heavily into launching more data centers and cloud offerings.

Since we are a digital transformation company, we are not focused just on launching data centers. The thought process behind launching data centers is to consume them for our cloud offerings, to offer services to our customers.

We are not focused much on hyper-scale data centers but, on delivering digital transformation solutions to enterprises, government organizations, and the banking sector in India. We want to be a value-added partner in the growth process of Indian organizations.  We don’t want to do just data center business for earning revenue. Our priority is to transform the entire country digitally and impact the lives of more than a billion Indians. Delivering happiness to the people of India is the core purpose of the existence of ESDS.