EMC Corporation and Zinnov Management Consulting have announced findings of a study on the "Private Cloud Landscape in India". According to the study, there is an increased preference for cloud adoption over the next five years in India. The total cloud market in India, currently at US$ 400 million, will reach a market value of US$4.5 billion by 2015, out of which private cloud adoption will dominate and account for US$3.5 billion in revenues, growing at over 60 per cent. The study estimates that the skilling and re-skilling market in India will grow fast as cloud computing becomes critical to IT strategies.
Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov Management Consulting, said, "Cloud computing will reshape the Indian IT market by generating new opportunities for IT vendors and driving changes in traditional IT offerings. There is a high chance that companies that are not adopting IT today and don't have major investments in data centers and server farms will directly move into the cloud model. There are ample opportunities in every industry. Be it retail, manufacturing, banking, education or government. Customers for IT-ITeS companies are also fast evaluating cloud offerings and are looking for partner competencies. It is, in turn, forcing IT-ITeS companies to invest in talent pool creation, test labs with cloud infrastructure and consider best-of-breed converged infrastructure. This is a big opportunity for cloud vendors, especially those who are strong with consulting services for private cloud deployments, and offer a robust customer service."
Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India & SAARC, said, "This first-of-its-kind report has brought to attention a very important but unnoticed aspect of the cloud computing market in India - for cloud computing to deliver its promise, customers need human resources with cloud computing competencies, both as vendors or as internal resources. Today, the Indian market has technology vendors offering the best technologies and facilities for customers - such as the EMC-Cisco Cloud Experience Center in Bangalore - to make informed decisions. What we need more of is a focus on building competencies to leverage cloud computing technologies. EMC recognises this and has introduced Cloud Architect certification that focusses on architecting and designing infrastructure for virtualized and cloud environments."
The study was commissioned by EMC and executed by Zinnov Management Consulting. The findings are based on a comprehensive survey of over 100 CIOs and IT decision-makers in India across industry verticals conducted during January 2011 to May 2011. Zinnov also conducted in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in the Indian IT ecosystem and secondary research to validate the findings and arrive at conclusions highlighted in the report.
