Firms are increasingly using cloud computing: Infosys study
The study said 81% of respondents were either using or planning to use mission-critical apps on cloud in the next 2 years
Bangalore: Enterprises are increasingly using cloud computing to run their operations, finds a study by Infosys Ltd, India’s second largest software services provider.
The company said 81% of respondents were either using or planning to use mission-critical apps on cloud in the next two years. Mission-critical apps are those apps, without which a company’s entire business operation could fail.
Cloud is a virtual storage space that refers to servers connected to the Internet. It is becoming increasingly popular with both companies and consumers, partly because it is seen as a more convenient option to store large amounts of data.
The study also said cloud is gaining momentum, but issues concerning user-experience and consumption of cloud need to be addressed.
“While cloud adoption has definitely accelerated, user experience has become a major concern for enterprises. They are facing challenges in terms of poor levels of self- service, insufficient transparency and lack of operational simplicity," Vishnu Bhat, senior vice-president and global head, cloud and infrastructure services at Infosys said in a statement.
Hybrid cloud solutions allow clients to use public and private cloud solutions at the same time.
The study said 83% of the cloud adopters surveyed were struggling to consolidate their cloud services—from infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) and from public and private clouds.
All three are fundamental service models of cloud computing. In IaaS, a company outsources the equipment such as storage, hardware and servers, and the service provider owns and runs the equipment. The company pays based on the usage.
PaaS is when a company rents hardware and storage over the Internet, and the company is allowed to rent virtual servers. SaaS is when applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over the Internet.
Public cloud solutions are essentially managed by service providers who deliver them to clients over a secure Internet connection. The hardware and maintenance costs do not have to be incurred by the clients, whereas private cloud solutions are hosted by the client either on-site or at a service provider data centre and allows businesses higher levels of control and security.
Earlier this month, a report by network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. said that global data centre traffic will triple by 2018 and cloud solutions will account for 76% of total traffic by then from 54% last year.
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