Growing demand for cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) in India

Latest trends shows the increasing infrastructure services boom in India, while all managed and co location data center providers started offering cloud infrastructure services and other companies seriously evaluating & acquiring all required hardware and software infrastructure to move into the cloud. The concept of "Pay as you go" & "pay as you use" is showing successful results in the market. In the other part of the world the companies like “Rack space” are generating good amount of money out of these services, Indian infrastructure providers are looking all possible ways to tap the Domestic and global markets.

Data centers named Ctrl S, ESDS and Net Magic started offering cloud services. In another case a largest Broadband services provider from India, Sify started offering cloud hosting in partnered with VMware virtualization platform.

Below mentioned is the software infrastructure for providing a complete suite of cloud hosting services with pre paid and post paid model billing and service delivery.

Virtualization Platform, Service Provisioning systems, Usage Monitoring tools, Usage Metering systems, Rating and Billing Platforms are the required software to offer complete cloud services suite.

Let us discuss about each platform in the coming posts.