India's cloud market to grow 70 p.c in 2012

BANGALORE, INDIA: India's cloud market will growth at 70 per cent in 2012. Moreover, the market is expected to maintain a growth rate of 50 per cent for the next three years, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).

Nirupam Chaudhuri, research manager, Software & IT Services, IDC India, says: "We have definitely seen cloud cross the inflexion point in end 2011; use cases especially in IaaS and SaaS areas provide testimony to that. With proper messaging from key vendors and due diligence of opportunities which exist in the cloud delivery models, the market will grow much faster in the coming years."

In its latest report, 'India Cloud Market Overview, 2011-2016', the analyst firm also finds that it is a market that is fast maturing and seeing many new entrants with a broad range of investments, and solutions taking key roles in the cloud ecosystem. Public cloud still lags way behind the private cloud adoption for a number of factors, adds the report.

Sandeep Kumar Sharma, senior market analyst, IT Services, IDC India, says: "Cloud providers also need to strengthen their capabilities to understand the business requirements of the organizations and come up with apt value propositions. Organizations are more likely to work with firms that understand their business processes better and industry dynamics, and hence are better suited to overseeing the transition of the organization to a cloud environment without disruption of the business processes."