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Cloud Migration the next Y2K for Indian IT Companies

It has been a rough patch for Indian IT companies as they struggle to transform themselves in a recessionary world where the old methods of providing bodies for service has changed to service delivery with compensation based on successful completion of projects.
The Indian IT industry grew on one great phenomenon of fixing the challenging Y2k problem way back in the years 1999 to 2000. This allowed Indian technology professionals to support and deliver skills to keep the business running into a expected catastrophe in the year 2000 (Y2K).
I was in the USA in the months of December 1999 and January 2000 on a holiday and remember the New Year of 2000 being brought in with bated breath. It was a new decade where programmers had forgotten that the century would end when they created digital solutions. Luckily the new year rolled out with no major glitches because of the century transition.
Y2K was the catalyst for the growth of the Indian Industry supported by savvy marketing and cost positioning and mass training in the cities of Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
A reality check shows there are many  Asian and European countries who are able to provide cost effective and innovative technology solutions and they  are clawing away the market share of Indian IT Companies.


Y2k Cheered the Indian IT Industry to double digit growth, Cloud Migration can do the same !
Photo - Thanks to Mr. Ajay Gopal - Big Data Specialist.

About a decade ago a new technology emerged known as cloud computing which was proved and tested by the layman by use of social applications like Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Animoto, YouTube and Amazon Web Services whose success was driven by the lay consumer and today the Business is ready to adopt the cloud as its preferred  computing platform.
The challenge for businesses  is to migrate their legacy application to the cloud and also replace some of the legacy applications with newer and more agile solutions available on the cloud which support mobility.
Business need consulting for a cloud strategy and a migration plan, but more importantly they will need IT  skills for Cloud Migration..
The ability of Indian IT companies to handle complex projects in time and cost with  talented  technology professionals is the elixir to take the  Business to the cloud.
 Indian IT companies need to quickly get ready for this next big opportunity of Cloud Migration which will put them back on their feet and into a double digit growth trajectory ?
Is the same enthusiasm and leadership available in the Indian IT companies toady as in Y2K  to drive this opportunity ?
Will Indian IT companies to do their jig in the cloud and relive their glory days ?
Are they listening ?
Are they Ready of this opportunity?
Or is the writing on the wall for the decline of the Indian IT industry unwilling to adapt to a changing world fueled by Cloud Computing ?


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  1. Anonymous2:17 AM

    Good article. Unfortunately every large Indian IT service provider claims to be in the cloud business but sadly not demonstrating enough in actions. None of them are actively taking cloud offerings to the market though every one of them have jazzy collaterals to support their claim. Not sure how many large SIs have a dedicated P&L for their cloud business. Would be interested to see how much of their revenues are truly cloud related - products and services. Venkat, SmartMegh Solutions Pvt Ltd.

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  2. Great Article.. The main models of cloud computing are I.a.a.S, P.a.a.S, S.a.a.S and St.a.a.S, where users can gain access to complete virtual machines, applications running platforms, system software and OS and storage respectively with timely management and assurance of security.

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