Post-acquisition of Perot Systems in 2009, Dell Services is taking the healthcare market in India to the next level of technology by providing cloud services to its clients. Its India healthcare head, Pankaj Gupta, said most of the hospital and healthcare clients in India are looking at adopting cloud services. The unorganised and organised healthcare sector in India has about 4,00,000 hospitals. ?Most clients are looking at cloud considering they would be expanding the services. Though clients are still exploring the public cloud option, larger players are looking at private clouds,? Gupta said. The firm is currently in talks with some of the major hospital chains in India, he added.
With Perot Systems, an IT software services provider, now being a part of the hardware giant Dell, the firm is able to bundle software and hardware services to its clients. The firm gives competition to other hardware and services providers like IBM and domestic providers like Wipro and Infosys Technologies. The firm last year bagged a $20 million contract from Max Healthcare for upgrading the infrastructure on a private cloud that would enable the hospital chain to digitise health records. Dell Services would be extending the services for Max’s additional 6 healthcare units- two daycare centers and four hospitals across Delhi, Punjab and Dehra Dun that are expected to be launched next year. Max currently has about 10,70,000 patients records which would be digitized using open source platform by Vista.
Recently, Ernst & Young in a report had said the firms in India are looking at adopting cloud services over the next two to three years. Milan Seth, partner, business advisory services at Ernst & Young, said, ?Cloud services are at quite a nascent stage in India and we expect the Infrastructure as a Service to be picked up first followed by Software as a Service and Platform as a Service.? According to Seth, more clients are expected to look at public clouds only for administrative services. While large clients would look at private clouds due to security reasons. Indian cloud computing market is expected to touch $1.08 billion by 2015, from the current $110 million, according to a consulting firm Zinnov.