Tech-oriented organizations that are willing to keep up with the evolving and dynamic business landscape adopt hybrid cloud strategies, says Amit Gupta, Founder and CEO, Rapyder Cloud Solutions. A driving force behind Rapyder, Amit Gupta, a new-age technology specialist, joined hands with his technologist friend and former colleague, Athreya Ramadas, to start Rapyder Cloud Systems.
CIO AXIS: What are Rapyder’s service offerings? Throw some light on the journey of your organisation.
Amit Gupta: Rapyder is a well-known AWS Advanced Consulting partner, has its headquarters in Bengaluru and sales and support offices in Delhi and Mumbai. Rapyder is an agile, precise, and innovative company with DevOps and Well-Architected Review competencies that offer end-to-end cloud solutions across industry verticals.
Rapyder was incepted in 2017 and is specialized in cloud migration and digital transformation. Its service offerings include applications and infrastructure migrations to the cloud, consulting and architecture services, DevOps and Managed Services, providing end-user computing solutions and overall Digital Transformation.
Since the beginning of its operations, Rapyder has achieved 114 Certifications, with over 3,400 VMs managed and more than 4,000 VMs launched and migrated till date. The organization today has more than 125 Managed Service Clients and has around 200+ employees engaged in providing cloud solutions to various customers.
In addition, Rapyder has also achieved four major AWS competencies and obtained nine service delivery programs and enjoys the status of being an AWS Cloud consulting partner of the year 2021.
The organization closed the financial year 2021 at over 200% growth in business and more than a 100% growth in employee count. The organization recently launched two new offerings on the AWS marketplace, viz, DevOps with Control Tower and Digital User Engagement and Analytics with Pinpoint.
Rapyder’s team of experts assist customers in making data-driven decisions that will optimize costs and improve compliance, besides reducing risks. Its Enterprise Managed Services include rapid on-boarding, run-the-business services, optimizing customers’ applications, round-the-clock support, real-time monitoring, regular reviews, and audits.
CIO AXIS: There is a growing need for Cloud Computing professionals today across industries. What are the roles and skill sets that are in demand?
Amit Gupta: Cloud computing certainly delivers more efficient and quicker ways to adapt and run business operations to suit the constantly changing market environments. According to the recent report by Grand View Research, the global cloud computing market size, which was valued at USD 368.97 billion in 2021, is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.7% from 2022 to 2030.
With more businesses across industry verticals choosing cloud services, there is a rise in demand for Cloud Computing experts. Some of the key skillsets required to become cloud professionals include Database skills, Programming skills, Linux, Networking Skills, Web services & APIs and many more.
Profiles in demand are Cloud Developer, Cloud Security Engineer, SysOps Administrator, Front-end Developer, Back-end Developer, Development Operations Engineer, Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Specialist, Cloud Migration Specialist, etc.
CIO AXIS: Cloud Computing in gaining more attention today. Which cloud model – public, private or hybrid – is preferred across enterprises and why?
Amit Gupta: Tech-oriented organizations that are willing to keep up with the evolving and dynamic business landscape adopt hybrid cloud strategies. This architecture is a fusion of in-house infrastructure or the private cloud and third-party, public cloud services, enabling effortless data movement between these different environments. The existing resources can be utilized optimally in addition to scaling up to the public cloud as required, thus getting the best of both worlds.
It offers scalability, enhanced computing power, flexibility, better performance, cost optimization, fulfilment of regulatory obligations and security, and due to these several benefits, the hybrid, multi-cloud market is growing at a faster pace too. Tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft are investing significantly in this technology solution, where businesses can simultaneously manage private and public clouds.
Furthermore, hybrid clouds also offer flexible pricing plans, so organizations can save costs by paying only for the computing resources used by them.
CIO AXIS: What are the benefits of Cloud Computing and what are the challenges in implementing it for digital transformation?
Amit Gupta: Cloud technology acts as a cornerstone for the agile businesses of today. Cloud services speed up processes, automate and enhance business performance with flexibility, scalability, cost-saving, security and collaboration features.
Before incorporating a cloud solution in their digital transformation initiative, organizations have to address a few challenges around data security, service quality, pricing, performance, IT compliance, and migration challenges over heritage systems. Partnering with a computing service provider to solve these challenges is a good option for businesses of all sizes.
Yes, to deliver an exceptional customer experience, a cloud-enabled digital transformation strategy is critical for every organisation.
CIO AXIS: What is the future of Cloud Computing and the top trends in the space?
Amit Gupta: Here are key cloud-related trends that will help in understanding the future of the cloud computing technology.
AI will be leveraged further for increasing the efficiency of cloud computing platforms. Cloud Security will become a top business priority. There will be rise in IoT platforms enabled by cloud. Hybrid and multi-cloud solutions will gain traction. Edge Computing will play a key role in organisations to use new technologies and computing power. Service mesh, a critical component in the cloud platform will be leveraged to make it dynamic and secure.
CIO AXIS: Share your organisation’s growth plans over the next three years?
Amit Gupta: We are looking forward to becoming a multi-location organisation with physical branches and partners in regions such as MENA, APAC, ANZ and the US, in the near future. By the end of this year, we plan to ramp up our headcount to 400 from the current 200, as we are in the process of developing efficiency in technologies such as Big Data, IoT, DA, AI and ML among others.
Rapyder also aims to become one of the best working placesfor employees and a most trusted cloud partner for customers.