Cloud and big data are key focus areas for us
Sudhir Chowdhary: Dec 17 2012, 00:38 IST
India is a strategic market for EMC, the $20 billion, 53,000-people strong American enterprise and the world’s leading maker of corporate data storage equipment. “The India region has evolved to be a critical contributor to EMC’s long-term strategy by driving global innovation and revenue growth for the Asia Pacific & Japan region,” says Steve Leonard, senior vice-president, EMC. Steve works with EMC vice-chairman Bill Teuber to help build out the company’s presence in emerging markets around the world. Previously, Steve was responsible for driving EMC’s growth and market leadership in Asia Pacific & Japan; under Steve’s leadership over six years, EMC sales in APJ grew from $1.1 billion in 2006 to $2.6 billion in 2011. Steve has been closely seeing the development and adoption of technologies like cloud and big data. He tells Sudhir Chowdhary that most of the data in India will reside over the cloud and IT heads will look at comprehensive solutions to manage and make sense out of that data. Excerpts:
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