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He was interacting with CIOL on the sidelines of the launch of EMC's security solutions for large-scale as well as Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in India.
“Compliance and regulatory pressures which mandate organizations to retrieve information within a certain period of time will compel organizations to get rid of tapes. Tape has proven to be an unreliable medium of storage and most of the CIOs and IT managers have low confidence when they have to retrieve information from tapes when needed the most,” he added.
Manoj added that even though disk-based technologies are expensive, if companies calculate TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) over five years they provide better value as they need to account for labor cost, space cost and cartage cost for tapes.
On a question about the security concerns of enterprises related to the implementation of cloud services on their premises, he said, “The concerns over security from the customer’s point of view is more of a perception issue than a reality. It is like comparing it to the beginning of ATMs. When ATMS were launched in India, people were concerned over the safety of using it for cash withdrawals.”
“In fact,” he added, “a recent survey by IDC sponsored by EMC said that about 76 per cent of 100 CIOs surveyed in India plan to use cloud computing at least after six months. That is a strong statement about the future use of cloud computing and CIOs wouldn’t say that if they had strong concerns.”