This week we had the chance to come together as a team, toast last year’s success and discuss our ambitious plan for the new fiscal year. As with any high growth company, we do not always take the time to celebrate. Moments to pause and reflect are often lacking as the next mile-marker rapidly approaches on the horizon.

Digital transformation initiatives have led IT teams towards a software-driven world. We see a similar shift in India as well, with the move to a Digital India. The explosion in online transactions in such a short period in the country is a clear example. For instance IRCTC, the Indian Railways online ticketing system, has seen an increase from 29 tickets per day to 13,00,000 per day! Cashless transactions have gone to 25% from 5%! We will witness an exponential increase in these numbers in the future. As impressive as these numbers are, they only mean one thing for data centers - a spike in web/app traffic. Enterprises are adopting cloud-native architectures in data centers to be agile in spinning up instances on-demand and to automatically burst capacity. Load balancing and traffic management in these multi-cloud environments has now become more important than ever before.