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Rajesh Awasthi, Vice President & Global Head of Managed Hosting and Cloud Services, Tata Communications. NEW DELHI: The combination of cloud with private 5G will drive new solutions catering to the bespoke requirements of enterprises in India which will expedite digital transformation, according to a senior executive of Mumbai-based diversified telecom company Tata Communications. ...the consumption of cloud infrastructure happens through the Internet. It would enable close working between the things which are being driven by IoT (Internet of Things), and things that are driven at a central site being merged into areas which would create new solutions, Rajesh Awasthi, Vice President & Global Head of Managed Hosting and Cloud Services, told ETTelecom.

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The company is seeing heightened discussions among its customers about correlating data being generated by IoT devices across their operations for extracting actionable insights, Awasthi said, adding that data can be transmitted to the cloud at high-speeds and with low-latency by 5G.

Further, Tata Communications dedicated government cloud infrastructure hosts some of the critical government projects such as Ayushman Bharat Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), a procurement portal for the commerce ministry, among others.

The business unit has been growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of nearly 28% in the last three years. ...we are growing faster than the industry. The IT infrastructure and platform services in India are growing at a CAGR of around 22% to 23%. This is one of the growth engines for us, the executive said.

Asked about the slow pace of cloud adoption among Indias small and medium enterprises, Awasthi noted that SMEs prefer adopting cloud services through the software-as-a-service model to maintain their focus on the core business areas.

He also highlighted there is often a lack of talent or dedicated teams in SMEs to manage infrastructure or platform services. But we are enabling a framework which can be taken up by these MSME customers for their digital transformation.

On the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, Awasthi said that it will ensure that the citizens personal data remains secure and within the borders of India.

I think the data privacy bill is going to impact all lines of business in a positive sense because you are talking about critical data that needs to be protected in the right form, he said. Cyber threats are now becoming like virtual war plains for geopolitical scenarios. Having these controls are going to be very important.

The Cabinet on Wednesday (July 5) reportedly approved the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. The Bill, likely to be tabled in the Monsoon session of the Parliament, details citizens rights on personal data with provisions for entities handling personal data accountable for managing it with safety and security in a responsible manner.

He also said the company is gung-ho about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its offerings, but has called for the right utilisation of the technology in India to get the most benefits out of it.

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