Bharat Light and Power looks to cloud for growth management

Energy companies have traditionally been fairly conservative when it comes to using cloud-based IT platforms. But Bharat Light and Power (BLP), a forward-thinking renewable energy producer in India recently shifted its plant monitoring systems to the cloud, and is tapping into cloud-based big data analytics to help improve operational efficiency as it looks to manage future growth.The company said the new platform, the result of a collaboration with IBM, will help it achieve scale while making overall operations more efficient. It will deploy its plant monitoring platform on IBM’s SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure.