Apart from the cloud, helping companies manage big data will be one of the priorities for EMC in India, said a top official of the company.
Speaking to Business Line , Mr Manoj Chugh, who has recently taken over as Regional President, Global Accounts, Asia Pacific and Japan, said, “Managing big data infrastructure presents a tremendous opportunity for EMC.”
EMC, a $17-billion NYSE-listed company, predominantly operates in the area of data storage and allied areas like virtualisation and data security with subsidiaries like VMWare and RSA.
Big data are becoming more and more important to companies these days.
According to McKinsey, as of 2009, nearly all sectors in America had at least an average of 200 TB (terabytes) of stored data, which was twice the size of the data in Wal-Mart's data warehouse in 1999. Big data are used by large enterprises to find deeper business trends, but storing huge amounts of data and managing them is cumbersome.
EMC recently announced that Mr Rajesh Janey has been named as the President of its India and SAARC operations, replacing Mr Chugh, who has moved on to a new role.
“Mr Janey should drive our growth in e-governance,” he said, highlighting the importance of big data in e-governance projects. While there are no studies for India and big data in e-governance projects, McKinsey said that if developed economies of Europe were to use big data effectively, they could save over $149 billion in operational efficiency improvements alone.