India’s quantum leap: Building data resilience for the future

By Vasanthi Ramesh, VP – Engineering and India Site Lead, NetApp India

Quantum computing is no longer a distant frontier—it is fast becoming a transformative force in India’s technology landscape. With the market projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 22.9% between 2025 and 2030, reaching an estimated USD 231.8 million by 2030, the momentum is undeniable. Fuelled by government support, pioneering academic research, and rising private-sector collaboration, India now stands at the cusp of positioning itself as a global hub for quantum innovation.

Yet with this promise comes a significant challenge. Quantum computers threaten to render our current encryption standards obsolete. Protocols like RSA and ECC—the backbone of our digital security—rely on mathematical problems beyond the reach of classical computers. Quantum computing changes that calculus. Peter Shor’s quantum algorithm, developed in 1994, demonstrated that even RSA-2048 could be broken in hours ...