Several research studies reveal that India accommodates SMBs at a large base as compared to other parts of the world because of amiable business environment. These studies also pinpoint the contribution made by SMBs in country's economic growth with domestic IT is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15 percent by 2015. In such a high growth potential market, reputable cloud service providers urge SMBs to migrate their IT infrastructure to cloud server in order for attaining success in a highly competitive market. There is a revelation that giant global and domestic players like Microsoft and TCS have determined to help SMBs in India to bring virtualization in their business operations through cloud-enabled infrastructure.

Realizing the significance of cloud hosting, SMBs are keen to obtain benefit from scalability, redundancy and flexibility of IT infrastructure along with reduced operational costs. Today's SMBs are future global players, as their growth trajectory continues to elevate, they would look for cost-effective solutions to trigger their prosperity. As cloud computing allows SMBs to focus on their core competencies instead of allocating resources for managing and controlling IT infrastructure, cloud service providers realize that with a large base of SMBs, India tends to position as a leading adopter of cloud in the world.

It is interesting to note that both private and public sectors like banks, healthcare centers, educational institutions, retail shops, etc. are moving to cloud in order for scaling their IT infrastructure. In fact scalability paves the way for streamlining business operation, reducing operational cost and creating consolidated, virtualized and automated IT service delivery environments. This in turn helps SMBs to increase productivity and revenue without decreasing the number in clientele base. All in all adoption of cloud computing enables SMBs to save of up to 50% on the IT investments on average, when compared with a traditional model of storing and accessing mission-critical applications.