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Cloud and Beyond: The future of cloud computing in India
Cloud and Beyond: The future of cloud computing in India

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Cloud computing is an unstoppable trend in the IT industry and the new technological dawn in India.

The extreme agility and accessibility of a cloud becomes the main reason that the future of cloud computing will be powerful. With serverless architecture, digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence and big data management, the cloud will shape our lives in the future.

NASSCOMInsights has worked on the “CLOUD SKILLS: POWERING INDIA’S DIGITAL DNA” report that highlights various factors driving cloud adoption, explores the stages of cloud maturity, its impact on the talent demand and availability and recommends course of action for India to attain its potential of becoming a cloud-first nation.

Why cloud computing?

The reasons why cloud computing is the future is how the cloud boosts speed, perpetuates innovation, reduces cost, increases employability, and empowers people to become the digital talent of our nation.

 

Evolution in cloud investments and improved cloud maturity

The following statistics are as per the NASSCOMInsight report that states an exponential growth in cloud investments across the globe and in India:

  1. Global Public Cloud spend, currently valued at $332 bn as of 2021, is projected to grow by 20% YoY till 2022
  2. SaaS remains the largest global market segment at 39% share; PaaS, IaaS are expected to grow exponentially
  3. Investments in Cloud Management, Storage Networks, Security & Back-up services are expected to grow by 31% YoY till 2022; reflecting demand for Cloud-enabled infrastructural upgradations
  4. Hybrid Cloud adoption in Indian organizations is set to grow by 49% in the next 3 years

 

Rise of new age cloud skills

 ‘Digital-First’ is the latest buzz word for every business that also increases the demand for cloud computing experts across the globe. Cloud Developer, Cloud Security Engineer, Front-end developer, Back-end Developer, Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Specialist, Cloud Migration Specialist and many more profiles are in demand that needs skilled cloud experts.  As per the report, India alone recorded nearly 379,000 job openings for cloud roles in the past year, and this demand is only set to grow with time.

“The demand for digital skills today (including cloud) is around 8-10X higher than the supply that exists in India. To make India the first cloud-nation, NASSCOMInsights has worked on the report to understand the existing cloud talent landscape in India and the demand-supply analysis by 2025. We could then realize the full potential of cloud and in the process, make India the talent nation for the digital world,” says Debjani Ghosh, NASSCOM President.

 

Adoption of cloud computing

  1. The Indian Government’s increasing cloud adoption through GI Cloud (MeghRaj), the National and State Service Delivery Gateways, development of a Cloud-based AI platform called AIRAWAT, TechSaksham and other initiatives enable ease, provide authentic access and transparency to government benefits for the common citizens because of cloud computing.
  2. The COVID cloud initiatives taken by the government like CoWin, Aarogya Setu, MyGov Saathi, Curfew ePass and COVID-19 Data Repository were some of the key steps through cloud that ensured that India is well-prepared to face the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Skilling India’s tech talent for the future

With the growing interest and demand for cloud job roles, the number of job opportunities has also seen a boost and is expected to grow tremendously which also increases the need of skilling in cloud computing.  From a global perspective, what sets India apart from the other leading countries, is its extensive, diverse pool of technology services talent which stands at over 4.5 mn as of FY2021, consisting of the traditional IT job roles of 2.4 to 2.6 mn, and the FutureSkills talent of 1.9 to 2 mn. Consequently, by 2025, the unmet demand is expected to grow 3X by 2025; demand for over 2.2 mn Cloud professionals versus an installed talent of 1.4 to 1.5 mn, as per the report.

 

Cloud is the way forward in NASSCOM

NASSCOM’s Sector Skill Council (SSC) is the primary conduit that standardizes and builds IT Skills, set up under the purview of Ministry of Skills Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE).

The launch of FutureSkills PRIME, is an expansion of the initial FutureSkills initiative, which extended the scope to skill more professionals across a wider spectrum of digital specialization areas and industry expertise, apart from the emerging FutureSkills technologies.

The upcoming NASSCOM Cloud summit also aims at unlocking value from cloud to empower India’s digital journey. 


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