Cloud computing penetration in India is poor

The buzz of the clouds does not bear a real impact as firms are yet to incline towards cloud computing in India. "Despite a $1 billion market to address for cloud computing in the country, the penetration of it is too poor," said Kiran Datar, Managing Director, Cisco, Webex Technology. 
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The system of legacy that guides many firms while developing the infrastructure, has kept back many from opting for those available on the clouds. Moreover, there are the insecurities amongst firms that hinder them to be a full-fledged cloud computing client. "Companies do not like to put their datas on the web as they are not sure about the privacy," said Kishen Manjunath, Principal Scientist, Honeywell. Apart from the security systems, the bandwidth catastrophe in the country completely wipes off the possibility of a complete inclination towards the clouds. 

Top executives, who gathered at the Headstart compute 2009 were of the view that the solution to the varied problems concerning the clouds are yet to be found. The pioneer of cloud computing, Amazon still lingers in the market with a very meager client base. Though many corporate firms have evolved with cloud computing like Microsoft and IBM, yet there is no significant shift towards its adoption. 

Still there is a hope that this computing phenomena will mature to lure in the industry. "We hope that we will see full-fledged solutions in the clouds which will enable high performance computing," said Sunil, Sherlekar, Director, Computational Research Laboratory, TCS. So, the software vendors are yet cautious about future developments in the clouds, since it lowers the investment part while the scalability of the infrastructure is high. "The basic challenge that will come up if cloud computing becomes the norm of the day, is to retain existing clients and tap new ones," said PN Anantharaman, Director, Adobe. 

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BY  Eureka Bharali

Source：SiliconIndia