CIOTechOutlook >> Magazine >> April - 2015 issue

Ninth Dimension: Data Drives Our World and Information is the New Currency

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The storage market is currently going through a phase, where the major debate that enterprises are having are around: “On Premise“vs “Off Premise” or building an internal private cloud vs moving to a hybrid/public cloud.
“Today the third platform is fuelling a majority of data growth and more so for the unstructured data. “Social-Media-Analytics-Cloud(SMAC)” as an initiative is high on every CIO’s mind and a lot of decisions on storage management platforms are being driven with this in mind” according to Amit Prasad, CSMO at Ninth Dimension.
Flash has gained popularity and while they are still perceived to be expensive, enterprises are beginning to understand that a well-tiered storage will bring down the total cost of ownership. There are lot of applications like VDI, OLTP transactions and the traditional workloads that are fast becoming good candidates for residing on All Flash Arrays(AFA’s).
“With the unprecedented data growth, optimization and productivity are the key metrics for the CIOs today. IT is being looked at as an enabler of business and “time to provision” the infrastructure is driving innovation”, according to Shubha Ramnath, CIO & Head Consulting at Ninth Dimension.
Significant numbers of enterprises are evaluating the hyper-converged infrastructure comprising of storage, computing, networking and the hypervisor. We firmly believe that the traditional storage will eventually give way to hyper converged infrastructure and software-defined storage.
Enterprise wide backup forms a core component of Data Management Solutions.Restoring the right data within an acceptable SLA is paramount in designing an enterprise wide backup architecture.
“Ninth Dimension IT solutions help organizations transform raw data into valuable information by delivering on a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable. Data drives our world — and information is the new currency”, according to Bhargav Balla, CEO at Ninth Dimension.
Choosing the right data replication strategy can be tricky and our methodology on reaching a data replication strategy will make your job easier. Our replication technologies deliver an integrated, single-platform approach to managing data replication no matter what your requirements are for data access, protection, recovery and compliance and business continuity. We provide automated options to replicate data regardless of the underlying storage device.
The loss of sensitive data raises data security concerns including theft of disk drives, backup tapes lost during transportation, hacking and access control.
Our Storage Security Solutions use encryption of data both on the disk and tape to significantly mitigate threats.
The core areas of Ninth Dimension are Intelligent Data Centers, Big Data Analytics, Virtualization & Cloud, Data Consolidation, Data Management& Availability, Mobility, Consulting& Professional services.The right technology partnerships and the work put in by the team in the last 4 years has made the company catapult to the next level from just being one more Tier 2 systems integrator in the crowded SI market.
“We aim to have a strong leadership position as an ‘Information Enabler’ catering to a diverse portfolio ranging from Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data-Centre optimization, Big Data& Consulting Services”, says Bhargav.


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