Dragonfly sets up cloud data factory in India

US-based firm Dragonfly Data Factory has launched world’s first software defined cloud-enabled data factory in India, which it claims to be the “first-ever agnostic, software defined data factory.” The company, founded by Ram Pothula, is setting up the facility in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Powered by the company’s patent-pending Factory Operating System, the Dragonfly Data Factory will enable global clients to “cost-effectively” extract mine, manage and monetise unlimited volumes of data from any number of sources. [caption id=“attachment_1996965” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Thinkstock[/caption] “Dragonfly Data Factory is the first to offer an integrated—and vendor-independen_t_—Data Factory, giving customers complete freedom to combine their choice of tools from industry-leading providers to mine, manage and monetise their data,” said Dragonfly Data Factory founder and CEO Ram Pothula. Dragonfly Data Factory is building products designed to harness the rapidly accelerating velocity, variety and volume of data generated by sensors and smart devices—the Internet of Things (IOT)—and unite that real-time data processing with batch-oriented processing of data from traditional data sources, social media platforms and more. “Our Factory Operating System provides an open, software-defined platform that enables Data Factory clients to choose the best tools for specific tasks ranging from data ingest, integration and contextualization to visualisation and decision-support,” explained Venkat Janapareddy, investor advisor and Chief Technology Officer at Dragonfly Data Factory. “Our cloud-based Data Factory will also be available via reference architectures, meaning clients will be able to choose a public-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or private-cloud infrastructure on which to run their Data Factory.” Other products planned by the company include a Data Factory Sensor Hub and Data Factory Utility Metering Platform that, when combined with the Data Factory Operating System, will empower systems integrators, service providers, and corporate IT shops to offer their users a flexible, cost-effective “Data Factory as a Service.” The privately funded company will soon be seeking Series-A funding to accelerate the company’s growth. “Over the next 36 months, we’ll be partnering with technology vendors, systems integrators and service providers around the globe; and expanding our software-development centres and Virtual-Factory Operations in India and the United States,” Pothula said. The company is also exploring opportunities to house their Data Factory Centers of Excellence in locations such as Singapore, Australia, Germany and Japan.