India ranked third largest cloud service user, ahead of U.S.

India ranked third largest cloud service user in world ahead of U.S., reveals a new study by Cisco Connected World Report commissioned by networking equipment vendor Cisco. The study was conducted by the U.S. market-research firm InsightExpress.

According to the study, globally 52 percent of the IT professionals have stated that the use or plan to use cloud computing. Higher cloud adoption rates are predicted in Brazil (70 percent), China (69 peThe study evaluates how IT managers are evolving their data centers and taking advantage of new technologies, while working to accommodate trends in the workplace like social media, device proliferation, video and an increasingly mobile workforce.

The top three data centre priorities for the next three years are improve agility and speed in deploying business applications (33 percent), better manage resource capacity to align demand and capacity (31 percent), increase data center resilience (19 percent), and reduce power and cooling costs (17 percent).

The study conducted in 13 countries reveals that only 18 percent of respondents are using cloud computing today, while an additional 34 percent plan to use the cloud. The present top cloud users and the top countries taking maximum advantage of cloud computing today are Brazil (27 percent), Germany (27 percent), India (26 percent), U.S. (23 percent) and Mexico (22 percent).

A large majority (88 percent) of IT respondents predict that they will be storing some percentage of their company’s data and applications in private or public clouds within the next three years.