Cisco surveys Cloud’s impact on IT

In only a few years, Cloud Computing has altered the information technology (IT) landscape for both large enterprises and midsize businesses  and this is the beginning of a larger transformation. Cisco estimates that there were “only” about 200 million things connected to the Internet in the year 2000. The resulting Internet of Everything (IoE) will drive the next wave of explosive Internet growth, with Cloud as a pillar of this transformation.
 
In a wide-ranging global study, Cisco Consulting Services (CCS) along with Intel, sought to pinpoint just how Cloud is impacting IT. The study surveyed 4,226 IT leaders in 18 industries across nine key economies including 600 from India.
  
The study further reveals that, in India, more than four out of five respondents believe that Cloud will positively impact their organizations. About 83 per cent of the respondents in India were “very satisfied” and another 13 per cent “somewhat satisfied”, with their existing Cloud providers.
 
Neeraj Arora, Director, Cloud Computing, Cisco Consulting Services, APJC, said, As Cloud adoption in India is becoming mainstream, it is interesting to see that a number of cloud adoption decisions are being initiated by the business heads. IT departments need to increasingly re-model the way in which they partner with business. This will involve acting as a ‘broker’, or intermediary, of cloud services, orchestrating the planning and procurement process for LOBs.

It is clear from the survey that IT leaders in emerging economies such as India and China are more enthusiastic about Cloud adoption and its impact, compared to their counterparts in the developed world.