- Skandha Networks offers tailored cloud services, hybrid/multicloud strategy and infrastructure modernisation for enterprises across media, entertainment and other sectors.
- The company also provides application development, data/AI solutions and startup funding, positioning itself as more than just an infrastructure vendor.
What the company does
Based in Mumbai, Skandha Networks presents itself as a full-service “cloud and digital infrastructure” provider, striving to deliver “efficiently scalable, easily manageable, undeniably powerful cloud solutions.” Its services span several domains: traditional cloud hosting (public, private and hybrid), infrastructure modernisation, and managed services addressing security, disaster-recovery and workload management for complex enterprise environments.
On top of infrastructure, Skandha offers application development, data-management and artificial-intelligence (AI) services. Their data/AI offering supports enterprises migrating ERP or content-heavy workloads into cloud environments — including managed services for major enterprise applications like SAP or Oracle on platforms such as AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud or OCI.
Moreover, Skandha Ventures into investment — through its Funding & Investment arm — backing early-stage technology startups, particularly in cloud and new media sectors, offering both strategic funding and technical expertise to bring MVPs to market. Skandha’s clientele appears weighted toward media and entertainment companies, consistent with its legacy roots as a “Cloud Video Platform provider for DigitalTV and PayTV operators.”
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Context, challenges and innovation
The global shift from on-premises infrastructure toward cloud, hybrid-cloud and AI-driven workflows has created opportunities — but also challenges — for vendors like Skandha. Enterprises increasingly demand scalability, flexibility and multimodal workloads. Skandha’s hybrid and multicloud strategy aims to reduce vendor lock-in, accommodate diverse workloads, and provide resilience for mission-critical operations.
However, the hybrid-cloud market is fiercely competitive. Global hyperscalers and major cloud-service firms dominate, often leveraging price, global reach, and scale. To compete, Skandha positions itself as a boutique, flexible provider — offering custom architecture, managed services, and AI/data-platform integration — plus the added value of funding and hands-on support for startups seeking market entry.
Security, regulatory compliance, data governance, and cloud-migration complexity remain stubborn pain points for many customers. Skandha emphasises security, resiliency and architecture design in its service offering to address these.
Innovation at Skandha includes integration of open-source tools, automation, containerisation, hybrid-cloud orchestration and AI/ML pipelines — recognizing that modern cloud infrastructures must support both traditional enterprise workloads and next-gen data-driven services.
