Even as Steve Jobs was launching Apple’s icloud in San Francisco, research agencies in India were putting out positive projections on the growth of cloud computing in India.
The public cloud computing market in India could touch Rs 2,434 crore in 2014 after growing at a CAGR of 53 per cent between 2010 and 2014, according to estimates put out by CyberMedia Research’s India Cloud Computing Market Review 2011, May 2011 edition.
A survey of 'users' and 'non-users' of cloud computing showed that the penetration among Indian enterprises was 4 per cent in 2010. This is expected to rise to 6.8 per cent for all large and mid-size enterprises in the country by 2012, predicted the report.
“Telcos and ISPs are well positioned to offer cloud services with ease since they already have their data centres and bandwidth pipes in place, both of which play a pivotal role in delivering cloud services,’’ said Mr Apalak Ghosh, Analyst, Emerging Technologies, India Software and IT Services Research, CyberMedia Research.