Top Five Native Indian Cloud Providers

“If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.”

- Marc Benioff, Founder, Salesforce

What better and crisp way to explain the clouds’ business!

An upward trend in the shift to the digital era reflects in the employment of cloud services and their provision. By 2020, the global public cloud computing market across the world was expected to exceed $330 billion. Given such statistics on cloud services, it is crystal clear, the service cannot be overlooked in business. It is likely to become an integral or even the core part of how most enterprises will function in the future. We have already adapted to a remote work environment, with cloud-based collaboration apps coming to our aid. This trend is likely to continue in the future and become a permanent part of the professional landscape. This puts most CXOs ( chief experience officers) in dilemma when it comes to selecting a particular cloud service provider, amongst the myriad of them in the market, for their business needs.

This blog covers the top native five native Indian cloud providers in India.

Company: E2E Networks, New Delhi

CEO: Tarun Dua

Founded in 2009

E2E Networks Ltd was the first enterprise to provide a contract-less cloud computing model to SMEs and the booming Indian startup environment. It has been the backbone behind the success of many popular startups like Zomato, HealthKart, and Junglee Games. The collaboration helped these businesses to transform into million-dollar enterprises, each having an equal number of daily active users. Other VC funded startups, too, like Clovia and MilkBasket have been customers of E2E Networks. Today, E2E Networks has thousands of active customers and is the largest NSE listed cloud provider in India.

Recently, E2E Networks announced that it has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Service Provider Program to bring accelerated AI and Quadro Virtual Workstations to the Cloud while working remotely. This will significantly help technical professionals who are working remotely due to the COVID pandemic as it allows them to easily run GPU-intensive applications. This has been another feather in the cap and continuation of the strong association between NVIDIA and E2E Networks.

Company: CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

CEO: Sridhar Pinnapureddy

Founded in 2007

CtrlS Datacenters mainly provide platform-level services for handling data like infrastructure setup and maintenance, storage services, hardware, backup handling, OS layers organization, and network and security.

Rated as Asia’s largest Rank 4 data center, this company claims to be serious about data. Operating in 6 out of 28 data centers globally, these centers are built to scale with an industry-best uptime SLA of 99.995% and an industry lowest design PUE of 1.38. With global alliances and partners worldwide, CtrlS sure knows how to provide businesses with their direct resources while restricting access to unauthorized owners.

Company: ZnetLive, Jaipur, Rajasthan

CEO: Munesh Jadoun

Founded in 2009

ZnetLive offers cloud infrastructure to global clients in over 100 countries. It has the honour of being one of the first Microsoft’s Cloud Solution providers in India. ZnetLive offers business hosting of all sizes, dedicated backup system, with dedicated monitoring to ensure that data is safeguarded against breaches. The cloud services are based on various technologies from Microsoft, AWS, and Google.

Company: ESDS, Nashik, Maharashtra

CEO: Piyush Somani

Founded in 2005

ESDS provides managed cloud computing services to various industries such as banking and finance, healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, eCommerce, and many more. It is one of the leading managed cloud service providers. ESDS core expertise in managing databases like Mongo DB, PHP, and ORACLE, MySQL and PgSQL. The enterprise has been a pioneer in various segments and has the distinctive honours of being:

• 1st Indian Cloud Company to have Vertical Auto-Scaling Patent.
• 1st Commercial Datacenter to have an active Uptime Tier III Certificate
• 1st Indian Cloud Company to have a Patent in Cloud & Infrastructure Hosting Space
• India’s Only Cloud & Data Center Company to have 50+ R&D engineers.

Company: NIC National Cloud, Government of India

Under: — Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Founded in 1976

NIC provides cloud services, termed ‘National Cloud,’ to the central and state government departments and district administrations. NIC offers services to these departments in three models, Platform-as-a-service, Infrastructure-as-a-service, and Software-as-a-service. It also offers other related services such as data storage, antivirus, backup, and firewall. NIC, therefore, proves to be a one-stop solution for all cloud computing needs of government bodies. It has recently embarked on an ambitious project, GI Cloud, termed ‘Meghraj.’ It aims to optimize utilization and speed up development and deployment of eGov applications.

The digital market seems to be on the rise forever. In such an environment, setting up a business-backed up by a cloud needs meticulous thought to ensure you get the best quality of service in return for your money. It is recommended to consider your business needs before looking for a cloud service provider. This helps you precisely chart what you require and model a plan accordingly. While this part does sound tricky, one can rest assured that a significant chunk of the business set up gets handled if one invests in the right kind of a cloud service, landing in a position mutually beneficial to the business and the service provider.