Tracking Emergence of Cloud Computing and Opportunities in India.
Currently, the adoption rate of cloud security is low and it is estimated that only 35 percent of the enterprises migrating to cloud services consider cloud security to be a top priority. The Global Cloud Security Software market is a miniscule part of the Global IT Security market and accounted for only about 2 percent in 2010, which is expected to double by 2014, as per the TechNavio analysis.
Zenith Infotech has launched TigerCloud, a private cloud service aimed at mid-size organisations. TigerCloud is a high performance private cloud product that combines server, storage and network virtualization technology and allows customers to build and have their own sophisticated private clouds at costs lower than public clouds. Based on Intel Xeon E3 processor family, TigerCloud [...]
If cloud were a country, its electricity demand would currently rank 5th in the world, which is ahead of India’s total electricity demand and this is expected to triple by 2020. A recent report by Greenpeace slams big computing companies for using *dirty* energy to drive their cloud computing initiative. As more people around the [...]
All India Council for Technical Education ( Live@edu is a free suite of hosted Microsoft services and applications that is intended for educational needs. The service offers email, Microsoft Office Web Apps, instant messaging and storage to AICTE’s more than 7 million students and nearly 500,000 faculty members, for a total reach of 7.5 million [...]
As a new technology starts developing, there is a wave of centralization, as the early movers have huge advantage and the know-how is concentrated in a few organizations. The economy of scale benefits the organization that has the know-how to offer the new service at even lower price points. Then the technology matures, the know-how spreads to more people and the power of the center reduces.
India is the next BIG market for cloud services and while Indian companies have embraced AWS, Amazon needs to penetrate the market much before competitors like Netmagic do. As per a report, Amazon has already started leasing infrastructure from Tata Communications. “We know some of Amazon because they keep buying co-location and networking from us,” [...]
The reign of the personal computer as the sole corporate access device is coming to a close, and by 2014, the personal cloud will replace the personal computer at the center of users’ digital lives, according to Gartner, Inc. Several driving forces are combining to create this new era. These megatrends have roots that extend [...]
Citrix and Dell have partnered to launch a VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) appliance for the mass market. The Dell DVS Simplified solution with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box™ is an easy, repeatable solution that will be sold through Dell’s global sales team and channels. Leveraging the all-in-one Citrix VDI-in-a-Box software, Dell and Citrix have created a simple integrated [...]
The first BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard, released today, ranks India 19th in a list of 24 countries’ preparedness to support the growth of cloud computing. The list is led by Japan with 83.3 points, on a scale of 100, followed by Australia (79.2) and Germany (79.0). India scores 50.0, while Brazil stands last at [...]
US based targeted towards Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). VoiceGain is a cloud telephony solution that allows Indian SME enterprises to store, manage and track telephone sales inquiries and leads. It allows sales inquiries to be routed real time to their field sales personnel on their mobile phone – anytime, anywhere. It also helps [...]
