EMC India to set up team to focus on government space

NEW DELHI: Betting big on government's Digital India and smart city initiatives, storage solutions provider EMC is setting up a special team to focus on these programmes, which can offer opportunities worth billions of dollars.

The government sector contributes about 20-25 per cent of the technology major's revenue in India.

"We have NIC as a large customer, department of IT as a customer, so we have those relations...We are constantly in engagement with all the key stakeholders regarding our latest products like hybrid cloud or data lake, which can be customised as per government needs," EMC President India and SAARC Rajesh Janey told PTI.

EMC is aggressively focusing on partnering with the government as it seeks to transform India into a connected knowledge economy, he added.

"In fact, we are in the process of setting up a government vertical team which will aggressively focus on partnership opportunities in the Digital India and Smart City space," Janey said.

The government is undertaking various initiatives under its Digital India programme, which aims to use technology to deliver citizen services and connect rural regions and remote villages with high-speed Internet services.

Under the smart cities initiative, the government envisages to set up 100 cities by 2022, where technology will play a crucial role in deployment of services like education, healthcare, utilities, surveillance and delivery of citizen services.

In the Budget, the Finance Ministry has allocated Rs 7,060 crore for developing these smart cities.

Janey said if all these initiatives are executed well, the government's pie of its business could be 30 per cent in next 3-4 years.

"This is assuming that we will continue to grow at a pace," Janey said adding that from 2009, EMC India has grown at a CAGR of about 20 per cent.

"We are doing everything what it takes to be a partner. Our discussions are at various levels because there are projects that are driven by the Centre or there are projects that are driven by the state," Janey said.

The US-based firm registered revenues of USD 24.4 billion in 2014 and operates R&D centers in India, Brazil, China, France, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, and the US.

It employs about 60,000 people worldwide.