‘BFSI and manufacturing industry will be the largest adopters of cloud services’

Lovleen Bhatia, co-founder and director, Edureka believes that quality of solutions and post-sales service are major drivers to accelerate cloud adoption among SMEs in India…

What are the benefits of “living in the cloud?” The risks?

There are multiple benefits associated with ‘living in the cloud’ which are – low total cost of ownership and reduced on-going and life-cycle costs, an increased availability of resources and data backed by a robust delivery.

Apart from these incidental benefits of the cloud, it is an extremely scalable and flexible model which offers the benefit of pay-as-you-go. While it enables larger collaboration and community computing (which allows for the functioning of a mobile workforce), it also makes way for inexpensive disaster recovery options.

Risks involved are mostly in regard to privacy breaches, identity theft, technical glitches and failures like data corruption, lack of control, particularly with the implementation of BYOD and location centric issues (geographical limitations) to an extent. However, the stakeholders of the cloud market are optimistic of the fact that with the pace at which innovation is evolving; very soon these risks will be en passé.

How are mid-sized organizations adapting to cloud technology and what are the popular applications being put in cloud?

Small and medium-sized businesses are adapting to cloud to give a boost to their overall business growth, saving their time and allowing them time to expand and innovate. The quality of solutions and post-sales service are the major drivers to accelerate cloud adoption among SMEs in India. The total number of channel partners catering to SMEs in India has increased by nearly 10 – 15 percent from the previous year, while the number of cloud channel partners increased by approximately 25-30 percent. This translates to a significant shift in the number of providers offering cloud-based services solutions.

A very good instance would be to talk about small co-operative banks which are using cloud services for hosting core banking solutions which is in a way well setting an example for the SME segment that cloud is the way forward for growth and success.

What is the talent scenario in India for cloud computing?

After personal computers and internet, cloud computing is going to be the most powerful and transformative technology tool for the world. However, companies have started to echo hard about cultivating talents with the right skill set to manage this revolutionary change that the economy is planning to welcome. According to IDC, cloud computing will generate as much as 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015 and India itself will have over 2 million new job opportunities. These would require personnel with special skills and set of knowledge which we are afraid is not as it will be demanded in future.

What are the roles that will be in demand in 2014?

Roles in demand would be: Cloud architects well versed with private and hybrid cloud models and niche cloud architects with expertise in niche offerings like salesforce.com, Amazon web services (AWS) etc. Experts believe that demand will swell especially for those who can cover all the 9 OSI layers, from Infra to SaaS. Besides, companies will also look for specific stack experts like AWS, Azure, Google or OpeStack, OpenShift, Stackato, VmWare, etc.

For lateral movement what kind of up skilling (certification, courses) is required to move to cloud computing?

Understanding of the basics of cloud computing is important for entering into this market. Professional courses which are at par with global standards are being offered by Indian players at one tenth the cost than the global counterparts and that too with added advantage of 24×7 live web support and post course completion, lifetime support on study materials.

What is the potential of cloud computing in India in the next 5 years?

Financial services and manufacturing industries are and will be the largest adopters of cloud services, having got on the bandwagon early. Communications and technology industries are also leveraging cloud computing in significant volumes and the public sector has begun to explore the potential of cloud services.

What are your current talent challenges?

Industry veterans have often been complaining about a dearth of skilled people, particularly in the fields of Big Data, Analytics and Hadoop. Interestingly, as most of the work centred in these domains is based on Cloud solutions, the lack of talent is drilling down to a broader base of people employed in the area of cloud capability.

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