7 technology trends shaping the next generation DC
By Nitin Mishra, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Netmagic,
The datacenter industry has been witness to a steady growth rate evident from the investments being made for facilities as well as IT infrastructure. Globally, the industry is growing at a rate of 10-12% and is further expected to grow at an annual compound rate of about 17% over the next few years, according to recent analyst reports. Good news indeed for the industry.

Sunil Gupta, President and COO, Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, expects the hybrid cloud to be the biggest gainer in 2015.
In 2015, we will see a need for business enterprises to ‘do more with less’, and therefore they will be keen to adopt agile approaches to integration.

Threat Mitigation in Cloud, Internet of Things and Mobility are the New Normal in Security 
By Rishikesh Kamat, General Manager, Product Development & Marketing, Netmagic
Let me start with a note on security threats that a business enterprise faces as it enters a new year. The previous year has been a witness to an increase in number, complexity and sophistication of attacks on enterprise security. DDoS and APT are looming dangers to enterprise security, no longer manageable from within the security infrastructure of an organization.

The chief executive of Netmagic, Sharad Sanghi told ET that the company has held discussions with the information technology ministry, which is looking at adopting cloud not just for people services but also some of the government projects. "The ministry wants to ensure a common level of technical competency across players, have a rate card agreed and then pick and choose whoever it wants," said Sanghi.

Big Data is expected to be a market worth $1 billion in India by 2015, growing at a CAGR of 83 per cent since 2012, according to a Nasscom report. At the Techcircle Big Data Forum 2014, eminent panellists discussed how they have monetised, implemented and scaled Big Data.engineering, McAfee Software India; and Sunil Gupta, president and COO, Netmagic Solutions.

NTT Communications subsidiary Netmagic has successfully used wind energy to power the first LEED Gold certified data center in India, located in Chennai. The high cost of fuel and frequent power outages prompted Netmagic to look for alternatives. "The most cost-effective energy source for a data center can be either wind energy or a gas based power plant," explained President and COO, Sunil Gupta.

Data centres, those racks and racks of hard-drives stacked up to provide for whenever businesses need computing space, are looking at renewable power sources for uninterrupted operations in power-starved Tamil Nadu. Netmagic, an NTT Communications company providing storage space for ecommerce companies such as Flipkart, is running its Chennai unit on wind power. The company's large facilities in Maharashtra tap into conventional sources including thermal power. The green initiative was prompted mainly by frequent power outages.

Japan's NTT Communications Corp (NTT Com) is exploring options to acquire a unified telecom licence in India, even as its sister concern NTT DoCoMo is on the verge of exiting the country. "NTT Communications is exploring acquiring a licence for unified communications through its India subsidiary, NTT Communications India," Sharad Sanghi, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Netmagic, told BusinessLine in an interaction.

In an interview with Rashi Varshney, Govind Desikan, Business Development Head - Cloud Services, Netmagic discusses how cloud market is shaping up in India, why hybrid cloud is going to be the future, and the company’s growth plans post NTT Communications association.