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the State of the Data Centre (SODC) report released by Symantec. According to the survey, more than three-fourth of the respondents would like to adopt private cloud computing services.

“At present, 76 per cent of enterprises are involved in private cloud computing. In a large environment – it provides niche process or niche applications that can manage the cloud management environment. It will have a main role in managing some of the data centre complexity,” Anand Naik, director (systems engineering) of Symantec, told FC.

Capital cost reduction and increase in efficiency are also being cited as major factors aiding the growth of cloud computing. According to Gartner, the cloud computing market will compound at an annual rate of 28 per cent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012. The figure should cross $150 billion in 2013.

On the data centre market in India, the report said growth would continue at a robust pace. Data centres will continue to grow at a CAGR close to 35 per cent in the next two years, according to the findings of International Data Corporation.

“When we see data growing both in structured or unstructured space the storage capacity is increasing from customer perspective, the impact that this has is demonstrated by the data centre market,” Naik said. “In the coming years we need to look at managing the data centres.” Most of the large investments in terms of data centre are made when enterprises invest in processes that include IT governance, Naik said.