“For good governance of any nation, it is necessary that all decision makers are sensitive and transparent to the needs of the common man. This can be achieved by the use of cloud computing in e-governance for the meaningful and sustainable inclusive growth”, said Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, at a CII Conference on Cloud Computing “Concurrent Technologies 2011 – Reaping Through the Clouds”.
He added “One of the biggest challenges facing the country today is lack of quality education and the emphasis should be on the application of knowledge rather than on the acquisition of knowledge, and the cloud provides platform for the same - with the broadband reaching to all block-level village by June 2012”.
He added “Though India is growing at an impressive rate of 9%, however for a sufficient and sustainable growth of the economy, elimination of poverty is critical which can happen only by touching 11% growth rate that can further be achieved only by bringing young population in the mainstream using cloud computing platform, thus helping reach quality education, heath, finance, etc to the un-served 800 million population”. He also emphasized that the states should leverage the successful cloud initiatives and models with little or no modification, thus expediting the process of inclusion.
Sanket Akerkar, Managing Director, Microsoft Corporation (India) highlighted “The benefits of Cloud Computing include Innovation Acceleration, Competitiveness Enhancement, Scale & Reach, and Enabling Inclusivity.” He said “Cloud Computing is gaining momentum in India with some 7000 Applications by developers in India on Microsoft platform alone and more than 2000 commercial customers for its Cloud services in India”. He projected that Telecommunications, IT services, Financial Services & e-Governance are poised to be the major drivers for cloud adoption in India.
Lt Gen (Retd) PC Katoch, Former Director General Information Systems, Army, stated “While there are both advantages and challenges in Cloud adoption, key security issues like trust, multi-tenancy, encryption, and compliance needs to be examined and addressed”. He added “Industry and Government should work together to create Cloud ecosystem with robust security and high level of accountability – both financial and operational for its timely adoption in the country by businesses, defense and government”.
He emphasized on investments required for building the architecture that can support hybrid computing model having a combination of cloud/ virtual infrastructure and dedicated infrastructure in a single solution, thus enabling dynamic provisioning of resources to meet the workloads of enterprises. With reference to army security, he said “IT systems in the Army are just taking off. The major problem is that of security. In case of war, the nation may be attacked. Yet, we want the concept of Cloud Computing to take off”.
Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, CII National Committee on IT & ITes and Vice Chairman & CEO, Zensar Technologies, earlier in his address said “While IT software and services growth in India was about 6% in 2009-10, we expect 16%-18% growth in 2010-11 which has been possible with 4% growth in the IT spending”. He added “India is taking care of 55% of global sourcing and when 25% of the future sourcing across globe will happen through Cloud, India needs to take adequate steps and plan for what has to be done.” Thus, the trend of moving towards managed services is providing continued growth to the Indian IT industry. He shared that SMEs will dominate the Cloud market in India with 40% CAGR growth.
Companies like Riverbed Technologies, Hitachi, Dell, Microsoft, Bharti Airtel, Siemens, Wipro, L&T, HCL Technologies were some of the participants.
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Quelle/Source: India Infoline News, 05.02.2011
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