Cisco expert Ashish Wattal provides solutions to business leaders on issues of IT

Dr Mahipal Sachdev, Founder, Centre for Sight

Centre for Sight is Indias second-largest ophthalmology chain with 44 centers across the country. We expect a turnover of more than `125 crore this fiscal. The company has successfully leveraged private cloud to achieve real-time multi-location, multibusiness integration. We are now looking up to our IT team to further strengthen this initiative and make Centre for Sight a more resilient organisation. What solutions can I expect from my IT team when it comes to business intelligence, asset management and newage disaster management?

Ashish Wattal, National Product Manager UCS, Cisco India & SAARC

There are many resilient and robust applications that are available on a cloud model including ERP,DW/BI and Disaster Recovery (DR). Disaster Recovery organisations can also look to deploying a public cloud, because they will not have to invest in trained manpower. As the DR datacenter can be owned by service providers to run these services, there will be no investment on the setting up of the DR datacenter. For the rest of the applications, the existing environment needs to be examined. If the current running applications have additional modules available, which are well tested and integrated for BI, CRM, SCM etc., they would enable easy integration. Many other standard applications are also available that can help get the datacenter upto speed on these aspects.

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