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Hewlett-Packard is setting up a dedicated data centre in Bangalore for delivering cloud services. The centre is expected to be come up by the end of this year, said a senior company official. (A data centre is a central location which houses and maintains computers, servers, storage and networking systems.)
The data centre will cater to “enterprise” customers (companies with over 5,000 employees), said Mr Sanjay Gupta, Country Sales Head, HP, on the sidelines of a CII conference on cloud computing. This will be the first of its kind for HP in the country. The data centre will host infrastructure and offer software services on a pay-per-use model for customers.
As Hewlett-Packard shifts focus from hardware and consumer business (PC, smartphone and tablets), it is betting on services. Cloud computing will be an integral part of that approach, as recently outlined by HP’s CEO Mr Leo Apothekar.
The cloud market in India is currently estimated at $1 billion. In the next three years, it is expected to grow to $3-5 billion, when the global cloud market reaches $100 billion.
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