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What is Cloud computing?

Cloud computing is all the rage. Most organisations want to cater to their IT demands in a way by which they are able to add more hardware/ software, add new applications, and provide online backup in a seamless fashion. Today, Cloud computing provides the perfect answer to these demands. And if you add New Age applications such as E Commerce, Mobile Apps, Social Networking and Data Analytics, the need for storage and processing shoots up, which has resulted in vendors scrambling for providing solutions in these spaces.

Take the case of Google for instance. Google has a very good mail application, great storage which can be increased / decreased at the flick of a switch, compute engine for processing power, Data Anaytics solutions and an App Engine on which we can run your applications on a Platform. Similar is the case of Amazon, IBM and Microsoft.  Using the above, any organisation, big or small, can easily migrate to Cloud based solutions which provide the benefit of scalability, applications conformance, backup on the fly and integrate social media applications. Another reason for great demand for Cloud solutions is that it facilitates ‘Pay as You Use’, which means organizations can optimise their costs.

Market Growth in India

Gartner Says Indian Public Cloud Services Market To Reach $443 Million In 2013

IaaS Continues as Fastest-Growing Market Segment

The public Cloud services market in India is forecast to grow 36 percent in 2013 to total $443 million, up from $326 million in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), including Cloud compute, storage and print services, continues as the fastest-growing segment of the market in India, growing 22.7 percent in 2012 to $43.1 million, and it is expected to grow 39.6 percent in 2013 to $60.2 million.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), including Cloud compute, storage and print services, continued as the fastest-growing segment of the market, growing 42.4 percent in 2012 to $6.1 billion and expected to grow 47.3 percent in 2013 to $9 billion

Press Trust of India | New Delhi March 5, 2012 Last Updated at 20:30 IST

Cloud computing to create 2 mn jobs in India by 2015:

Microsoft India is uniquely poised to leverage this opportunity with factors like an unparalleled ecosystem of developers, Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators, no legacy IT systems and a high growth rate of economy contributing towards growth of Cloud computing,” Microsoft India GM Business and Marketing Floris van Heist said.

Major Current Trends in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has experienced exponential growth over the last few years. As of December 2013, almost 60 percent of current small-to-medium businesses (SMB) use Cloud services, and 72 percent of these businesses virtualize substantial portions of their servers. The growth is only expected to increase over the next few years. Here are just a few of the major current trends in the industry today.

1. Hybrid Clouds. There has been an ongoing debate between the merits of public and private Cloud models for quite some time now. Hybrid Clouds feature an infrastructure that combines private Cloud security with cost-effective, powerful and scalable public Cloud attributes. IT executives get more choices for personalized solutions while big data advocates and security experts are still satisfied. As hybrid models become mainstream, more companies are likely to adopt this Cloud deployment model and drop the old debate.

2. BYOD. Since the vast majority of consumer electronics in the world are Mobile devices, “bring your own device” is more relevant than ever in the world of Cloud computing. End users are using their Mobile devices to put more and more of their own data into personal Cloud services for streaming, storage, and syncing. This means that IT departments must find the means to integrate personal Cloud services for their employees in a BYOD environment with tools such as Mobile Device Management.

3. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). PaaS solutions enable businesses to reduce their IT costs while increasing application development through more efficient testing and development methods. According to the International Data Corporation, a prominent analyst firm, by 2017 the PaaS market is anticipated to expand from $3.7 billion to $14 billion worldwide.

4. Big data analytics. Similar to the public and private Cloud model debate, many organizations are realizing that it may be much simpler and more beneficial to combine big data analytics with Cloud computing than to choose one over the other. The emergence, within the next few years, of big data analytics as a service will offer businesses of any size an easily attainable and scalable tool for competing in the global marketplace.

5. Graphics as a service. Typically, running high-end graphics applications requires substantial hardware infrastructure investment. However, Cloud computing is changing this reality. There are a number of new Cloud-based graphics technologies from prominent graphics companies, including NVIDIA and AMD that allow end users to run high-end graphic design applications with a simple HTML5 web browser.

6. Identity management and protection. Security has always been a major concern with Cloud computing. As more businesses move more information and data into Cloud servers, this concern is more important than ever. It is anticipated that over the next year, there will be identity management solutions based on new Cloud based security paradigms.

7. Web-powered Apps. As efficiency and scalability are among the primary benefits of Cloud computing, then it only makes sense to start developing Cloud-based applications that are compatible with multiple platforms.

Refer : 7 Major Current Trends in Cloud Computing

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