Icenet Enters Enterprise Business Solutions Market

Icenet, an Internet service provider, has now stretched to one-stop solutions for corporate and launched Icecorp, enterprise business solutions. It plans to focus four major areas for Enterprise Solutions - Data storage and Back up management, Enterprise Security solutions, Network solutions as well as E business applications and software development. In its endeavor, it has collaborated with various majors in the field in what the company says as a 'booming and emerging market' in the state.

Chirag Mehta, CEO, Icenet believes that the traditional means of storing data are becoming redundant with better devices introduced that can stand across any OS platforms and back up that goes beyond conventional storage datas. With e-governance becoming a reality and more and more governments incorporating it, the large data that the government machinery is going to store and back up is also one of the reason the Enterprise solutions that Icecorp launched. One of the collaborators in the venture, Tandberg Data, global supplier and manufacturer of professional storage products on linear technology platforms, says that the SLR form of storing data still remains the foremost though many have predicted its doom. "It is going to stay for ever and I can assure you that it is the only form of storage that a majority of the data storage applications rely on with high satisfaction ration," said Ashish Gupta, Sales Manager, Western Region-India, Tandberg Data. He added that the products on linear platforms support all OS, software applications to operate in heterogeneous network information storage environments. 

The Oslo-based company has already sold three million SLR tapes across the globe ranging from 525 MB to 100 GB and upto 4TB. With dependency of networking growing leaps and bounds, Icecorp's focus, says Mehta, will be to leverage the world technology know how to India by lowering TCO, scalability, reliability and availability. However, for doing so the Enterprise storage challenges in storage consolidation, data centre operations, business continuance and distributed enterprise have to be addressed. 

Icecorp has also joined hands with Network Appliance, Sunnyvale based storage solutions company. Studies indicate that one of the 500 data centres will have a severe disaster every year and also that a company with a computer outage of more than 10 days will never recovery financially with more than 50% out of business within five years. Network Appliance assert that they provided solutions that is needed to survive unplanned and planned disruptions. "We have the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the most complex solutions have a better data protection and a faster recovery with our patented solutions," said Surajeet Sen, Network Appliance's Sales Manager (West). But the price will also decide the buying pattern, says Professor B H Jajoo of Indian Institute of Management. "Storage systems and data recoveries are a must for every company that uses systems but with so many alternatives available with each claiming to be the better of the other, price with performance will be the key," he said.

(CNS)