Pandemic provided significant momentum to cloud adoption in india

SANDEEP BHARGAVA, Managing Director, Asia Pacific Japan, Rackspace Technology

CLOUD TECHNOLOGY & WFH

While cloud adoption in India was gaining impressive traction, even before 2020, the aftermath of the first wave of the pandemic was the catalyst for many Indian enterprises to realise the benefits of cloud solutions. The need for businesses to build resilience has triggered an increase in cloud spending – especially public cloud – and trends are indicating that 2021 will see more significant growth.

ADOPTION OF HYBRID MULTICLOUD AS OPERATING MODELS

Due to the pandemic, cloud adoption gained significant momentum in India in the last year. Enterprises began realising that rapid digital transformation is crucial for business continuity and, in the process, put a lot of emphasis on multicloud adoption strategies for their businesses to benefit from more agility and scale without the burden of vendor lock-ins.

As current trends increasingly point towards a hybrid business and work concept in the foreseeable future, demand for cloud solutions is surging, with tools such as Cloud-based VDI becoming crucial for enterprises when effectively engaging with employees and clients.

TECHNOLOGY COMPLEMENTING INDUSTRY NEEDS

First and foremost, executives, managers and IT leaders must embrace a transformation enabling mindsets to ensure their journey to the cloud and beyond meets their objectives and achieves their goals. This is crucial to driving transformation and optimisation efforts, with the right strategy built on business growth driven by the cloud.

When it comes to cloud adoption, an enterprise must seek the most value from the investment, including minimum risk factors during migration. When adopting a hybrid multicloud strategy, enterprises must be aware of the right kind of technology that will ease the implementation, integration and deployment processes of key applications on the optimal cloud platform. Top on the priority list of every implementation must be high security and compliance to avoid any unforeseen breaches or missteps.

INCREASE IN ENTERPRISE SPEND IN 2021

Enterprises are increasingly embracing multicloud for constant availability and low latency, scalability, enhancing the quality of data, and cost optimization. Multicloud adoption has to be a seamless, effective and secure process. Enterprises must go the extra mile to understand compliance requirements and vendor portal differences.

Rackspace Technology complements the industry by partnering with our customers through every stage of their cloud journey. We assist by modernising applications, helping build new products and constantly strive to introduce innovative technologies for better performance.