by ESDS Software Solution Limited
ESDS Software Solution Limited is an Indian managed cloud services and data centre operator headquartered in Nashik, Maharashtra. It was founded on 18 August 2005 by Piyush Somani, who started the company at 23 as a web-hosting business and still leads it as Chairman and Managing Director. In 2007 ESDS formed an R&D team that launched its own cloud platform, eNlight Cloud, in 2011; the underlying vertical auto-scaling technique was granted US patent US 9176788 in 2014, which is unusual for an Indian infrastructure company. eNlight's distinguishing feature is that it scales a virtual machine's CPU and RAM vertically while it is running, and charges for consumption rather than for a fixed provisioned tier, which suits workloads with sharp, unpredictable peaks. ESDS sells managed cloud hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and managed security from its own Indian data centres, and its customer base skews heavily toward banks, cooperative financial institutions, government departments and public-sector enterprises that need data to stay in India. The company listed on the BSE and NSE on 4 September 2026 after a fresh issue of ₹720 crore.
ESDS Software Solution Limited
Yes. ESDS Software Solution Limited is an Indian company headquartered in Nashik, Maharashtra, founded there in 2005. It listed on both the BSE and the NSE on 4 September 2026 following a fresh issue of ₹720 crore at a price band of ₹408–₹429 per share. The issue was entirely a fresh issue with no offer-for-sale component, so no existing shareholder sold out at listing.
ESDS was founded on 18 August 2005 by Piyush Somani, a first-generation entrepreneur who started the company at the age of 23 as a web-hosting business. He still leads it as Chairman and Managing Director. The promoter group is Piyush Prakashchandra Somani, Komal Piyush Somani and the P.O. Somani Family Trust, which together held 39.47% after the IPO, down from 46.06% before it — the dilution came from the fresh issue rather than from any promoter selling shares.
eNlight is ESDS's own cloud platform, built by an in-house R&D team and launched in 2011. Its distinguishing feature is vertical auto-scaling: it increases or decreases a running virtual machine's CPU and RAM without downtime, and bills on actual consumption instead of a fixed provisioned tier. The technique was granted US patent US 9176788 in 2014. Hyperscalers such as AWS and Azure generally scale horizontally by adding more instances, so eNlight suits workloads with sharp, unpredictable peaks that are awkward to spread across many servers.
ESDS does not publish list pricing. It offers a Billing Predictor tool that estimates cost once you choose VM type, vCPU, RAM, disk and data transfer, but the actual price comes from a sales quote. Treat any figure from the predictor as indicative only. If you want published per-hour pricing and instant self-serve signup, a managed provider like ESDS is not the right shape of vendor.
ESDS targets organisations that need infrastructure to stay inside India — banks and cooperative financial institutions, government departments, and public-sector enterprises — alongside general enterprise customers. That data-sovereignty requirement, rather than price or feature breadth, is the usual reason a customer picks ESDS over a global hyperscaler.
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