{"id":10748,"date":"2014-05-07T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/08\/cloud-computing-india-are-we-verge-explosion\/"},"modified":"2014-05-07T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T23:30:31","slug":"cloud-computing-in-india-are-we-on-the-verge-of-explosion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-in-india-are-we-on-the-verge-of-explosion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing in India: Are we on the verge of explosion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate stories have reached <em>CloudTech<\/em> HQ which show that cloud computing adoption in India is showing more than just potential. But is the hype justified?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week it was reported that Microsoft is offering its Office 365 Personal suite to users in India for Rs 330 (&pound;3.24) per month or Rs 3299 (&pound;32.42) for a yearly subscription.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from New Delhi, Redmond is hoping to recruit 25 million new Indian users for cloud services, with country general manager Chakrapani Gollapali telling reporters: &ldquo;Today&rsquo;s consumers are seeking a more optimised experience across their phone, tablet and PC and the combined power of Microsoft devices and services provides the best experience they can have today across all these.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fusing Office 365 with cloud and mobile was the first item on new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella&rsquo;s list, with the long-awaited move to bring Office to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate stories have reached CloudTech HQ which show that cloud computing adoption in India is showing more than just potential. But is the hype justified?<br \/>\nEarlier this week it was reported that Microsoft is offering its Office 365 Personal suite &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}