Govt taps cos for suggestions to draw data storage funding

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday sought suggestions from information technology and ecommerce companies to attract investment in data storage infrastructure as a precursor to a national policy on ecommerce.

In a meeting with around 20 companies and industry associations, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) also asked Amazon, Microsoft and Wipro to compile challenges and possible solutions for data storage, and come back to the department in two weeks. “Some 20-odd companies were there, and we took inputs on data storage. All these will become part of the ecommerce policy,” said an official who was present at the meeting.

Company officials and industry representatives said the meeting was about creating and bringing in investment in data storage infrastructure.