The public cloud services market in India will grow by 32.2 per cent in 2014 to touch $556.8 million from $421 million in 2013, according to research firm Gartner.

“Growth of cloud services in India reflects the demand for new sourcing models,” said Ed Anderson, Research Vice-President at Gartner. “We expect high growth rates across all cloud services market segments in India,” he added.

Software-as-a-service is the largest overall cloud market segment, followed by infrastructure-as-a-service and business-process-as-a-service, the research firm said.