For Virtualisation, India Has A Long Way To Go

Biztech2.com catches up with Barrie Sheers, VP&GM, Quest, APAC, on the company’s strategy around inorganic growth as well as his views on the latest in technology.

Quest has been high on acquisitions. Where do these fit into your offerings?

All products and solutions are re-aligned keeping in mind the unique needs of our customers and our strategic acquisitions. So far, we have acquired 90 companies and plan to acquire three to four every year, which will be specific and strategic acquisitions. Once the acquisitions have been made, they will be integrated with our engineering.

The key lies in the fact that we are bringing in solutions for all environments, be it physical, virtual or the cloud. Specifically, the company is looking at virtualisation with great interest through this year.

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How do you foresee the uptake of cloud in the Indian market this year?

There is a lot of talk around cloud computing, which has been with us for a very long time now. This is a technology that really addresses business needs, but it is not rid of issues. The biggest issue with this technology being security. I feel, these issues will be solved as the market matures. The Indian market is not on the forefront of cloud adoption right now and is not going to take off in a big way this year. The more mature markets as of now are Australia, Japan, USA and Europe.

And, what about virtualisation?

Again, for virtualisation, India still has to go a long way. Less than 10% of the Indian market is virtualised and I see a huge opportunity here, especially in storage and server virtualisation. Desktop virtualisation still has its share of challenges to deal with and has not been proven as a cost effective technology yet.

What other technology trends do you see gaining prominence?

With business growth and expansion, as companies expand there is bound to be merging of environments, posing a huge challenge for CIOs with regards to security. In the security space solutions around identity and access management will be at the forefront with corporate governance following close behind. I see a lot of activity taking place in this space going forward.