Pradeep Devaraj, Country Lead - Program and Operations, Global Commercial Channels, Dell India, in his keynote address, spoke about the company's aspirations for channels. "Three years ago, Michael Dell made a strong statement-'direct is revolution, but not a religion'.

Oracle cloud strategy ensures that cloud is fully enterprise grade and support both public and private cloud computing to give choice to customers. Dhruv Singhal, Sr. Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Consulting said, "Oracle offers applications deployed in private shared services environment or via public Saas and offer technology to build private clouds or run in public clouds."

Patrick Mathias, Vice President, Sales - West, Cisco India spoke about Cisco's alliance with VMware and EMC as VCE (Vblock), UCS and other initiatives for Cloud. Elaborating the topic 'Vblock Infrastructure Packages: Accelerating Deployment of the Private Cloud', he said, "Vblock infrastructure packages are a scalable platform for building solutions and act as Infrastructure Options for pervasive virtualization and private cloud."

Zenith Infotech gave a brief on the company's journey into Cloud through Private Cloud (Smartstyle Computing), Backup and DR and Remote Management (SAAZ). "Saaz is Hosted Remote IT Management Platform used by over 2,500 partners to deliver remote managed services.

Vikas Aditya, Director - Strategy and Partnerships, Intel Hybrid Cloud with presentation titled 'Staying Relevant in the new era of Cloud Services' said "In next 5 years, there is significant growth expected in the number of connected users, range of devices, and explosion in data. Cloud will play a major role in growth."