From physical servers to smart infrastructure: Inside India’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service boom

Not too long ago, if an Indian company wanted to grow its IT operations, this meant purchasing racks of servers, finding temperature-controlled space for them and hiring teams to maintain them at all times. It was expensive, inflexible and not fault tolerant. 

India’s digital economy has come away from costly physical servers to a flexible cloud infrastructure with Internet of Things (IoT) devices generating a mountain of data and feeding it into a flexible environment powered by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). IaaS allows any company to rent computing, storage and networking power, pay as you go without the need to own it.

Why businesses are moving away from hardware

Think back to the old model:

• Upfront costs for data centres and servers incurred in large amounts. 
• Even sleepless nights to keep the systems cool, patch updates, and hardware failures.
• Capacity headaches in either ...