Interop 2010: No Alternative To Setting Up Private Clouds

In the first key note address of the second day of Interop Mumbai 2010—titled Journey to the private cloud- now or never—Manoj Chugh, President, India and Saarc, and Director, Strategic Account, Asia-Pacific and Japan, EMC, advised CIOs that there’s no alternative to setting up private clouds.

“You may not be aware of it, but you are already on the journey to the private cloud,” said Chugh. “Information is expected to grow 60 times over the next 10 years in your organization. However, I doubt whether your IT budgets will grow manifold. CFOs are becoming tech savvy, and are expecting faster ROIs and seeking reports on asset utilization. CIOs are under pressure to show better utilization of IT assets, and legacy architectures will not help them,” he added.

Chugh unveiled nuances of a report on information growth in enterprises to the audience comprising leading consultants and CIOs. “Any organization which has implemented virtualization or has set up a networked storage will soon consider private clouds. With cloud computing you will see that your present IT asset utilization scale faster, and with better ROIs,” Chugh explained.

Chugh polled CIOs in the audience on IT asset utilization. The informal dip stick survey revealed that most CIOs feel IT utilization will be between 10 to 35 percent.

He stressed that cloud computing is no more a hyperware, and is real. "There's a debate on private and public clouds, and the way we see we feel that enterprises will end up using a hybrid mix."