Need to go beyond data centres
Deccan Herald June 27, 2007

B V Jagadeesh shares with Shibu B S his views and thoughts on the IT industry and what the providers need to do.

He believes that India will soon evolve as one of the major IT hubs in the world. He sees huge initiative across India regarding broadband devolopment. "Earlier, we had seen similiar kind of movements in US to kick-off a new set of applications. Our people are now much aware of the fact that merely watching TV, reading news papers and listening to radio are not the only ways to share information. This awareness is an example of our innovative thinking and readiness to accept new technologies. This is really a good sign for our country to evolve as a major IT hub," he says.

When technology visionary and pioneer of the internet infrastructure industry B V Jagadeesh says something like that, one has to pay attention. The co-founder of Exodus Communications who now draws a bead on one of the India's leading datacenter and managed Service provider, NetMagic Solutions, was in city recently and spoke about many aspects of IT

In addition to his current role as Chairman of NetMagic, Jagadeesh is an active member of TIE (the Indus Entrepreneurs). He also served as president and CEO of Netscaler Inc.

Jagadeesh is also involved with philanthropic activities that include supporting causes for the advancements of education.

Jagadeesh's success story starts with the setting up of Exodus Communications in US. "After acquiring my electrical engineering degree, I did my Masters degree in a college in Mumbai, and got an offer from an American company in Silicon valley and took off there. I have also worked for companies like 3-com and Novell, and then started Exodus in 1994 with K V Chandrasekhar, which eventually grew to a billion dollar company by the year 2000," says Jagadeesh.

Net Magic

"I left Exodus in the middle of 2000, and meanwhile Sharad Sanghi found NetMagic, he approached me and together we went through several deliberations. Now being a key investor, I am keen to bring forth excellency in our datacenters and more maintenance services, I also ensured the backup and service of memorable names in the internet world like K V Chandrasekhar, Kanwal Rekhi and Prabhaker," he says.

Being the Chairman of NetMagic, Jagadeesh also shared his vision on the progressive and technical aspects of IT Service providers. "Some people look at large investments. But I don't look forward to mere data center aspects. We are open to new technologies and developments. The question is 'How to implement them?' Bringing in additional technologies, packaging than and offering it to customers is the key. It is the point where expertise comes into play - for offering that value added service."

"Entrepreneurs are often faced with challenges of amanging multi-platform and multi-vendor solutions on a 24/7 basis to support mission critical requirements. They need to and operate multitude of enterprise-grade monitoring and management tools and utilities. Above all, there is constant pressure to minimize capital and operational expenditure and maximize returns on investment. Understanding these needs of the customers and deploying a variety of tools to provide advanced services in what we are doing in NetMagic," says Jagadeesh.

"Hence the entreprenuer is multitudinously benefited. The major thing is that he can concenterate more on his core business. Even though the technology changes rapidly, he does not have to bother much about that. Service providers must ensure this safe environment to their customers," asserts Jagdeesh.

"Hence the entrepreneur is multitudinously benefited. The major thing is that he can concentrate more on this core business. Even though the technology changes rapidly, he does not have to bother much about that. Service providers must ensure this safe environment to their costumers," asserts Jadadeesh.

He also pointed out Remote Infrastructure Management Services including the Management of Services, Networks, OS and Applications, Monitoring and Management, Managed Data backup and restoration and ensuring availability, security and performance, as some of the important sectors which IT Services providers have to mainly concentrate upon.

When asked about his success mantra in all the ventures, Jagadeesh smiles and says, "See, the success mantra depends on what dreams you have, and when you start translating those dreams into reality for what you must have commitment and dedication and most of all, never lose your mind in the ups and down."