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The Indian businesses are rapidly embracing cloud infrastructure (IaaS) to boost performance and innovation levels, new research from Oracle has revealed on Thursday.
While negative perceptions around security, complexity and loss of control still present barriers to adoption, these factors are fast becoming outdated myths, with those that have moved to IaaS proving the reality is far more positive, it said.
Oracle partnered with Longitude Research to survey 1,614 IT professionals in India, Australia, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK about the state of their cloud infrastructure implementation and how they expect to use the technology in the coming years.
The report titled -- “You & IaaS: The new generation”—found out that over 79 per cent of businesses in India that are already using IaaS to some extent, say it makes it easier to innovate.
The same proportion says moving to IaaS has significantly cut their time to deploy new applications or services. Furthermore, 76 per cent say IaaS has significantly cut on-going maintenance costs and 75 per cent of all respondents believe businesses not investing in IaaS will increasingly find themselves struggling to keep pace with businesses that are.
“There has often been a case of perception lagging behind reality when it comes to cloud adoption. It is still relatively new to a lot of businesses and some outdated perceptions persist,” Subash Nambiar, Vice President - Cloud Platform, Oracle India, said.
With new, modern cloud infrastructure services available and increased experience, it is seeing high levels of success and satisfaction from businesses that are saving money, cutting complexity and driving exciting innovation, he said.
The research also found that experienced users are almost twice as likely to believe IaaS can provide world class operational performance in terms of availability, uptime and speed, compared to non-adopters.
Although some fear the move to IaaS may be complicated, 64 per cent of experienced IaaS users say the move was easier than they expected.
Most Indian respondents agree IaaS will have a role to play in their business within three years, with51 per cent saying they will run most – or all of their business IT infrastructure using IaaS. A meagre eight per cent of respondents believe IaaS will have little or no role in their business in three years, the company added in its report.
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