<p>Vikram Bhatia, senior product manager, MS, said 70 per cent of Azure customers were SMBs and 30 per cent were enterprises. Worldwide SMBs are leading the cloud adoption as it helps them to avoid capital expenditure and buy IT resources as they use. For Indian SMBs, which have traditionally spent very little on IT infrastructure, cloud computing is expected to emerge as an attractive proposition. <br /><br />Experts say as SMBs in India are not straddled with legacy resources, they could be expected to move to the cloud rapidly. Many analysts expect large enterprises to resist public cloud over security issues. Microsoft’s distinguished engineer Yousef Khalidi said enterprises were typically slower in adopting new technologies. <br /></p>
<p>Vikram Bhatia, senior product manager, MS, said 70 per cent of Azure customers were SMBs and 30 per cent were enterprises. Worldwide SMBs are leading the cloud adoption as it helps them to avoid capital expenditure and buy IT resources as they use. For Indian SMBs, which have traditionally spent very little on IT infrastructure, cloud computing is expected to emerge as an attractive proposition. <br /><br />Experts say as SMBs in India are not straddled with legacy resources, they could be expected to move to the cloud rapidly. Many analysts expect large enterprises to resist public cloud over security issues. Microsoft’s distinguished engineer Yousef Khalidi said enterprises were typically slower in adopting new technologies. <br /></p>
