TCS implemented VMware virtualization to build its India Cloud Platform (ICP) which provides cloud services for businesses of all sizes in India. TCS selected VMware due to its flexibility and centralized management compared to other offerings. With VMware, ICP gained a scalable, configurable cloud platform that increased efficiencies and enabled faster growth while ensuring high availability and security for customers. The ICP is growing rapidly to meet increasing demand for cloud computing in India.

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With vSphere, Tata Consultancy Services
seeds the cloud for Indian businesses
“We wanted to build a shared
services platform that enabled
the logical separation of
customers’ applications and
data. We needed a partner that
could meet these requirements,
while helping us manage the
cloud platform as efficiently and
cost-effectively as possible.”
Mahesh Menon
Head,
TCS-IT IS India Cloud Platform
After delivering
infrastructure and
applications ‘as-a-service’ to
small businesses from its
datacenters, TCS-IT decided
to develop the India Cloud
Platform (ICP), a
cloud-based service to
extend its multi-tenant
datacenter offerings to
businesses of all sizes.
TCS-IT implemented
VMware datacenter
virtualization for the first
stage of the ICP. After
finding competing offerings
inflexible, and lacking
centralized management,
TCS-IT built its subsequent
stage on VMware vSphere,
and selected VMware
Professional Services
Organization (PSO) to
assist them.
Secure, compliant, easily scalable cloud-based infrastructure
TCS-IT gained
a flexible cloud based
service that let ICP meet
the needs of any business
a modular, scalable,
configurable cloud
platform based on
vSphere which increased
efficiencies and enabled
faster go-to-market
the ability to support more
than 10,000 Microsoft
Exchange Server 2010
mailboxes for customers
SLAs for infrastructure
availability starting at 99.9%
SLAs for application
availability starting at 99.5%
Market trends
Percentage of organizations implementing or maintaining cloud computing3
Small businesses
Gartner predicts that
from 2013 through 2017
$4.2 billion
will be spent on cloud
services in India.1
9 of every 10
IT decision makers surveyed in India believe
that Cloud Computing, or ‘as-a-service’
approach, is relevant to their organization.2
79%
of IT decision makers
surveyed in India say
they currently have a
cloud-related initiative
in place within the
organization, or are
planning to implement
cloud, or ‘as-a-service’
approach, in the next
12 months.
TCS-IT growing at
30% annually
Creating a perfect storm of cloud efficiency
In 2005, TCS created TCS IT Infrastructure
Services (TCS-IT IS) to help businesses
develop infrastructure that improved
revenues, facilitated cost management and
delivered better customer service.
More than
US$1 billion
in annual revenue
2011 2012
21%
42%
Medium businesses
2011 2012
21%
40%
Large businesses
2011 2012
37%
44%
“Implementing VMware has enabled us to deploy
a service that makes the difficult-to-attain
benefits of cloud computing easily accessible for
businesses across India.”
Mahesh Menon
Head, TCS-IT IS India Cloud Platform