Mahindra Satyam may push cloud for small firms

Mahindra Satyam (MS) may at some point enter the “promising” business of offering cloud computing services for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

“We already provide infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), virtualisation-as-a-service (VaaS) and security-as-a-service (SaaS), to name a few. The focus right now is our corporate clients. However, we continuously look for options to serve our customers in new segments as we go along,” Venkat Narayanan, senior vice-president and head (strategic initiatives – CTO office) at Mahindra Satyam told Business Standard.

Earlier this year, Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software exporter, launched iOn, a cloud computing service for SMBs. Narayanan said MS was looking at working on such segments through aggregators. For example, the Union ministry of small and medium enterprises has a programme to identify industry clusters and to work with IT providers to come up with cloud solutions dedicated to a particular cluster.