Cloud computing and mobility are the two major pillars on which India SMBs’ ICT adoption rests. Their combined wallet share is likely to rise from just above 30% in 2013 to almost 45% within the next five years. Specifically within the mobile devices segment, SMB tablet shipments are likely to show as high as a 50%+ growth next year. These findings have emerged from the 2014 India SMB ICT and Cloud Services Tracker Overview study by New York-based AMI-Partners.
Dev Chakravarty, Research Manager, AMI India, stated, “Mobility-related investments have emerged as key fast-growing areas in terms of ICT deployment and investments, driven by the spiralling rise in tablet and smartphone shipments as well as a significant increase in data plan spending by Indian SMBs. The combined tablet and smartphone shipments to SMBs have already outpaced traditional PC shipments (the latter now makes up only 45% of the hardware shipment pie). In the next five years, the share of tablets and smartphones is anticipated to escalate to 70%, as the contribution of PCs gradually drops further.
He added, “More and more SMBs prefer hosted servers and co-location since this yields multiple benefits – that is, lower costs, fewer management hassles, no need to maintain a data center, all-the-time third-party support, assured security measures, etc. For the major ICT spending categories among SMBs, security is a key technology that displays the highest future growth – more than 20% year on year. Within the last twelve months, over 70% of Indian SMBs experienced some kind of security breach. Hence, SMBs are now even more wary of security-related threats,” remarked Chakravarty.
Security remains a high-priority, high-growth area within the India SMB spending portfolio.
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