A well reputed IT product development company Zenith InfoTech launched its
latest, first of its kind computing platform-'Proud' on Oct 6. This single
infrastructure can run all business computing needs. 'Proud' has been engineered
by over 250 computer scientists, a cross Belgium, Germany, Mumbai and Bengaluru,
working for more than four years, at a total cost of
Rs 175 crore.
This single centralized computing system will replace the need to buy
computing and network hardware as separate unmanageable components. Customers
will be able to run their entire IT infrastructure within as virtual machines
within the cloud environment. Functionalities such as high-availability,
continuous backups, predictive failure monitoring and granular capacity
management, which traditionally have been expensive and separately paid for
items, are an integral part of the 'Proud' platform. 'Proud''s unique scale-out
approach to computing, will allow customers to add capacity when they need it
without undergoing expensive rip and replace cycles.
Akash Saraf, CEO, Zenith InfoTech said, “'Proud' is yet another break through
product created by Zenith InfoTech. Before 'Proud' Zenith has successfully built
SAAZ, an IT infrastructure management system and ARCA/BDR, a backup and
disaster recovery product that have been implemented at 27,000 customer sites in
the US, Canada, UK and Australia and have gen-erated over Rs 350 crore in sales
for Zenith InfoTech over the past two years. With 'Proud' we aim to completely
change how businesses purchase and utilize their IT infrastructure. Our goal is
to have at least 20,000 customers globally adopt the 'Proud' platform within the
next two years.”
'Proud' will transform IT as an operational cost from a capital expense and
it will still be privately owned. For businesses to run using 'Proud' no
modifications will be required as their existing softwares and applications
won't be changed. However, the customers will be able to reap the benefits of
cloud computing. Traditionally cloud computing needed customers to outsource
their IT to a third party data center, however with 'Proud' customers' host,
control and manage their cloud themselves. 'Proud' will grant businesses the
flexibility of using both commercial and open source software through a unique
concept called virtual appliances.
“Cloud computing is the classic disruptive technology. Within five years from
now IT departments will either be cloud consumers (use an externally hosted
cloud) or a cloud operator (build and manage their own clouds),” added Saraf.