On Cloud Nine

On Cloud NineA recent study has revealed that the use of cloud computing has the potential of raising a number of jobs in India. It is a whole computing system that has the capacity to engage a number of people to a common server that can create millions if used rightly.

It is a system in which multiple computers servers are linked to a common platform that is connected via a digital network. This is all conducted under secure environment that also gives one a range of applications for the reduction of the coasts that are to be bore for the IT operations to be performed.

"Of the projected $4.5-billion total cloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, generate about 100,000 additional jobs and save about 50 percent of cost of IT operations for Indian enterprises," the study "Private Cloud Landscape in India", by Zinnov Management Consulting and global IT firm EMC Corporation, revealed.

This technology can come in very handy for financial, insurance as well as banking sectors.

"There will be an increased preference of cloud adoption over the next five years in India. The total cloud market, which was about $400 million in 2010, is expected to growth by a whopping 60 percent annually with private cloud dominating the landscape”, Zinnov chief executive Pari Natrajan told reporters here.