Four out of five mails written at work is on cloud: Study

Organisations are slowly adapting to cloud computing as it does not require substantial investments in hardware, infrastructure for software

Four out five emails Indians write at work every day is stored in the cloud. As more Indian organisations across different sectors are adapting to cloud over traditional storage systems, a recent survey by Cloud Security Alliance and InstaSafe Technologies has found out that more than 83 per cent of organisations have moved their email services to the cloud.

The survey is conducted among 123 organisations in India across sectors like IT, banking and financial services, manufacturing, retail, telecom, insurance hospitality, transport and others.

The two other important works or applications moved now moved to the cloud are human resource management (HRM) and customer relationship management (CRM). While more than 48 per cent organisations said they moved HRM to the cloud, 45 per cent of the organisations taken CRM to the cloud from the existing set-up. More than 38 per cent firms have moved Enterprise Resource Planning to the cloud.

What it means is that an application for human resource works or solving a customer's problem should happen much faster at a lesser cost for the organisations.

Organisations across the world and in India are slowly adapting to cloud computing as it does not require substantial investments in hardware and infrastructure for software, unlike the traditional set-up.

The survey finds out that 62 per cent of the Indian organisations (of the 123 surveyed) are active cloud users, a little less than one- third of the organisations have adopted to cloud for less than a year.

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform continue to be the top three cloud platforms used by Indian organisations. Netmagic is the top Indian cloud provider.

Indian organisations, however, are "extremely concerned" about the data breach and data loss while shifting applications on the cloud. The study says a lot of the existing and prospective cloud users are worried about the adequate protection of sensitive information. The recent data breach of debit cards and credit cards of Indian is an example of such lack of information security. Analysts say such an incident calls for greater focus on ensuring security and cloud service providers are working on that front.

"While cloud adoption in India is on the rise, security concerns still dominate a lot of discussions about moving to the cloud," said Sandip Kumar Panda, chief executive of InstaSafe.