Page 22 - Forbes India (December 2015)

interview

robert LebLanc

‘India Can be a Big Player in the

Next Generation of the Cloud’

IBM Cloud’s senior VP Robert LeBlanc says with the
second largest pool of programmers in the world, India

is its most important market after the United States

By Aveek DAttA

nterprises across the globe problem of locally managing and While the US-based Amazon
are warming up to the storing data, the next generation of Web Services stole a march over
adoption of cloud computing, cloud computing is proving to be competitors in the first generation of
Ewhich is the practice of using about innovation on the cloud. In cloud-based services to become the
a network of remote servers hosted a world where services are going largest cloud computing company
on the internet to store, manage and increasingly mobile, the cloud seeks in the world, its American peer
to empower the smallest of businesses
and one of the oldest technology
Mexy xavier process data, instead of using a local to develop the right kind of apps firms in the world, IBM, seeks to
server or a personal computer.
dominate the second generation
(which are hosted on the cloud) and
While the first wave of cloud
of the cloud, which is based on
connect with potential customers.
computing was about mitigating the
22 | FORBES INDIA DECEMBER 11, 2015