At present a fully-fledged cloud-computing market has revamped the capacity of an ever-increasing demand from global enterprises. A recent report from research firm Gartner chalked out that the Indian public cloud market alone is all set to treble to $1.9 billion (about Rs 12,000 crore) by the end of 2018. The figures have already crossed a $638 million milestone in 2014 alone.
The firm also stated that a greater internet usage as well as the rise of e-commerce is basically the main reasons for a steady growth of data center collocation and hosting facilities in the Indian territory.Some e-commerce & web content players have already indulged into US based data centers. But a higher growth of internet users in India has made web technology companies shift their servers to data centers located within India. This has begun a greater demand for India based data center service providers.
Some large players have established cloud data centers in the country. These enterprises are about to launch more such projects starting 2015. This has resulted in local players investing thousands of crores upon state-of-the-art infrastructure
& niche service capabilities to cater to rising demands of enterprises & users.
The entire Indian data center market will witness over Rs 10,000 crore investments in the next three years. A chief analyst at Greyhound Research further cited that 30-35% returns of this amount will originate in Indian data centers alone.
Therefore, Indian data center providers no longer feel threatened by larger global players. Instead they are striving to build a market of their own. Together, they are all set to increase awareness about cloud computing for Indian users.