Cloud computing has been among the biggest talking points in technology this year, as large Indian enterprises embarked on digital transformation journeys driven by the promise of higher revenues and improved productivity, lead generation, customer satisfaction and business intelligence.
Several startups, too, were born in the cloud in the year gone by. Simply put, this means they started their operations in the cloud after being lured by service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM, Google, Oracle and Alibaba, among others.
These services ranged from storage to computing and analytics for business intelligence, with nimbleness being the overarching theme.
Abbas Godhrawala, partner-advisory services at EY, said that cloud computing had indeed taken off in India during 2018.
“Cloud customers now include everyone from startups to large Indian corporations,” Godhrawala told TechCircle. “The biggest advantage of cloud for organisations is the cost benefit due to resource pooling. We believe cloud will continue to accelerate in India and gather momentum owing to the growing trend of digital adoption.”
Market research firm Gartner had projected that India’s public cloud services revenue would grow 37.5% in 2018 to nearly $2.5 billion. This would see India outpace the global market, which was expected to grow 21% to reach $175.8 billion in 2018.
Godhrawala said that there has been a rapid rise in enterprise spend on public cloud, notably Azure and AWS, while private cloud spending has been declining.
Phanikishore Burre, CSS Corp senior vice president and global delivery head-networks, cloud, infrastructure & security services, said that cloud has certainly gone mainstream in India in terms of adoption.
“Migrating to cloud has created a paradigm shift in enabling organisations to launch businesses faster and smarter,” Burre explained. “Cloud has emerged as a critical business driver for more and more businesses seeking to achieve competitive differentiation and faster time-to-market.”
