Intel bets big on the cloud, e-commerce sectors in India

Intel India, keeping in line with the company's global business direction, will focus on offering companies in India enhanced technologies and products that allow faster and easier adoption of modern clouds based on Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI).

The company is providing secure, robust and high performing x86 platform for software defined data centre solutions to its customers in the country. This includes the Intel Xeon E5 2600v4 family of powerful processors with Intel Resource Director Technology and enhanced security feature, it said in a statement.

These technologies enable customers to move to fully automated SDI-based modern clouds with greater visibility and control capability, Intel said.

''In India, changing dynamics, such as the growing number of mobile consumers and workforces, rise of pervasive analytics, and rapid innovation across industries have pressured businesses to move even faster for staying ahead or simply, staying alive,'' said Srinivas Tadigadapa, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Intel South Asia.

''Today, both cloud service providers and enterprises are looking at SDI as it would allow businesses to adopt new type of cloud easier and faster. India is a budding ground for startups, and most of these 'cloud born' start-ups prefer to hire software based services (xAAS). For enterprises, the need is different. To be able to keep pace, they must evolve to an agile infrastructure that allows businesses to remain viable – either expanding the use of public cloud, deploying their own private cloud, or both,'' he added.

''The emergence of e-commerce sector and higher adoption of big data and analytics in India has increased the workload demands of data centre. To address these workload demands, with a focus on delivering end-to-end data centre capabilities, Dell offers customers with multiple software defined infrastructure options by working closely with companies such as Intel, where Dell infrastructure, services and support are integral to the solutions,'' said Manish Gupta, Head–Dell Enterprise Solutions Group.