cloud technologies for enterprises and customer use cases, a senior executive of mainframe-as-a-service company Ensono said cloud is not meant for all workloads. India Managing Director of Ensono, Raj Bagga spoke to PTI as the company makes a foray into hybrid solutions for enterprise data.
The government recently imposed restrictions on import of micro computers, large or mainframe computers, and certain data processing machines.
Mainframe computers, informally called mainframe, are used by large organizations for bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing — especially by large companies having sensitive information.
«Earlier, companies used to see the cloud only approach, moving 100 per cent to cloud, but that thinking is changing drastically. People are realizing that cloud is not for all the workloads and suitable for that,» Bagga said.
On mainframe technology applications, Bagga said, «Chandrayaan-3's head mentioned that one of the platforms they used which was making this successful was the mainframe technology. Mainframe is the one wherein we support the large insurance providers, banking, retailers, healthcare, a lot of government sector which run this platform now.»
Ensono merged with Wipro-hosted data center business, and Bagga, a Wipro veteran with 26 years of experience,