As per a study conducted by Forrester Consulting and ITR, India is witnessing increasing adoption of cloud, say news reports.
The VMware Cloud Index was conducted by Forrester Consulting and ITR (in Japan) across 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The study titled, commissioned by virtualisation and cloud infrastructure company VMware, says that in India, about 50 per cent of the respondents surveyed for the study have already adopted cloud solutions or approaches. An additional 30 per cent of the respondents shared that they are planning to deploy cloud solutions within the next 18 months. About 40 per cent of the respondents stated there is internal resistance to change that is hindering the adoption of cloud. They were of the view that faster cloud adoption is possible for Indian organisations if these hindrances can be overcome.
Data privacy, legacy or loss of control (64 per cent), integration with existing on-premise systems (62 per cent) and security (60 per cent) emerged as the top barriers to cloud computing in India.
The study was across 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. As per the study about 54 per cent of the senior IT professionals surveyed in India consider cloud computing to be a top business priority. There has also been an improvement in the understanding of cloud computing with 72 per cent of the respondents claiming a good understanding as compared to compared to 59 per cent in 2011.
In India, about 80 per cent of respondents are of the opinion that cloud computing will help in reducing IT costs, 82 per cent believe that cloud computing will help in optimising existing IT management and automation capabilities.
