SMB looks to adopt Cloud

Indian SMB market is quite large and diverse. It is growing at a fast pace and is expected to become one of the most competitive market by 2015. The SMB sector is on a continuously lookout for cost effective yet technologically advanced solutions. No doubt the cloud solutions providers are eyeing to capture a big pie of this lucrative market. In fact, recent reports have shown that the SMB sector too is looking towards the cloud.

AMI’s recent report 2011 India SMB State of the Cloud Market Overview said that the SMB sector is increasing looking towards cloud, specially IaaS. In addition, IDC recently reported that the revenue from Indian cloud market is likely to grow over $3-billion by 2015, from the current $534-million. The firm further added the cloud computing platform is expected to mainly benefit enterprise SMB (small and medium business), SOHO (small office, home office) and consumer segments.

So it is imperative for enterpises to approach the SMB markets, visit the Tier II & II cities and educate the markets on the benefits of the cloud. The SMB sector is definitely looking forward to adopt the cloud (some already have). Enterpises who manage to make the first inroads in to the market will emerge as the cloud leaders, thanks to the vast and untapped SMB sector