In EMC Corporation extended its collaboration with Cisco by jointly launching their Cloud Experience Centers in Bangalore today. This is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between two information technology (IT) industry leaders with the twin facilities located at the EMC Center of Excellence and at the Cisco Globalization Center East, creating a lab that provides Indian customers with an opportunity to experience the benefits and reliability of cloud-based IT infrastructure.
According to a white paper by IDC, while 14% of Indian organizations are already using cloud computing, another 76% are looking to consider cloud computing at least after six months. The twin Cloud Experience Centers aim to accelerate customers transition to an agile cloud-based infrastructure by enabling proof-of-concepts and helping them experience innovative solutions to some of their critical business challenges.
Commenting on the opening of the lab, Manoj Chugh, President. EMC India and SAARC, said: While Cloud Computing is a huge buzzword in technology, adoption is taking its time as CIOs are seeking the reassurance that cloud computing infrastructures are reliable, scalable, and secure. The labs established in Bangalore by EMC and Cisco is a live test bed for customers to come in and validate their business cases in a live environment.
Elaborating on the joint initiative, Naresh Wadhwa, President and Country Manager, Cisco India & SAARC said, Our approach to cloud computing is to maximize customer choice and industry innovation, so our partnership with EMC reinforces our commitment to help customers accelerate adoption of this phenomenal trend in IT. The cloud experience centers in Bangalore will help customers address their concerns related to cloud deployment and evolve their business thereby helping drive greater business impact.
Added Sarv Saravanan, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, EMC India, Center of Excellence: Cisco and EMC are global pioneers and partners in pushing through integrated cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprises. The partnership of the Center of Excellence at EMC and the Globalization center of Cisco in building Cloud Solutions for the Indian market reflects the maturity of the R&D operations in this geography of both companies. This adds the dimension of R&D infrastructure set up for local operations also adding to the marketing capability of local geographies.
We envision the Cloud Experience Centers will offer comprehensive cloud & collaboration solutions to help customers address their business challenges and increase their competitiveness. We are pleased to partner with EMC to create a strong ecosystem to offer differentiated cloud-based solutions that leverage the intelligence of the network. said Faiyaz Shahpurwala, Senior Vice President, Cisco Services.
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