India fast on grid tech but slow on SOA

BANGALORE: India witnessed one of the highest increases on the global grid adoption index, said Oracle India, announcing the results of the Oracle Grid Index report. A 38 per cent increase in grid adoption was recorded by Indian enterprises. Oracle executives said that the high adoption rate demonstrated the readiness and maturity of Indian enterprises to invest in flexible and scalable IT infrastructure.

The Oracle Grid Index charts the global adoption of grid computing and analysis related technological issues and their implications for the business world. Conducted by an independent European firm, Quocirca, the research reveals that grid computing continues to be a maturing technology and highlights the rise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in maximizing the business benefits of information technology.

“The Indian industry is seeing a lot of change in terms of mergers and acquisitions, product and business complexity coming in. They are going for scalable and flexible systems that can keep pace with their business growth,” said SPS Grover, VP-sales, Oracle India.

The study also analyzed the relation between adoption of grid systems and SOA. “SOA would be the backbone to make grid technology a reality,” said Seema Ambastha, director-sales consulting (database technologies).

The report indicated that India is lagging on SOA adoption. “They understand the need for hardware and infrastructure but are yet to build on the application components to ride on it,” said Grover. However he was optimistic that the industry is in a wait and watch phase where enterprises are waiting for the technology to get mature.

Over 50 per cent of Indian enterprises said that they actively moving closer to or have already moved to an SOA infrastructure.

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