Signs of Cyber Attack and How to Respond to them?

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How to choose a DDoS solution fit for your business?

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This attack can also be used to steal private and sensitive data, intellectual property or any other personal asset in storage. All businesses are vulnerable to such attacks, and the problem is most companies assume they cannot be a target.

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Key Benefits of Big Data for Developing Smart Cities

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So, what exactly is a smart city? A smart city refers to an urban area that is well-equipped with basic infrastructure for providing its citizens a quality lifestyle.

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Why is Web Application Security Vital for Your Business?

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AI, the Digital Transformation Catalyst in Manufacturing Industry

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What trends are going to dominate the Indian Cloud Hosting Market in coming time?

Cloud has played a major role in transforming various countries over the past few decades now. Cloud adoption in India has also picked up and several industries can be seen benefitting from it. So, what are the upcoming trends that we can witness in the Cloud for India?

Key benefits SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud & ESDS’ unique offerings

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud


The ESDS SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) provides an Infrastructure-as-a-Service along with fully managed services which includes hosting of all SAP HANA and Non-HANA Applications (SAP ERP, CRM, SAP BW and any in-house developed or third party applications) to provide auto scalable solutions. SAP allows their partners and customers to deploy their own SAP applications into HEC or deploy SAP software on subscription-based model and we at ESDS provide solutions and services to take it one notch up to create that ‘competitive edge’ for our customers and partners.

The infrastructure is provided as a Private Cloud so it can support resources scaling feature whenever required on need basis. It helps real-time computing based on SAP HANA Platform, which is an add-on advantage of SAP because no other vendor has the experience of managing Infrastructure, SAP HANA Database, SAP Business Application and its mission critical support. So, in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Platform the SAP Team completely takes care of everything on their own and becomes a single point of contact for managing Infrastructure, Managed Services and Application deployment/management.


It helps to make the deployment simpler because of choices to deploy SAP faster and without any disruption.

Below are the key benefits of SAP HEC when partnered with ESDS:

•     Auto scale-up and scale-out architectures
•     Faster Deployment
•     Continuous Innovation Cycle
•     Scalability with Low Risk
•     Free-up IT Resources
•     Fully Managed Support

All of the above points are the foundation of the ESDS SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud offering.

A high level architecture diagram:

Faster Deployment

SAP HEC provides a fully scalable and secure cloud platform so that resources can be increased whenever required, with all support for infrastructure, application and deployment which reduces disruption during implementation. The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud also gives built-in operations and management capabilities that enables faster implementation time.

Continuous Innovation Cycle

SAP is constantly evolving and innovating its products and services to fulfill demands of the global market and to stay competitive.
Scalability with Low Risk

The SAP HEC is all about scalable cloud platform. It offers elasticity, automation and comfort of administration which reduces risk of deployment and helps avoid capital cost as well which reduces financial risk

Free-up IT Resources

SAP HEC also helps reduce resources which are required to manage Infrastructure, Application and Database because SAP itself provides Managed Services which covers Infrastructure, Application and Database related activities. Thus, customers need not worry about IT staff or other human resources for managing SAP. This saves huge costs of the business.

Fully Managed Support

The SAP HEC provides managed services including Infrastructure Management, Monitoring Operating System Support, Updates and Upgrade, Backup/Restore and Recovery, and SAP Application and Database Management and Monitoring.

How ESDS is the best choice for your SAP/SAP HANA environment

ESDS is certified in SAP Infrastructure, SAP Cloud Services and SAP Hana Operations Services. It is the first Indian company to collaborate with SUSE, offering an extensive cloud computing environment, eNlight, which performs real time scaling for business-critical applications and workloads of SAP and Non SAP applications. With over 60 customers and 250+ SAP HANA instances, ESDS is hosting environments for enterprise organisations like Symphony Ltd, Embassy Group, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, Bajaj Electronics, Tata Projects Ltd, Shilpa Medicare, Fujitsu and others.

Besides multi-cloud DC and DR services, ESDS’ specialty lies in providing customers with fully managed services and Basis support emerging as a converging single point of support. Its bouquet of offerings also include infrastructure management (compute, storage, network, firewall); OS & DB management; replication management; monitoring & DR drill; advance monitoring with eMagic DCIM; phone, chat and ticket support; scalability with infrastructure on-demand; 99.95% Uptime; redundancy at all levels and high availability.

