Indian public cloud market to hit $1.8 billion in 2017: Gartner

Driven by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the public cloud services market in India is projected to grow 38% in 2017 to reach $1.81 billion, market research firm Gartner predicted on Thursday.
The highest growth will continue to be driven by IaaS, which is projected to grow at 49.2% in 2017, followed by 33% in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and 32.1% in platform-as-a-service (PaaS), according to Gartner.
The increase of SaaS and PaaS indicates that the migration of application and workloads from on-premises data centres to the cloud, as well as the development of cloud ready and cloud native applications, are fuelling the growth in the cloud space.
“We see increased cloud growth in the infrastructure compute services space as adoption becomes increasingly mainstream,” Sid Nag, Research Director at Gartner, said in a statement.
“This has been predicted for a while, and the momentum continues to sustain in 2017 eventually plateauing through 2020 as the market further matures,” Nag added.