AMI-Partners: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Small and medium businesses (SMBs or companies with up to 999 employees) in India are gradually becoming more aware of and interested in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Data storage/back up, servers and virus protection, spam filtering or other security solutions are the main focus of this increased interest according to AMI's study 2011 India SMB State of the Cloud Market Overview.
Rati Ghose, Director - Market Insights, AMI said, "Though nascent, the IaaS market in India is gathering steam. The time is right for vendors and partners to invest in educating India SMBs on the role and usage of cloud services. IaaS adoption will be driven by several factors. The benefits of using Cloud services will percolate down gradually as the availability of reliable and affordable broadband continues to improve and as service providers continue to feature these services."
The ease of usage and maintenance that IaaS offers India SMBs is said to be a huge trigger to adoption. Routine tasks of maintenance such as backups being taken care of by cloud service providers ensure that these SMBs (who on an average have 1.8 full-time internal, dedicated IT professionals) do not have to maintain this type of solution allowing these employees to concentrate on more mission critical issues.
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