Google Cloud India has included government enterprises and public sector companies among their focus areas in the next few years and hopes to leverage its newly-launched cloud management solution Google Anthos to make inroads in the sector.
Nitin Bawankule, Country Director, Google Cloud India, said Anthos’ ability to provide a single interface to operate hybrid systems (part of the data on the premises and part on cloud) will be perfect for government and public sector companies in the next few years.
“Public sector companies and government organisations will have a lot of data regulation and will need to have some part of data and application on the premise, while a lot of things will go on the cloud,” Mr. Bawankule said on the sidelines of the Google Cloud Summit last week. The government and public sector companies together make up over 20% of information technology spends in the country, making it a key focus area for business, he said.
‘Flexibility and ease’
Rick Harshman, Managing Director, Google Cloud, APAC, said the tool also provides flexibility and ease in migrating between platforms and technologies.
“Migration takes a long time because you need to rebuild the application and rewrite the code stacks. You don’t have to do that with Anthos. Your migration can be faster and cheaper. When you run it on Anthos, you don’t need to make code changes,” he said.
Google unveiled Google Anthos, a platform-agnostic tool, in April at Google Cloud’s Next ’19 event in San Francisco. The tool allows companies to manage their assets from a single interface, eliminating the need for technology teams in companies to separately manage cloud-based software such as Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft’s Azure or even data that is not cloud based and is run on the premises.
Apart from government sector, Google Cloud is also focusing on five other sectors in the country — healthcare, retail, communication/media/entertainment, banking and manufacturing.
As part of their efforts, Google Cloud will be expanding their sales team by nearly three times in India and will set up a team specifically looking after public sector companies and government enterprises.