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Patni to introduce cloud computing for self, clients
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010, 19:39 IST
Bangalore: Patni Computer Systems is set to host all its information technology (IT) infrastructure needs on the cloud. It has put nearly 80 percent of all its infrastructure needs on a private cloud and been able to reduce its capital expenditure by nearly 30 percent, besides saving another 30 percent by way of lower power consumption, reports Leslie D'Monte from Business Standard.
At present Patni's annual spending on its internal IT needs is around Rs 190 crore. These include servers for storage, desktops, networks and bandwidth. The company had around 200 servers at its data centres in Bangalore, Noida and Chennai, according to Satish Joshi, its global technology head.
The company's data now reside on a large business-to-consumer (B2C) player's data centre, referred to as a private cloud. A private cloud describes offerings that emulate cloud computing on private networks.
Jeya Kumar, CEO of Patni, had earlier said, "Whenever we acquire a new company, we will not need two data centres, even if the headcount doubles. The complete new portfolio from the acquisition will be hosted on the web."
Patni is also extending its cloud services to its clients, since it also is a Systems Integrator (SI). It takes the products from cloud vendors and sells them to customers to run their applications in the cloud. This is helping the company give value-added services to its clients.
Cloud computing received a major shot in the arm, with internet search giant Google announcing its Chrome-based operating system (OS) last year. Major global cloud computing service providers like Vmware, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft and Yahoo already have a presence in India. IBM has a cloud computing centre in Bangalore. Other major Indian players like Wipro, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and even Bharti Airtel (with its network PC), offer cloud computing solutions as software as a service or SaaS or on-demand computing.
Cloud services offer a very big addressable market. A recent report from IDC forecasts server revenue from private cloud implementations to grow from $7.3 billion in 2009 to $11.8 billion in 2014. This projection is much larger than the public cloud category, which IDC expects to reach $714 million in 2014.