Adhering to all relevant compliances, ESDS’ SAP operations enable enterprises to run their systems effectively and efficiently. SAP-APJ (SAP’s Asia Pacific & Japan entity) also enlists ESDS on its website for S/4 HANA Managed Enterprise Hosting Services on US patented eNlight Cloud Platform.

So, make the move to SAP S/4 HANA on ESDS’ eNlight cloud and unleash capabilities of your Enterprise SAP S/4 HANA, as you collaborate with SAP HANA experts to do everything else. Build, deploy, host, manage, monitor your HANA environment with expertise and leverage the benefits of eNlight cloud for an auto scalable infrastructure and serious cost control with pay-per-use billing model, as you transform to HANA platform. Literally, there is no better SAP and SAP HANA provider other than ESDS.

IoT Touching Your Life

IoT is not just a buzzword. It is more close to you than you think. Check out these facts about IoT that show its growth by 2020. If you also want IoT for your business, ESDS is happy to help you.

Are You Ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

The Digital Revolution or the Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us, and it is unstoppable. Organizations are reorienting their business processes and corporate culture to align themselves with upcoming technologies and present-day customer needs. In nearly every industry, new digital technologies are being adopted, which are bringing unmatched performances to their business processes. Almost every day, there is an innovation in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Business Intelligence and Connectivity, which promises us to transform the way we live and work. The most crucial step towards digital transformation is that an organization first needs to understand what they are trying to achieve and why – before choosing to transform their entire organization digitally.

The Titanic seemed herculean and unsinkable until the moment where it didn’t anticipate the iceberg which later sunk it. Today, digital transformation is the iceberg, which companies should soon apprehend in order to continue with their business smoothly. So to embrace digital change, a business should engage itself in digital initiatives and strategies. An organization is only going to benefit if they smartly invest and understand the emerging technologies and how they can be implemented to enhance processes.

That being the case, we will focus on some points, which will give us a clear idea about the entire ecosystem of these digital innovations and their collaboration in business.

Digital Transformation for business success

Organizations are looking to move above traditional software systems and adopt intelligent platforms, which will connect their operations and processes with technologies such as the Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence & Analytics and more in Industry 4.0. When an organization approaches digital transformation, they need inputs or advice on how to successfully transform into this journey. Many times, they learn on their own by making some mistakes or errors on the way or learn from the experiences of others. To prepare for the digital transformation journey, one must first keep the end-goal in mind. A plan should be devised on what are things business wants to achieve, and it can be in the form of business gains, technical functionality, a better understanding of market needs or improved efficiency. The next step is to discover the potential of your organization and how you can transform into an intelligent enterprise. By adding value drivers to your product and services, you can guide your efforts in the right direction to reap maximum benefits.

Opportunities through Digital Transformation

If we look at this industry, it is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity for IT companies to help organizations make the digital transition. While all modern digital innovations are fascinating, it is also essential to find appropriate technologies for your business, which will keep you aligned with the current market demands. It is easier to serve a customer when you have precisely the kind of technology, which will meet their requirements. Technologies like Big Data and Analytics will help your organization to understand the needs of the market and Internet of Things (IoT) platform can be utilized to store a customer’s data based on the products and services they are using. These technologies will extensively benefit an organization by accurately positioning itself in the market for the right kind of audience.

Points to consider before embarking on a Digital Transformation journey

A.    Discovering your objectives for implementing digital technologies in your organization should be your first step while parallelly thinking about the result you wish to have.

B.    Identifying the Key Performance Index (KPI) in your organization will help you find the right digital solution for improving your business.

C.    Keep an eye on the rising and in-demand technologies in the market. If you don’t pay attention to innovations in technology and what it has to offer you, then you will lack behind and probably be out of business. Imagine if Sony had paid a little more attention to the digital music format, rather than allowing Apple to break new ground with iPod, iTunes and Apple music.

D.    Some businesses are making the most of digital initiatives right now and comparing yourself with them might be unwise. Understand that they have implemented only those technologies, which are best for their business, and so you should do the same by adopting only those technologies, which can improve your business.

There are multiple processes, transactions, evolutions and innovations, which are covered under the digital transformation umbrella. Before embarking on the digital transformation journey, you might end up reading about specific reports, which predict the market, and “guides” you towards widespread technology adoption, but there are specific challenges and pitfalls, which an organization should foresee or experience themselves. There are steps, which a leader and various departments in an organization need to make for a successful shift in the organizational thinking towards digital transformation adoption.

