End user spending on public cloud in India to reach $7.3 billion in 2022: Gartner

“The adoption of public cloud services has accelerated since the start of the global pandemic. The pandemic was a turning point for Indian businesses to realize the true value of the public cloud,” said Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner. “In India, policy infrastructure is emerging as a significant contributor to public cloud development.”

The recently launched public cloud government initiatives Meghraj and Cloud Vision for India 2022 will prove useful for small and medium businesses or those in the early stages of cloud adoption to benefit from this technology, Nag said.

Additionally, initiatives targeted at building skilled cloud workforce in partnership with private IT service providers will contribute to the government’s efforts to strengthen the public cloud ecosystem in the country.

While still growing, Indian end-user spending on the public cloud next year will be slower than the 34.6% growth forecast in 2021. Indian CIOs are expected to focus their cloud investments on Cloud Systems Infrastructure Services (IaaS). This segment is projected to total $2.4 billion in 2022, a 40% increase over 2021. IaaS will make up 32.3% of total investment in public cloud services in 2022.

“Public cloud development is being driven by organizations that want to modernize their IT and reduce their capital expenditure expenditure. The desire for agility and innovation in both business transformation and IT operations is also driving the growth of the public cloud. giving,” said the snake. “The next step in the evolution of cloud in India will be the adoption of cloud native technologies. Indian CIOs will see containers and microservices as well as reengineer their applications and workloads using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and redo”