Cloud Hosting – A Practical Roundup

Cloud hosting was approximately launched around 2006. However, it really started gaining momentum since 2011. Its adoption rate was a bit slower in 2016. However, that doesn’t mean that its growth has stopped in any manner. The slower adoption rate only signifies the fact that a plateau value has been reached by this time frame.

Explaining with an Example for Simplification

Just consider an example. This will simplify understanding the phenomenon. One of the most popular online products is surely the Microsoft Office Suite, which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, and many more. The most important fact about its gaining popularity doesn’t lie with the maker, which is Microsoft itself. The usability factor is making the numerous online services to push for its use.

Now, let’s focus on one of the most known names in the industry of domain name registration. It has attached Office 365 when a person goes for email service subscription of the company. You can only get the service without Office 365 only when you go for regular and plain service. Hence, it is clear how Microsoft has made special arrangements with numerous online services to reach target audience. Even if a business entity or individual doesn’t want any specific service, the arrangement will help the company go for cloud.

A recent statistics says that there are around 1.2 billion Office users. If the total number of commercial users of Office 365 is taken into consideration we will find that the number revolves anything around 60 million. This shows that most of the users mostly use the local version only, which are installed locally by any computer professional and is not cloud based. While persons usually go for cloud computing mostly because of their work, most still resort to non-cloud and traditional computing methods rather than cloud for personal usage. It only points to the fact that equilibrium has been reached in cloud computing and hosting with respect to traditional computing. 

Cloud Usage Pattern and Popularity

There are many cloud hosting providers in India. However, not all of them use cloud for hosting purposes. Most progress has taken place in the cloud storage solution. Whether it is a business entity or an individual, cloud has really come up as a preferred solution for data and file storage. Though there has been an expansion in usage of cloud applications, the cloud computing genres is yet to reach peak. Most usages are still restricted to cloud storage and the storage are basically restricted to personal content including videos, photos, and sometimes even accounts.

What’s holding back?

There have been two facts that are mostly holding back users from using the services provided by the cloud hosting providers in India. They are:

1. The issue of data confidentiality is a major reason for slow adoption of cloud. Report says that it will still need more time and advancements to consider issue of data confidentiality. It is still not complete.

2. Internet connectivity is an issue when it comes to cloud access. It can be seen that the countries where internet connectivity is better, the cloud adoption rate is also high. In countries like India where the internet network has just started to boom, it will take some more years to reach the peak when it comes to cloud adoption.