The Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM) (School of University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India), under the IEM-UEM Group, has achieved a landmark distinction by becoming the only university in India to host and operate its entire digital ecosystem on an indigenously developed private cloud, fully housed within its own on-premises data centre.
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The Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM) (School of University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India), under the IEM-UEM Group, has achieved a landmark distinction by becoming the only university in India to host and operate its entire digital ecosystem on an indigenously developed private cloud, fully housed within its own on-premises data centre.
Developed as part of IEM’s flagship Make-in-India initiative, the private cloud infrastructure currently powers more than all the live websites and applications, including institutional portals, academic platforms, and internal systems. This move marks a decisive shift away from dependence on third-party commercial hosting services, ensuring complete data ownership, security, and operational control.
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The on-prem cloud has been architected to replicate real-world enterprise and hyperscale environments, integrating advanced virtualisation, software-defined networking, high availability, redundancy, and scalable storage. The infrastructure is designed not only for performance and reliability but also as a live academic laboratory for next-generation cloud education.
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Learning Cloud Engineering from Real Infrastructure
A defining feature of this initiative is its academic integration. Students at IEM gain hands-on exposure to end-to-end cloud lifecycle management, including private cloud design, data-centre operations, DevOps workflows, security, disaster recovery, and large-scale website hosting. Alongside this, students are trained on AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, enabling them to understand both global hyperscale platforms and indigenous private cloud architectures.
Dr Satyajit Chakrabarti, Director, IEM-UEM Group, said: “At IEM, we believe that true learning happens when students build and operate systems at real scale. Our indigenous on-prem cloud is not merely an IT infrastructure-it is a living classroom. Through Make-in-India, our students are learning how cloud platforms are engineered, deployed, and managed, while also gaining exposure to global leaders like AWS and Google Cloud. This initiative reflects our commitment to self-reliance, innovation, and industry-ready education.”
Leadership and Technical Execution
The cloud architecture developments ensure continuous availability, scalability, and security of the platform. Beyond infrastructure excellence, this initiative serves as a live learning platform where students gain hands-on exposure to private cloud architecture and data centre operations cloud orchestration, virtualisation, and DevOps pipelines website and application hosting at production scale cloud security, disaster recovery and many more.
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