Approaches to adopt cloud

According to a Forrester Research forecast, the infrastructure management market is expected to touch $180 billion by 2013. Cloud technologies are significantly contributing to this growth of the IT infrastructure management industry. I see a growing need in business leaders to " variabilize " their infrastructure costs; transformation of IT into " utility services " will be a key trend driven by this need and cloud computing plays a crucial role in this transformation. This resonates with the findings of our recent study on the 'Cloud Potential' which saw 43% of respondents believing that companies will fail to manage costs by not investing in the cloud. Enterprises can adopt three distinct approaches in accordance with their specific need and preparedness for adopting cloud computing.

By and large, enterprises faced with high data security requirements and concerns tend to adopt the cloud as a private, on-premise utility, managed internally or by a third party, hosted internally or externally.
An increasing number of enterprises are migrating to the off-premise, public cloud in the effort to variabilize their IT infrastructure costs. The off-premise option enables the enterprises to reduce CAPEX on IT infrastructure, access IT services on a pay-as-you-go basis and meet their IT scalability needs more dynamically.
Now, enterprises are also viewing the hybrid (on-premise, off-premise) model more favorably since it allows them to keep critical data and apps in the internal cloud while moving peak loads and less critical applications and data to the public cloud.

Technologies like virtual links, cloud computing, and collaboration are already providing an advantage to enterprises by building scalable designs that respond to the dynamic market needs. As the cost structures of the enterprises become more variable, I believe that business models will become more resilient, with the suppliers and customers becoming more integrated. Cloud computing in any form – public, private or hybrid - can help transforming technology into a ubiquitous utility.

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Dr. Anurag Srivastava Sr. Vice President, Dr. Anurag Srivastava heads Business Outcome Services, which focusses on business outcome based Products, Process and IT Services. Prior to this role, Dr. Anurag Srivastava was Chief Technology Officer for Wipro's Global IT Business. His responsibilities included technology strategy planning, technology incubation through Centers of Excellence, business Innovation using futuristic technologies, technical stream & IP management and technology alliances in advanced areas with industry and academic forums.

Dr. Srivastava has also been the head of the Wipro Energy and Sustainability Services business. This business includes sustainability advisory, connected infrastructure & energy managed services to deliver comprehensive GHG reduction and energy cost optimization for our customers.

He was also responsible for starting the Consulting business for Wipro Infotech and supported its scale to the current level. He additionally led key strategic business transformational initiatives for Telecom, Telecom Equipment, Infrastructure, and Government industry verticals to build newer services/business models.

Dr. Anurag brings with him rich industry and business experience and depth of technology to Wipro. His areas of work experience are process & technology integration, data modeling & analytics, pattern recognition, distributed computing, Internet security and machine to machine collaboration. He has strong expertise in architectural frameworks, product life cycle management, incubation management and large transnational project management.

Prior to Wipro he has worked in IBM, Novell, HP-Verifone, Indian Institute of Science & Ness Technologies (Apar) in various technology & business leadership positions. He completed his PhD in Computer Science in the area of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. He has several publications in international conferences and journals (IEEE SMC, Pattern Recognition and CC-AI). He holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and Master's in Computer Science & Engineering.

Dr. Anurag has been an invited speaker for various conferences by NASSCOM, Analysts fraternity, FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM, Telematics, etc. and has several journal publications and articles.

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