Locuz eyes 2% pie of cloud orchestration tools market in India

ClouTor, Cloud Integrator, will be run as a pilot at few major India firms

Locuz Enterprise Solutions Limited, a Hyderabad-based high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider, is hoping to corner about two per cent of the Rs 65-crore cloud orchestration tools market in India in the next one year, according to its president Uttam Majumdar.

Launching ClouTor (Cloud Integrator), an orchestration tool built on Cisco and US-based storage and data management solutions provider NetApp’s data centre infrastructure platform FlexPod in the Indian market on Tuesday, he said ClouTor was being run as a pilot at a few major Indian firms.

ClouTor enables customers to build, manage and optimise private and hybrid cloud environments on FlexPod. The solution, which has built-in analytics, allows to integrate and use applications based on common application programming interfaces (APIs).

FlexPod combines Cisco’s unified computing system and $6.5-billion NetApp’s Data OnTap, the industry's first branded storage operating system. The company claims that this converged shared infrastructure architecture uses 50 per cent less storage and 80 per cent fewer cables and ports.

“Our focus in the first year of launch of ClouTor will be on use cases. We should be winning 50 contracts for ClouTor deployment in India in the next 18 to 24 months,” Majumdar said, adding that ClouTor would also be made available as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) pretty soon.

Locuz Enterprises, in which mid-cap IT services company 3i Infotech has a majority stake, has reported revenues of Rs 200 crore in FY13 and is expecting to grow 20 per cent this financial year, primarily on the back of cloud-based technologies.

On NetApp India’s go-to-market pathway, Krithiwas Neelakantan, director (channel and alliances) for NetApp India Saac operations, said that the company was looking at shared and dedicated storage solutions that are cloud-integrated and flash-accelerated.