In Zenith Infotech has launched its private cloud infrastructure offering, called TigerCloud, for the Indian market.
According to CEO Akash Saraf, its solutions are priced at 70% lower than competing offerings from large vendors such as IBM and VCE (the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel).
Zenith launched its private cloud solutions first in the US and other developed markets of the world before turning its attention to India. Its private cloud infrastructure is claimed to be used by over 6,000 companies abroad and, with the launch of TigerCloud, the company expects quick uptake by Indian mid-size businesses as well.
Our average deployment time is less than three hours, said Saraf in a press conference.
The company claims to have brought down the cost mainly through its R&D efforts on software, on which it has spent about Rs200 crore.
Based on Intel Xeon E3 processor family and running Microsoft Hyper-V, TigerCloud is a three-in-one product, combining private cloud, business continuity and backup, as well as scale-out iSCSI storage, Zenith said in a release.
According to Debjani Ghosh, MD of Sales and Marketing Group, Intel South Asia at the launch, the cloud market in India is growing at 60% annually and will reach around $4.5 billion in size by the year 2015.
While Zenith is providing the infrastructure to build a private cloud, enterprises will have to use either in-house IT staff or take the services of a consultant to implement and support TigerCloud.
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