Data Center Services in India

Data Center is a key parameter for any business and ESDS is one of the CSPs to provide best Data Center Services in India.

What do you mean by Data Center Services?

Data Center Services is an umbrella term used to describe services which create, execute, enhance or maintain a data center for an organization. Basically, data center services include all the facilities related to IT components and activities. It can involve software, hardware, personnel, and processes.

Types of Data Centers

• Enterprise Data Centers
  Previously, enterprises built their own data centers on their own sites. However, building private data centers has not quite proved to be the best investment of companies’ precious capital because considering the construction and maintenance costs. CEOs and CIOs started realizing that these financial resources could be used in business development.

• Managed Service Provider
  Managed Service Provider remotely controls customers’ IT infrastructure proactively on a subscription model. The IT infrastructure is on the service providers’ sites and the services are provided to the end customers remotely. There are various pricing models which change according to a number of devices and users based on the IT support and management services.

• Colocation
  A colocation data center facility is a business where the customer rents space in the providers’ premises for computing hardware. A colocation service provides building, cooling, power, and physical security while the customer provides storage and servers. The main reason businesses choose colocation service is the CAPEX related with building, maintenance and taking care of large computing facilities.

• Wholesale Data Centers
  Wholesale Data Center also known as Multi-Tenant Data Center benefits large companies which need large portions of space than a typical colocation provider would offer. A wholesale data center service provider would generally offer huge space to customers who need more space for their IT hardware. Wholesale colocation is generally offered at cheaper rates compared to retail colocation.

Data Center Facilities & Services

Data Center facilities include

• In-house Facilities
  An organization can have in-house facilities where they can design, build and operate a data center in their own premises. There is no involvement of a third party because the organization takes it on them to provide the necessary requirements to run their operations. An experienced IT team is necessary to maintain a complex data center architecture.

• Colocation Facilities
  Colocation facilities are provided by a third party and are the exact opposite of in-house facilities because they are multi-tenant accessible. Multiple businesses can choose to house their equipment in third-party data centers. Customers can choose solutions which are specific to their business when buying colocation facilities.

• Dedicated Hosting
  In a dedicated hosting solution, customers have full control over the server allocated to them. The server and storage is completely dedicated to one customer or one business for a single purpose. The customer manages all the hardware himself and maintains the equipment without sharing it with any other customers.

• Managed Hosting
  Managed hosting is similar to dedicated hosting as it falls under similar conventions but provides an additional set of features to customers who use their servers. The additional services include database and system administration, managed security, system monitoring, application management services and much more. The hardware may be owned by the provider or the customer but the management of those servers is the responsibility of the provider and not the customer.

• Shared Hosting
  In a shared hosting environment, the customer shares the server as it acts as a host to multiple clients or businesses. The shared hosting includes the sharing of the applications and software within the physical server. The hosting provider deploys an interface which allows multiple customers to customize their services according to their business needs. Shared hosting is cost-efficient because there is no need to employ technical staff to manage your website and also the cost of the server is shared.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Data center infrastructure management tools track the performance of IT related equipment to analyze data about infrastructure components such as servers, storage, network, etc. It also helps in the decision-making process as well as aids in optimal use of IT hardware. DCIM tools enable data centers to control storage, power, and cooling in real time. The tools basically administer the relationship between the facility and the IT systems. The energy monitoring sensors can be installed in the data center to analyze power usage effectiveness and cooling system energy efficiency. This type of approach is called Continuous Modeling which allows the IT head to observe the changes in the infrastructure and make decisions based on the data.

Data Center Operations

The processes which are performed within a data center are basically known as data center operations. There are infrastructure operations which include installing, managing, monitoring and updating servers along with storage and network resources. Security is essential for any data center which includes physical and logical security in the premises. Management of all the processes within the data center should be taken care of along with monitoring of policies. To let your data center function smoothly it is essential to consider the consistency of operations which ensures continuous availability of facilities.
Conclusion
Enterprises can no longer ignore the fact that data centers have become very essential for the functioning of big business. Data centers have become a key parameter of any business when it comes to IT infrastructure requirements. Particular interruptions in your data center can bring your business to its knees and thus, it is important to have strategies in place.