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Balancing Regulation and Innovation for Cloud Computing in India

Cloud computing is the most recent paradigm shift in Information technology. While it is not a result of any major technological breakthrough, Cloud Computing feeds on the advances in scalability and affordability of Power, Cooling, Security and Virtualization of Servers/Storage/Networking technologies.

The most comprehensive industry accepted definition of Cloud computing is from NIST “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction “

The cornerstone of cloud computing is a new operational service model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and new IT Infrastructure deployment model (Private, Community, Public and Hybrid Cloud)

The Prudence of Indian Government policies coupled with Industry enthusiasm have been fruitful to revolutionize information dissemination in past by encouraging massive adoption of
• Terrestrial, Cable and Satellite Television
• Wire line and Wireless Telecommunication
• Emerging Broadband and Internet adoption

Cloud Computing is a nascent Industry segment that needs nurturing and encouragement for India to emerge a global leader in this sunrise trend.
There massive need for cloud computing both for consumer and enterprise use.

Today 48% of Consumers of Mobile Phones are Internet users and use phones primary access devices. The data storage, application and security needs of these consumers are best addressed by cloud based information infrastructure.

The average spends on Information Technology as a percentage of Revenue is steadily increasing due to the pressures of global competition. The typical deployment model for IT infrastructure is capital intensive with long gestation. Cloud computing enables creation of burst able , on-demand infrastructure with a quicker provisioning and shorter time-to revenue. This allows the Industry leap frog from closet-held server directly to cloud and avoiding expensive captive datacenter buildouts.

There are handful data center and network providers that can deploy global scale coud computing platforms out of India.

The Power, HVAC and Security costs for creating massively scalable cloud computing farms are all but prohibitive in India.

There is need for government to create level playing on par with International Cloud deployments with appropriate regulatory measures for lower power tariffs, captive power plants and efficient cooling systems.

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Anonymous said…
I think that the number of people who use cloud computing will grow in the next 10 years.
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Anonymous said…
Cloud computing will certain be the future of technology


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