| 01 |
2005 |
Birth of ESDS. A 23-year-old in Nashik starts with ₹35,000 and a support desk in a kindergarten classroom. |
No backing. No blueprint. One conviction. India’s data must be Indian-owned. |
| 02 |
2006 |
Entered UK and USA markets. |
Twelve months in. First international clients. The company nearly did not survive Year 1. It did. |
| 03 |
2007 |
R&D team formed. Three projects started simultaneously. |
Cloud platform. Data centre management system. Billing software. The foundation of every product ESDS would ever build. |
| 04 |
2008 |
First data centre launched. Nashik |
Not rented. Not leased. Built and owned. The first sovereign data centre in ESDS history. Still running. |
| 05 |
2011 |
Enlight Cloud platform launched. Patent filed. |
The world’s first patented vertical auto-scaling cloud. No other cloud provider on earth holds this. |
| 06 |
2014 |
US Patent granted. USPTO |
US Patent 9176788. The United States validated what ESDS built in Nashik. |
| 07 |
2015 |
UK Patent and India Patent granted |
UK Patent GB2493812. India Patent 397708. Three countries. One patent. No other cloud provider holds it anywhere. |
| 08 |
2016 |
Data centre launched. Navi Mumbai. |
Second sovereign data centre. Maharashtra's financial capital now had Indian-owned cloud infrastructure underneath it. |
| 09 |
2017 |
13th Best Mid-Sized Workplace. Great Place to Work certified. |
The culture was independently verified for the first time. Not the last. |
| 10 |
2018 |
Entered Arabian Gulf market. 8th Best Mid-Sized Workplace. |
International expansion to the Middle East. Building outward and inward simultaneously. |
| 11 |
2019 |
SPOCHUB launched. India's sovereign SaaS marketplace |
Enterprise software on Indian infrastructure. The vision of a complete sovereign technology ecosystem taking shape. |
| 12 |
2020 |
Data center launched. Bengaluru. Asia's 15th Best Workplace. |
India's technology capital now had Indian-owned cloud infrastructure. Recognized across 8 Asian countries. |
| 13 |
2021 |
Famrut launched. Top 75 IT Workplaces in India. |
Sovereign cloud reaching Indian agriculture. Culture recognized simultaneously. |
| 14 |
2022 |
Data center launched. Mohali. Tier III certified. |
Fourth sovereign data centre. Northern India covered. Among the most energy-efficient data centres in India. |
| 15 |
2023 |
Tier III Data Center Mohali fully operational. Outstanding Cloud Service Provider recognized. |
Northern India presence strengthened. Independent recognition from a new direction. |
| 16 |
2024 |
AI Incubation Centre launched. Nashik |
Sovereign AI infrastructure gets its R&D home. GPU clusters. LLM development. The next twenty years begin here. |
| 17 |
2025 |
STPI data centres launched. Noida and Kolkata. CEL Sahibabad Green Data Centre foundation laid |
Fifth and sixth sovereign data centres. Two STPI-designated locations. Six cities. All running. |
| 18 |
2026 |
Still Nashik. Still building. |
The conviction that started in a kindergarten classroom is now the infrastructure underneath India’s most critical institutions |