Amazon Web services launched its data center in Mumbai
India: Amazon Web Services, the leading company in the public
cloud market has introduced first data center infrastructure in Mumbai, India.
In addition, companies such as IBM, Microsoft had already set up their data
centers in India.
Andy Jassy, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of Amazon Web Services said that the data center would focus to cater banking
and healthcare sector in India. As well, the company is looking to work with
the Government of India (GoI) on Digital India Initiative.
In India, out of top 100 start-ups in India, around 89 start-up
companies were hosted on Amazon Web Services. Also, large enterprises such as Hungama,
NDTV, Ola, Macmillan Publishers India, STAR India, Tata Motors, Hike,
Shaadi.com, Bombay Stock Exchange, Future Group, Infosys, Cognizant, Apeejay
Stya & Svran Group, Freshdesk, Lupin Pharmaceuticals and many others are
using cloud platform offered by the company.
TechSci Research depicts that by increasing
public cloud computing market in India, the demand of the data centers is also
expected to increase due to increased focus of the companies towards data
security issues.
According
to the recent report published by TechSci
Research, “India
Cloud Computing Market
Forecast and Opportunities, 2020”, India Cloud Computing market is expected
to grow at a CAGR of over 22% during 2015-2020. Increased government spending
on National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and various e-governance portals,
coupled with growing acceptance of cloud services in SME segment is expected to
drive the market for cloud computing. SaaS is set to top the charts as the
largest cloud service segment, occupying over 40% share in the market by 2020.
However, cloud services are likely to face stiff challenges pertaining to data
security, vendor lock-in period and less availability of quality IT hardware
infrastructure in semi-urban regions across the country.
Cloud computing technology offers tremendous
cost benefits over traditional in-house systems for data storage. However,
migrating to cloud is marred with its own set of challenges such as
incompatibility with legacy systems and data security issues. However, the
adoption of cloud computing services in India is gaining attraction, with
increasing participation expected to be witnessed from both private as well as
government sector coupled with rising adoption of cloud services in large
business setups as well as small and medium size enterprises (SMEs).