Calcutta-based Institute of Engineering and Management has invested
Rs 8.20 crore to set up eastern India’s first private cloud computing lab in the city.

The institute has taken up space in Godrej Genesis at Sector V in Salt Lake to set up the lab under its Innovation Entrepreneurship Developmental Cell, which was inaugurated on Wednesday. IEM has collaborated closely with the University of Melbourne for the project.

Satyajit Chakrabarti, director, IEM, said that around 6,000 students with research interests in resource management and application scheduling in cloud computing stand to benefit from the lab infrastructure.

“Today governments and corporates are very concerned about where their confidential data is staying. There are instances where the private data of companies has been accessed from reputed public cloud companies. So, there is a growing demand for private cloud deployment,” Chakrabarti said.

He added that the institute has initiated a discussion with IIT Kharagpur for collaboration and is also looking at deploying innovation hubs in other states such as Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi among others.

“We have invested almost Rs 9 crore here only with the infrastructure and we have already promised Rs 600 crore investment in BGBS (Bengal Global Business Summit) to the state government that will be undertaken in phases,” Chakrabarti said.