Catnip Infotech: Demystifying Cloud For Enterprises

In today’s cloud computing frenzy, businesses are jumping on the cloud bandwagon to gain scalability and efficiency. It is enabling enterprises to throw off the shackles of capital expenditure (CapEx) and scale up their business as per the demand. However, adoption of cloud per se does not guarantee success. The ultimate objective of higher ROI can only be achieved through optimization of resources and bringing down the operational expenditure. In order to optimize in the true sense, businesses must weigh all the options within and outside cloud. Within cloud they can choose to be on public cloud when the application is new and once the load is stabilized, they can opt for a hybrid model or bring the application on-premise. At the same time, the case of containerization must also be explored and deliberated over to seek an alternative for the expensive virtualization platforms.

Such flexibility and agility can only be achieved by working with a cloud and infrastructure services partner who can understand the operational processes of the organization, size up the exact requirements of their DevOps team and adapt to their changing business needs. This is what Catnip Infotech, a Bangalore based IT Consulting and System Integration Company is adept at. Built on the four pillars of process, people, system and skills, the startup is making its mark in the industry with its proactive approach of not just being there for the customer but going the extra mile to ensure that complete optimization of cloud and infrastructure is achieved and sustained.

Agility Redefined
“We are trying to play the role of abridge to transition the customer from their legacy virtualization and move them to the latest Dockers and containers. The minute you are on Docker or container, you have every advantage of keeping it on-premise or moving it on cloud or you can toggle between the both based on the business's criticality and needs. We accomplish it keeping in mind the customer’s price point, availability, criticality, and reliability,” says L K Santhosh Kumar, Chief Executive Officer at Catnip Infotech. A veteran in this domain, he holds over 13 years of industry-rich experience with extensive exposure in the areas of Strategic Business development and Large Account Management, Sales of enterprise products/solutions and managing Sales Teams.

Having conducted deep market studies, L K Santhosh shares with us how cloud cost management and cloud governance are two of the major challenges encountered. Simultaneously, optimizing existing cloud use for cost savings, moving more workloads to cloud, expanding the use of containers and adopting a cloud-first strategy are some of the top initiatives for this year. “When customers want to move from on-premise to cloud, there is a huge charge. Let me explain why there is a charge. I too, charge my customers to move from on-premise to cloud as I have to move the virtual machine which was on-premise to cloud. I am trying to make the customer do it by himself by having a simple Docker container platform in a single box. The minute you have a Docker container platform, you are fairly aware of your existing scenario and can move it from on-premise to cloud as and when required,” says L K Santhosh.

Facilitating Clients with its Comprehensive Portfolio of Infrastructure Services
A recent entrant in the market and already establishing a 200 percent growth since its inception in 2017, the company’s specialities lie in IoT, IT Infrastructure Management, Hyper Converged Infra, Storage, Virtualization & Cloud, SDDC, SDS & SDN, Big Data, Compute Platform, Networking & Security, Servers and Software Services. When approaching its customers, the company follows its uniquely structured Three Sight Customer Engagement model: Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight. Understanding the workings of it, L K Santhosh explains that once the client is on-board, the team of technically adept professionals try to understand and outline the Customer's Existing Infrastructure, Data and priorities. This hindsight is then utilized to address the needs and challenges encountered. Using the insight information, the team then works on providing solutions, not just a point-in-time but as per the customer’s need.

Possessing Strong Leadership Skills
Servicing customers with proven methodologies and deep domain expertise, Catnip is led by L K Santhosh and V Gayathri, Chief Operating Officer at Catnip Infotech. She possesses over half a decade of professional experience with extensive exposure to the areas of Customers service and Human resources. She also had outstanding success in managing customer relationships, grievance handling, trouble shooting, process improvement, change management, and analytics.