Indian corporates are seeing a shift towards remote working, which is fuelling demand for cloud services. Microsoft has seen a significant increase in Teams usage and a three times growth in usage of Windows Virtual Desktop.
IBM is seeing demand growing specifically from healthcare, education, telecom and retail industries. During the first two weeks of the nationwide lockdown, open cloud provider Linode saw demand spike almost 100%, which has since settled to a roughly 75% increase. “The fundamental value proposition of the cloud is in providing scale and elasticity to adapt to client demands and spikes in application usage, like we are seeing now.