According to Springboard Research, Cloud Computing awareness has increased dramatically among organizations in India over the last 12 months and a majority of organizations consider it relevant to their IT environments.
"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," notes Michael Barnes, Vice-President, Software Research at Springboard Research.
The Research report found that organizations in 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.
The report also 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
