Unleashing the Power of Cloud

The panel discussion stated with Prof. Sridhar explaining the premise of the need of digitization of data and origin of data centers. The discussion then moved towards “Digital Business Transformation as Force Multiplier”. Then he asked the panel members “What are the benefits of cloud”?

To answer his question, Mr. Vasudevan explained the concepts of intranet, internet, formation of data centers and why businesses started adopting to cloud. Cloud enables Faster, Cheaper and Better access to the customer.

Mr. Rajat explained how cloud facilitates storing and retrieving data from anywhere, anytime.

Mr. Ajith shared the story of how Amazon Web Services (AWS) came into existence and how cloud computing became the order of the day for a business during the last decade. Besides AWS, Oracle, Alibaba, Snowflake are some of the other popular could service providers.

The panelists concluded the session by explaining students different types of cloud service arrangements accessed by the business organizations such as – public, private, hybrid, poly cloud and multi cloud.