March, 2016 | The Cloud Awards, SaaS Awards & Security Awards

CIO Survey Finds Security and Private Cloud Top Priorities

CIOs expect cloud consumption to rise from 31% in 2014 to 58% in 2018, with public cloud adoption predicted to rise fastest; SaaS deployments are expected to increase from 33% of applications today to 56% over the next five years; and IT leaders predict internal IT infrastructure consumption to fall from 67% to 42% between 2104 and 2018, according to a survey released [...]

Indian SaaS Sector to Earn $10bn; Value to Exceed $50bn in Ten Years

The Indian SaaS sector is projected to grow sixteen-fold over the next decade and boast multiple billion-dollar-revenue businesses, collectively valued at over $50bn, says a joint report from Google and Accel Partners. The report, released on Friday, projects Indian cloud start-ups raising the Software-as-a-Service sector’s annual revenues in India as high as $10 billion. That's roughly 8% of the projected $132-billion global demand, [...]