EMC Corporation has announced the results of an IDC White Paper sponsored by EMC: “Hybrid Cloud on the Rise: A Key Strategy to Business Growth in Asia Pacific". The study revealed that today 53 percent of organizations surveyed in Asia Pacific are already currently using some form of cloud or actively researching and testing cloud services, while the remaining 47 percent of organizations have plans to adopt private and/or public cloud services at some point in the next 12 months. At an India level, while 14 percent of India organizations said they were currently using cloud computing, 76 percent plan to use cloud computing at least after six months.
According to the survey, India organizations surveyed showed a very strong inclination toward the private cloud with extremely low responses for public cloud in both 2010 and 2013. Comparing 2010 with 2013, there are relatively small changes, with a decline in responses for private cloud across multiple applications and small increases in IT infrastructure, storage, and storage management as well as a relatively strong increase in VoIP. Based on results, India organizations will remain focused on the private cloud over the next three years, with small opportunity for public cloud services.
"While the need to effectively manage IT assets stands out as a primary reason for implementing cloud services in India, enterprises want the benefits of cloud computing in their own terms. EMC anticipates hybrid clouds will the eventual goal of customers once they have advanced on their journey to the private cloud to a point where they can choose what resources they want to manage in-house and allow others to be managed externally", said Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India and SAARC.
