Foundational gaps slowing enterprise-grade data center growth
Anant Raj Cloud’s growth projections demanded solutions and processes to meet the complex needs of its customers - large organizations, prioritizing scalability, security, reliability, compliance and seamless integration.
The transition from design to the run or operational execution phase needed to be smooth to prevent service disruptions and provide these enterprise-grade capabilities.
Additionally, high availability requirements and strict SLAs meant that Anant Raj Cloud’s operational environment had to be mature, highly resilient and well structured.
However, a lack of governance, standardized operations and sufficient monitoring created gaps in visibility and control. These challenges were compounded by a complex, multi-vendor infrastructure that required vendor-neutral expertise to manage efficiently.
In addition, operations needed to be scaled in a cost-efficient way, while being flexible and agile enough to cope with future growth projections.
Data Center expansion demanded enterprise-grade computing operations
With data center expansion underway and the rollout of new services, Anant Raj Cloud required a trusted partner to ensure enterprise-grade reliability and operational maturity, reduce risk, and enhance efficiency.
Orange Business has provided Anant Raj Cloud with a scalable, commercial model.
Anant Raj Cloud partners to achieve its ambitious cloud-first goals
With extensive digital integration and cloud management skills, Orange Business was selected by Anant Raj Cloud as its technology partner to guide it through the implementation phase and manage its entire IT operations.
Offering up a vendor-agnostic approach, scalable delivery model and proven track record in managing complex multicloud environments, Orange Business demonstrated how it could establish and expand its offering in the country’s rapidly growing cloud and data center market.
Orange Business took a consultative approach to this project by carefully assessing Anant Raj Cloud's pain points, desired outcomes and costings. This was aligned with the company’s business vision and growth forecasts.
At all times, Orange Business ensured that the design model underscored continuity, reliability and scalability across Anant Raj’s Cloud service portfolio. This is critical to its ongoing success and maintaining its growth momentum. The design model also had to be easily transferable to the run phase.
All data needed to be stored in local data centers to enable Anant Raj Cloud’s customers to comply with data residency laws, including the Personal Data Protection Act and over local sovereign rulings.
Anant Raj also needed help with migrating new customers to the cloud and onboarding them. Orange Business has helped to migrate 233 customers and their workloads across India so far and momentum is growing fast.
Skills in managing complex, multi-vendor cloud environments pivotal to project
Anant Raj Cloud recognized Orange Business as a trusted technology partner that could effectively manage multi-vendor hybrid cloud environments.
This was a non-negotiable skill for the Anant Raj Cloud as its enterprise customers look to tailor their cloud strategies to their business needs, optimizing performance, cost efficiencies and resilience.
Orange Business implemented a proven ITIL and automation-led managed services framework to oversee daily cloud operations. This is a globally recognized library of best practices that help organizations maximize the value of their IT investments by aligning IT services with business strategies. This covers the entire IT service lifecycle, from initial design to operations and continuous improvement.
A governance model with defined SLAs and KPIs was also created together with a review cadence for regularly checking, assessing and updating processes, projects and goals such as security and performance. This ensures consistent progress and provides predictability and course correction, especially for crucial recurring activities, such as operational efficiency.
Alongside reactive support, the overarching approach is one of continuous optimization, risk mitigation and continual improvements in line with Anant Raj Cloud’s cloud-viers vision – building a scalable- future ready operations model for its customers.
Comprehensive end-to-end cloud operations
Orange Business established end-to-end cloud operations to ensure reliability and performance across the environment.
Orange Business provides Anant Raj Cloud with round-the-clock monitoring, rapid incident response and proactive capacity management.
As part of this effort, Anant Raj Cloud’s private and public cloud environments are fully managed by Orange Business, including its data centers and cloud services infrastructure.
From the very beginning, Anant Raj Cloud’s operational model was designed by Orange Business with commercial flexibility in mind, enabling scalable, cost-efficient resourcing that can adapt to changing business demands while maintaining high service standards.
To strengthen overall control and consistency, structured governance frameworks, digital operations platforms and dashboards were put in place with very clear escalation routes in case of an issue.
Disaster recovery readiness has also been enhanced via runbooks coordinating activities between primary data centers and disaster recovery sites. The runbooks provide a structure, consistent and in many cases automated framework for coordinating the complex activities that exist between the primary data centers and the disaster recovery sites. This coordination minimizes downtime and human error.
Given the complexity of multi-vendor ecosystems, these operations extend across compute, storage and networking platforms, supported by robust automation, monitoring, observability, alerting and orchestration tools.
A route to seamless future-proofed cloud operations
Through its trusted partnership with Orange Business, Anant Raj Cloud is rapidly expanding its business, building and operating data centers, and offering cloud services in India.
Orange Business provides Anant Raj Cloud with the technical expertise and integration skills required to design, build and operate cloud and data center platforms. Its resource management and domain knowledge have already enabled Anant Raj to make significant savings through operational improvements.
This partnership has enabled Anant Raj Cloud to establish itself as a credible presence and resilient operating model in the cloud space, creating new recurring revenue streams around a future-proofed model. At the same time, it has accelerated the rollout of data center capacity, improved operational efficiencies, and positioned Anant Raj Cloud to capture opportunities driven by digital transformation, AI usage and data localization trends in the country.
Key figures
$1.2 billion
Anant Raj Cloud is investing in its data center footprint
233
Customers migrated to the cloud across India
Anant Raj
Anant Raj Cloud is a leading name in Indian real estate, bringing decades of expertise to data center solutions. Focusing on innovation, reliability, and customer satisfaction, they deliver cutting-edge infrastructure and services tailored to businesses across India.