April 8 2025
Interview 2026

Aligning Technology Investment with Compliance, Resilience, and Sovereign Cloud

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Piyush Somani

Promoter, Managing Director, and Chairman - ESDS shares how the company has successfully positioned itself as India’s end-to-end, AI-native cloud partner for driving large-scale digital transformation.

“Sovereign AI infrastructure will be a key differentiator for ESDS over the next three to five years. As a MeghRaj-empanelled sovereign cloud provider in India, ESDS is uniquely equipped to offer NVIDIA-powered GPU-as-a-Service. ”

PURPOSE-DRIVEN VISION

Today India’s end-user spending on public cloud is forecast to reach $17.5 billion in 2026, growing 28.1% year-on-year, with Infrastructure-as-a-service expanding 40%, fuelled by AI-ready infrastructure demand and digital sovereignty priorities, according to Gartner.

Our AI-powered Enlight Cloud platform enables vertically auto-scalable infrastructure, purpose-built for performance-intensive workloads. Enlight AIOps brings intelligence to operations, automating anomaly detection, accelerating incident response, and reducing infrastructure overhead. Blockchain underpins immutable transaction auditability within our BFSI Community Cloud, reinforcing compliance with RBI and SEBI mandates. Our Tier III-compliant data centers support IoT and edge workloads under India’s regulatory framework, including the DPDP Act and RBI guidelines. With purpose-built platforms for BFSI and Government sectors, ESDS aligns technology investment directly with compliance, resilience, and sovereign cloud outcomes.

AGENTIC AI IMPACT

GGartner predicts 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024, with at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions made autonomously.

This shift is already embedded in how ESDS delivers managed services. Our Enlight AIOps platform deploys AI-driven workflows that detect anomalies, trigger automated remediation, and continuously optimize infrastructure performance, reducing dependency on manual intervention. Our Government Community Cloud powers critical national programmes including Mudra Yojana, Public Distribution System, Pradhan Mantri Kisan, intelligent infrastructure operations that agentic AI enables. For BFSI customers, this translates into faster incident resolution, and improved service trust, making ESDS a delivery partner for large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

TRUST, ETHICS & SECURITY

Trust at ESDS is built across three dimensions ethical AI, data security, and sustainability. Enlight Jatayoo, our AI-powered Database Activity Monitoring platform, delivers native compliance reporting for RBI IT Framework 2021, SEBI CSCRF 2023, and IRDAI Cyber Guidelines, with zero database restarts and zero application changes required. Its AI-driven behavioural analytics monitor for insider threats, privilege misuse, bulk data extraction, and sensitive data exposure within auditable, policy-governed frameworks that reflect responsible AI deployment.

Enlight AIOps ensures AI workloads are orchestrated within governed, observable frameworks across every deployment. Combined with our Sovereign Cloud and 24x7 Security Operations Centre, ESDS delivers a compliance-native, air-gapped security posture purpose-built for India’s regulated enterprises.

This alignment is not coincidental. PwC 2026 Global Digital Trust Insights report reveals that the four domains’ enterprises most prioritise for managed security services AI, cloud security, threat management, and data protection/ data trust.

FUTURE DIFFERENTIATION

Sovereign AI infrastructure will define ESDS differentiation over the next three to five years. As India’s MeghRaj-empanelled sovereign cloud provider, ESDS is uniquely positioned to deliver GPU-as-a-Service powered by NVIDIA B200, B300, and AMD MI300X SuperPODs enabling enterprises and government bodies to train and deploy AI workloads entirely within Indian jurisdiction.

Our BFSI Community Cloud and Government Community Cloud, serving 1,404 enterprise clients, provide compliance-native environments where Enlight AIOps, Enlight Jatayoo, and Enlight Garud operate as an integrated AI stack. This convergence of sovereign infrastructure, sector-specific platforms, and indigenous AI tooling positions ESDS as India’s full-spectrum, AI-native cloud partner for large-scale digital transformation.

 

 

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