Interview

Vikas Arora, Country Manager, Cloud Business, IBM India and South Asia, spoke to Amit Singh on the company’s strengths in cloud computing and how business partners can leverage the opportunities emanating in this space What are the latest adoption trends you observe in the cloud services market space? Cloud has moved on from just being an inexpensive storage and compute …

DD Mishra, Research Director, Gartner, spoke to Amit Singh on the adoption trends in public and private cloud and how ISVs are building the growth story of cloud in India How is the India cloud market shaping up? As per cloud services end-user spending forecast, public cloud market in India will touch $1.93 billion by the end of 2017. It …

Anil Sethi, Vice President, Channels, Dell EMC India spoke to Amit Singh about the company’s achievements after the Dell EMC integration, and its initiatives and priorities over the next 12 months With over a year as a combined entity, please provide your achievement highlights over the last 12 months? Dell EMC has emerged as a holistic solutions provider empowering Indian …

Anshuman Rai, Director Sales, Converged Platform & Solutions Division, Dell EMC, spoke with Amit Singh to elaborate on how Dell EMC’s HCIS solutions differentiate with the competition Please elaborate on the converged systems market space in India? Converged systems market in India is growing pretty well and lots of action is happening in terms of pipeline and queries. In the …

Prabu Rambadran, Director, Product and Integrated Marketing, Nutanix, caught up with Amit Singh to brief about why customers are excited about hyper converged infrastructure How is the converged systems market shaping up in India? Gartner predicts the size of the IT infrastructure market to be over $2 billion by 2020 in India. As public cloud deployments become mainstream for many …

Krishna Choudhary, Director, Rashi Peripherals, spoke to Amit Singh about the company’s expectations from GST and how has it affected the IT channel business What are your thoughts about the GST regime? While we welcome the long awaited, we expected it to be a more simplified tax regime. The government proposes GST as ‘One Nation, One Tax,’ but according to …

Sandeep Sharma, Research Manager, Software and Services, IDC, spoke to Amit Singh on the benefits of GST as well as teething issues for IT channel partners How would you evaluate GST in terms of benefits for IT industry? Without an iota of doubt, the introduction of GST holds potential to simplify the prevalent complicated tax regime and to usher in …

Marthesh Nagendra, Country Manager, Netgear, India and Saarc, spoke to Amit Singh on the immediate and long-term effects of GST on the IT industry, and how will it impact the import of goods How will GST benefit the IT industry? Netgear supports GST as a landmark step towards indirect tax reform and is confident that this will have a huge …

Rishu Sharma, Associate Research Manager, IDC, spoke to Amit Singh about the burgeoning enterprise mobility market and how is it shaping the mobility strategy for businesses Please tell us about the enterprise mobility market in India. As per IDC’s Worldwide Semi-annual Mobility Spending Guide, the enterprise mobility revenues in India (including hardware, software and services) are expected to grow rapidly …

Nikhil Bagalkotkar, Chief Technologist, Citrix, spoke to Amit Singh on the company’s focus on enterprise mobility and excellent opportunities for channel partners How is the enterprise mobility market shaping up in India? According to IDC, India’s enterprise mobility market is expected to reach $1,871 million by 2017. With the convergence of mobile devices, smart devices, wearables, and internet of things, …