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India Inc active in Cloud intiatives
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 21 October 2010, 22:59 IST
New Delhi: Organizations across India are bullish on the potential of Cloud Computing to help reduce IT-related spending across all categories of IT functions, but that Cloud is particularly relevant for reducing hardware & IT staff and operation costs, says a study.
According to Springboard Research report, "Cloud Computing in India 2010 - End-User Adoption Trends", Majority of Indian companies considers Cloud Computing is relevantn to their IT environements and the awareness has increased dramatically among organisations over last 12 months.
The study, which consolidated the inputs from around 100 CIOs, IT managers and business managers, has found that 85 percent of the respondents showed Cloud awareness in a 2010 survey as compared to only 36 percent in 2009.
"While a focus on reducing hardware infrastructure costs is the most important driver of Cloud adoption in India and across APEJ region, the strong focus on scalability on-demand is unique to India-based respondents," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, Associate Research Manager, Software Research at Springboard Research.
"Cloud adoption and awareness have increased rapidly in India, but a large proportion of non-users still have no concrete plans to adopt cloud-based solutions. While this is currently a consistent trend across the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region, it is also changing rapidly and the percentage of Indian organizations planning cloud initiatives is set to increase dramatically," said Michael Barnes, Vice President, Software Research, Springboard Research.
The research has found that among the Indian organizations currently using Cloud offerings, Storage and Enterprise Applications (CRM in particular) are most widely adopted Cloud initiatives. The adoption trends, in terms of different cloud applications, are expected to evolve significantly over the next 12 to 18 months as the demand in other areas, such as Cloud-based web conferencing and email, increases.
Cloud security remains the primary barrier to Cloud adoption in India, as reported by 19 percent of respondents, outweighing concerns over performance and availability (12 percent).
