VMware
announced the findings of its 4th annual VMware Cloud
Index, a study that was conducted by Forrester Research across 12
Asia Pacific countries. The study reveals that nearly 9 of every 10
(89 percent) respondents in India believe that Cloud Computing, or
‘as-a-service’ approach, is relevant to their organization and
nearly 8 of every 10 (79 percent) respondents in India say they
currently have a cloud-related initiative in place within the
organization, or are planning to implement cloud, or ‘as-a-service’
approach, in the next 12 months.
An
interesting trend according to the VMware Cloud Index 2013 is that
Indian organizations are turning to IT to help them grow the business
in the current economic environment. IT is seen as a change
enabler and source of business value for organizations by 85 percent
of the respondents.
In
terms of the top business priorities in India over the next 12
months, 87 percent of IT decision makers said improving the quality
and capabilities of their products and 85 percent said addressing the
rising expectations of customers and improving customer satisfaction.
The
study also shows that the current perception of IT remains positive
in India with 63 percent of respondents noting that the perceived
credibility, influence and power of the CIO in their organization is
increasing.
“Business
priorities are clearly shifting at a time when optimism is slowly
returning to the Indian economy. Business leaders recognize and
expect IT to deliver much more ROI; they want the agility and
flexibility to adapt to the dynamics of the marketplace while
continuing to lower operating costs,” said T Srinivasan, managing
director, VMware India and SAARC at the launch of the study in
Mumbai.
“Our
customers have been on a journey towards IT–as-a-Service and VMware
has been at the forefront of assisting companies through the phases
of IT transformation to realize the business benefits of
virtualization in the mobile cloud era in India. We remain committed
to evolving the software-defined data center architecture to address
IT’s critical needs - enabling businesses to build infrastructure
that is radically simpler and more efficient,” he added.
The
software defined and mobile cloud era in India
In
terms of priorities for IT over the next 12 months, improving IT
agility & responsiveness to business demands was high at 82
percent and operational efficiency was noted by 80 percent of
respondents. Additionally, server consolidation via virtualization
continues to be a strong priority at 77 percent.
Respondents
in India are also aware of and are planning around new and
evolutionary priorities. A software-defined approach to
implementing and managing datacenter resources (servers, storage,
networks) was stated by 71 percent of respondents. Furthermore,
mobility & consumerization of IT was also noted by 71 percent as
expected to create a lasting impact for organizations over the next
2-3 years.
Fast
provisioning and zero downtime from networks (80 percent) and storage
(81 percent) have been identified as key areas for IT to address over
the next 12 months in the study. 68
percent believe if their company doesn’t improve the way they
deliver or ‘provision’ these services to the business, they risk
falling behind competitors. Nearly half of the respondents also view
internal resistance to change hindering cloud or ‘as-a-service’
adoption within their organization.
Consumerization
of IT gains acceptance across Indian businesses
While
71 percent of IT decision makers are concerned about end users
accessing corporate systems and applications from mobile devices, 73
percent believe that their IT organization are able to keep up
with the end user computing needs of their employees. In fact, 65
percent claim to already have a formal strategy in place for
supporting end user computing clearly showing that Indian businesses
are acting to cater to the needs of the new age worker.
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