While IT firms like Wipro and TCS have launched their cloud computing solutions, a study by IDC and sponsored by EMC corporation says that as cloud computing gains foothold across the Asia Pacific, hybrid cloud will be most widely used.
A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment in which an organisation provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally.
The survey data also suggests that the hybrid or ?converged? approach to cloud will be the rule rather than the exception in 2011.
As a result, cloud federation between private and public clouds, or between different public clouds, will become increasingly important in 2011 as the cloud model moves into the enterprise.
The study revealed that 53% of organisations surveyed in Asia Pacific are already currently using some form of cloud, or actively researching and testing cloud services, while the remaining 47% of organisations have plans to adopt private or public cloud services at some point in the next one year.
