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Manoj Chugh, President of EMC India & SAARC and the Director of Global Accounts, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), for EMC Corporation is confident and yet logical. Enjoy how EMC’s captain stays buoyant about every doubt-javelin sprinting towards the Cloud phenomenon — from still-flinching mission-critical apps to the lackluster VBlock review.

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KPMG expects global cloud services market to more than double to nearly $149 billion, while pointing that under penetrated sectors such as government, healthcare and education will have lot of potential. About the ‘under penetrated’ ground, your reaction? And why the storm about Clouds now? Hasn’t this been around already?

Virtualisation has come up as a key driver for Cloud adoption. Unless you have a compelling technology which adds the requisites, a wave like this can not go mainstream. Cloud definitely provides unprecedented opportunities to CIOs. Now would they adopt it, is another question. It is a very strong avenue for better services. And even generating revenues.

Joe Tucci remarked about Cloud being the next big wave and how he thinks that- "if we ride this wave well I think hopefully we could be one of the most important companies associated with success in this next wave." Lot of potential, you would second that?

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We see Cloud as the big wave for sure. It will be all pervasive. Our bets would be on hybrid clouds. That’s the way to go. Within India, it would first be private clouds, and then hybrids. In terms of the overall IT landscape, up to 35 per cent would be in good phase of adoption.

Would this wave float seamlessly from traditional legacy behemoths that CIOs had, to nimble Cloud platform?

Migrating to the Cloud is not a one-step point but a journey. The testing and developer apps which the IT organization has deployed happen first. There are benefits of capex and opex as they go through the first phase. Virtualisation is a key technology here. There would be production apps, big apps, CRM apps, improved SLAs, high availability, scalability and such factors that need to be looked into.

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Mission-critical apps on to Clouds? Should, would and when?

Yes, absolutely. It is happening already and not just in a testing or development sense. You have to work with system integrators. It’s about how do we provide Infrastructure as a Service; access to catalogues depending on kind of application through a self-service protocol in an automated fashion.

In context to the brickbats hurled at VBlock around challenges of poor integration, is it right that canned products might not fare good in comparison to configured stuff?

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Life is about choices. A CIO has choice. A pre-engineered solution that is tested for specific workloads is here. It has been tested on a reasonable number of machines with some scale and network requisites as applicable. But there might be users who would want to build their own solution. It can be Buffet or Ala Carte. You may want to take and crumble and whip up in your own way with best-of-breed components. We can just offer choices.

So betting big on Clouds?

I am very optimistic about adoption of Clouds. The journey has already taken off strongly within organizations as private clouds.