VMware – an enterprise software company – agreed to a demand by Government of India to move data to local servers belonging to big service providers to store users’ data in India.
The company is one of the top enterprise software services provider with USD 7.9 billion revenue and has partnered Amazon to offer Public Cloud services latter’s Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company says that there is a demand from the government to abide by the local laws and that firms have no issue to comply with such rules.
Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Customer Operations for VMware spoke to a small group of Indian journalists to “VMWorld 2018” here and said “we don’t go into a country with the idea of taking advantage of local laws. In general, we have to watch them and conform to them”.
As for now, a panel set up by the government of India is currently working on the guidelines to make it sure that whatever data is generated in the country must be retained in it.
As per Rajiv Ramaswami, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Products and Cloud Services at VMware, “We can operate in the region with data being kept there and not exported. We will be happy to provide the government with the information they seek”.
He further said that VMware’s duty is to help the big Cloud services company with governance and compliance issues and to guide them to build security measures in their solutions.
“But if the local laws provide for getting details from big Cloud operators, they would move to comply,” Ramaswami added.
Poonen also said that the two neighbouring countries of India and China were very important economies for VMware operations and as a matter of fact, the company’s largest research and development (R&D) center is located in Bengaluru, where cutting-edge products are produced.
The VMware workforce in India is all set to see growth, he told.
“We think there’s a very big opportunity unfolding in India and it is a logical place for AWS and VMware to be in,” Poonen said while adding that he does not see any kind of sense in Indian companies setting up Private Clouds, especially for disaster recovery.
“Shut it down, if you already have such an infrastructure and move to AWS/VMware. We would make your service just as efficient and cheaper,” Poonen asserted during the company’s annual conference.
“Anybody in India who’s doing business of disaster recovery should do it,” he stressed.
Poonen said that he witnessed a great movement to make India digitally advanced and a plus point over that the government had expressed a lot of interest in this regard to get investments from big tech companies. Poonen had also held meetings with some ministers and top bureaucrats from the country who seemed to be very eager about that.
He said that many times such a thing happened that Indian-origin executives working in various Silicon Valley companies always hosted ministers from India together to discuss getting investments into the country.
“The problem, as we all know it, is the bureaucracy and the corruption. If one can labour through that, it would be worthwhile,” Poonen said.
“The organisations like State Bank of India, Bharti Airtel, and BookMyShow are really the ones ahead of others but adoption of Public and Hybrid Clouds is on the way,” he noted.
Presently the company offers a complete package in the form of “Workspace ONE” project which easily integrates the desktop, laptop, and mobile services across all platforms.
“Workspace ONE” is a digital platform that simply and securely delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management, and multi-platform endpoint management.
“We are leading the workspace journey here. We see a very good opportunity in India where customers are into desktop virtualization or mobile management, not both,” Ramaswami informed.
You May Also Read: Arvind Kejriwal To Start “Doorstep Delivery Of Services Through Phone Numbers” From Sept 10 Onwards