{"id":3388,"date":"2016-04-12T07:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalcreed.in\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2017-11-21T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:04:56","slug":"the-secret-honey-thats-attracting-cios-to-esds-cloud-datacenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalcreed.in\/the-secret-honey-thats-attracting-cios-to-esds-cloud-datacenter\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret honey that\u2019s attracting CIOs to ESDS Cloud & datacenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESDS (Exuberant Support for Data Service<\/a>) launched its second datacenter at Navi Mumbai. This is a Tier-III datacenter, certified by the prestigious Uptime Institute<\/a>. It also signed an MoU<\/a> with the Government of Maharashtra to provide cloud services for its G2C initiatives. ESDS hosts the government\u2019s Stand Up India portal<\/a> that was launched a few days ago.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with DIGITAL CREED, Piyush Somani<\/strong>, MD & CEO, ESDS reveals the secret honey (auto scaling technology) that is attracting CIOs and government to his beehive in the cloud. ESDS has received an international patent for this technology.<\/p>\n

In this interview, he also helps us understand terms like vertical and horizontal scaling.<\/p>\n

\"Piyush<\/a>

Piyush Somani (L) MD & CEO, ESDS with Brian Pereira (R), Editor, DIGITAL CREED.<\/p><\/div>\n

Q. In his keynote here at the launch of your new datacenter, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra spoke about e-tendering, smart cities and integration of government services. What is the role that Cloud can play in G2C (Government to Citizen) and in supporting initiatives like Stand Up India?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piyush: <\/strong>G2C is not at all possible without Cloud. Earlier it was G2G, wherein the Government knew they has 5,000 people (fixed number) in their department. So when they needed to do sizing for that department the hardware was procured for those 5,000 people. And those 5,000 people only communicated on an intranet or MPLS network, which was completely isolated from the Internet. So they never had any security issues, and they did not have to buy a lot of hardware. But when you initiate G2C for 10 crore citizens within Maharashtra, you cannot get the sizing done in a similar manner (as was done in the days of G2G). Also, there is no assurance that all the five crore people are going to log in and connect at the same time. It could be 50,000 or 50 lakh people logging in. So you do not have any fixed sizing.<\/p>\n

The Stand Up India portal was launched from our cloud platform a few days ago. No one knew about the sizing. We were told to expect a concurrent number of 10 lakh connections during the media coverage of this event. It is impossible to procure hardware for all this, and at such scale. Our cloud was ready to handle 1 \u2013 10 million connections for Stand Up India<\/a>. After the event, the traffic dropped, and now the usage is low. But the usage will increase over the next few months as the government increases awareness about Stand Up India.<\/p>\n

I have observed that new services launched in India do not become popular immediately. People want others to test these services and give their feedback. People start using the service or product only when they hear good things about it.<\/p>\n

So I believe G2C will be a huge success in future, but only if the right strategy to deploy G2C on cloud is adopted.<\/p>\n

We are ready to partner with Government, PSUs and corporate.<\/p>\n