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In today's competitive landscape, where apps are the gateway to corporate and customer data, businesses are delivering smarter, faster and safer apps. The perks of becoming more agile, scalable, and cost-effective are also shifting the focus to cloud environments for apps.
A recent Dell EMC study, The Global Data Protection Index, conducted in collaboration with Vanson Bourne, highlights cloud use by organisations in Asia increasing from 27 percent of the total IT environment in 2016 to 41 percent in 2018, with almost 100 percent of respondents leveraging cloud as part of their data protection strategy.
In fact, in F5's 2019 State of Application Services study, we found that 87 percent of businesses in Asia operate multi-cloud architectures, driven by an app-first methodology. Over 90 percent of respondents in Australia, New Zealand, China, and India showed that they are using more than one cloud provider. For many organizations in India, the cloud has become the sole route for faster market expansion for new application deployment and are increasingly adopting the multi-cloud approach-clearly the next era in cloud computing. Further, with an increased adoption of the technologies such as artificial intelligence and Big Data, the India cloud market is poised to grow three-fold to US$7.1 billion by 2022, according to a Nasscom report.
However, one of the biggest challenges that organisations in India experience is to manage their entire...