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computing are Rapid Deployment andConsumption‐based Pricing.64% of the organizations (mostly large)consider security as a top concern fororganizations and understandably so. Allbusinesses spend countless hours andinvestments to protect their valuable dataassets. Due to their size, large companies aremore frequently the targets of malicious dataattacks and have a greater need to protecttheir assets. However, security fororganizations of all sizes will become less of aconcern due to advances in virtualisedtechnologies that have produced increasedsecurity options to meet any organizationsbusiness demands.More than 50% of small organizations believecloud computing will evolve to impact theirbusiness in the near future.Two solutions best suited for a cloudcomputing environment with respect to thesize of organizations are –250+ Employees – Web Applications,Application Server50‐249 Employees – Web Applications,Application Server1‐49 Employees – Web Applications,Database ServerHence, it can be seen that hosting webapplications is the most popular solution forall organizations.The preference of organizations to pay forcloud computing services are –32% companies prefer month‐to‐month, nocontracts and charged on usage option18% companies prefer annual contract andbased on resource needs and bursting option16% companies prefer month‐to‐month, nocontracts and base fee plus resource burstingoption34% companies were unsure about theoption they would preferFrom the above mentioned points it can beconcluded that there is little differencebetween how large and small organizationswill utilize cloud computing. For instance, thedriving factors for adopting cloud services arenearly the same for companies of all sizes,business size is immaterial in how quicklycloud technologies will be adopted, executiveleadership in small businesses list cloudcomputing as a high priority and so do theexecutives of large companies. Smallbusinesses are likely to receive a greateramount of IT services from a cloud platform.Hence cloud providers while continuing tocreate cloud based solutions that providereduced costs, scalability, improved servicelevel agreements, increased flexibility andoverall performance must keep in mind thescope in small businesses.Reactions of Gartner AnalysisCloud computing is helping corporationscreate new, cost‐effective business models. Ithas opened a world of opportunities forIndian IT companies. Gartner majorconsulting firm has also holds same opinionwith their findings.Gartner analysts are world renowned expertsin their fields, leveraging all of theseperspectives to create holistic forecasts ofthe IT Industry. They say that leading the ITorganization in 2010 requires a clear visionfor melding technology, business process andfinancial management into a cohesive view ofIT investments and priorities. Cloudcomputing will play an important role in costcutting across IT industries which is justrecovering recession.According to Gartner analysis, the IT spendingby industry vertical Markets Worldwide(Millions of U.S. Dollars) in 2009 and 2010 is16
as below:Vertical 2009 2010Financial 502,616 515,927Public Sector 443,368 459,969Manufacturing 433,244 436,024Communications 201882 206,386Retail 210816 214,161Services 172,061 175,046Utilities 114,306 118,218Transportation 99,842 101,711Healthcare 79,798 82,207Agriculture, 25,391 25,805Mining andConstructionGrand Total 2283325 2335453In the midst of many postponed, cancelled orrestructured IT Projects in financial services,new sets of priorities and strategies willbecome more coherent toward the end of2009.Movement toward SaaS and cloudcomputing ,shared services, and moreselective outsourcing will take firmer shapeas near‐term priorities to address constrainedIT budgets.To validate this research by Gartner we havereactions from the people from differentindustries who are potential users of cloudcomputingA true cloud offering," says Jeremy Cooper,vice‐president (marketing) of salesforce.com(vendor for both Bajaj Finance and Sun Life)for Asia‐Pacific, "is one that is subscriptionbased,which involves no purchase ofhardware, software but only needs aninternet connection. It could also be a multitenancymodel where a single infrastructureis used by many (like Google or Yahoo)."Patni, according to Chief Executive OfficerJeya Kumar, plans to have all its internal ITservices hosted on the internet with manyB2C players by June 2010. The company, saysKumar, spends around Rs 190 crore (Rs 1.9billion) on its internal IT needs annually.These include servers for storage, desktops,networks and bandwidth."We are our own guinea pigs when it comesto cloud computing. Once we are convincedthat it is secure and fruitful, we will extendthese services to our customers too," saysKumar. Not only will Patni be "able to savearound 30 per cent by way of capitalexpenditure and another 30 per cent onspace when the process is complete", saysKumar, but "when we acquire a newcompany, we will not need two data centerseven if the headcount doubles. The completenew portfolio from the acquisition will behosted on the web."Wipro too has built a "private cloud" forinternal use. The software giant is nowoffering that expertise to existing customersto optimize the computing power of theirdata centers. Wipro is also building what itcalls the "enterprise cloud" ‐ a capability itplans to offer to clients who have alreadyoutsourced or plan to outsource their hostingor infrastructure management activities withthe company, according to Girish Paranjpe,Joint CEO of the company."Creating a private cloud is something thatWipro can help clients with. Managingsecurity within private clouds is what Wiprocan do. It is much more efficient both interms of costs and kind of provisioning.Earlier, we in Wipro noticed that once weplaced an order for a server, it used to take43 days to install. Now that we have capacityon demand, we have to just switch on, and ittakes just 36 minutes," says Paranjpe.17
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