Enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ are becoming more open to the idea of utilising cloud services and computing, but some concerns about the public cloud still remain, according to market research and analysis firm IDC.
The firm said that this may slow the adoption of public cloud services and increase interest in private clouds among organisations in the region. It believes that enterprises will be using private clouds as a way to phase in broader use of cloud services and computing in the future.
The IDC’s Cloud Services and Technologies End-User Survey showed that enterprises are concerned about security, performance and control of data when considering cloud adoption. Many of the regional organisations have underinvested in staff training and development during the slowdown and this combined with the lack of experience with cloud technologies, is increasing interest in externally sourced private clouds.
The research firm expects that in the next five years, regional telcos to be in a challenging position and will be wooed by technology vendors and service providers who want to sell their products to them for use in the telco’s cloud delivery infrastructure. And, at the same time, they will also be viewed as cloud competitors by these same suppliers.
IDC said, the way these partnerships are managed by the telco service providers will be key to the success and failure of this foray into the IT services delivery space.
Chris Morris, analyst for cloud computing in Asia/Pacific at IDC, said: "Expanding their current virtual private cloud services into broader non-IT business solutions will be essential to avoid virtual private cloud services becoming the next fat, dumb pipe.
"Moving forward, traditional technology vendors such as IBM, HP, Microsoft and Oracle are expected to maintain their strategic alliances with the telcos because of the channel opportunities which the latter provide. Telcos will not just have to compete with these technology vendors but also pure-play cloud service providers like Google and Amazon. For telcos, sharing a growing but still ultra-competitive cloud market with the IT mega-vendors may be likened to dancing with elephants."
