Unlike the private Cloud where adoption is picking up,
particularly in the large enterprise segment, the public Cloud is yet to
take off in a big way in the country although SaaS-based offerings have
proved popular with small manufacturers. By Heena Jhingan
Despite
the capability to deliver higher RoI and faster time to market, the
multi-tenanted character of a public Cloud has led to it being perceived
as a setup that is vulnerable to breaches. Then there's the fact that
the IT heads of most Indian enterprises, particularly the larger
entities, are worried about losing control of the IT apparatus. There
are exceptions to this rule, obviously, particularly with small scale
manufacturers who have gone in for public Cloud-based CRM and SFA as
well as organizations that have adopted the Cloud—Microsoft's and
Google's—for messaging. Here is complete story from Express Computers