Monday, May 28, 2012

T&M Industry in India: Is it homeland security,Big Data &Cloud!

Here we come again and discuss how the T&M industry can participate in and influence the hurly worly world of Home Land Security, of  Big Data (including Meta Data) and virtualisation through Cloud? Many thoughts are crossing the mind as these new interest technologies are splashing in India too and many Indian Business Group are eyeing the big opportunities here.Selling,Supporting and integration everything will be involved and it is the T&M businesses which has to make smart moves by plugging itself in these.It is worthwhile to take one by one.

Quoting from an Industry association report,Local Homeland Security market is expected to grow from present $8 Billion to $16 Billion in next three years.Market pie is big and the oomph part is none of the T&M companies Globally are involved in specing the RFPs from the customers.What is even more interesting is the fact their local subsidiaries have not formed alliances.So clearly is the case of vacant space to position testing and management solutions around T&M type Equipment.

Everybodys Grandmother knows the proliferation of Storage based "Data Centers" geostrategically located throughout the World and the need to test and manage the VLAN created between large farms.For the demanding users of today we need to ensure that we are continuously up 24 hours a day.Amazon like approach is getting popular with lot of virtualisation of server spaces.Pinterest type of new web techs are also big guzlers of this data.Lot of Cloud companies are starting up in India,and companies like Swifttest are offering SAN,VLAN testing solutions and Networking testing services too.How to ensure safety,security and conformity to law is the automatic testing opportunity here.

We will discuss more on these individual segments opportunities in successive blogs.But one thing is clear,these opportunities exist at an intersection of Big Data and Virtualisation (saving Capex is necessary need behind the need!) and Security (both Electronic and Overall Homeland).Local standards are still to be formulated and again T&M can play its role there too.

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