Day: December 11, 2019

End-user spending on public cloud services in India is forecast to total $3.4 billion in 2020, a 25% increase from 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. This double-digit growth will position India as the No. 3 country for end-user spending on public cloud services. China and Indonesia will be the countries with the highest growth rates in end-user spending on public cloud services in 2020. “Moving to the cloud and investing in public cloud services have become imperative to the success of digital business initiatives. It’s no longer a question of ‘why,’ but a matter of ‘when’ organizations can shift to the cloud,” said Sid Nag, Research Vice President at Gartner, “We have entered the cloud 2.0 era, where organizations are adopting a cloudfirst or a cloud-only strategy.” Cloud application services (SaaS) remains the segment where end-user organizations in India will spend the most and will represent 42% of overall public cloud services end-user spending in 2020. End-user spending on SaaS cloud application services in India will total $1.4 billion in 2020, an increase of more than 21% year over year. Organizations are moving their legacy applications to SaaS because it provides them with the flexibility of subscription-based consumption, in contrast to expensive license-based on-premises consumption models. “SaaS adoption is associated with a lower cost of entry, which is one of the reasons for the high investment in this segment in India, which is a price-sensitive market,” said Sid Nag. The next wave of changes that Indian CIOs foresee is consolidation in the cloud services market. “The disinvestment in data centres by small and niche cloud service providers has increased the opportunities for hyperscale vendors, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Alibaba, to disrupt the cloud infrastructure services market rapidly,” said Sid Nag. Market leaders such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba and IBM currently dominate global cloud infrastructure services market, and will retain the lead as the market grows. Gartner predicts that, by 2021, 90% of global enterprise customers using cloud IaaS will take a multicloud approach. “Multicloud and hybrid approaches are becoming inherent to cloud adoption. Organizations want to take full advantage of best-of-breed solutions, and are therefore working with one or more cloud service providers,” added Sid Nag. Gartner clients can read more in the report “Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2017-2023, 3Q19 Update” Gartner, Inc. is the world’s leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. They equip business leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow. Their unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven research steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. They are a trusted advisor and objective resource for more than 15,000 organizations in more than 100 countries – across all major functions, in every industry and enterprise size.  

Axis Communications concluded their three-day annual India SAARC partner summit – Axis Innovation Summit 2019 in Abu Dhabi. The summit, a combined event for the entire region, provided a platform to interact with key Axis channel partners from 5 countries as well as the Axis leadership team both from the region and Sweden. The event also helped facilitate a platform for technical showcase, and understand the challenges of key partners and cross pollination of ideas among key partners. The conference hosted interactive discussions around the growing importance of security in different verticals – retail, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, and education etc., in-depth panel discussion on innovation in cyber security and how it is interwoven with the organisation’s physical security needs, growing importance of surveillance in the middle-east, demonstration of new product launches and company’s vision, and way-forward. Axis Communications also felicitated their loyal partners and distributors for outstanding works in their respective fields. Speaking on the success of the Summit, Sudhindra Holla, Sales Director, India and SAARC said, “With a rich lineage of over 35 years globally and a strong Indian presence from 2007 we understand the pulse of the Indian market. At Axis Communications, we consider channel partners as our extended family and our strongest support system Axis Innovation Summit 2019 in Abu Dhabi Stimulating the Channel Partner Ecosystem in building customer relationships. We owe a significant amount of our success to our partners and we believe in recognising their efforts and contributions. Axis is a strong channel focused organisation and our association fosters company’s growth and helps in achieving our vision.” This Summit created a platform to share insights on how Axis can support them in leveraging new market opportunities both for small and mid-sized businesses. Additionally, a view on the business strategy, product innovations and solutions were also discussed in depth. The summit provided the channel partners and distributors an opportunity to engage and interact with top management from Axis Communications.