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Intel bets big on the cloud and ecommerce sectors in India

Last Updated 18 May 2016, 17:36 IST

 Intel India has announced its new offerings of cloud-based Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) for data centres to take on new opportunities in ecommerce and internet of things (IoT) verticals.

In an interaction with Deccan Herald, Intel South Asia Enterprise Solution Director Srinivas Tadigadapa said the new offerings will give new business opportunities for Indian enterprises.

“Cloud is great disruption after the PC era, and has been a focus area for Intel. Also 50-billion devices are connected annually and lots of data is generated. So we have to make data centres robust, secure and perform better with its SDI platform,” he said.

The company is providing performing x86 platform for software defined data centre solutions to its customers in the country, including the Intel Xeon E5 2600v4 family of powerful processors with Intel Resource Director Technology and enhanced security feature.

Tadigadapa said that both cloud service providers and enterprises are looking at SDI, as it would allow businesses to adopt new type of cloud easily and faster.

“India is a budding ground for startups, and most of these ‘cloud-born’ startups prefer to hire software based services (xAAS),” he said.

He said the company has introduced the Intel Cloud for All programme to invest in cloud technology as per the Intel strategy to deploy a cloud per day. “As part of the initiative, the company would like to invest, optimise and align its cloud strategy. We have also established Openstack Cloud R&D centre along with Microsoft and Rackspace,” he added.
Intel has established deep collaborations with hardware and software vendors in India to create an ecosystem that can enable enterprises to efficiently deploy Intel’s enterprise portfolio, and benefit from its capabilities.

Dell, a longtime collaborator of Intel, will offer product and solutions based on Intel Xeon E5 2600v4 processors to enterprise customers, targeting the traditional enterprise sector.

The data centre and IoT business helped Intel to garner $2.2 billion in revenues in 2015, and were responsible for 40% of revenues. The company already predicted that scale computing systems will disrupt data centres in the coming decades. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook designed their IT systems based on scale data centres.

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(Published 18 May 2016, 17:36 IST)

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