India is second best in virtualisation
Higher awareness about virtualisation and its widespread adoption is enabling several Indian companies to graduate to cloud more rapidly than their counterparts in other Asian countries.
“India is only second to Australia in terms of awareness about virtualisation as key enabler for cloud,” said Senior Analyst for Forrester Consulting Sanchit Vir Gogia, sharing the findings of Cloud Computing in Asia Pacific: The Annual Cloud Maturity Index, survey sponsored by VMware.
The survey showed nearly 71 per cent of respondents have deployed virtualisation, nearly four per cent higher than last year, while 68 per cent of them are keen to virtualise critical applications. India is on par with Japan, China and Malaysia in terms of cloud relevance, with 91 per cent of organisations finding cloud relevant. Seventy-seven per cent of organisations said they would adopt cloud in the next six months, while 87 per cent of them acknowledged that cloud is critical to their business.
“Three or four years ago, many were merely toeing with the idea of virtualisation, but we have seen a significant adoption of virtualisation in the last few years, which has acted as a precursor for their movement to cloud,” said VMware Managing Director for India & South Asia T Srinivasan.
In its second edition, the survey had quizzed 6141 key decision makers, 856 of whom were from India representing MNCs, local and regional players and public sector organisations.
