CtrlS has evolved as a cloud services provider by going digital and creating its own set of specialised cloud services
ANIL NAMA
CTRLS
Digital transformation is a journey and not a destination. Today, we have more than 200 innovations, a strong automation team and our own TIO approach which caters to the long-term goal of digital transformation.
Ctrls Data centers is an example of how a digital transformation journey can help an organisation evolve with times and create new revenue opportunities with it. What started as a datacenter co-location service provider back in 2007, CtrlS today runs Asia's largest Tier-IV datacenter. The rise of cloud providers have such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google, however, made public cloud computing a cheap yet reliable alternative to hosting your servers internally.
CtrlS, however, saw the shift as an opportunity and realised that offering just the barebone infrastructure may not give them enough competitive advantage. The realisation led the company to investon creating its own IP and turning into a cloud services provider.
To evolve its offerings, CtrlS has built three community cloud initiatives for digital transformation including Banking Community Cloud, Government Community Cloud and SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud.
BIB or the Banking Community Cloud is a Bank-in-a-Box Solution for the banking sector. It is an initiative that allows banks to adopt technology and gain agility and speed in operations. Besides this, security concerns, compliance / regulatory standards, interoperability and governance issues are addressed to ensure secure and smooth functioning of the banks. GCloud or the Government Community Cloud is accredited as
per MeitY guidelines for Public Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud and Government Community Cloud.
Today, CtrlS is providing these services to Kochi Metro, MCGM and AICTE GST through Infosys. Finally, with SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud, CtrlS caters to more than 15 enterprise customers of SAP and for which it is the fourth worldwide partner.
Talking about the benefits of going digital and starting new services, Nama says, “We have witnessed improved efficiencies and a workforce which is empowered and has provided us the much-desired competitive advantage. While we have been present with infrastructure as a service, SoC and NoC services, BIB, GCloud and HEC have led to new revenue streams.”
The changing role of CIO is further helping the company grow faster and work as a partner for new-age CIOs instead of acting as a vendor. “Unlike in the earlier decades, the role of a CIO is undergoing a major shift. Future CIOs are required to play a key role in augmenting business using thrift and available business models (SAAS). A CIO is expected to draw a roadmap for future and ensure competitive advantage. The CIOs will have to evolve as business-savvy individuals for the organisation to achieve business objectives with agility and resiliency,” explains Nama.
Apart from offering digital services to its customers, CtrlS itself uses technologies such as cloud, social media, unified communication and analytics tools to bring in the desired benefits of collaboration, efficiency, speed / agility to ensure its customers and stakeholders derive optimum benefits.“We will continue to embrace newer technologies to ensure our competitive advantage while staying focussed on value creation for our customers and stakeholders,” puts in Nama.
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