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The cloud computing market in India is quite interesting with local and international players announcing partnerships and products. TCS announced iON which they hope to make a Billion Dollar business in 5 years, and more recently, Indian telcommunication giant Bharti Airtel entering the market in a partnership with HP. As I wrote in an earlier piece, Mahindra, Infosys, Wipro and TCS see potential in IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. Competing with these local players are reputed international names like Microsoft's Windows Azure and Amazon's expected launch in India.

In a recently released study, research firm Zennov says the cloud computing market ranged between $860M to $912M in 2011. Zennov's report broke the numbers to give us some insight:

> Private Cloud: 78—80%
> Public Cloud: 20—22% worth $160M to $192M in 2011

The Public Cloud contribution in 2011 has been broken into three primary categories:

> SaaS (CRM/ERP, Email and collaboration tools): $123M—$143M
> PaaS: $1.5M—$2.5M
> IaaS: $38M—$47M

According to Pranav Bhadda from Zinnov Management Consulting they project:

Public Cloud CAGR growth of 55%
Cloud to have more than 20% of IT spending

These are very positive numbers for a country with less than stellar Internet connectivity.  >>Read more

Source: ZDNet

It's not just China that is set to become a large part of the inevitable Asia cloud computing boom. India is a country that is fast becoming a hotbed for cloud computing service providers. This informative post by Sourya from CloudTweak is a reflection of the emergence of India as a cloud computing giant.

"Before deciding to do my MBA from the University of Notre Dame in the United States, I was an Indian software engineer working in middle management at the Mumbai office of Citigroup. When I graduated from engineering college in 2004, India was a hub of software services. As a matter of fact, it still is; however, now, India has moved up the value chain to be involved in software development as well.

It’s not only producers of software who have improved themselves over the last decade; big businesses, who are the biggest consumers of IT services, have also spread their wings beyond Indian shores to make their presence felt in the developed world. When Ford decided to sell the Jaguar and Land Rover brands, it was India-based Tata Motors who snapped them up. In 2007, another member of the Tata family, Tata Steel, bought a 100% stake in British steelmaker Corus, immediately jumping to the list of top 10 steel producers in the world. Bharti Airtel now has an extensive operation in the Middle East while Reliance is one of the largest petroleum products firm in the world.

All this, and more, make India a fertile playground for cloud computing service providers, for it’s a given that businesses, in order to be successful, will need to invest in IT infrastructure. And with cloud computing being the future of IT, it is but obvious that India is the future of cloud computing."  >>Read more

Source: CloudTweaks

 

Related post:

1. India - Creating Unique Cloud Computing Models

 

Found this very insightful article on how businessmen in India are coming up with very interesting ways to use the cloud. Read on!

"Every time a train runs on the vast network of tracks laid by the Indian Railways, its safe passage is in some part due to the efforts of a small technology start-up in Bangalore. 

The company, Apna Technologies & Solutions, has installed sensors on the side of railway tracks to detect any defective wheels and axles that can cause track fatigue, fractures, derailments and accidents. This data is transmitted to cloudbased servers for storage and analysis with instant reports on defects transmitted to the Railways within seconds. 

Apna's founder Baskar Ceri is just one among several Indian entrepreneurs who now use cloud-based servers to deliver complex engineering technology to a host of new users. From increasing safety in railways, addressing inefficiencies in food supply chain, to managing the operations of hotels, Indian entrepreneurs are coming up with unique models that use cloud computing."  >>Read more

Source: The Economic Times

We've got some really creative people over there. Possibilities are endless!