2013 CII Cloud Summit highlights “Adoption of Cloud among MSMEs”

Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) Secretary J. Satyanarayana has recently unveiled the fourth edition of the CII Cloud Summit 2013 with the theme “Developing Cloud Strategy” in New Delhi. During the session, J. Satyanarayana also released the CII-IMRB Research Paper on “Adoption of Cloud amongst MSMEs”.
 
He said, Cloud is culturally suitable for India as there is a preference for shared infrastructure and service, penchant for recycling & reuse and less concerns over piracy of data.
 
He also said that, given the huge requirement of services for citizens, the government is actively looking at cloud-based services as first option. A significant step in this direction is MeghRaj- National Cloud Computing Initiative, which sets basic standards for all cloud services for GoI as well as evangelising projects through cloud first policy.
 
Taking a step further, he said that GoI has developed the first Data Center for public cloud through National Informatics Centre (NIC) and an App store where citizens can access more than 40 services.
 
Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, National Committee on IT, ITeS & eCommerce, CII & Chairman, Microsoft Corporation India, said, Cloud Computing is undergoing a seismic shift and is fundamentally shifting the economics of IT, of businesses and of delivery of Governance. However, the biggest hindrance that is stopping us from adopting cloud is the fear of losing control.
 
T. T. Ashok, Co-Chairman, CII National MSME Council & MD, Taylor Rubber, encouraged the initiatives that industry should take in creating more awareness amongst MSMEs on cloud and shared that CII is organizing MSME Road Shows for adoption of IT in 10 tier-II cities across India over the next two months.