The Asia Pacific market has become a pressure cooker. A jolt in the regional economy is straining current IT infrastructures. Increasing workloads and incessant demands any time and from anywhere are seeing many traditional infrastructure creaking under pressure.
Decentralized, scalable IT infrastructures are the obvious answer. But getting the expertise, resources and investment to deploy and manage such an infrastructure within the four walls of a corporate is not only expensive but also time and labour intensive. Besides, ripping out old infrastructures in today's cost-conscious environment is a huge gamble for many IT decision makers.
Time to go hybrid
Instead, many in Asia Pacific are taking a keen interest in hybrid clouds, concluded a recent a recent survey commissioned by NTT Communications and conducted by IDG Research Services. Entitled "Global market pulse: cloud computing infrastructure study," it examined the opinions of 300 IT decision makers evenly distributed across the US, EMEA (UK) and APAC (Hong Kong and Singapore).
The survey showed that cloud computing is gaining momentum and APAC is the region to watch out for in the next 12 months. It saw 31% of APAC IT decision makers responding that they plan to implement clouds in the next 12 months, 26% looking to pilot-test cloud projects, and 28% having implemented cloud in one or more locations.
The reason? Improved availability. Flexibility and enhancing disaster recovery capabilities come close second and third, respectively. In Asia Pacific, however, disaster recovery tops the agenda of reasons for clouds, when compared to the US and EMEA. Nevertheless, all these acts and figures suggest that year 2013 will be a tipping point for cloud deployment in the Asia Pacific region.