Public cloud end-user spending to total $4.4 billion in 2021: Gartner

BENGALURU : End-user spending on public cloud services in India will rise 31.4% from a year ago to a total of $4.4 billion in 2021, according to the latest forecast from research firm, Gartner Inc.

“Indian CIOs (chief information officers) saw the benefits of cloud during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020,” said Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner. “To build business resilience and minimize the impact of continued disruptions, investing in cloud is unavoidable. India has experienced consistent double-digit growth in cloud spending over the last three years, the pandemic only expedited the shift.”