Netweb Technologies, a recipient of India's recently announced Product Linked Incentive 2.0 scheme, has said that it has advanced its expansion plans. Speaking to Digitimes Asia recently, Hirdey Vikram, Chief Marketing Officer of Netweb Technologies, said the company is working on new offerings.
"We had the capacity expansion plan in 2025, which we have now advanced, and the new expansion should happen by the end of 2024 itself," Vikram said. "Our design team is working on newer and more varied offerings. Our R&D team is working on various customer challenges and solving them to see how we can serve them better as well as make new products and solutions as our offerings."
Netweb manufactures servers and offers a range of high-end computing solutions (HCS), including high-performance computing (HPC) systems, often known as supercomputers. The company also provides private cloud services, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), AI systems, enterprise workstations, and high-performance storage solutions. In addition, Netweb's offerings encompass data center servers along with a suite of software and comprehensive services.
Making in India to meet customer demands
Vikram highlighted that the company's Made-in-India servers are a crucial foundation for many of its products and solutions. There has been a significant surge in the application of High-Performance Computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, across various sectors such as academia, R&D, FMCG, oil and gas, automotive, aviation, and weather forecasting. With most simulations conducted on HPC systems, the number of users and applications is increasing daily.
"Today, having servers and a data center is a multipronged strategy," Vikram added. "We see a huge demand and numbers of servers required in such data centers; workloads are increasing and getting denser with ever-increasing virtual machines and containers. Our hyper-converged private cloud solution cuts horizontally with any organization having these challenges of consolidating and managing such Infrastructure. We basically converge compute, storage, and networking and offer a multitenancy approach so that customers can use the setup to the best suitability with the easiest management with a low learning curve."
Made in India needs to be looked at holistically and comprehensively for the benefits it brings to the table, Vikram added. Firstly, it is about capability. These are painstakingly slow and gradual processes, but India's rapid progress is encouraging. India-specific optimization and customization are increasingly getting done now. The current focus is on the domestic market, and there is a natural progression towards the international market.
PLI impact
The Indian government's PLI scheme has been a highlight for several manufacturers in the country to proceed with their manufacturing ventures. Vikram pointed out that the schemes are well thought out and effective.
"PLI for the Semiconductor industry is a very thought-out program by the Government of India, and semiconductor is too important a sector - I understand that GOI is all ears in seeing that the right tweaking is done to suit the players," Vikram added. "We had a very successful PLI 1.0; rather, we did outperform by almost double. PLI 2.0 is for a longer duration, and Netweb has a Green Channel entry into PLI 2.0, with the base year for incentive calculations being the same as PLI 1.0. Our vision is bigger. We want to be Made in India from being a Make in India."
Offering a range of services
Netweb's service division has been gearing up quite rapidly. Vikram emphasized their pivotal part in transitioning various businesses to the cloud, offering services such as private cloud setup and container management, with a significant focus on large-scale telecom firms worldwide.
"We have been instrumental in the digital transformation of several companies taking entire or a particular workload from on-premise to cloud," Vikram said. "We have many services like deploying private cloud and container orchestration to many companies but have been working with some large telecom providers worldwide."
Conclusion
As Netweb Technologies accelerates its expansion plans in anticipation of a 2024 timeline, the company's trajectory speaks to the broader ambitions of India's tech industry. Supported by the government's PLI scheme, Netweb is outpacing its previous successes while carving out a global niche for its 'Made-in-India' label.
From fortifying data centers with high-performance servers to facilitating digital transitions to the cloud, Netweb is poised to become an even more integral player in domestic and international markets.
