
‘Clouds’ catch on even as concerns stay
Live MintBangalore: For the most part of 30 years, Shodan Bhandari ran his fresh fruit juice business, now a chain of 25 Juice Junction outlets across Bangalore with an annual turnover of about Rs12 crore, on spreadsheets. Listen to an interview with Mani Doraisamy, CTO of OrangeScape, about cloud computing and why it’s important for Indian industry Three-year-old Wolf typifies several small firms that are building new businesses on the “cloud”, an information technology term that is as nebulous as the English word it is derived from; it essentially means a network of networks delivering service on demand. Cloud computing started off as Infrastructure-as-a-Service ; then, Software-as-a-Ser-vice caught on, which rapidly converted business processes into services, says Sharad Sharma, chairperson of the product forum at the National Association of Software and Service Companies. Sharma says a handful of PaaS start-ups in the country, such as OrangeScape, AppPoint Software Solutions, Wolf and Agile Labs are providing the rapid application development framework to smaller firms to develop products for a worldwide cloud services market that Gartner Inc. estimates will exceed $56.3 billion in 2009, a 21.3% rise from 2008. “Cloud is making life simpler for smaller companies to sell applications; bigger companies are yet to make the transition.” Experts say it’s also a matter of organizational restructuring, particularly in sales, as selling SaaS is different from selling big software packages that bring sizeable incentives to the sales forces.
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